Yesterday I went to a local beerfest. Drank more beer than usual but not enough for shame to be visited upon my family. The festival took place inside a large tent and standing smack dab in the middle was my old German teacher from 1989-1990. I approached him and was surprised that he remembered me. It’s funny how 20+ years changes a person.
I attended the beerfest with Lisa and her friend Christina. Christina has a profile on PlentyofFish.com and she recommended I get on it too. I don’t think it is something I can handle right now. In fact, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to handle it. As more days pile on, I may become more comfortable with the situation and open to putting myself out there. Right now my plan is to take it a day at a time.
I woke up yesterday with a stiff neck and sore back. Wish I knew what I did to get myself into such position. I’ve been popping pills and using a heat pad in a fruitless attempt to return to my normal self. Passage of time is the only real solution. Maybe tomorrow it’ll be better.
I didn’t realize you weren’t with your boyfriend anymore. Sorry to hear that. I know you kept him off the blog anyways.
Ditto. Though I was suspecting he was fictitious anyway.
Gosh guys, I dropped enough hints.
Gomer… in fact, I was pretty sure you got it awhile ago: http://64.91.230.168/~donna/2011/05/03/geek-wishes/#comment-143744
We need more transparency from the Donnaville Administration!
(I always wondered whether you and Oprah Winfrey were
sharing Steadman)
How’s this for transparency? I loved him and I am heartbroken BUT I am moving on. The anger and sadness is pretty much gone and now I just want to get back on with my life. My goal was always marriage and children (if I am not too old at this point)… I like to believe there’s still the possibility that I can find someone who also shares these goals.
Guess I missed those posts where you eluded to it. Still sorry to hear about it. But you are an amazing woman and beautiful too so I have no doubt when you put yourself back out there that lots of guys will be lined up. I know I would. :0
Oh, and you are a thought leader too…. sorry, couldn’t resist.
You’re from a sales-oriented family, right? How well did you qualify this “prospect”? Did you try to “close the sale”, so to speak, and did he balk? Back to that fishing analogy ….obviously you had the right “bait” (you were with this man for awhile, right? Plus, we Donnaville readers are aware of your many fine qualities). I have a theory: 1/3 of all marriages are great, 1/3 of all marriages are mediocre, and 1/3 of all marriages are made in hell. Those aren’t great odds. I had a occasionally exciting, yet ultimately mediocre long-term relationship with a very nice lady that lasted longer than my brother’s marriage from hell. My mom and dad’s steadfast marriage was a case study in mediocrity. Obviously you know it’s not easy finding the right person, contrary to what some people (for instance, your MARRIED FRIENDS) tell you.
I did get it at that post, and called you out on it in my own little sarcastic way.
But since you didn’t fess up, I couldn’t prove it. Ultimately it’s none of my business so I let it go.
You totally got it Gomer! I was quite impressed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t ready to fess up at that point. I think I was still under the misguided notion things might get better.
It’ll all be okay. Besides, donnaville is so much more interesting when I am out kissing and telling!
I just lost my job, so that means I am limited in my ability to offer assistance.
But, In the spirit of lending a hand, I can help you with the conception part, but the marriage part is going to be tough (polygamy being expensive and all).
My point is proven…. all the good men are already taken! 😉
Thanks a lot Donna, guess I’m not good… 🙁
I really opened up a can of worms, sorry about that.
Gomer’s anatomy is unique. He’s able to help someone conceive by lending his hand. I remember that Mork from Ork drank through his finger, and I thought THAT was unusual.
It’s all good Michael….
Nanu Nanu!
If you had a baby by Gomer, the offspring would look like Jonathan Winters. If you had a baby by me, the kid
would look like Robert Redford but his politics would
look like Glenn Beck. You’ve got stars in your eyes thinking about that, don’t you? (Funny word, “offspring”. I imagine a newborn baby shot out like from a cannon.
And no, I haven’t been drinking.
The most likely scenario would be me “budding” like an amoeba… the outcome would look exactly like me except for a little goatee.
Send in the clones, there ought to be clones
Don’t bother, they’re here.
I’m parsing every word from that last note and I still can’t decipher it. Budding….goatee…..amoeba…..
Sounds like a Netflix commercial.
Take a pinch of college biology with a limited knowledge of asexual reproduction, couple it with a lackluster Star Trek reference and there you have it… 🙂
I always liked biology, but asexual reproduction never appealed to me. It’s like someone asking you to do
something anatomically impossible to yourself.
Yechhhhh!!!!!!
Jonathan F’en Winters? If by that you mean the babe would be a portly comic genius, then right on bro. An infant Jack Black…slimmed down a bit by Donna’s superior skinny DNA, but with Gomer’s taste in wine and rapier wit. A true prodigy.
Redford is a weathered orangutan with pre-cancerous freckles and protruding, bulbous skin lesions. Really appetizing child that one squirts. Having to use SPF 50 at the birth to protect it from the delivery room lights. Though the redhead jokes might become endearing right before little Opie dies of melanoma.
That was mean on my part. I apologize to those who look like Redford, think they do, or wish they could.
Stop insulting my baby!
Your baby???? My DNA is safely stored in a vault in Texas and hasn’t visited Pennsylvania lately.
Jonathan Winters was truly a comic genius (as you are, Gomer). One of the funniest men who ever lived. He just wasn’t exactly a cherub at 250 pounds. Now most males, if they’re honest, will admit they’d like to look like Redford in his prime. Personally, I always wanted to emulate Robert Wagner because who else could snag BOTH Jill St. John AND Natalie Wood? Holy S&%$, that’s like winning the lottery twice. And yes, Redford should now be playing shuffleboard at a retirement village in Florida instead of producing 3rd rate art house dreck. I hear Redford likes to play bridge with Sean Connery.
@B. Davis, I always felt that way about “offspring.” I think of a baby leaping out of the womb and sticking a perfect landing on the delivery room floor!
@Donna, you should definitely get out there and work those stiff muscles, girl! The time is not going to be right. You just have to act and then you will eventually start feeling more comfortable. Behavior changes lead to mindset changes!
If you seek solace in music, you need to hear “Dreams of reason” by The Tea Party ….right now. Remember Gomer referred you, so if you get misty eyed… Think of me.