Thanks guys!

I'm noticing there are a lot of pretty women here. You're all beautiful!

Well then, internet dating is not so different than conventional dating.

Wow...so much to learn!

Well I can't know if I'm interested unless I get to know them, but I can't get to know ALL of them!

I'm sure you're right Updawg, once they get to know me, the mail will stop shortly after. I'm just fresh meat right now.

Is it a newbee thing to feel like you have to answer them all?

That's acutally where most pics are taken of me. If I'm not sleeping, there's a 90% chance that's where I am.

How do you read all these profiles and answer all this mail, and still have time to chat in the forums?

The fact that he couldn't put up with me annoying him.

I have really annoying work habits. I don't know when to stop.

This is probably what I would do it the same situation.

I don't like ultimatums, and would probably have her stay just to call him on it.

As far as my sister goes; I would explain the whole situation to her and see if the two of them would be willing to sit down and work it out, and possibly make compromises that would allow her to stay for an acceptable time period...

...that is if he still lived with me.

I think the personal insult would be greater if it were one lover over a time period.

I'm noticing how many post you all have. I think I'm going to fit right in here...you people talk as much as I do.

Any sign of appreciation. I think offering to help with the dishes now and then is ever bit as powerful a statement as a spoken declaration. Hearing it spoken is always nice too, and can lead to whispering in ears, which can lead to...

I've been known to dance in the middle of a grocery store isle when the mood strikes me, and I never pass up a chance for a slow dance to elevator music. I love to dance.

My own experience in dating a foreigner would probably squelch any incentive to do so again.

While visiting Ireland, I engaged in a relationship which met a painful end for us both. After 6 months of bliss, I returned home with expectations that he would soon come to the US for a long visit, as we’d planned. We realized that we would be restricted to these visits until circumstances changed in the favor of one of us moving. We were never able to make his visit happen, let alone a move on either’s behalf.

Though others may have very different outcomes with dating abroad, mine has cautioned me somewhat. Besides, with enough willing participants in the States, there is no need for me to chance toying with my own heart.

Thank you for the reception!

"...and by the way...you're late."

I'm also late getting a digital camera. I've emailed family and friends to see if I can't score a pic of myself so I can have a face here. Hopefully someone will send one soon.

Yellowrose, is that a cartoon of you? Where do you get something like that?

This has that first day back in school feel. Am I even signed up for this class?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to meeting you all in the forums. A friend of mine has been on this site before and assures me this is a great forum to find good conversation and friends.