Getting To Know Each Other
Dear [Lynn],
There were some email problems at work over the weekend that probably were what prevented my Saturday email from reaching you until Sunday. I’ll hold off on sending much more until you catch up. 
Hope your day is going well.
Some of those emails I sent over the weekend, I had to send again. They were bounced back by, one of the many, email gateways between me and you.
How about sending me your phone number and a good time to call you (tonight or tomorrow or whenever), and I’ll call then.
Yep. Got a bathtub and a shower. In my house, I had 1 bathtub / shower combo, in the auxiliary bathroom, a standup shower. Now one apartment in which I lived during 1983 only had a shower. Not good. I love my baths in that hot water. Aaaaaah. All my other apartments had tubs.
So, do you like baths or showers? In your current situation, I guess you have to like showers, ‘eh?
My youngest sister, Joann, and her husband, have a hot tub in their back yard. The often go winter dipping. A couple years ago, we went when it was about 15 degrees. Couldn’t even tell it was cold once you were in the water. But man, when you got out – my teeth are still chattering. 
Yep. Some of what you say about working with the earth rings familiar. Back in school, we had a couple greenhouses, and the students helped landscape around the campus, with the plants grown there. We did roses, tulips, geraniums, begonias, crocuses, and daffodils. Once I gave my first love an entire rose bush we had grown. That sure turned out to be rather controversial – being that we were only in 7th grade and all. Amazing how so many girls came to ask how I could give such a powerful gift. Though I don’t take much initiative when it comes to planting flowers and such, when working with someone who doesn’t mind directing me, I really enjoy it. It’s fun to help them make their plant vision into reality.
Nope. Haven’t changed those smoke detector batteries yet. But I just did them a few months ago so they should be okay until spring.
Actually, I didn’t wait around. As far as I was concerned, it was over as soon as I got back to Philly. But she kept emailing and calling and crying until finally, I had to listen, just to make her leave me alone. But you’re right. No need to go into that any further.
No, never easy. Sometimes I wonder. If I could banish this interest in companionship with a lady from my life, if I’d really do it. On occasion, I think I would. The search for the soul mate has, after all, been the single greatest source of pain in my life. But it has also been the single biggest contributor to my happiness. Go figure. Love really is full of irony, isn’t it. I’ve really been lucky with meeting reasonably good ladies over all though.
Yes, and I’m LOOMING over the telephone right now, wondering if I should call you, or wait until later. How bout I call you ‘round 9:00 tonight? How bout I loom for you?
You’re of a playful sort, aren’t ya.
You’re a Luminaire.
Nope. Don’t feel like stepping onto the soap box tonight. But I do agree with what you said about single sex education giving the pupil, perhaps the wrong impression of how the world at large, is. But on the other hand, integrated education may teach (although not in so many words) that men are to be just like women and that women are to be just like men. That’s not good either. But more on that some other time. I’m so tired.
Hmmm, now there’s a peculiar mix. Chocolate covered sacred cows. You would not likely find these in Grandma’s Christmas candy dish.
By the way, the word ‘connotation’ has two Ns. You were correct.
Yes, the word ‘cute’ indeed can be perceived negatively. It’s a rather non descriptive word that lots of teens use to describe everything from mates to shoes. It is probably the reason that so many other, more descriptive adjectives were invented. People simply got tired of hearing about so many things being CUTE. A writing teacher once said that describing something / someone as ‘cute’ was the lazy man’s way of answering the challenge to articulate one’s feelings about the target object. She was probably right.
Well, off to bed with me. Talk to you tomorrow.
By the way, you’re cute. Hey, I’m tired. That makes me lazy. What can I say?
Wanted to say again how pleasant it was chatting with you tonight. We seem to have some definite views / beliefs in common. Looking forward to learning more.
‘night.