You can really feel your boyfriend’s love when he’s willing to carry a gigantic green clam shell pool through a major shopping centre for you. 

When I laid eyes on this pool at K-Mart I knew it would be perfect for my dog to wade in (she’s too big to swim in it). I had to have it. So right before closing time we returned to the store and I purchased the giant clam shell. I struggled to carry it through the store in my little heels and Bimple soon gave me an amused look and took my treasure from me. 

He then said: “Don’t worry, Liza. I won’t drop your clam.”

…Seconds before dropping the clam on the feet of a couple of passers-by. I was proud nonetheless when he picked it back up and carried it out of the store (after I paid, of course). We got weird looks, oh yes. We got people steering clear of our gigantic green clam. We got cars honking at us when we were crossing the road to Bimple’s car with the clam. 

I couldn’t stop smiling the whole time - my boyfriend carried my clam for me!

What isn’t nice is when your boyfriend’s best friend has a girlfriend for several months and then their relationship ends up falling apart.

Not only is it a rough time for the broken-up couple, it’s also a tough time for you because the best friend usually ends up going out clubbing and trying to hook up like crazy to keep himself from wallowing in sorrow and then bragging about the notches in his bedpost to all of his friends (including your boyfriend).

Ok, so that shouldn’t matter, I know. If the relationship is strong enough the best friend’s bragging about new hookups won’t have an effect on it. The annoying thing is that he then starts trying to convince your boyfriend that becoming single was the best thing that’s ever happened to him and that your boyfriend should also become single so they can be single together.

And I’m thinking “Oh come on, I’ve known you for over two years. We had Sing Star parties together with you and your girlfriend. We went out drinking. We hugged and had deep and meaningful conversations. You gave me advice and talked about how great a girlfriend I am to your best friend. And now that you’re suddenly single all that goes out the window and you’re convincing my boyfriend to break up with me just because even with all of the new hookups you’re getting you’re too lonely to go it alone.”

It always confuses me when people get angry or annoyed at someone for something and expect them to just know what they did wrong. They start acting completely differently toward the person or make some inner ‘decision’ regarding their relationship without even telling the other person about that decision. There is nothing more unattractive than seeing a guy go all moody and throw a fit at you without even telling you what it is that got them upset.

If a person doesn’t like something I’ve done, they should tell me instead of acting like a child. Otherwise I feel like I’m taking care of a mentally unstable overly-sensitive kid.

(And no, this actually has nothing to do with Bimple!)

This used to be the common denominator post from last night. But now it’s edited because Bimple and I had a little talk and agreed on some things. He will work on diminishing his know-it-all insults and I will work on not posting bad things about him. Of course, I’d never post anything bad about him in a place where people may know who I’m actually talking about in real life, but I’ll respect his request for me to not post negative things about him even under his nickname.

I have the whole house to myself for a couple of days. I just got home from a good-bye dinner for our Creative Director and now I am feeling kind of melancholy - his choosing to leave really hit me, we had some great conversations and he was a very generous person - I will cherish the plant he gave me forever - even if it does only have one leaf right now…long story, it’s recuperating.

It’s warm inside and I’m at the PC with my dog nearby. I feel safer with her around. There is something extremely amazing about knowing that you can sit around the house naked without worrying about anyone walking in on you! It’s a great feeling

Everyone has something which they can spend absolute hours doing and not notice the time flying by - or maybe they do notice, but don’t care. For me it’s web design. I have spent just about all day yesterday and am now spending hours today on setting up a new online venture. Everything is finished. I got the theme colors just right, created headers for the sub-pages, planned out how everything is going to work. But there is one thing that is driving me up the wall - a thing that should be easy to fix, but for some reason is not. My wordpress theme sidebar is too wide. There is blank space on either side of the actual sidebar content, making it almost as wide as the post width itself!

I have tried everything I could think of when editing the stylesheet and went to others for help - but nobody can figure it out. And, me being a perfectionist with web and graphic design, I cannot set up the sub-sites which use a modified version of the same theme until I get this sorted out! Talk about being in a CSS rut.