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Have a great Birthday!
GearNoir
“The Disney Princess’s Apprentice”
Yep, complimentary tattoos.He has a more interesting hobby!
matching haircuts too!
You know what this means? PARTY AT KJ's THREAD.
SteveChuckFrank
Close Enough*
Happy Birthday KJ!
bobmsp
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Where'd he hide the Boulevard Tank 7?
Thanks Everyone. I'll write up a better entry later telling what I was up to this weekend. Lots of relaxing, but also lots of work. Had a great 3 Day Birthday Weekend!
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I took an extended Birthday weekend with Amber..... Yeah, didn't check the forum much.
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Nope she just made it all the more better!I think you guys mean that today would have been KJ’s birthday...but then he got a girlfriend and missed that too.
Happy birthday man!
Indeed! ^^This guy gets it. Thanks.
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Hmmmm..... not quite yet, but it's a possibility. And yes, they would be complimentary, that's a good word. Not matching.
Truth
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That's cool, Party on!
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Yuk..... I hate Tank 7......
So, I'm still trying to catch up on the forum.... had 4 pages of new posts this morning (down to 1 now). I will still do a recap of my weekend soon, but here is something I wrote up on FB the day before my birthday, and thought it was worth repeating here, for those who are not on FB.
42.... Forty two was on of the best years for me. As I look back at the past year on this last day of me being 42, I’m just amazed at all the great things I got to do, and the great people I interacted with.
Just before I turned 42, I made a commitment to myself to be healthier and fitter. I started a Ketogenic way of eating, and have lost about 35 pounds. I also started weight lifting, and can squat more than my body weight!
I’ve also had a few surgeries to fix a few things including an umbilical hernia, and a growth on my thyroid. That growth turned out to be thyroid cancer and I had my whole thyroid taken out as a result. I’m still seeing an endocrinologist, and am taking daily hormone replacement, but am cancer free.
I got to spend the summer with my babies, and took them to the Lake of the Ozarks, thanks to Dexter Luchtel letting us use his cabin, boat, and jet skis.... we love it there!
We also took a trip to St. Louis and had an amazing time, including a trip up inside the Arch, which I highly recommend.
My baby girl, Maryanne, turned 16 and started driving!!!
I was elected Worshipful Master of my Masonic Lodge. In layman’s terms, like the president of the lodge. It’s been an honor serving my Masonic Brothers in that position!
I got to go on the ski trip of a lifetime with Bruce Bond, to Colorado. We had so much fun and hope to do it again this winter as well.
I deployed to Hawaii in January with the B-2s. I know, a real hardship deployment huh? But I had an amazing time and snorkeled many times with sea turtles. That was magical.
On my birthday last year, I started a tattoo sleeve, with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy theme, for my 42nd birthday. 42, is a big theme of the book/movie. Joey Smith is doing my sleeve at Inspired Ink, in Richmond, MO and he is doing an amazing job.
I bought a motorcycle, just before my birthday last year, and put about 4000 miles on it last year. Always wanted a motorcycle and so happy with my Yamaha V-Star. I love it and hope to put more miles on it this year.
I can’t thank Rebecca Ryan enough for all the love and support she gave me over the past year, but sadly it just wasn’t meant to be for us.
This was my first full year in my new home, and one of the proudest things I did last year was start a garden. I grew lots of stuff but am most proud of my tomatoes and hot peppers. It exploded my tastes and interest in hot foods. I made lots of salsa last year, and began eating super hot peppers and hot sauces. I’ve been doing hot pepper and hot food challenges and just love it. I have many videos on YouTube about my challenges. I look forward to doing more this year, and getting even more hot and more adventurous.
Speaking of YouTube, I’ve also been doing a lot of videos about my Traditional Wet Shaving for an Internet forum/community called The Shaving Cadre. Such a great group of people that I’m honored to call friends.
One of the most amazing things that happened to me however, during my 42nd year on this planet, is I met my soulmate, Amber Boling I cannot tell you how much I love her. I’ve never connected with anyone the way I connect with her. She does not complete me...... she compliments me, perfectly. We are so similar in tastes, and sense of humor.... we are just a perfect match. I look forward to every day I have with her in the future, and seeing what the future holds for us.
I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things, but I’ll wrap this up now saying that 42 has always been a special number for me and my 42nd year was also extra special for me. I’m sad to see 42 go. But I think, this year, as I celebrate my birthday tomorrow, I will not be celebrating my 43rd birthday but instead the 1st anniversary of my 42nd birthday. Not because I care about getting older.... I just want the magic of 42 to remain in my life, and I want to continue to have as amazing of years to come as I had this year!
42.... Forty two was on of the best years for me. As I look back at the past year on this last day of me being 42, I’m just amazed at all the great things I got to do, and the great people I interacted with.
Just before I turned 42, I made a commitment to myself to be healthier and fitter. I started a Ketogenic way of eating, and have lost about 35 pounds. I also started weight lifting, and can squat more than my body weight!
I’ve also had a few surgeries to fix a few things including an umbilical hernia, and a growth on my thyroid. That growth turned out to be thyroid cancer and I had my whole thyroid taken out as a result. I’m still seeing an endocrinologist, and am taking daily hormone replacement, but am cancer free.
I got to spend the summer with my babies, and took them to the Lake of the Ozarks, thanks to Dexter Luchtel letting us use his cabin, boat, and jet skis.... we love it there!
We also took a trip to St. Louis and had an amazing time, including a trip up inside the Arch, which I highly recommend.
My baby girl, Maryanne, turned 16 and started driving!!!
I was elected Worshipful Master of my Masonic Lodge. In layman’s terms, like the president of the lodge. It’s been an honor serving my Masonic Brothers in that position!
I got to go on the ski trip of a lifetime with Bruce Bond, to Colorado. We had so much fun and hope to do it again this winter as well.
I deployed to Hawaii in January with the B-2s. I know, a real hardship deployment huh? But I had an amazing time and snorkeled many times with sea turtles. That was magical.
On my birthday last year, I started a tattoo sleeve, with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy theme, for my 42nd birthday. 42, is a big theme of the book/movie. Joey Smith is doing my sleeve at Inspired Ink, in Richmond, MO and he is doing an amazing job.
I bought a motorcycle, just before my birthday last year, and put about 4000 miles on it last year. Always wanted a motorcycle and so happy with my Yamaha V-Star. I love it and hope to put more miles on it this year.
I can’t thank Rebecca Ryan enough for all the love and support she gave me over the past year, but sadly it just wasn’t meant to be for us.
This was my first full year in my new home, and one of the proudest things I did last year was start a garden. I grew lots of stuff but am most proud of my tomatoes and hot peppers. It exploded my tastes and interest in hot foods. I made lots of salsa last year, and began eating super hot peppers and hot sauces. I’ve been doing hot pepper and hot food challenges and just love it. I have many videos on YouTube about my challenges. I look forward to doing more this year, and getting even more hot and more adventurous.
Speaking of YouTube, I’ve also been doing a lot of videos about my Traditional Wet Shaving for an Internet forum/community called The Shaving Cadre. Such a great group of people that I’m honored to call friends.
One of the most amazing things that happened to me however, during my 42nd year on this planet, is I met my soulmate, Amber Boling I cannot tell you how much I love her. I’ve never connected with anyone the way I connect with her. She does not complete me...... she compliments me, perfectly. We are so similar in tastes, and sense of humor.... we are just a perfect match. I look forward to every day I have with her in the future, and seeing what the future holds for us.
I’m sure I’m forgetting a few things, but I’ll wrap this up now saying that 42 has always been a special number for me and my 42nd year was also extra special for me. I’m sad to see 42 go. But I think, this year, as I celebrate my birthday tomorrow, I will not be celebrating my 43rd birthday but instead the 1st anniversary of my 42nd birthday. Not because I care about getting older.... I just want the magic of 42 to remain in my life, and I want to continue to have as amazing of years to come as I had this year!
For my birthday weekend, I spent the entire weekend with my GF, Amber. My birthday fell on Monday, so I actually took that day off work, so we had a nice 3 day weekend.
On Saturday we went to a Reptile Show in Kansas City. I did not buy any new snakes or spiders, but it was fun looking around at all the stuff that is available. Then we came back into town and watched Avengers: Endgame.
On Sunday, we prepped my Garden for planting, which included pulling weeds, tilling the entire garden, and digging walking paths, which in turn made raised mounds for planting. My garden is well over 2000 sqft, so this was quite a bit of labor. Then we settled in that evening and watched the 3rd Episode of the last season of Game of Thrones. WOW! Awesome episode. I was more excited about that than I was for Endgame.
On Monday, we went to two local Amish Greenhouses to buy plants for the garden. We planted 4 kinds of tomatoes, 7 kinds of peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, tons of kohlrabi, spaghetti squash, okra, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumber, and a ton of herbs. Still need to get a few things to finish it, but had a great time working in the garden together.
On Saturday we went to a Reptile Show in Kansas City. I did not buy any new snakes or spiders, but it was fun looking around at all the stuff that is available. Then we came back into town and watched Avengers: Endgame.
On Sunday, we prepped my Garden for planting, which included pulling weeds, tilling the entire garden, and digging walking paths, which in turn made raised mounds for planting. My garden is well over 2000 sqft, so this was quite a bit of labor. Then we settled in that evening and watched the 3rd Episode of the last season of Game of Thrones. WOW! Awesome episode. I was more excited about that than I was for Endgame.
On Monday, we went to two local Amish Greenhouses to buy plants for the garden. We planted 4 kinds of tomatoes, 7 kinds of peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, tons of kohlrabi, spaghetti squash, okra, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumber, and a ton of herbs. Still need to get a few things to finish it, but had a great time working in the garden together.
We finished off the day with a Birthday dinner at The Raging Bull, a new local steakhouse. And after that we watched GOT again, just to let that massive episode soak in a bit more.
I’ll have to snap a couple pics of the gifts she got me.
But overall, I had a great weekend, and was glad I got to spend the whole weekend with her, and that is why I wasn’t on the forum all weekend.
I’ll have to snap a couple pics of the gifts she got me.
But overall, I had a great weekend, and was glad I got to spend the whole weekend with her, and that is why I wasn’t on the forum all weekend.