KEF'S PROFILE

Very!! I'm not rich by any means, but I'm pretty well off. My work isn't very fulfilling in the long term, but as a day-to-day job I make more than most people my age and even beyond my education level (diploma, and just barely. I hated high school and rarely attended, and felt the same about college for the short time I went. Seems a necessary evil if I ever want to do scientificalesque-type work though). I won't say what I do or where I work, but it's essentially 50k/year for exercising and listening to music.

Everything I have and am, I had to develop myself. I was kind of immature, shy, and had no meaningful life experience by the end of high school; but my mom, being as smart as she is, bought a house 50 miles from where I grew up and said 'sorry we don't have space for you, have a good journey!!' For about a week I was resentful but then I realized this was probably the best thing that could possibly happen to me, so I went out and handled it the best I could. Found work, roommates, whatever. It was hard at first but it got easier over time.

Nowadays I rent a nice, spacious apartment a quarter-mile from where I work, am well-liked* by everyone I know and work with, have good friends and a wonderful girlfriend, am in great shape and health, and generally have almost nothing to complain about. I also have trouble looking at people who were given much of anything by anyone on equal terms, but hey!

I know, I'm a smug jerk. :( Hang in there! It's all about being able to adapt, make sacrifices, and overcome low points. I know I had them. That whole 'what doesn't kill you' spiel holds 100% true, but only if you go beyond 'not getting killed' to 'learn from your NDEs'. In some peoples' cases it takes a lot more than that (overcoming years of abuse, for example) even to simply get one's life started; but speaking as someone who never went through anything like that, I want to believe that the basic principle stays the same for everyone.

*to my face at least

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*checks Mary's 3 star review*

heh! No complaints there! Strange....

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star ratings are dumb anyway and would be meaningless except now a lot of people will search for game's and sort by #stars and see this somewhere up there near the top and end up bypassing something much better that only got 3 stars..

Apology NOT accepted. You're going to need to try harder than that, buddy!

oh! and oatmeal/flax to help push it all out. and take a multivitamin and fish oil. do cardio on your non-lifting day(s), but make sure you eat enough or else your muskles will break down. follow your instincts! no processed food! is easy.

dumb topic but geodude's right, it's hard to beat sharp cheddar

close second would have to be fresh buffalo-milk mozzarella, then maybe fontina.

velveeta isn't even cheese