Monday, July 12, 2004
The motto of the weekend is: Man that sucked weaksauce!!!
ok, so i understand that if you had an arranged marriage or you went to some online matchmaker.com thing this would help you, but we were forced to do this engaged couple retreat called.. Engaged Encounter and it's one of those things where you think it's like out in the forest where you frolic around, make things, hike around.. but no, either funding or there was no availability so what happens? We're forced to be in a hotel ballroom for 3days. Their format is a bunch of chapters on certain aspects of married life, like how to resolve things, culture differences, blahblah.. So they talk for 30-45 minutes, then we answer these questions and then we share them with our significant others then rinse and repeat.. I call it being either a hostage in a hotel or being in an airplane because (1)the seats aren't comfortable, (2)we both started to feel queezy as if we were on one of them international flights, (3)you couldn't go anywhere , (4) if you do they do the typical guilt thing.. for example, when we got to our rooms (we were separated) there was a sign on the TV saying that you shouldn't use the TV, or cell phone 'cuz it's a 'retreat' and it should feel like one. Yea right.. *Click* on goes the TV.. then on the second day we had a 2-hour break in which the speakers were like, ok you guys can swim, walk around, nap.. but don't go to places like home depot, which was right next to the hotel.. yea right, went twice already.. We were giggling and then told them that we went.. and what do they say? go to the priest and confess.. Confess to what?! we went to home depot??
Now some people find it enjoyable but didn't learn anything. We both agreed that it was a waste of time and we didn't learn anything new of each other. At least we both agreed that it sucked weaksauce! At the last day people were on their last straw. People didn't want to answer nada, but it was supposed to be the most meaningful or whatever. There was one chapter in which you're supposed to write this long essay about love and why your the one.. Well fluffielady wrote that she's going crazy and wants out.. and i wrote trying to figure out bullet spiral and dynamics of velocity, optimal spin and how to that out (like i can)..
Don't get me wrong, the speakers were nice, and the priest is a jolly funny drinking-after-hours irish guy. But to spend all that money, we coulda went to Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Retreat in calistoga.
So my suggestion is if you've known your other for more than a few years, most of the what-if questions shoulda been talked about already.. Then you wouldn't need this, but some churchs require you to go, or they do the 'either you do one weekend, or you visit me 3 times each lasting 7hours..' type deal..
We've figured the thing out.. if you could last 3 days stuck together with no way out n what not.. Then you're ready for marriage..
ok, so i understand that if you had an arranged marriage or you went to some online matchmaker.com thing this would help you, but we were forced to do this engaged couple retreat called.. Engaged Encounter and it's one of those things where you think it's like out in the forest where you frolic around, make things, hike around.. but no, either funding or there was no availability so what happens? We're forced to be in a hotel ballroom for 3days. Their format is a bunch of chapters on certain aspects of married life, like how to resolve things, culture differences, blahblah.. So they talk for 30-45 minutes, then we answer these questions and then we share them with our significant others then rinse and repeat.. I call it being either a hostage in a hotel or being in an airplane because (1)the seats aren't comfortable, (2)we both started to feel queezy as if we were on one of them international flights, (3)you couldn't go anywhere , (4) if you do they do the typical guilt thing.. for example, when we got to our rooms (we were separated) there was a sign on the TV saying that you shouldn't use the TV, or cell phone 'cuz it's a 'retreat' and it should feel like one. Yea right.. *Click* on goes the TV.. then on the second day we had a 2-hour break in which the speakers were like, ok you guys can swim, walk around, nap.. but don't go to places like home depot, which was right next to the hotel.. yea right, went twice already.. We were giggling and then told them that we went.. and what do they say? go to the priest and confess.. Confess to what?! we went to home depot??
Now some people find it enjoyable but didn't learn anything. We both agreed that it was a waste of time and we didn't learn anything new of each other. At least we both agreed that it sucked weaksauce! At the last day people were on their last straw. People didn't want to answer nada, but it was supposed to be the most meaningful or whatever. There was one chapter in which you're supposed to write this long essay about love and why your the one.. Well fluffielady wrote that she's going crazy and wants out.. and i wrote trying to figure out bullet spiral and dynamics of velocity, optimal spin and how to that out (like i can)..
Don't get me wrong, the speakers were nice, and the priest is a jolly funny drinking-after-hours irish guy. But to spend all that money, we coulda went to Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Retreat in calistoga.
So my suggestion is if you've known your other for more than a few years, most of the what-if questions shoulda been talked about already.. Then you wouldn't need this, but some churchs require you to go, or they do the 'either you do one weekend, or you visit me 3 times each lasting 7hours..' type deal..
We've figured the thing out.. if you could last 3 days stuck together with no way out n what not.. Then you're ready for marriage..
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