The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[007Sean]

Um, never lived in a 1970s trailer house, I take it....

Uhm, Blooie, that's exactly why I love a gentle rain on a tin roof.
Before my dad built the house on the land he had just purchased, we lived in a single wide, they didn't have doubles back then (1968) no AC, it did have central heat but as you probably know it's not worth 2 dead flies in the winter for keeping ya warm. We had wood burning and propane stoves for heat.
It took my dad a few years to build that house, (6)

Your right about one thing, in a hail storm or severe thunderstorm, it was deafening! Wind was a totally different matter sounded like bigfoot running up and down the roof.

 

[Bamabexchicks]

Uhm, Blooie, that's exactly why I love a gentle rain on a tin roof.
Before my dad built the house on the land he had just purchased, we lived in a single wide, they didn't have doubles back then (1968) no AC, it did have central heat but as you probably know it's not worth 2 dead flies in the winter for keeping ya warm. We had wood burning and propane stoves for heat.
It took my dad a few years to build that house, (6)

Your right about one thing, in a hail storm or severe thunderstorm, it was deafening! Wind was a totally different matter sounded like bigfoot running up and down the roof.

I also grew up in a trailer. Remember how you could put old tires on the roof to help the wind noise? Yeah...good times.

 

[007Sean]

I also grew up in a trailer. Remember how you could put old tires on the roof to help the wind noise? Yeah...good times.

Yeah, good times! I hated putting roofing tar down every summer to seal the roof against leaks.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sourland, as you say you had your moments, and I bet you loved every bit of them.?

 

[Bamabexchicks]

Yeah, good times! I hated putting roofing tar down every summer to seal the roof against leaks.

Or digging critters out of the insulation because the skirting got loose. We had this silver roofing tar that I'm pretty sure had asbestos in it.

 

[drumstick diva]

Tell me about it Sour, "Alien" among humans. Some humans aren't very human, if you get my gist. Sometimes Alien is the only"human" around

 

[Blooie]

Uhm, Blooie, that's exactly why I love a gentle rain on a tin roof.
Before my dad built the house on the land he had just purchased, we lived in a single wide, they didn't have doubles back then (1968) no AC, it did have central heat but as you probably know it's not worth 2 dead flies in the winter for keeping ya warm. We had wood burning and propane stoves for heat.
It took my dad a few years to build that house, (6)


Your right about one thing, in a hail storm or severe thunderstorm, it was deafening! Wind was a totally different matter sounded like bigfoot running up and down the roof.

Ah, that’s the difference then. We very rarely, if ever, get gentle rains. We get willow limb snapping, pounding, hailstone hiding, can’t see across the yard hard torrents. It rains like it will be the only chance that rain will ever have to fall, so it has to drop the water all at once!

I also grew up in a trailer. Remember how you could put old tires on the roof to help the wind noise? Yeah...good times.

Um, we still do.

Yeah, good times! I hated putting roofing tar down every summer to seal the roof against leaks.

We still do that, too!

Or digging critters out of the insulation because the skirting got loose. We had this silver roofing tar that I'm pretty sure had asbestos in it.

And that.

 

[007Sean]

Ah, that’s the difference then. We very rarely, if ever, get gentle rains. We get willow limb snapping, pounding, hailstone hiding, can’t see across the yard hard torrents. It rains like it will be the only chance that rain will ever have to fall, so it has to drop the water all at once!



Um, we still do.



We still do that, too!



And that.

Yeah, I know what it's like! And only one bathroom! 7 people living in it.

 

[drumstick diva]

We had 5 people sharing a bathroom, and then my grandmother moved in. Sometimes my "other" grandmother stayed with us a few weeks (seemed like years). She was my father's mom, so we learned why he was the way he was . She said she always called him "Dummy, dummy , dummy." He had one full sister and 3 half brothers. She outlived 3 husbands, I always figured she had poisoned them. One brother was a cab driver, dropped his rider off - had a heart attack and crashed into a post. He was the sweet one, always smiling- they called him Jolly. A brother Sam used to make lamps and sell them.
The half brother Ben, had a different mother but same father as mine. He got special attention and ending up being a society dentist. Had a $100,000 home way back, when ours was $ 13,000.

Ben outlived all the others, 99. Used to drive himself to Florida for the winter but, said every year more and more of his friends had died of age, so he stopped. My father died at 90 in a nursing home. He kept getting pneumonia and bouncing back , until the last time.
We really thought he would make it. He had a way of getting into really dumb mistakes even though he knew better, fell and fractured his spine in 3 places, he had metal pins. Had to have a second surgery because pins were too short.

Goofing around outside on the trail of empty beer cans in the woods in winter, he fell again . He managed to drive himself to the emergency room. Doctor told him he was very lucky, he didn't sever his spine. He was a veteran of 2 wars, a college graduate, was offered a job at a California water treatment plant. He never went. My mom refused to leave her parents (they were her protection from him). They would have been back at the first earthquake anyway, I'm sure.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Cincinnati is a pretty awesome city and right across the river from KY. The university district is cool,lots of neat cultural stuff and not too hard to make a good wage.
Best to get some sort of education while you have your parents to help you tho'. Then you can pick where you want to live.

Thank you! I’ll have to check out Cincinnati! Hadn’t thought of there. Might check Columbus or Cleveland too.

Oh and sorry for any confusion but I actually already went to school and graduated. I’m going to be 25 in March. I know the job thing could lead most to believe I was still in high school or something but it’s a bit of a complicated history. It’s a bit of a long story but I graduated high school in 2012 then I went to a college in PA that August (I went early because I was in this program thing for people who needed accomodations so I had to meet the other people in it) and I only stayed for a year and one semester. Not even, I dropped out like 2 weeks or less before finals the second year, in December. I was failing all my classes and I was originally planning on staying and finishing like two or at least one, had already dropped one class, and one of the professor’s was really nice and helping me get caught up but then they said there wasn't enough time to get caught up and hand in everything I was missing with only two weeks left so then we just dropped the other ones too. But I was like really depressed at the time, and was the first year too, and also that year they had changed from a trimester system where I only took like 3 classes at once to a semester system so I was taking like 4 or 5 at once, and like 3 of which were education, which all had like a million projects and busy work stuff all at once, so it was a lot. Not that any of that was an excuse, it was totally my fault, but I got all A’s the first semester. To the point where one professor asked my advisors/the program people if I cheated on a test cause I got the highest grade in the class but yet didn’t always do the hw. No I did not cheat, I was just pretty smart and paid attention in class. But anyway, I think it all just kind of combined that second year and became too much for me and I did less and less work until eventually I just stopped because that’s another bad habit, once I become too far behind then I just freeze, get anxious about being so far behind and think it’s too late to hand in old assignments so don’t and then am so behind trying to catch up that I fall even more behind and am never able to. So anyway, long story short, dropped out, labeled it as academic on the thing, which it was, but I was also extremely depressed and really probably should have talked to the school’s counselor and tried to get my shit together instead of failing and dropping out, but it happened so oh well I guess. Anyway, I then took almost a year off and went to a local community college the next fall (2014). But I think I only took like two classes and then one in the spring after and then after that I just took like almost a year and a half off and I think I started again in 2016, can’t remember if it was spring or fall, I think it was fall but idk. But that’s when I started taking it slightly more seriously and took no more time off even though I was still mostly only taking two classes, the few I started taking like 3 and the last one took 4, and finally graduated in May this past year, 2018, (so weird that it is the new year already). I probably would have graduated sooner if I had taken more classes but I didn’t want to take too many and be overwhelmed again and I am just glad I finally graduated. But it is still only an associate’s (2 year) degree. So I took like 6+ years in and out of school to only have a 2 year degree, that’s a little bit ridiculous and pathetic, but I do have a degree. I’ve been debating whether to go back and get a 4 year but I’m just so glad to be done with school. And then once I graduated, I started walking and training the dogs, though they only had one at the time and only got the second in September. I do that a lot but would like a “real” job too or to possibly at least get more dog walking clients, you make a lot of money doing that and it’s good exercise ha but idk. And I realize that I probably should have gotten a job in all that in between time during school but I also didn’t even get my license until April 2016, idk why I was so late getting it, I just was, so I really couldn’t. But now that I am finally done with school and somewhat settled, I am ready to get my shit together and move out, get a real job, etc. But I have also been in a bit of a funk ever since I graduated and just kind of sitting around not doing much, even around here, so I need to get out of that funk too. Tbh I think I never really got over the depression, it just took a different form, so I thought I was better, but I’m still in kind of a funk. I need to get out of it. But sorry for the entire life story. Point being, I do actually already have an education and I think moving would be good and might get me out of this funk I’ve been in the last few years. But I might also go back to school. Idk. I still am totally unsure but I am turning 25 in March so I am starting to feel the pressure. Like that I am getting really effing old and need to get my life together. Starting to panic and worry I am getting too old to find a boyfriend and have kids. Never even had a boyfriend or kissed anyone or anything either.

Penn State lost -

Aw that stinks

My DH wants an island for exactly those reasons. People can be very annoying. I have to say I'm looking forward to neighbours being a lot further away when we move! And we have a really big residential property by current standards. They've been building terraced houses close by and they would be my worst nightmare. I'd go nuts living in one of those. Way too close to 'people'.

That’s why I could never ever live in a place with an HOA. Too many rules. But it’s hard now because even places with some acreage have HOAs! It’s like they’ve got farming HOAs or soemthing aha