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What Your Husband Does Not Want You To Know!
Posted by admin in Random Friday, 29 January 2010 19:49 No Comments
1. He Only Pretends Not to Listen.
He heard what you said. He’s just not interested in hearing it at the moment. Don’t try to give your man instructions or talk about your feelings when he’s watching TV (especially sports), eating, reading, or has just come home from work. He will only be half listening. His mind is on other things like: will his team win, his day at work, how hungry he is, etc. He can only pay attention to one thing at a time. If he lets you think that he is giving you his full attention, and then you will want to talk to him at these inappropriate moments all the time. If he gives you a detailed response, you’ll just continue to talk. If he completely ignores you, you’ll get mad. If he pretends that he is listening, you will be content and walk away.
2. He Does Look at Other Women.
Not because he wants to cheat, but because men are visually stimulated. Getting mad at him for looking is just going to make him sneak a peek. Hey, it’s just a passing glance. It’s not like we don’t check guys out too!
3. He Needs Time Away From You.
Men need time to reflect, socialize and just get away from it all. Men like the time to regroup. It doesn’t mean that they don’t want to be with us, it is just an escape to appreciate what they have at home. So lighten up, while he’s out of the house, take the kids out or get a babysitter and go something you enjoy.
4. He Doesn’t Feel Like Being Bothered Sometimes
You’ve probably asked him to do something several times, but yet he still doesn’t do it in a timely manner. In frustration, you do it yourself. What is he thinking, “Thank Goodness!” Men do things at their own pace. You can ask your man to take out the trash and 3 hours later, it’s still there. Technically, he still has time to take out the trash. In his mind, the trash isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and if you do it yourself, that just makes it better for him.
5. He Really Enjoys Gossip
If your man overhears you gossiping on the phone, he’ll probably shake his head in disapproval. However, if he talks about Joe and Margaret, his co workers who are having an affair, it’s not gossip. Actually men enjoy to gossip. They just have a different name for it “Commenting.”
6. Yes, He Was Thinking About Sex
Your man has a far away look in his eyes. He seems distant. He was thinking about sex. He can’t help it, he thinks about it several times a day. Wouldn’t you prefer that he thinks about it several times a day rather than having sex several times a day?
7. When His Voice Goes High, or He Answers a Question With the Same Question, He’s Thinking of a Lie.
If you ask your man, “What You’d Do Today?’ and he replies “What I’d Do Today?” he’s probably thinking of lie. It doesn’t mean that he did something inappropriate, just something you wouldn’t approve of. Maybe, he left work early to hang out with the guys. If he told you this, you’d be upset because you had a long day at work or at home with the kids. The problem is he was having too much fun to think about if you would ask him that question, so he didn’t plan a lie beforehand.
8. Nothing is Wrong, So Stop Asking Him
Admit it, you see your man sitting quietly and you naturally assume something is wrong or has happened. So you ask, “What’s wrong?” and he replies, “Nothing, I’m just thinking.” Well, this answer doesn’t satisfy you, so you ask again throughout the day, which leads to his frustration. Men reflect too! He was probably thinking about how he wants to change careers, if you are satisfied and happy with him, how he can make more money, how he doesn’t want to grow old and fat, or how he would really like to buy that sports car. Ask him once, and then leave it alone. If you really sense something is wrong, give him some time and talk to him when you both feel like talking.
9. Most Men are Conquerors and Most Women are Venters
You just told him about your horrible experience at work. You want him to comfort and console you; instead he gives you logical facts about how to solve the problem. You feel cheated. You wanted to share your feelings about the day and all he wanted to do was fix the problem. Men like to offer solutions. Most men are not concerned about being in touch with their feelings when there’s a conflict. You want to feel understood; he wants to make the problem go away. He can’t relate to how you are feeling, so he does what he knows best, helps you to plan a solution.
10. He Wants to Feel Successful.
A man needs to feel he has accomplished something in life, and often times that accomplishment is found in their jobs or careers. Men don’t like to feel conflicted between work and quality time with their families. To men, if they are working hard to earn money, this will improve the quality of their family’s life.
Dictionary Word of the Year: “Unfriend”
Posted by admin in Random Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:17 No Comments
By Doug Gross, CNN
(CNN) — It’s prone to cause drama in the online world.
And, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, it’s the word of the year.
“Unfriend” beat out a tech-heavy field that included “netbook,” “hashtag” and “sexting” to take the annual honor.
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, a language researcher for Oxford’s U.S. dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.”
Oxford defines “unfriend,” a verb, thusly: “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.”
Every year, Oxford tracks how the English language is changing. Researchers debate the merits of newly birthed terms and choose their word of the year “to reflect the ethos of the year and its lasting potential as a word of cultural significance and use.”
A hashtag is the symbol (#) used on Twitter posts to allow them to be found more easily by other users, a netbook is a small portable laptop, and “sexting” is the act of sending sexually explicit texts or photos on a mobile phone.
Other tech-related finalists this year were “paywall,” a way of blocking parts of a Web site to all but paying customers, and “intexicated,” the state of being distracted while driving because of sending a text message.
The economy provided “zombie bank,” a financial institution still operating even though its liabilities are greater than its assets, and politics brought us “birther,” which Oxford describes as “a conspiracy theorist who challenges President Obama’s U.S. birth certificate.”
On blogs Tuesday, debate about the decision was ongoing. Chief among the issues of dispute: whether “unfriend” or “defriend” was the proper word for weeding someone from one’s online circle.
“Frustrated that ‘unfriend’ is the word of the year. It’s definitely ‘defriend’ when referencing Facebook,” one Twitter user wrote, adding the hashtag #dictionaryfail.
Others defended the choice: ” ‘Defriend’ makes me think of ‘defoliate’ and, well, I dunno, it sounds weird,” one wrote.
Oxford spokesman Christian Purdy said researchers found that “unfriend” was more commonly used.
Facebook spokeswoman Meredith Chin said that, both internally and on the site, Facebook uses several terms for the act of removing a friend. She said site managers now are considering making “unfriend” the official term.
“Overall, we’re thrilled that the idea of people connecting, or even unconnecting, with each other on sites like Facebook has officially become part of the lexicon,” she said.
For the past few years, Oxford and other dictionaries that pick words of the year have leaned heavily on the digital world.
In 2004, Merriam-Webster kicked off the trend by adding “blog” to its lexicon. The Webster’s New World Dictionary went with “overshare” last year, inspired in part by the habit of spewing too much personal information on social networking sites and blogs.
With gas prices spiking, Oxford’s word last year was “hypermiling,” the act of conserving gasoline by making fuel-saving changes to one’s automobile and driving habits.
Nicole Kidman’s Baby Bounty
Posted by admin in Random Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:20 No Comments
Nicole Kidman says breastfeeding helped her get parts that called for curves
By Nicole Lyn Pesce
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, November 16th 2009, 3:42 PM
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Nicole Kidman shows off the baby bounty at the Country Music Association Awards last week. She says her new curves helped her win her role in ‘Nine.’
Nicole Kidman isn’t coy about these baby bumps.
The Oscar-winning actress better known for meaty roles than actual curves suddenly filled out after she began breastfeeding her baby daughter, Sunday Rose, last summer.
“They’re not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it!” she titters in the December/January issue of Ladies’ Home Journal.
“I felt very Woman. When you’ve had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breasts is a nice feeling.”
Her country music hubby Keith Urban probably wasn’t complaining, either.
The “Bewitched” blond also cracks that business was swell after she bumped up a cup size or two, teasing in an Entertainment Tonight Canada interview that her bigger bosom is what clinched her role as a sultry beauty in the upcoming musical “Nine” starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
“[I had] big boobs because I was breast feeding – I was perfect for it,” she says. “I wouldn’t get cast now.”
The “Australia” actress took some time off after the baby was born, but couldn’t resist jumping back into the acting saddle when she heard about director Rob Marshall’s star-studded cast proposed for “Nine,” which also features Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz and Kate Hudson.
“I was not looking to go back to work,” she admits. “I went back to work because this was . . . the perfect kind of scenario. Part of me was nervous about going back to work . . . but they said I could bring my baby to the set, and Rob didn’t seem to find a problem at all, so then I was like, ‘Uh, this is heaven.”
Nicole Kidman’s Cups Runneth Over
Posted by admin in Random Sunday, 15 November 2009 17:05 No Comments
Kidman was spilling out of her hot pink gown Wednesday night 2009 CMA awards.
While husband Keith Urban tried not to notice, everyone else did.
But Mrs. Urban was not the only star to misjudge her gown’s covering qualities.
Random Randomness
Posted by admin in Random Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:31 No Comments
I just read that crawfish exist on every continent but Africa. What is the normal cause of death for crawfish … well besides a pot of boiling water?
What has my cat done with my husbands old army pins? She knocked the pretty little box I had them in off of the dresser. I have found two pins so far in different rooms in the house.
Why haven’t my black dogs figured out yet that I cannot see them in floor in the middle of the night, or when I get up in the mornings?
Now that I am on a roll about my pets … why hasn’t my parrot learned to speak anyone’s name EXCEPT MINE? She yells my name several times interspersed with ‘HEY!’. Yes, I am rolling my eyes. And no, I didn’t teach her to say my name.
I am really, really craving chicken and dumplings. Do people outside of the South know about this delicious, mouth watering stuff????
How do we get sucked into the secret pleasure of watching the Jerry Springer show? It must be that we feel like normal people compared to his guests.
