TAN#200: BicenTANial Bliss! (Page 66)

Originally posted by Teejaay

Originally posted by bradleyd3 Great job TJ....you post like once a week in TAN...and you managed to break it yesterday. smh.

Thanks.  I work out!

Oh hai

I think I've gone months without posting here! Gotta be some kind of a record.

Originally posted by Iowaman

Originally posted by TriAya

Originally posted by Teejaay

Originally posted by bradleyd3 Great job TJ....you post like once a week in TAN...and you managed to break it yesterday. smh.

Thanks.  I work out!

Oh hai

I think I've gone months without posting here! Gotta be some kind of a record.

It's you, it's really you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MARYVEGGIEBOY! flying attack {MELON PRESS}

Originally posted by bradleyd3 Great job TJ....you post like once a week in TAN...and you managed to break it yesterday. smh. Morning y'all. Got a free entry into a sprint. Which is cool and all....but it's on Sunday. This Sunday. And I haven't done much of anything since 5/18. This may hurt but hopefully it'll fire me back up to actually stay consistent with working out again.

You'll be fine, you've done an Ironman.

Morning Tj and Your Yantiness!!!!!

Morning Tan!

Hi Popeye!

Hi Flippy!

Heh. Exist. Barely. But cheerful, and yes, there. Or here. Sometimes.

How've you been lately, dear?

All ready for IM Japan??

at first glance, I read that as "irrational driver permit" and was kinda jealous.

if that is a thing, i feel like i'm the ONLY person in va that doesn't have one.  va drivers are the WORST.

random question/entertain me time.

you all are pretty weird, right?  my former best friend, possibly re-friending but i'm not sure (long story) has said since graduating college (2004) that she doesn't want or need any new friends.  she does have some really close college friends, but she promptly moved to DC, and has been there ever since.

due to the (long story) above she has decided she wants to make new friends.  she issues a friendship test that is FOUR PAGES SINGLE SPACED (some sample questions below) and if you "fail" you can still be her friend but you have to wait 3 years, because how could she possibly be friends with someone she has know for less than 3 years (you see why i'm not sure if i want to be her friend again??)

my husband thinks "if this is legit, this is a sign of serious emotional problems."  do you agree with the mehusband?  would you be friends with this person?  discuss.

Some questions (since i've known her since we were 7, i know what the answers are "supposed" to be.  there is a variety of no big deal to you are WEIRD, LADY type questions below)

Do you use online dating sites?

Do you believe the man should pay for the first date?

Do you recycle?           Would you go out of your way to recycle if it wasn’t immediately available?

Who is your celebrity crush?

Do you remember your dreams?

Do you have code words or code names in the event of a home invasion or hostage situation?

How do you feel about stickers?

I agree with mehusband, and I would answer all of those questions as oddly and with as much humor as I could put together, then I'd sign off with "we need a girls night out".

If she takes you up on it, then I'd feed her wine and see if I could figure out what the eff is running through her head. Ya know... be a friend.  She might just be having a "crazy spell" and really just needs to get drunk and talk to someone.

I would never "try out" or "interview" just to be someone friends. That doesn't sound like she is going to be a friend, but only want others to be her friends. Sounds like she wants to be the center of everything and wants to be entertained.

I have already refused to take the test.  We've known each other for approximately 23 years.  She is going through a pretty ugly divorce but she was ALWAYS like this.  And...she doesn't drink (at least she DEFINITELY doesn't get drunk and doesn't drink wine.)

i left out the ink blots cause i couldn't figure out how to post them here, but she literally includes a rorshach test.

I agree with your husband.  WTF?!?!?!?!

this is a 100% correct read on her in general - and she knows it - if you are in a group she has to PHYSICALLY be in the center of the group.

Seriously??  Wow.

Ok, part of me (the raging smart-azz part) now says that you HAVE to take the test now and you HAVE to answer it as ridiculously as your imagination will allow.  Engage every bit of smart-azz in you.   The rest of me says to just keep doing as you've done already - just ignore it, and her, and let it all pass behind you.

As for the other bits I said, yeah, I take that back.   I kinda thought that this was just some weird "cry for help" kinda thing, or whatever..... nope.  

That's a little too much crazy to deal with.

I wouldn't even take the time to respond to the test.

If you cut the mustard, what next?  yearly updates?  If you contradict yourself and suddenly hate stickers after you answered you love stickers on the exam will she hold the document up for cross examination?

What if you DON'T cut the mustard simply because you don't remember your dreams.

Yep, WAY too much crazy to have in your life.  However, if you do make the cut,  I'm super essited to hear crazy friend stories in the near future.

I never understand people who make life so hard on themselves.  If you don't want someone to be a friend?  Just stop talking to them.  If you like hanging out?  Do that until you don't like it.  The people that make a big production about "disowning" you as a friend (announce to the world you are not going to talk to them, drop them from FB, prepare a big speech).  Seriously, if you don't like me, just stop talking to me.  The big production makes me laugh.  Really, they just want attention - like in this case.  She wants people to make some big effort to please her.  Heck, that in itself is probably the deciding factor.  If you chose not to take the test?  She would say anyone that wanted to be her friend would be HAPPY to make the effort.  Run away, seriously.

Speaking of that.  My sister, who decided to get into a fight with me in the middle of my recovery about facebook, and who subsequently unfriended me is now complaining that she doesn't know what's going on with me and my life...

Well, if you check facebook...   lol...

I love drama...  Not.  And just walk away...