What's on your mind?

Tone said:

I'll take your money


And you can take my drugs


Cause I'm a thug


I got that vax, for dat cash


So you could pay that tax


And we could raise the stats



That's as far as I got in this new poem that came to me right now...

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Kinda just joking with this one, but I do want to get back doing poetry.

I bought a poetry book today, "The Captain's Verses: The Love Poems", by Pablo Neruda.

sampa said:

looks like a California thing

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Yeah cheapest I found yesterday was $4.35 / gallon.

I had a double quarter pounder with cheese for almost $8 earlier today.

How much is gas and a burger where you all are?

I am falling apart.

Tone said:

Yeah cheapest I found yesterday was $4.35 / gallon.

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$3 38/gallon according to google

Tone said:

I had a double quarter pounder with cheese for almost $8 earlier today.

How much is gas and a burger where you all are?

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$4.85 for a Burger King Whopper. I don't eat fast food but I googled it according to the ZIP code. Fast food continues to go up because of wages being brought up. Also a huge shortage of workers here which I think the whole country is experiencing. A non fast food place like some of the local bars might be 10 to $12. I think I had a hamburger for $8 a few weeks ago with my cousins when we visited my aunt in the nursing home. I think mine was with green olives.

GodDoesListen55 said:

I am falling apart

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@GodDoesListen55 why are you falling apart?

sampa said:

you both can have my snow.

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.Mikha'el. said:

You're more than free to have my share of all the snow in the world.

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I snowwwww love you guys.

SarahsKnight said:

I am hoping that it does snow again where I am this year, as it surprisingly did quite a bit last February, to where I even had to be out of work for a week.

Minus the part, of course, where I did foolishly try to go to work one night - not having gotten the memo that we were allowed to stay home if we weren't confident that the roads were safe enough, as I have to take a highway to get to work - during that week of snow and ended up paying more to get my car towed out of a ditch than I made being on shift that night.

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Snow, snow, come again.
@SarahsKnight can tow your heart away.

Tone said:

Kinda just joking with this one, but I do want to get back doing poetry.

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I can buy your jokes. Ok, what's inside the waters?

GodDoesListen55 said:

I am falling apart.

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We shall rise again!

GospelS said:

You are FroZen.

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Frozen like an Iceland.

GospelS said:

I snowwwww love you guys.

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Haha, Love you too

On my mind: Been praying through and thinking about this person I'm supposed to talk with tonight. I don't think we will be a long-term match even though he is two counties over. He got on the site when I was clearing out my inbox for a minute and sent a message of hello that I found later. I get tons of mail from guys through this one site that is mostly free, mostly hellos and nothing meaningful that they have even read my profile. Anyways I had a message this morning that asked false or real, and then followed up with a verse saying that he hoped to be able to talk to me tonight. It's been less than 24 hours since the last text, I don't think his pace is for me. He has even said that he would rather talk by phone than text, and I agree, but a phone conversation should be treated properly and when you have things going on I don't feel like cramming it in to 30 minutes of my day but to allow for a space where there will be a couple hours. Ughh. Interested in my conversation next week with someone some states away, but I'm pretty sure I will have to be up front that we are not a match either since I have heard nothing of his faith. Much more attracted to this guy, so I have to be careful of my heart.

Other than that I have a tendon on my right foot healing from possibly something I did over the weekend with yard work. Hands are still hurting from the shoveling with the horse manure for the garden. Pretty soon I will have to get back into running, it's been over a month but mentally I needed this long break to catch up and get back into some kind of rhythm not as fast-paced as those 6 months was of training. Still have to work on a plan for next year's marathon training. My waist is expanding and I will have to change out some of my jeans, but that's to be expected.

Lastly, I made the decision not to see some of my family up north because of the numbers with covid-19. But the good thing is I will try to see my aunt in the nursing home and get Zoom setup with family and make her a pie. Social distance in a conference room. I think this has been good physical therapy for her since she is not in any kind of physical therapy. They have to lift her up in a hoist and get her situated in the wheelchair, it's a lot of effort but she loves getting dressed up and putting her makeup on.

GospelS said:

I can buy your jokes. Ok, what's inside the waters?

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Yes, and then I could give you my brains...all the many cells upon the waters...ebbing...flowing...quiddifying our reality...

GodDoesListen55 said:

I am falling apart.

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He Is your Wholeness.

Tone said:

Yes, and then I could give you my brains...all the many cells upon the waters...ebbing...flowing...quiddifying our reality...

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Inside the waters are volcanos and atolls.

33 cents a pound for turkey is a pretty good deal

Miles said:

A moment ago, I was listening to my atheistic boss bash a group of people for praying. The group of people were the workers who bui

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ohh no Praying that it may be an opportunity of witness.

May I ask for everyone's prayers, as starting tomorrow night I have five days of work straight, then a long trip out of town for both an exam and a funeral. Then another six out of eight days at work a few days after that. It will be exhausting, to be sure.

Especially if I suffer another dream any one of those nights after work like the one I did early this morning. It was disheartening and felt as real as any night terror, in which I awoke in a dark place where I could not seem to fully open my eyes, and was fearful that I was abandoned and alone in a terrible place of bad memory from my IRL pre-teen childhood. I worried about the abandonment because just before that in the dream I was with my IRL sister, trying to fall asleep as we shared and fondly spoke of better memories of our long-deceased grandmother who we were both close to as kids, so I suppose it was disorienting when I awoke again to find myself in what I could feel was a completely different but familiar (and not at all in a good way) location, to find her and everyone else gone, and no one responded to my calls for help from where I lay paralyzed and unable to see more than a narrow blur in front of me. So perhaps I feared my sister was dead and gone, too. ..... Definitely not a pleasant slumber. Please pray with me that I dream no more of the place that I was in, or suspected I was in despite not being able to fully open my eyes as though I were a newborn struggling to see, as i honestly despise that place, having been a source of few good memories but all too many bad ones. And that i also never again dream of such a situation of fearful abandonment.

The Lord had given me reassurance that He is here despite such a bad night, however.

sampa said:

ohh no Praying that it may be an opportunity of witness.

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Yes, I enjoy turkey...year round even!

I'm having chicken lomein (probably incorrect) right now,gonna be about 20+ with tip. Maybe I'll get a much needed haircut too. Not at the same place of course, though that is an idea...

Nah...

SarahsKnight said:

May I ask for everyone's prayers, as starting tomorrow night I have five days of work straight, then a long trip out of town for both an exam and a funeral. Then another six out of eight days at work a few days after that. It will be exhausting, to be sure.

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I sure can

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disheartening and felt as real as any night terror, in which I awoke in a dark place where I could not seem to fully open my eyes, and was fearful that I was abandoned and alone in a terrible place of bad memory from my IRL pre-teen childhood. I

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I'm so sorry, I can pray for this also. Nothing like a bad nightmare

Tone said:

Yes, I enjoy turkey...year round

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I know what you mean, but you selected the wrong quote

Tone said:

I'm having chicken lomein (probably incorrect) right now,gonna be about 20+ with tip. Maybe I'll get a much needed haircut too. Not at the

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Sounds pricey. I hope it was a good dinner.

Update on my mind: The phone call and conversation went well. He's maybe a decade older and said he was surprised I reached out to him. I was honest and let him know that I didn't think we were a long-term match, and I think he appreciated that directness. I felt it was the most polite thing to tell him in person then waiting to send something by email. Also we talked for 2 hours, and he said about talking next time, but I felt it was just best for us to say our goodbyes. There's always a chance we could run into each other but I gave him a recommendation for a church that is out by him that I have a good friend and his father that go there. I hope that will help him get plugged in since he just moved back to this area from Texas.

Wow, I am sad tonight, what a roller coaster of emotions recently!

GodDoesListen55 said:

Wow, I am sad tonight, what a roller coaster of emotions recently!

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Miss Listen, I don't know how much we can do, but, you know that we'll be here for you if you want to talk it out.