Kevin's Watch

Vain wrote:Come to me !! I'll give you a holiday

Get a room, you two.


And a webcam.

Vain wrote:Come to me !! I'll give you a holiday

Really?! Ok! Why not! I just booked a flight. Be there in about...um...6 or so hours. Can you pick me up from the airport?

Depends on how much you weigh.

Mind if I unload for a sec?

I feel really, really, really homesick for Hawaii. It's worse than I ever felt for Washington when I first moved to Honolulu. I regret moving back here practically every day and that feeling is exacerbated by the fact that my boyfriend pretty much hates it here and I worry about resentment. We were living the life in Hawaii and I didn't realize it. Now we're just kinda living.
I miss my friends, I miss the weather, I miss my tan, I miss having a job and being able to eat three square meals daily, I miss the monthly parades that would wake me up early and piss me off, I miss only wearing sundresses and riding my bicycle home through the park at night and never having to wear shoes.
I'm rarely this unhappy with things so I don't really know what to do with these feelings, and I also feel like I'm just being dumb because I'm in school, which is good, and I have a sweet dog, which is also good. I don't have much to complain about. But it's cold and wet and miserable here and I'm bored all the time.

I wish I could say that getting all that off my chest makes me feel better, but it doesn't. I'm going to go eat some ice cream and study for finals.

Wadds: Also, I just had some ice cream in solidarity. Good luck with finals!

Wadds, you can look at your sojourn in Washington as a temporary exile from where you'd rather be. I guess the question you should ask yourself is why you two left Hawaii to begin with.

If it was for professional reasons, you can enhance your resumes where you are now, basically proving yourselves, and return with better prospects. If it was for something else, perhaps you can return home to Hawaii now. My only advice is follow what you want to do now, because as you get older, it gets harder to change paths.

Even though I am excited about my days off, the weather forcast is RAIN Rain and oh, more rain. So much for running the dogs on the beach. Oh well, not that I had much planned anyway except laundry and errands and some puttering in the backyard which is about the only part that obviously isn't going to happen.

Yeah, cheer up Wadds. This too shall pass and all that. Finish school and move back. (I didn't even know you'd left I think...whatcha studying?)

--A

Avatar wrote:Yeah, cheer up Wadds. This too shall pass and all that. Finish school and move back. (I didn't even know you'd left I think...whatcha studying?)

--A

Things always look better in the past when we're going through tough times. There are times when I wish I were still in Nicaragua... but there are always opportunities you have now that you wouldn't have otherwise.

Today I have decided that I hate cassette tapes and tape players. And it's mostly because they already hate me.

Wadds, take some comfort from knowing that the end of winter in Seattle does this to a lot of us. Remember that it would be far worse in Cleveland. Spring and summer are coming. It will get better very soon.

OTOH, Honolulu is the low point of Hawaii. Having been to all the major islands, I have to say that the one city with most of the state's population is the only place I have no desire to return to. Might as well be in Los Angeles...

Auleliel, be glad you never had to deal with 8-track carts!

Fun stuff first:

lorin wrote:And a question - did anyone ever do the online dating thing? Did it work for you?

I met my wife Carla via the Craig's List online dating thingy. I thought about some of those organized and pay sites, but I figured I'd get the same crap I was seeing on Craig's List (I want a guy who makes 50K a year minimum, is hot and into outdoorsy activities and essentially to be perfect in every way), and figured why bother paying for it.
I talked to some lady for a while and we had some good conversations, but never ended up meeting up because of the whole "a man needs to be a man" thing. I disagreed, having grown up thinking you need to be yourself, and posted an experiment. I posted, "Girly man looking for fun and laughter" or something to that effect. I tried to make it clever and basically stand out from the usual garbage and lies. I was pretty down on myself and women in Colorado at the time, so I thought if I got no responses, I'd call my life a bust and try to change. Well, I got four responses. My future wife's was the best response, and I responded to her first. We went on a date that didn't suck, and the rest is history.

And now for the old man health problems rant:

aliantha wrote:Cag: at the risk of reprising a Mel Brooks routine, "What lump?"

Well, it's a fatty fatty fat fat tumor on my lower right abdomen. It's been around for about a year, and hasn't gotten bigger, but it really hurt at the beginning of the year, and I figured I should get it checked out. More than likely, it's nothing. I just need it removed, and that will be that.
But something has felt just plain wrong with my body since the beginning of the year, and I'm usually in the "wait and see" club as far as health issues go, but with a kid on the way, I want to be around to see Desmond's sibling and see them both grow up. So I've taken this a bit more seriously as it has been about 2 months with this feeling. I got blood work done, and I'm glad to say everything they tested for (diabetes, thyroid issues, cholesterol) came back negative for problems. So that's a bit of a relief, but also not as I wanted at least an answer to what seems wrong with me.
I've been away from work the past two days with runny poos and a very acidy belly. Which is why I called the doctor to get my blood results that they were sitting on. So it looks like the next step is to get with the G.I. Joes and do a colonoscopy, which I very much am not looking forward to. If that comes up negative, then I'm just chalking it up to old age, as well as the usual culprits like needing better diet and more regular exercise.

Happy to be home with my family for spring break. Now, if only "spring" would actually show up here in the next week...

Savor Dam wrote:Auleliel, be glad you never had to deal with 8-track carts!

I've never seen an 8-track. Were they that awful?
My (current) gripe with cassette tapes is the million times this week they got jammed in the player, requiring intensive surgery for removal. One of the tapes actually broke. Maybe I should move this to the fist-shaking thread...

Cagliostro wrote:And now for the old man health problems rant:

aliantha wrote:Cag: at the risk of reprising a Mel Brooks routine, "What lump?"

Well, it's a fatty fatty fat fat tumor on my lower right abdomen. It's been around for about a year, and hasn't gotten bigger, but it really hurt at the beginning of the year, and I figured I should get it checked out. More than likely, it's nothing. I just need it removed, and that will be that.
But something has felt just plain wrong with my body since the beginning of the year, and I'm usually in the "wait and see" club as far as health issues go, but with a kid on the way, I want to be around to see Desmond's sibling and see them both grow up. So I've taken this a bit more seriously as it has been about 2 months with this feeling. I got blood work done, and I'm glad to say everything they tested for (diabetes, thyroid issues, cholesterol) came back negative for problems. So that's a bit of a relief, but also not as I wanted at least an answer to what seems wrong with me.
I've been away from work the past two days with runny poos and a very acidy belly. Which is why I called the doctor to get my blood results that they were sitting on. So it looks like the next step is to get with the G.I. Joes and do a colonoscopy, which I very much am not looking forward to. If that comes up negative, then I'm just chalking it up to old age, as well as the usual culprits like needing better diet and more regular exercise.

I hope your doctors come up with answers for you soon, and you can deal with this curatively instead of only symptomatically. In any case, feel well soon, cag.

So last nite me and Vain hung out in Auckland. Had a great time. He took me to this wonderful restaurant at the docklands (after going to a bar called the "library"). Great food, great conversation (even if he does love Sarah Palin! )

Seareach wrote:So last nite me and Vain hung out in Auckland. Had a great time. He took me to this wonderful restaurant at the docklands (after going to a bar called the "library"). Great food, great conversation (even if he does love Sarah Palin! )

i could have sworn vain was fictional.

No...he is real...he paid for dinner!

Seareach wrote:So last nite me and Vain hung out in Auckland. Had a great time. He took me to this wonderful restaurant at the docklands (after going to a bar called the "library"). Great food, great conversation (even if he does love Sarah Palin! )

What wonderful brevity !! What the Australian neglects to mention is that she thought Melbourne was the most populous city in Australia....you'd think you shouldn't need a Kiwi to get the facts

Dinner was great....oysters and dessert...with food in the middle

I'm not in this thread often, but happened to notice this.

lorin wrote:The fat fetish ones that tell me I am too skinny

We're all attracted to whatever body types we're attracted to. I wouldn't say the guys who love BBWs are kooks any more than the ones looking for the supermodels are. Maybe one of them is really into Shakespeare, and loves to recite sonnets to his lover. (Of course, putting on weight is an unhealthy idea for most of us.)

lorin wrote:The little boys that think my world would rock if I dated a 20 year old (yeah, like they know where all the parts go )

Here's another obvious example of the difference between men and women. The guys my age all want the 20 year olds.