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[The DARK]

Best wishes for you and your wife, Dylan.  :)

[aMD]

She looks a lot better today and should be out of the hospital tomorrow.  We're still waiting on a few results but it looks like whatever it is will at least be manageable and definitely not terminal.  Thanks for all your support.  I just showed my wife your posts and she was really moved by your kindness.  She said, "there really are some great people on that forum".  I'd have to agree.  :)

[SMc55]

She looks a lot better today and should be out of the hospital tomorrow.  We're still waiting on a few results but it looks like whatever it is will at least be manageable and definitely not terminal.  Thanks for all your support.  I just showed my wife your posts and she was really moved by your kindness.  She said, "there really are some great people on that forum".  I'd have to agree.  :)

I'm really glad for you both. It's been a terrible time for you. Take care.

[BH]

She looks a lot better today and should be out of the hospital tomorrow.  We're still waiting on a few results but it looks like whatever it is will at least be manageable and definitely not terminal.  Thanks for all your support.  I just showed my wife your posts and she was really moved by your kindness.  She said, "there really are some great people on that forum".  I'd have to agree.  :)

Phew.  Great to hear.   :)

[dragonboy]

Great news indeed!  :)

[crazylove]

Great to hear everything is going better, Dylan.

Hopefully you can both relax and have an enjoyable weekend.

[megisnotreal]

OH MY GOD I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW >:(
i am beyond using punctuation i am so pissed
it turns out over half of the people i work with are going to some conference next week (they did not tell me until TODAY) and not only do i have to cancel all MY plans for that weekend, i am supposed to work for everyone else for a week.

[corey]

I don't read this thread that often so I'm just reading about your wife, Dylan. Looks like she's on the upswing of whatever it is that's making her sick. That's great news. Keep us informed.


My current complaint is those goddamned spiral "stakes" that come with inflatable yard decorations. Those are a pain in the ass. After 15 minutes of fucking with them, I said "to hell with it" and went to Home Depot to buy some galvanized steel stakes that I could pound in the fucking ground. I finished assembling the thing in about 3 minutes after I bought those.
I also thought ahead and bought 2 extra sets for the inflatable Christmas decorations that we'll be putting up in a couple of months.

[bug]

:(  Hope Candace is feeling better soon!

[Hawkeye]

My girlfriend's "second mom" (good friends with her real mom) had a seizure the other night in her sleep.  They found out that she has several brain tumors.  On the positive side, they originated as brain tumors and did not spread from somewhere else.  They are going to do a biopsy to see if they are malignant.  Please send thoughts and prayers her way.  Her name is Pat.  Thanks guys!

[Hawkeye]

Oh, BTW I really f#$#@!^ hate cancer!  We should all just stop fighting each other and spend all of our time and money helping one another.  I heard from someone here at work that someone has found a cancer causing gene and figured out how to "turn it off"...anyone else heard of this?  I'll see if I can find a link.  Of course even if this is true, I'm sure it'll be 20 years before it's approved.  Wow am I a downer today!

[SMc55]

Oh, BTW I really f#$#@!^ hate cancer!  We should all just stop fighting each other and spend all of our time and money helping one another.  I heard from someone here at work that someone has found a cancer causing gene and figured out how to "turn it off"...anyone else heard of this?  I'll see if I can find a link.  Of course even if this is true, I'm sure it'll be 20 years before it's approved.  Wow am I a downer today!

Is this it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7033492.stm
These guys have just won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their work on 'gene knockout'.
All good wishes to your friend Pat, Seamus :)

[MMJ_fanatic]

She looks a lot better today and should be out of the hospital tomorrow.  We're still waiting on a few results but it looks like whatever it is will at least be manageable and definitely not terminal.  Thanks for all your support.  I just showed my wife your posts and she was really moved by your kindness.  She said, "there really are some great people on that forum".  I'd have to agree.  :)

Great news guy!  Best of luck in the recovery!

[aMD]

She got discharged last night and is doing really well today.  Thanks again everybody!  

[TheBigChicken]

that's such good news....please be as upbeat as possible...that shit is very beatable...get kinda choked up talking about it ...thoughts and prayers to you my friend

[.Walt]

i'm a pizza delivery driver. ok. so i got a delivery to a bad part of town. so right away, i was a little scared.  I was leaving the place, and some nugget-heads start blocking the exit outta the trailer park. i go around them and go through the entrance. thanking god i got outta there.

i returned to work, only to find out that one of assholes called in and wanted me to call him back and apologize. so i did. then he called back from another ladys house, making me apologize to her. so i did.  then he called the cops.

we no longer deliver there anymore.

[bowl of soup]

So I'm out for my morning walk (aka wheezing & seeing spots after 1 block run) - and it dawns on me.   When was the last time I smiled?  Not at something funny, not in reaction to someone or something, but just felt like the world needed to see my smile.  Right then I felt it & I gotta say it felt damn good.  It surprised the shit out of me to tell you the truth.  

This year, & the last really, has been quite an eye opening experience.  I'm 26, got a job that pays good (its boring as shit & micromanaged, but thats another story), a comfortable place to live, a good girl by my side, but I feel like I've been stuck in this funk for quite some time.  Like a wheel thats out of balance - sure it rolls, but somethings not quite right.

Its like I have no energy. Point blank - I dont have that push to keep me going through my day.  Maybe its my lifestyle, maybe diet, maybe mind, maybe all of the above.  Then again - my entire world & everything that kept me grounded is gone or has changed.  My bestest bud (my cat of 17years - old boy) passed on this summer.  I never went away to school, stayed in town graduated, got a job - then finally moved out of the parents digs in '05  - moved out of state to be with my girl in 06.  A lot has changed in my life.  I guess the inner recesses of my mind just haven't quite adjusted to all of it yet.

The good news is I'm working on a plan to get out of that funk.  The uncertainty of change has always been a big stickler for me (well that, & the preverbial fulfilling my parents expectations of me, for what thats worth).  Its been my goal this year to force myself to try new things & to look at the world through different eyes.  I've always been a perfectionist & that is something that has held me back because without the grounding of what I'm perfecting, I'm cultivating a nice OCD experience.

Anyway - I felt I needed to really ramble about my day & world.  I started typing with  a heavy hand.  I've gotta say right now I can feel the corners of my mouth creeping up into a smile & I like that.  I appreciate that thin veil of anonomity that the net provides.  Thanks for letting me get some shit off my chest.  

Its like a piece of metal, if its gets fucked up, it takes some work to get it 75% of the way back, but that last 25% takes some serious work to get back in shape.

I have live an exact opposite life from yours, yet I feel exactly alike.  It ain't easy being unspectacular.  My kids always kill the neagtive though.  "Will you please eat your dinner?"  "No, I will'nt."

[the_wizzard]

so for some reason, unbeknowest to me, your post reminded me of a project i did in a program in college (quick background: I went to Evergreen State College and was in a class suite based on Human Behavior and Biology).  The first month of the class, we did an experiment to test the "Observer Effect"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect
The premise is that by the nature of observing "something", that "something" inherently changes.  To test the principle, we each choose one thing in our lives to observe.  We were encouraged to focus on a part of our life that we wanted to directly change.  I chose to observe my cigarette smoking and simply recorded every smoke I had in a day (I carried a tiny notebook with me and put dashes down for each smoke).  Needless to say, by just observing how often I smoked, I significantly decreased my smoking by ten-fold.  
One of my teachers chose to observe how often he said something positive.  And by recording how often he did this, he found that his life was more pleasant and that he was a nicer and happier person by sincerely noticing positive things in life.
So I guess my point in this story is that you should try your attempt at experimenting with the Observer Effect, cuz' it works.  Keep track of those smiles and I can guarantee that they will naturally happen more often.............

[LizKing531]

]The observer effect works great.  I was just about to comment on how powerful it is to just simply change your focus a bit.  

I went back home this weekend.  It was like a flashback from 4 years ago.  Being around some of my old friends and aquantences & in that environment as just what I needed - that and another interview for a new job.   It brought to light a couple things that I was overlooking (overlooking the obvious it seems).  

I've been stuck in a rut job wise, which has inevitably bled into my home life over the course of things.  I've let myself get a little passive in pursuing my goals & some of those goals mean I must confront situations that aren't always comfortable to me or they aren't instant answers.  I have so many interests and goals and wants that it becomes overwhelming.  One of my biggest problems is that I want it all now.  Another, especially work related, is a lingering fear of failure, or I'll take so much time to think something through, I will have great trouble implementing the idea.

In a random conversation with my girlfriend the other day, she said something about "being an end product guy rather than a process guy"  For some reason, it hit me.  Thats it - I've never taken the time to really focus on and absorb and enjoy the process (art, life, etc, etc).  Change your focus change your world.  I know what I want - now figure out how to get there - and enjoy the trip.

I can't quite get my mind thinking about typing so much today, I'll just summarize by saying I appreciate everyone's input.  I appreciate being able to post my random ramblings.  Cause damn, I sure can ramble sometimes.

[TEO]

You seemed to enjoy the process of life at Jacketfest!    :)