Comments on: I’m From a Map Dot…

By: lisaq

lisaq — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:35:27 +0000

BradK. I have no idea what you’re talking about. My life here is very full. I’m not lacking for friends or for friends or things to do. My only issue with Mapdot is that it makes me geographically challenged when it comes to dating.

I hear ya Gwen. I know how much you miss Scotland.

My relationship with my mom is a little strained at times Honey but my dad is my rock and I can’t imagine my life without them in it. I talk to them several times a week. And no, I’m more in the center of the state. You know in the really flat, boring part.
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By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:33:05 +0000

Oh, and if that star is really near where you live, at least it’s near the interesting/crumbly edge…

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By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:31:49 +0000

Thanks for this context, LisaQ. I’m always interested in learning about people who are close to their families. My mom died about ten years ago…now I talk to my dad maybe 4 times a year and have visited him I think twice in the last 6 years. I talked to my sister maybe once a year for the last 8 years; she was in a horrible accident and almost died about 6 months ago, so we talk on the phone for 10 minutes every month or two now, but I haven’t visited her. The BF was living with his brother when I met him and we hung out with his parents regularly (they also live in Phoenix) but he has had a falling out with all of them and we haven’t talked to any of them since March. Personally I would have cut them out long before.

It is good when, despite flaws or rough patches in a relationship, people can work through them and remain a family. My immediate family (and the BF’s as well) are, each and every one of them, the family member version of an EUM. It is far too much effort to put in only to get 10% back, and sometimes less. The BF and I strive to have our relationship be everything our family life wasn’t/isn’t.

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By: auntiegwen

auntiegwen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:07:34 +0000

I live in middle England and my parents and only sister live 350 miles away in Scotland.

I too am a teacher and I love my school but I hope that when Beautiful Baby Daughter leaves me in 7 years time to go to University I too can leave.

I don’t dislike where I live but after the children finish their education I will have no reason to be here.

There is no place like home !

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By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:46:35 +0000

LisaQ,

There are some interesting things you can do with a house. A home office comes to mind. A home business - Amway is still alive and making fortunes, Avon, then there are the sex-toy parties (like the bachelorette party in Made of Honor), etc.

A room mate - of either gender, non-intimate arrangements are very workable. And having someone there changes the way life looks. When in California, I looked for a roommate, one lady told me she wanted a male, because “women aren’t kind to each other.” I imagine, like guys, that depends on those involved.

You can check on whether single foster parents are needed. St. Louis, MO, did, in 1990.

I was impressed with the apartment in “Kissing Jessica Stein” - making the central theme an art studio, without losing the living areas.

You have the option to have dinner guests - friends, JayCees, Kiwanis, political orgnizations, neighborhood watch, church, school activity or teacher groups, even Christmas decoration, quilting, or other craft activities.

As a teacher you must be aware of the benefits of aquariums and pet birds or animals.

You can do like one of my folk’s neighbors, and put up Christmas displays of pigs pulling Santa’s slegh (Everly, Iowa, about 10 years ago. We still talk about it. I moved away long before.)

There are many ways to bring joyful and productive energies into a home.

And living in Map Dot, you get a personal connection with more people than you can shake a stick at. Even when they all begin ‘do you know ..’ introductions with who the grandparents were.

Brad K.
Raised near May City, IA, pop. about 75, counting farm families within 5 miles. They made the bowling alley (kids set the pins) into a fiberglass boat hull factory for a couple of years. The guy with a welder and feed grinder was the biggest name in town, after Elmer Kraft Trucking. St. John’s Missouri Synod Lutheran was the church, and center of social life. I still recall the Christmas bag, with a pound of peanuts, an apple, an orange, a couple Brazil nuts, and three pieces of cellophane-wrapped peppermint candy. Handed out after the Christmas program Christmas eve, in a brown paper bag - and always an act of love.

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