Tag: wife

• New People, Laundry, and Insecurities – Thoughts from August 5 and 6, 2023

  

  August 5, 2023 When I meet someone new at work, I try to find out work related things first and then move on to their interests. No one completely loses me with their interests, but I find myself less enthused about what some people find interesting. Sports is one of those things. Many people assume…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 25, 2024

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• Christmas Games – Thoughts from December 20 and 21, 2022

  

  December 20, 2022 Patti came to work with me today. On the way, we talked the whole time. Sometimes we put on a podcast and listen to that, but we were both Chatty Cathies and never really listened to anything but each other. It’s good to know that after 25 years of marriage we can…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 22, 2024

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  2022, 25 years of marriage, accusing me of yelling, AI used in art, alliteration, artificial intelligence, banned, Charlie Manson, Christmas, Christmas Eave, Christmas games, competitive games, creativity, experimenting with swearing, family, five female felines, fuzzy pictures, games, get to know our neighbors, great listener, high school humor papers, hitting on girls, house boarded up, loud vehicles, memory for visual things, music band, my last day, Napster, new people, no memory, no recall, party, party games, Patti, pleasant trip, predictive messages, predictive text, presents, purse, sampling, sex in a bar, stories, stupid is the new normal, swearing, talking in the car, technology, The Papers, thoughts, weird wordplay, wife, yelling

• Brian Explains New Year’s Resolutions – Thoughts from December 31, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s resolutions come just once a year, but they can be broken all year long. New Year’s resolutions were never something I did. I would sometimes jokingly mention I was going to resolve to quit doing something or start doing something. I was never seriously intending to keep the…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 27, 2023

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  2010, cats, change, decision, decisive, less sex, lose weight, more sex, new minute’s resolution, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Resolutions, reinvent yourself, reruns, resolutions, resolve, this is the day, thoughts, treadmill, wife

• Brian Explains Toys – Thoughts from December 25, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: Toys This Christmas time, I thought I would talk about an important issue we must examine this time of year. It is an issue affecting us all when we reach a certain age. Are we children, teenagers, young adults, or the dreaded adult? We are walking around thinking fun-filled, happy toy thoughts and…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 25, 2023

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  action figures, adulting, Barbie, Barbie car, Barbie house, bills, birthday, boring toys, boys, build furniture, changing, child, childhood, children, Christmas, computer, crabby, crabby teenagers, cranky adults, create badly, create fashions, creative, creative adult, creative child, creativity, dollhouses, Ewok vehicle, Ewok village, forgotten memory, games, girls, grow up, junior high, Ken, kids, last toys birthday, Lego, parents, soap opera, Star Wars, teenagers, thoughts, toy, toy boxes, toy store, toyless, toys, Toys-R-Us, wife

• Brian Explains Hoarding – Thoughts from December 10, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: Hoarding If you haven’t seen any of the shows about hoarding, you owe it to yourself to watch one. The basic premise of every show is that the person who the show is about cannot let go of things. “Things” include both physical and emotional things. It is the emotional baggage that compels…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 18, 2023

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  2010, Atari 2600, avoid hoarding, childhood memories, clear a path, clearing a path, coffee cans, collecting, dad, eBay, emotional baggage, emotional objects, feel better about yourself, floppy disks, get help, Gremlins cereal boxes, hoard, hoarders, hoarding, make room, memories, Men in Black, OCD, parents, Patti, physical objects, reminiscing, take a picture, thoughts, throw object out, tip, toys, wife

• Brian Explains OCD – Thoughts from December 3, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: OCD Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by Merriam-Webster as a “psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.” I don’t mean to brag, but I have several forms of…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 13, 2023

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  2010, anxiety, ascending order, attempt to control the world, Brian Explains Life, Celebrities with OCD, compulsions, cups, depression, dishes, eating, faux pas, food touching, forks, germs, Howard Hughes, Howard Stern, Howie Mandel, kitchen sink, knives, large to small, lids, life lesson, obsessive thoughts, obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, order, Patti, placement, proper order, recluse, rules, small to large, spaghetti, spoons, tapping, Tetris-like, thoughts, wife

• Brian Explains Life and Time – Thoughts from September 14, 2010 and January 14, 2011

  

  September 14, 2010 (Future note: The following Thoughts papers are not actually Thoughts papers. They are articles I included in my blog Brian Explains Life. I explain many things in these articles, but this Blog Intro describes them best.) Brian Explains Life: Blog Intro All right, you are here. I don’t know where you came…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 20, 2023

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• September 10, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 8

  

  When I started this paper, I recorded over the last one. I usually have a copy in two different places, but, of course, the time I don’t, this happens. I am not saying I go around expecting bad things to happen. I don’t hate life before it kicks me in the rear. I like to…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 29, 2022

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  1997, apples and oranges, atheist, computers, final thoughts, jobs, karaoke, losing data, nerd, new job, Patti, plans, rumors, sarcasm, siestas, thoughts, time, wife

• August 25, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 3

  

  Traveling down the road of life, I see a computer sitting on the side of the road. It’s shiny, new, and smells of megabytes. I pick it up and press one key. On the screen appears a single word. I stare at the word a moment and keep walking, leaving the computer on the side…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 10, 2022

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