[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Hey spar, serious question-
I’m having dinner as I type this. Salmon fillet, steamed broccoli and asparagus. But guess what? No cheese!
Why you keeping all of the cheese to the internetz?
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Dude, I JUST pulled out some salmon. WTF??[/quote]
I had salmon last night!
I have to eat dinner (NY strip) and then come back and gush about how much I like the hockey player.[/quote]
That’s one hell of a long dinner…[/quote]
I had to think about clothes in the Spock thread and also write to Iraq, which took some time. And also gush to my girlfriends about Hockey.
It all takes time, Chushin. And now I need to work out.
I’ll gush about him later. And probably at some length. lol[/quote]
Why are women such teases?[/quote]
All right, only one of my four scheduled clients have shown today so I have some time to gush.
So, went to the baby shower, which was at the American Legion hall. Every single person there sounded like Good Will Hunting, as Hockey does. People were very various in terms of socioeconomic status, but a lot of laborer types. Everyone was drinking. Hockey’s people were fun and offered a lot of insight into Hockey himself, all good. Family and close friends (people at the shower and a handful of others) seem to get together several times a year for things like their goofy “Fall Classic” golf tournament as well as an annual spring trip to somewhere warm for golf; both fall and winter camping on Hockey’s undeveloped land. It snowed 8" during the fall trip this year and only the hardcore stayed out, the rest drove back to Hockey’s house. Only the hardcore come to the winter one (we don’t live in the south).
After that ended we helped clean up and transport gifts, then went out to a martini jazz bar, then fancy hotel. Up in the morning to go help with the renovations, which is where I probably fell into adoration. It’s a SERIOUS fixer-upper. They’re still tearing stuff apart and the baby is due February 11th. I spent yesterday skim-coating walls with his daughter. I like her so much. (She was totally interviewing me. lol)
Meanwhile, I never heard Hockey say a single grouchy thing. He was cheerful and competent the entire time. The future son-in-law (“the boss”) is clearly in way over his head, and now and then I’d hear Hockey saying something like, “Well, one idea is you could try doing it X way.” And then F-SIL would agree that’s a good way and do it. Very sweet. Apparently he (Hockey) was in new house construction before going to college.
The more I get to know him the more I like him and respect him. I was worried that he might be too conservative and formal or naive or - something - for me, but after seeing him with his wacky family I don’t think so at all. He’s going to go down at some point with an air mattress so he can stay at the house and install the kitchen over a couple of days, not the first time he’s slept there to get a good chunk of work done while his daughter and her boyfriend sleep in their beds.
I think I trust him. He’s happy at work, he pursues his hobbies alone and with friends, he’s just - good. His family isn’t perfect and neither is he, but I’m not either. I almost wonder if he was worried about ME being too proper, and that’s why he brought me to meet everyone en masse.
So we’ll see.
He smells really good.
Satisfied, Chushin? lol[/quote]
Apparently not as much as you are. :-p[/quote]
Ha. You’re probably right. I’ve been processing some pretty nice feelings.