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Anni wrote: "Soooooooon!!! 🎊Yeah, sorry about that! 😂🙈
I'm glad everything worked out for you that well! You should be proud of you, for everything you achieved this year. I'm a tiny bit jealous because I'm s..."
I'm coming up on 4 years out of grad school and I still don't have that sorted out!
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I'll have to think about me being similar to Iain. Also about being more readable. Though honestly, I think both of us are pretty readable. Iain may have a deeper level that he isn't showing us, and I may complicate things by being sometimes sarcastic and jokey, but I've never evaded a question or lied here.
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I've had this weird morning today. It started bad, because normally I went to see my best friend. It's been a while since we've seen each other, but right before I would leave, she sends me a text that she's sick. Being a bit sad by it, I thought of going to my favorite bookstore. The best remedy! But I went to 2 second hand bookstores. In the first one I found one of my favorit children's book when I was a little kid, so I bought it for my son. But the second store, that was weird! I entered the room with the plan on buying a book of King or Murakami, but my head was drown to the shelves with English fantasy almost immediately. And there they were: 6 books of Malazan and the Fallen! I almost did a happy dance. Of course I bought them. It costed me a lot less than buying them new. Now I only need to order the first 4, but I'm so happy and I totally forgot about my best friend cancelling our day.
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I prefer the finding love at first sight in a bookstore story you know when the boy takes out a book and is about to put it back until he sees the love of his life staring back but that’s a cool story too😂😂😂 Well that’s the power of books there always there to cheer you up which reminds me I need to visit the book store
Ahdam wrote: "I prefer the finding love at first sight in a bookstore story you know when the boy takes out a book and is about to put it back until he sees the love of his life staring back but that’s a cool st..."Or they both try to grab the same book at the exact same moment. And it's the last copy.
If only RL was that awesome, sigh...I've had short online convo with a girl, who is selling a japanese book I want. We've decided to trade books. So I'm already half in love and fantasizing about her asking me out when we meet (yes, girls should ask ME out, don't even question it) and me saying why yes, but why, you don't even know me.
And then I wake up, bc that shit is as probable as me going to Mars.
Yoink that’s another idea to put in the notebook😂😂😂
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Reminds me my first and last one sided love story in uni. I've seen the guy reading a book and smiling at it in front of the lecture hall before the very first lecture of my first year. I didn't stalk him just looked his way whenever I saw him in campus, meanwhile I had a boyfriend etc. but finally in our last year he was in my seminar group. He sat next to me in the first class and my holy one-sided love was over as soon as I saw his nails.
I should've checked that earlier :)))
Saar wrote: "I've had this weird morning today. It started bad, because normally I went to see my best friend. It's been a while since we've seen each other, but right before I would leave, she sends me a text ..."That's a great story! Well done!
And I met the man I married when I visited his sci-fi & fantasy collectables store, so it's entirely possible!
Ooh yeah this sounds like interesting gossip was it like a Bradbury where he thought you were a shoplifter and you two hit off or was it the classic lovey dovey stuff Well at least I k ow it is possible that I may find the love of my life in a book store but alas not anytime soon 😂😂😂😂😨😨😨😨😨😓😓😓😓😭😭😭😭😭😭
Margret wrote: "Yeah that is so not how my hubby and I met 😂"Ha! Ditto. I wonder if it's too late to pretend I don't know my husband and we can stage a new meeting in a bookstore like that. The kids would be confused though. 😂
Iain wrote: "Books make everything better... I was expecting a sad ending..."Sorry to dissapoint you, Iain, for once in my life I have luck ;)
Ahdam wrote: "I prefer the finding love at first sight in a bookstore story you know when the boy takes out a book and is about to put it back until he sees the love of his life staring back but that’s a cool st..."That's a good starting point for a story. You 've looked into my head, Ahdam. I write stories and that was one of the ideas that I had recently. But there are so many stories with that storyline, so creativity is a must!
Sadly, my boyfriend (that sounds so weird, because we're together for 17 years now), doesn't have anything with books. He find that they take to much space in the house. I've got my own private library, muhahaha, but it's under construction and he finds that books have to many letters to read. He only read a book once when he was a tenager and that was 'Clan of the cave bears'. He had to do a book report about it and tell about in in front of the class and evryone wanted to read the book. That was his only bookish adventure. I miss that, talking with him about books, but that why I have you, guys!
Ahdam wrote: "I prefer the finding love at first sight in a bookstore story you know when the boy takes out a book and is about to put it back until he sees the love of his life staring back but that’s a cool st..."When I've finished writing my book, you can make a movie about it :p How was your trip to the book store?
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Niki Hawkes wrote: "Oddly, my husband and I met at the bookstore I was working at before we officially "met" (we put together the pieces in hindsight). Saw this cute guy in the sci-fi fantasy section, asked if he need..."That's actually really adorable
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@NikiIn my feed I see part of your name as "obsessive bookseller". My biz-bro. I mean gal. Sis? Anyway... So you work at a bookstore?
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Iain wrote: "You know how you know you're tired?... You aim the TV remote at the lightbulb and keep hitting the power button and wonder why the light won't turn off..."Yeah, that just might be sign that you need some sleep.
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I met my husband in a bar when I was 17 😂 I was going to be 18 soon so they didn’t notice that I wasn’t of legal age yet
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Margret wrote: "That’s so cute Niki! I met my husband in a bar when I was 17 😂 I was going to be 18 soon so they didn’t notice that I wasn’t of legal age yet"
So does your husband know that you were in a bar underage or have you had to lie to him about your birthday ever since? :D
Speaking of age and live I just found out a few of my old school mates are getting married and while I hope they have a happy life I just can’t help but feet what the fuck am I doing with my life oh yeah nothing but uni sitting down at home and going to North Yorkshire for my job what a brilliant life I live 😂😂😂😂😂
Niki Hawkes wrote: "Oddly, my husband and I met at the bookstore I was working at before we officially "met" (we put together the pieces in hindsight). Saw this cute guy in the sci-fi fantasy section, asked if he need..."That's the cutest story :-)
My husband and I met at an online dating site, too. As we dated we discovered that in high school/college we hung out in the same pool hall almost every weekend. Chances are we crossed paths there but never knew it.
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I met my husband in a bar when I was 17 😂 I was going to be 18 soon so they didn’t notice that I wasn’t of legal age yet"
You coulda just said 17 is legal in Canada like it is in the UK... we'd never know :D
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He started running an online used bookstore a few months ago I think... there was talk of coming into a few hundred or thousand books and cataloging them around here somewhere...
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You're young yet, Ahdam... it works out for some people, but 20 is pretty young for getting married, I think... *I say as I watch my 24 year old sister on her second kid and she seems happy*... my 21 year old sister has one, too...
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@Niki: That's fantastic how you met and working at a bookstore is a dreamjob. I used to work at a library for a couple of years.@Ahdam: no rush, you will find someone.
@Angela I've been invited to two of my (little) sisters friends wedding this month. They are 23!! What's wrong with this generation!@Ahdam I will be single by your side don't worry, you are not alone :)))
That’s interesting I would think that the older generation married when they were younger (no offence)My parent were in the early 20s when they married and had somehow managed to support 5 children which is definitely not gonna happen with me 😂😂😂
But yeah who knows maybe one day when I walk into the bookstore I might meet he love of my life but yeah
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In NYC a friend of mine has like 5-6 daycare centers and for most of the kids (single parents etc) government pays the fees. I don't think its all about the money. I think ppl lowered their toleration limits for each other, maybe the freer we get the lonelier we become.
My mum and dad married when they were 20 and 21 respectively. My dad has told me now he regrets settling down so young - he would've liked to have seen a bit more of the world first. Cynical old me wonders how many of the people who marry at 20 are still together when they're 30...
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I don't think its all about the money. I think ppl lowered their toler..."
Things are fine for the people that qualify... it's the people that BARELY don't that struggle... mostly the middle class... My boss makes double what I do... spends more than I do on all my bills combined just for daycare... and is planning a 2nd kid with some careful budgeting for the 2 years that two kids will be in daycare at the same time...
@NikiI started selling used books on a site similar to craigslist, minus all the sexual favors, lol. There is a message here somewhere describing the money side, how I sell books for ten times what I pay for them and all that. Right now it's mainly friends and family giving me books for free. I decided to specialize in japanese literature, so now I'm buying anything jap that is under 3$, growing my collection.
Shaitarn wrote: "My mum and dad married when they were 20 and 21 respectively. My dad has told me now he regrets settling down so young - he would've liked to have seen a bit more of the world first. Cynical old ..."
I married my wife when I was 21 and she was 20. We're celebrating our 10-year anniversary this year, and truly have a wonderful marriage. We had plenty of people tell us we were too young to get married, that our marriage wouldn't last, yada yada yada. It was the best decision of my life.
Regarding marrying young, I think it really just depends on your individual maturity level. We were both quite emotionally stable, and we were going into the marriage with the same value set, life goals, etc. I remember the only thing that made me nervous was that we had very different hobbies (I'm a bit of a sports nut, and my wife hates anything remotely athletic-related). But in the grand scheme of things that doesn't matter. My advice for what it's worth (not much) is:-Marry someone who shares your faith, including the importance of that faith and role in your life. For us, our belief in Christ and following His teachings is a pillar of our marriage.
-Marry someone who has a compatible view on kids. For us, we both knew that adoption/foster care would be a priority.
-Marry someone with a compatible personality. Think about the types of people that drive you crazy, and think about the types of people that you enjoy being around. Because eventually the "newly in love" phase will wear off, and you're going to want to be married to someone who you like as well as love.
-Commit to each other each and every day. Love is a choice. It's an action. It's a verb. Love your spouse when they don't deserve, and when you don't feel like it.
If you do those things, I don't think it matters how old you are when you get married.
My mom was 18 when she and my dad got married.They will celebrate their 43rd anniversary this year.
But the world has changed.
I'm 28 and still single. It is really only in the last year or two that I have started to mind that fact.
Its hard and frustrating watching most of my friends finding "the one", settling down, getting married, having kids, etc.
But on the flip side of that, I have done a lot of traveling in the last four years with more planned. Most of my friends haven't been able to do that.
Trade offs I suppose.
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Great advice... no wonder your marriage is lasting...
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Glad your year is off to a good start!
Ahdam wrote: "Well then that was a bit gooey wasn't it I'm not usually like this but fuck it"
Sometimes you just gotta go with it.