Rachelle

I’m just so happy today!! I’ve just turned 22.. and although I’ve only had a sumptuous dinner with my family at a restaurant (the actual festivity’s been moved to the weekend) but the greetings are just overwhelming. I never expected a snowball of Happy Birthdays to hit my inbox and mobile.. I’ve never been this much remembered by a lot of people..Heartwarming wishes and greetings from 78 people varying from veeps of online companies, editors of prominent US and UK magazines, writing enthusiasts, craft mentors and close acquaintances almost ripped me off..The feeling’s simply undescribable.. I’m just so flattered.. Thank you so much to all those who remembered my very special day.. I am very much grateful from the bottom of my heart..

Here’s a list of around 200 people from history who share the same birthday with me..

June 22, 1981 Lisa Moro, Victoria Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics
June 22, 1974 Mark Wetges, Walnut Creek California, field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics
June 22, 1974 Nicole Juvan, Essex Junction Vermont, Miss America-Vermont 1997
June 22, 1973 Benjamin Fairbrother, CFL offensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
June 22, 1973 Cory Alexander, NBA guard for the San Antonio Spurs
June 22, 1973 Lacy Goranson, born in Evanston, Indiana, actress, Becky-Roseanne
June 22, 1971 Brant Brown, born in Porterville, California, infielder for the Chicago Cubs
June 22, 1971 Laryssa Biesenthal, born in Walkertown Ontario, rower 1996 Olympics
June 22, 1970 Anne “Annie” Summertime Kakela, U.S. rower, Olympics-4th-96
June 22, 1970 David Frisch, NFL tight end for the New England Patriots
June 22, 1970 Rastko Cvetkovic, NBA center for the Denver Nuggets
June 22, 1969 Derek Russell, NFL wide receiver, Houston/Tennessee Oilers
June 22, 1968 Darrell Armstrong, NBA guard, Orlando Magic
June 22, 1968 Paula Irvine, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Lily Blake-Santa Barbara
June 22, 1967 Al Carlay, born in Manila, Philippines, U.S. fencer-foil 1996 Olympics
June 22, 1967 Eric Green, NFL tight end, Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens
June 22, 1967 Mark van Hintum, soccer player, Willem II
June 22, 1966 Camille Benjamin, born in Cleveland, Ohio, tennis star
June 22, 1966 Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire
June 22, 1966 Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler, South African
June 22, 1966 Paul Randolph, CFL linebacker, Montreal Alouettes
June 22, 1965 Tommy Cunningham, rocker, Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was
June 22, 1964 Amy Brenneman, born in New London, Connecticut, actress, Janice-NYPD Blue
June 22, 1964 Greg Anderson, NBA forward and center, San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks
June 22, 1964 Kevin Sargeant, rocker, Thrashing Doves-Reprobate’s Hymm
June 22, 1964 Mark Royals, NFL punter, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions
June 22, 1964 Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist, Jesus Jones-Devil you Know
June 22, 1964 Nico Jalink, Dutch soccer player, Sparta, NAC
June 22, 1963 Anne-Marie Ruddock, rocker, Amazulu-Excitable
June 22, 1963 Randy Couture, born in Everett, Washington, 198 lbs greco-roman wrestler, Olymp-96
June 22, 1962 Clyde “Glide” Drexler, NBA Guard, Houston Rockets, Port Trailblazers
June 22, 1962 Ruby Turner, rocker, No Where to Run
June 22, 1961 Bobby Gillespie, rocker, Primal Scream
June 22, 1961 Jimmy Somerville, born in Glasgow, Soctland, rocker, Bronski Beat, Communards
June 22, 1960 Colleen Devine, born in San Gabriel, California, actress, Irreconcilable Differences
June 22, 1960 Tracy Pollan, born in New York City, actress, Family Ties, /aka Mrs. Michael J Fox
June 22, 1958 Bruse Campbell, actor, Army of Darkness
June 22, 1957 Garry Beers, born in Sydney, Australia, rocker, Inxs-Kiss the Dirt
June 22, 1957 John Ryder, rock bassist, Face To Face
June 22, 1957 Nick Santagata, jockey
June 22, 1956 Derek Forbes, rocker, Simple Minds-Water Front
June 22, 1956 Green [Gartside], rock vocalist, Scritti Politti-Flesh and Blood
June 22, 1956 Tim Russ, born in Washington D.C., actor, Tuvoc-Star Trek Voyager
June 22, 1955 LeAnn Cassaday, LPGA golfer
June 22, 1954 Amparo Munoz, Malgra Spain, Miss Universe, 1974
June 22, 1954 Bobby Valentino, rocker, Fabulous Poodles
June 22, 1954 Charles T. Canady, Rep-R-Florida
June 22, 1954 Freddie Prinze, New York City, comedian/actor, Chico and the Man
June 22, 1950 Murphy Cross, born in Harve de Grace, Maryland, actor, Phyl and Mikhy, Perfect
June 22, 1949 Alan Osmond, born in Ogden, Utah, singer, Osmond Brothers, Donnie and Marie
June 22, 1949 Gary Moffet, born in Montreal, rock guitarist, April Wine
June 22, 1949 Larry Junstrom, rock bassist, .38 Special
June 22, 1949 Lindsay Wagner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks
June 22, 1949 Meryl Streep, born in New Jersey, actress, French Lieutenant’s Woman, Sophie’s Choice
June 22, 1948 “Pistol” Pete Maravich, NBA star for the Atlanta Hawks
June 22, 1948 Nolan Clarke, cricketer, Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart
June 22, 1948 Sue Roberts, LPGA golfer
June 22, 1948 Todd Rundgren, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, singer/guitarist, Hello it’s Me
June 22, 1947 David L. Lander, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Squiggy-Laverne and Shirley
June 22, 1947 Don Henley, drummer/singer, Eagles, Boys of Summer
June 22, 1947 Murray Webb, cricketer, NZ fast bowler in 3 Tests, 4 wkts at 117 75
June 22, 1947 Octavia E[stelle] Butler, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Wild Seed
June 22, 1947 Octavia Butler, American Writer
June 22, 1945 Howard Kaylan, rocker, Flo and Eddie/Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor
June 22, 1944 Klaus Maria Brandauer, born in Austria, actor, Mephisto, Out of Africa
June 22, 1944 Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman 1960 Olympics gold
June 22, 1944 Peter Asher, born in London, singer, Peter and Gordon-World Without Love
June 22, 1944 Steve Weber, guitarist, Rounders-Holy “Boobs” Modal
June 22, 1943 Jimmy Castor, born in New York City, rocker/sax, Troglodyte, Jimmy Castor Bunch
June 22, 1942 Margreet M H Kamp, Dutch MP, VVD
June 22, 1942 Toyohiro Akiyama, born in Japan, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-11
June 22, 1941 Ed Bradley, born in Philadelphia, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes
June 22, 1941 Michael Lerner, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, 8 Men Out, Harlem Nights
June 22, 1940 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up
June 22, 1938 Andrew Brown, film Producer
June 22, 1936 Kris Kristofferson, born in Brownsville, Texas, singer and actor, Amerika, Millenium
June 22, 1936 Verne Allison, singer, Dells-Open Up My Heart
June 22, 1935 V V Kumar, cricketer, useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests
June 22, 1934 Arthur Miller, legal reporter
June 22, 1933 Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of San Francisco, Sen-D-Ca
June 22, 1932 Michael Horvit, composer
June 22, 1931 Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician, VVD
June 22, 1929 Ralph Waite, born in White Plains, New York, actor, Cool Hand Luke, 5 Easy Piece
June 22, 1926 Ruth Zechlin, composer
June 22, 1923 Jimmy Cameron, cricketer, brother of John WI batsman 1948-49
June 22, 1922 Bill Blass, born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, fashion designer, Nancy Reagan
June 22, 1921 Barbara F Vucanovich, Rep-R-NV, 1983-
June 22, 1921 Gower Champion, choreographer, 42nd Street, Showboat
June 22, 1921 Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance
June 22, 1920 Chandrasekhar Sarwate, cricketer, batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52
June 22, 1920 Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator
June 22, 1920 Paul Frees, born in Chicago, Illinois, animation voice, Bullwinkle
June 22, 1914 Lilo Hardel, writer
June 22, 1913 Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Poland, lawyer, Solidarity
June 22, 1912 Vit Nejedly, composer
June 22, 1911 Guus Jansen, jazz pianist, Net als Toen
June 22, 1911 Marie Philipsen-Braun, swimmer 1928 Olympics gold
June 22, 1910 Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice
June 22, 1909 Katherine Dunham, dancer and choreographer, Casbah, Stormy Weather
June 22, 1909 Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], U.S. director, 80 days
June 22, 1908 George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher
June 22, 1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles’ wife
June 22, 1906 Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17
June 22, 1906 Richard Fanshawe, England, equestion 3 day event, Olympic-bronze-1936
June 22, 1905 Walter Leigh, composer
June 22, 1903 Carl Hubbell, pitcher for the New York Giants-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA
June 22, 1902 Arnold J d’Ailly, dir, Nederlandsche Bank, /mayor, Amsterdam, 1946-56
June 22, 1902 David Burns, actor, Music Man, Hello Dolly!
June 22, 1901 Jack Whiting, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor/singer, Marge and Gower Champion Show
June 22, 1901 Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor, Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession
June 22, 1900 Jennie Tourel, St. Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera 1943-47
June 22, 1899 Dorothy Devore, Ft. Worth, Texas, actress, Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil
June 22, 1899 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist
June 22, 1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist, All Quiet on the Western Front
June 22, 1898 R M Remarque, writer
June 22, 1897 Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher, Process of Civilization
June 22, 1896 Francis C Denebrink, U.S. Naval officer, WW I, WW II, Korea
June 22, 1893 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, Jaapeili
June 22, 1893 Osvald Chlubna, composer
June 22, 1891 Franz de Backer, Flemish writer, White Enemy
June 22, 1891 Harry Seymour, New York, actor, Boy Meets Girl, Tenderfoot
June 22, 1887 Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist, Uprising and Remorse
June 22, 1887 Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin’s Bulldog
June 22, 1883 Jose Rolon, composer
June 22, 1882 Jan H F Gronloh, “Nescio”, Dutch writer, De Uitvreter, Titiaantjes
June 22, 1869 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier, AR 1933-39
June 22, 1864 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
June 22, 1859 Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music
June 22, 1856 Henry Rider Haggard, author, King Solomon’s Mine, She, Dawn
June 22, 1855 Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer, Barbados parents only black Aus player
June 22, 1849 Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st pro entertainer
June 22, 1840 Ernest Debes, German cartographer, Baedeker
June 22, 1837 Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time, 1857-61
June 22, 1830 Theodor Leschetizky, composer
June 22, 1824 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
June 22, 1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare
June 22, 1796 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, Sotsjinenija,
June 22, 1763 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French organist/opera composer, Le Jeune Henri
June 22, 1757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver I
June 22, 1742 Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer
June 22, 1741 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
June 22, 1732 Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, Mariensaule
June 22, 1701 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish architect, Christiansborg Castle
June 22, 1684 Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer
June 22, 1674 Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo
June 22, 1613 Lambert Pietkin, composer
June 22, 1611 Pablo Bruna, composer
June 22, 1478 Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia, Philips I

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TODAY IN HISTORY:

On this date:

• In 1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
• In 1870, Congress created the Department of Justice.
• In 1906, writer-director-producer Billy Wilder was born.
• In 1911, Britain’s King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• In 1938, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium.
• In 1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.
• In 1944, President Roosevelt signed the Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill of Rights.
• In 1945, the World War II battle for Okinawa officially ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the nearly three-month campaign.
• In 1969, singer-actress Judy Garland died in London at age 47.
• In 1970, President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
• In 1993, former first lady Pat Nixon died in Park Ridge, N.J., at age 81.

1558 - The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1868 - Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
1909 - The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911 - King George V of England was crowned.
1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
1940 - France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared “I wish for a German vitory”.
1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.
1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956 - The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, “Tropic of Cancer”, could not be banned.
1969 - Judy Garland died from an accidental overdose of prescription sleeping aids. She was 47.
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973 - Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1977 - John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He served 19 months.
1978 - James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980 - The Soviet Union announceed a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981 - Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon.
1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal’s parole.
1998 - The 75th National Marbles Tournament begins in Wildwood, NJ.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.

LOUIS BECOMES CHAMP:
June 22, 1937

In Chicago’s Comiskey Park, Joe Louis wins the world heavyweight boxing title when he defeats American Jim Braddock in an eighth-round knockout. Louis was the first African American heavyweight champ since Jack Johnson, who lost the title in 1915. During his subsequent reign, the longest in the history of the heavyweight division, Louis successfully defended his title 25 times, scoring 21 knockouts.

Joe Louis, born in 1914, was the seventh son of a sharecropping family that worked in the cotton fields of Lexington, Alabama. His family moved to Chicago when he was 10, and two years later Louis dropped out of school to work in a Ford factory. He took up boxing at the Brewster East Side Gymnasium and at age 16 entered his first amateur tournament. He proved an outstanding amateur, winning the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union light heavyweight crown in 1934. On July 4, 1934, he defeated Jack Kracken in his professional debut. Louis went on to win his first 27 professional fights, beating the likes of former heavyweight champions Primo Carnera and Max Baer, both by knockouts.

Remembering the experience of Jack Johnson, who fled the United States in 1912 to escape persecution stemming from his marriage to a white woman, Louis’ black managers instructed their protege to keep a tight lip, never be photographed with a white woman, and never smile after knocking down a white man. On June 19, 1936, Louis met Max Schmeling, a former heavyweight champ from Germany, at Yankee Stadium. Schmeling handed Louis his first defeat, knocking him out in the 12th round. Many white Americans celebrated the victory of Schmeling, a dutiful Nazi at the time, over the previously invincible Louis.

Joe Louis, however, did not stay down for long, and on June 22, 1937, he met champ Jim Braddock in Comiskey Park for a title fight. Louis was dropped early in the bout, but he rose from the canvas to knock out Braddock in the eighth round. After easily defeating two challengers, Louis met Schmeling for a dramatic rematch at Yankee Stadium on June 22, 1938–exactly one year after he won the heavyweight title. By the summer of 1938, Adolf Hitler was menacing Europe, and America found itself changing loyalties to root for Louis over Schmeling, who was condemned as a symbol of Nazi oppression. It took Louis two minutes and four seconds to defeat the German. Louis, already a great hero of African Americans everywhere, was hailed as a hero for all Americans.

Joe Louis went undefeated in his nearly 12-year heavyweight reign, defeating a total of 25 challengers. During World War II, he was inducted into the U.S. Army, and he traveled extensively, staging matches, giving boxing exhibitions, and refereeing bouts. After the war, he defended his title a few more times and in March 1947 announced his retirement. In September 1950, he returned to boxing, but lost to his successor as champ, Ezzard Charles, in a 15-round decision. He won eight more fights during the next year but in October 1951 was knocked out in the eighth round by the up-and-coming Rocky Marciano. He retired permanently after this comeback attempt. In his retirement, Joe Louis suffered from tax problems and financial difficulties. He later worked as a host at a Las Vegas casino. He died in 1981.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis

OTHER GRAPHICS I’VE RECEIVED FROM FRIENDS TODAY:

It’s an interesting topic, because there are so many ways for a woman to be irresistible: in physical, emotional, and sometimes just intangible ways. Then there are the innervating ways that women can just be plain…well, RE-sistable! So I’ve gone through my conversations with guys, married and unmarried, and come up with a list of female attributes men like-and hate. I hope this list gives you a better understanding of what men find irresistible, which is quite often a balanced personality and lifestyle.

ATTITUDE

LIKE:
-Men DO like nice girls…but not too nice. By “nice”, they mean someone who’s easy to get along with…but also someone who RESPECTS herself. Just like women don’t like male pushovers, so males don’t enjoy female pushovers, either. It’s a balance, like almost every trait. There’s always room for the “grey zone”.

DON’T LIKE:
-A woman who falls into the black and white areas: a woman who’s too nice, or too demanding (read: bitchy). Extreme personalities often lead to extreme disasters. Men like a challenge, so it’s nice to have a woman who will challenge them-but all while not falling into “complete bitch” category. Again, it all comes down to finding the middle area.

HUMOR

LIKE:
-A girl who loves to laugh, and can appreciate different types of humor.

NOT FUNNY!:
-A girl who doesn’t laugh at ANYthing, and gives a man a nasty glare or rude comment when she doesn’t enjoy his sense of humor (unless, of course, it was completely offensive).

CAREERS

LIKE:
-A girl who knows what she wants, enjoys what she does, and works hard for it, but still finds time for friends and family. A nice, balanced life-which, admittedly, isn’t always easy.

NOT GONNA “WORK” OUT!:
-A girl who knows what she wants, and gets it by shutting out all but those who can be of immediate benefit to her. To those who AREN’T of immediate benefit, she is cold, ruthless, and generally impossible to be around. Work comes first, her man comes last.

EMOTIONS

LIKE:
-A girl who’s open with her feelings, but doesn’t make him feel guilty for her feeling them.

ON THE FLIP SIDE…
-A girl who’s accepting of men’s feelings, and doesn’t make them feel like a “wuss” for having those feelings.

HATE!!!:
-A girl who’s open with her feelings by screaming them, manipulating situations, and crying when she doesn’t get what she
wants.

ON THE FLIP SIDE…
-A girl who thinks of him as less of a man just for expressing his emotions. Men don’t want a woman who will nurture them like a little baby and they don’t want one who also makes them feel like they have to be someone they aren’t either.

HOBBIES

LIKE:
-A woman who supports his interests. She may not like them personally (say, basketball, or sports in general), but
doesn’t try to stop him from enjoying them and making them a part of his life, either. Generally open to the idea of doing
something his man loves.

ON THE FLIP SIDE…
-A woman who shares her hobbies with him, but doesn’t force him down his throat, either. If she likes ballet, asks him to come with her to a show, but doesn’t get upset if he doesn’t enjoy it as much as her.

DON’T LIKE, DON’T BOTHER WITH:
-A woman who not only hates his hobbies, but won’t even consider the idea of doing something he enjoys. Even mentioning going to, say, a basketball game, is an attempt in vain.

ON THE FLIP SIDE…
-A woman who forces her hobbies down his throat. Gets pissed off when he doesn’t enjoy something as much as her.

INTELLIGENCE

LIKE:
-Balance is crucial. Guys don’t want to feel like idiots in front of their girl, but don’t want to feel like they’re WITH an idiot,
either. Some women are really intelligent, others are not. That’s fine. What men want is a woman who makes them feel good about THEIR intelligence, by having things to talk about, but not feeling stupid in doing so.

THE SMART THING TO DO IS MOVE ON!:
-A woman who is very intelligent and feels she has to prove it (which only goes to show her own weaknesses) breaks a man down to size for not knowing as much as her. JUST AS BAD, a woman who makes no effort to learn about new things. Open-mindedness, to other opinions and to new ideas, is key.

SENSE OF ADVENTURE

LIKE:
-A woman in love with life, and its many possibilities. Not afraid to try new things out, even potentially embarrassing ones-read, karaoke and dancing.

LOVE!:
-A woman who may not particularly enjoy embarrassing things such as karaoke, but is willing to do them with him because she knows life is too short.

CAN’T FRIGGIN’ STAND!:
-A woman who’s afraid to try anything new at all. Content to stay at home with her poodles and soap operas.

MONEY

LIKE:
-A woman who will at least offer to pay, especially if she makes a decent wage. Also, a woman who has a purposeful occupation.

I WANT A REFUND!:
-A woman who EXPECTS men to pay for her (and not just dinner!), and refuses to spend a dime on meals and other expenses, even when she can afford it-or worse, makes more than the man! A woman who’s not willing to work, when she can, is just as bad a man who’s too lazy to work.

LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS

LIKE:
-A woman who, despite wanting marriage, doesn’t force it on a man. She knows that good things come to those who wait, and if it’s meant to be, he’ll bring it up himself. Quality of man counts more than quantity of engagement ring karats!

FIND YOURSELF ANOTHER MAN!:
-A woman so desperate for marriage that you can read it on her face. If he says he’s not yet ready for a ring, she throws a
tantrum and says he doesn’t love her-which is ironic, because forcing him to commit is anything but love!

APPEARANCES AND DIET

LIKE:
-A woman who is content enough in her body to not whine about it all the time (especially while not doing anything to solve the problem), but motivated enough to go to a gym and genuinely try to do something healthful about her body/diet.

NEXT!:
-A woman who pays absolutely no attention to her body and diet. Men don’t expect every woman to have a super-model body, but men DO expect them to care about their health-how they look, and how they eat.

SEX

LIKE:
-A woman who is open to new things. If she brings energy and openness to the bedroom, her body type won’t really matter.

DON’T WANNA GO NEAR:
-A woman who is afraid to try anything new, and who brings a closed-minded, even disdainful approach to sex. Makes a man feel bad for enjoying sex.

TRAVEL

LIKE:
-Most men want women who enjoy travelling, but doesn’t force him to travel when he doesn’t like it. Encouraging him gently to explore, however, is definitely a good quality.

ADIOS!:
-A girl who’s NOT open to travel at all. If she considers Canada a distant land, something’s wrong! But on the flip side, a girl who can’t stay still without having to fly somewhere, and who makes him feel guilty for not leaving with her, even when he has important things to get done, is not any better.

TRUST

LIKE:
-A girl who’s loyal! Is that any surprise? But also a girl who gives him trust, when he’d shown he’s worthy of it (i.e.
clearly stand by her side, even when the going gets rough).

SAYONARA!:
-A girl who always thinks he’s up to something, even when he is not. In general, a girl who puts no trust in men.

ARGUMENTS

LIKE:
-A woman who is firm and doesn’t fool around. Not a bitch, but not someone you can walk all over, either. Has respect for herself-and for her man.

SHOOT ME NOW!:
-A woman who goes to the ends of the earth to prove her point. Gets angry just for THINKING something different than her.
Generally unpleasant to be around, even with a minor squabble.

Every man is different. Some will want more of a caring, motherly type; and some men just love bitches (just check out Sheryl Argov’s book, “Why Men Love Bitches!”). But all in all, everything in life comes down to BALANCE, the shades of grey wedged between the extremes of black and white. The successful couples I know, are well-balanced. While either extreme may seem good on paper, it’s usually the woman who’s average just like him, that the average guy will go for.