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posted December 30, 2009 02:01 AM            

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Oh, my brother got engaged, or at least announced his engagement tonight. They hosted my family (those who were local and available), and his girlfriend's family at the restaurant where they both work. I don't know the details of how it went down, but it's cool none the less. I kind of like the dramatic way they did it. My brother's a Leo. Much less private than I'd be inclined to be.

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posted December 30, 2009 02:48 PM            

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oooo AG you hit the big 700 posts!
wowzers!

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posted December 30, 2009 08:40 PM            

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Pandora on your phone is bliss.

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posted January 07, 2010 01:28 AM            

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I don't know if I can work brushing my teeth into multi-tasking. Nothing seems to fit with it.

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posted January 07, 2010 07:11 AM            

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Do you think you'll ever get married AG? Say if you met someone you were serious about?

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posted January 07, 2010 09:19 AM            

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True, there's not much you can do with the other hand while brushing since you are most likely using your dominant hand to brush.. Paint dolphin style with your other hand? Pour a beverage? Hmm...

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posted January 07, 2010 10:47 AM            

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Yeah, I'd like to get married. I've actually felt a touch lonely of late. I miss having a girlfriend.

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Yeah, brushing teeth is a surprisingly monopolozing task physically. I tried taking my toothbrush into the shower with me the other day to see if that would save time. It didn't. It just made me feel like I should be doing my normal stuff in the shower, and that I shouldn't waste water.

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posted January 07, 2010 11:46 AM            

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Are you noticing the pictures that go along with Yahoo ads? Lots of scruffy man (beards, long hair, unibrows) pics with ads for mortgages or Pell grants. There was a weird pic with one of those Obama wants to regulate insurance ads. I can't remember what it is now. It just strikes me as strange the pictures they're putting in these ads.

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posted January 07, 2010 06:53 PM            

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I'm feeling pretty good.

So Facebook's ablaze, and LL's dead? What's up with that?

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posted January 07, 2010 07:24 PM            

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I brush my teeth while peeing. Yes, I know TMI, but THAT would fall under the heading of multi-tasking, would it not? Course, then after, I still have the toothbrush in my mouth when I move onto messing with my hair. Finally it occurs to me, the brush is just sticking out of my mouth, not much cleaning going on, so I then focus.

Do you think your brothers engagement made you think of wanting a partner, or at least, brought it to the foreground?

Congrats to him btw. Will you be attending the wedding? In the wedding? When is the wedding???

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posted January 08, 2010 01:21 AM            

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Actually, it's not TMI. I can appreciate honesty. I've tried that... but ...you have to spit, so I can only get so far in my teeth brushing process while on the toilet. Oh, and I use an electric brush, too, which makes it difficult to just set the brush in there and leave it. The handle containing the battery is a bit heavy for that.

Regarding my brother's wedding, I don't think that brought my wanting a relationship to the forefront. I have kind of regular pangs. Just of varying degrees. Sometimes I want a relationship more than others.

I do want to go to the wedding, and I wouldn't mind being in it. They haven't picked a date as far as I know. When they were asked they said six months to a year.

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posted January 08, 2010 08:46 AM            

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FB is always nutty... I don't know what a lot of people are talking about though "I'm getting rid of my FB because men are pervs and keep hitting on me"... That happens on myspace, never had a problem with that on FB. Of course I do have my baby as my profile picture, LOL.

I have a weird thing about brushing my teeth. I can only do it in the bathroom sink. I have had to in the kitchen a few times due to time, but I always gag at spitting and rinsing for some reason... I also cannot be sick in a toilet, it grosses me out.

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posted January 08, 2010 10:51 AM            

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It's not so much the hitting on that bothers me. I have an ex on there that has been married for over 20 years. He keeps sending me hearts and roses. Even if I don't publish them, (some I do, some I don't) HE publishes that he's sent them. His wife has contacted me via my mail and she was not pleasant. This also happened with another guy. I turned my chat off so neither one could IM me, but I don't want to delete them, because then it looks obvious or like I am guilty of something, I dunno...

Myspace, if someone asks to be your friend and you don't know them or you are not interested it is a flat out NO. So I feel like there isn't really a hidden agenda there. Plus, in my case, I'm a bartender looking for work. I accept requests from lots of local bands looking for a place to play. They see bartender as my occupation, so they figure I could probably help them out. This works both ways...

Also, I went to the Doors myspace, and they were having a poetry contest. I read some entries that were posted, and friend requested some people who had similiar writing styles that I have. It ended up great because we subscribe to each others blogs and get ideas that way. One has actually turned out to become a friend. So, I think it is more about what you actually use your social network for.

If a strange man that I don't know requests me, without a message as to where he might know me, or where he may have seen me post before, I just deny it. Never had a problem.

One guy, a tattoo artist from Tenessee requested me, I accepted. When I would not engage in middle of the night IM-ing with him, he dropped me. No problem.

Ag, can you believe as I read your post, I was gonna say (RE: teeth brushing) that I can hold it along time without spitting, then I stopped and realized how bad that sounded, then I decided to go ahead and prove myself a total Sag and say it anyway, just to amuse you. (o:

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posted January 08, 2010 12:23 PM            

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I do love to be amused.

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I have a weird thing about brushing my teeth. I can only do it in the bathroom sink. I have had to in the kitchen a few times due to time, but I always gag at spitting and rinsing for some reason... I also cannot be sick in a toilet, it grosses me out.

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I can appreciate quirks like these. It is kind of gross to get your head in proximity of the toilet when you're sick. I can do it, but only because I feel like such crap in the instance of that happening in the first place. If it were a regular thing I'd have to find some better method.

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So I brought my phone charger to work today, so now I can listen to Pandora all day at work. I was listening to a song, and I thought, "Did she just sing, 'Brevity of love'?" So I checked the screen. It was Enigma singing Gravity of Love.

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posted January 09, 2010 05:03 AM            

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A better method??? Like what, projectile vomitting at a designated target? Long distance vomitting? Vomitting in the wild?

I dunno, but the toilet method does seem tried and true.

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posted January 09, 2010 06:29 PM            

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Haven't you ever heard of a pot? You don't have to get all that creative to find an alternative to bowing to the porcelain god.

I think the thing that I could possibly do while brushing my teeth is fill my pockets. I can throw my keys in my pocket while brushing. I can also change the thermostat.

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posted January 09, 2010 07:59 PM            

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My ex-roommate who seemed to be slowly losing his grasp on everything collapsed today at the library. People are contacting me for contact info on his family, but I've never had their numbers and I'm struggling to remember their names.

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posted January 09, 2010 08:23 PM            

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I finally did remember that he actually has local family. I initially thought of his parents and his sister. I didn't think of his local brother, because he kind of shunned this gay brother of his. I was able to call him, and let him know what was going on.

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posted January 11, 2010 01:10 PM            

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Turns out my ex-roommate had a heart attack from which he was revived twice. He may also have pneumonia. They were keeping him unconscious, because he also had vomit in his lungs. Ugh. Not good.

If this was brought on by stress I would hate to know the conditions that caused his stress, because I can imagine the likely ones (unemployment, needing to find a new roommate), which will only be exacerbated by having a heart attack. I'm glad his parents came out.

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posted January 11, 2010 03:57 PM            

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I was thinking about how I was in a pretty cool store called ...what was it called?...Anthropologie (I think). It's a women's store for the most part, but they had various decorative items and so forth, so I thought it was cool, too. The thing is, almost everything in there was made in China, AND it wasn't selling particularly inexpensively, which got me thinking, "Why can't we produce this stuff ourselves?" I don't mind people of other countries making money, but it doesn't seem like I should be seeing all these foreign country tags on everything. Of course it's all made overseas because people work less expensively over there. This got me thinking about minimum wage. Maybe we shouldn't have a minimum wage.

It's interesting to think about. People would certainly learn to live more creatively if there was no minimum wage. Also, it would seem like the body of poverty level people would likely grow, which seems like a bad thing though it could potentially get some homeless people back making a wage.

I don't know. It's interesting to think about.

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posted January 11, 2010 04:01 PM            

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It's also interesting to look at the work/education ethic present in countries where wages can be minimal. They do what it takes to get the better wage jobs.

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posted January 11, 2010 05:50 PM            

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Hiya AG.. sorry to hear about your friend. Just today they called in the paramedic here at work for some guy a couple of rows over. There were enough rubber necks so I didn't want to pry...

you have FB? Hey GypseeWind, you have FB too? Anybody wanna be my friend? lol.. sounds pathetic doesn't it?
Well if you do, you can look me up using my email winkaway@yahoo.com
One can't have enough buds, right?

And as far as things you can do while brushing your teeth... hhhmm...
I can brush my hair purty good, and pee.. I can even kinda talk if I push the foamy stuff to the side for a sec lol.

yes, and that wraps up the list of stuff about me you don't wanna know

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posted January 11, 2010 06:10 PM            

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OKAY, but if you puke in the pot, then you still have to do something with the pot, which is one more step then just puking in the toilet!! Just sayin....

I knew I liked WinkAway, it's the Sag Asc! I will look ya up.

AG ~ That is awful about your ex roomie, was he a stressed out kinda guy when you lived together???
Thing about pneumonia is alot of times you don't know you have it until it reaches a critical point, this has happened to me.
Sometimes it's hard to tell pnemonia from other resp. stuff, especially if you are stubborn and don't like to go to the docs.

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posted January 11, 2010 06:55 PM            

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lol GW.. My dad is super stubborn about the doc's. My mom made him go and found out he had something called walking pneumonia...ever hear of that one?

Turns out my mom ended up catching it too lol. I guess it's contagous..

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posted January 11, 2010 08:38 PM            

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I'll add you WinkAway.

Yes, the pot is an extra step, but it would keep your mouth away from the toilet.

My ex-roommate is an Aries. He would endeavor not to show his stress, but he had lots of reasons to be stressed. Before I got out of there we were having trouble keeping a third roommate. That problem may be persisting, and now neither of his roommates have been there really long term (I moved out in April). He lost his job at a hardware store chain months ago. At least he told me about it months ago. He's apparently been recounting the story somewhat recently to the librarian friend that contacted me about his collapse. That tells me that he might not have found a job since getting fired from the hardware store. He was the kind of person who always managed to inspire ire from those he came in contact with. He wasn't constanting someone you'd hate, but inevitably he'd **** you off somehow. He managed to alienate all of his friends, and usually his abuse of their generosity was the last straw.

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