Yeah, because if I went around "complaining" about how my big weiner makes it hard to run and sit down and wear shorts, it would be because I'm actually complaining and not reverse bragging....
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Yeah, because if I went around "complaining" about how my big weiner makes it hard to run and sit down and wear shorts, it would be because I'm actually complaining and not reverse bragging....
And speaking of knockers, I have a theory...the euphemism is correlated to size
Titties->boobies->hooters->funbags->knockers
Iiiiiiiii....think it's time for me to go to bed before permaban.
Titties->boobies->hooters->funbags->knockers
Iiiiiiiii....think it's time for me to go to bed before permaban.
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In my 6 hr shift I see this play out a hundred times. Boyfriend convinces tiny girlfriend to get on scale. Much anxiety. Girl empties pockets, takes off $2 flip flops, etc, etc. She begs me to put my hand over the display screen so no one can see it. She steps on scale platform like it will bite her. And the boyfriend, guaranteed, will step on the corner. She sees the reading and flips-the-****-out. This is followed by yelling from girlfriend, laughing by boyfriend and usually some kind of punch to the arm of boyfriend. Then girl makes boyfriend stand across the way and she weighs herself because now she is worried that lemonade shakeup made her gain 20 pounds in one day.
And then there are the people that weigh themselves numerous times throughout the day. Each time they announce that they ate a corndog and want to see what they've gained or that they just went to the bathroom and want to see what they lost.
People amaze me.
Born in Covina (now West Covina), part of greater L.A., family moved back to TX when I was 6 mos old. Ft Worth until I was five. Then Bellevue, WA (near Seattle) till 1966. Cocoa Beach from 66 to 69. Back to Bellevue where I graduated from HS. Went to the opposite side of the state to Wazzu. Met & married 1st hubby, stayed in Pullman til he finished his PhD. Both boys were born there. Moved to Manhattan KS for a 20 month post-doc, then to San Francisco for a research job in 1980. Came here in 83.
Used to pose an interesting problem when people would ask where I'm "from". Is that where I was born, where my roots are (and where I learned to talk "funny"), where I lived the longest, where I lived most recently before moving here? I've lived in every region of this country except New England & the non-contiguous states.
And I really need to sleep....
you weren't a military brat, right? Parents just liked to bounce around?
Nope. Daddy was an aeronautical engineer. Started at Lockheed in SoCal, went to Convair in Ft Worth, then hired on at Boeing in 1960 and stayed with them until retirement. Boeing loaned him & a whole bunch of other engineers to NASA during the Apollo program. The umbilical tower & the crawler that takes the rocket from the VAB to the pad were part of his responsibilities. When the program was on solid footing, they moved most of the engineers back to their original locations (Seattle area in our case). After that, it's my ex's fault...PhD at Wazzu, then post-doc in KS, then industry job in the east bay area of SF, then faculty here. I've always been dragged where the man in my life (father, ex-husband) wanted to live. Until better hubby & I made the move to our acreage, I was never an equal partner in the choices.
All in all tho, I had some wonderful learning experiences by living in so many different regions, but I've set down roots here, and I love it here in Iowa, loved raising my kids here. It still boggles my mind how many generations of family native Iowans have in a fifty-mile radius from where they live though. The Hill Country of Texas is the closest comparison I have to that where I'm related to about 90% in one part of it, but I've never lived there...just spent summers there.
it's just weird after working so hard to watch it increase every month, now it's going to go down so much!
anyway, if you were building a house, what kind of binder or app would you use? Is Evernote useful for collecting information? I assume it'd still be useful to have an actual binder or folder for stuff like those paint thingies or handwritten notes.
anyway, if you were building a house, what kind of binder or app would you use? Is Evernote useful for collecting information? I assume it'd still be useful to have an actual binder or folder for stuff like those paint thingies or handwritten notes.
This is correct. In fact, I use the exact method he used to tell people how to find it on the map. Look at the map of Florida; See the big lake kind of in the middle there? That's Lake Okeechobee; draw a line from the top of that due East and where you hit the Atlantic Ocean you find Jensen Beach. We live on the barrier island there (S. Hutchinson Island) which is about 20 miles long. There's a N. Hutchinson Island, too. They were originally one big island, but in the 20's or 30's the Corps of Engineers cut a channel through to give direct ocean access at Ft. Pierce - the biggest town in the area at the time.
Jensen Beach was a huge pineapple plantation area around the turn of the previous century. Very successful for many years until a hard frost hit. It almost never gets below freezing there. Almost never.
We have cousins that lived in Ft. Pierce since 1965 so that's how I came to learn about the area. It's nice because it's somewhat away from the terrible terrible traffic of the season you encounter in Miami or Ft. Lauderdale, but still far enough S. to be nice pretty much all winter. The Gulf Stream veers off to the NE about Ft. Pierce so there is a good variety of tropical vegetation which is reduced once you get away from it's warming effects.
I describe Cocoa Beach as the pimple on the Atlantic coastline of Florida. Actually, that's the Cape, but it's a fairly easy frame of reference.
We drove up from Ft Lauderdale on the A1A wherever possible as hubby had never been east of Memphis and it was his first experience with the Atlantic ocean; we probably went right through Jensen Beach.
Hey KC, if you are in a pie baking mood I am craving an apple, rhubarb, or strawberry rhubarb pie. And I live in Ames.
I describe Cocoa Beach as the pimple on the Atlantic coastline of Florida. Actually, that's the Cape, but it's a fairly easy frame of reference.
Yup, you did. Although like almost all the rest, the town itself is located on the mainland coast across the viaduct.
Another way to find it is google map Waveland Beach Jensen Beach FL and we're the 3rd or 4th high-rise south of that.
I know! and it's not like we'll be left with zero. We're putting more down before the end loan begins next summer, but it's still going down by like 2/3rds.
Well, if I'd known you then I would have waved!
Depending on when you were there. We didn't live there until Fall 2011. And next time don't just wave, come on in and make us a pie. Apple is a favorite but I've gone off of getting them. Mostly they are just too sweet. Apple pie should have a bit of sour bite to it - offsets the sweetness of the ice cream you put on top.
January 2010, so well before you got there.
You sound so much like PapaLew with your pie/ice cream observations.
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