Get to know the noob...

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:36 am

Ask me anything. I'm at home, bored, and will answer almost anything....

Go?!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:58 am

Or not... :wah:

OK I'll get you started with a few vital statistics.

32

Female

Married. Though not the conventional kind.

I like lobster more than I like air. I just don't get it as much.

I hate arrogant people with a passion, though with not quite the same passion as I feel about Collingwood FC. Go Pies!! :wah:

I live in Qld, and I hate the beach.

I'm a MAC user.

Come on.... so so bored there has to be someone awake...

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:10 am

Hi Amy you still there???

What makes your marriage unconventional then

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:14 am

What do you do for a living?

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:34 am

Betty Boop wrote: Hi Amy you still there???

What makes your marriage unconventional then

Not a lot mostly we're pretty "normal" it's just an open marriage.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:36 am

Betty Boop wrote: What do you do for a living?

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

I'm a GM for a large charity here in Queensland. I do boring sit at my desk stuff most days. I'm relatively new in the role, before that I was in marketing and business development and events at the same place.

Maybe with a child or two, adopted, probably from China.

Hopefully not working full-time, and hopefully healthy!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:55 am

Amie wrote: Ask me anything. I'm at home, bored, and will answer almost anything....

Go?! :oOkey dokey! :-6

Everybody keeps talking about global warming creating all our super hurricanes. I have a theory that Americans are so much fatter than everybody else, we've knocked the earth's rotation all wobbly, which is churning the oceans. What do you think? :yh_glasse

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:28 am

Amie wrote: Not a lot mostly we're pretty "normal" it's just an open marriage.

How does that work..... do you allow each other to sleep with other partners.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:45 am

Accountable wrote: Okey dokey! :-6

Everybody keeps talking about global warming creating all our super hurricanes. I have a theory that Americans are so much fatter than everybody else, we've knocked the earth's rotation all wobbly, which is churning the oceans. What do you think? :yh_glasse

Lmao! Wouldn't that cause the "weeble" effect? :wah:

Where all those tubby yankees caused the whole world to spin around so that the USA actually fell to the 'bottom' of the globe and caused the planet to spin weeble-like around on its USA base?? :yh_rotfl

firephoenix · Post by **firephoenix** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:53 am

Betty Boop wrote: Hi Amy you still there???

What makes your marriage unconventional then

I'm pretty intrigued myself

, enquiring minds would like to know what the deffinition of an open marriage is ?

Blackjack · Post by **Blackjack** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:48 am

Amie wrote:

I'm a MAC user.

Wahahahahahaha!! *points and makes fun*

Just kidding. Well, sort of.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:32 am

Rapunzel wrote: Lmao! Wouldn't that cause the "weeble" effect? :wah:

Where all those tubby yankees caused the whole world to spin around so that the USA actually fell to the 'bottom' of the globe and caused the planet to spin weeble-like around on its USA base?? :yh_rotfl
Thus our motto: "E Pluribus Unum" which was first muttered by Ben Franklin at one of the Constitution Convention dinners. Rumor has it he was speaking with his mouth full, and had actually said "Please pass the sweet onions." :rolleyes:

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:36 pm

Accountable wrote: Okey dokey!

Everybody keeps talking about global warming creating all our super hurricanes. I have a theory that Americans are so much fatter than everybody else, we've knocked the earth's rotation all wobbly, which is churning the oceans. What do you think?

oh my god :wah::wah:] You know, I never thought about it in quite that way before but.... I think you might just be right. :wah::wah:

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:38 pm

pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: How does that work..... do you allow each other to sleep with other partners.

In short yes. We have a bunch of "rules" to make it workable and it works, but in short yes, we can if we choose to, sleep with other people.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:39 pm

Blackjack wrote: Wahahahahahaha!! *points and makes fun*

Just kidding. Well, sort of.

*puts hands on hips and taps one foot*

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:44 pm

Amie wrote: In short yes. We have a bunch of "rules" to make it workable and it works, but in short yes, we can if we choose to, sleep with other people.

Wow, not sure I could do that!

I'd be so jealous, and I guess I feel that if someone truly loved me then they wouldn't want anyone else??

I'm curious about these rules now!!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:46 pm

Far Rider wrote: Amie,

In all your 32 years which one was the best?...

And can you list your measurments, I'm only askin for my buddy Clipper who's not around today, but if he was here he'd be wonderin.

My question is simple... why don't ya like the beach?

Hmm... there have been so many good ones it's incredibly difficult to pinpoint just one. I guess if I had to it'd be this one because I'm getting so old it's becoming hard to remember the others. :wah:

To be totally honest I have no idea what my measurements are. :-2 I'm 168cms tall and I weigh 49kgs if that helps?

The beach is full of nasty things like.... seaweed, swimming critters, and worst of all... sand. I swear that stuff gets in places sand has absoloutely NO business being in!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:54 pm

Betty Boop wrote: Wow, not sure I could do that!

I'd be so jealous, and I guess I feel that if someone truly loved me then they wouldn't want anyone else??

I'm curious about these rules now!!

That's a common thought. I'm of the belief that monogamy just isn't natural. I think it's something we can strive for and make promises on, but ultimately, I think it's unnatural and somewhat unfair to expect one person to be able to meet your needs for a lifetime.

As humans, we change and we grow, and we're curious. I love my husband more than I thought it possible to love someone, and we have a wonderful relationship. I can't stand seeing married couples out together, say at dinner, and they're sitting at the table and they just have nothing left to say to each other. They grow apart in an effort to stay together and I think that has a lot to do with the expectation that you will be the sole provider of every need for the other person for the remainder of their days.

I don't believe it has anything to do with love but more to do with sex. Love and sex don't always go hand in hand, in fact in my experience pre open marriage, the two rarely go hand in hand.

It's not a situation for everyone I agree. For one, you have to be very secure in your relationship and what you have. That's not an easy thing to do unquestionably.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:07 pm

Amie wrote: That's a common thought. I'm of the belief that monogamy just isn't natural. I think it's something we can strive for and make promises on, but ultimately, I think it's unnatural and somewhat unfair to expect one person to be able to meet your needs for a lifetime.

As humans, we change and we grow, and we're curious. I love my husband more than I thought it possible to love someone, and we have a wonderful relationship. I can't stand seeing married couples out together, say at dinner, and they're sitting at the table and they just have nothing left to say to each other. They grow apart in an effort to stay together and I think that has a lot to do with the expectation that you will be the sole provider of every need for the other person for the remainder of their days.

I don't believe it has anything to do with love but more to do with sex. Love and sex don't always go hand in hand, in fact in my experience pre open marriage, the two rarely go hand in hand.

It's not a situation for everyone I agree. For one, you have to be very secure in your relationship and what you have. That's not an easy thing to do unquestionably.

I have to say that more recently I have been wondering if people can only love in the moment. I agree with you that people do grow and change, relationships change.

But what does confuse the issue for me is people who have met their soul mates, how do they manage to make it through all the changes?

I do know I could not have more than one partner at a time, I wouldn't get jealous if they were just chatting and flirting, but if I knew they'd had 'intamacy' I'd be geen with envy. I'd also be worried sick he preferred her to me!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:12 pm

Betty Boop wrote: I have to say that more recently I have been wondering if people can only love in the moment. I agree with you that people do grow and change, relationships change.

But what does confuse the issue for me is people who have met their soul mates, how do they manage to make it through all the changes?

I do know I could not have more than one partner at a time, I wouldn't get jealous if they were just chatting and flirting, but if I knew they'd had 'intamacy' I'd be geen with envy. I'd also be worried sick he preferred her to me!

I think the trick to loving for a long long long moment is working hard at it. Sustaining a relationship isn't like the movies. It doesnt just happen on it's own. As for soul mates, you got me there coz i think there's a lot more than one and they are on different levels as well. I think in my life I've met at least three who would fit into the soul mate category. Maybe I'm just lucky though! :wah:

As for jealousy, it's not an emotion I've actually ever experienced in my whole life even when I wasn't in an open marriage. I'm not sure why.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:28 pm

Hey I'm not even in this club, huh Far.

Hey Amie welcome. Who is your favorite author?

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:39 pm

Amie wrote: I think the trick to loving for a long long long moment is working hard at it. Sustaining a relationship isn't like the movies. It doesnt just happen on it's own. As for soul mates, you got me there coz i think there's a lot more than one and they are on different levels as well. I think in my life I've met at least three who would fit into the soul mate category. Maybe I'm just lucky though! :wah:

As for jealousy, it's not an emotion I've actually ever experienced in my whole life even when I wasn't in an open marriage. I'm not sure why.

Did you get married in a church, civil ceremony?? I guess I'm just old fashioned but marriage to me means commitment to one person.

Each to their own though and if you're happy then thats fine, I wish you luck!:)

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:40 pm

Amie wrote: Ask me anything. I'm at home, bored, and will answer almost anything....

Go?!

You sure about that ?

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:08 pm

Far Rider wrote: Hang on now Betty...dont be so quick to judge... let me go check with the Mrs' and see if this open thing is a possibility.....

*Far returns all beat up... :yh_beatup ah well ah never mind....

:yh_rotfl That Clippers Missis is darn good huh!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:11 pm

Sheryl wrote: Hey I'm not even in this club, huh Far.

Hey Amie welcome. Who is your favorite author?

Thanks

Anne Tyler is my favourite author. She's penned such wonders as The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, The Amateur Marriage and the list just goes on....

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:12 pm

Nomad wrote: You sure about that ?

Sure that I'm home or that I'm bored?

I kid I kid... yep I'm sure.

Edit: wow I have to wait 30 seconds between posts. This is going to severely impede my post whoring abilities you know. :wah:

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:12 pm

Betty Boop wrote: Did you get married in a church, civil ceremony?? I guess I'm just old fashioned but marriage to me means commitment to one person.

Each to their own though and if you're happy then thats fine, I wish you luck!:)

I got married on a beautiful grassy knoll BY the beach in Fiji actually.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:13 pm

Far Rider wrote: Hang on now Betty...dont be so quick to judge... let me go check with the Mrs' and see if this open thing is a possibility.....

*Far returns all beat up... :yh_beatup ah well ah never mind....

Ah well it was worth a shot. :wah:

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:17 pm

Amie wrote: I got married on a beautiful grassy knoll BY the beach in Fiji actually.

Sigh........... beats my civil ceremony in the County of Sedgmoor!

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:21 pm

Betty Boop wrote: Sigh........... beats my civil ceremony in the County of Sedgmoor!

I'm pretty sure wedding ceremonies are mostly overrated excuses to spend lots of money and be the centre of everyone's attention for a day. As long as it's special to you I don't think it matters if you do it in the street outside your local pub. :-4

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:27 pm

Amie wrote: I got married on a beautiful grassy knoll BY the beach in Fiji actually.

Here in the "big country" that has a certain connotation.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:29 pm

Nomad wrote: Here in the "big country" that has a certain connotation.

do tell

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:36 pm

Amie wrote: do tell

Lee Harvey Oswald

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:38 pm

Nomad wrote:

Lee Harvey Oswald

He didn't do it.

:wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:38 pm

Amie wrote: He didn't do it.

:wah:

LC !!!

Might want to corral this one !

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:40 pm

Nomad wrote: LC !!!

Might want to corral this one !

Isn't that something you do to cows.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:42 pm

Amie wrote: Isn't that something you do to cows.

Its a "big country" term. I can see Im going to have to take you under my wing. Cmon. :rolleyes: :p

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:46 pm

Nomad wrote: Its a "big country" term. I can see Im going to have to take you under my wing. Cmon. :rolleyes: :p

Grasshopper have much to learn!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:49 pm

Amie wrote: Grasshopper have much to learn!

Well you probably dont want to learn from me.

Hey ! I know lets go give lady cop the business :-6

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:52 pm

Far Rider wrote: Hey leave her alone I saw her first!

Now now no need to fight over me! We've already discovered I'm quite open minded :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:52 pm

Far Rider wrote: Hey leave her alone I saw her first!

:mad:

Ya cant have em all.

Grinch :sneaky: See what Im sayin here ?

:wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:03 pm

Far Rider wrote: Ok throw ya for her! *Far picks up Nomad and throws him over the balcony*:wah:

I win!:D

One problem bubs

Shes down here

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:13 pm

Far Rider wrote: *Far looks over the balcony... * Damn! He did it again! :wah:

:wah:

Keep tryin