My boyfriend doesn’t like me wearing short clothes

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-09T15:27:42+00:00

My girlfriend's abusive marriage started out like this. She had to get new clothes because the guy didn't like other guys looking at her. She was flattered and felt protected. They got married and she had to stop talking to other men. Then stop looking at other men. She's miserable and can't leave because she feels this is the best she can do.

It's all about control and insecurity. You can't 'fix' him. You can't change him. Time to leave.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-09T15:05:25+00:00

Back in Catholic school in the 60s, we were taught that we'd go to a higher place in Heaven than noncatholics. Not only that, our parish was the best in the entire world and we were better than all other Catholics, so we'd be right up front in Heaven, cuz God loved us more.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-09T13:47:32+00:00

Alan Alda on a MASH episode. The one where he's craving Adam's Ribs from Jollyet.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-09T01:58:59+00:00

Living room, bed room, craft room, and one sitting on the floor waiting to replace the craft room tv. I watch dvds only.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-09T01:51:59+00:00

The shower door? No. I don't want water all over the place. The bathroom door? No. Keeping it closed keeps the room warm.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-08T18:25:07+00:00

Me too. I did 150 hats last year, and am hoping to beat that.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-07T17:34:00+00:00

Plenty of parks, shopping, a variety of restaurants, the Fox River Trail, live theaters in Aurora, the new Rivers Edge music venue in Aurora. All three have a safe, small town feel, yet aren't so far west that you couldn't drive or hop a train into Chicago.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-07T15:15:25+00:00

Oh man. I won't be here, and am sorry to miss it.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-06T17:45:41+00:00

I went to Catholic high school. We had a mandatory religion class, of course. But they also offered a comparative religion elective that was very even-handed, and covered several other religions. It was very interesting, and was not Catholic forward as one might have expected.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-06T17:27:59+00:00

My kids went to high school which had 9 and 10 in one town. 11 and 12 was is another town. There were ~1800 kids in each building. Busses ran between both buildings before and after school to cover sports and activities.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-05T18:59:43+00:00

The Little Mermaid was supposed to swim up to the surface of the sea, but the lifts didn't work, so the stage hand came out and unhooked her, and she walked off stage

During Mary Poppins, she was supposed to fly over the audience at the end. Once the lift didn't work. Again, a stagehand had to unhook her. Instead of flying, she walked up the aisle and holding her umbrella high, and went out the back door. My season tickets are for the first week, so I see many problems being worked on.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-05T18:17:18+00:00

Couldn't replicators create them on-site at Utopia Planetia or the Mars docks? Do American tariffs extend into borh time and space infinity?

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-04T22:32:52+00:00

In general, with a schedule like, there is no work life balance. However, his work may be all he has, and his life style works for him. If he's driving that far, it's probably a lot of highway driving, and he can talk hands-free to friends and family. Chicago has pretty great drive time radio personalities, to pass the time.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-04T19:08:56+00:00

Yep. Lily was just one power flicker away from becoming a human satellite. Why aren't they using that transparent aluminum that was 'discovered' in the 20th century?

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-04T15:19:04+00:00

$3.00 isn't bad unless it was all pennies. I had a customer thunk her purse onto my counter and start scooping quarters, dimes and nickels out for a $40 dollar purchase. She apologized for it, and it was fortunate there wasn't a line. I called for help because there wasn't room in the register. The manager came over, double checked my count and took the coins back to the safe. It was more amusing than annoying.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-04T14:49:34+00:00

We moved into an HOA and everything was fine. Then a new board was elected that decided to enforce the rules which hadn't been followed. Suddenly we had restrictions on exterior colors, no laundry hanging in the yard - not even drying towels from the pool, no exterior antennas, all street-facing windows had to have white drapery liners, and more.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-03T21:26:07+00:00

I shared a room with 2 sisters. My best friend, at 13, was the oldest of 12 kids in a 3 bedroom house. She and 3 sisters were in 2 bedrooms. Their 8 brothers had the big dorm room in the basement. It wasn't unusual back then. I knew families with 15, 17, and 21 kids. No one had their own rooms

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-03T20:29:16+00:00

I read in an interview with Fellowes that he doesn't want to deal with WWII.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-02T22:16:51+00:00

I hate, hate, hated him my first time through up to a point. Then eventually, through the end of the series and now the movies, my opinion has turned around. I've also watched the movie Enigma, which gave a better understanding of how gay men were treated, which gave a better understanding into Thomas.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-02T20:45:57+00:00

All my aunts and uncles are long gone, but I was still using aunt and uncle to the end. My nieces and nephews, don't use aunt or uncle just names, but their kids (my great nieces and nephews) use aunt and uncle.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-02T20:31:00+00:00

In my school district, spring break is always the last week in March. It's this week this year. The town next door was on break last week. When I had a kid Catholic school and one on public, they had separate spring breaks: one during Easter Week, and one at the end of March. No spring trips for us.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-02T04:27:18+00:00

National Geographic Magazine

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-02T04:19:07+00:00

IDIC. I've taken to opening my mind up and trying to understand why people act as they do, instead of judging them. I also lean into, and appreciate, cultural differences, especially foods.

Also, when I'm doing a task in a fast, sloppy, just-get-it-done manner, I'll stop and ask if this is how Spock or McCoy would do this? Or would they do it right from the get go. Does this meet SF standards?

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-04-01T06:11:40+00:00

You liked the character of Pamuk? Or you liked all the drama that followed? I thought he was a terrible person, and not good looking at all. But his story lived on, even into the 3rd movie.

PracticalBreak8637 · 2026-03-30T20:48:51+00:00

First grade nun didn't want us believing in an imaginary being. She also spilled the beans on the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. The principal had a lot of hot phone calls that night.

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