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Single Girl Story #8

17 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

by calabri2 in The Single Life/Love Stories Tags: love, relationships, The Single Life/Love Stories

Why do guys have some sort of radar on them that let’s them know when you have finally gotten over them? It’s like “Oh! She’s over me?!?! I miss her! I’m going to call her and tell her how much I miss her and want her back!”

How about no? How about you want me back a year ago when I wanted you?! Why did you torture me…hurt me…force me to move on from you…and then decide later that you want me? So unfair. Luckily in this situation I have truly 100% moved on from this guy and I wont get sucked back into liking him again.

My heart is safe.

Men Are Like Cabs

15 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

by calabri2 in The Single Life/Love Stories Tags: love, relationships, The Single Life/Love Stories

Miranda: “Men are like cabs. When they’re available, their light goes on. They wake up one day and they decide they’re ready to settle down, have babies, whatever. And they turn their light on. The next woman they pick up, boom, that’s the one they’ll marry. It’s not faith, it’s dumb luck.”

One of my favorite quotes from Sex and the City. I really agree with what Miranda says here. 90% of the time a relationship moves forward to love and marriage is when the man is ready. Women are always ready. It’s the men we have to wait on to finally decide “Ok, I’m ready to settle down now and make this real.” Why do you think men are the ones that buy the ring and get down on one knee and propose?

I’ve known girls who have dated guys for YEARS and for whatever reasons, they break up. Within a few months, that guy has moved onto a new girlfriend and proposes to her within 6 months of the relationship. He finally decided to turn his light on. It was the girl before that was just unlucky to meet him and have a relationship with him when his light was off.

So I’ll just continue to live my single life in the same sense of how I hail cabs. Throw my arm up in the air and hope the man I jump into has his light on.

14 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

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Signs You Will Soon Fall In Love Or Marry

14 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

by calabri2 in The Single Life/Love Stories Tags: love, The Single Life/Love Stories

My mom sent me a book titled “The Book of Love”. There is one section of the book titled “Signs You Will Soon Fall In Love Or Marry”. Here are a few signs I need to be on the look for….

“If you hear a bird call from the east.” (I have no sense of direction so I wouldnt even know what direction to listen for birds)

“If a man wipes his hands on your apron he’ll soon fall in love with you. Attempt to precipitate this by offering your apron to the man may backfire. He must reach for the apron on his own!” (Well since I never cook, let alone wear an apron…a man wont be reaching for my apron anytime soon)

“On Saint George’s Day (April 23), go into a field or meadow with at least four other single women and one white dog. Blindfold the dog, then place yourselves in a circle around the field. The first woman the dog touches will be married within the year” (Okay now this one just sounds like a blast. I just have to find a white dog and 4 single women that will be willing to go into a meadow with me. hahahha)

“If you find bubbles floating in your noncarbonated drink, love is coming soon. If the bubbles are touching the rim of the glass this means that with love will also come wealth.” (Nice!! Love and wealth!! I’ll be secretly praying for bubbles on the rim of my class from this point on)

01 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

I can’t wait to fall in love with you. You can’t wait to fall in love with me. This just cant be summer love, you’ll see.” – Justin Timberlake

Summer Love

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01 Jun 2011 Leave a comment

June is finally here!! Ready for my summer love! 🙂

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05 May 2011 Leave a comment

Cameron Diaz looking HOT on the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Love her!

“I think we have to make our own rules. I don’t think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don’t suit our world any longer. I think a lot of people are married to people they’re not romantic with any more. I just didn’t ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on. Guys need women who challenge them and don’t let them get away with their shit. Women, conversely, need to not be crazy bitches who blow up when their guys tell them something that scares them. Women who know who they are and are confident are the sexiest. I don’t find women who are looking for people’s approval to be sexy. I mean, it’s easy to seduce, but to be truly attractive, to bring people in and be sexy, I think that comes from the inside.”

source: perezhilton.com justjared.com

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02 May 2011 Leave a comment

If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

Liz Gilbert – Eat Pray Love

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20 Apr 2011 Leave a comment

I watched the movie ‘Going the Distance’ over the weekend and oh boy…can I relate to this movie or what? The movie stars Drew Barrymore and Justin Long who are trying to make a long distance relationship work.

And well let’s be honest. All my “relationships” for the past 5 years have been long distance. And it is hard work. I’ve dated Sac boy, San Fran boy, Newport boy…the list goes on and on. And all of them…not in my zip code. Long distance relationships are impossible and will never work out. In the beginning everything is happy and fun. You’re satisfied with constantly texting each other all day long…and talking on the phone at the end of the day. Then you plan the next visit and you wait 2 or 3 weeks for him to visit you. In the beginning it totally seems possible. Like ya…this could work. No big deal.

Then after a few months you both start to get too busy…the text messages only come in every few hours instead of every minute. Phone calls become every other day instead of every night…and you feel yourself losing the connection. And on a Friday when you do call them just to talk…you can hear that they’re drunk…out with their friends and your mind races with thoughts of what girls he’s meeting and what he’s doing.

It’s nice that in the end of this movie Justin Long moves to LA from New York while Drew Barrymore lives in SF and that seems SOOOO do-able. Sorry kids…that wouldnt work out either. A 6 hour drive is still too long, a one hour flight gets pricey and an 18 hour balloon ride just isn’t realistic. lol But of course in romanic comedy land… anything is possible.

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