2025 is gonna be a crazy year for me. Daughter will move to Denmark (she married a Danish dude). She'll come off my health insurance, car insurance, dental, and vision. Son will finish high school and go to college (Baylor). ...so we'll be empty nesters.. Father-in-law will likely die of pancreatic cancer (he was diagnosed last month) Trumpmand Republicans will be control. ...gonna be a big year with lots of highs and lows.
Taking inventory of life Evaluating the previous year and planning for the next A Friend is trying to convince me to do a "Vision Board" and I'm working on New Years Eve so . . . .. thinking for other people. . . just a little Rocket River
I was thinking that I had a lot of fun when I hung out with this Coptic Egyptian girl I met when I was about 25 and she was 19-20. Her family was very conservative and religious - and she was not.... but she tried to please her family while having a second "secret" life that involved partying, having fun and being somewhat irresponsible. We used to go out to Galveston and sit on the pier and she would smoke weed and tell me insane neurotic stories and I would piss her off by throwing her stash in the ocean or breaking her cigarettes - she would kick me and cuss me out and leave and then come back 5 minutes later and then ask if I was hungry and want to go to a local restaurant. I would always stop and get her smokes and a Mr. Pibb - then drive around listening to music --- before she would complain I needed to "feed her" and I would take her to some hole in the wall that she would complain about - and she would get absolutely plastered at the restaurant and I would either pick her up and take her to the car and drive back to Houston and let her sleep it off on my parents couch or I would get a hotel room and let her sleep until the next morning and then she would wake up and proceed to ask me if I was hungry or act like she wasn't **** faced the night before. The pattern was like clockwork. She was neurotic about boys, but eventually married a minister that demanded that she stop talking to me... he was a Baptist white guy, and demanded that she never drink or do drugs and that she find Jesus. She ended up aborting his baby but stayed with him. I stopped talking to her and told her she could reach out to me anytime she wanted. She does about once every 5 years when something major happens in her life.... and I listen, and she gets drunk, and I end up feeding her and tucking her in somewhere while she sleeps and then leaves early in the morning when she thinks I am asleep. I miss the simplicity of her companionship sometimes - what she wants from me is simple and something I can do - it is nice sometimes being able to meet someone's needs and not even have to have them ask.
In the movie Grosse point Blank my favorite quote was "For those taking stock of their life, leave your life stock alone.
I'm tied in with the Coptic community in Houston, which is quite small, but was probably even smaller at the time of this story. I can probably solve within four guesses who this girl is.
Thanks for that. I saw this at the end of Beyond the lighted Stage, the Rush documentary. Alex is a genuinely funny dude as well as an incredibly underrated guitarist.
I've added 12 pounds of bullshit weight since late October. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas kill me every year. Someday, maybe, I will develop some sort of self control around food. Someday.
My wife has been on for 3 months and has lost 27 lbs. To be honest with her eating much less that made me eat less and we are buying less of proteins and starches. It's making quite the dent in our grocery bill. Two 6-ounce beef tenderloin steaks are better than Two 14 oz NY Strips. This drug pays for itself. Although not on Wegovy myself, I am on Rybelsus for type 2 diabetes. I myself have lost 30 pounds since beginning of 2024. First time below 200 since I got married in 1996
I feel that. It’s a gauntlet of junk. It doesn’t help that my wife loves to feed me and loves to see a little weight on me. She literally says food = love. I usually weather the holiday storm pretty well but I had hernia surgery in July and was already taking it slow. So I lost muscle and put on fat. I’m up about 15lbs since last January. It’s a good motivator. And your body needs rest.
