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<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Hey, if life gets too laborious, we can just go see TNL and she will nurse us through it! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Har-de-har. I'm more likely to jump into your tsunami of overwhelmedness, and sink with you! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Now if, on the other hand, you want to have a baby before we both drown, that I can help you with. I should tell you the story of my one-hand, barehanded delivery this past week for the naked, screaming lady and her clothed, screaming husband. Thank God for hospital supplied scrubs!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> t&l
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So what you are saying is that I can't control the stars of others. I can only control my own stars. I don't think that's quite what I was trying to say. As far as I can tell, you have no control whatsoever over your own stars, and can only influence the stars of others. You need to quit exfoliating your FEET and start exfoliating your ears, my dear sir. Or, since you misinterpreted print, perhaps you should exfoliate your eyes. Your feet are smooth enough. Go where the problem is! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> t&l t&l
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I started a campaign to get TKO to 3 stars t&l and now here you are thwarting me!! BigK, how am I thwarting you? Pio's the one who's agitating for someone to put his lights out. I think they had a song about that...The Pio, He Came a'Thwartin'. I'm sure I learned it as a child. There was even a picture of Pio on the record, so I was kinda surprised to see his more recent photos on his own thread. He doesn't look nearly so froggy now as he did 40 years ago. Odd, that......... t&l
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As I have diabetes I can't drink those sugar things.... I still think she was fudging about this, Pio, although I'm sure it was a diabetic fudge! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> If telling AWMum doesn't work, there's always BigSisDoc...waiting in the wings. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> t&l
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I really dont think we need to bother mum or my sis do you? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> No didn't think so. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> ok ok it wasn't the coke though .. TL I KNEW that your mums nose would find that fudging ... I thought I might just get away with it though .... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I mean I need my awards don't I? I think I have done so well, down 2 sizes & walking every day for 40 mins. And I miss real sugar ... chemicals just don't taste the same I don't care what they say
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AW - down two sizes? Good for you ! Maybe I should walk too. How does Aussie stay in shape? Never mind. Maybe I shouldn't have asked that. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> T&L, I think we had better have you out for another visit. We need to talk. Picking at a scab indeed. You are probably too old for what you need the most. (a good spanking can take care of a lot of things.) No big changes? Hows your health? Tell the truth. You know I wouldn't ask if I didn't care. Neak too. You better be back in the best of health if you are driving a truck and loosing sleep. Hi Neaksis! Believer, it's about time for a full report. If you can type about other things, you can type about yourself. Come on, it won't hurt much. To answer your question - I live in the corner where Arizona, Nevada, and Utah meet. CC, Any changes? You sound like you are in a routine and don't think much about the past. The key words being "sound like." How is it really? Cinders, You work too hard. Take a vacation. World cruise Short ocean voyage Two week tour of Italy Hike the glens of Scotland See the national parks of Canada Or you can come by here and the W and I will buy you lunch. You might even get to see part of the Grand Canyon. Tell me again how old your DD is? (My twins DD'sare 13) I often think things I don't write. I wonder how everyone is. Our public faces are sometimes different that our private ones. I suppose that is necessary, even in marriage sometimes. If we said what we thought at every moment, some bad things would come out. It's good we have time to temper our thoughts, and change our minds about some things. I am quick to anger, but most people don't know it. My W does, but I wish she didn't. She says I'm improving. Hasta la Vista SS
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I think sometimes about all the pain in the world. I hope we can ease that here, even if only a little bit.
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Wait a minute - I can't control my own stars! It's my stars that control me! Now where is my horoscope?
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Heavens, I got confused....I didn't realize that it was TNL offering to help me have a baby....I thought I had been propositioned. I was really confused.
I guess I need to find that book "Devotionals for Women Who Do Too Much".
Just emailed the minister and told him I was leaving town the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and wouldn't be back until Monday after. Let then figure out how to do this stuff.
SS - my daughter will be 16 Friday. She gets her braces off Wednesday. My son is 13 and doesn't have much good to say about girls at this point. A chance to get away sounds wonderful. I could have had a nice vacation this year if it hadn't been for the finances of it all.
I do hope that The Diplomat knows that, when I arrive in The Far Kingdom, I will want to be waited on and catered to.
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Give me a 'B'
Give me a 'U'
Give me a 'M'
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well after all this time I think I should poke my nose into tl's home and ask for a update as well... big please of course <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> YOU ARE WAY TOO QUIET!! tl spill it... how are you really going? are things going ok on your end? the new sewer system? the kids? whats a doing? Here, besides making a fool of myself in front of Aussies office <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> , and dieting madly with only a few little give in's to temptations like hand made toffee with Macadamia nuts and a piece of Lindt Chocy ..I've been good on that score, its all domestic work or work ... I wanna be a SAHM!!!! only I'll have to stop spending & renovating EEK!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Aussie has been .... um ,,, difficult ... and has trouble being in crowds - a crowd being more than 4 to 6 people. Its still so hard to work out what he wants from me. And forget about talking about it, he either can't or won't talk about any of this stuff. There seems little joy in life for him these days. Only natural I suppose. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Neak I sometimes sense you are being swamped with circumstance lately. Are you well and are you doing ok? Getting rest? Are the darlings all behaving? Aj doing ok? I sometimes wonder how you do it all. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Everyone else who I just must catch up with.... how is it all going? REALLY?????? yes you too SS...
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well after all this time I think I should poke my nose into tl's home and ask for a update as well... big please of course <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
YOU ARE WAY TOO QUIET!!
YES!!
See, I'm mot the only one. Well said AW, well said.
tl spill it... how are you really going? are things going ok on your end? the new sewer system? the kids? whats a doing?
Also,
How are the boys?
What's HP up to these days?
Is it true you still spank Neak sometimes when she really needs it?
Is work getting any better, or worse?
Are you still working WAY TOO MANY HOURS A WEEK?
And more - I just can't type it all now.
Here, besides making a fool of myself in front of Aussies office <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> , and dieting madly with only a few little give in's to temptations like hand made toffee with Macadamia nuts and a piece of Lindt Chocy ..I've been good on that score, its all domestic work or work ... I wanna be a SAHM!!!! only I'll have to stop spending & renovating EEK!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
I do agree on one thing........ Lindt is really, really, really good. I my self hardly ever have any. I only partake on week days, and week ends...... thus limiting myself so as not to eat too much.
Aussie has been .... um ,,, difficult ... and has trouble being in crowds - a crowd being more than 4 to 6 people.
Its still so hard to work out what he wants from me. And forget about talking about it, he either can't or won't talk about any of this stuff.
There seems little joy in life for him these days.
Only natural I suppose. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Please tell Aussie to come and read my comments in the next post I do. He knows better.
Neak I sometimes sense you are being swamped with circumstance lately. Are you well and are you doing ok? Getting rest? Are the darlings all behaving? Aj doing ok?
I sometimes wonder how you do it all. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Me too - I wonder too.
To be honest, I don't know if she has time now. I suspect she barely gets the most important things done, if she does at all.
Sometimes finances make it so hard to live the kind of life we want to live. There is still good though, if we look for it.
Everyone else who I just must catch up with.... how is it all going? REALLY?????? yes you too SS...
Life is good at our house. We have most of the same troubles as everyone else, but life is still good.
I have accepted a position in our church that is much more demanding than any I have worked in before. My W is helpful and understanding, and she still comes first. I have more worries, but am able to help more people that need help too. It is rewarding.
Our children are happy, healthy, and they come to visit often, bringing the grand children. (Up to 6 GC now, and climbing.) We do things at least monthly as a family. The married kids rotate around who will be in charge of it. We have a huge breakfast planned for dinner time on Christmas day. Come by if you are hungry.
Work is still work, but we are still in business, and it is better than most of the jobs I have tried. We get to go camping a lot, and that is always fun, and interesting as you can see from the photos.
My W and I are in love, and we kind of like that. We are thinking of taking a cruise next summer for our 30th Anniv. No money, but we're still thinking about it.
The inside passage to Alaska from Seattle.
I know that God lives, and that he is in charge. He does grant us freedom, and that means bad things can happen, but knowing he is there brings comfort, and hope. It makes all the difference in the world.
SS
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Hi Aussie !
It's been a while since I saw you here.
Your W didn't say a whole lot in words, but there is much meaning in them. I know you have your own things to cope with, but don't forget that she married you because she wanted to be with you, and share with you. Even the bad......... even the bad.
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Aussie has been .... um ,,, difficult ... and has trouble being in crowds - a crowd being more than 4 to 6 people.
Its still so hard to work out what he wants from me. And forget about talking about it, he either can't or won't talk about any of this stuff.
There seems little joy in life for him these days.
Only natural I suppose.
You, more than most men know what she is trying to say. There is a part of you that she can't see, and she wants to help.
You don't have to tell her details, but you need to share your feelings. Don't think you can protect her, that's not what she wants.
You can tell her it's hard to put into words, and you can tell her it hurts, but tell her you must.
Which is more of a man -
The one who shares, or the one who keeps it inside?
The one who makes his W feel close, or the one who keeps her away?
Please forgive me in one way. I know I can't understand all you have been through. I don't mean to say it's not difficult, or that you don't need time to work through it.
Just remember to take your W with you on the journey. She wants to go with you, she doesn't want you to travel alone. Nor does she want to wait alone until you return.
Hold her hand, and take her with you.
SS
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I don't know how to say what I'm thinking, without worrying that it will come out wrong, or make things worse. I do know some good jokes, though! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I can even deprecate someone else, for a change! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Cenicienta,
I once had a house in Bartlesville, Oklahoma - the buckle of the Bible Belt. Gas was cheap. It turns out that the previous owner of the house (who had long since moved and I never met) was the marketing manager for the regional electric company. So even though gas was far more economical, I had an all electric house including the electric heat pump. Good thing I had a fire place. I've never had a thermal system but I sure lust after them. Just the thought of thermodynamics at its finest makes me...okay...calm down....okay I'm better now.
If you had a really big yard, you could lay the lines just a few feet under the ground and it was fairly inexpensive to install. But the real way of drilling straight down - just can't beat it.
Oddly enough the buried line theory worked for me in Mexico. In a house I rented there, I had a huge beach and it was maybe 150 feet to the ocean except in storms when it was closer to 20 feet to the ocean. The owner had installed a pool in the back of the house and it was in the shade for almost all the day. It was also very deep. The long and short of it was that the pool was so cold that nobody would ever get in it. Well I had a large water pump that I used to sump out the pool room whenever the pool guy got the valves wrong and flooded it. I also had a 300 feet roll of 1 inch black plastic tubing. I also had way too much free time. I noticed that even though the pool was in the shade, the beach was not. And walking on the beach in the daytime with no shoes burned my feet. So I got the idea to bury that roll of tubing and attach it to the pump in the bottom of the pool. The sun heated the wated in the tubing buried in the sand and returned it back to the pool. I ended up with a 40' x 12' x 7' deep jacuzzi (with no bubbles). If I had been there longer, I would have had bubbles. I did have a compressor - and still too much free time.
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Pio another home improver!! I see we need to talk idea's!! I'm thinking of using R3 rated foam sheeting for the internal wall cladding as I can glue it straight onto the back of the external steel sheeting without using a frame. decisions decisions!! But Pio, how are YOU going though? tl, just say it if it helps. And you can poke fun at me any time as well, I mean between the skylight incident and the intercom fiasco its not like I have any dignity left at all <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> SS, its very simple. He doesn't trust me, I dont think he trusts much nor anyone else for that matter who has not been where he has. I talk with some other wives and we are much in the same boat, however of course my A of a few years ago doesn't help matters. They at least talk to each other and make what seems to me very dark and brutal jokes which they think are very funny. But maybe it works for them. I feel I may just have to accept parts of him will never be shared with me. It feels like failure I guess. ....... mea maxima culpa
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PIO - Between two children and a job and fencing (as in wielding a sword) and the chiropractor on Monday evening; hooping class (think hula hoop) on Tuesday evening; church on Wednesday evening, pick up child/ren after tutoring on Thursday evening; training for half marathon (walking it in April), chauffering daughter to work and modeling on Saturdays; church Sunday mornings; work 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., M-F; sleep; fixing meals; doing that big PowerPoint presentation on weekenends; and, otherwise trying to balance life as a single parent, when do you think I should lay those thermodynamic system's lines?
I'm really thinking the contractor's installation of a heatpump may be enough. I think I can manage to write a check or two or 25, but I don't think I can take on anything more.
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Cinders look at all those hours wasted in sleep!!! lol only joking dear. But you do need a bit of YOU time and use that to do what you like too. Even if its digging a ditch or whatever. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> though a sauna, spa and a foot rub is right up there <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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Neak says she's in, but her internet is out. Broadcasting to be resumed at some unspecified moment. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> AW, I'm 5'1" tall, walking in 10'1" of water. Soggy going, that...<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> t&l
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Cinders,
I have just two words for you - Jolt Cola.
I think for a thermal heat pump system the lines have to be pretty long so I don't think I could support the length for where I think you propose to put them. Sorry. The air exchange system efficiency just depends on how cold it gets where you are. Nothing like gas though. I still remember our gas central heat when I was a kid. We had floor ducts. Nothing like floor ducts. Ideally you could install a ducting system so that the same or proportional volume of air goes to every room based on its size. The air flow depends on the friction loss which depends on the size (and shape) of the duct, the length of the duct and number of bends and direction changes. Calculating the perfect configuration is possible. The installers just say "hey, that looks pretty good". The result is that there is always one vent that outputs far more air than any of the others. I found ours.
I would come home from school all cold in winter and I would go turn up the heat and grab a sheet from the closet. Then I went and parked over that vent. I could hear the burner light up and then hear the creaking of metal popping as it expanded. I was still cold but I was eager with the anticipation. In a minute or so, the blower would come on and as I braced for that sudden blast of cold air eagerly waiting the warm swell that would come after. So I tucked the sheet all around me and over the vent. The sheet filled like a balloon and I just crouched there as the heat surrounded me. Best times of my life.
Now, if you don't like my ideas about heat pumps, you really don't want to know what I have to say about PowerPoint - so I'll keep quiet about that.
Regarding your schedule, my boss at Schlumberger always used to tell me "there are 24 hours in a day". Of course I quit Schlumberger.
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