Tag: I love you

Sunday Stealing Goes Back To The Well

not as bad as it was

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week, we’re once again stealing from Steph, aka Cry Baby. She loves Taco Bell and asking questions like these.

Revisiting Steph –  Sunday Stealing Goes Back To The Well

1) Has anyone ever told you “I love you,” but you didn’t say it back?

This happened at least 48 years ago. This young woman and I were buddies, not even really close friends. We were hanging out somewhere outdoors, and she said that. I thought it came out of nowhere, and I felt terrible. When I didn’t respond in kind, she seemed really crushed. I reflected on the vibe I was giving off to her. I hadn’t thought about that in a long time.

 

2) Do you consider yourself organized?

I think that there’s more than one way to be organized. In some ways, I am, and in other ways, definitely not. My blog writing has a system: I know what I’m gonna write, but I leave room for inspiration. I go through my email, which is my organizational tool for triggering specific behaviors, such as paying bills. My cell phone helps me remember my medical appointments and other irregular events.
Conversely, my office is a mess. It’s not as bad now as it was a couple of days ago. I was having trouble getting Internet connectivity, and I knew someone from Spectrum was going to come into my office at 8 a.m., so I woke up at 4:40 without an alarm clock and moved stuff around for about 2.5 hours.
Pathway

Now there’s a path from the entryway to my desk, so the worker could, as it turns out, replace the modem I just got a month ago with one that actually works.

 

3) Where do you look first when you go clothes shopping?

I should note that I loathe going clothes shopping. Last time I went, I needed a new winter coat, so I got one at Lodge’s, the oldest store in downtown Albany. I also bought some socks because I can always use more socks. Usually, my wife buys me shirts from L.L. Bean.

 

4) Do you often reflect on your past in terms of eras or milestones (“it’s been 10 years since X happened”)?
Not exactly, but I do recall anniversaries. I note famous people’s 70th birthdays, my parents’ birthdays, and death dates, my sisters’ birthdays, etc.

The only time I reflect is in end-of-year posts, when I’m mainly looking back on the previous 12 months. The only milestone demarcations I suppose I have are before the daughter and after the daughter, and my previous church versus my current church.

 

5) Were you more recently ill or injured (flu vs. twisted ankle)?

Challenging to say. I’m often in a state of mild injury. I wrote about pain in my left knee some months ago. The last time I was sick was probably when I had COVID in August of 2022, and honestly, because I had gotten shots, it wasn’t all that bad.

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