I will have been going out with my boyfriend for 6 months next week and he’s taking me out to a really nice restaurant on that day. He’s always bought me flowers or chocolate for every month that we’ve been going out and I never have because I don’t really see each month as that big a deal really.
However I want to make him something special for 6 months and I thought about a scrap book type thing where I put pictures of us in and write quote taken from my diary that I’ve written about him from the past six months such as ‘Tom walked me home today after dinner and we had our first kiss under the bridge’. And perhaps other ‘romantic’ type quotes to accompany the pictures.
Is that weird? What would you think if your girlfriend gave you that? Please be honest and thank you for listening (well reading) to my rantings!

Senate Democrats must be really hungry for victory.

The Senate Dems’ campaign committee spent a whopping $26,000 on restaurants during the past six months, according to recently filed financial statements.”They’re all associated with political and fund-raising meetings,” insisted group spokesman Eric Blankenbaker.
He declined to offer specifics about any of the meetings.

The Democrats held nearly 80 such “meetings” at dozens of restaurants across the state, including three stops at Jack’s Oyster House - a fixture among Albany’s power players - costing from $192 to $644, and four visits to Amber Japanese on Columbus Circle, where they rang up a $1,218 tab in just one visit.

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I am a qualified mechanical engineer and working in Sales in UAE.& want to work in Canada or Australia. I know little about the procedure but I want to know which place is good. As situation in Australia is not good now a days for Indians. While people say that in Canada people work only six months as no work possible due to ice fall other six months. Also somebody told me that getting job as an engineer is difficult in start, instead people work on gas stations or restaurants.This is really can not be digested by me. Somebody could guide me in this case. People actually went to Canada or Australia are invited.

My ex and I broke up one and a half years ago due to a variety of communication issues in our relationship. She continued to contact me sporadically afterwards, sending texts at 2am asking “What’s up?” or inviting me over to drink — then getting mad the next morning after initiating a make-out session.

Sometimes, though, she’d legitimately seem to miss me. Six months ago, I broke off contact with her because I was tired of what I thought were games, but recently she contacted me under a new phone saying she missed me, and really wanted to see me before returning to her country for good.

For once, when we met up, there was actually real communication. Instead of pretending she wasn’t mad and not saying anything, she addressed certain issues I’d been wondering about for over a year. She said she still really liked me, but was upset that “I couldn’t trust her.” Apparently, she thought me saying that she used me was unjustified.

I said that for a variety of reasons, but most of it was due to her having me write her papers for her to get into a certain program, help her study for econ and accounting tests, and I bought her things, took her places, and moved her stuff into another place (and put everything together). She never really did anything for me, including giving me hugs and would constantly pick up her phone and talk for 10-15 mins when we were eating at a restaurant, so I felt that she wasn’t treating me well. But now she claims that she wasn’t using me and that I was wrong.

Was I? And should I have anything to do with her since she just said that I was the best guy she ever dated?

ok so my boyfriend and i had a baby six months ago, just last month we finally got a place of our own, we didnt want to rush anything bc we had only been together a year. anyway long story short, we finally decided it was time to move in together and things have been great, until recently. i had to quit my job bc i worked ina different town. my bf was understanding about it bc he knew it was ridiculous for me to spend so much time driving back and forth. he told me hed take care of the bills while i looked for another job. well here we are three weeks later and still nothing, i swear i have applied everywhere in town! it is hard to finda job right now, i have even applied at fast food restaurants, anything, i just need to be working. i called him an hour ago on his lunch break, he works nights, and he had this pissy attitude, and i asked him what his deal was and he says to me taht he is tired of me doing nothing, and that if something doesnt change quick hes going to kick me out, which is crap, my name is on the lease and i paid all the deposits, not him. anyway, i was like what the hell u know ive been putting in applications every freaking day and trying so hard and he said that it doesnt matter that hes just tired of me doing nothing. well then i got mad, bc i dont do nthing. i take care of the baby day and night by myself bc he works at night and sleeps all day, i clean the house, i do the shopping for the house, i have his dinner ready every night for him before he goes to work, most nights i cant even sit down and eat with him bc im feeding the baby her dinner as well. he helps me with nothing. he never changes a diaper, he never feeds the baby, he wouldnt even watch her for fifteen mins tonight while i ran to return a movie, he made me take her with me bc he was playing a video game. im so pissed by this comment he made of me doing nothing, when i take care of t he house and the baby all the time with no help, and im busting my ass trying to find a job, but what he doesnt understand is that its hard for me to find a job bc i have to work certain hours around his shift bc we dont have a babysitter. honestly right now my first instinct is to tell him to go fuck himself bc him talking to me that way and telling me i do nothing is just ridiculous in my eyes, but im just wondering if maybe im overreacting and i should jsut turn off the phone and cool down bc all i wanna do right now is call him back and tell him to kiss my ass. i understand he is the one working, but he only works eight hours, then he comes home and sleeps for ten, gets up plays video games and goes back to work, so for himt o tell me i do nothing….ugh!!! im so furious!!!

Here’s the situation….. I am a military wife and we just got stationed in Japan six months ago. My marriage has been hanging by a thread since we got here. My husband and I have been together for 3 and a half years, married almost a year of that. My seven year old son from a previous relationship lives with us.

When we were back in the states, we had typical arguments most couples have. About every three or four months though, an argument would escalate into him screaming as loud as he can in my face and saying really hurtful things. Yes, I yelled back a lot of the time. The more I did, he would get right in my face and back me up to a wall screaming. Once he wouldn’t let me leave the bedroom as he did this. He would do that until I backed down into a crying mess. Fights lasted hours and my son always heard this.

Once we found out about the change of station, life got stressful getting ready to come to Japan. He got far more agitated than I have ever seen him a week before we left. For example, we were in the car running some errands and we left at about 3 in the afternoon to do so. He likes to do this sort of thing in the morning, so he was already frustrated that we left so late in the day. His griping about that turned into screaming at me about how I can never get anywhere in time and how I’m selfish and will never do anything he wants to do. It didn’t stop there, he started calling out all of my flaws. It got uglier when we got home and he would not even let me go for a walk by myself to cool off.

So we left for Japan a week later. In the airport, I think it hit home as my son and I sat across the table from him at a restaurant. We were finally in transit and he saw that we just left our lifelong home, a career, school and family behind to be with him. He said he would try to be a better husband and father.

That didn’t last long. On New Year’s the next big blow up came. I can’t even remember why we started arguing, but he again went into yelling at me and describing how I have been nothing but an endless string of problems for him. I got on an antidepressant after we got here and he belittled me for that. Still does, said it’s only a “sugarpill effect” and “a sign of weakness” that I take them at all. He’s a self professed type A personality, so he can’t stand failure in any form. So no sympathy for my mild depression.

Another highlight was me getting into a slight fender bender with one of the locals here. The accident was not bad, not my fault, and I made all the right moves afterward. As he was on his way to the scene from work, I was unable to tell him where we were because I was in an unfamiliar area and I can’t read kanji on all the buildings and signs. The police were unable to tell him where we were too. When we finally found each other the incident was over. I showed him what happened, but he was more hung on the fact that I had no sense of direction and couldn’t tell him where to go. In short, he started screaming at me in public this time and wouldn’t let me leave. His car was blocking mine and he insisted that we sit in his car to talk since it was raining pretty hard. I tried to take my son and walk away and he would not even let me get out of his car to do that. He screamed at me so loud my ears were ringing and that lasted about an hour. By then, I was very embarrassed and again crying my eyes out.

There has been an incident like this every two weeks or so since. Every time, he says it is my fault he has to get like that to make me listen. He did this so much that I started to feel worthless. He throws and breaks things when he is mad. Either his mouth or his finger are right in my face when he yells.

I’ve had enough of him. I’ve adapted to life here pretty well. I have a routine and my son is happy too. But as far as the marriage goes, I’ve been treated like his problem and not his partner for almost eight months now. I do not think he will change. He says he is not this monster I make him out to be and that it’s me who makes him react that way to simple things. I’m not perfect, but I am a good wife and I deserve better.

All that said, I have an opportunity to go back to the states in a month. He is already acting funny and has cut me off financially other than what we might need for regular bills. I have no access to what is in savings. He drained the account after a fight a couple of days ago so I could not buy tickets home. I got them anyways with a credit card. They are round trip, but I am on the fence about whether or not I will come back to a manipulative control freak who throws tantrums like a toddler. He has never hit me, but has hurled things in my direction. I’m afraid he could lose control one day and do it.

I love him and a part of me hopes he can change and this will work. I don’t know if I have the courage to leave him for good. If I do, he

Hazel is 84, and suffers from debilitating arthritis. Sometimes, she can barely walk. Every time Hazel has been unable to get around, her neighbor Ruth cooks and cleans for her until she feels better. Hazel has offered to pay Ruth, but Ruth always declines. One day when Hazel is feeling well, she and Ruth eat out in a restaurant, and Hazel tells Ruth she is going to leave her $50,000 in her will. Six months later, Hazel dies without leaving a will. Can Ruth successfully sue Hazel’s estate for $50,000? State the legal reasons for your answer.

The National Restaurant Association’s restaurant performance index rose for the third consecutive month in March, as the measure of operators’ outlook for the economy over the next six months hits its highest level in more than a year.

uWink, the technology-focused restaurant chain based in Los Angeles, last week closed its newest unit in Mountain View, Calif., just six months after it opened.