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You Can’t Always Get Whatchou Want
But if you try sometimes, you might find, you’ll get whatchou need. Awww yeah.
With the new (97) Yukon in the garage a familiar sense of pride washed over me. Before the Mrs brought it home, I fired up the tractor and re-graded the gravel in the garage. I also re-plowed a bit of driveway in front of the garage door we don’t generally use and cleaned a big area out next to where I normally park. Now I could park my tiny refrigerator of a car on the other side of the garage and leave a big open space for the mammoth Yukon to dominate.
It’s a 13 year old truck, but I’m so proud to have it that I’ll clean the garage and fight over who gets to drive it next. Standing back from the garage, I realized I should have taken a “before” picture. In fact, I realized I should take lots of “before” pictures.
I’ve addressed before that I’m amazed by simple things. I try so hard not to take things for granted, and I’m so fortunate to have so many positive changes in my life. I always catch myself saying or thinking “Man, would you believe that we’d _______ last year at this time?” Just one year can make so much difference.
So my idea is this, I’m going to take a shit-load of boring pictures. All the most sad and mundane things around the house. It’s normal to take pictures of your new car, or the house once it’s been repainted. What I want to do is take pictures of all the things that are “so-so” and compare them later on. I can’t imagine I’ll have much bitching to do when the proof is right there.
This seems like a good thing for the kids too, to be able to say “yeah, this is how it used to be – but we worked hard and got this better thing”. I grew up with very little money, but my parents always made sure I had what I wanted. Miss E is already getting whatever she wants, so I hope the little things aren’t lost on her.
I don’t want to make a bragging list, but when I look at my house I think “Wow, that’s awesome. I’m so lucky.” When I use my neat smartphone I think “This is so cool, that I can have something like this.”
*mushy alert*
When I look at the Mrs, I think “She’s so awesome, more than I ever expected. I am so lucky to have her” and similar for my friends, including you guys, I’m lucky to have you all and when I compare memories, it’s always positive change.
This was a week late, and somber on top of that, so I want to spice up the deal by having you visit Fucking Windows. Go there and resize your window over and over. Fucking awesome.
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Think of what it will be like when that sock zombie arrives. Life. Complete.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:46 am
OOh! I need to take a picture of where he’ll primarily live, so I can take an after picture too.
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I have a serious case of the warm fuzzies today, so this post was right up my alley.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Awesome! It wasn’t my usual retarded or funny so I wasn’t sure what the reception would be. I think you just gotta keep wanting AND keep loving what you’ve got.
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I got so distracted with that window thing I almost forgot to come back and get my comment on. I of course have no idea what I was going to say. Um, congrats Crispy Nipples. Also, I find that Miss E’s should always get everything they want as a general rule. Also, it might have stopped snowing. So I’m outta here! Oh wait, all the snow is still on the ground. Nevermind, I’m still commenting. Did I mention my brain isn’t working very well today? I’m also having trouble with my attention span and notice that I keep just vomiting all the words in my
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Did you notice that if you “bang it” too hard the window turns red and … You know, just try it. It’s pretty awesome. Work day = complete.
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I like the picture idea.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Thanks, I think it’ll be fun and a nice reminder that sometimes life doesn’t suck as much as it seems.
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Aw, sappy sentimental posts. I love them.
And, actually, that is a good idea with the picture thing.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:54 am
Thanks! I think it’ll be good. I’ll inevitably forget to go back and look at the pictures, but I’ll run across them eventually. Kinda like when you find pictures from Christmases past.
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awwww, this is so cute! very nice to take stock of what you have and know you’re doing pretty great.
happy sunday!
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:55 am
Thanks, and happy I-just-got-around-to-replying-to-comments Monday.
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I loved this post as I was also being spat out of some sort of space time vortex that had sucked me up last week. As I’m getting my bearings back after a week of kids with stomach flu this appreciative ditty hit the spot.
See, you know what the people need!
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:57 am
I’d like to take all the credit, but to be fair my Ouija board decides what I’ll post.
It’s kinda like Pandora Radio, where I don’t get to pick but I do get a pre-set number of “skips”. Sooner or later I’ll *have* to post about goat reproduction.
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That site is awesome.
My weekend totally FLEW by though.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
It’s a healthy fixation. Well, not completely healthy. I didn’t use protection and my computer got whole-face herpes.
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Yeah, I used all my nice stuff up, so I will just shake my head, bite my tongue and move on……….
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
This head wound is really messing you up. Don’t forget you owe me $35 for that taxi.
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Aww… that was sweet and stuff…
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Right? I’m such a trophy houseplant.
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My soul was so temporarily warmed by reading this I forgot to tell you how my eyes lit up when you talked about firing up your tractor and moving gravel.
What kind of crazy fucking manly man are you? You give off that “I’m one of those people that moves things with the power of my mind and my blog” type vibes and then I have to picture you as a sweaty stable boy? What is even going on here?
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I don’t know quite how to respond to this, except to say thanks, and I’m doing a book signing next weekend. Bring your favorite books, and I’ll sign them for you FREE OF CHARGE!
What it really comes down to, is that I love toys. Particularly gasoline powered toys. I need to post pictures of the tractor on here. I think it’ll be surprising.
Also, I own chickens.
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GET OUT! chickens & tractors?
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 8:16 am
It’s a fact Jack. Except there’s one tractor, and it’s a garden tractor. It’s like this, except not as clean: http://www.zuwharrie.com/watermark.php?image=gallery/albums/userpics/12238/C120_001.jpg
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