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00clone said:
We can make this work, CG...I think I've only heard of you saying Mr. Cowgirl having nieces. If so, his view of kids is puking/crapping babies that don't do anything but take up your life and make you not sleep (not defending that viewpoint, but that's the viewpoint of dudes with no kids) and dolls and disney princesses. It's no wonder he wants nothing to do with kids. I can prep the boys ahead of time...4 YO asks him "do you have any kids?", and 2 YO gets amped up over hockey (I'll have to train this in...but he's moldable), then I ask the boys if they want to wrestle or something....and he's hooked.
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oh no, he definitely wants kids, it's not that. It's that I was joking about moving the timeline up considerably. He was rightfully fearful of a pregnant/house-building Cowgirl. And the whole babies costing money while we are doing the house thing. He is convinced that we will only have boys - just as he was totally convinced that his brother would have only girls....I'm choosing to ignore that that brother has the two nieces......but DH will totally be one of those dads playing with Disney princesses. Watching him play with his little girl cousins at his graduation was what sealed the deal for me. I hadn't seen him around kids yet - and he seemed the type to be all standoffish with tiny people. Watching one of them squeal with laughter while he chased her and held her upside down to tickle her made my ovaries be all squeeeeeeeeeeee!


also, earlier today I was demonstrating some questionable dance moves and telling him how our children would get 50% of their mannerism from me. I think I figured it out now, lol.
 
wxman1 said:
Check out the urban explorer thread. Long story short. A supposedly crazy guy NW of Ames that lives in the middle of corn fields but this weird playground shrine for his daughters that died. If you get out and look he will chase you down in hos truck and shoot at you. Or so the stories go. Take it for what it is worth.
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Someone post a pic?
 
wxman1 said:
Damn that is a good movie!

"Won't someone help the poor man?!?"
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Upgraded TV package to get ESPNU so I wouldn't miss ISU hoops this winter and it also gave me too many movie channels. The Sand Pebbles is on now and I need to turn it off before I get hooked into watching Steve McQueen in this epic. Wish they still made movies like this. The '50s and '60s were great for these big epic story movies
 
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Just sitting on side of road all dapper like...
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cowgirl836 said:
Watching one of them squeal with laughter while he chased her and held her upside down to tickle her made my ovaries be all squeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Umm...well...then...I guess now we know how his horrible driving was overlooked....

Although...I don't think it was the ovaries, but I was definitely making *something* go all squeee the other night...by the 3rd time, I thought she was gonna wake up the kids...
 
was going to brag about my delicious roasted chicken meal last night........but I apparently poisoned DH. Ok, that's not true. He took the biggest piece and we took it out once and it was only 160F, so he put it back in and took it out at 170F. Rules say 165F so I thought we were good. I wondered if he got contact in a different manner. Poor DH.
 
cowgirl836 said:
was going to brag about my delicious roasted chicken meal last night........but I apparently poisoned DH. Ok, that's not true. He took the biggest piece and we took it out once and it was only 160F, so he put it back in and took it out at 170F. Rules say 165F so I thought we were good. I wondered if he got contact in a different manner. Poor DH.
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I've heard chicken sushi is great for weight loss.
 
No tree yet, but I finished with the outside lights this weekend. While I was finishing up a family walked by and the boy goes, "Dad can you do THAT to our house? That's so cool!"

I was all...
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coolerifyoudid said:
I've heard chicken sushi is great for weight loss.
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DH did comment that he doesn't need to go to the gym today cause he's already lost enough weight. Now he's staying home. Hopefully he went back to bed :( Think he's only taken one sick day in all the time he's been working. Well, technically he had one last summer when he was hospitalized, but he was working from there too.

I'm worried it might not be the chicken cause I've heard people at the office talking about having a nasty 24-hour bug, so I'm keeping my distance. I tried the stomach flu diet once this year and have no desire to repeat.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
No tree yet, but I finished with the outside lights this weekend. While I was finishing up a family walked by and the boy goes, "Dad can you do THAT to our house? That's so cool!"

I was all...
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Heh...congrats. I just do a line across the front roof line. Last year was the first we did, I got better at it this year. Over our garage is a gable roof with an 8 or 10/12 pitch, so I'm pretty much 2 stories up. My wife asked if we could just run them across the front, but there's nothing there to use as a line, so it'd just be a line of lights across the garage in the middle of the siding...I told her no, and she said "But I get nervous when you're up there"...I'm like "Hey, I'm the one up there, you're on the ground!" Like I said, this year went way better than last year. I think my problem was I wore work boots last year, this year I wore tennis shoes...better traction. I saw the neighbor across the street has a double gable like ours, and he did a string up the second gable, but I only did the main one. For a second, I was kind of guilty/humble because I only did one, then realized he has a 4 or 6/12 pitch, so yeah, I'd be fine up there all day too.
 
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00clone said:
Heh...congrats. I just do a line across the front roof line. Last year was the first we did, I got better at it this year. Over our garage is a gable roof with an 8 or 10/12 pitch, so I'm pretty much 2 stories up. My wife asked if we could just run them across the front, but there's nothing there to use as a line, so it'd just be a line of lights across the garage in the middle of the siding...I told her no, and she said "But I get nervous when you're up there"...I'm like "Hey, I'm the one up there, you're on the ground!" Like I said, this year went way better than last year. I think my problem was I wore work boots last year, this year I wore tennis shoes...better traction. I saw the neighbor across the street has a double gable like ours, and he did a string up the second gable, but I only did the main one. For a second, I was kind of guilty/humble because I only did one, then realized he has a 4 or 6/12 pitch, so yeah, I'd be fine up there all day too.
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I have a double gable roof too. My wife hates it because I can't reach the peak with my extension ladder so I get on the roof to get the top lights in place. The pitch is too steep to walk on so I have to straddle the peak and shimmy to the edge. My wife can't even watch me hang over the edge, so she just goes inside.

She only comes back outside to criticize. We have a symbiotic relationship that way.
 
So CG....how's Mr. Cowgirl with the power tools and handyman stuff? Like...once you guys get this house built, will he be able to fix stuff, or will it be calling someone for everything? Even in a brand new house, there's things that need attention. Got thinking about this when I adjusted the garage door to stop a squeak and made a block to go under our flatscreen to raise it up above the soundbar so the remote worked better.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
I have a double gable roof too. My wife hates it because I can't reach the peak with my extension ladder so I get on the roof to get the top lights in place. The pitch is too steep to walk on so I have to straddle the peak and shimmy to the edge. My wife can't even watch me hang over the edge, so she just goes inside.

She only comes back outside to criticize. We have a symbiotic relationship that way.
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Yeah, I just do the whole gable from the roof. I sat on the roof the whole way, and if I sat in one spot too long, I'd feel my jeans bunching up my *** as I slowly slid down the roof.

The wife...hahaaa...that reminds me...after X-mas last year she bought some more lights, said we'd wrap them around some posts we have on our front porch. I got done with the roof, she asked if I was done (the total of her efforts was to make sure the strings were untangled and keep another one hooked to the end of the string I was hanging...and stand there and watch, keeping the kids off the street). I asked if she wanted to wrap the posts...she said, I'm ready to go in, I'm getting cold.

Welp, I guess we're done then, she goin' in, I don't need to hang more lights.
 
If 00 or Cooler fall off their roofs and die and don't have brothers, do I have to (as a Cyclone brother) promise to raise their kids and send them to ISU? I mean, I can do that but would prefer they stay off those roofs.

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cowgirl836 said:
we drove by our future home today and it looks like the pool neighbors are putting in an ice rink in the low spot in their yard (which we have as well). So after the ahhhhhhh reaction to babies, we just watched a piece about the Badger skate they did today. I said we should take our kids to that. And DH is all yep, cause they're all going to play hockey! Put an ice rink in our backyard like the neighbors (or make friends) and raise the next Gretzskys.

I suppose that's more realistic than wanting the next Kerri Walsh to come from my genes.
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Our neighbors across the street starting putting a sheet of ice in their side yard three years ago. I helped them put it in the last two years, but they put it in over Thanksgiving this year while we were out of town. I have no delusions that any of our kids are going to be Michelle Kwan or Wayne Gretzky, but it is great to see them out there three different times on a Saturday for about 5 hours total. No sitting around getting fat over the winter in our neighborhood.

I have to get some new skates for me, though. The figure skates that my dad bought in about 1953 just aren't cutting it.
 
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