And this is why I cancelled my subscription

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you said
8 hours ago
RE:
The emails were exactly the same!! Both times! I guess that makes you stand out...for being unoriginal. The only difference is you spelled your name wrong the first time.


Hey there... Nate, 30, and new to the area. Joined match to make a friend or two and see where it goes. I like long walks on the beach, candle light dinners, and aged bottles of wine. Ha, just kidding. I mean, that is all nice and stuff but we'll save that for later. Give me a pair of jeans, my flip flops and I can make due pretty much anywhere. Maybe you'd like to chat sometime?

Cheers,
Nate
he said
October 11
Hey there... Nate, 30, and new to the area. Joined match to make a friend or two and see where it goes. I like long walks on the beach, candle light dinners, and aged bottles of wine. Ha, just kidding. I mean, that is all nice and stuff but we'll save that for later. Give me a pair of jeans, my flip flops and I can make due pretty much anywhere. Maybe you'd like to chat sometime?

Cheers,
Nat

he said
21 hours ago
RE:
It's something to break the ice.... All the first emails all sound the same. Have to find something that makes me stand out. I'm sure you get tons of emails from all kinds of people.

you said
22 hours ago
RE:
The fact that it was word for word the same suggests that it wasn't personally crafted for me.

he said
22 hours ago
RE:
Now I don't think it was all that impersonal... Cheesy maybe.

you said
23 hours ago
RE: Subject
You sent me the exact same impersonal email 2 weeks ago.

he said
Yesterday
Hey there... Nate, 30, and new to the area. Joined match to make a friend or two and see where it goes. I like long walks on the beach, candle light dinners, and aged bottles of wine. Ha, just kidding. I mean, that is all nice and stuff but we'll save that for later. Give me a pair of jeans, my flip flops and I can make due pretty much anywhere. Maybe you'd like to chat sometime?

Cheers,
Nate

he said
October 11
Hey there... Nate, 30, and new to the area. Joined match to make a friend or two and see where it goes. I like long walks on the beach, candle light dinners, and aged bottles of wine. Ha, just kidding. I mean, that is all nice and stuff but we'll save that for later. Give me a pair of jeans, my flip flops and I can make due pretty much anywhere. Maybe you'd like to chat sometime?

Cheers,
Nat

First attempt at royal icing

It sounds so fancy but really is simple and makes for much more fun decorating. I used this recipe from epicurious...it didn't taste great on its own, but is much better on the cookies, though still SUPER sweet. And this is from the girl who puts 11 sugars in her tea. I'll keep investing...this Nigella recipe gets mixed reviews, but I like the smaller sugar measurement.

More importantly, the sugar cookie base was made from what really is the best rolled sugar cookie recipe ever. And it's super easy and quick (minus all the times I stopped to "taste" the dough).

Quotes from today's date

Setting: mob-front diner, 11am Saturday

On my dress and denim jacket outfit in the mild fall weather (first words exchanged): "Oh, you're really trying to hang on to summer, aren't you!"

On our shared interests: "We have a lot of really unusual things in common. We both like coffee ice cream and have friends who moved away!"

"So here's where I had my extra thumbs removed. [shows scars] I think this one was a stump, but this one was a little bigger. Try finding a 6 finger catcher's mitt for a 5 year old!"

Me: "oh...i see..."
Him: "yeah. it's a dominant trait too. it'd be interesting to see if it got passed on to my kids."

And most egregiously, after the requisite "do you want to try some of my food," he took my BACON.

As a little kid, I was always the first one outside to help my dad in the yard.

I couldn't wait to get up the ladder and run around on the roof.

Today I got out there to help with gutters and 2 steps up, I froze. It was a 5' ladder, and I was terrified. Knowing how silly the fear was, I kept going to the gutter, barely able to move from fear. I finished and inched down with painstaking slowness, clutching the edges of the ladder. I moved the ladder over to try again knowing how ridiculous I was being and trying to overcome it, but the 2nd time was even worse. This time my family noticed, since I was moving so slowly. They were as shocked as me that this was difficult. But by the time I made it down the 2nd time I declared I was done.

What about growing up makes us illogically fear things that were never an issue before? Shouldn't we be scared as children, when everything is big and unfamiliar, instead of as adults, when we know the risks are tiny and have done these things before?