Harris and Evelyn, : ) I see you are disregarding my counterpoint and on that note, may I wish you a very pleasant life journey together, money and all those biz decisions notwithstanding ; ) I hope you find a very pretty and private place to tie that knot! I’m pleased that I’m invited : ) I will be there, I’ll start my study of various languages now.

Luv, Zen Lill, off to get that Christmas tree now, hoping that puts me in the mood of the season…falalala…!

You are the best! The tea is fantastic. If it is as healthy as it is delicious, we are in for a real treat.

Merci beaucoup

Ma Qin

We love each other, so why not. Especially since Harris pointed out that if something happened to either of us, marriage would give us the right to be there lovingly and legally for each other. No one could keep us apart.

Michelle, I want to thank you for pleading my case with Evelyn. All she needed was a wise thoughtful, caring person to toss a suggestion in. Ruth called to ask if we had read your column today. We had slept late :). So we had not. That 9 hour difference for her is everything.

But having read it was enough to seal the deal! I’m so damn happppppppppppy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See you at the wedding. And Zen Lill you needn’t crash because your invitation was always there. We will send it along with the others.

Michelle,

If I am already married before the big wedding, then perhaps you could come 3 to 6 months before the date so that we could really get to know each other. I will of course cover all your lost earnings.

Well I will write the check, Harris will cover it as any good, very rich husband should. Can you just hear the spoon drop down in Georgia. Yes, ladies, this black bitch is already spending his money. “Cause it will be OURS when we are married.

THERE IS NO PRENUP!

She’s just being mean Mom. There is no prenup because I gave her half of my companies already. I did it just in case something happened to prevent our nuptials

She would already be worth half. So why bother to interfere with a union that would double that? You’d better hope she marries me so that we can get some of that value back.

Elopement is on the table thanks to you Michelle. Can’t say enough about what your blog has meant to me.

Me, too.

Love

Harris & Evelyn

Harris, I would like to give counterpoint to Mischa’s suggestion : ) it’s all in good fun and well, my best interests for you and Evelyn…with the divorce rate so high you cannpt be in denial that ‘this won’t happen to us, honey’ syndrome, to do so would be to enter a contract with your eyes wide shut, you wouldn’t do that in biz, so please don’t do it in the biz of love, besides, that’s my point, the legalities i.e. paperwork (the behind the scenes stuff of wedding dreams) should not be rushed into and therefore if one person or the other wishes to wait a while, however long…the feeling part of the love of the lover would wait, the love isn’t going to go away or not grow simply bc you do not have a piece of paper in place now is it?? Certainly any love worth experiencing would keep the communication open, as in convos about: what’s the wait of two years about? (what’s she not saying about her feelings about marriage? A wedding is a grand event and it’s easy to get swept away by a fair tale something or other…just sayin’ – good man/bad man, when that wedding planning train pulls out of the station, whoa…it is ALL ABOARD!!) on your part: what’s the hurry about? What is it you want ‘wrapped up’ so immediately? Anyway, like I said it’s just counterpoint to Mischa, I’m a dreamer also but I know what I see and hear and I’m always vigilantly watching for what someone is really showing in their actions/saying with their words (or not doing/saying even more) that’s my two – feel free to disregard at your discretion : ) and I’ll quote someone we all know here ‘patience is its own reward’ : ) I’m sure Anonz won’t mind that I used his line ; )

Women (and men?) of MM blog, if you belong to a gym or have access to a rowing machine, I want you to climb aboard : ) and set it to ‘just rowing’ course, set the dial to a reasonable number, if you’ve never been on before use 5 and adjust accordingly, if you have then up the ante’ ; ) and I want you to place your hands palms up on the rower handles and pull in, keep those elbows tight to your side when you get them there and hold and contract your biseo on the way in and out, no relaxing, we’re working the ‘minor’ pump and doing a warm and a ‘pre-exhaust’ at the same time, you’ll love this series, so do 20 pull in’s with palms up, then switch to palms down and still elbows tucked in at sides tightening and holding that tricep, do 20 like this, next twenty pull in (still palms down) to your chest/chin area, elbows are straight out, repeat this whole series 5x’s and then add to each set (3 more sets to go…!) Palms up now instead of tucking elbows in I want you to pull in and then twist to your right side as far as you can manage, slowly now, and pull the rower all the way till you feel a stretch down your right side from your hip to your shoulder, do 10 each side, I do a quick stop of 5 straight rows in the center bc if your doing this right you’ll want the balance there. I guarantee you a fantastic warm up, a sweet pre-exhaust to any upper body/shoulder/arm workout you will follow it with…more tomorrow.

A friend approached me to be her cook for a week or two till she can free flow it…I’m thinking about it…she walked in while I was making my brew, I’ll restate it here, there are probably many other reasons why my cells are so healthy and haven’t been sick in bed for 4 years (I’ve had 6 or so hours here and there of not feeling tops) but Oct-May every year I drink ginger tea daily – I make enough for 2 days and here’s how it’s done: in a saucepan grate a tablespoon of fresh ginger and add two cups water, bring to a boil, simmer for 2 minutes, shut off and put the lid on for another 2 minutes, meanwhile brew up 2 cups of green tea and then blend the two (after you strained the grated ginegr out) add honey and drink 1-2 cups a day, if your giving to kids, add 6 ozs to orange juice or apple juice, the little ones dig it, too. That’s all folks…!

Luv, Zen Lill