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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Hugs your way, infi.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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Thinking of you and your family, Infi.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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OSHA HQ is in the Department of Labor building right by the Capitol. Do you work in downtown DC? We should definitely try to meet up!
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#9544 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
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Yep. Downtown by the convention center. Let's meet for lunch some time. My schedule is pretty flexible so I can hop on the Metro to meet you.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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Sounds good. I'll pm you once I get my schedule.
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#9546 |
Back in 10
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3,684
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I wish my {{{{{hug}}}}}} was in person Infi.
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#9547 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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I'm so pleased it's good news for your Ma.
Much love to you and your family. Posting about your Mum potentially facing death on an internet forum probably would belittle the situation. The internet is transitory and cancer and its ramifications are incredibly complex. But you didn't just post on an internet forum. You came here. We are family. Like us or loathe us or anything in between, most of us have a sincere emotional conection. And cancer is something many of us have been touched by. My Mum got off easy in comparison, but some of her friends did not. There are Dwellars that wish they could have the disease instead of the ones they love, and those who are slogging through it and just worrying about how it affects those who love them. No-one can ever live another person's life, but our combined experience comes close to understanding. You are doing the best you can. And from one black sheep to another we always worry about how much we have to make up for. I'm slowly learning that "being normal" isn't the be all and end all. Sometimes being there without other commitments turns out to be a good thing. We have so much thrown at us in the media about what a fulfilled life is, what success is, what a good life looks like. I'm glad for those who meet that ideal. But there is a place for those of us in the minority. We just don't see it in adverts, in sitcoms, in magazines. We're strange and we're beautiful. Chin up Infi. You're coping.
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#9548 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
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You know those things people do, "click on this to help me win" whatever, and no one you know ever actually wins?
I actually know a woman who won. Her son has an obsession with planes, and some folks (not me, admittedly, because I don't do Facebook) helped her family win 4 plane tickets to Europe on Lufthansa. They do some more plane-related stuff when they get there, I don't know. But she actually won the damn thing. |
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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I had a similar experience earlier this year, where a woman who has end-stage metastatic breast cancer asked people who follow her blog to vote for it in a contest. She planned to put the prize money, if she won, in her son's college fund. He has another year of high school. I've never voted for things like that, but I voted for her every day. So did quite a few others, apparently, because she won the contest on Valentine's Day.
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#9550 |
Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 27,063
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today's happiness is brought to you by the concept of recursion.
I get happy when I see orthodoc's name as the most recent poster in the what's making me happy thread.
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#9551 |
trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 16,493
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Aden now has a license and a car. That means a lot less driving for me and a lot more opportunities for him. He passed his test with flying colours. 100%! I was very pleased for him.
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#9552 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
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Cowboys win.
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#9553 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
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I went to bed at half time. What a weird first half. At one point, it looked like Eli was going to cry.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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With Hebe having a licence too I am beginning to feel so old...
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#9555 |
I can hear my ears
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
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He looks like a little kid. But he's a good qb
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