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Hey guys...
Just thought I'd pop in to tell you all...
I now weigh 286 pounds.
Since the Surgery (March 1), I've lost 66 pounds.
Better yet, since I started the program (May 22 of last year) my weight loss is at 103 pounds.
My waist has gone from a 58 to a 46 :D
I feel fantastic. I'm apparently exuding a confidence I never really had before (my friends say I have a literal swagger in my walk), and all in all, its like I'm a new me.
Too bad they're not making Saw or Hostel movies any more - this site would be great for the location scouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Wow. I, for one, love looking at the grapefruit tree outside my window every morning when I wake up. I'd die within a month if I had to live in those conditions.
This really makes me wonder what my friends in Brooklyn pay for rent. As their apartments are actually liveable.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
I've posted pics of my Brooklyn apt before. It's nice. I pay similar or less to those prices.
The difference is the trendiness of neighborhood. All of those pics are from the Upper West Side, Williamsburg, Park Slope and Bushwick, and people there jack up the rent like crazy because the demand for those 4 hot spots is high.
Bushwick especially, is a former industrial part of town turned shithole. Every other building in that neighborhood is either an abandoned factory or look ready to be condemned. But a lot of the great parties and hip new bars are there, so people who want to be around that scene live there since going to that part of town from any other part of Brooklyn (like where I am) via public transportation is like trying to invade Aghanistan by hitchhiking.
East Village for that price is pretty damned good.
That Williamsburg apartment with the pipes etc doesn't look too bad. It's cheap & has lots of light.
I guess you have to have your priorities. My only exposure to Bushwick is the crackcident episode of Girls.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
For reals. We're moving to a new place in a few months, and the house backs up to a 40-acre, wooded park with miles of trails. It's awesome. 2,000 square feet, $1300 a month. Looking forward to it. It's only about 10 minutes north of where we are now, but it feels like you're out of town when you're there.Quote:
Originally Posted by [ETM]
A guy I worked with for the first year and a half here at Lowe's and who moved out west to pursue a career in trades just died.
He fell 150 feet off the top of an oil rig.
We used to talk every Monday morning about "The Walking Dead" from the night before. He also wanted me to help him collect ideas for a tattoo because he liked my Giger sleeve so much.
It's not like we were best friends, but this has hit me really hard. I've never really known anyone who had something so horrible happen to them.
The one with the yellow ladder? That's probably the best picture on the whole blog.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
Yep, that was really filmed in Bushwick. The party they were at was filmed around the corner from this bar that my friend's cousin opened that I've been to a couple of times. I remember that on my way there, I was walking down a street with no lights past empty warehouses and a steel mill and I was thinking, "What kind of crazy asshole would open a place of business in the middle of goddamn nowhere?" And then I got there, and it was packed with young people. And then I realized I was just on the subway for an hour to get to this place. Fucking Brooklyn.Quote:
Originally Posted by ledfloyd
Nice Fezz!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fezzik
Young people like shit like that. Last Friday night my new band played our first show in this total crap-hole of a warehouse in the industrial area of Seattle, under a freeway overpass, next to the main train station. It was packed. There were like 100 bikes all locked up around the warehouse - the kids rode their bikes there. It was really fun, and they loved the music.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
I live in the rust belt. Everything is surrounded by decrepit warehouses and steel mills.
Its never easy. Tragedy makes it harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HYPERBOLE AND A HALF IS BACK.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...-part-two.html
I mean, she still sounds like she's going through some serious shit, but I was kind of afraid she was dead.
Back and back with brilliance. That post made me cry multiple times. It's spot-on accurate in just about every analogy she gave (especially the "why do I knock over these pins? What does it mean?" and the Dead Fish/solution for a different problem ones).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
I'm so glad she is back. I want to give her a huge hug.
I love this: "That solution is for a different problem than the one I have."
Actually, all the dead fish stuff is the best.
It's wonderful to know she's back. I hope she starts feeling better soon as well. I'm sure it'll be difficult regardless.
My favorite line: "The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don't like can be overwhelming."
I'm laughing and tearing up at the same time. I think this might be the high point of web comics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
For some reason, the part that made me tear up was realizing (from being a devoted reader) that the woman in orange who is crying is her mother. So sad.
I've skimmed through it a few times since reading through the first time. "How do you make the face for 'yay?' Am I doing it? I hope I'm doing it," gets me everytime. So depressing, so hilarious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mara
The comic strip Retail is starting to hit way too close to home for me. Time to go find a regular job and stop this part time bullshit. And yes I'm well aware I've been thinking/saying that for months now. Its a pain in the ass to, after spending time knowing people at where you work and getting settled in that you then have to go through the application/interview process again, followed by then having to meet new people and start all over somewhere else. Just because you aren't getting paid enough at your current job even though you don't mind it too much. This is why I drink.
Dude, I've been feeling like that for two years now. I don't know that comic strip at all but I'm afraid to read it now, heheh.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMan