Thread:Lucky107/@comment-4059927-20171227100613/@comment-26358727-20171227194604

It takes a special kind of person to rise above the life that they were given in order to provide something better for the upcoming generation. Too many people who come from a broken home wind up repeating the same mistakes that they were taught as children, leading to a vicious cycle. You took the hard path, but the two of you are going to raise a better generation because of it. ( :

Oh, boy. Black ice is scary, and so is freezing rain - which we've been lucky to skip most of this year. For your sake, I hope January doesn't hit you too hard. We've had talks of the 'Polar Vortex' returning, so I hope it doesn't blow your way!

You can do it, Michael! You can do it! I've always been a little bit on the underweight side, but I wound up with a couple of health problems over the summer that put me on plain chicken and rice for the better part of a month and a half (some combination of GERD and a surprise dark chocolate intolerance that never found a proper diagnosis). I'm almost 100% back to normal in terms of my diet, but I've always had trouble putting weight on and lately I've been overeating (and subsequently feeling terrible) in an effort to do it. I thought Christmas would be the time for improvement, but it doesn't appear to have helped. ) :

On a similar note, I can't believe it, either. It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in the new year, but then tomorrow we'll be in 2019. I have no idea where the times goes, but it sure does fly! Do you have any plans for New Year's Eve, or will you be spending it at home with your family?