Things That Make Me Smile

  1. Jessica Alba’s ass

  2. protein cookies from anabolic innovations

  3. the regular old Grow! Chocolate flavor…hands down best flavor protein powder ever!

  4. Bench days

  5. mma

  6. washing my truck

  7. the new crop of freshman girls

[quote]gojira wrote:
7. Hummingbird wars at the feeders.
[/quote]

Hahaha, those are some of the most furious birds I’ve watched. It’s a wonder they never impale each other with their beaks from dive bombing one another.

*When my husband tells me I’m beautiful
*A great workout
*Losing inches and weight
*Inventing new recipes
*Cooking healthy food for people
*Getting a phone call from a friend I haven’t talked to in a while
*Hanging out with family and friends
*Knowing that I’m making a difference in my client’s lives
*the thought of starting school again
*The color pink
*Loud country music on the radio!
*Reading a good book
*Learning new information or usless trivia
*Reading the success stories of people who have lost weight and kept it off.
*Reading the supportive posts in many of the T-Vixen forums.

  1. watching my son sleep soundly
  2. feeling my husband pinch my butt
  3. looking in the mirror and seeing muscles
  4. good sex (omg!)
  5. good wine (usually if I’m having good wine–I’m having GREAT sex!)
  6. good food (i can’t wait for my first bite of PIZZA!)
  7. good friends (i’ve got some good ones!)
  8. good family (crazy–but supportive)
  9. calls from AG (she’s a lifesaver!)
    10.inside jokes–DUAL EXHAUST BABEE!
    11.knowing that i have fans somewhere
    12.LIstening to Deftones “around the fur”
    12.Listening to Chevelle “wonder what’s next”
    13.running into old friend’s from college
    14.being called ‘MJ’
    15.Drinking Margarita’s with the GIRLS!

Finding out last week that my wife is pregnant with our second child.

That put a smile on my face that’s still there right now :-]

Congrats bigflamer!

Also,

-My son saying “good morning dad!” when I get home from the station in the morning

-When my wife says "you’re coming to bed right?

-Just about every Clutch album

-FDIC weekend with firefighters from four different departments drinking our asses off and smoking cigars at the clubs in Indy

-The Bears stomping the Packers

-The Wolverines stomping Notre Dame

-Midgets

-Squating every plate the dept. had in the weightroom and realizing that I’ve outgrown the dept. weightroom

-Making my way down a busy street in the engine with the lights and siren going on the way to a call

-Blocking off the road when I get to the call right in front of a yuppie in a BMW talking on a cell phone

-Saying “I don’t care” when he starts to get shitty about not being able to get through

-Debating politics :-]

-Landing a clean hook kick to my opponents head

-Delivering a really solid left hook

-Drinking with my brothers

-Listening to Waylon Jennings, sitting around the fire drinking alot of Oberon

-Ron White!

-Watching my son run out on the field to start his first football camp

-Being told “thank you” after busting your ass for an hour fighting a wildland fire that most likely should have burned up the mobile homes that were in the way of the fire, but didn’t.

-Really high rapels

-Making it through a series of 18" pipes affectionately called “the worm”, blindfolded, while attending a confined space rescue class. This, after being told that I wouldn’t make it through.

-Rereading “The Sea Wolf”

-Watching “Lonesome Dove” for the umpteenth time

-Landing the helicopter from the hospital on the highway at night

-Most of TC’s articles

-Threads as good as this!

[quote]bigflamer wrote:
Finding out last week that my wife is pregnant with our second child.

That put a smile on my face that’s still there right now :-][/quote]

I was going to say beer and strippers.

But yea, I guess yours is pretty cool too.

Congratulations man!

[quote]halfpintdd wrote:
Congrats bigflamer![/quote]

Thank you!

[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
Finding out last week that my wife is pregnant with our second child.

That put a smile on my face that’s still there right now :-]

I was going to say beer and strippers.

But yea, I guess yours is pretty cool too.

Congratulations man![/quote]

Thanks!

Though, nothing wrong with beer and strippers either!

1- Getting fired from a dead-end job that I hate.
2- Watching Full Metal Jacket and listening to Drill Sgt. Hartman.
3- Watching old Clint Eastwood movies; he is the man.
4- A good, hard wrestling practice.
5- A productive workout where I add lots of weight to the bar.
6- The occasional house-party/BBQ with friends
7- Goofing off and acting the fool for the sheer joy of it.

Bigflamer, btw, thank you to you and all your brother and sister firefighters on this forum and not here (in real life).

Thank you for having the balls to save our asses and doing something most of us would be too scared to do. If I see a fifteen foot wall of flames…I run away and not towards…not a firefighter, though.

[quote]maryjane wrote:
2. feeling HELGA pinch my butt
3. looking in the mirror and seeing muscles
4. good sex (omg!)
5. good wine (usually if I’m having good wine–I’m having GREAT sex!)
6. good food (i can’t wait for my first bite of PIZZA!)
14.being called ‘MJ’
[/quote]

Hey MJ! Just give me your address and I will be round to pinch your butt, cook you the best pizza you have ever had, fill you up with good wine and then fill you up with…good sex (you can look at your muscles in the mirror during the sex if you want)!

Just dont tell Goo alright!

[quote]Helga wrote:
maryjane wrote:
2. feeling HELGA pinch my butt
3. looking in the mirror and seeing muscles
4. good sex (omg!)
5. good wine (usually if I’m having good wine–I’m having GREAT sex!)
6. good food (i can’t wait for my first bite of PIZZA!)
14.being called ‘MJ’

Hey MJ! Just give me your address and I will be round to pinch your butt, cook you the best pizza you have ever had, fill you up with good wine and then fill you up with…good sex (you can look at your muscles in the mirror during the sex if you want)!

Just dont tell Goo alright![/quote]

Jeeeez, if this isn’t a pathetic suck-up, I don’t know what is.

[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Helga wrote:
maryjane wrote:
2. feeling HELGA pinch my butt
3. looking in the mirror and seeing muscles
4. good sex (omg!)
5. good wine (usually if I’m having good wine–I’m having GREAT sex!)
6. good food (i can’t wait for my first bite of PIZZA!)
14.being called ‘MJ’

Hey MJ! Just give me your address and I will be round to pinch your butt, cook you the best pizza you have ever had, fill you up with good wine and then fill you up with…good sex (you can look at your muscles in the mirror during the sex if you want)!

Just dont tell Goo alright!

Jeeeez, if this isn’t a pathetic suck-up, I don’t know what is. [/quote]

I will not even try and hide the fact that it is a pathetic suck-up. But can you blame me?? You know better than anyone that it is at least worth a shot for a prize like that.

Now, I must go and book a plane ticket to the US…

I will not even try and hide the fact that it is a pathetic suck-up. But can you blame me?? You know better than anyone that it is at least worth a shot for a prize like that.

Now, I must go and book a plane ticket to the US…[/quote]

Hahaha No, I can’t blame you. She is definitely a prize.

  1. Badass heavy metal (Black Label Society, Pantera etc.)

  2. Eating until I have to take a nap just to properly digest everything.

  3. Cold beer.

  4. Breasts.

  5. My girlfriend’s smile/laugh.

  6. Everything else about my girlfriend.

  7. Clint Eastwood.

  8. Catching a girl checking me out.

  9. Hearing about some piece of shit criminal getting what he had coming.

  10. Going REALLY fast on a motorbike.

[quote]t3h_Squirr3l wrote:
2- Watching Full Metal Jacket and listening to Drill Sgt. Hartman.
[/quote]

I know I’m being a little nitpicky, but it’s actually “Drill Instructor.” Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman to be exact. They’re not refered to as Drill Sergeants in the Marine Corps.

What a great thread…

-Eating the same breakfast every morning and loving it more each day!
-Having wildly accomplished family members to brag about
-That “before rain” smell, rain and the lushness that follows
-Making people fall in love with spice
-Coaching and knowing that I’m helping to strengthen my community after everything I’ve been given
-Clean tap water every time and black outs that make people actually stop and think
-Having a wickedly strong lower back
-Those darling little cracks up my spine while I do Magnificent Mobility drills
-Really good, crunchy, juicy apples
-Being fearless with my cooking
-Field hockey
-Sending packages and letters in the mail
-The Postal Service “Give up”
-Giving up something I thought I couldn’t live without. Realizing I am better off without it.

[quote]t3h_Squirr3l wrote:
Bigflamer, btw, thank you to you and all your brother and sister firefighters on this forum and not here (in real life).

Thank you for having the balls to save our asses and doing something most of us would be too scared to do. If I see a fifteen foot wall of flames…I run away and not towards…not a firefighter, though. [/quote]

No thanks necessary really, I just like being good at a job that makes a difference. It does however, at the end of the day, boil down to just that, just a job.

Although, I will admit, it probably does take a certain kind of individual to make their way into a smoke filled house, only to find flames over your head, and realizing that your smiling like a retard with a corndog at the fair :-]