It's not being coy for me. I simply don't like having to reveal certain fundamental facts--as though we all have a right to know everybody else's shoe size, bra size, age, weight, height, number of children and grandchildren, sexual preference, religion, level of schooling, number of parking tickets, and so on! I tend to reserve some personal information for people I know well and care about, and for particular others I care to share with. Not just with anyone who has the nerve to ask!

But hey, that's just me. ;)

Jay

Haha, some people, like Jay, are just private people.

Others, like me, could volunteer ALL that information without shame. "I wear a 9.5 shoe, I'm 21, I weigh 149 pounds, I'm just under 5'7", I have no kids, how could I have grandkids? I'm only 21... I have an associates' degree but that's it, along with a few Microsoft certifications, no parking tickets, I don't follow a particular organized religion but I was raised Catholic and have a strong relationship with God, I'm bisexual, and have been dating a girl for 2.5 years! HA!" None of that is private to me. I'm not a private person and like to laugh at private things. Most people, however, are NOT like me :p OH! We have to throw POLITICS in there, too - another subject so many are somehow afraid to share their beliefs on! I'm a liberal independent. That's not private, either... and if you ask/get me going, I'll talk about sex, too... :lol: (though not on this forum! only because it's inappropriate for the 3FC code of conduct, though!)

Thanks to everyone for explaining Shirley to me. I think I HAVE heard that line now that I found out where it came from, I just forgot. Haha. I'm sure my mom would know it right off the bat ;)

I have always tended towards the "tell all", until I gained so much weight. You guys are the only ones who know that I started out at 182 lbs. Yikes, yikes, and yikes! Thats a lot of fat.

So far, no one has noticed that I have lost weight. That is a little discouraging. I can hardly notice myself.