I dunno, but cardiologists sure do. Never fear - I tell them to mind their own business.
Good luck!
Hell yeah!
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Amazing! I want to have your level of assertiveness.
Thanks! I’m sure it’s benign.
And this is why we’re friends. 
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I’m not sure it’s a virtue in this particular scenario.
“Are you sure you’re not drinking more than that?”
“No further comment - next question!”
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Whenever I hear or see the word mole, the mole scene from Austin Powers always comes into my very childish brain. Mooooooole.
Also - great scene in the 80s movie Uncle Buck that involves a mole.
And that concludes tonight’s episode of great movie scenes involving moles.
Hope your biopsy is negative. And your plant wall looks awesome.
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It was! I freaking love John Candy and wouldn’t mind watching that one again. It was a tradition in our family to watch Trains Planes and Automobiles around the holidays.
And yes, that scene from Austin Powers was exactly what I was thinking of yesterday. Lol!
Ok, what are your top-5 movies from the 80’s and 90’s?
Thanks! I’m sure it’ll be benign. And thank you for checking out my plants!
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Glad I could help, without even intending too!
Thanks, I’d like to think I’m going in the right direction, but it’s definitely not a linear path and I feel like I struggle more than I ought to, but I don’t doubt most of us feel that way at least some of the time. My wife’s an interesting story, she always counted herself as a Christian, she grew up in a home that was church going and did all of the church going things until adulthood then just never went back but always assumed she was. When I became a Christian (at age 26) she saw the difference in me, I was a very heavy drink, regular recreational drug user across the whole spectrum, filthy mouth and evil sense of humour, gambling problem, pornography problem, you name it I was in to it, and that all stopped in an instant, and not because I was just trying hard to be better person, it was just a full 180, Jesus got me! (Wasn’t even going to church or looking for faith or anything, just out of the blue got Matt 6:33, just the first part “seek first the kingdom of God” stuck in my head over and over for weeks until I got fed up with the thought and decided to read the Bible)
For years it causes big problems in our marriage, she literally threw the wedding ring at me more than once and told me I wasn’t the man she married, crazy time. Anyway at the start of Covid she had a full on mental breakdown couldn’t leave the bedroom couldn’t speak to the kids, couldn’t stand noise, the only thing that got her through it was watching this on repeat https://youtu.be/2eQ1oal44wU?si=UhVqkEuTZNBJD036 (like 24/7 it was weird) and prayer. She’s so much better now, still on some meds, but fully functional and now a Christian by faith not name!
This is amazing to hear, being in a good church makes such a difference, we aren’t designed to do life alone, community is God’s design!
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I spent way too much time thinking about this the last day. So many good movies to try to narrow down to only five. Here’s my list:
-Caddyshack
-Commando
-Ace Ventura
-Office Space
-Beverly Hills Cop
You can see the intellect level you’re dealing with here based on these movies lol.
What are your top 5?
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Terminator 2
Demolition Man
Fight Club
Top Gun
The Matrix (barely makes it 1999)
Not very deep movies but I have books for that. Prefer my movies simply entertaining.
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Stalingrad (1993)
Das Boot (1981)
Come and See (1985)
Europa Europa (1990)
Can’t think of any others that I liked …
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You’re right, we’re all struggling. I think it’s an indication we’re trying to be more like Christ, which will always be hard because he’s perfect. Our church actually just wrapped up a 6 week series called, The Struggle is Real.
This blows my mind!! What a profound transformation you had. Congrats on being the first person to bring tears to my eyes on a training log.
That is absolutely incredible. It’s wild how certain phrases can stick in our heads and how following up on them can change everything.
Something like this happened to me last spring regarding the great commission. It gave me the sense of purpose I’d been missing for my entire adult life. And actually brought me out of a dark place where I felt like my life didn’t matter.
I’m amazed at what you two went through and how you endured those hard times. That Complement book might actually be the perfect thing for you two to go through together! The videos that they pair with it are so good. I think you’d both love them!
Absolutely true. And it’s unfortunate that I didn’t “get” this until recently.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me. It’s made my day!
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This list tells me you’re fun and you like to laugh. I get such a huge rush of nostalgia just thinking about them. Good choices!
There were so many good ones! Goonies, Stand By Me, Ghost Busters, Ghost, Top Gun, Scent of a Woman, The Three Amigos, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Breakfast Club, ET, The Lost Boys, etc.
But if I had to narrow it down, it’d be these, which are all from the 90s:
The Edge (survival, betrayal, adventure, amazing scenery)
Meet Joe Black (romance, plus the best monologues about love, life and death)
Tombstone (lots of action, dash of humor, good storyline)
The Saint (action, romance, fun costume changes)
Dead Poets Society (epic, touching, Robin Williams)
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These are excellent choices! And how cool is it that the phrases we use today came from movies like the ones you listed? People who are “red pilled” for example. Would we have ever gotten that term without the Matrix? No way.
And Fight Club was full of thought-provoking dialogue.
What a list! You may be the first person I’ve met who loves war movies! 
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I am a huge WWII and USSR nerd
I grew up watching Chinese war movies with my grandparents and my dad would tell oversimplified versions as bedtime stories
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Now that’s an awesome way to learn. I commend you for having an interest and following along with what your dad and grandparents taught you. Very cool!
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been MIA for a bit, just catching up. Love the doggo pictures and I am not going to show this to my wife because we would have plants everywhere if she saw this. Seriously though, looks great.
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Thank you! They’re in my office right now snoozing loudly. We spoil the heck out of our floofers.
Well if we lived on your continent, I probably wouldn’t need so many plants in the house! 
What’s it like for you guys in the winter? It gets pretty dead here, plant-wise. So since there’s not enough green stuff outside the house, I feel compelled to grow more on the inside.
It’s like giving winter the middle finger.
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Winter tends to be greener here, all the Eucalyptus trees are ever green and lots of the other more tropical foliage plants are green all year. In summer here everything dries out, so grasses go yellow / brown and some plants die back. But also a lot of the succulents flower in the summer so there is always something good going on.
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