OT - NO POLITICS Rainy Weekends Always Get Me Down edition

[Alicat]

Today is a good day to stay home and start my new Lego set. Hopefully the storms will stay to the north of us today. Just give me one more day of peace and quiet. Tomorrow looks ugly.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Last night kinda stunk this looks good today tho

 

[Troublesome 85]

Friend of mine has a side catering/food business and for the last few months have been thinking of starting one. Few years back was thinking a food truck and started a menu but lost it all. In Miami now just doing first drafts of potential menus for a future truck or place. One menu focuses on burgers while another has a few things. Again just a first draft.

 

[TD Charlie]

Friend of mine has a side catering/food business and for the last few months have been thinking of starting one. Few years back was thinking a food truck and started a menu but lost it all. In Miami now just doing first drafts of potential menus for a future truck or place. One menu focuses on burgers while another has a few things. Again just a first draft.

My father ran a hot dog/sausage truck for a few years. It was a really tough business and requires crazy patience and probably a bit of a financial runway.

Your background is there for sure.

 

[sooshii]

I got a new grandnephew (a month early!) yesterday. Only 5 lbs 6 oz. Here’s little Bennett William and big bro Jackson:

 

[BMC]

My heart goes out to Scheifele

I lost both my parents at the same time

If anyone reading this is fortunate enough to still have them around, see them as much as you can

You only get to have them once

I cannot even imagine.

Scheifele's Dad was probably not very old.

My Dad left this earth in 2003 and Mom in 2008.

Spend time with the ones you love because if you don't you will wish you did

I decided to quote this here because I don't want to derail the playoff thread.

I fully understand why people feel this way and to an extent I do as well. However for me this was a double edged sword. I spent a great deal of time with my parents even after becoming an adult. I worked for my father for 31 years & I ate with him and Mom just about every day. We also did a lot of things together. In short I don't have the regrets many people do about not spending more time with their parents. On the contrary I have come to think I may have spent too much time with them because I was devastated by their passing, Dad in 2016 and Mom in 2022. It took me a much longer time than it should have to make my peace with their deaths and move on with my life. It is only recently that I have lost the feeling of being lost at sea as it were.

I guess what I'm trying to say is try to have balance in all things.

 

[Ladyfan]

I decided to quote this here because I don't want to derail the playoff thread.

I fully understand why people feel this way and to an extent I do as well. However for me this was a double edged sword. I spent a great deal of time with my parents even after becoming an adult. I worked for my father for 31 years & I ate with him and Mom just about every day. We also did a lot of things together. In short I don't have the regrets many people do about not spending more time with their parents. On the contrary I have come to think I may have spent too much time with them because I was devastated by their passing, Dad in 2016 and Mom in 2022. It took me a much longer time than it should have to make my peace with their deaths and move on with my life. It is only recently that I have lost the feeling of being lost at sea as it were.

I guess what I'm trying to say is try to have balance in all things.

I spent 10 years taking care of my parents. The last few years of Mom's life I was with her 3-4 days a week. She was really good company, and we talked about many things. I have no regrets. I get what you are saying though. My Mom and I were so close. I still miss her terribly.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Turn 40 in December and Im like fine wine getting handsomer with time

 

[shelbysdad]

Contract signed today
Goodbye NY summer

One day closer to moving to Maine

 

[Alicat]

Hunkering down at my mom's. Hoping for the best at this point.

 

[Bruinaura]

We just hired a girl who was born almost a year after I started working here

 

[caz16]

We had a beautiful trail walk today but it was busy since it is a long weekend. My little camera takes such amazing pics - this dragonfly was very impressive. It's wings are so shiny and I love how the closeup turned out.

Many Mennonites took the day off to fish. Their horses have to stand and wait. They are beautiful!

 

[Kate08]

We just hired a girl who was born almost a year after I started working here

I remembered the first time I hired someone born the year I graduated high school, then college.

Weird shit.

 

[Kovi2]

I decided to quote this here because I don't want to derail the playoff thread.

I fully understand why people feel this way and to an extent I do as well. However for me this was a double edged sword. I spent a great deal of time with my parents even after becoming an adult. I worked for my father for 31 years & I ate with him and Mom just about every day. We also did a lot of things together. In short I don't have the regrets many people do about not spending more time with their parents. On the contrary I have come to think I may have spent too much time with them because I was devastated by their passing, Dad in 2016 and Mom in 2022. It took me a much longer time than it should have to make my peace with their deaths and move on with my life. It is only recently that I have lost the feeling of being lost at sea as it were.

I guess what I'm trying to say is try to have balance in all things.

Sending love. Grief isn't linear nor does it have a time frame.

 

[TD Charlie]

Sending love. Grief isn't linear nor does it have a time frame.

Truth! One thing I've come to understand about grief is that there is ultimately no way to understand it. If that makes any sense.

I decided to quote this here because I don't want to derail the playoff thread.

I fully understand why people feel this way and to an extent I do as well. However for me this was a double edged sword. I spent a great deal of time with my parents even after becoming an adult. I worked for my father for 31 years & I ate with him and Mom just about every day. We also did a lot of things together. In short I don't have the regrets many people do about not spending more time with their parents. On the contrary I have come to think I may have spent too much time with them because I was devastated by their passing, Dad in 2016 and Mom in 2022. It took me a much longer time than it should have to make my peace with their deaths and move on with my life. It is only recently that I have lost the feeling of being lost at sea as it were.

I guess what I'm trying to say is try to have balance in all things.

Happy to hear you are doing better Beems, despite what life has sent your way.

 

[Ladyfan]

 

[Bourque]

I used to live in London and love their writing, vocabulary, and wit. A recent headline from The Telegraph reads Bono: Stories of Surrender: A dire 86 minutes of yelping self-mythologising

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[Kovi2]

Truth! One thing I've come to understand about grief is that there is ultimately no way to understand it. If that makes any sense.

Yes. I agree with that In the work that I do, we mainly think of it as a felt sense. It's somatic. When I work with people in the living spaces, grief shows up everywhere in their homes and their bodies