The Old Folks Home

[ShrekDawg]

Good Morning everyone!

Whether your children are human or have fur and 4 legs or 2 and feathers, Happy Mother's Day to all women out there!

Mother's day can be a hard day for women like me who are childless. But as I am fond of saying. Mother is a verb as well as a noun and you don't have to give birth to be a mother or to mother. So all woman are mothers, potential mothers or have something in their lives to mother. So have a great day everyone.

I was born in July of 53 so I'll be 66 this year. Not a kid anymore but happy to be a senior citizen!

Hi Kdogg. Haven't seen you for awhile!

for you Micro!!

And hi! Yes, it has been a while! Usually hang out on NFC’s BDay thread, the Café, or the Kiki’s Baluttie thread lol trying to branch out more though. Ha how have you been!?

 

[getaclue]

Dh has redeeming qualities, which is why I keep him around. Yesterday, he told me and Dd 1 to go to Outback, or somewhere nice to eat, to avoid the Mother's day crowds, and he'd watch the kids. We did. When we got home, they were all watching The Hulk movie, and sort of ignored us. They did manage to tell us that grandpa had taken them all to pick up pizzas, and after they ate their pizza, he gave them some cookies for dessert. Everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

The movie was almost over, so in a few minutes, when it finished, they all ran to put on their bathing suits. Grandpa had told them they were going to do a "night swim". They all went swimming for about an hour, dried off, and put their clothes back on. Once again, everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

When they all got dressed, they gathered at grandpa's desk. They were each given a flashlight, and told of something they were to find. The baby was to find a leaf, the middle child was to find an anthill, the oldest was to find a rock. They all walked around the yard together having a great time going "flashlight hunting".

 

[getaclue]

 

[microchick]

for you Micro!!

And hi! Yes, it has been a while! Usually hang out on NFC’s BDay thread, the Café, or the Kiki’s Baluttie thread lol trying to branch out more though. Ha how have you been!?

Not bad for an old fart! On so many drugs for whatever arthritis they think I have this month along with the ones they think I have from previous months that I have no choice but to feel almost human!

How bout yerself?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Dh has redeeming qualities, which is why I keep him around. Yesterday, he told me and Dd 1 to go to Outback, or somewhere nice to eat, to avoid the Mother's day crowds, and he'd watch the kids. We did. When we got home, they were all watching The Hulk movie, and sort of ignored us. They did manage to tell us that grandpa had taken them all to pick up pizzas, and after they ate their pizza, he gave them some cookies for dessert. Everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

The movie was almost over, so in a few minutes, when it finished, they all ran to put on their bathing suits. Grandpa had told them they were going to do a "night swim". They all went swimming for about an hour, dried off, and put their clothes back on. Once again, everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

When they all got dressed, they gathered at grandpa's desk. They were each given a flashlight, and told of something they were to find. The baby was to find a leaf, the middle child was to find an anthill, the oldest was to find a rock. They all walked around the yard together having a great time going "flashlight hunting".

What a keeper .. I know I am blessed with BF

 

[perchie.girl]

Dh has redeeming qualities, which is why I keep him around. Yesterday, he told me and Dd 1 to go to Outback, or somewhere nice to eat, to avoid the Mother's day crowds, and he'd watch the kids. We did. When we got home, they were all watching The Hulk movie, and sort of ignored us. They did manage to tell us that grandpa had taken them all to pick up pizzas, and after they ate their pizza, he gave them some cookies for dessert. Everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

The movie was almost over, so in a few minutes, when it finished, they all ran to put on their bathing suits. Grandpa had told them they were going to do a "night swim". They all went swimming for about an hour, dried off, and put their clothes back on. Once again, everyone, including my husband, told us we had come home too soon.

When they all got dressed, they gathered at grandpa's desk. They were each given a flashlight, and told of something they were to find. The baby was to find a leaf, the middle child was to find an anthill, the oldest was to find a rock. They all walked around the yard together having a great time going "flashlight hunting".

sounds to me like he is Very Very good with Children..... Hes a keeper for sure.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not bad for an old fart! On so many drugs for whatever arthritis they think I have this month along with the ones they think I have from previous months that I have no choice but to feel almost human!

How bout yerself?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry, posted before I was ready before haha

Not bad for an old fart! On so many drugs for whatever arthritis they think I have this month along with the ones they think I have from previous months that I have no choice but to feel almost human!

How bout yerself?

Aw sorry about all the drugs!! Hopefully you find something that works!

And I’m doing well thank you!!

Graduated with an associates in behavioral science from the local branch of this little college last May and then I started walking and dog sitting my brother and his fiancée’s dogs soon after and so I am trying to build that business.

They only had one dog at the time but got a second in September so started paying me a little bit more and then in January their neighbor asked me if I would let their dog out once a week because that was the only day she was alone all day and they felt bad so I go over and let her out and hang out with her and play and stuff for like half hour to an hour (sometime I stay a bit later) once a week. We have a lot of fun. And I have also watched our family friend’s two dogs a few times too when they’ve been away or whatever. So my client base is slowly growing lol working on getting insurance or something and some business cards to grow it even further.

Was gonna do Rover and still might just for the convenience and to build up some more clients in the beginning but they take like 20% so to me that is kind of a rip off and the insurance is way cheaper. But it may be good to just get my name out there at first. But so I’ve been working on that.

And planning on finding a real job too just to save up faster and also so I can eventually get an apartment cause I don’t think they rent without one or at least it is way harder with non traditional income.

Plus the minimum wage here is way higher so I want to get one here and save here with the higher wage before I move somewhere with a lower one like I want to eventually.

But I do want to move out eventually.

But trying to save 6 or 12 months rent first which was recommended to me a while ago on the other thread (even though my little brother doesn’t think that’s necessary and that I should just move out now as I have way more than he has and he moved out a while ago LOL). Dad and older brother said don’t listen to him when I told them my plan and what he said lol but yeah.

It’s hard though because everything is soooo expensive here and it just seems like a huge waste of money to me.

Especially when I found this really cheap place in Erie next to the mall where I can get a fairly large place for way cheaper than anything here or was considering like Ohio (one of the three C’s probably, Columbus, Cleveland, or Cincinnati) cause it’s cheap too or like Pittsburgh for the music scene which I’m really into and price too (though prices have been going up there too so some places aren’t exactly cheap anymore but still cheaper than here for the most part) which I think I’d like. Except for the weather. That might be miserable. Idk. Not sure I want to live in a super snowy place but I hate the heat too.

But anyway, now I’m rambling.

Long story short, it’s hard because I feel like I am wasting money if I rent an apartment here but I also do not want to and cannot leave here yet because I am finally getting my dog business going and I can’t just leave all my clients behind. Plus I can charge a bit more here than I would be able to in lower cost of living areas. And also my brother’s wedding is in September so I can’t just leave now. But it’s such a waste imo and I just can’t justify throwing my money away when I don’t want to live here and could save for something better elsewhere. So for now I am still living at home.

My brother wants me to move over there because they have a walk out basement with a bed and bathroom and stuff and little sitting area and that could be nice but it’s also a tad small (though little brother says it’s not and bigger than his place ha) and I think it’d be weird to live with them.

Granted it’s technically a separate space but still a bit weird to me.

And kind of defeats the purpose of them paying me if I give it right back lol

But they were just thinking something cheap like $200 a month or something but still a lot to me especially for just a basement ha and it’s only like half the basement or less too cause the other part is unfinished. It’s really nice and everything but still. So I don’t think I will.

But they were just thinking so I can get out and away from my parents and kind of start my own life and stuff but I don’t really want to live over there.

So for now I think I will just stay here and save my money and then move somewhere I want to when I’m ready.

But I also can’t buy a house yet either because I have no idea where I want to end up and, again, don’t want to move away yet, and the one thing I know for a fact is I don’t want to live in this area permanently lol

So I’m kinda stuck atm.

Might go back to school for animal science or something though to help with training cause I’m also considering getting certified as a professional dog trainer but idk. There’s this class I wanna take to that I wanna sign up for.

Sorry again for rambling.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also sorry this post is so broken up but usually I just write a wall of text and I know it’s a lot to process and read and hard when it all blends together, even for me, but I just usually get to talking/rambling, type way more than intended, and then don’t edit which is why it ends up as walls of text because I just start going ha so anyway, it was the same thing this time except this time tried to go back and edit it and break it up. But sometimes I have a hard time knowing where to break it up or sometimes even stuff that should go together is still too long so I just broke it up probably MORE than I should have which I thought would be better than not at all haha so yeah.

 

[drumstick diva]

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to fathers who fill in for moms past away.