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Muffs, I love you when yur drunk and stoked:-)

Um, I fall into almost ALL of these....... Except for the one where you calculate how much $$$$ you make per second..... I only did it to the minute.

Thats brilliant!

Actually, no. I'm dealing with a major life change, and I decided to say fuggit and see what kind of wisdom the Spray gods might provide. Archenemy, I admire your short answer skillzzz....

So, I know that at least some of the weirdoes on this forum read my little "addiction and climbing" ramble, as well as the overtraining [thing] in the fitness forum.... Basically, to help myself keep some sanity, I decided a while back to go in and chat with a mental health counselor. And its honestly been a very good thing. However, after our wee chat this afternoon, she straight up told me that I have all the symptoms of a recovering drug addict, and told me that I need to find "something besides climbing and athletics to get good at". She essentially told me to quit my passions entirely. Ummm, yeah. Sure. How can I do that when mountaineering (and my other hobby) have been my greatest sources of happiness and contentment thus far???? How do you say: NOT POSSIBLE!!! I mean, I am very good at other things. They just don't make me as freaking happy! I know that balance IS the name of the game. I mean look at Fred Becky (although the dude is a little cookoo) he's like 80 something and still climbs ALL the time! He must be doing something right. I'm not totally nutz (jesus I hope) just dealing with some massive demons right now......... wait, that sounded pretty church-ish. Crap. Anyway, thanks Spray, for letting me vent and rant.........

i called my mommy and she helped me feel better. I have a serious shoe fetish. I have like 30 pair. and now i will have to get rid of them and get a few expensive pair. i have really cute high heals sandals and pumps and boots and and and.... *sigh* it's funny i like to look at shoes i don't like to wear them mikey says think positive.... this will get better like that??? You are so cute Muffy. If I'm feeling bummer, I try to do something that makes me happy. Today I went and combined bananas and coconut in my blender. That certainly helped. Oops, this isnt' spray...

hey! that's not nice. muffy should i smack him for you? if she were 30 years younger she'd barely be playing with a lite brite. OOPS! Did I say 30 years????? Shit... I meant 10. Seriously. My mom is 30 years older than me.......

Yeah me too. I think that, along with the very first quote are my favorites.

Oh, well, I tried! If you were 30 years younger I'd offer some hands on wake up call! Wink ;-)

Here it is: "Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio &Grandfather of Television. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project Manhattan "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers "-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "But what is it good for?" commenting on the microchip.-- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968 "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us,"--Western Union internal memo, 1876 "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" in response to urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.-- David Sarnoff' Associates "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible,"-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express. "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who falls on his face, not Gary Cooper," -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind. "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make," -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," -- Lord Kelvin, president Royal Society, 1895 "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy," -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil, 1859 "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value," -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899 "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required."-- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University "I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself.-- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873 And last but not least... "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Perhaps not so short sighted.. "The world is a dangerous place to live -- not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein

I've got a noisy wee "rape alarm" that I'm sure would get the job done.

DUCKNUT that is not a good dinner what kind of example are you setting for the impressionable???? you could have at least gone to the park Yeah, especially when youngsters like me are exposed to the rampages of Spray on a daily basis! Caugh caugh MUFFY caugh caugh he i thought you were legal sugar i was talking about all those highschoolers Yes, I am legal........ I'm tweakin yer legde. thats sounds naughty OH, it is.... Its one of those top secret british humor things....

OK thats just terrible. Animal poop-rubbers.....

Will Chiropractors be able to use that modality in Washington???

Yeah, cheap shoes are a bummer. In fact, shoes in general are a bummer! Seriously, when you like going barefoot all the time the last thing you want to do go waste some bucks on foot prison! We need to get yer tooties happy soon though. Because we've got a himalayan trek coming up in ten years! By then I'll either be 1) as smart as Layton and making some dough or 2) working as an over-qualified full time dirt bag / bum, and eating food from the dumpster. If the latter happens, I could sell lemonade to pay for out little trip to Asia.

Yeah, you might try XXL ribbed ones..... Freaking freak.

I tend to be with you on this one......

People with guns and scissors worry me.

8D this morning? Every morning. Why else wake up? SO TRUE god i hate sleeping alone *snif* I am going back to bed til someone comes to wake me up properly. OHH MUFFY! MUFFY! ITS TIME TO WAKE UP!!!! I'VE GOT SOME COFFEE!!!

Hi Muffy, I'm not as "know-ed" as Mr. Layton is (hopefully eventually) but I've dealt a similar problem. I was born with essentially zero arch. When I was about 14 my feet and knees started KILLING me, and I developed some achilles tendinitis. Basically my feet were pronating (sort of rotated out) and my knees were going super valgus (knock-kneed). I saw a super good PT and started doing a lot of what Layton listed above - especially going barefoot everywhere - but also working on my gluteal and leg muscles to get my knees more varus (not knock kneed). I do know that women in general have greater Q-angles in their knees, so maybe that could help the knee pain. Also, I got some custom orthotics that put my arch into a good biomechanical position, and this further helped me retrain my movement patterns. Fast forward to current day and I still make efforts to be super stable and conscious about how my body's structures move, but its gotten a lot easier (I do realize however that there are massive structural changes that happen between the ages of 14 and 23!). These days, I still have a natural tendency to go flat footed and knock kneed, so I still wear my orthotics (especially when hiking and climbing carrying loads) but I don't have to rely on them nearly as much. I can wear flip-flops and go barefoot and my feet and knees behave properly just because I've trained my muscles to go that way. So yeah, training movement patterns I think is the way to go. One exercise that I've found really good is standing one legged and doing body weight squats on one of those half-stability balls (most health clubs have them - basically a disc on the ground with a bubbly half). It makes all those little foot muscles burn like shit, and I find that my gluteals get a really good workout too (doing this in front of a mirror where you can watch you knees helps a ton). I hope yur feet and knees feel better soon.

DUCKNUT that is not a good dinner what kind of example are you setting for the impressionable???? you could have at least gone to the park Yeah, especially when youngsters like me are exposed to the rampages of Spray on a daily basis! Caugh caugh MUFFY caugh caugh he i thought you were legal sugar i was talking about all those highschoolers Yes, I am legal........ I'm tweakin yer legde.

Dude, I DON'T want to die in bathtub. With my clothes on. That's just poor style. take your clothes off thats more sexy Yes, dieing naked would be a good way to go. Plus bathtubz are always the last ting left after tornados....

DUCKNUT that is not a good dinner what kind of example are you setting for the impressionable???? you could have at least gone to the park Yeah, especially when youngsters like me are exposed to the rampages of Spray on a daily basis! Caugh caugh MUFFY caugh caugh

PUUULLLEEZZZ i'm a single mom. if i stop worrying the whole universe would colapse. Now I'm worried about Muffy stopping worrying. no worries there dear thats the thing about being the mommy. no one has to worry but me Muffy, when I was a kid (hhuummm, meaning [far younger] than I am now - you and Archenemy can note that) I had a major problem with spaghetti. For some reason, it was just the KOOLEST thing ever made............espesially when flinged across the room and stuck in my nose. My mom still worries about me. :lmao: :lmao: i will have you know i am still at work and i just laughed so loud the cleaning people looked at me funny... and they are vacumeing at the other end of the hall Muffy, I am so happy that I made you laugh that hard! Now we're even.

Oh fuck. Go get in the bathtub!