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Merevel
member, 960 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Sun 1 Feb 2015
at 00:29
  • msg #588

Re: 2 week notice

They are 2 and 4 lol. At least once a week my oldest yells at me about it. So either he misses having his mommy around all the time, or she is putting him up to it.

Then again, he is not the only one trying to get me to date again.
facemaker329
member, 6577 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sun 1 Feb 2015
at 04:15
  • msg #589

Re: 2 week notice

Finished up a week as a 'guest artist' teaching stage combat.  And I've gotta say, I've had a GREAT time.  I still need to type up the choreography notes...but everybody seemed to pick up what they were taught quickly (and, just as importantly, nobody did anything stupid to get hurt, and they all listened and adjusted what they were doing when I made suggestions or provided critiques).

I'll admit, the whole thing's made me a little nostalgic for my college theater days...but only if someone else is paying the bills.  *grin*

Still...even though it's a tiny university in the middle of North Dakota, and there's precious little glamorous about the city, or the university, I've had a really good time.  Certainly didn't suck...and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Lancebreaker
member, 134 posts
Sun 1 Feb 2015
at 04:59
  • msg #590

Weight loss goals

I rededicated myself to some health goals at the first of the year.  I've already lost 24.5 lbs since January 1st, and I feel great!  23% of the way to my goal weight for the year in just a month, I started at 310 lbs, and I am shooting for 201.5 lbs.

Before you balk at the weight loss rate as being unhealthy, I am eating plenty of good food and giving myself plenty of fuel and nutrients to maintain my body as I work out.  I just finished a Whole 30 (strict elimination Paleo diet), and I've also been doing T25 (yeah, yeah, I know it's Team Beachbody, and I got it through an infomercial, but its a good, solid workout), and a nice, moderate three classes a week of Bikram yoga.

Just thought I would share. :)
facemaker329
member, 6578 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sun 1 Feb 2015
at 05:24
  • msg #591

Re: Weight loss goals

One thing I've noticed through the years...weight gain/loss is a very individual process.  I mean, I work at an amusement park, in entertainment...we've had dancers that joined us at the start of a season with a 36" waist measurement, who have, by the time six weeks of rehearsal are over, slimmed down to a 32" waist.  And I've worked with guys who started the summer with a 38" waist and barely changed at all over three months of full-time performance.
Merevel
member, 961 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Sun 1 Feb 2015
at 10:44
  • msg #592

Re: Weight loss goals

In reply to Lancebreaker (msg # 590):

Good for you for losing weight. All I can say is consult a doctor. Fad diets are terrible for your health. One of my coworkers was on a diet once that was less then 600 calories a day, that does not even cover base metabolism... Reminds me of the zen diet that hit news years ago.
Brianna
member, 1949 posts
Mon 2 Feb 2015
at 19:02
  • msg #593

Re: Weight loss goals

Congrats on the weight loss!  But remember you are already dealing with a different body and metabolism than you started with.  It's unlikely you will lose so fast now (at least for a while), even likely you will hit a plateau while everything adjusts.  Don't let this discourage you!
Holobunny
member, 65 posts
Trust no one.
Keep your laser handy.
Thu 5 Feb 2015
at 22:56
  • msg #594

Re: Weight loss goals

In reply to Brianna (msg # 593):

Good on you! I trust when you say you have a good workout and a good diet plan. As Brianna said, though, beware the plateau. Your body will adapt. You may find switching between two or three diet plans and workouts that you are confident are healthy non-quick-fix plans is the way to go.

Anyway, to my good thing... The Waltons. I don't care what anyone says, this is some of the best television ever made. I think it's funny that I had this preconceived notion my youth gave me. I was sure before I started watching it that The Waltons was garbage. I couldn't have been more wrong. To anyone out there who remembers all the jokes from the 80's but is too young to remember the actual show... Watch it. It's seriously one of the greatest shows of all time.
Wyrm
member, 539 posts
Sat 7 Feb 2015
at 22:45
  • msg #595

Re: Weight loss goals

The cat got into the fish dinner tonight :D
DaleN
member, 88 posts
"We aren't slavers...
just ask the Wookie."
Sun 8 Feb 2015
at 01:17
  • msg #596

Re: Weight loss goals

What?  You didn't want fish for dinner?
Wyrm
member, 541 posts
Sun 8 Feb 2015
at 02:21
  • msg #597

Re: Weight loss goals

I got burgers instead, so win.
facemaker329
member, 6583 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 11 Feb 2015
at 07:12
  • msg #598

Re: Good timing...

So, I spent this past weekend on a whirlwind roadtrip with my mom and two of my brothers, going to visit another of my brothers.  I know for some people, this would hardly be the stuff of a 'Good Stuff' post, but I get along pretty well with my family, so it was good.

But the real good part is this--as we were on our way back home, driving through the barrens of mid-Nevada, Mom started asking if any of us had a carousel slide projector.  We've been working, in fits and starts, on trying to get some family history stuff done, and there's a HUGE chunk of it that's missing, because for decades, Dad shot pictures almost exclusively on slides (because they were easier to share with a group of people than prints were, I assume...and they take up less space to store...)  She thought most of them had vanished somewhere along the line, but she found a box full of them (and I mean FULL...), and now she's interested in trying to get them organized and scanned into a digital format.  Problem is, most of them aren't labelled...and while she has a slide viewer, and even a projector that will take slides one at a time, she wanted a faster way to review them and select the ones that actually mean something and should be scanned.

None of us have one, however...I only ever did stuff with slides during about four or five years of my life, I'm not sure my older brothers EVER did much with slides (I'm not even sure how much they actually bother taking pictures...)  So, Mom was a little disappointed and had started to resign herself to doing the project the hard way...

Well, earlier today, I was in a thrift store, shopping for props for one of the shows we're producing at work this summer...and there it was.  A carousel slide projector.  And I thought, "Hey, if this doesn't cost too much, Mom would probably love it..."  So I found the price tag--$5.  And then I thought, "If the light actually works, I should get this..."

And it did.  So I did.  And dropped it off at Mom's place, where we filled it up with slides and skimmed through them pretty quickly (most of them were taken before I was even born...)

I also got costume pieces for my friend's 80's-themed event this weekend (enough to make about four or five different outfits, I think...since she performs in an 80's band every few weeks, I'm pretty sure I'll find occasions to wear the ones I don't wear this weekend), AND I got several of the prop items I was looking for in the first place.  Good time to make a sweep through the area thrift stores!
Brianna
member, 1953 posts
Wed 11 Feb 2015
at 19:37
  • msg #599

Nice family time

Spent the afternoon with my four sisters on Saturday.  Our mother's birthday was last week, we've been celebrating it together as far as when my father was still alive, and we are trying to carry on the tradition even though both parents are gone now.  We get together as an extended family around the typical holiday occasions, but there are so many there we don't get the chance to interact much with siblings.  (My brother would be welcome too, but he lives in Ottawa, many hours away, though we do invite the one of my daughters who lives here now.)  It was, as always, great to see them, catch up on a bit of the news, and have a nice lunch - well, I think all of us had a second breakfast since the restaurant serves that through the day.
facemaker329
member, 6586 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 14 Feb 2015
at 18:30
  • msg #600

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

So, it finally happened...

I showed up for a show last night, with my full kit of emergency repair gear...with the exception of helping tape a couple of things up before the show started, I didn't have to fix anything.  No props to glue back together, no costumes to be repaired or altered...I actually got to sit back and enjoy the whole show, and socialize a bit before it started, even.

That NEVER happens...*grin*
srgrosse
member, 2247 posts
Fri 27 Feb 2015
at 16:41
  • msg #601

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

After five years in a soul crushing job (3rd shift at a gas station) and a month of being unemployed, I have a new job! (Working at Bojangles)
Holobunny
member, 68 posts
Trust no one.
Keep your laser handy.
Mon 2 Mar 2015
at 15:10
  • msg #602

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

Way to go Srgrosse! At least its not 2nds. ;)

I, myself, just got out of construction where I'm not the best fit, and opened a new Indy restaurant (Bacon, Legs, and Turntables if you're in the area.) There's talk of me moving to Minneapolis and taking my boss's job when we open the next one. Apparently I've been turning heads. :D
Brianna
member, 1958 posts
Mon 2 Mar 2015
at 19:19
  • msg #603

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

Since I didn't get along very well with one of the cats we acquired in the summer, and she also harassed the other cat (like siblings of the bad variety), we'd been looking to re-home her, not easy since we didn't want her to go to a collector, and her temperament meant her needs were a bit specialized.  A week ago she went to her new forever home, and apparently it's going extremely well.  The remaining cat also seems to be much more relaxed. so wins all round!
ginny
member, 271 posts
Thu 12 Mar 2015
at 01:20
  • msg #604

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

My husband came home early from work tonight to spend my birthday with me <3
JxJxA
member, 101 posts
Thu 12 Mar 2015
at 06:55
  • msg #605

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

That feeling when you learn that the 1.5 hour thing you had to do after work on the day before you leave for vacation gets canceled. XD
facemaker329
member, 6602 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 12 Mar 2015
at 07:50
  • msg #606

Re: Famous firsts...or something...

Inexperienced as I am, my coaching helped my friend shave almost ten strokes off his golf game today, including helping him overcome a tendency to stiffen up on his tee shots and miss the ball completely.

Now, if I can just figure out what to do about my putting game...
jait
member, 330 posts
Tue 21 Jul 2015
at 09:09
  • msg #607

He quit!

Oh, that glorious feeling of relief when that roiling, overbearing ball of whine decides he's had enough, quits, and walks out...

He thought he was screwing the company by leaving us short-staffed.

I'll gladly cover his hours just to be able work in peace!
facemaker329
member, 6660 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 22 Jul 2015
at 06:23
  • msg #608

Job security

In the course of two days at work, I reconstructed a fold-out bench, patched holes in a couple of theatrical drops, repaired two crates used as set pieces, managed to repair the same pocket-watch twice (different things breaking), and rebuilt an electronic candle that fell off a table onstage and broke into five or six pieces.  Now, I know I'm not the only person with the expertise to do all of that...

But I'm the only person who works there that has all that expertise.  And, perhaps more importantly, I'm the only person dumb enough to say, "Well, I don't know if I can fix that, but I'll take a look..."  Most of the time, the fix is actually relatively easy...but everyone else seems too intimidated by this stuff to look and see what's actually wrong with it.  (Either that, or they're just used to saying, "It's broken...he'll fix it...")

I'm nowhere near arrogant enough to presume that they wouldn't be able to keep operating without me...but they'd sure have a hard time finding people to do all the stuff I do.
praguepride
member, 1026 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Wed 22 Jul 2015
at 15:08
  • msg #609

Sleeeeeeep

The realization that for the first time, your baby slept 8 hours straight...
Wyrm
member, 569 posts
Sat 25 Jul 2015
at 23:08
  • msg #610

Re: Sleeeeeeep

In reply to praguepride (msg # 609):

I find a weird sense of amusement reading the archived ooc threads of locked games.
Eggy
member, 589 posts
Tue 28 Jul 2015
at 21:50
  • msg #611

Re: Sleeeeeeep

I really like my new dentist. My Old Dentist removed a permanent retainer, but told me that he couldn't remove the bonds cementing them in place. So there were these rough lumps on the backside of my teeth. New Dentist saw them and said "No problem" and ground them off with a dremel. No harm done.
Evil Empryss
member, 1343 posts
Because knowing
is half the battle!
Mon 3 Aug 2015
at 00:49
  • msg #612

Powering Up for a Long Flight

Finding a charging point open in the airport... and an empty chair right beside it.  Traveling win!
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