Left a good impression?
If you ever want to know if you had a significant impact on someone’s life, have a little chat with your ex. It could be a harrowing or enlightening experience – or both! We may never fully realize the impression we made on someone, but experiences are meant to teach us things.
What do you think you taught the people you have loved? It could be what they don’t want in their next partner, or what they absolutely would love to have in their future mate.
It is one of great things about dating, the chance to learn about who is ideal for us. Do you think you left a good impression on your dates and people you dated long-term?
Would you be surprised if they told you that you changed them?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Comon Cents
August 29th, 2012
1:29 pm
Bluz~ Why is there even talk about a “next move”? he next move should be to move on and work on YOU. Forget him…
Bluzgirl...So ready for the beach!
August 29th, 2012
1:30 pm
ITL and Leggs – Nah…I’m done with trying to pursue anything more than a friendship…just trying to figure out how that can be salvaged right now. Seems like he wants to salvage it and I want to keep it…
I’ll listen to that song…I know ya’ll were talking about it the other day…
i'm swiss
August 29th, 2012
1:35 pm
ITL — Nice, those dimples suit you.
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
1:37 pm
Bluz, I blog love you. But don’t be surprised if I clunk you on the head when I see you. IJS…..
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
1:37 pm
Damn this thing is stuck.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
1:38 pm
We briefly touched on what we were doing 7 years ago with Katrina struck. Anyone care to carry on in this vein?
Mine was embarrasing, but if there are contributions I may share my story AGAIN.
Bluzgirl
August 29th, 2012
1:38 pm
Lol ITL! I’ll understand!!!
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
1:39 pm
Bluz ~ I didn’t say anything about you trying to pursue something with him.
kimmie
August 29th, 2012
1:39 pm
It’s 4 AM and my lover won’t answer
Probably somewhere with a dancer
Sipping champagne while I’m in his bed
Comon – now you’ve got that song in my head again!LOL!!
Bluzgirl
August 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
I was with my then boyfriend trying to find info on his family and posting on websites who was safe…
DreamsMaterialize
August 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
Dang, even after his long and great career as Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, LeVar Burton is still pigeon holed as the Reading Rainbow guy…and Kunta Kente. lol
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
1:41 pm
I was at work, watching the coverage. A friend/co-worker’s sister was in NOLA at the time, and we were trying to keep track of her. My friend was trying to persuade her to go to the Superdome with everyone else, but she was reluctant. She and her boyfriend felt they could handle things on their own. Then, the levees broke and we didn’t hear anything for about a day. It was a scary time for us, but horrific for my co-worker and of course, beyond horrific for her sister.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
1:42 pm
Comon I wait for you too, in the blog world of course.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
If it bothers you DreamsM, imagine how LeVar Burton feels!!!!
Bluzgirl
August 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
Some of my boyfriend’s family went to Houston and couldn’t come back for weeks…his parent’s house was gone…had 8 feet of water at least…it was a sad time…
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
@Bluz: So long as you understand. It’s all in blog love.
@DM: Awww….I wasn’t trying to pigeon hole Levar. But RR was such a huge part of my childhood, that when I hear his name I think of RR and the glasses he wore on ST: TNG
kimmie
August 29th, 2012
1:47 pm
Leggs – I don’t remember exactly what I was doing when it hit, but I remember watching the news a few days prior. They were interview Mayor Nagin and the gov of LA. I remember one reporter asking the gov, in a very doubtful tone “Are you guys ready for this?” That told the tale right there and I kept replaying that in my mind when I watched the aftermath on the news.
I was working for Home Depot corporate at the time, and they had all the managers assigned shifts in the War Room. They had a big screen tv in there with the Weather Channel on it. We had periodic conference calls with managers on the scene at different stores in the Gulf. The pictures were terrifying they sent over – I mean stores completely covered in water with just a little of the orange roof peeking thru!!
Bluzgirl
August 29th, 2012
1:48 pm
Lol! On my lunch break and the Chew is on tv…Jennifer Gray is on the show and they just showed the Dirty Dancing scene with the “How you call your lover boy” part! We just talked about that not too long ago!
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
1:50 pm
Leggs seven years ago, I can’t remember what happend last night after a evening of getting the weed out the yard. Man that weed grows fast as hell………..LOL
Bluzgirl
August 29th, 2012
1:51 pm
My ex’s sister, who lives north of NOLA just texted me a pic of part of their roof blown off this morning…
predictable script
August 29th, 2012
1:53 pm
yawn!
Comon Cents
August 29th, 2012
1:56 pm
kimmie~ Sorry I got the song stuck in your head again. If it makes you feel better, it is stuck in mine too.
ITL/DM~ I always tink of “What’s your name, boy?!?” When I think of Levar Burton. Definitely not Geordi (even though I am well aware that he played the role) **shrugs** I guess it is what you’re exposed to in the formative years. My mom LOVED “Roots”. She felt like it was an iconic piece of African American History. Even made my brother and I read the book.
Comon Cents
August 29th, 2012
1:58 pm
I had just gotten back from Florida when Katrina hit and I went to AL immediately after to assist people with applying for new identification and FEMA relief efforts.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:03 pm
Apparently you’re not a good contributor either predictable.
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
2:05 pm
@
BurnoutBlackfoote: You better be careful out in that garden. You know what Melvin put out there next to Jody’s mama’s tomatoes…..Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:05 pm
LOL@Leggs
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
2:06 pm
LOL@Leggs. Yeah, what you said!!
Anybody else having trouble with the site today? It’s been running slow for me all day, and have even gotten a 503 error…..
disco
August 29th, 2012
2:06 pm
swiss – you are retarded (re klingon for dummies). don’t the dungeons and dragons (duh – is that where your dragon name in this little shindig came from?) – back to the question. don’t the dungeons and dragons folks have some kind of language too?
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:10 pm
LOL………@Light
Melvin fertilized the tomatoes for Jody’s mama.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:10 pm
I got a 503 error a little while ago.
disco
August 29th, 2012
2:10 pm
CC – when I was a child my grandmother had roots on vhs and we kids felt like it was the end of the world if we got corralled and made to sit and watch roots. we were afraid to go in for water and would just drink out of the hose. now, I have roots on dvd and watch it about once a year.
i'm swiss
August 29th, 2012
2:10 pm
disco — I’m sure they do, but white as I am, that’s never been my scene.
Sidebar — I have a dragon name?
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
2:12 pm
LOL@BF. Shoot, Melvin can come work in my garden for a minute….. LOLOL
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:12 pm
Light I’m visualizing Leggs with a cave man club, the big bopper.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:13 pm
Knocking down all the moles in that game mole-in-hole (or whatever it’s called).
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
2:14 pm
That made me think of Captain Caveman. I don’t know why, but I used to love that cartoon when I was a kid. Saw it not too long ago on Boomerang, and I was like, “Man….this isht is stupid!”
disco
August 29th, 2012
2:15 pm
swiss – I’m not going to keep calling you retarded because (i saw the wink and) it might offend the actual retarded people. anyway, I only meant the whole dragon con thing. dungeons and dragons made me think there might be a connection.
Into the Light
August 29th, 2012
2:15 pm
@Leggs: Whack-a-Mole. Or in this case, Club-A-Troll!!
Bluzgirl...So ready for the beach!
August 29th, 2012
2:16 pm
The site was slow before I went to lunch, but seems ok now…
Bluzgirl...So ready for the beach!
August 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
I just got an error that said “you are commenting too fast…slow down” and it didn’t even post my comment…
Bluzgirl...So ready for the beach!
August 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
Wait…now, it just showed the previous comment. Weird
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:17 pm
Melvin didn’t know I threw a few seeds out there.
Comon Cents
August 29th, 2012
2:18 pm
I got the 503 error too. It’s been running slow for me since I got here. IDK…
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:19 pm
Good One, ITL!
Comon Cents
August 29th, 2012
2:19 pm
So, what’s going on this Labor Day weekend. Hubs and I are looking for some trouble to get into…
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:20 pm
Mine page automatically jumped to a different format.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:23 pm
Light……….LOL Leggs is the BS breaker she can whack that mole in one whack.
Lady~cool beans :-)
August 29th, 2012
2:24 pm
all caught up and saved in 2 places…..it wasn’t a bad day either…..I am out too….a great evening awaits~ peace out until tomorrow!
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
August 29th, 2012
2:25 pm
Comon I can’t do nothing but clean the weeds I’m working Monday.
Leggs
August 29th, 2012
2:27 pm
Why did I can name that tune in one note come to mind (lol).