a gut yom tov with simcha venachas to you and yours

(ps. i will be on the prowl for sukkos waving the white flag und... jolly rogers... )

@Dov, thanks for that ma'amar, i printed it out for later reference. it is up there with the Cap'n Kirk ma'amar, imho.

You are most kind, saheeb!

And a sweet and freilachen Succos to the threadmeister Obbormottel, and all us Peanut Gallery folksl!!

Thank you, Dov, for your involvement and your good wishes. A freilachen yontiff, to you, too.
Can I get a copy of Cap'n Kirk ma'amar? Sounds interesting...

A gut moed!
So the kids are begging me to take them to a Bais Hashoeivo concert, and the wife says I shouldn't go because of all the women that are going to be there.
Can I go if I promise not  to look?

To heck with you. Just listen to your wife. The fact that she might be falling into a trap of trying to control you is a separate matter. Nu, one thing at a time, habibi...

Tell your wife to take them to the beis hashoeva!

If his wife goes to the concert there will be one more woman for all the men to look at. But if my wife takes my kids to the concert I can stay in my Succah and I won't see any of the women.


Wilma!

Eye.nonymous wrote on 17 Oct 2011 19:54:

why didn't I think of that? oh, because she wouldn't go by herself....
does "the heck with me" includes "the heck with the kids" who were looking forward to some chol hamoed entertainment with a famous perfomer?
Anyways, the Wife and I took all the kids and went, and I watched my eyes and didn't die, so that was good.

Well done Mottel.
I went to the Kosel today and watched my eyes and didn't die, so that was good. I went early in the morning and took off my glasses at times, which made it easier.

Sounds like we might need a new thread titled "I watched my eyes and didn't die" .

obormottel wrote on 12 Oct 2011 18:06:

www.guardyoureyes.org/forum/index.php?topic=4109.msg111973#msg111973

Ok, I'm back.
I spent last three days (starting with Motzei Shabbos) contemplating suicide and divorce, in that order. Frankly, I didn't see any reasons other than the "lav" not to swerve into oncoming traffic.
I apologize to everyone on this forum for staying inside my head, but I finally came out of it last night and called a friend, and shared, shared, shared....and when I came home I was much better. I had to read the Handbook, and some other material on the GYE to finally break through. I was also following the forum, and reading Dov's long posts from recent times as well as of yore. I just couldn't bring myself to post. So I caught myself looking around on the street and "testing" the filter on the home computer, and the filter takka didn't work(!) and I saw a home page of something and thank G-d my son was at home, so I clicked out right away and had the Wife reset the filter that evening.
I realized that one of the reasons I couldn't bring myself to post was that I was (wrongly) expecting someone from the forum to reach out to ME, ME, ME.
It was all about me for the last couple of days, and I just couldn't shake myself off.
So even the most selfish thing in the world, such as suicide, didn't seem so foreign.
Originally I was gonna wait till 90 days clean to decide if I need to go to meetings or whatever, but I think I'm gonna go this Thursday (a few days shy of 90) to an information meeting, and take it from there. My head is just too d4mn dark of a place to try and live my life in.

obormottel wrote on 26 Oct 2011 17:18:

You do realize that if you want to do both you need to do them in reverse order  ;D.

why kill myself (ch'v) if I'm divorced anyways?

Just a joke. hope you took it that way.  Hope your "chakira" was just a joke too.