The Perfect Gentleman

I have come to the conclusion, that my second favorite quality in a guy, is being a gentleman. If you ever went to a girls lock-in or a summer camp where girls were in some sort of small group together, you have made a list of qualities you want for your future husband. Allow me to read mine from the 7th grade.

Hubby Qualities
[please don't judge me, i don't use "hubby" anymore]

1. Growing Christian
   
2. Sense of humor
3. "A" graduate
4. sensitive to me and others
5. athletic
6. wants to be a dad
7. pure
8. likes to have fun
9. loves me for me
10. is good with kids
11. good looking
12. a gentleman
13. no smoking
14. no drugs
15. not an alcoholic
16. faithful

I'm just going to stop here to prevent any more embarrassment to myself. I'm so glad that him being funny [#2] is more important than him being faithful to me in our marriage [#16] and also that not an alcoholic is a criteria AFTER being good looking. man 7th grade...awesome. Not that any of those are really bad, per say. It's just a weird order, so I would definitely need some rearranging and subtracting/adding of the criteria.

Back to being a gentleman, now, 5 grades later my list would be a lot different. Like I said, I have come to realize that being a gentleman would be somewhere around second on my list. I love that kind of guy. The one who opens the door for you, and were not just talking regular doors, car doors too. He offered up his seat anytime a girl walked in the room and will sit on the floor instead, or offers the girl the front seat in the car while he climbs to the back. Don't forget all of the "after you"s. Basically he will put a girl's needs before any of his own, and enjoys it. Honestly, I can only think of one guy I would consider to really be a gentleman. Which is sad...maybe I'm too harsh. Not that I expect every guy to do that, actually I've come not to expect it from most guys. Which is fine, because the guys I know are my friends, so it could be awkward when good ol' friendship opens the car door for me. But I mean, I still love that regardless. I think it can show maturity too, not always though. However, it definitely shows respect.

I know this will be so hard to believe when those of you who know me read this, but I don't always LET guys help me. Hm. I'm not really sure why either. Opening doors? yes please, check, done. But when it comes to carrying things, unless I'm really about to keel over, I can usually handle it so thanks but no thanks. It's not that I don't want their help, it's just that I know I can carry a box or a suitcase on my own.

So I feel like I just made myself to be a hypocrite because I talked about how I love the "gentleman" attitude, but I then basically I said I don't always need it. I'm very hard to understand, like an onion, lots of layers. Please believe, I'm not one of those crazy women's rights activists or anything that thinks women should rule the world. Anyways, I guess men, never be afraid to offer your strong manly help, but if she shoots you down, don't take it personally, women CAN do things for themselves sometimes. Hmph, that didn't really help either. Never mind, I'm sorry for all the confusion.

News Flash

So recently I have been watching a lot of Fox News...for several reasons.

1) My grandmother is in town and I'm pretty sure she believes that is the only channel all TV sets receive because that is ALL she watches. oh, well she watches wheel of fortune too, she could make wheel of fortune go bankrupt if she was on that show.

2) I am a registered voter this year and I feel it is my civil duty to at least know a little bit about the issues and people I'm choosing between.

3) I really enjoy watching the anchors get frustrated and yell at each other and then wish each other "the best" and flash their pearly whites at the end.


Yes I know niether of these fine young men are candidates this year. i just really like this picture.

I hate it when people try to bring up politics like they know what their talking about though. I will openly admit I know little to nothing about politics. [a side note: a flock of geese just flew by my window, doesn't that mean winter's coming?] I know a little bit about each party and some stuff about what each candidate stands for etc. etc. I'm not really a fan of politics now that I think about it. When it gets down to 2 months before the election the candidates just start focusing on how McCain doesn't even know how many homes he has and how un-american that is or how Obama has the right to say Palin has no experience, when Obama has never even been governor. I don't know much about Palin, but personally I'm really excited we have a woman candidate for the Republican party, did you know she has 5 kids! That should be experience enough. I joke.

I was thinking about it and have we ever had such opposite candidates? When you consider age, race, experience in power, faith in the government and their views on the world they are definitely contrasting. Obama is a whole generation younger than McCain. BUT, they are going after the same voters, independents who aren't die hard for one party or another.

So, there's the wisdom I have taken in and you will probably never hear me talk about politics again. That one's free. ha! Approximately 2 months and 5 days to election day!

unbelieveable.

so for the last month I have been fruitlessly trying to remember my old blog user name & password combination. I, being lazy rather enjoy the "always remember me" application on my computer and I continue to live my carefree life. However all hell WILL break loose when somehow your computer decides not to remember your information anymore. Thinking about it, i have a lot of subscriptions to multiple sites that use my e-mail and some sort of password, and I don't know the password to most of them. problemo. anyhow, after a month of all this hard brain work I just gave up and made a new blog. hoo rah. however, this new blog did not come without hours of eye-squinting as I attempted to read the dumb pack of letters smooshed together not making any sense. don't understand?
these things are the biggest pain!! i understand they serve a great purpose to all internet users in that they block viruses and prevent robots from invading cyber space. which is great and all, but why the heck do they have to be so complicated! these set of words are MUCH easier than the one's that blogger provides might i add. ridiculous. this is official stuff we are dealing with here.

anyways, welcome to my blog the second.
BLOG II.