Shelly

Welcome to my X account.

#BoomerSooner

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@statue_baker Yes

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Happy 4th of July 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[Dan + Shay @DanAndShay]

Grateful to live in this beautiful country 🇺🇸

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@TurnBucklBBQ Gotta show us how you make yours one day

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@ChefGruel I love how your so stoked about this haha

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@JustinKelso Sorry to hear that. May she rest in peace.

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@TxRangerHistory We are some Ricos cheese for dinner last night!

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[Mechanical Knowledge @mechanical_4u]

This is how dangerous a CT scan machine looks without its outer casing

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@CooperFMuse No. Have you learned anything about trading for chronically injured players?

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@Oatsofwaker @BallparkWay I knew, i knew that voice!! Love busby. Miss him and Grieve.

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@bennyjohnson Hard to believe but NY is in a worse place than CA

[Kevin | Large Fam Dad @LargeFamDad]

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.

Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.

Great guy, I'm happy for him.

But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.

What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.

Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.

Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.

Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.

Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.

Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.

Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.

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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.

Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

[Hurrdat Sports @HurrdatSports]

Truly was the ultimate underdog story for Oklahoma baseball.

- Sub .500 in SEC play
- 11-seed in the SEC tournament
- Unranked

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@ShamsCharania Whoa. What is Miami thinking. Terrible trade for them.

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

THIS IS WHY OKLAHOMA.

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@UTBarstool It has been 7,666 days since Texas has won a men's baseball World Series

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@davidpollack47 @USMNT It's akin to what OU mens baseball team is doing right now

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@GhostMoosh @jonmachota 🤣