Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Dating 101

Surprisingly, I have many posts about dating, crushes, and wanting a relationship.

I don't date much, I have no clue how to do it. I have written quite a few posts about previous relationships and previous crushes. There are even some posts here about unwanted advances. I hope you enjoy. Many of the names have been changed to protect me (not them).

Charlie - My High School Love: Summer Obsession & Summer Time & Searching for a Comet & Smoke and Fire & My Muse & Remembering Him

Paulie - My First Boyfriend: The Kissing Game

Bobbie Rae: Blind Date Story - If you read closely, you may find Charlie and Paulie's real names in here & Darn

Alex: Actually, a human rights post, but Alex is referred to by real name here & The One That Got Away & Still Thinking of Him & Gentle reminders

Harry: The Jerk & My one date on Valentine's Day ever

The Player: Drunken Party - 2003 & Remembering an old friend (who I got to make out with) & Booty Call? (Aka Something to Talk About) & He's Good For Something At Least & A Former Life - Picture of the guy & Shock to the system - He contacts me & Text Messaging & Thoughts about Text Messaging and reconnecting & He calls, drunk again
There is no post about it, but he did text me again on 11/16/2005 and I ended up being "cold" in my reply.
Flirting over the text messages

Random Guys and Unwanted Advances: Don't Come Near Me, Please! & Why You Shouldn't Fall for Someone's Voice & Red Shirt #2 & What's Your Name? & Bait and Switch & Say No To Being a Skank Troll & Sitting at the Stoplight & "Nice Rack" & DFG (Drunk Flirty Guy) & Not What I Meant

The Most Recent Disaster (there are many posts here due to the fact this happened after I discovered blogging, so this seems to be a play-by-play look into my psyche.)
First Post Mentioning THE BOY & THE BOY & Lost in Thought & Anticipation & Curses & "I've Had This Song On My Mind" & Dreams of Trucks & Changing Opinions of Lyrics & Disappointed and yet still hopeful & Trick or Treat & A Wink and a Smile & Playing Kneesie & Bait and Switch (AKA "Take My Breath Away") & Confusion & The World is Full of Advice & Prepping Myself to take a Chance & Babble about Waiting Until the Next Time & Logic Drives Me Wild & Could The Week Get ANY Longer? & Dreaded Feeling & Bursting My Bubble & Insomnia Strikes & The Only Regrets I Have in Life are the Things I Did Not Do (Rather depressing post) & Let Down, Not So Easy & Hope Springs Eternal (Yeah, Right) & Comfortably Numb (In which the whole mess starts again) & "I'm NOT going crazy this time...yea, right" & Judge, Jury, and Executioner & Yea. Football. & I Don't Want to Be A Skank Troll & Story Telling & I'm an Idiot (In which I bring up stupid topics of conversation. This post also doesn't really tell much of the saga) & He makes an appearance, let this be over & Maybe I do still like him & Yeah, he can mess with my head & Jumping in with both feet and not checking the water level & He explains his absence

Pick Me Up? Overheard Pick Up Lines
Dating Advice Articles about dating
Thoughts on Relationships My "Man Checklist" & A Friend Calls Me Out on Why I Am Still Single

Growing Up

Sometimes, I reflect back to my childhood. These are stories about those I knew in elementary, junior, and high school. Once in awhile, there may be a post remembering a feeling or thoughts from my youth.

Homicidal Barbie Summer Time Sports + Beth = Don't Mix Spackle and Duct Tape
My First Crush Bike Riding, Summer, and Being a Stalker's Best Friend
Trick or Treating in 3 Feet of Snow Common Sense Takes a Holiday
Validation What Will I Do When I Grow Up? Senior Pictures Sweet and Innocent?
I Bet I Can't Do That Again The Birds & the Bees Darth Vader Pumpkin
Smaller Than You Remember Parts 1 & 2 5 Things I Miss From My Childhood MEME
The Lengths One Goes for a Friend Swimming with the Paranormal My First Job
My First Car (an essay written in high school) Music from high school
Family Pictures & a story about my first dog (my first memory) & a mini-story about the wedding I was in They say her first word was "Money" To clarify (a post about the multiple refrigerators I have and a story about one that I no longer have) In the Ghetto Adventures in Babysitting

Stories from my adulthood, yet stories from the past
Concert Going (Or How to Upset a Single Mother) They're Mine!!!

Pool Hall Junkies

I used to be a regular fixture at a local pool hall. The time I spent there was a very different part of my life than where I am now. Occasionally, I will post a story or two about the Crew.

The joint is called Bugs throughout these posts and names have been changed to protect the guilty.

The Crab! - Bob, in classic form
Don't Eat the Fruit - The Wopatui party
Manly Hairs - Some stories about AJ
Of Mice and Men - A couple of the regulars who liked to hit on me
Rack 'Em Up - The background to my days at Bugs
Searching for Independence - A Bad Break-up story, Michelle's show of power
Hold 'Em or Fold 'Em - Poker Night
Side-Swiped By a Folding Chair - Too few degrees separating me from Jerry Springer
In which I put too much meaning into nothing - I run into someone from the old pool hall
Revisiting old stomping grounds - DM and I make an appearance

Human Rights Apply to All Humans

I haven't written as much as I would like on this subject. There will be more posts added to this category.

It's Time To Talk About It & =

Once in a great while, I post something about politics. The posts are usually not controversial, they are just things that made me laugh or things I felt at the time. Some of them are serious and some are not. Random Quotes & Link to funny site & Joke my mom sent

My thoughts on the 2004 United States Presidential Election: Waiting Game & Reaction to the results & Words of the Masses

The next two posts are quotes I found. The first is just the quotes. The second is the quotes and the speakers of those quotes. Quotes & Quotes with credits

It is rare, but occasionally I do write about world events: The Words are Hard to Find - about the bombings in London.

Please, Don't Let Me Turn Out Like This

Every woman becomes her mother? I hope not. I love my mom. She is a constant source of amsusement though.

Here are some posts about my mom: Do You Have a Guy Over? & Orange Dildo & Taking Care of Animals & Pecking Order & A Normal Day for My Mom & Ring, Ring & Lookathim! & Where the Evil Side of My Personality Comes From & She Barks Too! & Jail Bird & The Rock & B & E - That's Breaking and Entering to everyone else & An Email from My Mom & Mom's House & The Anti-Mother's Day Post & I visit my mom's house & The Birds & the Bees & Halloween '05 at Mom's & Talking with Mom on the Phone & Fascinating & Email from Mom about a Dream & She starts watching TV

There are also some posts about my family and my family pets. Some are good, some are not so good.
Stubborn - About my paternal grandmother
Thanksgiving Dinner 2004 - Dad's side of the family
One of my Maternal Great Grandmothers
Priceless Moment with Grandma
Christmas Kidney - About my cousin Chris
The Christmas Letter - From my dad's cousin
Gift Giving - The small scale Christmas Day 2004
Hockey Fan - A newspaper article about my great-grandmother
Confusion - A post that briefly discusses my maternal grandmother
Wild, Wild Weekend (Post, also in category below)
My Paternal Side - About news I received from my dad about the family
Thanksgiving 2005
Christmas 2005
Fascinating - A list about the 10 most fascinating people I've ever known. A few of my family members are on the list.
Grandma: News & Alice Marie Kempe Bowers Will
Family Pets: Taco in the Underbrush (Picture) & Mom carries Taco (Picture) & Chip (Picture) & Chip in the Car (Picture) & My Mom's Photography (Post with Pictures) & Kitty Cat (Post about the new kitten) & Coming Up with a Name (Post about the new kitten) & Kitten Update and Pictures (Post and pictures!) & Pictures of the Pets (Pictures) & Sappy Stories (Post) & More Pictures (or links to pictures) of the pets (Pictures) & Mom's Photography (Pictures) & I Bet You've Never Been So Happy to Clean Up Poop (Post) & Love at First Sight (Post) & Wild, Wild Weekend (Post) & A Break (Post) & A Reason for the Break (Post & Pictures) & Pouring Salt into an Open Wound (Post) & Smoke plays with a soccer ball (Pictures) & Where My Mind is At (Post, conversation with my mom about Taco) & Toothy Grin
My Dad: A Post About Weather but a Really Cute Picture of My Dad as a Kid & Daddy's Little Girl (Part I) & Daddy's Little Girl (Part II) & Daddy's Little Girl (Part III) & Sensitive (I got a bit mad at my dad) & Fascinating

My family used to put together a family newsletter each month. These are different columns from that paper. At this time, there is only one category, but more are sure to come.

Advice From Chip: 1993

Lyrically Inclined

I love music. Sometimes, lyrics can find a way into my heart and I think, "Yes, that’s how I would have liked to have said that." I think songwriters, good songwriters, find the ways to word things so it just fits.

I have done posts before about a few different groups and artists and I have posted some lyrics. Some of these posts have other thoughts in them, some are just the lyrics. Sometimes the post will be about something else and the lyrics just tied in.

Alanis Morrisette: Ironic

Barenaked Ladies
A
Alcohol
Alternative Girlfriend
Aluminum
Am I the Only One?
Another Postcard
Baby Seat
Back
Be My Yoko Ono
Blame it On Me
Box Set
Break Your Heart
Break Your Heart (Alternate Lyrics) - Live at the Bottom Line
Brian Wilson
Call and Answer
Call Me Calmly
Careless
Celebrity
Conventioneers
Crazy
Enid
Everything Old is New Again
Falling for the First Time
Flag, The
For You
Get in Line
Go Home
Grade 9
Great Provider
Grim Grinning Ghosts
Have You Seen My Love?
Having a Baby
Helicopters
Hello City
Hidden Sun
Humour of the Situation
I Know
I Live With it Every Day
I Love You
If I Had $1,000,000
I'll Be That Girl
In the Car
In the Drink
Inline Bowline
Intermittently
It's All Been Done
It's Only Me (Wizard of Magicland)
Jane
Just a Toy
King of Bedside Manor, The
La La La La Lemon
Leave
Life, in a Nutshell
Light Up My Room
Lilac Girl
Little Green Bag - with Tom Jones
Little Tiny Song
Long Way Back Home
Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Make My Heart Fly
Maybe Katie
Never Do Anything
Never is Enough
New Kid (On the Block)
Next Time
Night Photographs
Off the Hook
Old Apartment, The
One Little Slip
One Week
Pinch Me
Powder Blue
Really Don't Know
Roadrunner
Same Thing
Second Best
Sell, Sell, Sell
She's on Time
Shoe Box
Shopping
Some Fantastic
Spider in My Room
Stomach vs. Heart
Straw Hat and Dirty Old Hank
Take it Outside
Testing 1, 2, 3
Thanks, That was Fun
These Apples
This is Where it Ends
Told You So
This is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
Too Little Too Late
Trouble With Tracy
Trust Me
Unfinished
Upside Down
War on Drugs
What a Good Boy
When I Fall
When You Dream
Who Needs Sleep?
Wishing Well
Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Wrong Man was Convicted, The
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
You Will Be Waiting

Ben Folds: Sentimental Guy

Ben Folds Five: Mess

Bob Seger: The Fire Inside Like a Rock We've Got Tonite

Bon Jovi: Always

Bree Sharp: Cheap and Evil Girl Faster, Faster (a.k.a. Trashy Motorcycle Beauty)

Cowboy Mouth
How Do You Tell Someone?
Jenny Says
Louisiana Lowdown
Love of My Life

Bad
Hey Bartender
Everything You Do
Take it Out on Me
So Sad About Me
Easy
Man on the Run
Light it on Fire
Run to Me
Laughable
G-D Makes the Rain
Everyone Loves Jill
Better
New Orleans

Damien Rice: Cannonball The Blower's Daughter

Dashboard Confessional: For You to Notice

David Bowie: Changes

David Gray: This Years Love

Death Cab for Cutie: A Lack of Color

Fred LeBlanc: Shiver

Garth Brooks: You Move Me A Friend to Me It Don't Matter to the Sun When There's No One Around

Incubus: Mexico I Miss You

Jewel: Deep Water Kiss the Flame Morning Song

Jimmy Eat World: Night Drive

Joan Armatrading: The Weakness in Me

Kiss: Beth

Les Miserables: On My Own

Marc Cohn: True Companion Strangers in a Car

Matchbox Twenty: Bed of Lies Soul Hang Hand Me Down

Melissa Etheridge
2001
Ain't It Heavy
All American Girl
All the Way to Heaven
An Unusual Kiss
Angels Would Fall
Beloved
Brave and Crazy
Breakdown
Breathe
Bring Me Some Water
Change
Cherry Avenue
Christmas in America
Chrome Plated Heart
Come on Out Tonight
Come to My Window

Dance Without Sleeping
Don't You Need
Down to One
Enough of Me
Giant
Goodnight
Heal Me
How Would I Know
I Could've Been You
I Really Like You
I Run for Life
I Want to Be in Love
I Want to Come Over
I Want You
I Will Never Be the Same
If I Wanted To
If You Want To
I'm the Only One
Into the Dark
It's For You
It's Only Me
Keep it Precious
Kiss Me
Let Me Go
Like the Way I Do

Lover Please
Lucky
Mama I'm Strange
Meet Me in the Back
Meet Me in the Dark
Mercy
Must Be Crazy For Me

My Back Door
My Lover
No Souvenirs

Nowhere to Go
Occasionally
Place Your Hand
Please Forgive Me
Precious Pain
Resist
Royal Station 4/16
Ruins
Scarecrow
Secret Agent
Shriner's Park
Silent Legacy

Similar Features
Skin Deep
Sleep
Stronger Than Me
Talking to My Angel
Testify
The Angels
The Boy Feels Strange
The Different
The Late September Dogs

The Letting Go
The Prison
This is Not Goodbye
This Moment
This War is Over
Touch and Go
Truth of the Heart
Tuesday Morning

Walking on Water
Watching You
When You Find the One
Will You Still Love Me
Yes I Am

You Can Sleep While I Drive
You Used to Love to Dance
Your Little Secret

Nada Surf: Inside of Love

A Perfect Circle: 3 Libras

Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb

Queen Latifah (Dana Owens Album)
Hard Times
Same Love
Close Your Eyes
Hello Stranger
California Dreamin'
Baby Get Lost
If I Had You
Simply Beautiful
Moody's Mood
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Lush Life
I Put a Spell on You

Rob Thomas: Don't Want to Be Lonely Now Comes the Night

The Royal Guardsmen: Bears

Rufus Wainwright: Across the Universe (Beatles Cover)

Seal: Don't Cry Prayer for the Dying People Asking Why Bring It On

Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Something Corporate: She Paints Me Blue

Sufjan Stevens: Chicago

Tabitha's Secret: Dear Joan Paint Me Blue Dizzy

The Thrills: Not For All the Love in the World

TLC: Let's Talk About Sex

The Used: On My Own

Wilco: Jesus, etc.

William Shatner: Common People Familar Love Has Been I Can't Get Behind That Ideal Woman It Hasn't Happened Yet Real That's Me Trying Together What Have You Done? You'll Have Time

Although there are no lyrics in these posts, I feel they fall into the same category as the above links. These are times I've written news about a favorite performer/band or have gone to a concert.

New CD for BNL
Lucky Tour - Melissa Etheridge
Barenaked for the Holidays tour - Unfortunately, I didn't get to go.
The Dana Owens Album - Check it out. Seriously. You'll thank me.
Wild, Wild Weekend - In Which I Mention the GREATEST.ALBUM.EVER. (Bryan McDonald's album)
New Music - Talking about Bryan's album and some others that I recently purchased
iPod Shuffle - A Taste of the Songs I Listen to on my iPod
Musical MEME - My life, as described by song titles
I Enjoyed This - More of the music MEME with different artists
ABCs of Music MEME
Live Albums - Comments about a Cowboy Mouth CD
I Want! - BNL is coming to Town
Favorite Albums - A post about Christmas songs I remember from my childhood and CDs that my mom lent me
New CD - Steve made me a CD to expose me to new music. I really like it.
My New Project - I got a turn table for Christmas and am trying to turn old vinyls into MP3 files.

iPod Shuffles
Part 1 - Love Songs
Part 2 - Maybe Love Songs
Part 3 - Sex Songs
Part 4 - Depression
Part 5 - Silly Songs
Part 6 - 50 Songs