tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post3070686965271746733..comments2023-04-02T17:37:02.046-07:00Comments on Confessions of a Girl: Day in Review: The Great Midge Massacre of 2011Confessionistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00893636535433965980noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post-27839161381060821232011-06-16T17:28:17.457-07:002011-06-16T17:28:17.457-07:00What I said when I met my boyfriend (who is differ...What I said when I met my boyfriend (who is different from any other guy I have ever dated or gone on a date with) was: "If you are interested in seeing me again, you need to call me. I am going to give you only a few days and if you do not call me, I will assume you are not interested and move forward. When you call me, it must be to ask me out on another date not just to chit chat." He called within a few hours of our first date and asked me out again. At first I was kind of concerned that he called so quickly but then I realized it was just a compliment to me and that he liked that I made things clear and simple, but also put the ball in his court and told him he was in charge. What I have learned after dating him for a year and a half is that he (and I assume guys like him - that's a good thing) just wants it to be simple. He wants to believe that he is in charge, but he doesn't actually want to "really" be in charge. In the beginning of the relationship our conversations were like the following.<br />Liz: I want to go to the movies.<br />Boyfriend: Let's go to the movie theater that is 45 minutes from here because I like it best and I want to see this masculine type of movie with lots of weapons and such. <br />Liz: I don't want to see that movie, I want to see this movie.<br />Boyfriend: I'm not going to see that movie.<br />Now our conversations go like this.<br />Liz: I am going to the movies at 7:10 p.m. at the following location. I am going to see the following chick flick. I'm leaving at 6:30 p.m. so I can get a decent seat. If you want to come with me you are welcome to join me.<br />Boyfriend: How about we go to dinner before, leave at 6:00 p.m., and I'll buy?<br /><br />WHAT?! So HE THINKS he is driving the ship because he is buying dinner and changing the time and crap. Really though I just decided the following:<br />1. We are going on a date<br />2. Where we are going on the date<br />3. What time frame the date will occur <br /><br />I have to make a side note that it isn't nearly as easy as I am trying to make it out to be, but I have learned that you have to approach things in a different way. <br /><br />Oh... and about bugs and stuff... I grew up on SW Ohio on a soy bean farm. My entire life, nearly my entire ceiling was covered (during a certain season) with asian lady beetles. They are kind of cute. I never wanted to kill them but I'd imagine that if someone moved from the city to my room they'd freak out. Throughout college I remember always being the one to remove bugs from people's rooms (even guys). I'm not a Buddhist but I try not to kill bugs because those lady beetles are actually a sign that the crops are healthy. They are also really helpful in kind of keeping nature in balance in general. Maybe your Midges are really important and you just murdered them!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Oh and these bugs Jonnett speaks of do sound disgusting. The eggs hatching would freak me out.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766107515956294111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post-47828331278512503372011-06-15T18:39:16.302-07:002011-06-15T18:39:16.302-07:00You should have videotaped that...at least a pictu...You should have videotaped that...at least a picture? Hang in there on the dating. I've kissed many frogs before finding my prince. He'll find you.EHsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107276025620893245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post-63914740751534643862011-06-15T14:50:52.418-07:002011-06-15T14:50:52.418-07:00HOW COULD THERE NOT BE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN YOU AND A...HOW COULD THERE NOT BE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN YOU AND ANY MAN WITH A BRAIN?<br /><br />"If you are a Buddhist, you may want to skip this blog post and join us next time."<br /><br />That line finished me. You are brillisnt and, from your photo, a quite fetching lady.Cletis https://www.blogger.com/profile/01865557276496148455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post-8284065446563779802011-06-15T10:08:51.300-07:002011-06-15T10:08:51.300-07:00That is hilarious and I can totally picture it. I...That is hilarious and I can totally picture it. I admit the thought went through my mind of putting up a mosquito net and thinking "this must be what it's like to be in the Amazon".Confessionistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00893636535433965980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3703040283575136545.post-6119526076356628552011-06-15T09:03:03.595-07:002011-06-15T09:03:03.595-07:00In Togo, periodically I would wake up to thousands...In Togo, periodically I would wake up to thousands of very small bugs that had mated, laid eggs, and hatched over night, covering my two room house. I wore a similar get-up (albeit 100 degree weather adapted) and would spend the next several hours swatting and sweeping my floors. Though I miss many things about Togo, the bugs I do not. I can relate!Scott and Jonnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04811523299982005865noreply@blogger.com