> George,

 >  GP> Hold off on the suffering.  You haven't been made acquaintance with 
the
 >  GP> Holy Spirit so you can be miserable! ;)

 >   Well, I got a surprise yesterday...apparently, there was an overpayment
 > to the hospice care for my late Mom. But, that money will either go into
 > savings, or to pay for the plumbing repair, or the taxes. It basically
 > covers the repair cost on the car. I have no idea when the contractor 
 > will finish up redoing both bathrooms. But, I decided to postpone the
 > colonoscopy...and will get my first of 2 COVID-19 shots on Friday...then
 > the second one just days before the 14th anniversary of my wife's death.

That's so adult & responsible.  You know the tv ads/corporations want you to
go wild & impulse buy/splurge, right?

Oh well, I guess you were also raised to understand you don't work for tyhem,
eh?

 >  GP> "Rejoice in the Lord always, & again I say: Rejoice" (I interpret 
that
 >  GP> to mean to eat dessert first, second, third, etc.)

 >   Stressed spelled backwards is DESSERTS.  But, I have to avoid the 
rich
 > food.

Moderation in all things [I add, "including(or especially) moderation)"]

Some things my moderatoin level is zero. (e.g. tobacco -- 18 years under that
devil on my baxck was plenty -- I was freed, PTL, & I'm not going back!)

 >  GP> It's a good deed to eat all the desserts at a pot luck (otherwise the
 >  GP> bakers feel insulted)

 >   It depends on what it is...I can't tolerate cheesecake anymore.

How come? I love cheesecake; a friend dropped me off a duble height one when 
I was 20, expecting it'd last me a while; I returned her pan the next day!)

 >  > I had IBS the morning before we went to my wife's church to the 
ceremony.

 >  GP> *LOL* Did you bring your own "music"  to the ceremony? Tooting out
 >  GP> "Here comes the bride," maybe?

 >   Not hardly. At the reception, one little kid drank too much of the
 > sparkling chilled grape juice, and he let out this hellacious belch!!
 > His grandma asked him "What do you say??", and he sheepishly said
 > "Excuse me". Everyone was roaring in laughter. The beverage I've liked
 > was Hi-C fruit punch and Ginger Ale. :)

I use sparkling spring water for punches, so there's no added flavour(not 
even the soda water component) to change the base punch/juice flavour. I buy
the 2L spring water for $99 usually. (Ginger Ale same, unless name brand 
name, then it's $2.35 for 500ml!)

I rarely drink pop -- the occasional Coke just for the caffeine.

I used to drink about 2 ounces of root beer a year & that was the only pop I
drank!  Now, with work & family. . . *sigh* (permatired)




 >   Years ago, my brother and I would swig a 12 ounce bottle of Doctor
 > Pepper in one swig...and see who could let out the raunchiest belch.

 >   She would always "excuse herself" beforehand...but our dachshund
 > beat us with the methane bombs he dropped. After one of us let one
 > go, it was like "that was a full grown adult yipe, and it wasn't on
 > disability".  

 >   One day, we were intimately occupied on the Futon, and the dachshund
 > was in his bed next to us. All of a sudden, this horrible stench
 > permeated our nostrils...the dog had dropped a methane bomb fart!!

 >   I started gagging, and my wife was laughing, saying "You know he's
 > down there, going 'Hee!! Hee!! Hee!! Ignore my @$$, will you??!!".

 >   Any "lovemaking" went right out the window...I had to get dressed
 > and take the stinker (pun intended) out for a walk. :P

 >  > I said, "We're not married yet". 

 >  GP> Close enough; you're bride & groom until married then you're husband 
&
 >  GP> wife.

 >   This is true. It reminds me of where the groom was so nervous at the
 > altar that he asked the minister "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride??!!".
 > The preacher replied "Not yet...but soon". 

 >  GP> If your fiancée pronounces it as financer, run. . .

 >   That's what my first fiancee' was. She wanted me to always take her
 > to the most expensive place, always pick up the tab, and forsake ALL
 > hobbies, etc. outside of work, and spend every waking moment with her.
 > Basically, she was going to do all the taking, and I was to do all the
 > giving. That does NOT work in a relationship...I broke that off before
 > we tied the knot. And, she accused me of "using her"...go figure.

 >   When Janice and I were looking for things like invitations, etc.,
 > there was a deal on there with "Daryl and Pamela" (that was the name
 > of my first fiancee'). Janice was chuckling, while I lamented "I think
 > I'm going to puke". :P

 >   Yet, Janice wanted to be part of my hobbies (we met on a local area
 > BBS)...and she didn't care whether we ate at McDonald's or The Olive
 > Garden...FOOD WAS FOOD.

 >  GP> It's so wrong.  I did my share of dishes, back when I had both hands
 >  GP> working.

 >   And, with living alone, I use so few dishes (most are disposable,
 > including the silverware), so that means no dishes to wash. I think of
 > the joke where this woman tells her lady friend about a special pre-wash
 > of the dirty dishes. Confused, her friend asked for an explanation, and
 > the woman shouts out two words...and two dogs bound into the kitchen. 
 > She sets the dirty dishes on the floor, and the dogs start their pre-wash
 > routine. The other woman fainted dead away. 

 >  GP> Now, my wife hates shopping (as did I, so I gave her that I'd do the
 >  GP> shopping as a bonus wedding gift); I buy it, she cooks it.

 >   Not a bad trade off.

 >  >   I had thought of myself as a Life Member of BTR (Bachelor 'Til
 >  > Rapture); but The Good Lord made a liar out of me on that...and I got
 >  > voted out. 

 >  GP> Seems like this one was a mite cynical.

 >   What's funny is that I couldn't see any need to marry before I met the
 > woman who'd be my wife. Now, 14 years a widower, some days, it gets 
awfully
 > lonely. But, nowadays, so many have "too much baggage" to deal with...and 
I
 > don't want or need all that "drama". The "drama" I preferred was in 
theatre
 > arts in high school and college. Long before I started dating Janice, this
 > one girl in the Sunday School lamented "Lord, if you don't give me a man,
 > I'm gonna die!!"...and that turned me off. I've known several women like
 > that...who basically want kids (and sex) so bad, they can taste it. Sex is
 > not the be all and end all of marriage...it's a fringe benefit.

 >  > I was *NEVER* so embarrassed in all my life!!

 >  GP> Aww -- this is what makes indelible memories.

 >   I could feel myself blushing. :P

 >  GP> My BIL married my sister with "take to be my awfully wedded
 >  GP> wife"(nervous); luckily the ceremony was caught on video. . .

 >   LOL. I nearly had another "boner moment"...I nearly said "With
 > this ring, I thee bed". 

 >  > the entire group roared in laughter.

 >  GP> A happy day for all!

 >   Her parents and her grandmother had come up from Florida for the 
 > wedding. Janice was in the back getting dressed, and her Dad asked
 > where she was. When I told him where she was, he quipped "I thought
 > she had coppered out". He then asked me for "one last kiss from her
 > before we got married". I replied "While she'll be my wife...first
 > and foremost, she's your daughter".

 >  > To this day, nearly 18 years later, I still can't look at the
 >  > wedding video without crying like a baby.

 >  GP> Nothing wrong with that -- it means you felt & felt sincerely. It's a
 >  GP> treasure.

 >   I do have a ton of wonderful memories that no one can take away.
 > We met on a BBS run by a local college, and as they say, "the rest
 > is history"...we truly were "Married With Modem Sysops".

 >  > and asked "What are you doing in there??". I wish I would've had
 >  > my wits about me...I would've replied "Playing Strip Poker". 

 >  GP> Why not, right? In the Jewish tradition marriage is consummated not 
by
 >  GP> a bloody sheet hung out the window, but by the bride & groom going in
 >  GP> to a small room in seclusion together for a half hour or so -- to 
"eat
 >  GP> a small meal together, privately".

 >   That's part of consuming, isn't it?? 

 >  GP> Yup, people assume what they wish to. . .

 >   You know what they about assume...

 >  >   So the one from Batman is on lunch break?? 

 >  GP> He died, didn't he?

 >   I want to say it was Caesar Romero...I think all the characters from
 > the original TV series are dead and gone now. The one who played Robin,
 > I think now advertises a special line of dog food.

 >  >   Or wrap up the toys they haven't touched in awhile, and give
 >  > them as Christmas presents (one parent did this, and the kids
 >  > thought they were new...but they had forgotten they hadn't played
 >  > with them in a long time).

 >  GP> That's a good one, but check they're still the right age for it. . .

 >   At least it's not like the blonde who brings a crap filled diaper, 
saying
 > "it was good up to 20 pounds". :P


 >  GP> To ground your kid, don'ty take away their devices -- take away their
 >  GP> chargers, so they get to slowly watch the batteries get lower & 
lower.
 >  GP> . .

 >   No pressure. Or change the way to unlock the phone (i.e. the PIN).

 >  GP> I've been thinking about adoption lately, but nobody wants to take a
 >  GP> 12yo boy who eats like a Sumo wrestler!

 >   He's growing...in more ways than one.

 >  GP> & the smooth motio of the car helps get those wee bairs a-snoozing.  
I
 >  GP> used to just walk around for hours with the kid in my arms (as a teen
 >  GP> babysitting for the neighbourhood single moms)

 >   Nowadays, most kids wouldn't think of doing such.

 >  GP> My wife & I sing the Staples Xmas ad jingle in September: "It's the
 >  GP> most wonderful time of the year. . ."

 >   Yep, when they go back to school.

 >  GP> You know, eh? How many kids do you have?

 >   None...but that's from what I've read and heard. After having chicken
 > pox that went into encephalitis (I was in the hospital for a week, and
 > quarantined from college and work for 2 months)...then working around
 > and absorbing nasty solvents in silkscreen printing...as my late wife so
 > eloquently put it, "they wouldn't spay me...so he volunteered to get
 > neutered".

 >  GP> I got a wrong number(she sounded cute) called in once asking for
 >  GP> Heather, I said, "I can be Heather for ya; how long do you need me
 >  GP> for?"

 >  GP> She laughed & said, "sorry, wrong number."

 >   At least it got a smile out of her.

 > Daryl

 > ... Can you tell me when my past due amount is due??
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