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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Today I completed planting all the flowers I've purchased over the past several weeks. I've been pulling weeds and grass from my garden, and today I cleared the last patch for the sweet peas I plugged into the ground. I still have some grass and weeds to pull, and probably a lot more flowers to buy, but now my garden is more delightful than derelict.
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#10652 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Nice!
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#10653 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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File this under bittersweet.
Signed the papers to make the separation official. She gets served on Friday, I sign more shit on Monday, then shit goes to the court. It was turning a corner, no going back and I had to finally admit to myself I was never and will never get the love I wanted from her. On the other hand my life is looking better and my stress levels have plummeted. I'm getting the back 40 in shape, baby steps, baby steps...
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#10654 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Everything gets better from here on out.
*I can see clearly now, the rain is gone...* |
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#10655 |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Fuck yeah!
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Oh, and in other news I've dropped 30# and now weigh 190. My goal of 180 seems certainly attainable.
About those sit ups...
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#10657 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Whoa, nice job! Stress weight is a real thing, dump your stresser dump the weight.
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#10659 |
Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Moving forward is good. Dropping stress/weight is great. FTW, foot.
I'm happy to have finished a week in Baltimore. I haven't posted in the Baltimore thread because everything I began to say seemed underwhelming. It was a significant week, however. And I'm happy to have finished a week of networking and chatting at a national conference in spite of my hearing impairment. I'm not deaf enough to use signing but impaired enough to make every conversation a misery. I do lip-read as well as I can, but it's not just decibels. My hearing aids are ridiculously inefficient. So, it's nice not to be embarrassing myself on a moment-to-moment basis. What I really need is a nice academic job where I don't have to hear people much. I don't know that the ADA will provide for me in my current job.
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I've been wearing them for 34 years and I feel your pain. They just can't cope with crowds (3 is a crowd) and background like waiters or traffic make it worse. The increasing hearing aid commercials is I suppose a result of the boomers becoming a mass target. But the lying fuckers writing the commercials are real annoying.
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#10661 |
Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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absolutely. What I hate most ... missing the small things my kids whispered into my ears, or something a loved one says. They mostly know when I don't hear, but sometimes not, and I feel bad. It's so isolating, leaves you watching from outside a glass wall.
Like you, it's been a long time, since age 12 or before. Genetic, not noise-induced. Sometimes I'd rather be completely deaf ... just use signing and be done. It's like being severely myopic without glasses, but not totally blind.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Sometimes I think the damn things are only useful as a signal/reminder to people that I can't hear for shit.
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#10663 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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That's only if they show. Modern types, if you have any hair, they don't show.
It was easier when I was bald.
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The only ones that don't show are the tiny ones deep in the ear, unless you have enough hair to cover the ear completely.
I use the in the ear type... ![]() I was happy to switch because the behind the ear would quit when I sweat heavily.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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That's interesting, that it can be a feature for the hearing aids to be obvious. Seems kind of obvious itself when you think about it. They have been working for so long to make them tiny and invisible, but that's not necessarily such a good thing.
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