Accords are so good.

I had a 99 accord and I just used to carry my bluetooth speaker with me because of the no aux input situation. Other than that, I got some good miles out of it.

you're both lame and contributing to global warming.

So you're a fat terrorist now?

um its called being curvy

But Arabs are hairy and smelly so they might as well be fat.

hairy yes but smelly i beg to differ, bitch

especially coming from your drunk smelly ass.

The only smell on me is cigarettes and fast food grease.

heh Ive got an 09 fusion. its been quite good to me so far. I think ive put over 30k on it in just over a year, which is a lot for someone who doesn't drive to work.

2016 on the whole has been a bit of weird one for me. I've thought that the previous 3-4 years have each been my favorite year id lived, which each one getting progressively better. but 2016, while I hadn't really associated it with anything bad per se, hasn't seemed like its continued that upward trend. For the bulk of this year it's felt like I've been sleepwalking through it - my jobs been fine, my relationships have been fine, my family has been fine, etc. Nothing really noteworthy on either end of the spectrum.

The last few months tho this all kind of took a 180 and its been one the strangest emotional whirlwinds ive experienced (self-inflicted for the most part). my job has been a lot worse/stressful, my relationship has been anything but simple, and I've been a bit more homesick than I ever was. But I don't see any of this as "negative" really. I don't regret anything ive done this year, and im taking it as a transitional period into something hopefully great. that being said these next few days are really going to be shitty and 2017 is either going to start out really great or really horrible. lets assume tacos and hope for the former.

We're not gonna stop global warming anymore, humanity will be dead before 2100.

2016...

Every year I'm still around is a good year, and I've been around for 50 of them. Some highlights from this year would be:

• I moved into a beautiful Condo
• My daughter moved back in with me after living with her grandfather for a few years while I moved in with my GF who had cancer
• The GF's sister was diagnosed with cancer, but is now cancer free after surgery and some chemo
• I celebrated 10 years working for a company I helped get off the ground
• I was given a substantial pay raise
• I bought a PA system
• I hosted a lot of Open Mics that basically paid for the PA system
• I started producing other people's music
• I aided in the production of a Christmas album for a bunch of artists from around the world
• I released my 8th album
• I turned 50
• I don't have Lupus

sounds like a great year

Not bad at all, except for the staggering number of famous people and a few friends that passed away.

It's never Lupus.

^

http://i.imgur.com/qONod7j.jpg

got my first coast to Coast medal

this year i'll be getting this bad boy
http://land.allears.net/blogs/laurag...whalf16_08.jpg

first run of the year is on 01/14/2016 at Disneyland.....second in April at DisneyWorld

GO BOB!

Great to hear man.

Good Luck!

I'm jealous of that medal. I'd walk the distance for a chance to get that.

thanks guys!

yeah when i ran the dark side run last year and i saw that medal i flipped out.....this is going to be tons of fun :)

I had three goals for 2016 of which I accomplished two of them. I managed to lose 60 pounds and tone my body to the best it's been in my entire life. It was because of this I was able to pass the physical tests and get accepted into my local police departments 2017 academy. Unfortunately I failed spectacularly in my 3rd goal which was to make more friends, in this case actually going backwards and losing a close friend of mine and access to their social circle which I was somewhat of a parasite to.

you still in the Truckee meadows area?

Congrats! Gotta have some Schwarzenegger back muscles to be wearin all that swag. I did a couple of local 5k's this year. Nothing too strenuous, since I got a bum leg. All I got were T shirts.

:beer:

I am

Something like this happened to me a few years ago. It's fairly sobering to realise who your real friends are. These were people from college, and looking back I don't think I really had much in common with them.

Same. Afterward I came to the conclusion that bending over backwards to make friends when it doesn't come naturally to you is a good way to end up around people you probably should have kept at the acquaintance level.

Posted this text on Facebook today but maybe it belongs here too.

I've been going to SRJC for like, seven years now, but there's an end to my time there in sight and it's finally all starting to pay off. I completed my student teaching and received a certificate in Early Childhood Education last Spring, which qualified me for this amazing opportunity to work as an intern through SRJC in a classroom that serves as a best practices model site for the CA Program for Infant/Toddler Care. The second leg of my internship begins next week, and by May I'll be a fully certified preschool teacher with literally the best training you could hope to get - the SRJC Children's Center doesn't get enough shine, it's really an incredible resource not only for local families but for students of many disciplines, but I digress.

I finished two AA degrees this past semester, one in Religious Studies, and the other in Humanities. At the end of Spring I'll have officially wrapped up my AA in Child Development, but I still have some GE classes to knock out in order to fulfill SSU's transfer requirements, as I plan to pursue from there a BA in Human Development with a minor in Multicultural Studies, and eventually an MA in Social Work. I'll meet those transfer requirements by the end of Fall 2017, by which time I'll also have wrapped up an AA in Philosophy, and an AA in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

One could kind of look at it like I am being awarded five degrees in 2017, maybe. Sorry if this all sounds braggy but I think I downplay my own successes enough on my own time that I don't need to feel guilty for acknowledging my own accomplishments when I'm really feeling proud of myself. I hope to feel shamelessly proud of myself more often in 2017, to be honest. Both academically and internally I have a lot of work to do this year, and I'm ready.

Right on, even if the thought of spending all that time with small children gives me the willies.

I'm totally anti-procreation but believe that we have to take the best care we can of the babies that exist. I used to be squeamish about being near babies too, but once I started hanging out with them all the time I realized how much of a trip they are. I watched six babies take their first steps last semester - like wtf this is my job? Every day is like a science/social experiment and babies think I'm hilarious and I get to practice my Spanish with toddlers that don't judge my terrible accent.

Not to mention I get to introduce kids to things like worms and hand drums and mud for the first time ever. And they're full of comedic gold, if it wasn't all super confidential I could fill a book with great toddler one-liners.

Wait what!?

You could totally do a version of kids say the darnest things but with toddlers. Why is it confidential? The things that they say?

I mentioned the classroom I work in is part of a model program - to expand on that, it means that there are observation booths attached to each classroom - like full on double-sided mirrors, in which ECE, Pyschology, Linguistics, etc. students can use to observe the development of children enrolled in the care center. There are also observations of the center's staff made because our performance determines the grants we get to run the center, but is also essential for use in training other prospective teachers. The children enrolled in the center belong to the college staff, or low-income parents who are also enrolled in the college and maintain a certain gpa.

It's confidential because we're basically all lab rats, but parents can decide their children are not to have their picture taken or otherwise be observed for class projects or whatever.

Ohhh okay gotcha!

That's interesting.

It really is!! Infant/toddler center care is still a very new area of study, and as such affords me a very unique experience. Not to mention the dope resume/leverage I'll have when exploring the job market.

2016 ****ing sucked. Only good thing about it was dope music that came out this year.

Oh, and even though 2016 saw me lose my 5 bedroom house to welfare rat piece of **** racist skin head ****s, I do always feel warm inside knowing that I did have a bigger house than my father had ever lived in.

Oh, and drama in the juggalo scene was really funny this year. Ended with ICP and Twiztid finally bashing each other over twitter.

Oh ****, deets?

I got 300$ worth of debt to the library renounced. Now I get to read the hobbit and love and rockets. And sulk over having destroyed my earphones during a ridiculous fit and not being able to watch movies.

How does one accrue $300 in debt to a library?

When Fahrenheit 451 is read as an instruction manual.

So he racked up their cable bill?

So you know Twiztid left Psy and started their own label and of course Blaze went with them.

Boondox left and signed with them.

Now Young Wicked who is Otis from AMB was being talked up as the prodigal son of Violent J and being herald as Psychopathic's savior for the last two years. A few months ago he started ****ing Jumpsteady's daughter. (Violent J's older brother who also helps run the label) and on new years eve it was revealed that he was off of Psychopathic and signed with MNE.

ICP posted "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery... but a snake is a snake even in a ninja suit"
Blahzay Roze (a new chick rapper they signed) tweeted "Magical Ninjas be like Sloppy Seconds are better than nothing"
Twiztid posted "**** talk **** talk! Say a name... big talk"
And on new years they posted something about how they are sick of the lies and guilt trips and threats and shady manipulation.

In recent events a couple of Myzery's cousins (Myzery is Jumpsteady's brother in law if you didn't know) are threatening Twiztid, Young Wicked, Boondox, Blaze and Lex Masters on facebook because Young Wicked got Jumpsteady's daughter pregnant. Which nothing will happen. Real mother ****ers don't threaten people on facebook because it's just all around stupid.

Edit: Oh and there are a bunch of artists that ICP are inviting to the juggalo march on DC and they are making it public who they invited, who declines and who accepts. Which is sure to cause some kind of Drama. Surprisingly Necro accepted since he has publicly bashed ICP and juggalos and Killa C declined.

Lol. So Psychopathic is officially dead in the water now.