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Date: January 01, 2024 at 12:07:26
From: La Man, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Big trouble. |
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That ugly baby first posted here in 2003, is a 21 y.o
in a few weeks!
Other one turns 17 maņana,, other one who's almost as
tall as dad at 13, has his in March.
No one warned us! Not about the "how fast they grow up"
thing, but that those days of cookies and daycare and
diapers and accessories out the wazoo WERE the easy
times lol.
Think diapers and formula and babysitters are expensive
La Man, just wait. Cars phones insurance clothes yadda
yadda, dudes get jeans and T they good.
Savannah needs extra storage unit for clothes.
All A+ students so sigh, whatever ya want kid.
Hailey out of house at 18, attending college, snapped
up her AA then decided on taking break, now she is at
her beasties house renting a room, loving her freedom
but passing on this tidbit of knowledge to her sibs:
ADULTING SUCKS! LOLOL.
NOOO CHIT CHILD, WELCOME ABOARD!
Your lifetime of economic slavery is waiting, enjoy
kid.
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 16:50:18
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big trouble. |
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Happy Birthday, Hailey...yes, they do grow up so fast.
One of the reasons we took the trip to Texas this
christmas. Three of our 8 living kids live
there...grown up and "adulting" like crazy. I'm so
proud of them.
And..we have 8 grandchildren there, 1 born during covid
we hadn't met yet (only photos and facetimes) and 1
born on Nov 27th!
One grandkid is 27 now and travelled with us back to
texas to see his mom and siblings (living with us right
now). One grandson is 18 as well, and will be
attending college soon as well. Last I saw him he was a
gangly 13 yr old. He's now a young man.
It was a wonderful trip. We had christmas at daughter's
house near austin. They have 5 acres there. We had
Turkey and ham, with son from OK city coming down with
his wife and 3 kids for the holiday as well.
Then up to Dallas area to see the other son--who has
the newborn to young to travel that far yet. I got to
hold him, little Cooper. I got to give Kyler his
christmas toys in person this year.
It was a long drive, but so worth it. You know Mark, I
think these kids are going to be okay--and probably out
do both of us.
Happy New Year old friend.
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 12:51:09
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big trouble. |
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guess we might as well start callin' ya gramps now...i can still remember when i was under 50...
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 15:58:26
From: La Man, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big trouble. |
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Whatever. Already on social security and medicare so
may as well.
There's something wholly unnatural about retiring"
before it's time, especially when it's in a mad dog
rush like my case file smack dab at start of
panicdemic, not the best time to interact with offices
that are closed.
3 years and 2 appeals later, including a federal court
appearance on my couch. No zoom, just a phone call
which is very very intimidating, can't see anyone but
there's like 4 people interacting with judge Arno,
including my advocate Mary who's my mother's age, a
Vietnam era vet (mad respect), but is also a former SS
employee so she knows the drill.
IDGAF what one reads online or hears from other people,
unless your application is approved the first time,
you're already in too deep because the process is
maddening for those of us w half a brain tied behind
our backs, found her thru local FB recommendation and
boy am I glad.
Pandemic closed all the offices, all the experienced
old salts retired bc of c19, and now you have some kid
working from home, telling me, "I don't even see your
application, maybe you can file another one" two years
into the process. Witaf?
Turns out some idiot removed my entire file permanently
from the webosphere, 159,789 calls later...
Enter Mary: oh its just off the web, still have hard
copy on file. So now what? James Bond the office and
steal my own sh? Lol.
MySS page still shows "you're appeal was filed on
April/2022".
Hot freakin mess which was expected, but not "oh its
not on our interwebs anymore".
Judge rendered 5 page long decision which basically
said, "y'all missed it, give this man his original
disability date he filed for, case closed".
So now back pay.
Lol. Once again they tell you zero. Nothing.
Just hit the bank 3 months later, well screw you too
Jack.
Now it's catchup time bigly, haven't worked since 2017,
thing is Mary explained to me that the magical number
of age 50 is where they start factoring that into
"can't be trained for whatever, too close to 65", and
that was that.
Glad was totally ignorant at start, if you had said "3
years" back then I'd have dropped dead haha.
Good news is though, just had MRI on 28th, brain and
cspine, with and without contrast and no active disease
process aka inflammation evident.
Not easy flaunting their 100k/yr drugs for 20 years,
then again still functional for the most part, said F
it though and got a placard (cause I can dammit lol),
but just use it very occasionally and never if it's
crowded.
Just glad never got covid, only one in house that
didn't.
Wife got jabbed which she DESPISED, or she'd lose her
job. Freaking LA County.
But things are leveling out now too, dad's a lot less
stressed but this isn't EXACTLY what I envisioned as
retirement way back. Not all at once, need to ease into
that, not fast track it. Wholly unnatural feel.
$$ going fast now though, lot of years of catchup to
do.
But wife and kids r good, I'm good so it's all good
brotha..
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Date: January 02, 2024 at 11:20:25
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big trouble. |
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glad to hear you are doing ok. God takes care of us.
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 17:21:56
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big trouble. |
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glad the family is groovy...that's a tough road you've been travelin'...
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 12:09:41
From: La Man, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ,*besties. That was autocorrect. Sorry! (NT) |
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Date: January 01, 2024 at 12:37:05
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ,*besties. That was autocorrect. Sorry! |
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Thats great news Mark! Although my brain always reads
beasties when I see the word besties. Its not far wrong
tho, since many of us have to be beasties to survive and
thrive in this current weird life, in attitude anyways.
Just wait til your a grandpa and great grandpa, its
beyond the pale... Lol.
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