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  1. 12 hours ago, DejaVu said:

    My BIL and sister used dinner as a venue to announce their upcoming divorce. It was really comfortable for everyone at the table. 

    My mom left immediately after dinner, as did most of the family soon after. At least it got me off dog handling duties. I’m stuck here on the couch with my kiddos until Saturday, and my sister pretty much holed up in her room after dinner, leaving me to discuss this with her kids, who...apparently...didn’t know. 

    Just tell them, "Hey, you get 2 christmases now!". They should like that.

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  2. My friend came over to watch fireworks a couple of years ago and brought his teenaged son. I only have girls, so I always break out the Wilson 1001 whenever the opportunity presents itself. The boy plays football at school, so he started running routes and I was slinging passes like crazy. But after a while my arm...just wouldn't work right anymore. I literally couldn't throw a ball more than 10 feet. It was such a helpless feeling.

  3. 2 hours ago, Okie State said:
    2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:
    If your credit is that bad to where you can't get a car, probably should not be trying to buy a new one and get further into debt.
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    A lady my wife used to work with would get upside down on a car and just roll the debt into a loan on a new car. Nothing like paying $75K for a 2006 Dodge Journey.

    My sister is paying about $650/mo for her new Ford Flex. I think she has 2-3 loans rolled up in that bad boy.

  4. I've plateaued for the last couple of weeks but that's my own fault. Getting weak-minded and eating pringles and shit. But even with that being said, my clothes are getting too big to wear. My 40 waist jeans are falling off and the 38 isn't much better. I found 3 jackets in the closet that I've avoided for years, as I hating looking like a sausage. That shit is over now, I look fine in all of them. I still need to buckle down and get more discipline but at least I can have a little positivity about how I'm doing.

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  5. This may sound dumb, so my apologies in advance, but have any of you felt like you didn't know how to handle success? Things have been going really, really well for me lately, but I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and I need to stop it.

    I've had a chip on my shoulder for years now, mostly in regards to my job. But this year, everything that I've grumbled or fought over in the past has come up aces in my favor. Add to that my incredible wife and teriffic marriage and I should have every reason to enjoy this life I have made. But it feels too good to be true sometimes. I feel like a soldier that's done nothing but fight or prepare for battle and now the war is over and he doesn't know what to do with himself. I'm not angry or depressed but I sometimes feel like I'm getting away with something, like I didn't earn this and I'll be exposed soon. I shouldn't feel that way, dammit! I DID earn this.

     

  6. 2 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    I do hate Okie States stadium.   There should be some standard set by the  NCAA about how close the stands can be to the actual playing area.  I guess it will take Okie State losing a Barry Sanders like player with him  getting clocked and losing him for a season or forever  by their own nonsense for them to change it?

    Considering our stadium has allways been that way and (to my knowledge) no such injuries have happened, I think it's nothing to worry about. OU has about the same set up at their staduim, but I don't expect you to know that, as you don't play there.

  7. I'm hovering around 265 now, down 30 lbs from when I started in April. 15 lbs left to meet my goal. I almost can't believe I made it this far. I've done this twice before, always caved in. I think it's gonna work this time. Once I hit 250, I'm resetting my goal to 230, that's where I was when I met my wife. It's gonna be great.

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  8. On ‎10‎/‎13‎/‎2018 at 9:47 PM, jimmyjazz said:

    My sort of similar story:  my family took a vacation to upstate NY when I was a young teenager.  For some reason, we ended up wandering around in a cemetery, maybe in Rochester?  Anyway, my sister yelled for me to come over, and she pointed at a headstone:  it was for someone with my exact name, born exactly 100 years (to the day) prior to my birthdate, and who died exactly 100 years prior to that day we were there.

     

    My wife and I went to DC on our honeymoon in 2009. As we were walking through Arlington Cemetery, I happened to look to my left and saw my own name on a headstone. Talk about eerie, to find my not-overly-common name on one headstone out of the thousands in that place. The guy won the Medal of Honor, too. Died in 1895. 

    We went back to DC this year for vacation. I purposely made it back to his grave to say hello.

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  9. My wife, daughter and I were discussing my daughter's job and how they aren't doing well and might be closing up shop. My wife says "They don't have the gumshoe for business, I guess". Haven't laughed that hard in a while. When I corrected her, she said she thought "gumshoe" didn't sound right and she thinks she heard it on that old Carmen San Diego kid show.

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  10. 7 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

    Had a flashback this morning to something that happened over the summer on vacation.  We were walking down the street in Crested Butte after eating lunch.

    Wife: Where are my sunglasses?  I can't find my sunglasses!

    Me: Well we haven't gone far, so they may be at the restaurant.

    Wife: No, I know I had them.  They're not here!  Not in my purse, not in the stroller!

    Me: You're not talking about the sunglasses you're wearing right now, right? (kinda smile thinking I'm going to get a glare for my tone.  She'll sometimes carry 2 pairs of sunglasses--one stylish and one for exercise--and I thought obviously she wasn't talking about the ones on her head)

    Wife pulls them off, says "yea, that's them", and keeps walking as if nothing happened.  She didn't have them on top of her head.  She was actively wearing them to protect her eyes from the sun.  Thank God some random dude witnessed the whole thing so he could laugh at her with me.

    My 7 year-old son did the same thing with his watch this morning.  He was frantically looking for it, only to find it on his wrist 2 minutes later.

    My wife will wander around the house, looking for her phone that she's been holding in her hand the entire time.

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