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Gene

climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 10, 2009 - 01:46am PT
For me,

#1) I quit my corporate job on 12/12/91 and have been working at home ever since.
#2) 8 years roaming around overseas.
gm
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jan 10, 2009 - 01:53am PT
hey there... say... this is easy for me: i tell jesus i love him every night and i thank him so very much that he keeps helping me whenever i feel i might do something stupid again...

i really DO need his help, and god is so good...

course, that doesn't mean, i got it all perfect now, but it means i'm keeping a right-good eye on things, and trying to steer and adjust my compass point to stay correct as possible, and at least, i'm being smarter than before i knew to thank god for his loving care upon me...
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jan 10, 2009 - 01:55am PT
hey there ... on more of a list that is easy for you all to understand...

smart thing i have done:

taught my grandkids that they have someone that loves them, so that they will have an extra stableness in their life...

enjoyed my kids and family, when i could, as now, they are too far away, and i can't, but--it makes one have no regrets, that one tried hard...
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Jan 10, 2009 - 03:26am PT
Married this woman.....


Had children....



Bought my own home, went to college, quit smoking cigarettes, never started drinking alcohol, had parents that encouraged me to take chances and gave me the confidence and conviction to seek out my dreams and desires, chose to live in a healthy beautiful place, and have been smart enough to stay alive for 37 years of rock climbing.....
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Jan 10, 2009 - 03:36am PT
Love your smartness, folks
Dang, great lookers all, Todd!
justthemaid

climber
Los Angeles
Jan 10, 2009 - 02:31pm PT
Took the money left over from dropping out of college and used it as a down payment on a house 11 years ogo when the prices were reasonable.
TradIsGood

Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
Jan 10, 2009 - 05:03pm PT
Sold a big house in 2005 and bought smaller.

Smarter still would have been to rent.
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
North of the Owyhees
Jan 10, 2009 - 06:08pm PT
Never ever respond to the LEB.
Teti

Trad climber
Phila, Pa.
Jan 10, 2009 - 06:54pm PT
Got out of the financial commitment w/ the ex and the huge house we owned (4000 sq ft $2500 a month)and built a 400 sq ft cabin in the woods on my cousins property. Rent you ask? All the firewood I can supply him. Seeing how I am a tree climber, thats not a problem.
Mark Hudon

Trad climber
Hood River, OR
Jan 10, 2009 - 07:04pm PT
Got married to Peggy. Had a child. Realized that I'm pretty much a happy idiot and accepted that fact.
happiegrrrl

Trad climber
New York, NY
Jan 10, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
Started climbing. At 41 years old...better late than never.

Adopted Teddy. Even though I went in thinking pound hounds were $35 and he had a mega markup($150), for being a puppy and SO CUTE!
Captain...or Skully

Social climber
North of the Owyhees
Jan 10, 2009 - 08:09pm PT
Dig it, Happie! I strapped on a snowboard for the 1st time at 40........Holy Frick a Zee!

Look Out Below!
rhyang

climber
SJC
Jan 10, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
Kept my health insurance paid up :)
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Jan 10, 2009 - 08:31pm PT
"Realized that I'm pretty much a happy idiot and accepted that fact."

I need to accept that, too!

Also,

actually condescending, from my lofty eyrie as college sophmore to climb with that Obnoxious, snot nosed, barely out of High school kid, Mike Friedrichs. "We're the locals." - gimee a break, I thought,

What an amazing, Mature, fully faceted human being he grew to be thirty years later! Any of you who know him will concur. We've had an amazing friendship, on and off the rocks, through times sometimes too rocky to talk about here.

Little sh#t still climbs like a demon, too!

Thanks, Fred!
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Jan 10, 2009 - 09:34pm PT
Started Yoga about 6 months ago.
Started climbing when I was 50.
Chaz

Trad climber
Boss Angeles
Jan 10, 2009 - 11:04pm PT
I quit spending beer money on underwear.
Wonder

climber
WA
Jan 10, 2009 - 11:16pm PT
Started studying Buddhism. Tru story.
MisterE

Trad climber
Raising Arizona
Jan 10, 2009 - 11:37pm PT
Not much, but the stretching thing, yeah - that.

The most important thing I have ever done is not an action

it was a decision

to always find the nectar of joy in my life.

Hummingbird Erik
Beatrix Kiddo

Mountain climber
Littleton
Jan 11, 2009 - 12:04am PT
I was born!
MisterE

Trad climber
Raising Arizona
Jan 11, 2009 - 12:21am PT
You can't just say that - there are existential considerations!

kiddoing
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