Male and Female Imponderables- real wild children

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MINK

Monday, October 2, 2006 7:12 PM

And now, the fire:

Cats, kids, wives - check
Firefly box set - check

I run in and grab, in order:

1) an external hard drive containing vast arrays of digital photographs.

2) my guitar that I've had since high school - I'm not all guitar-obsessed, but there's nothing else I've owned that long. If I get a chance to roll out the piano, I will. It's right by the front door.

3) whatever book I'm reading.

4) useful stuff.

KAYNA

Monday, October 2, 2006 7:27 PM

Hmm. Good questions. What would I look for in a potential husband? I'm not totally sure, as I have aproxamately no experience with relationships but here are a few things.

1) The ability to compromise (that is a great one MSG. Very important)
2) The ability to disagree about some things but still be ok (I like a good philosophical argument sometimes. Passion has many forms and I enjoy most of them)
3) Definately a sense of humor. But a good one not a mean or spiteful one. My mom dated a guy with a nasty sense of humor a while back and I just did not see the attraction.
4) Intelligence. Must be able to have intelligent conversations on a variety of subjects. I could not stand a fool. But not someone aroggant about their intelligence. I don't want anyone in the relationship to be made to feel inferior because of personality and IQ combinations.

Can't think of anything else just now.

As to the fire. What do I save? You're trying to make me pass out right? Here's how I reacted when I read that question.
Oh God! My books! I can't possibly save all the books I own but how can I let them burn?!?!!
And my paintings! My drawings! Ack! All my art is flamable!!! Why coudn't I be a sculptor?
And Baby Ruth of course! I couldn't leave her to the fire (it's a doll I've had since I was two. Much sentimental value. Yes she's named after a candy bar. So what!)

And Mink, did you say wives?!?
Plural?!!
Just where do you live?

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

RUGBUG

Monday, October 2, 2006 8:08 PM

Y'all get so busy while I'm away. Takes days to catch up. ;)

First of all: Most of you listed movies that are in no ways guilty pleasures, at least by my definitions. IMO, to be a guilty pleasure movie, it can't have been popular at any point. Red Dawn, Some Kind of Wonderful, etc are all out. But you can still have Howard the Duck. Ack! Saw that in the theater and it was just awful....

To add to my already humiliating confession of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, I will say "Excess Baggage", "First Daughter" "Bootmen", "Drop Dead Fred" and a few others too embarrassing to mention. I'm sure I have more that people would consider embarrassing, but I just consider them overlooked (Drop Dead Gorgeous, as an example).

Mal4Prez, I had a huge C. Thomas Howell crush. I love (and own) Soul Man. I saw Rae Dawn Chong (who was once, or still is married to him) in Malibu once. I was all star-struck. Sadly, he wasn't with her.

What's my sin? I'm sure a lot more than just this, but I can narrow a lot down to envy.

Successful marriage? Lots of good stuff already posted, so....

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

MSG

Monday, October 2, 2006 8:13 PM

Yeah I really need a fireproof house...I have ( at last count an estimated 3,275 books)and I love and re-read each and every one of them...( little booko addiction problem) SpaceAnJL- your description of your hubby makes me laugh...mine's the same way over computer stuff!

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

MARINA

Monday, October 2, 2006 8:34 PM

double post! gah.

MARINA

Monday, October 2, 2006 8:36 PM

Well,

A) I'm not looking for anyone, man or woman.
B) Traditionally, yes, children take the name of their father. Also, wives tend to take their husband's last name. I will do neither. When I have children, biological or adopted, they will have my last names. I have two, as my mother kept hers, so my children will already have four names (for instance, Bryn Rose Donnelly Donovan). No room for another name.

My parents gave me both of their last names, no hyphenation, and allowed me to choose which one I wanted to use in my academic and professional life.

Since you are right, it IS traditional for the man to receive such a privilege, I expect it will be difficult to find another (I mean, I had the one, back in the day) who will consent to that. It is extremely important to me, however, that my family names live on.

I'm very smart.

MARINA

Monday, October 2, 2006 8:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Smartbutdumbblonde:

Your house is on fire, everyone else is out safely, what do you save? (besides your firefly boxset, of course!)

I solved part of this problem by investing in four large fireproof safes, so all of my photographs and keepsakes and sentimental stuff (ok, not all, but many) would survive the fire.

I'd take my cat and the framed photograph on my desk (my grandparents - the only one that exists of them) and...well, that's probably all I'd have time for.

I'm very smart.

RUGBUG

Monday, October 2, 2006 9:00 PM

In a fire I would take (if I could get to them):

A set of books by Dorothy Lyons that I read as a kid. They are no longer in print and I have all but one (There are about 12 of them). Need to get that one, but it is currently selling for $200+.

In fact, I would like to take all the Junior Fiction horse books I have amassed from my youth. There are some rare books there. I really should look into a fire proof safe for them.

I would be very sad to lose older pictures, so maybe those too. Just about everything else could go.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

MSG

Monday, October 2, 2006 9:03 PM

hmm I can't think where I'd put a fireproof safe ( all the walls are covered in either bookcases or paintings) but that's a great idea. Someone suggested I put my jewlery in a safe deposit box, but I can't imagine making daily trips to the bank to get the jewlery I was planning to wear. I figure insurance should be sufficient and I have pics so I can have a jewler dupicate anything that's really important ( like my wedding ring)

Marina- can I ask why your family names are so important? I kind of like the idea of letting your kid choose which name they use. That'd be fun. When my stepdad adopted me I got to choose my middle name (well choose from a few option) wisely they wouldn't let me pick my first name as, at the time, I wanted to be named Princess Lilly...LOL I was 5.

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

RUGBUG

Monday, October 2, 2006 9:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by marina:

Since you are right, it IS traditional for the man to receive such a privilege, I expect it will be difficult to find another (I mean, I had the one, back in the day) who will consent to that. It is extremely important to me, however, that my family names live on.

Hrmmm, I don't think it would be that difficult to find someone who would consent. I had friends that were going to take HER last name, instead of his. Don't remember why they didn't, but it wasn't a matter of him not being willing. They both decided against it.

I'm not too keen on the idea of giving up my name, if it ever comes to that.

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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

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