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I’m listening to a radio show this morning, as you all know I do so much. I flip through lots of them…very diverse listener I am. Billy Madison, the DJ on The Edge here locally starts talking about being labeled as a Metro-Sexual and how glad he is that it’s over for that term.

But now there’s a new one. Oh yes…Gastro-Sexual - to get to a woman’s heart apparently the new craze is learning how to and cooking for your girl. I can say of course, there is no shame in that game, men are usually picky eaters and since that’s usually the case, you know you’ll get quality food if a man is cooking for you.

I definitely think there’s some validity to this new fad because I think if a man is willing to stop watching cops, drinking beer or grunting over his car long enough to cook you a meal, bitch you better appreciate it. I think it’s a shocking thing in most cases to see a man cooking for a woman, typically and as idealized in the media, that’s what women do, so I encourage this because so many of us women have taken up so many male roles in the workforce, this shows they’re starting to meet us halfway. Or trying, and I’m all for that.

My Jason cooks, and in the interest of fairness and equality he doesn’t wash a single dish unless he just wants to (and who wants to?). I don’t think the cook should ever clean, just doesn’t seem fair.

I think it needs a new term though because GastroSexual sounds like something you don’t want anything to do with, like sex with a fart or something. Ew! Is it just me or do you think this is a weird term too? What do you think about the idea, men cooking to get to a woman’s heart, you think it’ll work?

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I got an email today loaded with hilarious pictures that I have no doubt have been distributed across the internet.

But in case you haven’t seen them I wanted to share them with you. Hope you enjoy this edition of Wednesday Fwd. If you like it, I’ll do it again next week

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You ever have problems getting your family or friends to understand your life is different now that you have a family? Are you the reliable member of the family? The one that everyone counts on to do the right thing?

Being a reliable person is a place of great responsibility, people will expect things of you that they wouldn’t necessarily expect out of others.

They’ll call you when they have problems, sometimes big and most of the time small and expect you to help, drop everything you’re doing and come help. Family and friends are used to calling on you and you being able to help them, but then when your family situation changes and your priorities change, this can cause big problems for those who are used to calling when they need you.

One of the hardest things to do with family and friends is placing boundaries that weren’t there before. Letting them know that your priorities have changed and your spouse and children come first, before them. If anything friends are harder to explain this to. My best friend is still single and in school part time and partying on the weekends, meanwhile I go home every night and am in bed by 10:30 to be ready for work the next day.

While inside I’d like to be that hard partying girl that I used to be, I love my life now and the peace of it. The comfort of having someone to come home to is nice, so the sleepovers don’t happen anymore, the last minute trips to Galveston or Padre, not so much but thankfully she’s understanding.

I still hang out with her, but between her busy social, work and school life, and my life, we don’t see each other so much anymore. Our relationship has changed, but we’re not any less friends because of it. We certainly talk on the phone a lot more now than we used to.

Did your family and friends naturally understand your priorities changed as your family situation did, or did you have a few hold outs you had to push along?

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Have you ever met someone who you were put off by immediately because of they way they acted? Like they were better than their surroundings and thusly, better than you? Ever try to talk to someone who seemed to be in another place while you were trying to hold a conversation with them?

Normally we expect people to be warm and friendly and quick to smile when we engage them in conversation. But what about those times where you smile and start a conversation with someone who doesn’t seem interested, or worse, doesn’t respond at all? Do you give those people another chance after your first impression of them? Do you make sure to tell everyone you thought that person was a jerk or was rude?

Now, imagine having a 50 hour a week job managing three people who are underpaid and don’t want to work, add to that a husband and two children ages 8 and 5, add to that three best friends, a mother and two sisters who call intermittently expecting you to stop, drop and chat for at least an hour. Add to that laundry for four people, dishes for four people every night and dinner to cook for four people.

Then there’s the work you brought home because there would be no other time to do it. Overwhelmed yet? Throw in a car in the shop, so you’re carpooling with hubby, which means you both have to get up earlier and someone’s doing double driving duty to get the kids to daycare in the morning and the birthday party that still needs to be planned for next week.

Now are you overwhelmed? This is a typical workday for most people, female or male, we all have a hell of a load to carry on a normal basis, we are a very stressed out people. If you’re a person who has all these hats to wear everyday and manages it, and even has the audacity to manage it well, a little confidence and pride is in order.

Sometimes confidence can be mistaken for cockiness to others and give the impression that we are pompous or rude, or worse, better than everyone else. I’ve been guilty of putting off that vibe and I have a friend who is constantly getting a bad rep because of the way she comes off to people, but as my friend I know her better than that. I know that she’d give the shirt off her back if someone needed it. I know that last year when she saw a fire off a country road and no fire trucks she pulled right over and ran inside, without for a second thinking of herself. I know that she’s fought through trials and tribulations like none I’ve ever seen and that anyone who calls her cocky or pompous can’t possibly know anything about her.

I believe those of us that have confidence issues or inferiority issues, have a big problem with the confidence of others. Confident, successful people walk with their heads held high and their eyes on the future and the prize, and won’t let things get in the way of their goals, they feel they’ve paid their dues and they want to collect on their hard work. How dare they!

Some of us make judgments before we even talk to a person. There is one problem with this method; deciding what type of person someone may be before letting them affect that decision is shortsighted and will only serve to keep you from knowing some really fabulous people.

Have you been guilty of judging someone without truly knowing them? I know I have been, and I know I’ve also been mistaken for a cocky and pompous person and wanted another chance to show I am not at all that way..

Have you been accused of being cocky, rude or pompous? How did you react and did you do anything to change the persons’ mind?

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Okay, even though most of you thought I should pull a new winner from the prior entrants, I gave that some thought and decided against because the winner still won, as I’ve replaced the gift with $$.

Wanna win an iPod? How ’bout I make this INCREDIBLY simple- so simple that it seems unfair?

Comment. That’s what will get you into the contest. All you have to do between now and August 3rd, when the contest closes, is be the one who is most active in the comments here, the top commenter. You can comment on new posts, old posts, etc. Just make sure they’re valid comments because if you’re not adding to the conversation or participating in your comment, I won’t count it for you.

I have added a new widget that shows the Top Commenters overall, but I will be counting from today, the day the contest posts up to the day that it closes on August 3rd, so those numbers in the Top Commenters widget will not be an accurate measure of who is ahead as the Top Commenter.

All you have to do is get active and start talking amongst yourselves and with me of course. Additionally, due to import taxes and the unfairness of receiving a gift and having to pay for it, I’m limiting this contest to the United States and Canada. I simply don’t want the winner to have to pay import taxes on a gift, it’s just not right. The next contest will have a different prize that won’t be subject to import taxes so it will not be limited by country. I look forward to August 1st when the contest closes.

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I used this theme in the beginning and am back to it now, got bored with the simplicity of the other, and the two sidebars. What do you think?

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Every morning or evening I sit down and I want to talk to you, discuss things with you, share our respective points of view. One day when I make a little dough, if I make a little dough on this site, I’d like to pay for vBulletin and offer a forum, if that’s something that fits with the vision when the time comes.

But between now and then, I’d still like to talk with you, discuss things with you, interact. I get an email whenever you leave a comment, I know instantly when someone has something to say about what I’ve written. I love that. I like to talk to you, hear your thoughts, share with you. Don’t you want to communicate with me? There are lots of ways to do that, I’m easy to find, but I think Subscribing to MouthyGirl.com by Email is a big step in the direction of communication between us instead of me writing and you reading and we never talk.

Obviously we share some of the same ideals, and have a lot in common or I would’ve irritated you by now.

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