Oh John, c'mon now. You know me better than that! I don't care where I lay my head, I'll be a Boston fan for life, Sox and Bruins. Now I just get to drive twenty minutes to see the Stanley Cup Champion Bs (Yes, I had to throw that in there!) play the Panthers and I can get killer seats behind the away team bench for dirt cheap.

I predict I'm going to get laid at least once by then. I know the past twenty years have been a little slow but I plan on making up for lost time. My kid is finally grown, graduated, and out of the house. I'm still young enough to enjoy the next two decades and I sure the hell am not going to sit around wondering what's going to happen to the world in the future. I have an amazing life to live today!

Buried under 6 ft of snow IS hardcore, hence why I relocated far to the south! I'd rather try to figure out how to cool down than how to warm up. The only snow I wanna see is the kind in a paper cup with blue raspberry stuff drizzled over it.

Plus, that's one yummy way to cool off. Or I can go jump in the ocean. Hell, they have AC everywhere here. It's all good!!

So please make sure you specify during your jig to send the rain southWEST to Texas. I'm digging all this sunshine and debilitating heat here in Florida!

Ah c'mon Lex. Give her a chance. She may wants to bring you Pepsi on demand too!

I just relocated from Vermont to hot and sunny Florida! Sure, you can fry an egg on my truck right about now but I'm loving every damn minute of it. I've never been so happy to glisten with sweat three seconds after I step out to have a smoke. It does rain here, but only for about 15 minutes and then, poof, out pops the sun again. I absolutely love, love, love it!! I think the heat index is 115 or so here today and I'm not complaining one iota!

I don't want to be married period, whether it's to the right or wrong person, and I sure the hell don't want to be unhappy, in marriage or otherwise, so I guess I'll choose the alternative.

Actually, for me it's an easy choice since I have plenty of experience with being single and I'm quite comfortable with it (I've been alone most of the last 17 years!). I don't need a husband to feel complete and I don't think being single for life necessitates being lonely for life. I have family, friends, and my pets to keep me company so bouts of loneliness are usually short-lived at most. I'd be happy to find a man to care about, to spend time with, and to screw the hell out of, but marriage isn't an option for me personally. I'm pretty sure a silly piece of paper doesn't make two people love each other more. Commitment to a relationship comes from the heart, not from the state! I'll be single for life most definitely, but I highly doubt I'll be lonely for life.

And so it goes in my little world...

In love? ...just once.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I can attempt to explain why I am (was?) one of those 'rigid' girls you speak of...

You listen to your mother tell you 83 bazillion times from a tender age, and I emphasize the quotes here, "NOBODY should ever see you naked!!" Now I grew up in a house with 3 brothers and she had all the best intentions when she said this as she couldn't have me streaking thru the house. There were further age appropriate explanations along the way, but basically the conversations always ended with this statement. I could kick her for not throwing in "Until you meet the man you love."

So fast forward through childhood with certain sexual scripts instilled by well-meaning parent(s) and viola, you have a teen that starts getting busy with the boys and momma's voice rings out loud and clear when the clothes start being removed... "NOBODY should ever see you naked!". For me, this created conflict. It sure feels good, and this is going to be hard to do if I can't be seen. It's pretty dang hard to turn the moon off if ya know what I mean!

I've LEARNED to shut momma's voice off, over time, but it took me YEARS to accomplish this. I'm not nearly as reserved as I was initially with sex, but I had to work at accepting different ideas about it than I was taught. I also think that sex and intimacy are two different things. Would I drop to my knees for any dude?...hell no. Would I engage in oral sex with the man I committed my heart and life to?... absolutely. So for me, the bedroom antics are completely dependent on my emotional connection with the person. If I'm f-ing you, things are going to be different than if we're making love.

Some women that are rigid also may have suffered sexual abuse. This is much harder to quiet than Momma's voice. The girl who won't go down on you may have suffered a painful incident related to this specific act. Does she love you less? Doubtful. Is it a reason to toss the relationship out? Guess that depends on how much you value that act. To me, it's just one means of expressing feelings. And talking about what you need is the only way to understand each other. If your sexual scripts differ dramatically, the relationship is doomed, in my opinion. But remember, we're all learning and changing everyday....it's the beauty of life, which ironically starts with the sex act. For some, that act is about positions and vocabulary, for others it is something much, much deeper. JMO, albeit a very long-winded one.

I want a fun nice guy in public that morphs into a cool bad boy in the bedroom! People in hell want ice water too!

Thanks Tessa. It's one of my favorite sayings.

I see it like this...If you need something from your significant other, you need to tell them. You can't expect them to read your mind or know how you feel. You can't possibly get what you want if you don't communicate what you want! If you talk to them honestly from your heart, you may not like the answers they give you, but at least you both know what you need to know to decide the next step.

Doing something just to gauge someone's reaction is a fool's game. Any good lawyer knows you don't ask a question of your witness unless you already know their answer!

I saw a study once that claimed there were men out there that didn't want women with big boobs and a brain the size of a small walnut. I have no idea where they come up with the funding to investigate these things. Don't you think maybe they should be studying why we're paying almost four bucks a gallon for gas instead!!

A hungry closed mouth can never get fed. Tell 'em...

Funny that I until about two weeks ago I thought this exact same thing...it would be nice just to have somebody to hold, even if just for a night. And I'm not even talking about sex...just to be able to sleep next to someone.

Then I realized after putting some-BODY beside me for a night that it wasn't the physical presence of a person that I missed, it was the feeling of loving the person beside me that I miss so much. A body is just a body beside you if you don't care about the person...

So nope, I don't think "If I just had somebody to hold..." anymore...I think 'If I just had someone that I loved..." instead.

You're support has always been there for me...I knew that!! I doubted right up until today though...in fact, I really won't truly believe it until I'm being handed the diploma on stage. Then I'll probably burst into tears of joy (and some sorrow!) but for now, I'm just grinning from ear to ear! Thanks for helping me through it Lex! You're a true friend!

Thanks Row. It's an odd feeling...I think I like it!

Now that would be one helluva graduation gift! I'll take it!!

And thanks John...I know you know!

And thanks to you also girls. Way to sneak in ahead of him Yellowrose...being a mod has perks huh?

They say pride is one of the seven deadly sins, yet I can't help but feel it after finishing my FINAL final exam today! Regardless of how I did on it, I will pass the course and all my other ones too, which ultimately means that I accomplished a long awaited dream of attaining my Bachelor of Science degree in Biobehavioral Psychology with a Chemistry minor. I WILL graduate on May 22, and although my Dad won't physically be present, this was his dream for me and I promised him on his death bed only days before this year began that I would fulfill it no matter what. I kept that promise today and while it is a bittersweet moment for sure, I feel tremendous pride in being able to do that. I did it for you Dad...It's been 9 months today since I said good-bye, but I'll know you'll be walking down that aisle with me! I hope I made you proud!! R.I.P.

I totally disagree with this statement. The only thing required to learn is observation, which doesn't cost a penny! And no reward is necessary for learning to occur. This has been proven in countless experiments with both animals and humans. Thus, money cannot buy you knowledge, nor happiness. Happiness can be obtained through learning, but learning is done all the time, whether we make a conscious effort to do so or just observe stimuli in our environment. Therefore, the statement that "we must get rich, so that we can live more" is ridiculous. We live more by learning more, and we learn more just by being alive each day...new experiences teach us new things. It's pretty cool actually!

Depends on what theory you would like to use to answer this question. Hull would propose an incentive motivation theory that posits drive (biological need) interacts with habit (learning from prior experience) and incentive learning (that the response feels good when in a need state) to produce a response. Thus we seek happiness because we've learned that it satisfies a "need", or leads to a positive outcome that becomes associated with satisfying a need state, ultimately leading to homeostasis of our bodies. This could have evolutionary roots whereby those behaviors that produce positive affect will occur more often, thus increasing the need for happiness because it enhances the chance for reproductive success and ultimately survival of the species.

Or I could just say because the alternative sucks!

He's out 'indefinitely'...questionable for a return at the start of the series but probably not. Hopefully he'll be able to play but I think they're prepping Kelly to go to the second line just in case. That'd be a huge blow to us if he can't play again!

It's gonna be a good physical series I surmise! Bruins take it though!

On a side note, how 'bout them Sharks? On the verge of a colossal collapse...

Nope, can't say I date fat guys. Of course, can't say I date skinny guys either. I only date imaginary guys!