joey c's Profile

I'm surprised to see a half a dozen comments from some 'older' people (sorry - I dont mean that in a bad way) saying "I'm glad I dont have to worry about this anymore". This reminds me of people who say "I've been married for ten years, we don't do anything for Valentines day anymore". Or who choose to wear sweatpants everyday.

I'm young (a sprite 31 years old), but I recognize that these things are MORE important as time goes on. When you're early in a relationship - romance, hugs, kisses, handholding, surprise gifts, and dare I say.... sex... is usually more frequent. So when you get later into the relationship - its just the way things go ... and they become less frequent. But they are never less important. If you are far along in your relationship and you aren't tending to a little intentional romance - you're leaving yourself and you're partner unfulfilled in SOME way. Perhaps he or she might never say it, maybe they wont ever even realize it (maybe you dont realize it), because we're all creatures of habit and tend to get complacent with things. But its still important to keep that fire-a-burning. :)

I'm not a relationship counselor or anything - maybe a more romantic and sentimental guy. But I hope I never get to the point where I feel its unimportant to be putting effort into being romantic, and into doing something simple like making sure your bedroom is a romantic sanctuary.

After reading this post - I cleaned up my bedroom, put up new curtains and am planning a whole bunch other stuff. Great post.

I just bought my first house recently its an old house from 1931, its painted a pale green. I thought I wanted to change it and choose a new color. But when I was talking to neighbors at a garage sale a woman who lived in the neighborhood since she was a child (in the 1950s) said 'the house has always been green' ... so I'm keeping it how it is. I plan to update the trim, but I want to maintain the history of the house. Maybe this doesnt help - but its just my personal house painting story.

I dont think $24 per place setting is exactly 'on a budget'. I've bought wine glasses from the dollar store (Dollar Tree) and have been very happy with them - I actually prefer them for a party because they tend to be made out of thicker tougher glass rather than very delicate thin crystal or whatever more expensive glasses tend to be.

The fireplace thing looks great, but super impractical to watch the tv thats 6 inches off the floor.

Oh c'mon. She assumes she was copied, its quite possible the design is just the same coincidentally. Its a pretty simple design, as others said ... its been done before. And she says they even stole her name ... her product name is "I heart" .... sorry, but again, far from original - easily a coincidence as it is the obvious extrapolation of a concept. Lastly - she says they even took some of her text/copy ... I read thru both I had a hard time finding it. The only part I see similar is one line that says "Wear your locale love" on UO's site and hers says "Wear your love". Again - I'm not convinced that this is a rip-off.

I have long believed that there is some ottoman cartel who practice extreme forms of collusion to inflate prices. Ottomans are one of the most simple pieces of furniture but just seem seem to be impossible to find inexpensively. I plan to make one ... one day.

Noone else here is imagining a dozen kids running around your spring wedding with giant lollipops and your once-white dress. :)

I was about to write the exact thing as the commentor above me. I saw "Salt to taste" in a recipe with raw chicken.

I hate to be rude, but why write into AT - google answers that question pretty thoroughly. Perhaps I'm disgruntled because I once sent in a specific design challenge I had and got no response from AT.

This essentially only proves that white furniture is very versatile to dress up.