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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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This konmari quote in particular cracked me up: "Clothes, like people, can relax more freely when in the company of others who are very similar in type, and therefore organising them by category helps them feel more comfortable and secure," she wrote.
cg4e6030a03e965.tiff_lr.jpg This is on our fridge at home. It reminds my mom of me.
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Thanks guys! What can I say, I'm really psyched, I hope it all works out. This konmari quote in particular cracked me up: "Clothes, like people, can relax more freely when in the company of others who are very similar in type, and therefore organising them by category helps them feel more comfortable and secure," she wrote. Leaving aside the cultural ramifications, if this statement is true, I have at the very least half a closet and several bags worth of things that hate me and want me dead. :D
You should sort that shit out, thank it for keeping you dressed for so long and then send it on it's way, because left ill categorized they will become quite irritable, and your clothes are not above strangling you in your sleep if they get fully fed up.
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You should sort that shit out' date=' thank it for keeping you dressed for so long and then send it on it's way, because left ill categorized they will become quite irritable, and your clothes are not above strangling you in your sleep if they get fully fed up.[/quote'] Sadly, my empirical observations to date contradict this claim. I say "sadly" because it would be awesome to have a reason and the money to get some new clothes. I'm happy the clothes apparently can't feel what I've put them through. If it wasn't for my habit of forming sentimental attachments to things and then never throwing them out, I would have no usable art supplies, no extra music gear, and very few articles of clothing. It's like albums to me: I may not want anything to do with them now, but in another five years, who knows?
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Like what? I haven't been listening to new metal releases for a couple of months. Catching up on other stuff.
There are still plenty of albums to which I still have to listen, but these are the releases which I've heard yet ánd really enjoyed: Hic Iacet - The Cosmic Trance into the Void (black/death/doom) Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (grindcore) A.M.S.G. - The Forbidden Transformation (black) Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden (doom)
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So what are the non singles doing for Valentine's day?? Was asked by my coworker today to go see 50 shades of grey with her.............................
We usually end up dog sitting for our best customer, which is the case again this year. When we do, the Mrs and I usually have a sushi picnic at home with the dogs and baby. It always ends up being a good time, and making some extra cash for doing something so simple as having two extra dogs at home for a few days is always nice.
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We usually end up dog sitting for our best customer' date=' which is the case again this year. When we do, the Mrs and I usually have a sushi picnic at home with the dogs and baby. It always ends up being a good time, and making some extra cash for doing something so simple as having two extra dogs at home for a few days is always nice.[/quote'] That sounds quite nice and I hope you have a good time:D
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Sadly, my empirical observations to date contradict this claim. I say "sadly" because it would be awesome to have a reason and the money to get some new clothes. I'm happy the clothes apparently can't feel what I've put them through. If it wasn't for my habit of forming sentimental attachments to things and then never throwing them out, I would have no usable art supplies, no extra music gear, and very few articles of clothing. It's like albums to me: I may not want anything to do with them now, but in another five years, who knows?
I'll stop trying to sell you on decluttering, it's just I'm very ready for it myself. I went through my albums today. I had a what amounted to a dozen boxes one and a half cubic feet a peace, so each one has something like one hundred records in it. About a third were my grandmothers classical albums, which I kept a several of. I had records belonging to a friend of my parents that he gave me when he was done with keeping records, they included most of the best jazz records I own and about six inches of German beer hall and yodeling and marching music. Lot of eighties crap and some not so crappy eighties stuff. I'm keeping about half of the records, as opposed to clothes, books, and papers that I got rig of about 80 percent of.
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Well I was planning on taking the GF to a Thai restaurant buuuuuut they're booked solid for Valentine's Day so I'm gonna cook for her instead.

bahaha:p I almost do not want to go' date=' because when the BDSM parts come up, I will feel super shy and awkward and think everyones looking at me...heh.[/quote'] Just focus on the cute Asian girl and you'll be fine :D
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I'm seriously thinking about suicide.
Thanks for checking in Parker, I've been wondering about you. We really need to set up a suicide watch thread. Where is BlackFuckingMetal666 for example, he could be dead and gone and who here would know? I'm up for a conversation about what people are worth to us here, in this place where we don't see each other, or know each other in the traditional senses of the word. Clearly folks come and go as time and interest allow, and that is fine and normal, but I like to know when someone I've been in touch with has died. Anyway Parker, as far as you are concerned, suicide is not appropriate for you, for one thing you have a diagnosed mood disorder, and for another I really like having you here and look forward to meeting you this summer in Rockland (even if I need to endure some blues to do so), and we should get together and share a hookah before death. I feel pretty strongly about that. I'm glad for you that you can tell us you're considering suicide in the relative anonymity of this forum, but I hope also that you have people close to you in your life that can help you as well. People really do vanish from the earth by taking their own lives and ultimately I believe it is a persons right to do so, but it needs to be taken seriously, both by you, and by those who hear your intention. Not that you've stated an intention to kill your self, but still I want to properly say I've heard you. I don't want to belittle your reasons for committing suicide, just point out what you already know, that they are not sufficient. The superficiality of them alone shows it's your mood disorder talking, as you no doubt well understand. Stay in touch and be kind to yourself, please.
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I'm seriously thinking about suicide.
Been there many a time my friend. It's a very dark place indeed. I'm not going to condemn or encourage self harm. All I will say on the matter is that you should seriously weigh up all the positives and negatives in your life before taking such drastic action.
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