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Lou Laurinen

Lou Laurinen

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  • Lou Laurinen
    A Steller’s sea eagle has been sighted frequently in my area and I just had an encounter with him. Note the dark head and white shoulders.
    I feel special lol
    This guy is enormous, way bigger than the bald eagles I was photographing a few minutes before.
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    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I’m not telling any locals about this because I don’t want them to bother him or scare him away.
    Lou Laurinen
    I feel so invisible. Nothing I do is ever good enough for anyone, and people are always moving on to someone else because I'm not interesting or attractive. It's starting to break down my confidence. It feels like I put so much into being myself and being a good friend and I'm still not enough.
    Lou Laurinen
    How do you determine when you’re ready to let your significant other move in with you? Especially if they’re already there a good amount of the time and you have good boundaries and respect each other’s space
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    This impacts your future, so you have to be clear on your boundaries of what you won't tolerate. Congrats, very happy for you.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I didn't interpret her comment that way. I honestly don't care what my girlfriend does in my house as long as it isn't dangerous, gross, or rude. If she makes a mess, that's hers to clean up, I'm not going to nag her about it. She's an adult lol
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Communication is the key.
    Lou Laurinen
    I just looked at my college transcript, and I misunderstood it. I thought I had six *classes* left, but I have six *credits* left. So that's only two classes!! I didn't realize I had completed that many credits. I can finish my degree in one semester if I go back to the school I was at a few years ago. I'm doing this because I want to, not for anyone else, but now people can stop judging me for not having a degree.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    College is hard not only because of the work, but also because of the artificially charged environment. It's difficult to thrive when the college experience militates against thriving--unless you're capable of fitting in to the conformity.
    I'm glad to see you returning to this one. The field you are studying needs good people.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I’ve always said that I go to college because I want to learn, not because I want a social life. I have plenty of opportunity to make friends in environments that are less hostile. Bullying was the reason I stopped 6 credits short. Schools are honestly terrible environments for socializing, ironically.
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    VictorR
    Education is always best pursued when you're doing it for yourself. Anything else you can get out of it (vocationally or otherwise) is a bonus. :-)
    Lou Laurinen
    I'm glad people don't expect women to wear eyeliner as much as they did in the 2010s, because I have huge eyes with heavy eyelids and eyeliner always looked terrible on me. I wish I had realized when I was younger that I look better with less makeup. I use mascara and lip color and that's about it. Some people can do really interesting things with makeup and they look amazing, but I think I'll stick to hair lol
    Lou Laurinen
    I actually had no idea that today/yesterday was April Fool’s Day lol. Sometimes I forget what day it is. I wish I had thought of a prank.
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    Rodafina
    Rodafina
    Luca, I think April 2nd is the best day for pranks. They are REALLY unexpected!
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I would have totally fallen for that! The kitty theme would have been a perfect ruse. Put a cat in front of me, my higher rational brain switches off! :-)
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I really like your new profile picture Luca! :-) The flower crown just works so well! :-)
    Lou Laurinen
    I ate way too much food for lunch and now I just want to stay in bed all day lol
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    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I look like I’m pregnant and my stomach is still sore lol. But I was really hungry!
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Another date with someone, pizza salad nite. It should be interesting.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    It is nice to hear you are getting out, Aspychata. Pizza & salad, wtf, when you can probably have anything from Ceviće to blackened grouper to crab claws where you are! I am looking to enjoy your seafood when I am around Homosassa next week.
    Lou Laurinen
    When my girlfriend and her friend were taking pictures of me, some girl pulled her car over to tell me “Girl, you look fire!” (A compliment)
    Other girls would usually rather cut me down than compliment me so I appreciate that she had strong enough character to lift another woman up. Girls can be really brutal to each other about appearance.
    Lou Laurinen
    For one of my girlfriend's photography school projects today, I have to wear a traditional Eastern European folk dress (which is funny because I'm not white European at all lol) and for the other one, I have to be a "fashion model." I'm always up for a new challenge so this will be very interesting. I have never really modeled before. I have been in magazines, but they were focused on the dogs and I wasn't posing.
    Judge
    Judge
    You might change your mind if you consider the ethnicity of Eastern Europeans closer to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. They aren't all "White Europeans" either. You'll do just fine. :)
    Lou Laurinen
    Any other 90s kids (or 80s or prior) remember making prank phone calls before people had caller ID or the ability to reverse phone search? That would be pretty much impossible to do now lol
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    Raggamuffin
    Raggamuffin
    I remember them with using film soundboards. Websites which would have lots of buttons with quotes from films.

    My all time favourite prank call used an Arnie soundboard to ring Murphys plumbing. I won't post it due to NSFW language.
    Judge
    Judge
    I recall when an ex-friend and his cohorts made obscene phone calls to my own mother. Of course she didn't need caller id to determine who it really was, either. :rolleyes:
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    Excuse me, is your refrigerator running? Gee, you better go catch it then!
    Lou Laurinen
    So my girlfriend's project didn't get done yesterday, since we both just ended up going to sleep at like 3pm because we're exhausted from the past few days... so we're going to try again today. Hopefully we can get the pictures and videos done and edited together in the next couple of days. I will obviously share it on here.
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