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I apologize in advance for those who don't have access to a Trader Joe's. Accepted! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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NOt 2 worry, they probably would have a tough time parking even if they had one!
...why is it that TJs alway have thes woefully inadequate parking lots anyway?
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It's because their business model is to purchase store space in slightly run-down, slightly inadequate, smaller-than-most-grocery-store spaces. And that includes parking spaces.
Why do I know that? I like 'em so much that I looked them up to see whether I could invest in them. The answer was no -- they're owned by Aldi Nord, which is a family-owned grocery giant in Germany. (Aldi Sud, a separate company owned by another brother of the Aldi family, owns the Aldi grocery stores in the US.)
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I think I understand what you mean. I do love her and I don't think I could love a monster. The problem is a forest for the trees kind of thing. I no longer trust my instincts in such things. It would be like imbedding a victim’s family in the jury. My perception is clouded. I need a clear view of everything at once and there is no way I know of to get one by myself. I hoped there may be something enlightening here, I guess. Ap, I just found this...thank you for explaining. You have no idea how much I understand what you have said, living with the man I lived with for five years where his lies were so big and so convincing, I questioned my perception of everything...my perception of myself, my perception of him...everything. I seriously thought I was going insane. I will never again live with someone who is capable of lying, love or no love because I love my sanity more. I hope someday (if it is your desire to continue with your wife as it seems to be) that you have clarity and once again see through the eyes of the innocent. This is my hope for all of us.
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Last weekend one of my neighbors had a party. I don't know him, but he and Jayne have chatted. Jayne left town that night. Giraffe and I went out, then came back and stopped at the party.
The neighbor is married, but his wife works and lives somewhere in Europe. No idea. I've never met her. I only just met him. The other day I invited him to my party. There, I spotted him hitting on my friend's GF. She said to my friend, "Aren't you going to do anything about this?"
Last night the dude was partying again. He met Jayne outside, asked if I had any leftovers (my food went over huge). So they came in and I gave them something to eat. They went back to the neighbor's house, Jayne came home to go to bed (school night), Giraffe stayed behind. The soused neighbor admitted (bragged?) to Giraffe that he'd cheated on his wife several times, then tried putting the moves on her.
No doubt getting confronted and then getting the deep freeze from us will have no effect on the neighbor.
You've always got these creatures sniffing around the perimeter of your life. Go ahead and make it shine, but don't forget, the light will attract them.
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I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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Black Flag (not the band).
I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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Do they still sell bug zappers?
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You've always got these creatures sniffing around the perimeter of your life. Go ahead and make it shine, but don't forget, the light will attract them. Wow, I really like the way you said that...your poetic side is showing again Gray. Yay!!!! I don't know if they sell bug zappers, but fly paper is about the grossest contraption ever invented in my opinion and I think I read where it causes some type of toxic based disease in a child who slept by one filled with dead flys. Gross Kimmy! but funny.
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Thanks weaver. Worse even than flypaper is the modern equivalent: glue traps. You're pretty much crucifying the mouse.
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Yes, that does seem unnecessarily, revoltingly inhumane, doesn't it? Hopefully a swab of peanut butter and a quick clap of metel on the neck would be swifter. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
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"I seriously thought I was going insane."
That's it exactly. And I was going in and out of this for over ten years! So much so I do not yet know if I am out of the woods even now.
Just stopping the VLTA dos not help. There seems to be a long term need for remedial sanity.
No one on here but you has ever understood this.
Thanx
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"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
And it bites off your snout
Thats a moray ~DS
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Ap,
It is hard enough when you are faced only with individual recovery.
I was fortunate...I was left.
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I have thought for a time now a definite ending would have been better than this.
I did not think it at the time, but I do occasionally think it now.
Maybe just a phase.
I don't know anything.
"Never forget that your pain means nothing to a WS." ~Mulan
"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
And it bites off your snout
Thats a moray ~DS
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I have one still in the box. We bought it when we lived at the coast and never put it up.
You can get 'em at Sears.
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>I have thought for a time now a definite ending would have been better than this.
I know that feeling.
Still feel it.
((((APH))))
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