My sympathy to you. Life is never easy. I think it gets harder in some ways as we get older seeing so many things slipping away. I've often thought it might be a good idea to eliminate the word WHY from my vocabulary.
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married -- for the fourth time.
The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation.
"He's a funeral director," she answered.
"Interesting," the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn't mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living.
She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on al l those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she'd first married a banker when she was in her early 20's, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40's, later on a preacher when in her 60's, and now in her 80's, a funeral director.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers
She smiled and explained, "I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."
I do have his power of attorney for things but my sister is living with him up in NJ. It just boils down to her sitting on her butt being a free loader and taking what she can get. I'm always thinking about when dad isn't around anymore, what's to become of her?
I just had to blow off some steam. This thread is an ongoing saga in my life. This person is my sister. Maybe that's what makes everything so hard. She's living with my 91 year old father. People that old are set in their ways and my sister is determined to make him follow her rules. He doesn't do anything right in her eyes. She's always snipping at him for this or that. What made my blood pressure go up was that I got dad's credit card bill and on it was a charge for $320 for steaks and seafood. My sister said she "forgot" to tell me about that. I blew up at her. Can you imagine charging that to dad's card? She acted like it was no big deal. Dad already buys all the food in the house. And there she sits.
Maybe prices go down but I assure you it is not because of a combined effort to use less.. If you have to cover your expenses for selling something and the market for it goes down what other choice would you have but to raise prices? Well, maybe go out of business.
In more ways than one. If everyone did manage to cut their demand for gas, utilities, food. Do you think the prices would go down??? Not likely. Prices would have to be raised to cover the decrease.
I think this addressing common law marriage where people have been together for so long it is recognized as a valid marriage with all the perks that come with it. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you don't care that you or your kids won't be taken care of if your husband dies, so be it.
I read in the paper where they are trying to make common law marriages valid. But if the people in these unions don't care, why should there need to be a law to protect what they don't care about?
This is very true. When I went to court for my divorce, it was horrible to listen to my ex lie. I thought to myself, OMG that lie sounds like something someone could believe. It boils down to which side the judge believes and he might just believe that lie. Luckily I had pictures of my bruised and swollen face to show the judge and I was granted my divorce.
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all
I was sorry to hear that CD 101.9 went off the air in NJ. I always listened to that smooth jazz station when I lived there and when I went back for a visit.
If you want to hear the station again, IT'S DOWN HERE in SC LOL 92.3 FM Nice change from all the religious and country stations I was getting used to.
Doesn't really belong here but when I was growing up, a group of people waiting were standing "in" line. Now they are standing "on" line. When did we change this?
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RE: Sign the "Don't Buy Wild" Pledge
Ain't life grand? 100,000 people dead in the Myanmar disaster, lots more homeless and we need a petition for wild animals.