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idigTexas

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  1. I'm not going to count any points before they are earned, but it is nice to be in a position to control our own destiny.
  2. I think it's a little early to eat crow, but I have been browsing recipes.
  3. I'm pretty sure your mom already did.
  4. Better not wait for Round 2.
  5. Do not underestimate anxiety. For the past two+ months, I've been dealing with an assortment of symptoms that had me seeing my PCP and multiple neurologists to diagnose the cause of what was thought to be some extreme form of neuropathy with other abnormal nerve behaviors. Severity varied from day-to-day, but during the worst flare ups, I had tingling and numbness to some extent from head to toe, chills, frequent urination, lightheadedness, twitching, unsteadiness while on my feet, hunger, nausea, tiredness, general malaise, and at the worst of times, suicidal thoughts (because who wants to live with all of that). Exercise or even common household activities seemed to exacerbate my symptoms. The only time I felt somewhat normal was while sleeping, and I probably spent at least 50% of my time in bed. I had several blood tests, brain MRI, ultrasounds, and physical examinations. Everything has been coming back as normal. While researching some meds that had been prescribed, I came to the conclusion that we were chasing the wrong cause, and started looking into anxiety. Once I was able to plausibly associate all of my symptoms with anxiety, I immediately felt better. I still have a few lingering symptoms that are obviously caused by poor posture and too much time on the PC, but I have experienced those before, and will address them with massage and PT. It blows my mind how debilitating anxiety can be. Looking back, I can clearly see that I was having panic attacks caused by snowmageddon PTSD, COVID, work stuff, relationship drama, and a host of other "between the ears" baggage. I intend to get some professional help with dealing with anxiety in general, but just recognizing it is a huge part of the battle. I'm more than a bit concerned that none of the professionals in my healthcare circle even suggested it. If my sister hadn't mentioned it to me as something I might want to address at some point, who knows how long I would have gone down the wrong path, continuing a life with no quality whatsoever. Don't live with constant doom and gloom thoughts. It will eat you up eventually.
  6. There's a lot of work still to do, but to be in have CL in the conversation at this point in the season is progress. Nice to have a late goal go in our favor for a change, even if a player on another team gets credited for it.
  7. They lit the tower for him, deservedly so.
  8. Those of us who are Texas fans have had plenty of reasons to feel embarrassed by things our coaches, players, or teams have done, but this sure as hell isn't one of them. In this instance, the reaction of some of the fanbase is what's embarrassing. Would I have reacted differently? I definitely would have. So fucking what? Chris Beard is not me, and if you want our basketball program to be successful, you should be thankful for that.
  9. I agree. They'd be tolerable without the half leg stripe and black lettering outline, but that would still leave a lot of orange.
  10. The difference is we know it and can address it, as opposed to having to randomly react to it anytime KP had a hangnail or scraped knee.
  11. Exactly. Committing that much money to a player that can't stay healthy really limits what we could do with him. At the end of the day, we need players who can at least play. Whether we got the best we could is certainly debatable, but I'm okay moving on from KP. Love beating the Clippers.
  12. Spa day, either just for her or a couples thing, depending which you think she would like more.
  13. It takes an engaged fanbase to rush the court. As far as I'm concerned, they can rush the court any damn time they want. When competing for national championships and winning conference titles becomes the expectation, then maybe I'll change my tune, but who cares? This wasn't our baseball team beating Texas Southern to win our 50th game of the season.
  14. Can't believe it took 7 replies.
  15. Would likely have been a short-lived pass anyway, now that Mitchell is back.
  16. A-fucking-men
  17. Fucking bipolar team. Get up for the good teams, and down for the scrubs.
  18. My house is 100% electric, so fingers crossed that the power stays on this time. I noticed this morning that my 2yo American Standard HVAC was blowing cold air. The outside fan had frozen. I knocked some of the ice loose and thankfully it came back to life. I Macgyvered a little shelter for it from an old camping table, some bricks, and chewing gum, and a paper clip...all while standing in ankle deep water in the dark. I'll likely have to babysit it for the next 48 hours...assuming the grid holds up.
  19. That about sums it up for me. Guess we don't actually want CL season, and Europa is probably going to go down to the wire now, with everyone else actually improving their squads.
  20. There are three starting times for the next leg. They are the only team starting in the last time slot. That may or may not be an adequate penalty, depending on the gaps. On the other hand, they likely finished further behind the next to last place team than they will be forced to wait, but we have seen that may times before, where all teams end up with a fresh start due to transportation schedules or business openings. The only team that I see them possibly catching is Akbar and Sheri, unless someone else makes a huge navigation blunder.
  21. I'm just speculating here, but perhaps the fact that students are still on break, and we are in the middle of a COVID surge had a little impact on attendance.
  22. You celebrate his entire catalog, don't you.
  23. Most of mine have been mentioned, but a few more from my Dallas childhood: Next Door - had a weird Revolutionary War vibe, but was apparently owned by Pizza Hut; the cool factor was that you ordered by phone from your table Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour Baby Does Matchless Mine - it was behind the old Pearl/Coors/Salem/Kool waterfall billboard The Old Church - literally an old church turned into a burger joint in uptown, later became a Chips, not sure what it is now I was also going to include these, but they are apparently still around, though not in the locations I frequented: Chips Hamburgers Tolbert's Chili Parlor
  24. It's certainly encouraging. I still think Kidd will keep us from reaching our potential, but would love to be proven wrong.
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