What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[marurun]

I would like to make a public apology to REPO. While I have a strong distaste for how much Christmas has intruded into the Thanksgiving season, I have been too hard on REPO for enjoying it. Someone I know recently came to the conclusion that some people need joy in their lives, and if Christmas prep brings joy they should indulge in it. So I apologize for being so hard on your, REPO, over your finding of joy in preparing for the holidays.

I'm not sorry for being annoyed at how much you over-share and use this as your personal diary. But I will try and constrain my critiques to that, and veer away from trying to harsh your Christmas buzz, specifically.

So continue to enjoy your Christmas, but please share less of it here, because seriously, just make a blog or buy a diary or something.

[REPO Man]

I would like to make a public apology to REPO. While I have a strong distaste for how much Christmas has intruded into the Thanksgiving season, I have been too hard on REPO for enjoying it. Someone I know recently came to the conclusion that some people need joy in their lives, and if Christmas prep brings joy they should indulge in it. So I apologize for being so hard on your, REPO, over your finding of joy in preparing for the holidays.

Apology accepted.

As for why I do it, it's probably because over the years Christmas stopped being about all the cool stuff I get from others and became about spending time with my family, which becomes increasingly difficult the rest of the year given how everyone has conflicting schedules, not to mention those no longer with us and those we seldom see due to how far away they live. While I do miss the seemingly prodigious piles of boxes with my name on them, filled with everything from video games (if I was lucky) and toys and one year an iPod with 32GB of internal storage, I miss getting presents less and less as I buy presents for the tiny humans in my life, and maybe the odd present for the adults in my life (last year I got my mom The Stand on DVD, with the 90s miniseries and the newer one). And soon, I hope to have a family of my own, including a husband that fusses at me for breaking out the Christmas music, movies and decorations the day after Halloween and children of our own who grow up thinking that it's totally normal.[/quote]

I'm not sorry for being annoyed at how much you over-share and use this as your personal diary. But I will try and constrain my critiques to that, and veer away from trying to harsh your Christmas buzz, specifically.

So continue to enjoy your Christmas, but please share less of it here, because seriously, just make a blog or buy a diary or something.

A blog's too open and a diary's too closed. No one I know is on here and if I ask a diary for advice, what would that say about me? Especially if it responds?

Plus until I can get to NYC and find my tribe, you all are probably the closest I'll get to something more than casual acquaintances.

[marurun]

A blog's too open and a diary's too closed. No one I know is on here and if I ask a diary for advice, what would that say about me? Especially if it responds?

Then at least make a dedicated thread. I don't mean you shouldn't ever post here, but so many of your posts in here seem like they belong in a dedicated REPO thread.

Plus until I can get to NYC and find my tribe, you all are probably the closest I'll get to something more than casual acquaintances.[/quote]

Whatever your "tribe" happens to be, it can be found in lots of different places. The idea that there's only one place or city where you could possibly find like minds is problematic and is part of why your obsession with NYC is so unhealthy and unrealistic.

[REPO Man]

Whatever your "tribe" happens to be, it can be found in lots of different places. The idea that there's only one place or city where you could possibly find like minds is problematic and is part of why your obsession with NYC is so unhealthy and unrealistic.

Such people tend to gravitate to large cities, with NYC being one of the largest and being perhaps the most diverse in terms of people from numerous walks of life. It's also a major focal point for various industries, including the entertainment industry. Another way of putting it is that it checks enough of the boxes on my list to make it the best possible choice.

[marurun]

Whatever your "tribe" happens to be, it can be found in lots of different places. The idea that there's only one place or city where you could possibly find like minds is problematic and is part of why your obsession with NYC is so unhealthy and unrealistic.

Such people tend to gravitate to large cities, with NYC being one of the largest and being perhaps the most diverse in terms of people from numerous walks of life. It's also a major focal point for various industries, including the entertainment industry. Another way of putting it is that it checks enough of the boxes on my list to make it the best possible choice.

I think it checks a lot of boxes for what you think you want, but I don't think it checks a lot of boxes for what you need, which is primarily the ability to generate enough revenue to afford living and surviving in the city, or more likely in Jersey. You have yet to demonstrate in any of your shares here that you have any of the necessary skills to actually thrive in NYC and not simply end up homeless there. So when balancing what you want against what you need, I think NYC suddenly ends up pear-shaped. And as we've long said here, your unwillingness to investigate or consider more attainable options is pretty much why you are still stuck on the cape.

I don't bring this up to re-ignite this discussion (or do I? Perhaps my own self-awareness is lacking as well.) The point is, you really need your own thread for some of what you dump in here. If you're determine that RacketBoy is the best place for it, creating a dedicated thread might serve you better, because anyone else trying to post in this thread either gets drowned out by your "dear diary" posts or the forum's collective response.

[Golgo 14]

It'd be one thing if Repo was constantly derailing conversations. In reality, he usually starts conversations on a mostly dead site. His posts tend to drive some to the brink of insanity, but that's part of the charm.

[REPO Man]

At least I'm not talking about tape like it's the second coming of Christ.

[marurun]

At least I'm not talking about tape like it's the second coming of Christ.

But you were the inspiration and driving force behind it.

[Ack]

Tape is love. Tape is life.

[REPO Man]

At least I'm not talking about tape like it's the second coming of Christ.

But you were the inspiration and driving force behind it.

I didn't make it the focus of my post, as opposed to folks practically writing psalms and scriptures about tape.