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I think I'm all on fleek for being offended, bae. I can't even. Literally.

NOOO THE FINGER PRINTS NOOOO My complaint is that I have the same complaint every damn week and it isn't getting better. Depression, fear of job searching/changing, how the heck to work a lease and teaching here in roch with wanting to apply to jobs in buffalo.... The depression and anxiety and stress is just getting worse and worse, my job here is just getting worse and worse... I know 7 people planning to get out. I don't feel qualified or good enough to go elsewhere- there's never a company really looking for an illustrator. And I don't code or do 3D or video and I don't have the time to learn. I'm useless. This company is failing. Help.

The Red Wings' new arena will be... the Little Caesars Arena. Good lord that's horrible. Hot n Ready powerplays? Deep dish defense? Damn it, Ilitch. Now, I grew up with Litte Caesars pizza, and I liked it just fine (we don't have a lot of good za offerings in that area), but that just feels so.... cheesy.

Dead Kennedys June 21st at the Town ballroom. I'm really considering it. My best friend is going. Could be a damn good time.

I agree with this the most. It's a really great logo- I really really really like it. Super clean, pro looking, almost engraved metallic. But it's not really a center crest hockey style. Everyone says soccer, yeah, or a small emblem version of the real logo, whatever that would be. A different container shape (a circle or a shape that includes some sort of symbolism) would've been better, but idk, I think it's well designed. Looks like a car badge more than a hockey logo, but it'll grow on me. Could've been so much worse.

um let's go

Stamkos is skating again. Not to play, but he is back doing Stamkos things on the ice.

The rest of my family is in Ireland this week (I still have yet to go, every time they go I have to stay in the states and teach), and apparently got counted in the 2016 Irish National Census there! On April 24, it was mandatory that every person in Ireland, resident or not, had to fill out a form and be counted. So the hotel made them do it. So that'll confuse any future descendants doing genealogy research... "hey look! my family lived in Ireland then!" ..nope. Still pretty neat, though.

<3 well, not married yet... we're too poor/disorganized for that! The dinosaurs off to see the dinosaurs...

aaaand Panthers. Ekblad, Jagr, Lu, Campbell

That's great bio!!! May the news continue to improve :) d4rk and I are celebrating our anniversary this weekend, even if it technically is Monday. Since we won't be together that day, early celebrations. Probably hitting up the buffalo science museum, since the weather looks sorta ick. So yeah- 5 years. Not bad, not bad. Now if only we could figure out how to live in the same city again...

Wellp. I guess I'm not ashamed to admit I'm sobbing a little. I'm sorry to see Datsyuk go, and in such an anticlimactic fashion. The man is held together with tendons taken from cadavers and glue and tape, I swear. I think I would've rather he left when Babcock left. A lackluster year full of injury with a different coach, and a near sweep loss in round 1... I would've hoped for better for the Magic Man. But he truly was amazing and inspirational (overlooking some less tolerant comments around the olympics), and I'm glad I got to root for him. And I'm also glad he played his full career in one place. But who knows, maybe he'll surprise us with a Selanne style comeback! And now, back to my usual playoffs anyone-but-tampa rooting.

I'll type this as I'm sitting in my home Datsyuk jersey.... I don't like Detroit's aways that well. But I like TBL vs DET colors because it's bubble hockey! And fu** the leafs! I also refuse to accept that I may be watching the last minutes of Pavel Datsyuk's NHL career... .... well, fu*k.

I had a good night on trapeze and I finished it with a run. My first run since everything go boom. I didn't quite finish it, had a little bit of soreness and didn't want to push my luck, but dammit, I refuse to not push my body to being in great shape. Sitting on my a$$ on the couch for a few months helpless has made me resolute on that fact. I will be strong, I will be fit, while my muscles and stamina give me the chance. So I can see just what it could do in its youth. It felt so good though, even if it was raining.

I'd like to imagine Prince and Bowie are comparing platform shoes and sparkly jumpsuits up in heaven right now.

This is what it feels like when doves cry. but seriously, 57 is so so young.

Today my cousin passed. He was old and ill, but it is still a sad time. He was the kindest man, a gentle soul. Holley was mentally handicapped, and as a child he was my favorite grown up- we saw the world the same way. He was always waiting at the bottom of the mountain (tennessee) to greet you on a visit, and would run to the bottom to be the last to wave goodbye. Didn't matter the weather, or his age. Just so happy to see you. I sure hope he's at the top of that mountain in the sky as they say, and I'll see him again one day. Here he is back in the 1960s, working the mules on the farm. I have a lot of neat old photos with him in them.

Bowie. Lemmy. Rickman. Prince. Duke. Haggard. Wood. Chyna. Roberts. Reagan. Emerson. Lee. Sinatra Jr. Ford. Lot of headliners, 2016. Wtf.

I seem to remember a few years back, d4rk and I were playing the "if people we knew were cars, what would they be" game, and everyone you liked was a station wagon of some variety. I, I believe, was given the title of early 90s Audi station wagon or something. True love, I know. So.... get a Holden Ute shipped over from Australia or something. I know you love goofy borderline homely things <3 but yeah, if the Ram truck doesn't work out (careful, I'm going to want to steal it a lot until I get my own pickup), the Outback (if you can get an older one in good shape that ISN'T one of the new suburban housewife sensory deprivation box on wheels) is a potentially decent choice for our lifestyle.

haha I appreciate the suggestions. Unfortunately everyone's favorite bud and I don't get along too well :( leaves me super depressed, and I've got direct orders from my cardiologist not to use it (or really anything that's fun like that) in any way. Makes my heart do funny stuff I guess. I've tried it in enough different forms to conclude it's just not a direction for me. or Columbine? April's such a weird month. Hey, I'll try it- when you remember the name lemme know! Gut problems just gallop in my family- and everyone tends to border on hypochondriac, so I hate even mentioning it... but d4rk's getting to where he's even bringing it up with me so... guess it's getting time. Tends to ruin a lot of days. I dare to eat and everything's downhill from there. Thought it was allergies to certain beers at first. Now I don't even need beer to have a memorable afternoon. So I just don't eat much during the week to get through... then I eat a real meal on the weekend and die. Thanks guys, y'all are salt of the earth.

Yeah, post a link when you get a chance and I'll throw some bucks your way. Doctors w/o Borders is a good org- I've had a lot of friends travel with them to do good. Very awesome that you're doing this.

haha I hereby claim you all to be my many surrogate mothers. <3 I guess I haven't because I went through this back in high school, went through every GI doc/dehumanizing test out there, and there was no major diagnosis. I'm missing the cilia and a lot of nerve function in my intestines from being too thin as a kid (heart problem). That's kinda it. And I made do throughout college. It has gotten worse again, I'd be willing to bet stress. I haven't been this freaked out about life in a real long time. I probably need a head doc more than a body doc. I just feel so whiny and crying wolf-y to fork over a ton of money for their "no giant pools of blood? you're fine, eat tums" diagnosis. but this is the Awesome thread. Sorry for derailing. It's gorgeous outside- that's effing awesome.

It's downright exhausting.