I'm glad I wasn't the only one
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Advice to the Romance Addict
For Mother's Day to My Daughter
I noticed at the Romantic Times convention that there was one booth doing exceptionally brisk business. It was selling book covers in a variety of styles and colors for paperback books. I bought one for my teenage daughter. It has cute cats all over it. It has topped her list of favorite gifts this year, beating out the jeans from Abercrombie & Fitch and the mp3 player she got for Christmas and her birthday. For slightly less than $10, I have made my daughter one happy kid.
Why? Because she can now tuck her romance novels inside it and avoid detection by teachers and her father who have been harassing her for “wasting her mind on such brainless drivel.” She is the only kid (that I know of) in her class who routinely finishes a book a day and has read almost all of the books on the high school reading list. And I realized, I just initiated my daughter into the club. Welcome to Romance Addicts Anonymous.
Angel Puff, there are some things I need to tell you.
Guys are going to razz you for reading romance. Here’s my take on this small annoyance. These are guys that play computer games often requiring them to dress up as trolls and wizards (read: Dress, nay worse, long evening gown). Make a deal with them. You will agree not to tease them about their cross-dressing, if they keep quiet about your reading preferences.
Teachers, and someday co-workers, are going to engage you in discussions on the merits of wasting even an hour a day on reading such brain candy. To that I have always pointed to studies showing that Romance readers, on average, read far more than the rest of the population and subsequently have attained vocabularies bordering on lethal. I then point out that they, as non-romance readers, do not have the verbal skills necessary to effectively debate such a subject. Sadly, the usual response to this is, “Huh?”
When you are married, explain to your husband that your addiction isn't so much taking time away from him as it is giving you new ideas and uses for him other than trash detail and car maintenance. Ask him to stand by. The waiting will be well worth it.
Do not read too many (I keep it to about 25 a month.) or your brain wave patterns will be forever tweaked and you won't be able to read the books and articles necessary to keep current in your chosen vocation. You need to be able to read those to maintain gainful employment to afford your Romance reading habit.
A clean house and laundry are vastly overrated. Release your guilt over those mundane tasks. No one is going to put on your gravestone, "She was one heck of a housewife."
Remember to feed the pets.
If and when you have kids, they can fend for themselves. Think of it as teaching them life skills. You won't be around forever. I’ve found that even a two year old is self-feeding when his or her tummy rumbles. Although I do have to say this: I sincerely apologize for that experiment when you were a toddler where I set out everything but the milk on the breakfast bar the night before and trained you to get the pint of milk out of the fridge. When I heard the sound of your little spoon clanking on the side of the bowl as you sat, all alone, eating your Cherios™, I nearly died of remorse. Angel Puff, have at least two children so they can keep each other company at the breakfast table.
Romance novels are not going to ruin you for “real” romance someday. I’ve always found the stereotype of the romance reader as being perpetually dissatisfied with men because they don’t measure up to the heroes in their books hilarious. Do guys who read Playboy forswear all women until Pamela Anderson shows up on their doorstep? Oh yeah. It’s fiction.
Man, this article says it all...and the part of "Guys are going to razz you for reading romance. Here’s my take on this small annoyance. These are guys that play computer games often requiring them to dress up as trolls and wizards (read: Dress, nay worse, long evening gown). Make a deal with them. You will agree not to tease them about their cross-dressing, if they keep quiet about your reading preferences." is sooo friggin true..Ashaari was lucky he didn't rag me about my habit the other day on the phone...he called me, asked me what I was doing and I said I was reading..he seemed interested in finding out what, until I told him it was a romance novel...and he went, "Ahh..." like he didn't know what to say and I couldn't help but smile, knowing that he was being polite..*giggles*
So yeah..romance novels addicts forever!
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I must admit, I freaked when I found out that he was there next to her while we were on the phone..but I'm glad that it wasn't just me who was slightly unsettled at the whole situation..and finding out that he couldn't be friends with me again just cause of his commitment to his girlfriend is just ridiculous..unless there's an underlining meaning..*sighs* we are SO demented..and so combustable...it sucks...
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http://www.youtube.com/v/s4iPqrTSt2g
Thank you so MUCH to
kaostic for hooking me up with this link...it's of Lee Hom singing You're Beautiful and doing a slight change by singing "fucking high" instead of "flying high"...PRECIOUS! And it's tons better than James Blunt really..cause it's not nasally....it's just wowwww....this guy amazes me to no end...