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so how long until you get sucked into this marriage thing & start *gulp* having offspring Shane?

LaTda wrote:so how long until you get sucked into this marriage thing & start *gulp* having offspring Shane?

Let's just hope that Steph has the sense to realize Shane should not procreate.

time to go find coffee before I rip someones head off

ttfn

buffettbride wrote:

LaTda wrote:so how long until you get sucked into this marriage thing & start *gulp* having offspring Shane?

Let's just hope that Steph has the sense to realize Shane should not procreate.

is she still dating him? (if so, you have to ask how much sense....)

sy wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

buffettbride wrote:Conversely, I had 2 kids and then got married.

So... Why did you bother to get married then?
Sorry, someone had to say it.... J/K

Sy, I would say "To formalize our lifelong committment to each other. What are you saying, that YOU only got married because you were having children??? I'm sorry you don't feel as committed to your spouse as I do (to mine)!"

Now that's just priceless I love it!

I'm glad you liked it... Too bad I never think up things like that until an hour after the rude comment.

Wino you know wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

Wino you know wrote: But, THE thing that got me to "pop the question"-I was sitting at home alone one night playing a bunch of C.D.s. Then the song "Desperado" by the Eagles began playing. I listened to it, backed it up, listened to it again.
Listening to THAT song was what got me to decide I should take the plunge. (And I haven't looked back, nor do I intend to).

So YOU'RE the one that song was written for... I love that song and knew it was speaking to someone!

It's funny the things you hear but don't actually listen to.
At the time I was trying to hang on to something else somewhere else that was going nowhere else.
You're now privvy to something I've never even told my wife-hearing THAT song made me realize I'd better ask her.
thanks, Don, Glenn, Joe, & Tim-I owe you guys big time

That's a great song to be "your" song... Maybe someday you'll tell her. My hubby's and my song is "I can't fight this feeling anymore" by REO Speedwagon. It's corny, but it still makes me cry... both of us were fighting the commitment feeling at the same time, separately, and told each other later that that song did it for us.

LaTda wrote:so how long until you get sucked into this marriage thing & start *gulp* having offspring Shane?

I'm gonna have trouble putting it off much longer... Probably 2 or 3 years...

First of all - KUDOS to you for keeping the population down!!!! (I worry about this whole over-populated thing ever since I took that population problems class in college!!) I just wish the low lifes of the world would stop breeding.

Just say to anyone rude enough to ask that question.."We like being DINKS!!!!" (double-income-no-kids) - that will make them remember the one thing that sucks about having kids (sorry kids) THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!!!

carolinagirl wrote:

sy wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

buffettbride wrote:Conversely, I had 2 kids and then got married.

So... Why did you bother to get married then?
Sorry, someone had to say it.... J/K

Sy, I would say "To formalize our lifelong committment to each other. What are you saying, that YOU only got married because you were having children??? I'm sorry you don't feel as committed to your spouse as I do (to mine)!"

Now that's just priceless I love it!

I'm glad you liked it... Too bad I never think up things like that until an hour after the rude comment.

I'm the worst at that. I totally have the perfect comebacks a day late and a dollar short.

Another favorite of mine when someone asks a stupid question is

"Didn't I tell you?"

When they say no I reply with

"Maybe it's none of your damn business then"


After awhile you canjust use the first line a morons get the hint

carolinagirl wrote:

Wino you know wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

Wino you know wrote: But, THE thing that got me to "pop the question"-I was sitting at home alone one night playing a bunch of C.D.s. Then the song "Desperado" by the Eagles began playing. I listened to it, backed it up, listened to it again.
Listening to THAT song was what got me to decide I should take the plunge. (And I haven't looked back, nor do I intend to).

So YOU'RE the one that song was written for... I love that song and knew it was speaking to someone!

It's funny the things you hear but don't actually listen to.
At the time I was trying to hang on to something else somewhere else that was going nowhere else.
You're now privvy to something I've never even told my wife-hearing THAT song made me realize I'd better ask her.
thanks, Don, Glenn, Joe, & Tim-I owe you guys big time

That's a great song to be "your" song... Maybe someday you'll tell her. My hubby's and my song is "I can't fight this feeling anymore" by REO Speedwagon. It's corny, but it still makes me cry... both of us were fighting the commitment feeling at the same time, separately, and told each other later that that song did it for us.

That was the wedding song of my ex and I - We ended up dancing to it while at a rugby party of all places - hard to listen to that one anymore. And i just realized that Les and I don't have a song.... PS - tell her!

mermaidindisguise wrote: Just say to anyone rude enough to ask that question.."We like being DINKS!!!!" (double-income-no-kids) - that will make them remember the one thing that sucks about having kids (sorry kids) THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!!!

Which is also the other question I get a lot....'how come you can afford (fill in the blank)' or 'how come you can do (fill in the blank)'

I don't have children. People also tend to forget that I have two businesses and a full time job. Where in there would I even begin to fit in a child?

mermaidindisguise wrote:.."We like being DINKS!!!!" (double-income-no-kids) - that will make them remember the one thing that sucks about having kids (sorry kids) THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!!!

I'm gonna have to remember that one for the next round of "OH every one needs at least 1 kid"

Sidew13 wrote:

mermaidindisguise wrote:.."We like being DINKS!!!!" (double-income-no-kids) - that will make them remember the one thing that sucks about having kids (sorry kids) THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!!!

I'm gonna have to remember that one for the next round of "OH every one needs at least 1 kid"

They say that raising a kid to 18 costs about 200k/. A college degree will earn you about 200k more over the working life of an average person compared to the average h.s. grad. From a numbers point of view, you break even at best on the first kid, and lose on the second.


(boy am I glad I am the oldest kid... )

sy wrote:
Which is also the other question I get a lot....'how come you can afford (fill in the blank)' or 'how come you can do (fill in the blank)'

Classic moment

At a gun Show a few years ago My Dad and I

Me I really like this.. (1200$) Pistol

Dad Son it's 1200$ plus Shells and a holster

how are you going to Justify buying that??


Me Uh Dad I don't have anyone to justfy that silly thing to..

I did not buy it as it was not new and was being sold as new, soooo
but still funny

People ask me about kids and I whip out a picture of the cat.

I've wanted to have this exchange...

"You have kids?"
"No, thank you"

DonnaKayDunbar wrote:People ask me about kids and I whip out a picture of the cat.

I've wanted to have this exchange...

"You have kids?"
"No, thank you"

Donna and are on the same wavelength. When asked why we don't have kids I always say because I like cats better. And tell them if I could give birth to a kitten I would go for it. Causes most rude people to move away quickly

sy wrote:

mermaidindisguise wrote: Just say to anyone rude enough to ask that question.."We like being DINKS!!!!" (double-income-no-kids) - that will make them remember the one thing that sucks about having kids (sorry kids) THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!!!!!

Which is also the other question I get a lot....'how come you can afford (fill in the blank)' or 'how come you can do (fill in the blank)'

I don't have children. People also tend to forget that I have two businesses and a full time job. Where in there would I even begin to fit in a child?

When you have a child, you would have to give up most of it, but only for a limited number of years, and it's worth it to be there with your kid. My hubby and I were DINKs for six years into our mid-30s before having a son. Giving it up was hard for me, but we could afford it, and I wouldn't miss any of it. My son's having a sleepover here at the house right now with two boys, and they are playing hide in the dark, (actually Jason from the Halloween movies). It's a whole different world, and it keeps changing every 3-5 years!

buffettbride wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

sy wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

buffettbride wrote:Conversely, I had 2 kids and then got married.

So... Why did you bother to get married then?
Sorry, someone had to say it.... J/K

Sy, I would say "To formalize our lifelong committment to each other. What are you saying, that YOU only got married because you were having children??? I'm sorry you don't feel as committed to your spouse as I do (to mine)!"

Now that's just priceless I love it!

I'm glad you liked it... Too bad I never think up things like that until an hour after the rude comment.

I'm the worst at that. I totally have the perfect comebacks a day late and a dollar short.

Not you! I'd have thought you'd be the Comeback Queen!
You do pretty good on Buffett News.

mermaidindisguise wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

Wino you know wrote:

carolinagirl wrote:

Wino you know wrote: But, THE thing that got me to "pop the question"-I was sitting at home alone one night playing a bunch of C.D.s. Then the song "Desperado" by the Eagles began playing. I listened to it, backed it up, listened to it again.
Listening to THAT song was what got me to decide I should take the plunge. (And I haven't looked back, nor do I intend to).

So YOU'RE the one that song was written for... I love that song and knew it was speaking to someone!

It's funny the things you hear but don't actually listen to.
At the time I was trying to hang on to something else somewhere else that was going nowhere else.
You're now privvy to something I've never even told my wife-hearing THAT song made me realize I'd better ask her.
thanks, Don, Glenn, Joe, & Tim-I owe you guys big time

That's a great song to be "your" song... Maybe someday you'll tell her. My hubby's and my song is "I can't fight this feeling anymore" by REO Speedwagon. It's corny, but it still makes me cry... both of us were fighting the commitment feeling at the same time, separately, and told each other later that that song did it for us.

That was the wedding song of my ex and I - We ended up dancing to it while at a rugby party of all places - hard to listen to that one anymore. And i just realized that Les and I don't have a song.... PS - tell her!

Aw That's too bad about that song...
We actually went to an REO Speedwagon concert a couple years ago, just to hear that song. It was a priceless moment. And Kevin Cronin, the lead singer, said it took him 10 years to write it. He didn't really like it, thought it was too sappy, but he kept being drawn back to it in the bottom of his desk drawer where he stuck it. Then when they finally recorded it, it was their biggest hit. I think he said that the person he'd written it about was no longer in his life and that made it hard to sing, too.
Y'all gotta come up with a song... Surely a Buffett one!