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[drumstick diva]

How very sad for you Chicka

 

[chickadoodles]

Ls have a good trip. And eat good when your done.

My sil thinks they will get a lawsuit over the guy that tbone the car my DD was in. So sad.
She called me last night to tell me they were going to see a lawyer today. I told her one would come see her. That she did not need to be riding in a car right now.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you everyone for all your support. and hugs.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning hope everyone has a good day, stay safe and warm

 

[bruceha2000]

I guess that would depend on who is at fault. If the guy that hit them ran a light, yes
they would likely get a settlement unless he has no insurance and no assets.

 

[ronott1]

Thank you everyone for all your support. and hugs.

I hope you get better soon!

The big payday does not last them long. A brother in law of mine was in a car accident and got a big payday. It was gone in a year.

 

[chickadoodles]

I hope you get better soon!

The big payday does not last them long. A brother in law of mine was in a car accident and got a big payday. It was gone in a year.

Thanks.

I know it won't. SIL was in a wreck and went through his in a year. And had nothing to show for it.

 

[chickadoodles]

I guess that would depend on who is at fault. If the guy that hit them ran a light, yes
they would likely get a settlement unless he has no insurance and no assets.

They said the guy ran a red light and hit them doing 50+ mph.

 

[Peep_Show]

I can do pretty much anything i can get a good picture of. It depends on what type of wood and how much detail. My signs start at $15 plus shipping. So maybe ballpark of $25 with lots of detail, plus shipping. You are in VA too, right?

That's very reasonable I honestly thought you're prices would be higher, you do such amazing work

Hubby thinks i should charge more but i just want to pay for my supplies right now, and maybe have a little $ for feed.

Just something I noted whilst decorating, big bucks for not too intricate things burned onto driftwood.

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So very, very many of us have had bad beginnings as children, and even worse as we grew older. But, once we have wrestled free - we can and do blossom in our own ways.

When I finally grew strong enough to drop all contact with people I thought were good friends but, proved many times they were not. I started to enjoy life again. Basically I had faux friends that loved when I was doing badly. They were so nurturing (HA) and always reminding me of some major hurts least I forgot. Funny when things started going better for me - they disappeared.

Friendship shouldn't be hurtful - good friends want to see you succeed and celebrate with you. So should good family members.

Very eloquently stated, DD!

I had a hard-charging Type A alcoholic heavy-smoker of a father. He was congenial in public and a real a-h*le in private. I was always calling him on his crap and so I became the problem and bullied and disowned many times. (We won't go into the wheres and whys of Mom standing idly by during all of this as she had her own pathologies, but heavens forbid we should act out in any way that mars the perfect veneer she wished to portray to the outside world.) He drove me away and eventually drove my sister away. But, of course, it never occurred to him what the common denominator was. Did I mention he and Mom were poster-ready narcissists?

Anyway, long story shortened, as with a lot of girls I chose someone much like my father the first time around and another iteration of him the second and so on through a string of successive beaus and husbands. Were all men cut from the same cloth? I think subconsciously it was trying to have a do-over and succeeding...which, of course, never happens. It took about three days of real soul-searching to figure out why my life was as it was and, once that thunderbolt hit, things got A LOT better in my personal functioning. It just took a bit of conscious pattern breaking to step into a new life...which, admittedly, is hard for those that are hiding their personal pain and self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. Familiar patterns and ruts are easier to stay in and some folks just don't want to expand their world beyond what's comfortable to them.

chicka - I hope this is your daughter's wake-up call. However, I fear that she's going to find a pain pill addiction in her future to compound her problems. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. She is an adult and allowed her own choices, fatally flawed as they may be. Your do-over is the grandkids. Please take care of yourself.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you Peep and everyone for sharing you own experiences.

Peep my DD has already been through the pain pill addiction. So I know it's coming.