Whatever became of the Letterhearts thought a few months ago??? I'm home relaxing and nursing a cold all by my lonesome and spending some extra time on the BB and reflecting on the loneliness of being a home-based sign artist. Although I'll spend time with family and friends I don't look forward to another essentially solo Christmas and New Years.
I'm convinced with my hectic but organized life where work and play overlap and interweave, that I'm only suited to be with a woman who works in much the same way I do and in the same field. In fact I think this business could stand a full-time partner as such. I dated several women addicted to 'chronic employeeism' and interests or schedules rarely jived. I work extremely hard and long when the opportunity or necessity is there because of timing or weather but take plenty of time off even in the middle of the week to compensate. I grew up on a farm so that somewhat erratic cycle is second nature to me. My former significant other, a classic chronic employee, was actually quite jealous and resentful of my free-wheeling lifestyle.
I know many Letterheads out there have incredibly understanding and compatible mates. How did you meet and how do you maintain such a relationship? Is it even advisable to have someone as both a personal and professional partner? Can all that contact be too much? Any other thoughts or suggestions?
Happy Signing.....Marty
------------------ Marty Happy "Signmaker Since 1974" Happy Ad Sign & Design Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
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Mine used to go to the club where my band played Bluegrass 5 nights week, and it soon became apparent that she watched me most of the time. Not easy to pick and sing "Uncle Penn" when two enchanting eyes are boring right through you. She began sitting near the band during breaks and I finally struck up a 27 year conversation with her. She's the restrained, level head and counterbalances my hot-headed impulsiveness.
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
Uh oh.....there goes the neighborhood! (that 'L' thing you know.............)
I am home feeling sorry for myself too. You see, I also have a major cold goin' on. Haven't had one in years. Bummer, Huh? In answer to your question.....I don't have one. What to do....what to do.......... well...I am playing the blues baby! A little Boz A skoash of BB King Ahhhhhh let's shake it up shall we? Put on some Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Stevie Ray.......take 2 aspirin and you will feel better in the morning.
Good luck with your search Marty Happy. When you discover the secret remedy for the single signperson saga, let me know. Best of luck to you.
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christmas and new years alone once more here in florida. family and friends are on the other side of the country. would be great to hook up with a mate that is into the art thing. (at this point, would be great to hook up with a mate that has a pulse and shave's her legs hahahaha)
------------------ Don Coplen aka "SaintPete" Coplen Designs St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
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I met my Letterheart 25 years ago when we were both hippies livin' in the mountains of Utah. I knew there was something special about him from the moment we met. We moved in together immediately and were together until he died of heart failure last November 18. The reason we were able to stay together is because we both shared so many value concepts. And we both let each other be who we were, and loved each other for what we were. I respected and loved him with all my heart, and he did me as well. Love like that is surely rare, and I know I was lucky to have found it. Please do NOT fill up this post with a bunch of mawkish platitudes about how you will "keep me in your prayers"... I feel that is self serving and hypocritical. Nothing can be done, so just move on to your own stories. LE
------------------ LazyEdna in RL known as Sara Straw from southern Utah 5 National Parks within 3 hours drive Red Rock Heaven
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"mawkish plattitues"..........incredible! Have you considered writing poetry, LE?? You come up with the damndest phraseology! I'll bet you don't even have to compose this stuff. I bet it rolls off your tongue like oiled honey. Great schtuff!.......AND, in case it isn't clear.......I do mean this as a complement!
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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I met my sweety about 17 years ago on a blind date. After lunch I took her to see my etchings, an in door arena with about 80 or 90 4x8's I had done.
------------------ Mike Metherd Red Bluff, California
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I met my Honey 40 years ago. She was walking by with the shortest cut-off levis that the moral police would allow.....it was LOVE at first sight!
She is not an artistic person, per se, however she loves me dearly, and I love this business dearly, she has ALWAYS supported me in whatever I wanted to do, so her coming into the business was just natural. It has worked out just fine!!
I feel that I am very fortunate to have been attracted to her....short shorts.... I am glad I wasn't looking the other way..hahaha
Life is great and getting greater all the time....
------------------ Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun"
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You will meet your best matched by getting to know their friends or preferably, Mothers! I was single for 39 years and was no stranger to solo holidays and late night TV by myself. I met my sweetie thru her Mother-in-law who hired me to do a big project. She was outta town alot and had to talk to the daughter to get 'clarification'...duh...
One year I even went to Vegas as I heard it was the best place on Christmas to meet available women. It was not, but I sure had a fun time, nonetheless. There were a few single women looking for a fun, legit time, but of all the relationships I ever got started, the best were when I either met them thru their friends or the parents. The bars yeilded alot of losers and the odds were just not that good.
Hoping to find one who is art knowledgeable or a sign-tist is about like looking for hen's teeth. Rare stuff.
Another favorite haunt I hear are the book stores with coffee bars. You sit there and act intellectual and someone comes up to you and asks you whazup? You read Sign Craft and have a quill over your ear??? naw...
Last of all in my most sagelike sounding parental advice let me say simply find someone who tells you the truth! It is more important than just about any other quality. Good luck and you will prevail, Marty....and stop drooling, too. No one like the drooler on a first date.
------------------ Preston McCall 2516 W 63rd St. Mission Hills, Kansas 66208 913-262-3443 office 816-289-7112 cell
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Marty,Thanks for the forum to Brag on my highschool sweetheart/decrotive artist/friend/lover/wife.(you met her in Mazeppa)and we have been attending letterhead meets ever since!We work together so well it should be against the lonely peoples law.Am finishing up our Christmas window decorating season while working side by side,bouncing ideas and suggestions off each other.She also is a very good money tender with the ability to swing the building of a new shop we BOTH work out of.My kind of art(linear)on one side.With her kind(decrotive)on the other. As a suggestion for meeting a like minded counterpart.Attend MORE letterhead meets. Good Luck
P.S.I would tell you to Pray about it BUT I would never hear the end of it from people who don't want and or don't belive in it.
------------------ PKing is Pat King of King Sign Design in McCalla,Alabama The Professor of SIGNOLOGY
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Good Post. I seldom get to tell anyone about my relationship. Dave and I met when I was 16 and he was 17. He asked me to his graduation dance. He completely bowled me over with his good conversation and wit. David is also an enormously creative man and we are always living on the edge. In those days he was a good listener. I have hardly looked at another man since. It has been mountains and valleys for us , yet we are still together some 22 years later. Our low points have been around the health problems that two of our children have had - that really tears us up. The high points have made up for those times though. David works in software/electronics engineering and is self employed. I come from a self employed family of origin. This means that I am used to the financial ups and downs and uncertainty. I also understand the odd working hours that happen when you are in a small business. I have had to be very flexible to all for all of that and to keep some stability for the family at home. I work with David but not all the time - he is not comfortable with having me around his workplace all the time. He says I'm a distraction.(!) When I was growing up my sisters and I spent most of our childhood at our parents business place. We loved it and would never have changed a thing. I would love to do that with my kids too and I hope that I will soon be able to do so too. Everybody is a package deal. There are plusses and minuses no matter what way you play it. How about helping out at a Salvation Army lunch or whatever charity you are drawn to? Before we had so many kids we used to go sing at a hospice for cancer patients on Christmas day, and we also used to go to some senior citizens homes (for poor people) and sing a few of the "oldies" with them. It always cheered them up and it did us no harm either.
------------------ Karen Tighe, Strandhill, Sligo in the Wild Wet West of Ireland.
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MUST you come up with a topic like this? Yeah, I'm all by myself for the holidays too...
I met my wife while both in the army, in Ft. Godon GA. We walked by each other down a hallway, said hi to each other. Next thing I know I'm dropping a ring inside her Mug o' Corona in a Mexican Restaurant (no, she didn't swallow it!).
The first few years were tough, since she comes from an extremely conservative family from Oak Grove, Louisiana (& man I mean extremely).
We're the complete opposite of each other. She likes black, I like white. Hey , opposites attract, right? We love each other very much, although since we run the shop together we hardly have anything to talk about when we go out. But I guess if we work our butts off now that we're young, we can enjoy our life more later on (& maybe live in a stilt house...on a hill...beach view...a pool...!)
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Best way to meet a mate is to not be trying to. Go about life applying yourself diligently to your interests. It happens when you're not looking. Take some classes. Donate some time to charitable activities. Go for walks in the park. Visit the local churches. Give an occassional morning as a teachers aid in the local kindergarten. The depression leaves rather quickly when you spend effort doing something for someone else.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
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Marty, I stumbled into my wife to be in a video arcade/poolroom where I happened to be entirely by chance at the behest of my youngest brother. This readheaded fireball caught my attention in a big way and two days later I told I was going to marry her someday. Finally got up the nerve two weeks later to actually ask her out on a date and then spent the next two years getting to know her. I also found, much to my dismay, that my winning personality and suave sophisticated charm were not nearly as devestating as I had hoped and that those two years would be spent convincing her that I was worthy. Took some time and a lot of re-education but I finally won out we've been married for 16 years. I firmly believe that we find what we need when we are not actively seeking it but are open to the possibilities that abound. By the way, I spent the entire year previous to meeting her sitting alone at home convincing myself that I didn't need or want anyone as the result of disappointing relationships before. It wasn't until I quit trying to attract or entice women to notice me that I found one who would. Thank God I had the brains and the guts to act and not let this gem get away. I wish you luck in finding someone to share your life with and hope that a longer wait means a sweeter and happier relationship when it comes. Bill
------------------ Bill Wilson biljwilson@aol.com "A quill in the hand is worth a dozen in the kit"
i met my sweetie right here. she is the answer to my prayers. i had spent a long time alone stumbling from one relationship to another with no semblence of finality.
i have always thought that the "perfect" mate for me would be someone who was in the craft. who better to understand the trials and tribulations of a signman? unfortunately, there were not too many "sign chicks" around here and the few that are not worth the time and effort.
i saw dana'a posts here on the bullboard and they just made me laugh. then one night i "met" her on letterhead chat. she proved to be just as funny on line as she did on the bullboard. i knew that someday i just had to meet her. too bad she was married at the time....
we chatted on and off for awhile. after a fashion, the emails stopped and she wouldn't chat with me. oh no! did i do something wrong? did i have bad breath or some other form of offensive body odor? nope. she was married and knew it wasn't right. alas.
then out of the blue, she wrote me and informed us that she had left dennis and was flying solo, so to speak. didn't take any whacks to the head with a tire tool to get my ass in gear. this was an opportunity i have long sought.
i flew up to minneapolis and we drove down to the iowa walldog meet. she flew here a month later and stayed for three weeks. this thanksgiving, i flew to minneapolis and loaded up a truck and we drove her back here to niagara falls... so here we are.
i feel as though she is the missing piece of my puzzle. where it all leads to i haven't a clue but i feel as though she is my soulmate. i love her dearly and try to show her everyday. i thank God everyday for the opportunity...
you all have a great one!
------------------ Bruce Bowers DrCAS Signtech
"how great are His signs..." Daniel 4:3
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i was at friends garage one day drunk as a skunk when she and one of her friends came in to get a car worked on. i walked up to her not knowing her name and said i'm gonna marry you someday. she said bulls**t. took me two weeks to find out who she was and where she lived. pestered her for a month for a date. the rest is history. been married off and on since 1967.
------------------ Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 164 Poplar Rd. Commerce, Ga 30529 706-335-2348 Fax 706-335-3378 icq#11718273
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Hey Marty....... You could always fly to Hawaii....get really abnoxious and insist on sitting by the lady of your choice on the plane, making everyone shuffle seats. Then drink WAY too much red wine...spill it all over her baby blue dress, and try to wipe it off with a tissue making a further mess. Then offer to buy her some head phones for the movie, and talk loudly through the whole thing. Get up to use the restroom, and trip over the lady behind yous foot, making her complain the rest of the trip. Drink lots more wine and tell everyone you are in love with your 'neighbor' on the airplane. Be sure to talk really loud, to the point where everyone wants you to get off the plane NOW. Mention that you are feeling like you need to use one of those little barf bags. Does anyone have one handy? Then laugh at yourself loudly and say you were joking about the barf part. Ask her for a date when you land in Seattle. Eventhough she says no, refuse to accept that answer, as you are much too good looking to be turned down. Give her your business card and insist on having hers, as you most definately need signs. LOTS of them. Go on dates. Marry her. Have 2 kids. Continue to be the lush you were on the plane. Divorce.
(you can leave off the last 2 lines, and live happily ever after)
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had a good life, a great family, terrific friends.... and just wanted sumone to share that all with! that's when i decided to leave the country with said family to make a new start away from ex-'s and ppl who expected me to live one way for ever... cut away the dead wood and keep the supportive loving folk. went to a 3 day party with 2500 ppl, slaped a mans face (who had just tooooo many hands at the time) grabed a 4 hr ride home with him, broke down on a lonely road out back of nowhere, got caught in a hail storm and married him 3 weeks later. 17 years down the track we live together , work together, raise 'his, mine & ours' together we have laughed, cryed and sumhow held on to whatever it was we found under that tree in a hail storm all those years ago. he liked my t*ts i loved his sence of the ridiculous, we both shared a belief in self and personal responce-I-bility for 17 yrs we have had the chance to make really nice signs (sumtimes) and play with our toys (all the time) we fit
regards gail
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