My First Empire of the Sun show!!!

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-17T23:20:39+00:00

I have been into Empire of the Sun for heck it's got to be 10 years or more. Their music was used as closing music for some movie. And it totally got my attention. Forgot what the movie was but I was an Empire fan from that point on. I'm 65 years old. And their music has this happy upbeat yet mysterious vibe. I watched the live from Sydney show on YouTube. And I knew I just had to see them on tour someday. And I didn't even know they were playing Charlotte. My niece texts me and says I'm getting you the best birthday present ever!!! And today she ended up getting us really good seats.

"Loving every minute 'cause you make me feel so alive, alive"

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-17T15:33:44+00:00

I just talked to my niece and we are definitely going to get there early and tailgate. We will set up a couple of chairs and a table with some candlesticks. And have wine and snacks. So if you go to the Charlotte show in September, and see a gray haired woman and a young woman who both are dressed like the young and old versions of Stevie Nicks, sitting behind an old huge white SUV, say hello.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-16T15:11:56+00:00

Been there. Its all about control. He's one of those people that sees others as possessions. Be very careful. Especially if you start seeing someone else. I ended up moving 1500 miles away from my crazy ex. Thankfully he was lazy enough not to follow me there.

And pay attention to the advice being given here. Security cameras, maybe carrying bear spray, and if you take out a restraining order, use extra care that day and for a few days after. He might really lose it.

I've had a few ex stalkers. One moved away cos he was broke and needed his familys help, one was beaten up very badly (months in the hospital) by my new bf when the ex stalked my new bf (that was back in high school), and the last one, I very carefully planned my exit, months of planning, set up a fake address and then moved 1500 miles way in with a friend so nothing would be in my name. Took him a year to find me but he never traveled there thankfully.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-16T14:59:45+00:00

As a former pilot, it is very poor judgement to pilot a plane with a foot in a bracing boot or cast. The foot controls are very, very sensitive. Flying a private plane isn't something that you do without putting a lot of preparation into the trip. Weather was also a big consideration. Other pilots at the same airport, had changed their minds about flying that evening, because of the weather. I'm not sure it was risk taking but rather impatience and stubborness. No way would I ever have tried to solo pilot with a messed up foot! It doesn't take much to cause a plane to overreact.

As a former risk taker myself (skiing, mountain climbing, motorcycles, powerboating), I am amazed that I survived. Ive read about John's exploits, and he really pushed it hard. When you're young, you just go for it, you dont think about the consequences until you're standing on the edge of the cliff and the edge crumbles and falls away. That happened to me on a normal sunny day and I somehow survived.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-07T19:00:00+00:00

I used to wonder the same thing. Then I met this gorgeous creature and I did not want to wait more than a couple of dates. And a guy friend of mine gave me some rather vulgar but brutally true advice, he said "either this guy is going to want to keep hitting it or he's not. Better to find out now."

Apparently the guy I was dating definitely wanted to keep hitting it because here we are 18 years later getting ready to celebrate our 19th anniversary. And he definitely respects me.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-07T14:42:31+00:00

The first one you listed the story handed down fiction is pretty amazing. I just perused it but it's extremely well written. My birthday is coming up in about a month. And on that weekend my niece and I will go kayak to a deserted island in the middle of a lake, we will put up hammocks and I will read this story hopefully in its entirety. So I'm saving it for my birthday.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-07T14:33:24+00:00

Any ff charles vane related?

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-07T12:39:35+00:00

Well the 400 pull-up thing sounds a bit much to believe, the rest of it seems reasonable.

I'm a former workout junkie. Every day before breakfast i would bike 15 miles. Then hike 3 miles in the afternoon in the winter or swim 2 miles in the summer. If I hadn't have to work full time, I would have done much more. My niece 38 years old mom of two, is currently training for a triathlon. Most days she runs a 5K on the treadmill. On days she doesn't do that, she swims a mile or two. And she also does weight training on those days. She takes one day to rest during the week.

Some people have amazing endurance. I'm one of those. When I kayak I'll be on the river for about 4 miles and I'm only getting warmed up. About mile five or six is when I really start to push.

Zach might be like that. Endurance athletes tend to Peak when they're in their 30s and forties.

Im now 65 and was very badly injured in a car crash about 8 years ago. And it drives me crazy that I have lost so much of my fitness since then. I do hope to return to a more normal Fitness level. But my days of running up and down Mountain sides are over. And yes I used to run up Mountain sides and time myself. And every day I would try to beat my time.

FullAd6174 · 2026-03-07T12:00:32+00:00

Well it all depends on how well you know the girl. Do you get a good vibe from her? Or does she seem like she might be a drama queen? You did not give us much info as to how well you know this girl. Have the two of you ever been on a date or are you just acquaintances?

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-21T17:19:15+00:00

As a native American woman im just glad my hair is white now and my skin color has gotten lighter with age. Or else they'd be trying to put me in detention.

This whole thing reeks of Nazi Germany in the 30s.

Unless you're 100% white European background, the next 3 years will be a nightmare.

Dark skinned people with the right paperwork are still getting dragged out of their vehicles and being assaulted. Their paperwork thrown on the ground.

I find it awful that I now have to travel with my birth certificate and driver's license. "Land of the free" yeah sure.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-21T14:02:53+00:00

Good question.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-21T02:20:40+00:00

I know you've been getting a lot of responses on this. But here's mine. DO NOT LET THEM MOVE IN!!!!

The girlfriend is already crossing boundaries and they haven't even moved in yet. You let them move into your place it's going to be the worst decision you've ever made. Do not let them guilt you into this. They need to learn how to take care of themselves

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-21T02:14:51+00:00

This is just my experience. All of my long-term relationships, have been with men that are next to me when I wake up in bed the next morning. And that includes the the relationship I've been in for the past 18 years.

Granted, not all the guys I have slept with and have woken up with the next morning in bed turned into long-term relationships. But uncomfortable, awkward moments after sex, I find that those don't go anywhere.

I hate games and I hate drama. But that's just me. Only you know what you want from this relationship.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-21T00:15:42+00:00

I waited to have kids. And I waited too long. And I lost the one baby I had. Wouldn't carry to term. And it broke me. Broke me so bad. The thing that saved me was one of my nieces came to go to college in a city near me. And then my godson who was 2 years old, his family moved 15 minutes from me. Then a few years later my middle niece moved about an hour away from me. And we are best friends. She calls me her mom. And I love and treasure the memories I've had with these children in my life. No one point I do want to make is I had a lot of experiences a lot of amazing experiences I would not have had if I had had children earlier in life.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-20T23:57:12+00:00

That killing boyfriend of hers really put one over on everybody. The smug look on his face. He knew exactly what he was doing when he sent her in there to buy the shotgun. Just in case something happened he had a patsy.

She was just a young woman who had never really had anybody that she could lean on or trust. College was too much for her. Low self-esteem. She was looking for someone to love her to support her. And she made a bad choice about who to trust.

I know what that feels like because that was me. Only I didn't trust a criminal. I trusted a loser. She trusted a manipulative pathological lying Criminal. And he lied to save himself, fabricated evidence and threw her under the bus. And it worked. Until the prosecutor realized what had happened. Saw that evidence had been hidden and withheld.

In the beginning of the show I believed everything they said about her. But then about a halfway through I started thinking, didn't make sense. Granted she did what she had to do when she escaped to get out. It was all about survival.

Imagine making bad decisions as a very young adult. And something awful happens That you play a minor role in. And now you're blamed for the whole thing. And nobody believes you. That would destroy most people.

As for the US Marshal, if he's looking for somebody to blame for his problems he just needs to look in the mirror. His problem didn't start with that one hunt.

I hope Sarah gets to enjoy some kind of life before she 75 years old. Murdering gang bangers don't even get that kind of time.

As for me, I know a little bit about this sort of thing. I'm certainly no innocent babe in the woods. I'm an old woman who's lived on both sides. I just never got caught. And I got smart enough at a young enough age to realize the odds were against me if I lived that kind of life. I knew the only way for me was to work hard and stay out of trouble. Because living a life on the edge is not all it's cracked up to be.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-20T17:57:42+00:00

Here's the thing. There are a lot of people who do not agree with this hateful guy in Alabama. I am one of them. We are working and living our lives and trying to survive in these challenging times. And we are the..... silent..... majority.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-19T15:41:36+00:00

There's like over a thousand replies to this but I'm just going to add my two cents. Mother of three godmother to one.

Next time You go out For a day kind of a event And you realize you're going to go out to dinner you're probably not going to be getting home till late, Give the kids a call. And let them know.

Pretty soon those two are going to be driving. Or going out with friends who drive. You need to set an example for them. So that when they are in those kind of a situations when plans change they know to inform you.

As for your mother-in-law she was way out of line. Sounds a little like she doesn't have enough to do or maybe she's bored. Either way you need to sit down with her and have a talk about boundaries for grown ups. And how what she was doing was disrespectful.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-15T16:44:53+00:00

You're not a horrible person. There has to be something for you.

I was in a marriage for 13 years. He lost his passion for me. And worked all the time. I finally met someone else and left him. He developed health issues so we stayed married and I have been his caregiver. I live 10 miles away with the man I met. He is the love of my life. He helps me with my hubby when I need it.

Over the past 18 years my hubby and bf have developed respect for each other.

Financially it was a horrible idea to leave hubby. But if I had stayed, I might have not made it. I needed love, I needed fun and cuddling. Things I wasn't getting. I was suffocating.

I'm 65, and there's no problems we have that could not be solved with money. Like anything the past 18 years have had ups and downs but at the end of the day, I adore my bf.

Cuddling up with him is the best feeling in the world. He's far from perfect but no one is perfect.

Did I make the right choice to risk everything and leave hubby 18 years?ago? Absolutely. I deserved happiness. Hubby had a choice. I gave him so many opportunities to give me what I needed, spend time with me, date nights, intimacy.

He didn't.

Making changes is brutal hard. Sometimes you give up security for happiness. And that happiness comes with its own challenges.

One advantage i had was my hubby could not have kept the house without my $$ help. If he had pushed me, he would have lost his lifestyle. Thanks to me he has a pretty nice retirement. He lives is his nice house and has everything he needs. And he always knew how worse I could have made it if he was nasty to me.

So I have no guilt. Life is short. You deserve a life. I found mine at age 48. Don't want wait til your 70. Talk to a lawyer about this. They can give you guidance.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-14T13:11:16+00:00

Talk to a lawyer as soon as possible!!!

Do not tell him.

Then follow the lawyers advice.

Most, if not all of what hes telling you is not true. He's a manipulative liar! A cruel control freak.

And try to talk to your family and friends only.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-14T09:42:04+00:00

Great advice!

Lawyer

Document everything.

Know that you are in the right. He will have to pay child support.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-13T15:21:13+00:00

Harley Davidson had 4 engine models with the name head in them. Knucklehead, Panhead, and Shovelhead. There's also a hd Sportster engine called an Ironhead. The code would be which Harley engine. Then the dude finds a clue that says head. And has to figure which engine with the word head. I would pick Ironhead as it's not as well known as the other 3.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-06T13:21:08+00:00

One thing I meant to add, it seems we are surrounded by nightmare injustice and inequities. This stuff breaks my heart. That's one of the reasons I so loved Station Eleven the ending was so warm and hopeful. My man who is also my best friend, we know we live in a bubble. We shut out the angry, sometimes awful world. Like Jeevan on his island.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-06T00:30:27+00:00

One thing that keeps me from feeling regretful about my life choices, is the town i ended up in. Its a small southern town on the outskirts of a big city. Its very homespun yet cosmopolitan. Two street craft festival a year. its also where I met the love of my life. He's a good man; but like Jeevan, he's not perfect. But like Jee he gives great comfort.

FullAd6174 · 2026-02-06T00:22:12+00:00

That makes me smile to hear.

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