Is this an issue? Or am I getting old?
Annie Deighnaugh
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Comments (15)Dawn, I ain't asking Momma nothing because she never shuts up! More on my young-un's Properly cooked, I like them just fine. I can remember Granpappy taking me out into his garden when I was about their age. He would spot a bird and tell me "That's a yellow bellied sap-sucking scissor swallowing North American Kestrel" and I would go "Yep - that's a bird alright!" There is this one little girl that is just too cute for words. She is the one that heels well. She has these humongously thick glasses and she constantly walks into things. Mostly because she gets this - uhmmm - stuff on the lenses. So you have to follow her around with a bottle of windex and a squeegee. Where did March go? Heck, I am still trying to figure out where 2007 went. I know I participated in that year due to the fact that I am still breathing. My lettuce? It is strange. The first sowing sprouted fine so I went ahead with the second. It sprouted fine, so I went ahead with the third sowing. Well It sprouted just fine. Now it is all just sitting there. All the same size. All not growing. I know what is going to happen. Instead of the normal steady crops of lettuce taking us right on into the hot weather, I am going to get one huge crop all at once. Generally in this garden, I can sow a crop of lettuce as soon as the first one sprouts and it all works out good. And generally, I can get six or seven sowings. Not this year though. I suppose I could can it up like the other greens - but with the spring work season coming on strong, I just ain't ready to start canning yet. It will be alright, I reckon. Miss Susie Lynn: I ain't coming down to move that heavy stuff for you - alright? And I sure ain't looking to get hitched up! Unless you make really good cornbread and greens. And maybe some buttermilk too. No butterflies up this way yet. But it's coming! True story on the Hummers: Down in Honduras, there was this Gal I was sort of tracking down. I kind of wanted to marry her. One day I came home from whatever it was I was doing at that time and found her there cooking me a surprise dinner. It was pretty good, so I asked what it was. She told me it was Sopa de Colibri. I said "alright then, show me what a Colibri is." So, all proud like, she takes me out to my back yard and shows me. She had taken a hammock and made sort of a butterfly net which she had used to capture a whole bunch of my hummers that came to feed on the feeders and flowers I had put there for them. So, I am standing there in shock trying to figure out just how in the world one responds to something like this. I mean, to me, that is like telling you that the fried chicken you just ate was really a Bald Eagle. Needless to say, I didn't marry that Gal. It did change the whole dating thing though. Now, I make sure to ask things like this - "you're not going to make me eat any hummingbirds are you?" G.M. My baby sister is named Dawn. Not this Dawn though....See MoreI am not sure what to do about this...family issues
Comments (13)Helene, I mis spoke...the second boat was purchased on June 12 2010. Mom passed on June 15th....he went and picked up the boat on the 18th. Whats really weird...Mom was actually slowly declining in her final weeks and she spoke often about "letting her go". My oldest brother never disclosed the contents of her living will until he called a family meeting on June 13th...Sunday night. It was then and only then did we all learn that mom requested a DNR. So "technically" he used her money to buy the boat ($55,000) then told the family about the DNR...then signed the papers on Monday and she died Tuesday. So at the time of her death, his gravy train came to a hault. See, just by putting all this down in writing its all so much clearer. Who knows how much he skimmed and for how long!! I know he did pay off his mortgage, he added an addition onto his home so his DD could have her own apt on the property (she was pregnant-the baby is now 2 1/2). He did his kitchen all granite and stainless and also did his main bathroom. The first boat was oh geez, I want to say 20 ft outboard (?) He also got himself a suv...an avalanche...you know there were other small things like laptops for everyone in the family which we all thought was odd and the vacations...Disney every year as well as 1-2 cruises. I know he already has an Alaska cruise booked for Feb/Mar. He wanted Frank and I to go with him but we didn't have the money LOL!! I think I will call moms attorney....couldn't hurt. Will they be able to s[eak to me since I am not an executor of the estate?? See I doubt my mom had any clue how much cash was involved so I doubt she would have disclosed it to her lawyers. You know I just cannot wait till this house sells and I can get on with my life!! SQ...See MoreI am finally admitting it!! Not SF issue.
Comments (16)Hi Thanks for all of your posts. Thought I would give you an update and ask for your thoughts once more. Just a quick note. I do have a career (sort of) I work from home as a medical transcriptionist. So it is not like I do not have a job I just do not want to do it for much longer. See, I did it initially so that I could stay home with my DD and still make money while DH was in school. Now he has graduated and is working. Okay so here goes. I came clean with my dh as I mentioned and he is TOTALLy behind me bless his heart! I think what we have decided to do is go ahead and try to get pregnant. I will continue doing what I am doing now (work at home and stay at home with DD) until this summer. Hopefully by then I will be PG. I am planning on starting at the local university going part time. My daughter is already in preschool three hours a day, five days a week so she is no problem plus she never wants to leave with me anyway. The problem has been that I do want to get started on more education before the next one is 3. So I am going to go part time taking night classes, online classes, and maybe a day class if my dh can get those days off. That way I am going back to school (big goal) and we can have a baby (another big goal). The hope is that I can attend school, on a very part time basis to start with, and attend when my DH can be home with the FDB (future dear baby). There is a chance I may have to take a day class once or twice a week and my DH thinks that he will be able to ask for those days off for the semester. After the baby is older probably around a year. I will bump up to full time (about 12 hours worth of credits) and the baby would go to the university childcare center (which I hear good things about) my daughter would also move to their preschool and prek program. I think this is the best of both worlds for us. Though the baby will go to daycare it will not be until he/she is around 1 and not from 8 to 5 but more like 20 hours a week. Here is my question. At what age do you personally feel we are to old to go for serious higher education? I have this need to be highly educated (not sure why just personal goal) and to be able to make enough that I could support myself and my kids were it to happen. My DH is awesome and we have a great life, but there is always this nagging in me that says "you depend on your husband to take care of you." As I said this is not because my husband is a jerk or EVER says anything about it, but I just want to know that I can do it on my own. My point? Well, in order to make the kind of money I would like to, to get the higher education I want, and to have a job I would enjoy I am looking at around 7 years of education. I already attended six years of college (screwed around A LOT) and I am almost 30. My dh is totally behind me and even said he would get a second job so I can focus on school and family. We also realize this would mean everyone would need to help me out around the house. I would lose a lot of free time and my life would be very different. I just wonder is it too late for me to start something like this. I hope not, but there is fear inside of me that says it may be. What do you think? Sorry so long and not SF related, but I only post here and value your thoughts. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...See MoreIs it an issue? Or am I getting old?
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