tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post5034836408357532652..comments2024-02-07T11:31:44.141+03:00Comments on On Life in St. Petersburg: What Christian women think aboutElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-52874420577525579152009-08-08T22:19:03.241+04:002009-08-08T22:19:03.241+04:00Resonatingly pleased and encouraged reading your t...Resonatingly pleased and encouraged reading your thoughts and review :)DKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14222145567663962830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-81735399200632589802009-08-06T06:26:52.107+04:002009-08-06T06:26:52.107+04:00Annie, I guess you met Craig just in time! :) I...Annie, I guess you met Craig just in time! :) I've had the same experience with people commenting on my social life. People asking what I do in my free time and after I go through a list of activities (reading, church activities, etc), repeating the question and asking what I do for fun. As if the things I listed didn't count! Funny.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-68091638218470028792009-08-06T02:32:36.396+04:002009-08-06T02:32:36.396+04:00Your observations about seeing the "reality&q...Your observations about seeing the "reality" in weddings you are involved in or attend are SO true. And also about the unrealistic pangs the romantic comedies might inspire - I think I'd cry at the end of Jane Austen novels, too, or other literary works where people found a worthy mate. <br /><br />I also cringe at those assumptions. They are probaby only too true for some women, but still a little nauseating (like those sickeningly sweet photos) to those who "have a life", so to speak. I was single until I was 30 and don't think I ever once wished I were "dating". I went on maybe two outings that someone might have described as a "date" and both were so horribly uncomfortable that I would NEVER have looked forward to a "date".... Whether it was a parish event, or acting in a play (my career for much of those years) or even some of the more outwardly "pathetic" things I did in college - I, for one, was enjoying myself mightily. I always remember bemusedly, how at a certain point in my life, I'd spend Friday and Saturdays at the university library looking through the art books...no one was around so I could sit on the floor and have a wonderful time. Then I discovered that they had magazines back to the 1800's bound and available for perusal - and what fun I had looking at womens magazines from the early part of the 19th century! In fact I enjoyed those evenings so much that even now, years later, I look back longingly at them. But the funny part was, that one time a girlfriend asked what I'd been doing, and when I told her, her brow furrowed with pity and she asked if maybe she could "fix me up". Horror of horrors! No way! I could NOT convince her I'd been having fun.<br /><br />As usual, I love your book reviews and look forward to finding out if there are more valuable insights in this one. <br /><br />I'm all for courtship myself....or meeting eligible gentlemen through mutual relations and getting to know him in the natural course of time, rather than "artificially" in a "date". <br /><br />I met my husband when I'd decided that perhaps I had a religious vocation and was visiting a convent in a city a few hours away. Craig's mother was also exploring a late vocation and when I first met Craig it turned out he lived in the same parish where the school I would be teaching in was located. The rest was history.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623179886908222942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-86761932643993786702009-08-05T07:57:32.095+04:002009-08-05T07:57:32.095+04:00I'm glad it's not just me! :)I'm glad it's not just me! :)Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-31486228008718669912009-08-04T14:03:36.525+04:002009-08-04T14:03:36.525+04:00Wow! It seems that the authors read too much Cosmo...Wow! It seems that the authors read too much Cosmopolitan. :p because the way they described the situations of (being desperate) single women sounds more like in those women's mags. :p<br />When I was single, I didn't get jealous when my friends and/or relatives were getting married. And during friday/saturday night, I didn't just sit at home waiting for someone special to call me, but I went out with bunch of my church friends. :D<br />Perhaps that book is useful for some others who have similar situations as the book described. :)<br />Btw, I've got an award for you, Liz. :) Oh..and I've joined a cause as well. Pls check them out on my blog if you're interested. :)<br />Have a great week!The Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066534391691159770noreply@blogger.com