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Comment by booklover on March 7, 2013 at 7:28am
Comment by booklover on March 7, 2013 at 7:27am Grinning Cat and Steph, love your LOL cats!
Joan, I know he had a temper, and he did the same job as my husband so he probably was stressed. He had a wife, 2 ex-wives, 5 grown kids (The_youngest one wouldn't talk to him because she believed all the stuff her mother, whom I know, said bad about him), and a grandson. The daughter who had his grandson had been in drug-rehab. He and his wife, although they both had good jobs and great benefits both delivered newspapers before work each morning!!!!!!! We used to joke about it. I think they were either big spenders, or big savers! I think it was spending according to when I used to know him. We will be on vacation when they have the funeral. My husband says he knows what his friend would have said. Something along the lines of rather being on vacation than at someones funeral, so have fun and think about him. He was an Atheist. It is just such a shock when someone about your own age dies suddenly. It takes a while to register. Yes, I will live each day even better now. Less time online, etc. and more paying attention to my family and animals. I will make this vacation a memorable one by staying offline and really paying attention to each and every family member, especially my kids.~ Melinda
Comment by booklover on March 7, 2013 at 7:15am Thanks Lillie, you're so sweet. :)
Steph, love your graph. Funny how the orange is missing, hunh?
Felaine, I hope you are out of pain today. If not, you can start trying the heat on it.
Comment by Ian Mason on March 7, 2013 at 3:41am A good family is a great thing. A bad family can be a nightmare.
My Dad was married twice so I've got 2 "Mums", both very jealous and posessive, so there's been some conflicts. Peace seems now to have settled over the situation but that's probably because they both know that the end is in sight, which is a sobering thought for them.
Patricia, please remember that your own well-being comes first. Do whatever moderates your mood and blood-pressure and to Hell with anything/anyone else.
Comment by Joan Denoo on March 7, 2013 at 1:25am Patricia, I am so very sorry that there isn't a warm relationship; life is too precious to have to put up with people who judge or don't accept one. So! Make each day extra special for yourself! Make your happiness and joy and enthusiasm depend on you, you are too precious to let another stand in the way of your standing proud, strong, happy, and full of vinegar.
Best to know where the border is, Patricia, and you know - but even so it's a rotten situation.
Felaine, my dentist told me once that injections in an inflamed area don't work, because the medicine cannot spread in swollen tissue. That might answer your question.
Comment by Joan Denoo on March 7, 2013 at 1:19am Oh dear, 50 is way too young. I wonder if he had any warning signs? Melinda, let's remember to make every moment full of joy ... even as there is so much going crazy around us. I wonder what his stress level was ?
Comment by Joan Denoo on March 7, 2013 at 1:12am Grinning Cat, How'd you get the cat to sit for that photo? Funny!
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