This Trucker Fights Back

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Steve said:
These are wise words.

I was out of my league once when I started dating some fine looking woman.

Now I'm married to her.

Life isn't about leagues.

It's about honesty and realness. Put yourself out there and what clicks, clicks. What doesn't becomes the past soon enough.

Hiya Randy.
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Steve, I can't believe anybody is out of your "league". BTW, I'm in the special league :D

Seriously, you're right about it being all about honesty and being yourself. If a person only wants you when you pretend to be somebody else, you've lost your integrity and self-respect (and those things are VERY valuable!). If a person doesn't like you the way you are, you've lost absolutely NOTHING. You can still hold your head high ;)
 
I_love_muscle said:
Steve, I can't believe anybody is out of your "league". BTW, I'm in the special league :D
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Meh, my pics have you fooled. I am much uglier and smaller in real life, lol.

But I'm intellectual. And intelligent. And honest. Those are the things I place a premium on. And those are the things I find attractive in a woman.

If it were based solely on looks though, I'd be out of my league with my wife.

Seriously, you're right about it being all about honesty and being yourself. If a person only wants you when you pretend to be somebody else, you've lost your integrity and self-respect (and those things are VERY valuable!). If a person doesn't like you the way you are, you've lost absolutely NOTHING. You can still hold your head high ;)
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Precisely.
 
Steve said:
Meh, my pics have you fooled. I am much uglier and smaller in real life, lol.

But I'm intellectual. And intelligent. And honest. Those are the things I place a premium on. And those are the things I find attractive in a woman.

If it were based solely on looks though, I'd be out of my league with my wife.
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I actually think you're pretty hot, Steve ;) An 8 out of 10 if I've ever seen one!

As for your intellect/honesty/intelligence, you're a 20 out of 10. So when it's all averaged out, you're a ...

14/10? HTF did that happen? :D
 
Whew. What a weekend. I can't remember when the last time was I felt so alive!

Friday, 'Reba' (net pet name for rebounder I've chosen :p) and I went to out for dinner and saw the movie Gran Torino then drinks afterward. I got off to a slow start - cursed myself with this 'be yourself' bullshit. Containing anxiousness isn't necessarily my strong suit.

It was a very intimidating first several hours. Of course, movie time was a great time to score points because I couldn't talk. I carefully tested progression with polite hand placements - not in abundance, nor groping or improper, just little 'hi, I'm here' touches. I'm happy the first one was well received, otherwise I would have abandoned that strategy. I think the lifting her hair, gently passing it under my nose and quietly 'mmm'ing was the clincher :)

Well, I never made it home Friday :waving: Saturday we woke up and had coffee. We discussed going snowmobiling. We rode for a couple hours to At this point things are pretty well established. I challenged myself to dare doing something I probably shouldn't. I was hinging on the 'smothering aspect' but I did ask Reba if she'd like to keep the weekend alive by going out tonight, too.

Reba accompanied me to my parents combined birthday dinner Saturday night. My BIL and sis were bragging about Super Bowl ticket packages they were signed up for incase Pittsburgh won last night, when sis blurted out they had tickets to AFL championship game in Pittsburgh for last night.

I think I said something to the affect 'well bundle up good' when sis replied they weren't going. My jaw hit the table with a "WHY??" My BIL said he didn't want to go alone. My sis had already committed her Sunday to go stay with my triplet nieces in Harrisburg and the tickets were comped by Catepillar Equipment where my BIL's coal company buys several million dollars a year on machinery so they fell onto them with no warning.

"Did you wanna go in my place?" omfg, my sis brought music to my ears with that question! "Hell YES" I wanna go - and did. Never in my life in the 150-some concerts I've been to has an event like last nights' football game sent sheer energy through my body. Yes, it was better than rebounder sex. Sick, I know.

Welp, I got about a foot of neglect sitting in my driveway that needs shoveled. It was a pretty brutal weekend up here that way but looking back, I don't remember feeling the burden of the cold or snow. My mind, heart and soul was running in 80 degrees all weekend.

*back to earth*

btw, today is doctor day which means weigh in. I'll let ya know.
 
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Sounds like a fantastic weekend!! I'm glad you had a great time.

I'm not one for football, but as an avid NASCAR fan I can understand the energy one feels at an event like that.
 
Curvie Girlie said:
WOW sounds like a "great Bunny weekend" for YOU :D Glad you had so much fun, I hope you dropped some weight too! nice move on her, heh heh ;)
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Well on the ride back from the movies, I got the 'head on the shoulder' when I put on Wind of Change by Scorpions. I knew I was in.

Weigh in ?? hell, they'll have to put a boat anchor on me to weigh me.

Phoenyx said:
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Sounds like a fantastic weekend!! I'm glad you had a great time.

I'm not one for football, but as an avid NASCAR fan I can understand the energy one feels at an event like that.
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Danke. I thought turn 2 at Talladega was the most awesome non-music event ever. I was wrong. Close, but this was like Bristol on acid.
 
No loss, no gain. Mixed bag of feelings about that, really :screwyface: Doc gave me hi 5's for the loss since last visit, tho. He also gave me an antibiotic to see if we can't start clearing up my lungs since its been 4 weeks with all this mucus and lingering still present. meh, diabetes central.

yanno, I was introduced to Reba back in October at a block party my neighbor threw. I really didn't get any vibe from her whatsoever the day/night. Of course Penn State was playing and my neighbor had that game on the big screen and the party was pretty divided.

I got passed around in the intro at the beginning, tho I never did ask Carla (hostess and neighbor) her age, her friends were all about 48-55 range. Two I already knew and Reba I knew of by name. We had a good laugh about my deck walking. My neighbors can plainly see me when I walk and it was a good icebreaker for validity and savoir-faire. She paid me a nice compliment on my weight loss.

Had it not been Carla's follow up ear bending, I woulda missed the boat on this one. Certainly no elusive sparks flew out of her fingertips at me that night. I had just thought she was the same snobby person that she generationally inherited - through no fault of her own. I took it to chance when Carla handed me Reba's cell number it was Carla alone behind the shenanigans. Reba went through a positively devastating divorce and Carla had been trying to get her 'back to life'. I can relate to the vacuum of holing up. I never took it as an opportunity that was realistic until shortly after Xmas when Carla's hubby said I should call her.

So I did.
 
It's plum shitty when the numbers on the scale don't cooperate.

Ain't nothin but a thang, though.

How you feel is what matters, and right now you seem to be feeling all kind of good ;). Lol.

Go wit it.
 
Jenn, it's such a contrast. And your vid reminded me of that. I was hurt deeply with my weight gain much like you were. In fact, ashamed to come back here and own up to it.

But yanno, on the other hand I have to look at the big picture and just grin like a butchers dog thinking back what and where I was three years ago.

Doors have opened, planets have aligned, the seas parted and I'm a better man for all my efforts. The happiest of men ?? no, but I just have to keep beating that drum that I've been marching with. I now know one missed note ruins the song only for a second but if you stop the music altogether, the silence echoes a hundred times louder.
 
T2 Trucker said:
Jenn, it's such a contrast. And your vid reminded me of that. I was hurt deeply with my weight gain much like you were. In fact, ashamed to come back here and own up to it.

But yanno, on the other hand I have to look at the big picture and just grin like a butchers dog thinking back what and where I was three years ago.

Doors have opened, planets have aligned, the seas parted and I'm a better man for all my efforts. The happiest of men ?? no, but I just have to keep beating that drum that I've been marching with. I now know one missed note ruins the song only for a second but if you stop the music altogether, the silence echoes a hundred times louder.
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Amen!!

It was really hard for me to come back as well, for all of the same reasons.

But you're totally right. we've both come to far in the fight to just "stop the music all together," due to the inevitable stubbles a long the way. :)
 
Randy had some bunny time :D how cool. i'm happy happy you had great time :D

sorry about the scale though...it seems to be a bug this week. it seems no loss for me either :sigh: will be some eventually no?

hope you have more bunny weekends from now on :D
 
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Randy and Bunny. It sounds good!

Hey you're fucking awesome for putting pride aside and eschewing guilt and just coming back here despite the weight gain--look, we all get depressed and eat and drink to soothe ourselves sometimes, man, (well MOST people, shit!) and the fact that you're still getting on the ol horse is admirable. :) We both know (Lena too) how great the peeps on here can be for us!
 
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