Dec 04

I Really Like This Girl, I Only Sit Next To Her In One Class, we do talk and joke around, but we are both freindly like that. She does tell me some personal stuff, but i don’t know if she likes me. If i were to ask her out, when and how. What would i exactley say. And what do i do on a first real date?

Dec 04

I like to have everything be personal and inexpensive.They are for 13-14 year old girls with completely different personalities. Here are some of my ideas i already have:
1- personalized book
– i picked some of my favorite books and i’m going to add little notes to the story. i don’t know if i’m going to write in the margins or add post-its yet.
2- personalized calendar
– i bought a really cute pocket sized calendar that i’m going to give to one of my busiest friends
– i’m going to put school holidays in and birthdays of our other friends
any more ideas along those lines would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

Dec 04

So I was skeptical with doing the online thing, but I started talking to this girl where we met on a dating site. We hit it off on the site’s email, then we went to personal email, and then text messaging. We still do the personal email, though.
We met for the first date (which she called it) last Wednesday night. We hugged, got frozen yogurt (her choice there), sat and ate it outside where she was eating out of mine, etc, we talked about ourselves etc for about 1/2 hour, and then drove on over to the movie theater.
I had pre bought the tickets and she goes “aww.” In the movie, she mentions she’s cold three times, I put my arm around her, and she scootches on over to me, resting/snuggling with me. During 3 scary parts of the movie, I tap her arm to scare her and she hits my arm and laughs.
So after the movie I ask if she wants to go somewhere and talk…she says yes. So we go and talk for about 20 minutes…some things we talk about is what we want to do “next time” (and she mentioned future dates before we met, and told me she ‘knew the first date will go well’), etc.
As we are departing, I ask if I could have a goodnight kiss (hey it’s the first time we’re meeting so I wanted to be a gentlemen and since it’s from the internet I didn’t want to do it automatically); she says “yes…on the cheek.” So I give her one on the cheek, and then say to her playfully, “ah come on that’s not a real kiss.” So she smiles says “OK” and then lets me give her a kiss on the lips.
She starts to say that we’ll talk later and says “text me.”
So after the date, THAT SAME NIGHT, she texts me with “Hey I had a good time tonight :) ”.
The next night we text until she has to go to bed (she works full time in day time and I’m finishing my last school semester). Her closing text was Thursday night was “sounds good… have fun camping this weekend…i’ll talk to you later!”
Friday we don’t text…Saturday (i’m camping until sunday night/monday morning) I text her with “Heyyy so are you free to go out again before you leave for vegas?;)” b/c she’s going to vegas THIS friday/weekend.
She replies back within two minutes with “I don’t know. I have to go into the city for meetings a few nights after work.” I reply “Ohh well just let me know.”
So we don’t text the rest of the day. I personal email her Monday around noon with, “HEY! I’m back from camping! It was SO much fun! So what have you been up to??”
She replied today, around 3pm… with, “Hey Michael, sorry it took me so long to email you back. I’m glad you had so much fun camping! My week so far was been so busy! Craziness.”
OK – what do you think, gals? Is she into me still? Does she want a 2nd date?
I think I’ll email her, tomorrow or Thurs, to tell her something like, “I hope you have fun in vegas this weekend…make sure you win A LOT of money so you can pay for the WHOLE second date!! HAHA, JOKE! :) Anyway, so you should hit me up when you get back and we can arrange something. ;)
Soo what do you think about that gals? THANKS!
By the way, I mean, I don’t want to sound desperate or w/e by replying mentioning a 2nd date…or should I wait until she brings up going out again? PLEASE HELP!

Dec 03

If you are not familiar with Ma’moul, it’s a date filled (sometimes it’s substituted with a nut mixture, or figs) cookie eaten in the Middle East. This is more commonly consumed during Ramadan for Muslims, Easter for Christians, and Channukah, Purim and Rosh Hashanah among Jewish Arabs.
I tried for the first time today, I made up my own recipe for it since I don’t have one and I don’t like searching online. I used:
White flour – 2 C
Farina (semolina) – 1 C
Sugar – 1/3 C
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Butter – 1 C
Water – 1/2 C
Orange Blossom Water – 1 1/2 tbsp
Rose Water – 1 1/2 tbsp
And of course the filling was made of dates and butter, cooked on medium heat. So, they came out looking great, I even used the wooden spoons for shaping them. And they tasted good. The problem? It came out a little dry. I don’t want to add more butter, that means more fat and it would taste too buttery. I was skeptical about adding water because it would be slightly gooey, cook less quickly, and taste more like a biscuit.
Ending up with the best Ma’moul will take lots of practice and experimenting. I was thinking reduce the amount of semolina and add more flour instead? I did a 2:1 ratio, 2 cups flour and 1 cup semolina. Semolina has a coarse and slightly sand like texture and helps with allowing the dough to crumble and separates the flour to get it from baking like brick.
Should I:
Add water?
Reduce amount of semolina?
Other?
I know this is the Ramadan section, but someone has got to know what I’m talking about. You know how you can never get homemade things to end up like store bought products? That’s what my problem is now. I want it to be exactly like these (my favorite):http://market.treasureshidden.com/images…
Probably is never going to happen. God forbid it has something to do with more chemicals, I wouldn’t know where to get them!
I want to make a few dozens by next week for the Masjid. We’ll see how it goes. I have seven days to experiment. Any suggestions? I would like personal ones, not from the internet, thanks!

Dec 03

I’ve been talking to this girl on Facebook for a little over a week now. We usually write on each other’s wall (like leaving a comment) once a night.
Basically I ask a question, she answers it and comments on it, then I comment on her answer and ask another one.
Well anyways, she’s a Freshman and I’m a Junior. So we have no classes together, and our locker’s are nowhere close. I’ve stopped asking her school-related questions and more personal questions (I started with what kind of music do u like?).
But I want to actually meet her in person, but how? What should I say? This way I can get to know her more (because Homecoming is coming up soon). But I don’t want to sound like some creep.
How can I do this?

Dec 03

There is always this feeling of emptiness and irreversible-ness in me when girls lose their virginity(Be it friends/relatives/schoolmate). Maybe I am just getting too personal with other’s lives. But I just help it to feel this saddness and change in people.
Constructive counselling please.

Dec 03

I keep getting redirected to other websites. No matter what website I am on, every few minutes I am taken to a different website, as if I had typed in an address or clicked on a link. but I hadn’t. Many of the sites that I am redirected to I have seen several times, but there are a lot of them and it happens with no warning. There are a lot of dating sites and ads asking for personal information. I usually lose what I was doing on the last page, plus it’s incredibly annoying. It has only been happening recently, in the past few days, and I can’t think of any changes I made that would have made this happen. I’ve looked for solutions online and on my computer, but nothing I’ve tried has worked. I’m using Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, and I have updated all of the software I could think of to fix this.
What can I do to fix this?
I don’t want to have to pay for any new software, either.

Dec 03

How can I find the web site to go to ,that came from Craigs list personals? I am trying to Instant message her. And all she gave was im me at pip18..

Dec 03

seriously I may be shallow but what if I went out on a blind date and she was fat I would have to nicely tell her I am not interested because obesity is a huge turn off for me.

Dec 03

Surprisingly, in searches of broken families (grown up child to parent not husband & wife relationships) or loneliness if an appropriate word? none bring up any website not for profit that could allow people in a similar situation to communicate with others, yet in the same country of residence as like cultures and social values, I believe families are viewed differently in other countries, so comments made from example – USA or South Africa could be useful there, but not in UK. (Other countries reading this could set up your own if possible and desired).
If early 30’s to middle aged to young pensioner, it is often assumed you have a partner or are with friends, if you wish to go out for a drink and maybe dance as well?
I don’t accept that and I do enjoy a drink out, often alone, sometimes talking to others or even the odd dance alone – why not?
I think this is more healthy and enjoyable then having alcholic drinks at home with the television or computer?
No shortage of dating websites pop up, but since when should a desire for more friends have to mean sex or a relationship?
Good luck if this is achieved but the intention of such a website would be to reach out to as many UK people as possible in the same situation and so increase chances of people meeting others in person who understand them that is only possible if they live within reasonable distance from each other. This could also get rid of what I think, can be for some a false sense of shame through a family break up, often thinking it’s only them who has this upset – myself included.
“Chat” and other facilities are fine if you like communication with a keyboard and screen but I and I think others prefer faces & personalities.
E-mail I.D security could be best achieved by using an e-mail account name such as I have here that does not mention a person’s part name.
Internet Security Protection can help prevent Viruses sent on to your e-mail address, but I think it would be a very sad person who sets out to find a person with no family or few if any friends only to cause them harm online.
Finally if like me you think or have thought “what if a person
I e-mail to share information with about myself then decides to post this for everyone to see”? With no name (or a make up one to start with messages) and only home town or city as location, it’s still easy to think my personal details would be over all the newspapers and online in a couple of days and everyone would know about me that was intended for a new friend?
But how would anyone know who this actually applied to apart from the home town and most people would show disgust to the sender for online abuse.
Those of us without family or few if any friends (and we do exist) deserve better – so lets give ourselves what we do deserve.