my life and my coffee cup: sometimes grounds can be a concern...

[aishlynn]

so I finally feel I have something to say. or at least something i'd like some feedback on. and, in typical "kimachu-style", this is NOT going to be noted for it's brevity. well, tough tomatoes - you know some of you have -FAR- too much time on your hands...read this instead of responding to a meme for a few minutes. (ducks) heh

Comments

[critus]

Hrm

reply # 1 - man, you guys are getting me to write!!

[aishlynn]

"One - Yeah, the people who will tell you that you'll change your mind are in some kind of weird, miserable place where they have no more social life and don't want you to, either

[tylorael]

Ok.

I definitely miss you. We need to e-mail more often.

I won't make social commentary on this - i've read, taken in, and am not offended.

reply #2

[aishlynn]

Miss you, too sweetie:)

(huggles!)

i'm glad you're not offended - you know me well enough now to know that for all my bark, i don't really like to go for the jugular unless it's well-deserved. i'm inclined to believe that the vast majority of anyone who's reading this will know that, too.

and ditto on the needing to correspond more. i'm lousy at it, i admit it.

(scribbles yet another line item on the ole' self-improvement "to-do" list: Write to people you care about now and then, you twit!!)

heh.

sending psychic smooches your way, sweetie!
:)
-kimachu

feel your pain

[yokes1971]

Its funny you wrote about this. J and I were having this conversation this evening at dinner. In our case we are actually segregated out it seems because we are the ones w/o kids. Its downright annoying. We were actually talking on how much we missed you guys as our only non-child-bearing freinds (well that wasnt the only reason we miss you guys). Hopefully it will be a lesson to J and I if we go down the path of parenthood to try to be more conscious about our existing relationships and try harder to keep them up. Who knows.

On another not in 11 years I'll only be 44 :-) you old fart.

reply #3 - for you, my oldest and in many ways, dearest friend

[aishlynn]

"Its funny you wrote about this. J and I were having this conversation this evening at dinner. In our case we are actually segregated out it seems because we are the ones w/o kids. Its downright annoying. We were actually talking on how much we missed you guys as our only non-child-bearing freinds (well that wasnt the only reason we miss you guys). Hopefully it will be a lesson to J and I if we go down the path of parenthood to try to be more conscious about our existing relationships and try harder to keep them up

Reply #4 - wow, Don commented in my journal! w00t!!

[aishlynn]

"I'm the black sheep of my family

[selkiesiren]

i don't know. i guess i just want to know how to relate - how to still be a good friend and not come off as resentful of these incredible kids. or to make any of them feel that i think less of them because they chose to be a mom or a dad. these people know and love me, regardless of the fact that i won't go down that path.Speaking as someone who has been on both sides of the fence you describe

Wow

[critus]

Kind of off topic here, but I absolutely love some of what you wrote. Do you mind if I quote it in my journal?

Re: Wow

[selkiesiren]

Help yourself. :)

Response #5 - even the gorgeous Celtic lady shares her wisdom with me:)

[aishlynn]

I think I can imagine the identity loss a little bit because that's how my former marriage was - i wasn't Kim anymore, I was Mrs. ......, aka so-and-so's Wife