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Matt Busby said
@I’m home! Still have to lay low awhile to make sure the pneumonia is gone, shingles are still p pretty bad, and a nurse is coming out every other day or so to check on me.Thanks to all of you (especially
@Zig) for the support. I’ll have a lot of time on my hands so look footrests to more of my long, rambling, half meaningless, brilliantly inane posts
At least you’re home! With the whole thing with my grandma and all, it made me realize how great it is to actually be in your own home when you’re sick or not functioning well. Hope you’ll be jumping around again soon!
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On Friday I went out for dinner with my 2 best friends whom I hadn’t seen in a while, so that was great! 
Tomorrow I’m going to this special florist in town with my brother, to find something nice for my mom who will be a Sarah this Wednesday! Going out for dinner that night as well. My brother and I are paying for it. We also have another big gift for her. Money just flew away this month, but I hope she’ll like it.
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Matt Busby11.51pm
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Offline Well, in case somebody is interested, last week I finished my first oil painting. It’s a semi-abstract composition (you can see the animals there, but the approach isn’t naturalistic) in reds, browns and grays, and it’s not very big –but in my modest opinion it’s beautiful. I was heavily influenced by a Max Ernst etching, the lower part of my painting is almost a copy, albeit with a different color treatment. The oil is drying now, perhaps in a few months I’ll frame it and hang it. So that’s all folks. Oudis.
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Ahhh Girl said
@StarrisonSubmarine, fingers crossed that a good job comes your way soon. And you, too, trc.
Thanks. Had yet another two rejections One for a pet store too! I’d stop going, but it’s the place we get the rabbit food from and the only place we can find the dogs food. Blimmin picky pets ey?
In other news, I’m starting to consider leaving the forum. I don’t really offer anything of quality or worth reading. It seems every other post I make is pointless, moronic or even just repeating what others have said a few months/years ago, and I can’t seem to get most things in the right place.
When you have something to say @StarrisonSubmarine , it’s your thought, even if it has been repeated for centuries. Your thoughts are unique in that they come from your unique perspective, even if you say the same thing as the guy next to you. Repeating something simply means that you think in a similar way that someone else is thinking. That’s a *good* thing. Striving to be entirely unique in everything makes one a Nowhere Man . It’s the wisdom of the Beatles and they came up with it based on experience and thinking… even though they were not the first to discover it, right? But they *did* it themselves, and that’s what matters.
I’m going to cut the ramble now, promise.
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What’s happening in my life? Oh I don’t know. I think I’m still working on figuring out how to keep my physical existence. Feeling useless is crap, but then it won’t be something to stick around with me, I’m not like that, I hope. I’ll pull through.
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Ooooh @Oudis will you show it to us somehow?
By the way, a vast number of outstanding paintings are small format, you know Mona Lisa? 
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Offline @Linde, what is “a Sarah”?
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17 February 2015
Offline Repeating is a part of story, if you want to listen more the song you have to repeat because you like it, of course we want Something new and Something different but once we heard the new story and the new song then we are feel bored we don’t like it,, then we realized the old song and the old story is more nice, then we want more to listen and repeat again,
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But then you keep getting stuck in the old song then you don’t learn. Eventually you gotta make that leap and try something new sometimes. It may be harder since the old song is safe and the new song can be good or bad but you won’t know until you try.
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Offline Today weather wise so far we have had:
- Sunny (with bright blue skies and very calm)
- Rain (with very dark skies)
- Hail
- Snow (which it is currently)
- Sleet
- High Winds
and its not even 1pm.
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Offline meanmistermustard said
Today weather wise so far we have had:
- Sunny (with bright blue skies and very calm)
- Rain (with very dark skies)
- Hail
- Snow (which it is currently)
- Sleet
- High Winds
and its not even 1pm.
That is like the weather where I live a few days ago
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Offline Annadog40 said
But then you keep getting stuck in the old song then you don’t learn. Eventually you gotta make that leap and try something new sometimes. It may be harder since the old song is safe and the new song can be good or bad but you won’t know until you try.
But it doesn’t have to be ‘new’ new. It could be small band swing->bebop transition jazz (like, benny goodman’s trios/quartets/quintets), if you’ve never gotten into it. Or classic country. Or early punk. Or even (dare I say it?) modern boy band pop…(nah, I probably shouldn’t have said it…but if that’s what you’re into 
My outlook is, the more I know of the history, the better qualified I am to critique the new (and to recognize history repeating itself), and people crediting the 369ith cover of a song, which happened to chart 25 years after the original spent 2 weeks at #1), to the later performers as authors rather than the actual writers). For example the famous Aerosmith song Come Together 
But I feel I am the preacher and y’all are the choir
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Offline I just got back from horse riding and the lesson went well, I’m starting to learn how to jump, which is pretty cool. Only at the end of the lesson when we were riding back to the stables, the horse in front of me got scared of something, which also scared my horse, so he ran off, and I fell. It was pretty terrifying because I’ve only ever fallen off a horse once, and that time I broke my arm. Luckily this time I didn’t break anything, just my back is a bit sore and I have multiple bruises.
Anyway, apart from that, in my life: I’ve got important exams coming up in two weeks, so I’m studying hard and slightly starting to stress.
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Offline If any of your exams are for English classes, I think you will do just fine.
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Offline Its pity and sad the real one thread will be close, but I understand joe just wanted to clear up the forums, and I would like to thanks to all of you guys,the real one makes a lots of fun,!!
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Offline meanmistermustard said
Today weather wise so far we have had:
- Sunny (with bright blue skies and very calm)
- Rain (with very dark skies)
- Hail
- Snow (which it is currently)
- Sleet
- High Winds
and its not even 1pm.
Aww we haven’t got snow 
It’s currently sunny but in about 10 minutes or so it’ll probably start raining again.
Cool Temperate Oceanic Climate FTW!
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Offline Beatleva said
I just got back from horse riding and the lesson went well, I’m starting to learn how to jump, which is pretty cool. Only at the end of the lesson when we were riding back to the stables, the horse in front of me got scared of something, which also scared my horse, so he ran off, and I fell. It was pretty terrifying because I’ve only ever fallen off a horse once, and that time I broke my arm. Luckily this time I didn’t break anything, just my back is a bit sore and I have multiple bruises.Anyway, apart from that, in my life: I’ve got important exams coming up in two weeks, so I’m studying hard and slightly starting to stress.
I learnt to jump when i was small. Dont do it much now but you never lose it.
Glad to hear you are ok after your fall. Can be quite serious can falling off a horse. You need to get right back on it.
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21 November 2012
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@@Linde, what is “a Sarah”?
Oh of course, you probably don’t have that expression in English! Well, when someone turns 50 over here, we say they have seen either a Sarah or an Abraham. After Sarah and Abraham from the Bible. I have no idea why though. I’m trying to look that up. Might ask someone who’s religious tomorrow.
Anyway, they often put a doll of either of those in the front garden or hang a huge banner with some stupid poem on the house. I think the banners are tacky and the dolls are scary.
Btw, the weather over here was ridiculous as well. Hail, rain, very heavy wind. The wind actually blew me against a wall.
@Oudis Any possibility we could see the painting? It sounds wonderful.
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Offline Thanks @Linde. Sounds a strange thing to do but then us Scots stand when a haggis enters a room before reading it some poetry (only on Burns Night as if thats a decent excuse).
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1 November 2013
Offline Linde said
Oh of course, you probably don’t have that expression in English! Well, when someone turns 50 over here, we say they have seen either a Sarah or an Abraham. After Sarah and Abraham from the Bible. I have no idea why though. I’m trying to look that up. Might ask someone who’s religious tomorrow.
It is because they are old. Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born (I am not sure how old Sarah is but she was old) and in the early days of genesis, everyone lived for a long time. Noah was 500 when the flood hit.
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Offline Annadog40 said
But then you keep getting stuck in the old song then you don’t learn. Eventually you gotta make that leap and try something new sometimes. It may be harder since the old song is safe and the new song can be good or bad but you won’t know until you try.
And still, while the song remains the same old song, we ourselves change with each new one. Makes old songs new again, as in, we comprehend them differently. And books. And poems.
Y’know.
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Offline Getting_Better said
Ooooh @Oudis will you show it to us somehow?By the way, a vast number of outstanding paintings are small format, you know Mona Lisa?
Linde said
@Oudis Any possibility we could see the painting? It sounds wonderful.L
@Getting_Better, @Linde
Thanks for your interest. I guess I could try to scan it -but then again it’s too big for that. And anyways the pain is still fresh, and oil takes months to dry…
EDIT: Did you notice I wrote “the PAIN is still fresh”, not PAINT? A Freudian slip I guess…
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
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23 March 2015
Offline @Oudis I can wait months I’ll find a way back on the internet even if they evict me
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