ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning
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@gjacobse said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Ouch - Glad all involved are okay.
If all it did was buckle the hood, and jam the radiator, you may be able to replace both from a salvage yard and be going pretty quickly.
Hard to say without being able to pull parts and inventory.
I think it was worse than that...
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@scale said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Glad to hear that you are okay, @thanksajdotcom
Thank you.
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You know, I will say this:
It was my mistake. I was careless, and I own that. This is going to make a lot of things very difficult for me in the interim. However, I'm not feeling like I can't move, or that I'm overwhelmed. I've grown so much this year. I have the confidence now to know that I will do what I must to make things work. If that means riding a bike each morning to FedEx, well, I'll get some extra exercise and maybe lose more weight. I can get rides to my day job. My new apartment is five minutes from my girlfriend, and I can catch a ride with her (we work the same shift). I know I will make things work, and I'm not giving up. It's one more thing on my plate that was already full, but you know what? When I look back on the past couple years in a decade or two, I will be able to say that I fought the fight and won. I did what I had to so I could survive and get to where I want to go. I'm down, but I'm not out, and I'm not giving up. And it makes me proud of myself to be able to say that, and know it's true.
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@thanksajdotcom Keep at it man. I've been there too.
Rear ended a Grand Cherokee after visiting Niagara falls. 3rd date with a new lady friend and she flashed me. Whoops. Heheh.
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@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
You know, I will say this:
It was my mistake. I was careless, and I own that. This is going to make a lot of things very difficult for me in the interim. However, I'm not feeling like I can't move, or that I'm overwhelmed. I've grown so much this year. I have the confidence now to know that I will do what I must to make things work. If that means riding a bike each morning to FedEx, well, I'll get some extra exercise and maybe lose more weight. I can get rides to my day job. My new apartment is five minutes from my girlfriend, and I can catch a ride with her (we work the same shift). I know I will make things work, and I'm not giving up. It's one more thing on my plate that was already full, but you know what? When I look back on the past couple years in a decade or two, I will be able to say that I fought the fight and won. I did what I had to so I could survive and get to where I want to go. I'm down, but I'm not out, and I'm not giving up. And it makes me proud of myself to be able to say that, and know it's true.
I swear I feel like we're on the training fields with the football guys in Remember the Titans. Life is shouting at us "Will you ever quit?!"
To which our only response can be "No! We want some mo!"
or perhaps a different paraphrase from a book (Author is Morgan J. Rice): When we have problems in life, we get stuck, like getting stuck in the mud. When we are in the mud it feels as if we can never out. But these come to us as great life lessons: it is up to us to pull ourselves out of the mud. Not just once, but time and time again. This is your moment to pull yourself out. To show life that you are bigger than your problems."
(I changed a couple of words to make it fit, lol).
TL;DR: Keep on trucking man. Trucks ain't made to go fast. They're just made to get there.
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STOPA -
Stop
Think
Observe
Plan
ActIt works in our day to day life, not just out in the middle of some forest when you are lost...
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@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
You know, I will say this:
It was my mistake. I was careless, and I own that. This is going to make a lot of things very difficult for me in the interim. However, I'm not feeling like I can't move, or that I'm overwhelmed. I've grown so much this year. I have the confidence now to know that I will do what I must to make things work. If that means riding a bike each morning to FedEx, well, I'll get some extra exercise and maybe lose more weight. I can get rides to my day job. My new apartment is five minutes from my girlfriend, and I can catch a ride with her (we work the same shift). I know I will make things work, and I'm not giving up. It's one more thing on my plate that was already full, but you know what? When I look back on the past couple years in a decade or two, I will be able to say that I fought the fight and won. I did what I had to so I could survive and get to where I want to go. I'm down, but I'm not out, and I'm not giving up. And it makes me proud of myself to be able to say that, and know it's true.
I swear I feel like we're on the training fields with the football guys in Remember the Titans. Life is shouting at us "Will you ever quit?!"
To which our only response can be "No! We want some mo!"
or perhaps a different paraphrase from a book (Author is Morgan J. Rice): When we have problems in life, we get stuck, like getting stuck in the mud. When we are in the mud it feels as if we can never out. But these come to us as great life lessons: it is up to us to pull ourselves out of the mud. Not just once, but time and time again. This is your moment to pull yourself out. To show life that you are bigger than your problems."
(I changed a couple of words to make it fit, lol).
TL;DR: Keep on trucking man. Trucks ain't made to go fast. They're just made to get there.
Except the Chevy Cyclone. That thing was crazy.
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@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
You know, I will say this:
It was my mistake. I was careless, and I own that. This is going to make a lot of things very difficult for me in the interim. However, I'm not feeling like I can't move, or that I'm overwhelmed. I've grown so much this year. I have the confidence now to know that I will do what I must to make things work. If that means riding a bike each morning to FedEx, well, I'll get some extra exercise and maybe lose more weight. I can get rides to my day job. My new apartment is five minutes from my girlfriend, and I can catch a ride with her (we work the same shift). I know I will make things work, and I'm not giving up. It's one more thing on my plate that was already full, but you know what? When I look back on the past couple years in a decade or two, I will be able to say that I fought the fight and won. I did what I had to so I could survive and get to where I want to go. I'm down, but I'm not out, and I'm not giving up. And it makes me proud of myself to be able to say that, and know it's true.
I swear I feel like we're on the training fields with the football guys in Remember the Titans. Life is shouting at us "Will you ever quit?!"
To which our only response can be "No! We want some mo!"
or perhaps a different paraphrase from a book (Author is Morgan J. Rice): When we have problems in life, we get stuck, like getting stuck in the mud. When we are in the mud it feels as if we can never out. But these come to us as great life lessons: it is up to us to pull ourselves out of the mud. Not just once, but time and time again. This is your moment to pull yourself out. To show life that you are bigger than your problems."
(I changed a couple of words to make it fit, lol).
TL;DR: Keep on trucking man. Trucks ain't made to go fast. They're just made to get there.
Thank you for the kind words...
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@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
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Well, that blows chunks.
Good to hear you're ok.Hugs n high fives
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@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
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@nadnerB said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Well, that blows chunks.
Good to hear you're ok.Hugs n high fives
Thanks bro
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@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
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Guess not, ha ha ha. I'll have to go and find you... Or you can find me.
fb/dafyre
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@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@dafyre said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
If you're on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ajstringham/posts/1399985926684701Page has been removed?
Are we friends on Facebook? It's locked to friends only.
Guess not, ha ha ha. I'll have to go and find you... Or you can find me.
fb/dafyre
Added.
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Gave my statement to the insurance adjuster today. Fun fun...
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@thanksajdotcom I just recently had to do this as well. Glad you're safe man.
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@wirestyle22 said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
@thanksajdotcom I just recently had to do this as well. Glad you're safe man.
Thank you
