Who needs a MOJITO time? (The sequel)- Page 223

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:22pm

DD;
From reading some of your posts this week.. you have not exactly been saving yourself for Alberto... so work is not the only thing occupying you??

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:24pm

I am trying to match SOMMS' number of ex's, and I've got some catching up to do.

That... and the show.

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:26pm

whore. I mean.. slut.. ( whores get paid)

[liotte]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:27pm

DD! Yes, we're on!!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:28pm

Hey... I resemble that remark!

*grins*

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:29pm

lol. But you don't argue it.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:30pm

[shira467]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:30pm

DAME. I come from a New York family.

All my aunts, uncles, cousins...it's a whole barrel of "Shira, you'd be so pretty IF..."

Whee...

And no, I'm not bitter.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:32pm

Tell them all to f!ck off! Tell them "I AM pretty just the way I am."

I would also say "You know, you'd be a lot more interesting if you stopped telling me what's wrong with me and started fixing what's wrong with you."

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:33pm

SHira,
when I was your age I thought I couldn't say no to family engagements. i was wrong.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:34pm

Good one DD - I have lunch plans, but not until 1:00 CDT - I could chew off my arm.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:34pm

When I become financially independent, I'll say no.

Until then, guilt. Jewish guilt. I give AND I get.

Ya know, these are all identity strength training exercises, because one day I will say F*CK you to them.

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:36pm

You know Shira.. you could give the guilt back. And I always used the.."too much to study" excuse. And if that doesn't work tell them a hot Jewish man asked you out.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:38pm

I have no family engagements here.

[liotte]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:38pm

Shira, I'm in the camp that says to tell your fam to "f*ck off". I think you are beautiful the way you are! Just be happy with yourself, and hopefully your family can do the same! (I know much easier said than done though!)

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:40pm

You could guilt them by saying something to the effect that their comments are what leads you to gain weight.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:40pm

I'm drafting a new musical for you two ... "I Love You, Now F*CK Off!"

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:43pm

My family used to be tha way to me till I told them to f**k off. We didn't talk for a few weeks. And then slowly we started talking and slowly they would go back to their old ways and slowly I would tell them off again till slowly they strted t change.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:44pm

Oh, I want to workshop that!

Ah yes...thanks for the support guys.

It IS like walking into the lion's den, but I'll walk in with my head held high, my makeup fantastic, pearls, and I'll avoid my mother at all costs.

Besides -- she can't make a scene in a public place. The rest of family I can handle. Everyone except those who came in from California.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:44pm

Please write a part for a latin male who can dance but can't sing.

Seriously, though. My family tried to pull that crap on me, and it wasn't until I pulled a Harvey-in-Torch-Song-Trilogy moment on my mom and told her that if she wanted to be a part of my life she had to accept me for who I was that things changed.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:47pm

Yup. I will do ALL of this the day I:

a) pay off my student loans and am financially independent outside of my parents.

b) stop being a photographer WITH my father.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:47pm

Shira, you could always really freak them all out and bring a tall, debonair, older, Catholic gent and introduce him as your pimp.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:50pm

LOL!

OR wear a wedding band. No explanations. Just wear one. And if they ask, just be coy and say 'it's a friendship ring' or a 'promise ring' or something like that. Keep them guessing.

[shira467]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:50pm

They would DIE. I love it!

Liotte offered to come as my girlfriend. I've had many offers for that, actually.

Someone was telling me about a friend of their who is just not dating right now, and his parents are concerned. So he and ALL his friends have an elaborate girlfriend made up.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 12:56pm

Karma. Just think Karma. This will come and bite them in their karmic @ss one day.