You’re only 23? I thought you were older. Ten years between the oldest and youngest isn’t so bad. Did you drive your parents crazy? I do miss mine but not that much. I’m themiddleone.
I’m sure your life is a hell of a lot more interesting than mine. For real. It’s the same thing every day. Work, eat, work out, sleep, videogames.
I don’t have any kids either. Are you married? Don’t mean to sound like Soldier #2, just curious since you said you hoped tohavesome.
That joke… :]Cheesygood.
What do you do for a living where you can stay up allnight?
-A
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From:[email protected]
Date: September 30, 2008 1:05a.m.
Subject: Tick Licks and Other NoseyStuff
HiAaron,
Of course you want the story behind the dick pics. (Excuse my French.) I don’t really know how we even got to that point in our e-mails. I’ll call Solder #2 “Smith.” Smith and I had been e-mailing each other for about five months when he first started sending me pictures of himself. No biggie. He’d always been nothing but polite, asking me questions about myself, normal getting-to-know-you stuff. About two months after he started with the headshots, he started sending me some full body pictures that were a little funny in not a good way. I didn’t say anything. The next thing I knew, I had a version of half-mast on my cell phone screen. Then, I had the full sausage and eggs, if you get my drift. No thank you. I would rather volunteer as a nurse on the front lines than send some random guy a picture of my no-noparts.
I already told you about the soldier, you tell me what you think happened at Mardi Gras, and I’ll confirmordeny.
The only movies I can think of that have been more expensive areTitanic,Pirates of the Caribbean,WaterworldandSpiderman. Those all came out thirty years afterCleopatradid. Crazy, huh? You’re right, none of the costumes were jeans and T-shirts. They were all really intricate. I want to say I read somewhere they spent almost two hundred thousand dollars just on her wardrobealone.
Have I ever played WoW? I led my own WoW guild when I was 18, thank you very much. I finally had to go cold turkey my second semester in college because I started to see I was going to fail if I didn’t get my shit together. MMORPGs are dangerous. I can’t even look at the game in stores without starting to itch. I can relate to Smeagol’s obsession a little too well. No joke. (Smeagol is a character offLord of theRings,FYI.)
My sister is trying to eventually qualify for the Olympics. She’s won a bronze medal at a major junior competition two years in a row. She didn’t start skating until she was nine, and most that go professional get on the ice when they’re barely learning how to walk, so you can say we all think she’s pretty amazing for going so far in such a short time. I could talk all day about her, if youcan’ttell.
In high school, we spent a whole semester on Greek mythology in English. I still remember a lot of it. I read alot,too.
I didn’t name him after theX-Men. Logan is a character on one of my favorite TV shows,VeronicaMars.
How old are your siblings? Do they still live in Louisiana? You’re right, five kids in ten years is a lot. I don’t know how my mom survived, but I feel like that’s part of the reason why her and my dad’s marriage didn’t make it. They could never agree on how to deal with us. My mom isbananastoo.
How old did you think I was…? How oldareyou?
As boring as your life may or may not be, if you ever need to vent with someone, I’m here. I’ll keep my judging to aminimum.
I have one niece. I’m not married, but I do have a boyfriend. The whole having-kids thing is a dream for some time in the future, but I’m not rushing or anything. I want to have four. Are youmarried?
What do I do for a living? I’m a seamstress. My aunt is a manager at a dry cleaning place, and I get a lot of alteration work from her. (A LOT.) I have another aunt who owns her own bridal shop, and I help her out there, too. I’ve done wedding dresses, sweet sixteen and quinceañera dresses… If anything needs to be sewn and made, I can and have done it more than likely. I do freelance work too, costumes and things like that, but that isn’t steady. Apart from two days a week where my aunt with the bridal shop asks me to come in to help out, I can work any time I want. It’s nice, but I don’tsleepmuch.
How long have you been in themilitary?
Bestwishes,
Ruby
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