Every single time I start reading a book I tell myself not to wikipedia it. Before 1/2 way through the book I always end up on Wikipedia to find out more information about it, not trying to find out the ending or anything, just interesting details.

I’m reading The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and I just casually drifted over to Wikipedia. Then only a few lines in I read a huge spoiler. Will I ever learn? I’m too curious for my own good

I wish Erik and I had the balls to pull this off but we’re both way too shy to do something like this. Although we are doing some fun/silly stuff that people will get a kick out of.

• It seems to me I get TOM every other week or so because these are the times I am so hungry I could eat a pillow off the sofa.
• I have not yet eaten the pillow but it might taste good with chocolate sauce.
• Mmmmmmm…chocolate
• I took a Melatonin the other night and had a horrible nightmare. The only way I can explain it is it was like being stuck in a horror film. It was so bad it actually woke me up.
• Bad Melatonin.
• So I’ve been really tired lately. I really should be asleep by 10:00 every night to get enough sleep but I usually end up asleep around 11:00.
• I think I get between 6-7 hours of sleep most nights.
• I know most of you know the details regarding last August but it never occurred to me it would leak out and people would think badly of it. I keep contemplating doing a private post about it but I have this fear someone will somehow read it who shouldn’t.
• I should just say “fuck it” and let people think what they want to think.
• If you don’t know what I mean by last August you probably aren’t supposed to know…or you just aren’t following. Either way you can email me if you want.
• We are getting brand new computers at work and moving up to XP. It’s almost 2008, by the time we’re all upgraded I can imagine there will be a new upgrade.
• Heather was booted off ANTM and now I’m boycotting the show

Make sure to go and vote for the Beauty and the Geek winner for me. If you can, please vote for David and Jasmine as I can’t bear to have a man who shaves his whole body and goes tanning win this. So go vote, for me and I’ll give you a big

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You don’t have to like my decisions but you can respect them enough to ask me directly before assuming anything. If you don’t care enough to come to me and ask me to explain then don’t even bother. Don’t pretend to know me, those who know me understand the situation.

A faux pas is a violation of accepted, although unwritten, social rules. Faux pas vary widely from culture to culture and what is considered good manners in one culture can be considered a faux pas in another.

First I have to say that it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to spell this, damn French words are always screwing me up

How important is being socially acceptable? Why does there have to be expectations about how to act in society? Why can’t we just be ourselves and do things our way?

[private]A day or two before Thanksgiving Erik told his mother he would be at my parent’s house for the day and made sure to wish her a happy Thanksgiving before hanging up the phone. Of course, on the day of Thanksgiving she called and called and called furious he wasn’t picking up the phone. She was visiting her brother and Erik (who hates the phone even more than I do I think) did not want to speak to every single member of the household.

Of course MIL left angry voicemails for him about how she didn’t know where he was and reminding him how it was Thanksgiving. I swear, the way she responds to things like that you would think the world was imploding at that moment. Erik knew within a day or two she’d throw a shit fit and he was prepared to give it back as well.

So he gets the call and she’s going on and on about what a “faux pas” it was for him not to speak to his mother on Thanksgiving. All about how inappropriate and/or rude it was. She explained how bad it made him look. Why does she care so much about what other people think? And isn’t Thanksgiving just about being thankful and spending time with people you love? When did guilt become a part of it?

He of course told her off right back, as it’s the only way to deal with her. He informed her that he was spending time with my family and that he didn’t want to speak to every member of her family that day. I’m so proud he didn’t bullshit as he often does, he just gave it to her straight.

I’m sure she’s still pissy about it all as that’s what she does. She holds onto this shit longer than she holds onto all the damn “heirlooms” in her house.[/private]

What’s the moral of this story? Stop obsessing about what is right by society standards and just let everyone be themselves!! :whosenext: