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Happy Birthday!

Of course I did sweetie! That is why I used the word "DRAG" in my sentence. You are a good sport. You've even watched "P.S. I love you" about a million times with me too. Even though you pretend to be reading a book while we watch it I know you love it. But hey! I took you to see "Black Hawk Down" for Valentines Day when it first came out! And I've watched Patton with you a million times. Those are great shows too.

Yeah, I kind of realized what you were trying to say, but I just had to point it out anyway. "When you really break it down, infatuation is "selfish" in terms of it being a response to your physiological needs at the time. When that ends and it will, then you must choose to keep those feelings alive by choosing to love." Just to make another point... Why does "that end"? It worked in the beginning and got you married. If you had that infatuation to begin with and those needs, does that mean that you don't have those needs anymore or ability to have that infatuation? Only a choice to stay married? Why? I think in order to keep a marriage alive you need to stick with that basic infatuation and need and feeling of love and that person above all else. If you put a million beans in the jar that first year of marriage, you should still be striving to put that same amount of beans in the jar, if ya know what I mean? You should still be trying to court your spouse and make them feel special. Why does that ever have to stop? (it's a two way street of course, goes for both people) In terms of being selfish, everyone is selfish, but when you get married you need to actually become ONE unit and be selfish as a unit together. Too many people become selfish against each other and that is just wrong. That's like being selfish against yourself. Why would you do that? Also, the more good things you do for someone the more good feelings you have about them. Anyway, that is just my 2 cents. Yes, I realize I'm one of the lucky ones. I found a great guy though. I'm going to have to drag JohnMitchell over the movie theater now and see that movie! Thanks for bringing it up!

Love is something I feel in my marriage and it's lasted 25 years so far. Why shouldn't we feel love and expect that feeling to last? Without the feelings and the emotions, I'm sure you wouldn't have made the "choice" to begin with. Maybe instead of going through all that "constant work" you should try and get those feelings back. I don't consider interacting day to day with my spouse as "constant work". I consider it my greatest reward and look forward to each and every second I get to spend with him. OK, that aside, I look forward to seeing the movie. I looked the trailer up and it looked interesting. Maybe I'm just a sucker for those, love conquers all movies?

ROFLMAO! I love Doc! He's great! Yeah, I missed the first load after that night. Stupid. We're working out the details for another mini invasion in the spring so I'll have do overs.

OMG!!! I know!!! It must be that trailer because I woke up with a huge headache too!! I never thought about it being the trailer at first I thought it was all the beers, rum and vodka and jello shots I drank the night before but now I'm starting to think it really was that trailer! Well, if you come over here we have a nice bed. I've slept in it and it didn't give me a head ache at all.

-4-0 Did a three way coach dive with JohnMitchell and a noob and then three hot four way jumps.

I was in bed resting yesterday. John brought me this card and I opened it up and got glitter all over me! John thought it was really funny. I wake up with little bats and ghosts stuck to my skin now. I'm so pretty!

I don't quibble. I got liquid. I'm happy.

I'm overflowing as well. Overflowing Glass Optimism is a way of life for you — in fact, you look so hard for the bright side that you run the risk of being blinded by the light. While there's certainly nothing wrong with keeping your spirits up, there's also nothing wrong with acknowledging disappointments and hurts. Putting a positive spin on almost everything is a strenuous effort, and chances are you feel pressured to do karmic damage control not just for yourself, but also for others who have come to rely on your cheerleading abilities. In the end, your positivity is a precious resource that you must conserve and protect. Think of it as an overflowing glass of water: How much energy do you have to expend just to keep any liquid from spilling? A better focus for that energy might be training yourself to ride out (rather than deny) inevitable difficulties, trusting that your irrepressible spirit is up to the challenge. Yeah, but I don't agree with their take on my outlook. I think it takes more muscles to frown. Worry is useless and doesn't get you anything or anywhere. It's always better to be happy than sad. I'm not denying anything. I just think it's easier to be happy and optimistic. I've never understood that whole glass is half empty or half full thing. Now I know why. There IS SOMETHING in the glass. It is what it is. Be happy you have some!! Makes no difference the full or empty thing. It's just a glass with liquid in it. Drink up and be happy!

I'm neither. It says my glass if overflowing.

Judging from her avatar I think you should buy her 4 more of those suits. One for each day of the week. You may say "But, JT, there're 7 days in a week" That is exactly correct. Ain't nothing wrong with being naked Too bad I already have over 7 of them. I don't like to wear them off the DZ though. I get really weird looks when I wear them to the grocery store for some reason.

Um, I think that is pretty much the only "surgery" you've had but I can't feel to bad for you since I gave birth -->the hard way, to four of your offspring! It took all of 5 whole big minutes while I waited in the waiting room for ya. I drug you out shopping that day and you were skydiving a few days later. You didn't even suffer one tiny bit. You don't even have any scars! I checked!

Wow! Sounds like you liked your rig more if you took it to Tim Horton's!

Happy Birthday!

Stick around for a while. Pretty soon your jumpsuits will pile up too! I actually got reprimanded at Chick's Rock because I changed my jumpsuit after every dive. Apparently some people can only learn to fly one suit and they don't like it when other people have mad skills and can fly multiple suits all in one day. It's not like I'm on a team! It's a boogie for crying out loud! I felt kinda bad though. So apparently having more than one jumpsuit is a bad thing. I'm bad.

Awe! That is so sweet you want to be like us!

Happy Birthday!

OK, I scanned a couple for ya.

I have them!

I feel for ya. I broke my foot, outside bone between my little toe and ankle. I was walking down the stairs one night in the dark and missed the last step. SNAP! John didn't believe it was broken until I showed him how it wiggled back and forth where it shouldn't have. He asked me if I wanted him to drive me to the ER. I told him I was too tired for that, I just wanted to go to bed. We could do that in the morning. Got up the next morning and my foot looked like a black watermelon. They wanted to cast it but I refused the cast. I couldn't skydive with a cast very well!! They said it would heal faster if I walked on it but most people couldn't stand to do that with that kind of break. I did it. Hey it's just a foot! Went skydiving on it that weekend. It eventually healed 8 months later. It's all good.

Yes, love being married to that guy up there for 25 years come this June. Seems like just yesterday though. Time flies when you are having the time of your life. John, stop counting my jumpsuits! If you count them then I'll have to give an actual number to people when they ask. That could be embarrassing.

Those were great boogies (especially the LFL boogie) but don't you remember the Costa Rica boogie back in 1996? That one had to be the best. Site seeing the rain forests and scuba diving and touring until noon when the first plane took off. Jumping out over the clear blue water, landing on the white sandy beach. Going up in the otter with only a thong bikini on and a rig doing 4 or 6 way cuz that was the only other people on the otter. You could lay down on the bench on the way up. The skydiving was great. Great skydivers great people. Eating and drinking all you wanted. No tipping. All inclusive. Perfect temperatures. Perfect. Paradise. {sigh} Loved that boogie.

I'M THERE!! Don't start without me!!! Just tell me when and where. I'm there!!

OH! I would love that!! Besides I haven't seen you in a long time. We should do that.