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Lol (Renee)
ya but where’d you point the camera? at the raccoon who sat content watching me and eating the cat food …. or the look on my face when I looked up and saw the raccoon?
trust me … woulda been a touch choice.
What would have been good is if the racoon took a photo of the look on your face when you turned around to see the racoon with a camera
LOL
It’s really not healthy to laugh at your own jokes is it? :roflmao:
whatever the case Renee….
you and Trips and Bingo have pepped me up ….. though at the end of this day ….. my dog …. whom I get attached to ….. same as I have gotten so attached to so many here …. those i’ve met …. and those i’ve just talked with … I love.
my dog ate some mouse poison. we live in the nature and they come in during the beginning of winter. we have to take measures or they’d take over the house. usually we have wild cats living under the house but the owls have taken care of that lately.
anyway … dog was taken to emergency vet ….. cost me almost $400 ….. sigh, and more cost to come. we didn’t have a great month last month … big winner at Brightshare last days wiped out a considerable amount.
now I’m faced with both Thanksgiving, Christmas and a sister’s wedding in between. I don’t know how i’ll pay for it all and keep up the usual costs at supporting family.
kinda depressed. I don’t give up. and this thread has been a upper. I thank you all for that.
I have decided to spend time with kids tonight. Dog is home. waiting to see if she makes it. looks like it …. but won’t know for a few weeks according to vet.
shit happens …… i know. just doesn’t seem to help to know that right now.
but back to original question….. ya ….. if you can’t laugh at yourself ….. what chance do you have at laughing at others in a non-offending approach?
I leave this with this …. a few years back I put up a rope swing over the river for the kids. Tried to set it up …. lifting myself by putting my self in a loop in the rope that would / should have lifted me up to tie off the rope. ended up tossing myself over on my ass and as i lay there ….. butt sore … back feeling like it was broken … looking up at God and saying “this is why you keep me around? I’m too damn funny to kill”.
ya …. laugh at yourself especially. do that ….. and world laughs with you. not at you.
thanks for all the posts. this day has ended up very stressing …. but will work out as things always do.
Hey BB,
So sorry about your dog, but she will make it. She has to, no friend of mine can lose an animal they love….thats the rules!! lol
This thread has made me smile, cry, laugh, and think…That is a wonderful thread.!
Thanks to all who have wrote in here.
Now, BB…that friend of yours, who has that awesome house….do they rent out?? lolllllllllllllllll…i would love to live in a place like that. should be in better homes and gardens….except, i may have a problem with snakes in the tub….lollll…never mind snakes on a frikkin plane! lol
I hear ya about Thanksgiving and Christmas, i haven’t made shit this year as an affiliate, so its all up to my husband, and overtime is out of the question with his company …so….looks like coal in the stockings for everyone this year!! lollllllllllll
BB…how old are your kids???
BingoT….got to tell ya, when i read your post and you said coming home from Foxwoods on RT 2…..god, i could drive that blindfolded…lol…we must live by each other? i am in Meriden , ct. and you?
I hate rt.2….it is such a longggggg longgggg rd. and at night can be tireing.
I only take it south as far as exit….13. then i get off and take rt…66 the rest of the way home.I love your story about the raccoons, i hear BB….but i would be a stupid ass, and keep them raccoons in my backyard as long as they want to stay! lollll…i would go outside, every night, and bring treats, and play with them and sleep out there….until the day came that they said…..we are sick of you and you look tasty! lolllllllllllll
Now, one more thing…talk about being able to laugh at yourself? Heres one…lets see if anyone can top this dumb ass ! lol
I needed coffee one day, went to the grocery store to buy some…They had a sale on 8 o”clock coffee…ya know the kind with the beans. So i had never had it before but for the price i said screw it, and bought a bag. Went home , threw the beans in the coffee filter, poured the water in the maker and sat back and waited for my coffe to brew…
Well…..it brewed alright…but it came out like water?????….so i made another pot…lol…..and it still came out like water…..so..i called my sister up on the phone and said..” lisa, i bought some 8 oclock coffee, and i am trying to brew a pot, but it keeps coming out like water??? what am i doing wrong??
My sister says to me…..” pat, did you grind the beans”??????….ummm…i said, was i supposed to??
roflmaoooooo
my sister about died! she laughed so frikkin hard she peed! lollll
so she explained to me how you have to grind the beans first, and you usually do it at the store, with there machine!….so now, i start thinking damn, i have to go back to the store??? well that sucks….then i had a brilliant idea….LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I got out my hammer….LOLLLLLLLLLL….true story. lollll
I took my hammer and figured, ok, the beans are in the bag, so i can smash them in the bag and everything would be peachy….lol
well, i hit the bag….The beans flew out the backend of the bag,….all over my kitchen…lolllllllllllllll…..
So, guess who ended going back to the store!!!!…Now, is that a dumb ass or what! lolll
One more…
Crystal light drink mix was on sale at the store one week,Buy 1 Get 1 Free and i sent my stupid ass husband to the store to pick them up for me…with a couple of other things….well…he comes home with One…crystal light?? I said…weres the other one….they were buy 1 get one free? He says to me….”I GOT THE FREE ONE”!!!!!!! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
OMG! LOLLLLLLLLL…JUST call us the dumb ass family! lolll
Have a great week everyone
tripEng….. I owe you a thanks…. will make up for it somewhere down the line. *ddin’t see your post if you made one.
Trips. thanks for the insight on coffee. …. I’d have done same. maybe we’re related?
the hubby on crystal light? well ….. I admire his approach if not logic. :lol.
thanks for the dog stuff. She’s back now. we have to wait to find out how bad this is going to be. ….. probably cost another $150 by time its all over ….. according to my figures.
worth it. When I “inherited” …. because i hate the words step- ……… because that implies they aren’t loved as much and that isn’t true …… I very much insisted they get a dog …. though the missus didn’t want one … she has her hands full putting up with me and then the kids.
but every kid should have a dog. The youngest wouldn’t leave the dog until it came home with her … and I love her even more for that …. would have been devastated had the dog died. its still a risk…… but sounds like it will be okay though dog may go thru some tough times. no getting around it and I can’t make that any easier.
thank you all for everything. been tough day…..in fact a tough month. its days like this that keep me going. I cannot begin to put words to appreciation …. or love I have for people that I have never met.
S.
Hi T:
I realized after re-reading your post i didn’t answer some questions. I will try to cover now.
kids are …. (*girls) …. 11, 13 (maybe 14 .. I don’t keep up …. I just buy or pay for presents….and I’m lucky to remember my own biological son’s age …. which I think is now 20) …. but anyway ….. boy’s age answered … the two older girls are now 18 …..(I keep calling her 17) ….. and I guess probably 19 or 20.
got a sister that’s about 20 ….. brother about 18 ….. (by another mother … dad .. remarried to a woman half his age …. not something I will ever do) ..
took a while to accept that …. not them …. that! hard to accept a woman that’s only 4 yrs older than you as a step-mom ….. dad is rich …. so you can understand my concerns. however she stayed with him 25 yrs …. and he’s a very hard man. In the end ….. now they’re split up …. it pisses dad off that I hug her … (step-mother) … and in fact accept her as i figure …. mom stayed 25 yrs before divorce …. because of the new woman .. but the new woman also stayed 25 yrs. It took a while but i realized she loved him for what he is …. and he’s a prick at times ……. never much more than grumpy though only now is mellowing. I understood the second wife’s leaving him for reasons I won’t go into much more than what’s been said.
anyway ….. add all that into now mom is remarried …. happily….. to a great guy i might add …. and dad has a new woman in his life.
sadly …..because i come from a family with money …. its not a situation where we have a Christmas situation where you buy for one person …. each one is expected to be bought for …. and ….. well lets put it this way ….. 30 people bought a present at $20 …. which is nothing …. costs $600. and that’s like buying chewing gum for each. you can’t really buy the kind of gifts you’d like at those prices ….. and needless to say ….. kids deserve much better gifts than those that cost $20. so Christmas for me is … beyond imagination except for those that are used to this and in that case … they likely are from families that don’t see expensive gifts from some ….. and not from others.
Its a very bad situation … and I know worse for my younger siblings as I know they too …. suffer from same financial situations as i do.
but being a father …. and someone suppose to be doing well. ….. its very stressful to make things work to both survive costs and show a gift to each person that reflects the love i feel.
that said…… I’m very lucky. I have so much to worry about. i know that. so i have no reason to complain.. just saying its stressful to try and find the right balance that these matters bring.
could be worse. I really feel sorry for those that have nobody ….. that don’t even have the stress of worry over such matters. So nobody feel sorry for me ….. rather give to those that face nothing. that have little family …… or perhaps none.
That is true Christmas giving. And I honestly ask that anybody that this post has touched ….. give to charity that might make a difference to a child that might otherwise go without or with little.
@Triple777s 145562 wrote:
BingoT….got to tell ya, when i read your post and you said coming home from Foxwoods on RT 2…..god, i could drive that blindfolded…lol…we must live by each other? i am in Meriden , ct. and you?
E Hartford
Lets hook up sometime.I have Family in Meriden too.
Our car drives on it’s own to Foxwoods.
I will be doing Bus trips soon out of New Britain area soon too.
Hey you want a parttime job? Run some trips from your area.
I bring the Bingo Bugle to New Britain each month to all the Bingo Halls.Tripps.
I should have added ….. I can’t get you a stay at that house but it would be my pleasure to arrange a tour if you’re ever in the Kansas City area. It truly is a house unlike any other i’ve ever heard of.
BB,
I would love a tour if i ever get out that way. It sounds like heaven to me.
I hope your dog is doing ok? keep us updated, we care.
I hate hearing about a family that the parents have money but the kids don’t get any help when they need it…i don’t know if this is the positon your in with your parents, but if it is…shame on them.
If i had money, and my kids were living a decent life, and trying to take care of their own families, and ran into hardship, i would be there with open hands and wallets. My father is the same damn way, he may not have alot of money, but he defineltly had enough to help out his daughters when times were tough, but NOOOO…he wanted nothing to do with us or our troubles, i guess his memory fails him, because i remember growing up and him needing help from family members to get by sometimes, but he swears he never had any help…lol
BB, i think you should be proud of who you are, and how you live your life, the past is the past, and we all have one, believe meeee! lollll…but don’t let money get you down, i think money is the route to misery, the more money you have, the more b ills you get…so, you can’t pay something, screw em if they can’t take a joke….or atleast give people time to get the money to pay the damn bill. Bills act like we are taking money out there damn pockets, i mean, the customer service people actually act like its there money we are not paying???….i had the gas company threaten me one time, telling me if i did not pay on time, i would never get a house!!!….i said, i ain’t never getting a damn house anyway, but seeing how concerned you are about it, why don’t YOU buy me one then! lolll
Sounds like you have your hands full with kids, and a big family. must be great if you all get along? lol
Buying for that many people is very hard….My husband has a big family and every christmas they get together and exchange presents and have a big dinner, and its hard for me, because i am not used to this type of family. I have no family , we never got together or showed love …since i have been on my own anyway….so to be in a family that does this, its uncomfortable for me sometimes….especially when the buy you something that is so nice, and you can’t reciprocate….i mean we can afford to buy a little something for everyone in the family,….but most of his family, is better off than us, so they spend more, and it kinda makes you feel, ashamed. They don’t mean to make yo ufeel that way, but it does.
So, my answer to that problem is this…I write poems, personalized ones, for my mother and father inlaw….my sister and brother inlaws….something about them, with their names in the poems, and something about the past year, or an accomplishment that they have done in there lives…and then i go out and spend maybe…10$ on a nice frame, and i print out the poem on nice paper and decorate it, with stuff that goes with the poem, or pics of them…and then i wrap them and give them for presents…and they were a huge hit!…so finally i found my little nitch for family presents!! lollllllllll
Maybe you should do something like that for your huge family…..make someone cry…it always works! lolllll
Have a great thanksgiving…i hope your dog is recovering nicely…and look forward to talking some more.
trips
BingoT
WHat the hell is a Bugle Bus??? Roflmaoooo
Hell yeah i am interested in a part time job!…you have got to tell me more.
We have to get together, i would really love to get a bunch of us new englanders together at the casino for New Years Eve….it would be awesome…free drinks…rooms for those who don’t want to drive home….and gambling with friends,,,it don’t get better than that.
Trip
LOL the Bingo Bugle is a Bingo Newspaper that comes out each month.
I’m the rep here in Ct for that newspaper.
http://www.bingobugle.com/
Yes we shall talk soon.
I do bus trips to Foxwoods & The Mohegan Sun Casino each month
Have a great day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all & God Bless.
Tom
