Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Yeah! I think it'd be fun. Plus, I've only been to NOLA once and I was so drunk I don't remember much! Not sure what I would tell my boyfriend. I'm already horrified he may have found this place while checking his email. How do people live together and not let their significant others find out stuff like this? I don't think he'd disapprove or judge, but I'd be a little embarrassed to be outed as an official dork.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Just tell him you're meeting up with some message board friends and invite him along. I think everyone else has a buddy so far. Honestly, I'd rather keep my best friend insulated from this place as much as possible, but meh. I think it'll be fun and it's nice to have a buddy along with you're going to meet strangers.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Being a girl alone in New Orleans = bad idea. Being alone with you fuckers in New Orleans = terrible, horrible, awful idea.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Same here. I start classes on the 29th of this month. I'm not too far away either. But the date would really need to coincide as best as possible..
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Pretty much. Not only do I need a DD, I also need a bodyguard. She's training for her black belt and testing this fall...
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy I can't, regardless of the dozens of places that are being tossed around, none are close to me. So that would involve time off work, airfare, and hotel. I don't think I could sell the husband on the fact that an evening of drinks are a valid reason to spend lots of money and time to meet what in his mind would equate to strangers. Plus he probably would think that all of you guys were murdering rapists with no easier victims than those you find on the internet and lure halfway across the country. Damn this marriage thing holding me down.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Theres really no great way to explain to this people outside TiB. If anyone asks I will say that a few friends from back home are coming through New Orleans and I haven't seen em in a while. I think it would pass.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy You don't have anything to feel bad about babe- Hell, I live 30 minutes from New Orleans, and I'm not going. Sorry yall, I love yall to death, but seriously, lets look at this conversation: BD: Baby, we need to get my mom to watch the baby this weekend. We need to go to New Orleans. The Wife: ... But I thought 'tchu deeeeed not like New Orleeeee-ans? BD: I don't, but we're going to meet a bunch of people from the internet that I know from a website that I've never told you about. The Wife: ... *Something in Spanish about why the fuck she married this crazy Gringo* I mean, if I was single and didn't have a baby, that'd be one thing. And I don't even know about then, because I live in a small town where I can't even go out to eat without half of my family and most of my friends knowing what I ordered. If yall really do this, yall have fun, but nuh uh.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Nah, no reason to stretch the truth on this one. She's got legitimate points so it is what it is. Some of us can get away easier than others. I told el fiance what was going to happen, and he just responded, "nerd."
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Nope, I just started referring to him that way awhile back and never stopped. I hate the way a territorial "my" sounds. El is just a twist on the.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Yeah, totally understandable, mya. It's a lot of energy for traveling, planning, leaving responsibilities, etc for a few days for Interwebz People. Most people wouldn't understand or be up for it.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy Yep, it is kind of a big thing to take a trip for people you've never met before. My friend and fiance kind of get it. They know I spend a lot of time reading this message board, which I refer to as "that message board I frequent" when they want to know where I read something online. I am a huge nerd though, he's right. But that's why he loves me!
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy My husband sits right beside me on the couch and sees me on the computer, but he doesn't ask too many questions about where I go or what I do. I think it is like a don't ask, don't tell policy. If he ever asks and I have to show him this place, I am screwed, you guys are strange.
Re: TiB Meet-Up - The Big Easy So are you implying that all of us are the freaks while you're the only normal person?