Ask me…

I thought I might try something fun… ask me a question in the comments, and I’ll answer it.  Anything you’ve wondered about me from reading my blog, or anything you’re curious about?  Want my opinion on something?  Ask away!  I’m curious to see what you all come up with

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Highs and Lows

I was walking around the lake during my lunch break and my iPod shuffled up “Highs and Lows” by Mindy Smith.  I love this song!  It’s such a great little bundle of wistfulness, nostalgia, hope for the future and just an underlying appreciation for life. I immediately thought of a conversation of sorts I’ve been [...]

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The Friend Zone

The response to my guest blog over at Simply Solo (In Defense of the Beta Man) along with some things I read on a couple blogs recently got me thinking about “The Friend Zone.”  You know, that place men talk about hating being put by the women in their lives, like it’s some dread purgatory [...]

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Reverse Bucket List

While I think the idea of a Bucket List is pretty awesome and motivating, for those of us who’ve found themselves at a point in their lives with little free time or money to do the things we always hoped and wished to do, a Bucket List can prove to be somewhat frustrating and depressing.  [...]

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Chuck moved in!

So Chuck moved in yesterday!  I’m so excited about this development and I really can’t wait to start the next phase of my life, with more time for living (as I talked about in Climbing Out of the Social Void and Following the Pixies).  Unfortunately, I’ve already scheduled my part-time hours through May and I’ve [...]

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Subtext and Tori Amos

The other night I was listening to my iPod and “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos came up, one of my all-time favorite songs. Tori hit my radar when the video for that song hit MTV (way back when there was one MTV  channel and they actually played videos all the time).  The music [...]

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… She’d Be Passionate About Politics

This is a follow-up of sorts to my post …She’d Speak Liberal.  As I said in that post, the next woman in my life doesn’t have to be liberal, but it would be nice if she was.  What would be even cooler is if she were also really passionate about politics.  The recent Occupy Wall [...]

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Dedicated to you…

So.  It’s been 4 months and 30 blog posts since I started My Ideal Woman, and it’s been a great time for me!  I feel like I’ve reached out and made friends with some nice fellow bloggers, as well as shared a lot of information with some real-world friends and family members, things they may [...]

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…She’d Envy my iPod (pt 2)

I often fantasize about finding a woman who would find my iPod and fall in love with my music– finding that we shared a lot of the same tastes, discovering new favorites, talking about my experiences around the songs …and hopefully providing me with new tracks I can add to the mix and wrap new memories [...]

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…She’d Savor Smooching

one for the ages This is one of those pictures I just love every time I see it.  If I remember my history correctly, this was snapped in Times Square when V-J Day was announced.  Now I always assumed that these two were sweethearts celebrating the end of World War II by one of the [...]

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