A Black Hole of Happiness

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
What if I get excited after a run b/c I get to have a drink? I definintely look forward to a post-exercise drink. But, during the week, I rarely have more than 2. Or 12.

You should buy a cat. Fix you right up.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I thought about it, but sebby knows what sebby knows. We'd be talking about Philly mouthbreathers after like two posts and I'd be all confused.

But if I were working on him I would say: I'm not an alcoholic, so I don't know, but I would imagine for alcoholics it's not "about the buzz." Your body becomes dependent on alcohol independent of the buzz. And an alcoholic's body needs what an alcoholic's body needs.

I might also say that there are levels of alcoholism. There is lying in the street, thrown my life away and there is need a drink in the morning to get through the day and there is really love alcohol and the buzz and drink way too often. I'm sure there are others, but just because you don't need a drink in the morning doesn't mean you are not an alcoholic.

TM

I have cats, so I'm already ahead of you.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You should buy a cat. Fix you right up.

TM

No way. I saw a cat give birth once. It was horrifying.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss

I was not allowed to own leg warmers, but I made my own out of my dad's discarded gym socks.

I think I am starting to understand why my life is such a mess.

This is one of the cutest things I have ever read.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't want work. I'm wondering what it feels like to need work.

I've always been fascinated with addiction. I never got addicted to anything and wonder what the difference between binging and addiction is.

Dumbass fuckhead, I was requesting that TM work on you, not that you work on anything. How old is the kid? Because you are kind of reverting back to the jackassholosity you wallowed in prior to getting engaged to your now-wife. Is she distracted by the baby, and you aren't getting enough attention at home? Keeeee-rist.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No way. I saw a cat give birth once. It was horrifying.

Spay it.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No way. I saw a cat give birth once. It was horrifying.

placenta?

I'm afraid I'm sliding into middle age in a bad way. Between commuting, family and working a million hours I don't have a ton of time to work out, I'm trying to maintain. Eating well is a real struggle, I see people on my train, in their 50s still slogging looking very grey, tired, out of shape and worn out. They are what I will become. Should I bother to fight it?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We've already had the boarding school discussion. If he's smart and I have the cash, he's going. I look at teenage kids and shudder. They're so gawky and annoying. I listen to them in the grocery store, with their moodiness and whining and shit and wonder why my parents didn't beat me when I was that age. They're also fucking ugly as shit. Nothing's more awkward and ugly than a 14 year old boy. Acned, with that cracking voice. Yecch. Send it away... Ship me back the finished model when its 18. Then send it away again.

I think your child would be infinitely less interesting in adulthood if he were raised by a boarding school instead of you.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I don't have a ton of time to work out...Should I bother to fight it?

You have exactly the same amount of time as anyone else. Just determine where your priorities lie and there is your answer. I work out for probably at least two hours per day. I enjoy it. I have prioritized it over other activities.

I would go insane if I felt out of shape or unattractive. Everyone has a different comfort level. I would be a horrible mother and wife* if I felt out of shape or unattractive so I would prioritize my own fitness. But not everyone does or would.

*I am neither a mother nor a wife, but I know plenty of mothers and wives who hold down stressful jobs and are in fantastic shape. They somehow make it work. They have prioritized their own fitness.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
You have exactly the same amount of time as anyone else. Just determine where your priorities lie and there is your answer. I work out for probably at least two hours per day. I enjoy it. I have prioritized it over other activities.

That is a pretty sane answer. In the middle of August, I will start to do that. Maybe get up early to go to the high school track.

I feel better when I run.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Dumbass fuckhead, I was requesting that TM work on you, not that you work on anything. How old is the kid? Because you are kind of reverting back to the jackassholosity you wallowed in prior to getting engaged to your now-wife. Is she distracted by the baby, and you aren't getting enough attention at home? Keeeee-rist.

This medium is so fucking limited. I understood that. You're not understanding my point. Reread.

You do realize 80% of the "conversations" taking place here are really disconnects, where people think they're talking about the same thing and aren't. It's the people who are sure they know what someone's saying who are most often the punchline.

How am I reverting to jackassness? I was unclear before I got hitched and always read everything sideways.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We've already had the boarding school discussion. If he's smart and I have the cash, he's going. I look at teenage kids and shudder. They're so gawky and annoying. I listen to them in the grocery store, with their moodiness and whining and shit and wonder why my parents didn't beat me when I was that age. They're also fucking ugly as shit. Nothing's more awkward and ugly than a 14 year old boy. Acned, with that cracking voice. Yecch. Send it away... Ship me back the finished model when its 18. Then send it away again.

Really?!?

The percentage of teenaged girls that I find annoying apporaches 100%, and with the boys, it's about 50% -- sullen teenagers are really tiresome. However, all the really nice, polite teenagers I know happen to be boys.

Then again, I don't think I'll find my own teenagers (when they are teenagers) annoying, but if they are the annoying, sullen "too cool for everyone" types, I live in the prep school capital of the world, and off they go. But I really don't think I could stand to send them away to boarding school. If I do, it will be to a boarding school within 10 miles of my house.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think your child would be infinitely less interesting in adulthood if he were raised by a boarding school instead of you.

"Interesting" is a kind description for "disaster." I'm hoping he's terribly rebellious toward me, which will give him a fighting chance in life.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by dtb
Really?!?

The percentage of teenaged girls that I find annoying apporaches 100%, and with the boys, it's about 50% -- sullen teenagers are really tiresome. However, all the really nice, polite teenagers I know happen to be boys.

Then again, I don't think I'll find my own teenagers (when they are teenagers) annoying, but if they are the annoying, sullen "too cool for everyone" types, I live in the prep school capital of the world, and off they go. But I really don't think I could stand to send them away to boarding school. If I do, it will be to a boarding school within 10 miles of my house.

I went to a school about 26 miles from your house (or, at least, from your local diner, not knowing where your house is) - and about the same distance from my own. 10 miles may be too close, for all concerned.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Interesting" is a kind description for "disaster." I'm hoping he's terribly rebellious toward me, which will give him a fighting chance in life.

I went to boarding school. It messes you up. On the one hand, I might have been messed up anyway, and it was a single-sex boarding school so that might have been what messed me up, but I did not like it so much. If you have a rebellious streak, boarding school is like heaven for letting that streak bloom and grow and get you into all kinds of shit.