Confront and call them out on it. Sadly, since none of the remarks apply to me, it means more coming from me if I show my disapproval and deem it unacceptable.

I'm honestly not sure. I think it may have been about 10 years ago when my sister and I had a Magic Knight Rayearth marathon. I think we sat through 5-ish hours a night to get it all watched. I don't exactly keep track of my TV watching.

These days, TV is more background noise then anything else. I'll put it on when I'm working on art or when I'm knitting. We do not have cable. We have a sizable DVD collection and Netflix subscription.

OK, LJ, what is up with the awful prompts?

Of course I "believe" in marriage, it exists doesn't it? I believe in it like I believe in any other societal norm that is here. Incorrect usage of the word, "believe." Whether or not I agree with it is another matter. I happen to feel that traditional marriage, as it exists and is currently being challenged, is not for everyone. Until our more recent history, marriage has been about transference of property, symbolized in a bride. It wasn't about her. It wasn't about love. It definitely wasn't the monstrosity it has become with bridezillas and going into massive debt over a day in your life. I will argue that marriage is still primarily about setting up a household and stable environment--in our modern world, combining finances, though in many cases, not 100% from either party goes into the pot. Many still prefer it for having and raising children.

HOWEVER.

That does not mean that I think it is the best or that it should be the norm. On a biological level, humans are not monogamous for life as marriage asks of them. Some people can be, though I'm sure they are the exception and not the norm. Most people seem to fall into longer term, "short term" monogamous situations. Years vs for life. I personally feel marriage needs to be reworked to fit this or just tossed out all together. At the end of the day, it's only a piece of paper saying "my fun bits are yours and yours alone." Which seems rather archaic.

If I were a "passionate" person--for lack of a better word--with a roaming eye, I would not have gotten married. It makes no sense to.

As to the first part of the question, it's insulting and it's not so black and white (as I was recently privy to reading on a forum site of mine where a similar topic came up). While we tradionally think of cheating as a male habit, there are just as many women stepping outside of their marriages for various reasons. Seriously, there is not a never-ending stream of unmarried women having sex with married men. That makes no sense and is silly to believe. Marriage does not fulfil the needs of everyone and some people feel the need to find them elsewhere: reading stories from both men and women, most of them start out as, "I was looking for a friend to talk to," and the relationship evolves into something else. That doesn't mean I find it to be the morally right thing to do, but I can concede that I do not think that most cheaters go out merely looking for someone to fuck rather then their spouse. I do not judge it to be evil, and my issues with it are more of broken trust and lying then with the sex itself. I have issues with allowing the cheated on party to believe that s/he is in a monogamous relationship when in fact, they are not. Not to mention the health issues being in such ignorance can raise.

Happy now, prompt?

In all honesty, NO. I eat what I feel like eating and stop when I feel like stopping. Calorie content has nothing to do with my food choices.

What an awful question. And if a magic genie were to visit me, I'd want something better. All the yarn I could buy in 10 minutes, for example. Now THERE is a genie I'd be happy to see. Let me loose on some Indie dyers' sites.

Wouldn't they have to know about the stain or spinach to be suffering from it?

Regardless of whether or not I like someone, I'd let them know. I hate when others do not tell me and I find out later when I look in the mirror.

The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck

These things, they are not the habits of deliberately, connivingly cruel men. They are, in fact, the habits of the men in this world I love quite a lot.

I can relate to this and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I especially relate to the idea of, "But it's only a joke."

I believe everything eventually will as we develop the science to explain it. I definitely do not believe in woo of any kind as an explanation for things.

Let's see, I'd be 37 and the kids will be 13 & 11 (HOLY CRAP). Depending on what DH's career does and where it takes us, I'd love to be living more comfortably then we are now. Finally out of debt. Cars paid off. Working on paying off a home to retire in when his service time is over. I would hope by then we'll know where we want to live when we retire.

I'd love to be doing something creative with the kids out of the house. Pattern designing maybe. Free lance art? Who knows.

Two journal names ago, back in December 2003, it was, "My first time here...."

So there you are. It was an entry about moving from paper journaling to blogging and you know what? I still do both.

Credit cards.

Star Wars and it was awesome. :)

Because our recycle bin isn't big enough and gets picked up only once a week, I don't put everything that could go in there out for recycling. Some of it still goes in the trash. (As it is, we bought a larger container to put items in but it's still not quite big enough.) I'm worst about paper waste and some of the smaller, more flimsy cardboards.

That and I eat more red meat then I ought to.

NONE.

I would never be a teenager again. I'm past that and happy to be so.

This is a bizarre question and I'm not 100% sure what it's getting at. Life long monogamy? Longer term relationships? Being in one relationship at a time? I dunno. Wording for this prompt is a fail.

I believe whatever works for a person is the right thing. For myself, that is a monogamous relationship, being married. Neither my husband nor I have any desire to have a sexual relationship outside of what we have and we're happy with it that way. Do I believe that is what everyone else should do? No, and I see many examples of how it fails every day. I do not believe that marriage for a lifetime works for most people. I believe most people stay in a relationship for a longer term, but not for life. And for those that have more then one partner at a time, as long as it's mutual and OK with all parties involved, more power to them. I'm not going to go crying, "deviant," at something like that just because it's not my preference and it wouldn't work for me.

So to sum up, YES, I believe monogamy exists. I think it exists in different forms and depends on the persons involved. However, I do not believe it is the only way to live life and it's not up to me or anyone else to push it on others.

This one. :D

I would talk to the cheater first and let them know that if they do not come clean within a reasonable amount of time, then I will tell my friend because I feel obligated to do so.

I know if it were me, I'd be more angry knowing that someone who is supposed to be my friend knew and didn't tell me and left me in that position.

Unless it's my mother, I prefer texting. I'm self concious about my voice and these days, I often can not string more then a sentance together before I'm interrupted. For those that have children and have been in the Fog, they get it. Those that haven't don't. I prefer written communication when I can get away with it.

"Sometimes when you fall, you fly." Neil Gaiman

"Snoffy"-Snuggly and Soft. I use it to describe blankets and stuffed animals and dubbed my son, "King of the Snoffies." Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I use it and I'm not sure when the first time was.

As a rule, savory. Sweet only breakfast makes me ill; I get nausea from it. Now savory hearty breakfast with a sweet roll or other sweet is just fine.