[Question] How are you?
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GasBandit
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I'm slowly piecing my life back together, but it's slow going and there are good days and bad days. I try to keep as busy as possible, and I got a cat, which helps because now I'm not having to dread coming home to an empty house where I drink until I pass out. As awful as the cliche is, I'm just taking it day by day, and putting one foot in front of the other.
I have been doing pretty good although my free time has almost vanished due to my new job.
My old job closed the site I was working at but I luckily managed to get a job at another site nearby but sadly it is a sixty mile trip each way so until I can save up enough to move closer I have been driving over a hundred miles a day in traffic.
My old job closed the site I was working at but I luckily managed to get a job at another site nearby but sadly it is a sixty mile trip each way so until I can save up enough to move closer I have been driving over a hundred miles a day in traffic.
Because that's more than forty birthday cakes a year. And that's terrible.
This. Nearly word for word. Different circumstances making such happen, but same result.
Because for a lot of people 2014 generally sucked?
I mean it's not even that anything especially bad has happened to me, I'm just struggling to get through this depressive cycle and I'm trying to change my health insurance to cover therapy and medication but that's been more difficult than it should.
I will use the words of my Grandfather before he passed away to make any story a happy one.
Necro's Granddad said:
2014 brought with it quite a bit of change, but no net gain. If I had to write a book about it, it would be titled: "2014 - The Year of the Holding Pattern." And it would be subtitled "Nothing got worse, but nothing got better, either."
--Patrick
I have an awesome wife, a good job that gives me lots of fodder to whine about, great friends who admire me a whole bunch, and I get to pass by this hot chick on the way to work every day. She works at the convenience store just around the corner.
On the other hand, I got a nasty sinus infection not long ago, and right now everything still smells like pus, so there's that.
Oh, and hi Amy, stick around, won't you?
On the other hand, I got a nasty sinus infection not long ago, and right now everything still smells like pus, so there's that.
Oh, and hi Amy, stick around, won't you?
Seconded.Oh, and hi Amy, stick around, won't you?
Well here's the happy!
I'm pretty good. So are the rest of the family. We're looking to buy a house here in HI. I'm graduating from college in a few months. Husband is retiring from the Navy in a few months (btw he is @AussieT - though he is not an Aussie and doesn't have a T in his real name anywhere). I'm working as a substitute teacher in an elementary school. And we are headed to Maui on vacation in May. Plus we adopted the sweetest kitty on the planet.
I'm pretty good. So are the rest of the family. We're looking to buy a house here in HI. I'm graduating from college in a few months. Husband is retiring from the Navy in a few months (btw he is @AussieT - though he is not an Aussie and doesn't have a T in his real name anywhere). I'm working as a substitute teacher in an elementary school. And we are headed to Maui on vacation in May. Plus we adopted the sweetest kitty on the planet.
GasBandit
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Been okay. Making plans to take a short, weekend trip to Toronto with the girlfriend probably in August. Got a new gaming rig that I've poured a lot of time into enjoying. Need to look into new counselling or a life coach or something so I can figure out what the hell to do with my life.
Biggest news of all is that my new book, THE DAME WAS A TAD POLISH, will be out in either March or April.
Biggest news of all is that my new book, THE DAME WAS A TAD POLISH, will be out in either March or April.
The years since Amy was last around have been pretty good for me--probably some of my best.
Published a couple of books (one of which outsold George R. R. Martin for a few days) and earned a position in the Authors Guild.
Had a house built and moved me and my family into it.
Earning more at the day job than I ever have in my life by a comfortable margin. There's talk about spinning my division off into it's own company, of which I'd either be a director or the guy who runs the whole shebang.
Bought a new car. New new. My last couple were used.
After a huge weight gain, my wife has lost like 150 lbs and is now thinner and hotter than when we first got together.
I've lost nearly 40 lbs myself.
Got back into homebrewing, and have a nice setup in the basement where I crank out 5 gallons of the stuff every couple of months.
We are slowly overcoming the challenges of having a brilliant but autistic son, and this year was one of his best at school.
Paid off my back child support (from my 1st wife) and back taxes (all of which were ongoing consequences of the tech bubble bursting back in 2000).
All in all, it's been pretty good. Which is nice...because I've spent a large percentage of my life with Reality kicking me square in the teeth. Gotta stay humble, though...never know when Lady Luck will turn back against you.
Oh GOD. You do not wanna know what's happened to me since you were last here, Amy.
I live in northern Wisconsin now, because Scottie W got convinced my workplace was the worst place in the world and needed to be closed. I've been freezing my butt off ever since. Barely managed to get our old condo sold (for essentially what we paid for it) before we would have had to stop making mortgage payments. New workplace doesn't believe in hiring extra staff; lives by the mantra "force* first, ask questions later". And I'm a good 30 minutes from the nearest Starbucks, which is a tenfold increase from my last location.
This week, I've had my ass kicked by a viral infection that still has me coughing.
Hope all's well with you, though.
* - "force" = required unscheduled overtime since they cannot find enough staff to work their regularly assigned shift.
I live in northern Wisconsin now, because Scottie W got convinced my workplace was the worst place in the world and needed to be closed. I've been freezing my butt off ever since. Barely managed to get our old condo sold (for essentially what we paid for it) before we would have had to stop making mortgage payments. New workplace doesn't believe in hiring extra staff; lives by the mantra "force* first, ask questions later". And I'm a good 30 minutes from the nearest Starbucks, which is a tenfold increase from my last location.
This week, I've had my ass kicked by a viral infection that still has me coughing.
Hope all's well with you, though.
* - "force" = required unscheduled overtime since they cannot find enough staff to work their regularly assigned shift.
I even think when he first joined I might have posted some where about how *I* don't understand where his name came from.[DOUBLEPOST=1421295988,1421295897][/DOUBLEPOST]
Truthfully, when I first saw his username I thought of bloomin' onions.
This... Pretty much sums up my 2014. And a few other years, too. I'm kinda stagnating, but I'm in a reasonably good place, so I don't mind it much. Got a girlfriend, then broke up with said girlfriend, gained weight, lost weight, gained some of it back but in a not-as-awful fashion, still have awesome friends and family, left this place without really meaning to, then came back and got welcomed with open arms which brought warm fuzzies...
All in all, I'm good. Life is good.
And you? All's well I hope?
Here's the rundown:
Got married in 2010
Graduated in 2012
Had a baby girl in 2013
Moved to the East coast in 2014
Trying to figure out what to do next
(no major terribleness in my life (thankfully)) - over than my brother being a total chump and needing a serious thumping.
Got married in 2010
Graduated in 2012
Had a baby girl in 2013
Moved to the East coast in 2014
Trying to figure out what to do next
(no major terribleness in my life (thankfully)) - over than my brother being a total chump and needing a serious thumping.
Built a new house in May.
Kid number 2 born last june.
Life with two little kids is HARD.
Got promoted to Associate Prof in September.
Life with 2 little kids is STILL HARD.
I miss vidja games. And board games. And reading. And movies. And fun.
Expecting to upswing, though.
Kid number 2 born last june.
Life with two little kids is HARD.
Got promoted to Associate Prof in September.
Life with 2 little kids is STILL HARD.
I miss vidja games. And board games. And reading. And movies. And fun.
Expecting to upswing, though.