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Jim Allen:

--- Quote from: numbersguy82 on August 23, 2023, 05:59:03 am ---As I wrote this yesterday, I actually thought of you and what yours would be. My guesses were:

- Photography
- Trans Pride Parades
- The Red Light District

… so I really wasn’t that far off :)

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Sex includes the red light district. As for trans parades, it's not like I'm stalking them 😂

leatherman:
only three?!?

for me, some have already been mentioned. books (5 a week), puzzles (40 a year), sex (a lot! One of the perks of marriage. 8) ). I would add yardwork. I often tell my friends if they ever find that I died outside doing yardwork (the same way my dad died) to not be sad as l would have died doing something I love.

But music would have to top the list. Music plays while I do all those activities I listed. Music makes everything better! Life is never better than when my earbuds are pouring sounds into my brain.

What kind of music, you might ask. (but probably didn't. LOL) All kinds. Prince, Pet Shop Boys, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Thompson Twins. Oh sure, those are all old groups now; but those are my favs. However, I listen to everything. Musicals, classical, soundtracks, rock, alt, punk, dance. Anything from the 60s to now. The only thing I can't abide too much of is country. (too many memories of an awful Southern childhood of churches and hillbilly music. LOL) Now that I'm in my 60s (just barely at 61.5), I'm often distressed that my peer group is a bunch of fuddy duddies who can't stand "modern" music; but I'm not some snobby or out-of-touch boomer for heaven's sake! I love a lot of what the "kids" are listening to today.

But my favorite genre is simply anything I can dance too. Larry just takes it in stride as I dance around in the kitchen in my earbuds cooking dinner....or doing laundry, or mowing, or doing chores, or most anything. He knew I was still a club kid when we got married in our 50s. LOL I've told him the stories of how, even when I was close to dying of AIDS, I was going out dancing. Heck, the week before I was hospitalized that second time with PCP, I was out there on the dance floor in my harness and leather pants still grooving.

BTW, I'm listening to the Barbie soundtrack as I'm writing this (fav song Man that I am by Sam Smith). Next up is either going to be some Dua Lipa (so many dance tunes!), or the super smutty Slut Pop EP by Kim Petras (dancey and sexy!)

numbersguy82:

--- Quote from: Jim Allen on September 01, 2023, 07:18:26 am ---Sex includes the red light district. As for trans parades, it's not like I'm stalking them 😂

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Sureeeeee it’s just mere coincidence that for 3 monthly meetings in a row you just happened to have attended one 🤣🤣🤣 hey I just love that you are a straight Ally!

numbersguy82:

--- Quote from: leatherman on September 01, 2023, 09:46:51 am ---only three?!?

for me, some have already been mentioned. books (5 a week), puzzles (40 a year), sex (a lot! One of the perks of marriage. 8) ). I would add yardwork. I often tell my friends if they ever find that I died outside doing yardwork (the same way my dad died) to not be sad as l would have died doing something I love.

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I feel like I already knew all of these things about you… except maybe your age 😱 what is in the water down there in the Carolinas? You are aging wonderfully- no homo.

As for music, reading thru your list of tastes took me back to being in high school listening to Oasis, Spin Doctors, Counting Crows! That period was so wonderful. Nowadays I primarily listen to country music and anything Luke Bryan or Jordan David.

I can def imagine you twirling around and hopping along to your housework!!!

Dogman:
I like to read all your normal posts about doing normal things. I've struggled greatly since my diagnosis ( almost 12 months ago ). I struggle to switch it off and while I haven't had a day off work, have still done what I always did, it's there like a cloud over my head. I read my charts and there's the word, "DISEASE", I said to my doctor, I don't feel sick, I have not been sick, the meds are doing their job, my general metabolic health isn't perfect, but it's not bad. So why am I "DISEASED"? I have a virus in me, one that's been knocked on its ass by the drugs. I'm sure I have other viruses in me. I get anxiety whenever there's a letter from my insurance company, or a new message in my on-line chart. I'm sorry, I'm having another down day - I feel my future has been sabotaged and taken away - when I could have prevented it. I know these are stupid thoughts. Just venting and saying thanks at the same time for your normalcy. 

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