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What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?

TOO MANY!!!

let's see i get:

shape and self as i'm in the process of losing weight. not that the super skinny models help my self-esteem at all but they have good tips and articles.

redbook because i'm not into glamour or anything like that. it's a lower key but too many ads and not enough magazine.

all you is ok. it's a cross between redbook and women's day.

rolling stone because it was a free one year subscription.

my husband gets:

playboy ~ he likes the articles...hehe.

men's fitness ~ he's also in teh process of losing weight.

FHM ~ i actually like this magazine too. it has a lot of stupid facts in it and is actually fun to read.

player ~ a magazine that used to be really good information about vegas but now it's too metrosexual and too much of a fashion mag.

all-in ~ he's a big fan of cards so this one is great with all of it's articles on professional players and tips.

see...i told you we get too many magazines. oh and we have national geographic and smithsonian on their way.

back when i was 17 i was on a school trip in florida. it was the last day before heading home and we spent it at a waterpark. while there my friend and i spotted a group of military guys hangning out not too far from us. before we knew it one of the guys came over to talk to my friend and he asked us to go over with them to talk. she begged me to go with her but i was not the bombshell she was so i stayed put and soaked up the beautiful florida sun. a little while later one of the other guys came over and sat next to me. i was smitten from the moment i saw him. that was not unusual as i was 17 and he was a military man. he joked around with me saying how hurt he was that i didn't join my friend with them and he had been waiting for me to go over. i was flattered and giddy! so we all hung out together for the whole day splashing around in the wave pool and making out on the lazy river.  by the end of the day gary and i were hooked. we exchanged addresses and went our seperate ways. he went to georiga and i went to ohio. we kept in touch (he wrote me first!) by letters and eventually phone calls for over two years. we both dated people but still kept in touch and never really became a couple. we were just two friends who hung on to each other through high school and being stationed in korea. when i started dating my son's father we stopped writing and calling each other.

so about a month ago i was messing around on myspace and i found him. i wasn't sure whether or not to cantact him as it had been about 12 years since we had talked. i saw from his profile that he was married and was a dad. i figured that since we were both married it wouldn't seem too strange that i was contacting him. so i emailed him and he almost immediately responded!

we've been emailing each other ever since. it's been nice and cordial. nothing raunchy or even hinting towards anything that i shouldn't be doing. i still feel a little guilty about it because i haven't told my husband yet. i feel like i'm hiding something but i'm not. i would not be the least bit worried to have him read the emails that we've sent each other. so why the guilt?

so i'll just put myself out there. my name is Nicole. i've been happily married for almost 5 years and we've been together for over 10 years. i have two sons that are the light of my life. they are 11 and almost 4 years old.

i work part time as an office manager for a small company. the work is great and my bosses are alright. i'm the only woman where i work so that makes it even better! i've been here for 6 years and i can see myself staying here for quite some time.

so that's pretty much me in a nutshell. =)

i'm not sure what i'll be doing on here. i may be spilling my guts or simply laying low and reading along. who knows.