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 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... (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.