OT: Thread About Nothing (TaN #...lost count)

[Bleedred]

Very thankful for my bestie down here and his wife, who’ve always looked out for me and my dog and even bring food over for me that I can medicate myself with at 1:00 AM. Literally 40 years of friendship.

And one other local friend. My gay but platonic life partner. Who comes over to keep me company whenever. Even when the dog is barking at him nonstop.

Still, I pine for my the closeness of my junkie friend up north. Our friendship predates her becoming a junkie.

 

[My3Sons]

Very thankful for my bestie down here and his wife, who’ve always looked out for me and my dog and even bring food over for me that I can medicate myself with at 1:00 AM. Literally 40 years of friendship.

And one other local friend. My gay but platonic life partner. Who comes over to keep me company whenever. Even when the dog is barking at him nonstop.

Still, I pine for my the closeness of my junkie friend up north. Our friendship predates her becoming a junkie.

I’m sorry. Hopefully she finds her way clean and can reenter your life. For now don’t beat yourself up and find something to distract you.

 

[Bleedred]

I’m sorry. Hopefully she finds her way clean and can reenter your life. For now don’t beat yourself up and find something to distract you.

Thanks.

She can reenter my life anytime she wants. She just has to choose to.

I just want it to be her decision. I want her to put in the effort.

I’m exhausted with the effort I’ve put in.

 

[Guadana]

Thanks.

She can reenter my life anytime she wants. She just has to choose to.

I just want it to be her decision. I want her to put in the effort.

I’m exhausted with the effort I’ve put in.

Sometimes you just can't wait of it from the people. Even if they are clean. You should let it go somehow.

 

[njdevils1982]

one day i might apologize for my constant swearing in posts...

however, i do not apologize for the lack of profanity in this post

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

Any golfers in here tried The Stack System? Be try expensive but quite possibly the best golf trainer ever created.

 

[MadDevil]

Jesus Twitter, I don't need to see the video of the Devils fan with her hand in her boyfriend's ass during the National anthem anymore.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Jesus Twitter, I don't need to see the video of the Devils fan with her hand in her boyfriend's ass during the National anthem anymore.

What in tarnation

 

[Saugus]

Did anybody else get a lot of snow Saturday and yesterday? We ended up with 10-12" here, and my snowblower wouldn't start, so I had to shovel it out by hand.

Very sore today.

 

[MadDevil]

What in tarnation

You're better off not knowing.

 

[Satans Hockey]

You're better off not knowing.

You explained it well enough, that girl got some ass and experienced an ass of a game lol

Seriously though, idk how people can be so shameless in public like that, especially knowing everyone has a camera.

 

[Guadana]

Hey, @JimEIV, how are you doing? didn’t saw you for quite some time. Everything is okay?

 

[njdevils1982]

65°F is the perfect temperature indoors no matter what day of the year it is.

if anyone disagrees and wants to fight me over it i will only agree to fists on! in a room that has a temperature of 65°F

 

[Andre Palot]

I've knocked over a of Olive Garden's never ending pasta bowl, how do I stop my house from flooding with pasta?

 

[denverdevil]

It’s a balmy weekend.

 

[Bleedred]

So my friend I post about a lot......who is on drugs.......

I let it go by almost a week and I messaged her. She told me she's sorry, she was tired those few days (when isn't she tired on that shit?) and is sorry for not getting back to me. I think this is an issue with me more than her. I need to be more patient and know that because of her lifestyle that she probably doesn't mean anything by it.

She sent me a very long and somewhat touching text message last night while I was driving home from the game. If I wasn't so PUMPED because of the win, I probably would have cried a little bit over that. I think she was also looking for more of a reply out of me over it. Basically she told me I was like her BF (Best friend, not boyfriend) and I tell her everything and she tells me everything and some of it was hard to read because she was making a lot of typos and unnoticed auto corrects (I think she talks her texts into the phone, I really don't do that) but the gist of it was that she didn't want to lose our friendship and she's sorry she doesn't always message me back. It took me a while to read it, but she sent me another text to make sure I read it. She also told me she felt like she was really in her feelings last night in one of those texts.

I wish I could have come up with a mushier response, but I have a bit of shyness and sometimes don't tell people how I really feel, unless it comes to my opinion on NHL goaltenders. I really wanted to tell her how much I loved her and I'm scared of losing her every day. It's kind of weird in a way, she has a boyfriend and I'm friends with him too, but I'd feel weird as shit reading that if I were him. Even though our friendship is basically like the equivalent of a gay guy/girl friend friendship. I'm her gay male girlfriend and she's like my lesbian buddy, even though we're both hetero. And our friendship is strictly over the phone now, due to the distance.

The only thing I could really muster up was to thank her for the time I had this weird infection of some kind on my leg. It almost looked like a bullet hole. She saw it and bandaged it up for me and made sure it didn't get infected. That was one of the nicest things someone that wasn't my grandmother ever did for me and I'll always remember that.

We did have casual relations a longgggggggggggggggg time ago. 20 years ago. She insists I didn't like her back then as more than an FB because she was a ''Fat chick'', I was a hefty dude at the time. The reason I didn't like her as a girlfriend is because I knew she smoked crack at the time. She didn't when we first met, but we were kids back then. She stopped smoking crack and later moved to opiates at some point in the last 20 years.

Now I'm overthinking her messages last night and worried that she thinks the end is near. That's how I think. I post about this all the time, obviously I'm constantly worried the end for her is closer than the end for most people, due to her lifestyle.

 

[My3Sons]

So my friend I post about a lot......who is on drugs.......

I let it go by almost a week and I messaged her. She told me she's sorry, she was tired those few days (when isn't she tired on that shit?) and is sorry for not getting back to me. I think this is an issue with me more than her. I need to be more patient and know that because of her lifestyle that she probably doesn't mean anything by it.

She sent me a very long and somewhat touching text message last night while I was driving home from the game. If I wasn't so PUMPED because of the win, I probably would have cried a little bit over that. I think she was also looking for more of a reply out of me over it. Basically she told me I was like her BF (Best friend, not boyfriend) and I tell her everything and she tells me everything and some of it was hard to read because she was making a lot of typos and unnoticed auto corrects (I think she talks her texts into the phone, I really don't do that) but the gist of it was that she didn't want to lose our friendship and she's sorry she doesn't always message me back. It took me a while to read it, but she sent me another text to make sure I read it. She also told me she felt like she was really in her feelings last night in one of those texts.

I wish I could have come up with a mushier response, but I have a bit of shyness and sometimes don't tell people how I really feel, unless it comes to my opinion on NHL goaltenders. I really wanted to tell her how much I loved her and I'm scared of losing her every day. It's kind of weird in a way, she has a boyfriend and I'm friends with him too, but I'd feel weird as shit reading that if I were him. Even though our friendship is basically like the equivalent of a gay guy/girl friend friendship. I'm her gay male girlfriend and she's like my lesbian buddy, even though we're both hetero. And our friendship is strictly over the phone now, due to the distance.

The only thing I could really muster up was to thank her for the time I had this weird infection of some kind on my leg. It almost looked like a bullet hole. She saw it and bandaged it up for me and made sure it didn't get infected. That was one of the nicest things someone that wasn't my grandmother ever did for me and I'll always remember that.

We did have casual relations a longgggggggggggggggg time ago. 20 years ago. She insists I didn't like her back then as more than an FB because she was a ''Fat chick'', I was a hefty dude at the time. The reason I didn't like her as a girlfriend is because I knew she smoked crack at the time. She didn't when we first met, but we were kids back then. She stopped smoking crack and later moved to opiates at some point in the last 20 years.

Now I'm overthinking her messages last night and worried that she thinks the end is near. That's how I think. I post about this all the time, obviously I'm constantly worried the end for her is closer than the end for most people, due to her lifestyle.

I’m glad she finally got back to you but you know full well the cycle will go up and down until she gets help.

 

[Bleedred]

I’m glad she finally got back to you but you know full well the cycle will go up and down until she gets help.

I texted her a bit ago and she also mentioned her messages last night and made sure I read them.

We have long conversations on the phone when we talk, like old ladies that talk on the phone from Florida to New Jersey all day long. She mentioned our long conversations and how she never gets bored with our conversations that go on for hours in her long text last night. I haven't talked to her in quite a few days, outside of the texts. I asked if she could talk and she said her friend is over and he'll get mad if she talks while he's there.

He's an alright guy, but he's on the shit too, after many jail stints in the past couple of years and his own parents calling his probation officer on him out of fear he was about to kill himself. I think he just did a year or over a year, got out close to a year ago and was staying clean. Then started smoking weed (that and alcohol are a no-no in recovery, yet so many people celebrate their sobriety yet continue to use lesser drugs and still consider themselves sober just because they're off their drug of choice) with some other people he's friends with, then started asking them to get him the other shit they all do. I think the first thing that started his legal issues was a car accident a few years back where they find a syringe on him at the scene.

He gets a bit jealous (not in that kind of way, he actually really is gay) and insecure that she has other bestie guy friends. I've never heard anything first hand from him about it, but he used to hate it when he would come over and see me hanging out with her all the time.

But I understand people not wanting to talk when they have company over.

 

[My3Sons]

I texted her a bit ago and she also mentioned her messages last night and made sure I read them.

We have long conversations on the phone when we talk, like old ladies that talk on the phone from Florida to New Jersey all day long. She mentioned our long conversations and how she never gets bored with our conversations that go on for hours in her long text last night. I haven't talked to her in quite a few days, outside of the texts. I asked if she could talk and she said her friend is over and he'll get mad if she talks while he's there.

He's an alright guy, but he's on the shit too, after many jail stints in the past couple of years and his own parents calling his probation officer on him out of fear he was about to kill himself. I think he just did a year or over a year, got out close to a year ago and was staying clean. Then started smoking weed (that and alcohol are a no-no in recovery, yet so many people celebrate their sobriety yet continue to use lesser drugs and still consider themselves sober just because they're off their drug of choice) with some other people he's friends with, then started asking them to get him the other shit they all do. I think the first thing that started his legal issues was a car accident a few years back where they find a syringe on him at the scene.

He gets a bit jealous (not in that kind of way, he actually really is gay) and insecure that she has other bestie guy friends. I've never heard anything first hand from him about it, but he used to hate it when he would come over and see me hanging out with her all the time.

But I understand people not wanting to talk when they have company over.

All your distance will give him whatever peace of mind he needs

 

[Bleedred]

All your distance will give him whatever peace of mind he needs

Yeah...... I haven't seen any of them in years now. Which sucks.

I just don't visit home much anymore. Not in 5 or 6 years.

Plenty of people have been here to visit me. She hasn't, but it's okay. Not everybody has the funds to do that. I don't take it personally.

If you don't travel too often, New Jersey to Florida is a pretty big distance.

 

[My3Sons]

Yeah...... I haven't seen any of them in years now. Which sucks.

I just don't visit home much anymore. Not in 5 or 6 years.

Plenty of people have been here to visit me. She hasn't, but it's okay. Not everybody has the funds to do that. I don't take it personally.

If you don't travel too often, New Jersey to Florida is a pretty big distance.

Most of my family is in NY and Florida. Split roughly evenly. Traveling from Louisiana is doable to both but now my oldest is in DC and it gets to be a bit much to visit them too often

 

[Bleedred]

Most of my family is in NY and Florida. Split roughly evenly. Traveling from Louisiana is doable to both but now my oldest is in DC and it gets to be a bit much to visit them too often

Sometimes it sucks, but I'm not too lonely down here. I have a best friend of 30-something years down here, who live 20 minutes away and right down the street from my work. So I spend a lot of time at his house with his family. And I'm always there for holidays and on weekends and many weeknights after work.

And I have a close friend I made after moving down here. We've been binging the Sopranos because he's never seen it.

And I got two friends across the state in @Cage Helmet and another dude. I've been friends with them for 30-something years. Well, maybe just around 30 years for @Cage Helmet. He's a bit younger than I am.

Those are the two guys I met up with at the game last night. It's much closer for them than it is to me.

 

[My3Sons]

Sometimes it sucks, but I'm not too lonely down here. I have a best friend of 30-something years down here, who live 20 minutes away and right down the street from my work. So I spend a lot of time at his house with his family. And I'm always there for holidays and on weekends and many weeknights after work.

And I have a close friend I made after moving down here. We've been binging the Sopranos because he's never seen it.

And I got two friends across the state in @Cage Helmet and another dude. I've been friends with them for 30-something years. Well, maybe just around 30 years for @Cage Helmet. He's a bit younger than I am.

Those are the two guys I met up with at the game last night. It's much closer for them than it is to me.

That’s great to hear. Spending quality time with people you choose is a great thing.

 

[Bleedred]

That’s great to hear. Spending quality time with people you choose is a great thing.

My brother (he's my step brother, I call him my brother, I have no biological siblings) and his family come to visit twice a year from Colorado. I used to go and visit them every August. I made a two week trip, where it was one week in Jersey, then fly to Denver for a week and fly back home.

I had more funds then out of my savings, which have been diminished quite a bit. I could probably still afford to do that trip annually or at least one or the other, but it's harder with the dog I have now.

 

[Guadana]

So my friend I post about a lot......who is on drugs.......

I let it go by almost a week and I messaged her. She told me she's sorry, she was tired those few days (when isn't she tired on that shit?) and is sorry for not getting back to me. I think this is an issue with me more than her. I need to be more patient and know that because of her lifestyle that she probably doesn't mean anything by it.

She sent me a very long and somewhat touching text message last night while I was driving home from the game. If I wasn't so PUMPED because of the win, I probably would have cried a little bit over that. I think she was also looking for more of a reply out of me over it. Basically she told me I was like her BF (Best friend, not boyfriend) and I tell her everything and she tells me everything and some of it was hard to read because she was making a lot of typos and unnoticed auto corrects (I think she talks her texts into the phone, I really don't do that) but the gist of it was that she didn't want to lose our friendship and she's sorry she doesn't always message me back. It took me a while to read it, but she sent me another text to make sure I read it. She also told me she felt like she was really in her feelings last night in one of those texts.

I wish I could have come up with a mushier response, but I have a bit of shyness and sometimes don't tell people how I really feel, unless it comes to my opinion on NHL goaltenders. I really wanted to tell her how much I loved her and I'm scared of losing her every day. It's kind of weird in a way, she has a boyfriend and I'm friends with him too, but I'd feel weird as shit reading that if I were him. Even though our friendship is basically like the equivalent of a gay guy/girl friend friendship. I'm her gay male girlfriend and she's like my lesbian buddy, even though we're both hetero. And our friendship is strictly over the phone now, due to the distance.

The only thing I could really muster up was to thank her for the time I had this weird infection of some kind on my leg. It almost looked like a bullet hole. She saw it and bandaged it up for me and made sure it didn't get infected. That was one of the nicest things someone that wasn't my grandmother ever did for me and I'll always remember that.

We did have casual relations a longgggggggggggggggg time ago. 20 years ago. She insists I didn't like her back then as more than an FB because she was a ''Fat chick'', I was a hefty dude at the time. The reason I didn't like her as a girlfriend is because I knew she smoked crack at the time. She didn't when we first met, but we were kids back then. She stopped smoking crack and later moved to opiates at some point in the last 20 years.

Now I'm overthinking her messages last night and worried that she thinks the end is near. That's how I think. I post about this all the time, obviously I'm constantly worried the end for her is closer than the end for most people, due to her lifestyle.

Its okay to be hetero friends for boys and girls. My friend from Canada has a baby now. She can't start to be pregnant and local doctors from toronto do nothing with it. I helped her to find good medical center in Moscow. She spent 1000$ for all analysis to find the reason what it was, and when doctors finally found clues and roots - ~5-7K $ for medicine. It was auto immune thing. Thanks got doctors helped and Canadian border guys were okay with tonns of meds.
After 2 years of hard work and pedantic life she is finally a mom. Im freaking happy for her like for myself.

My brother (he's my step brother, I call him my brother, I have no biological siblings) and his family come to visit twice a year from Colorado. I used to go and visit them every August. I made a two week trip, where it was one week in Jersey, then fly to Denver for a week and fly back home.

I had more funds then out of my savings, which have been diminished quite a bit. I could probably still afford to do that trip annually or at least one or the other, but it's harder with the dog I have now.

Are you making a trip from Florida to Colorado on the car or on the plane? Did you do it on the car at least once?