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20 Apr 2008, 6:59 pm

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I have no family to help. I have disorder that makes it extremely painful to be around people anymore. It is hopeless.


well, if things get too bad we can forgo our internet conections for foodand rent out or sell our computers for that last hydrocodone!

Merle


Things are too bad. I'm at the library. I need $2000 a month to live and my SSDI is $783. Rent is $825. Where do I cut back? Can't afford a car to live in, either. This is the cheapest place I could find.


In the interest of being accurate with advice, why do you need $2,000 a month to live on? Can you not rent a room in someone's house? Even in Southern California, where rents are astronomical, a single room in a house with kitchen privls. can go for as little as $500 a month. There are also programs that pair elderly with rooms with persons who need a place to live. In exchange for reduced rent, the roomer helps with chores.... Sorry, just trying to understand your situation.


I have 2 Chesapeakes, quality of life.



Ah. Ok, it's that you could, you just choose not to. Big difference (I've got three cats - been there.)



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20 Apr 2008, 7:02 pm

It's so cool to see the lovely smiles of the folks from Oz! :thumright:


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20 Apr 2008, 7:04 pm

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And what's this about growing up?

I don' wanna! I don' wanna! I won't!

There, there. No one can make you if you don't want to. Just look at ... ummm ... is that the time? I just remembered a pressing appointment. Have to go! Bye.



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20 Apr 2008, 8:11 pm

sorry if i'm not around much, folkses. busy beyond words and on and off sick (the sinuses are now bleeding - such joy).

that and these are due in tomorrow. i have NO idea why they are so fascinating, but even as a little kid i could identify them by their engine sounds. there have been times they've flown over the house and woke me out of a dead sleep.

so, tomorrow (and most days this week) i'll go after work and sit on the hill overlooking where they are and wait for them to do their thing - they'll go over so close i can see the pilot's faces. :D

sigh. wish i had a spare $425 to buy a ticket. but i don't so i'll sit and watch and think about how if these, some of the last ones still flying, hadn't been flying almost 70 years ago i'd have been culled at birth and everyone else would be speaking german.

ya'll have a good week.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_elvlp6yV8[/youtube]



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20 Apr 2008, 8:33 pm

:( on the bleeding sinuses.

:) on the airplanes.


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20 Apr 2008, 8:44 pm

lurkity lurk lurk.



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20 Apr 2008, 8:46 pm

Nan, there were many intriguing things about the video with the planes. The two that stood out the most, for me:

1. The wagon-wheel optical illusion from the spinning propellors. My younger boy used to own a spinning top which, once you got it going, displayed similar patterns made from multicoloured flashing lights. It also played "Für Elise", which I thought was cool.

2. On the video between 7'40" and 8'00", you can hear a bird calling. I don't know what sort of bird, only that I haven't heard one since the last time I was in North America, and it made me nostalgic.



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20 Apr 2008, 11:38 pm

This song's for you, Sam. I figure it's probably how you felt catering at work. :wink:

Feeling Good - Michael Buble
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1wDbwv45k&feature=related[/youtube]


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21 Apr 2008, 12:04 am

Thanks for all the kind words about our unfortunate turn of events. The kids are feeling better about Pongo going to live at a "farm" and I think I've made peace with my decision. It's hard to stay sad when there is so much life in my house. Jedi, the little dog, is soaking up the extra attention he is getting and I didn't really notice what a happy-go-lucky little dog he is until now. He is really sweet now that he is a year old.

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21 Apr 2008, 12:19 am

Nan wrote:
sorry if i'm not around much, folkses. busy beyond words and on and off sick (the sinuses are now bleeding - such joy).

that and these are due in tomorrow. i have NO idea why they are so fascinating, but even as a little kid i could identify them by their engine sounds. there have been times they've flown over the house and woke me out of a dead sleep.

so, tomorrow (and most days this week) i'll go after work and sit on the hill overlooking where they are and wait for them to do their thing - they'll go over so close i can see the pilot's faces. :D

sigh. wish i had a spare $425 to buy a ticket. but i don't so i'll sit and watch and think about how if these, some of the last ones still flying, hadn't been flying almost 70 years ago i'd have been culled at birth and everyone else would be speaking german.

ya'll have a good week.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_elvlp6yV8[/youtube]


Well, at least you get to see a cool piece of history


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21 Apr 2008, 12:31 am

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Thanks for all the kind words about our unfortunate turn of events. The kids are feeling better about Pongo going to live at a "farm" and I think I've made peace with my decision. It's hard to stay sad when there is so much life in my house. Jedi, the little dog, is soaking up the extra attention he is getting and I didn't really notice what a happy-go-lucky little dog he is until now. He is really sweet now that he is a year old.

Thanks again.


Lauri, thank you for the the video. I'm glad that you've been able to make peace and I hope you get to feeling even better.

This song is for you. It will probably be a comfort to you when you need one.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=S70gwFcSK9k[/youtube]

And I see someone finally posted this song. Lauri, this song vocalizes something that I think about you and that I think will lift your spirits a little more. Ignore the video, though, and just listen to the song.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WN-O3OgFBJo[/youtube]


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21 Apr 2008, 12:45 am

So I just finished watching this movie and had this song caught in my head a little

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8aMfa2hgr0&feature=related[/youtube]


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21 Apr 2008, 6:33 pm

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lurkity lurk lurk.

Same here and stimming the night away.... :bounce:


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21 Apr 2008, 7:20 pm

I just thought I would stop by and say hi.

Where did everyone go?


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22 Apr 2008, 12:15 am

chesapeaker wrote:
Nan wrote:
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I have no family to help. I have disorder that makes it extremely painful to be around people anymore. It is hopeless.


well, if things get too bad we can forgo our internet conections for foodand rent out or sell our computers for that last hydrocodone!

Merle


Things are too bad. I'm at the library. I need $2000 a month to live and my SSDI is $783. Rent is $825. Where do I cut back? Can't afford a car to live in, either. This is the cheapest place I could find.


In the interest of being accurate with advice, why do you need $2,000 a month to live on? Can you not rent a room in someone's house? Even in Southern California, where rents are astronomical, a single room in a house with kitchen privls. can go for as little as $500 a month. There are also programs that pair elderly with rooms with persons who need a place to live. In exchange for reduced rent, the roomer helps with chores.... Sorry, just trying to understand your situation.


If I wanted to sit in a subsidized elderly housing and spend my life filling out government paperwork in order to get food, housing, wait endlessly for rides to the doctor, pharmacy, be dependent on folks, in order to get old and die, and have little freedoms, yes, I could live on $783 mo. But to me, that is a fate, WORSE than death. To most people it isn't. It is horrifying to me.

I have 2 Chesapeakes, quality of life.


yeah, choices to make life worth living are a b***h.

I had fun with these links:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ca ... o/main.asp

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Sa ... naire.aspx

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/ca ... t/main.asp



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22 Apr 2008, 2:23 am

morning_after wrote:
Where did everyone go?

Do not ever ask that question. You might get an answer.