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21stamps

21stamps

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I don’t know where but it looks pretty.
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Letteyeti said:
Is it Hawaii????
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Torch Lake Michigan

However, I may have spoke too soon. I’ve just called 5 boat places, nothing is available., besides a pontoon which I don’t want.

1 place will deliver a ski boat, but at a ridiculous fee being 4th of July weekend.

I have to find a boat before booking a hotel (rooms are available). :(
 
Letteyeti

Letteyeti

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21stamps said:
Torch Lake Michigan

However, I may have spoke too soon. I’ve just called 5 boat places, nothing is available., besides a pontoon which I don’t want.

1 place will deliver a ski boat, but at a ridiculous fee being 4th of July weekend.

I have to find a boat before booking a hotel (rooms are available). :(
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That is some beautiful clear water and never would have guessed it to be in Michigan. I hope you can get a boat.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
The water looks so refreshing. I bet you have some nice and sultry temps. We have a cooler day today. Not supposed to get passed 70.
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Its only going to 60 or 61 today. It is good weather for my dad. He's doing multiple coats of paint on the front porch.

Tomorrow is supposed a high in the mid 60s. It is good weather for my parents tomorrow. They are having filet mignon, fried mushrooms, and baked potatoes tomorrow.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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Well, Torch City is out. I’ve called every boat rental in the area. Absolutely no speed boats left.

Where can I go within a 7ish hour drive from Cincinnati, with clear water, lots of water sport options, small beach town vibe?

I am currently looking at other areas in Michigan, but wow, everyone must have this same idea!!!
 
21stamps

21stamps

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Cedar Point doesn’t open til 7/9... we would have just stayed there and done more than the parks.

Doesn’t look like COVID has had an impact on 4th of July bookings..if anything looks like places have more bookings as people are so limited on where they can travel right now.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
The other thing @Letteyeti besides what she said above, is that just because you love something doesn't mean you want it for a career. I love music. I really do. I'm very good at it. I'm not passionate enough about it, though, to make a career out of it. It most likely would have had to be teaching. It would have been every day of learning about it in school, getting graded on it, and then if I'd become a teacher, I would have been dealing with the ups and downs of being a teacher. And as it turns out, I'm really sorry okay with not doing music every day of my life. I think people who go into teaching music are really passionate about it and want the next generation to learn about it, and that's something that I lack. I also think they love it so much that it has to be part of their lives, and it turns out that I'm okay with it being a hobby. I never wanted to get to the point that I hated music because it was my job and not something I wanted to do.

Now to my job... it's not something I pictured myself doing in high school. But I like doing it. I like feeling productive during the day. I like contributing to my company and its wellbeing. I was out of work for a while last year, by necessity, but I hated it. I enjoy sitting at my desk with my spreadsheets and keeping my mind engaged. At the end of the day, I'm also perfectly happy to log off and be done with it for a while. There are days where it makes me completely crazy. But it pays the bills, I don't mind doing it, and I have balance in my life for doing other things I do enjoy.

Which again, you might not discover what you want to do until you're in college, or you might be like me and get a general business degree and then fine tune what you want to do once you get some experience. That's okay! It happens. I was entirely different at 16 than I am now. I actually was entirely different between 16 and 19. You'll get there. Promise.
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I think that was my mistake. I love to sing, but I didn't choose it because I'm passionate about it. It's just the only thing that I felt I was really good at that was mine. My mom considered my brother as this perfect being who was good at everything and it was "He's my smart one." and "He's my responsible one." etc...He dropped out of choir after junior high when the good teacher left, and I stayed in it. So music was the one thing where I didn't feel like I had to compete with him or live in his shadow. Or I guess rather that I wasn't compared to him so much. Everything else was already "his territory", so music became mine and I was good at singing, so that just became "my thing". It really wasn't enough to make a career our of it. But then I don't know what else I would have studied....I love the English Language, but again, the only way to make a career out of that, other than being a writer, is to teach. And I have zero classroom management skills. I'm not good in large groups. I'm much better with just one or two other people.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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21stamps said:
Yes!! There are some things where the adults know better than the kids.. it’s our job to show them and direct them towards better long term goals.

Btw, I wish T had some streamlined goals right now. He changes all of the time. He’s been on a big Police officer kick for a while, he’s also said architect, and for a long time it was engineer.
The only thing I know for sure is that he does not want to go in the medical field at all. He said he doesn’t want to see other people’s blood and guts.
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I wouldn't be worried...he's only 10. Of course he's going to change his mind a million times. E is 14 and still has no clue what she wants to do. She's interested in everything except sports and she hates her religion class. So far, all she knows is that she wants something where she can be creative, and help people. She loves her research and design technology class, and art, and she loves learning languages. French is one of her best subjects, as is German, though she doesn't like that as much, and she's learning Japanese for fun. Who knows what form it will take, but she has 4 years of high school left and they do a whole battery of apptitude tests next year to help them choose their subjects for the last 3 years. But a 10 year old is still a long way from making career decisions.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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21stamps said:
Torch Lake Michigan

However, I may have spoke too soon. I’ve just called 5 boat places, nothing is available., besides a pontoon which I don’t want.

1 place will deliver a ski boat, but at a ridiculous fee being 4th of July weekend.

I have to find a boat before booking a hotel (rooms are available). :(
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I actually did think about Lake Michigan. Why don’t you want a pontoon? Sounds like a good way to relax on the water to me? But I suppose if you want to do tubing a pontoon isn’t the best for that.
 
Letteyeti

Letteyeti

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Songbird76 said:
I wouldn't be worried...he's only 10. Of course he's going to change his mind a million times. E is 14 and still has no clue what she wants to do. She's interested in everything except sports and she hates her religion class. So far, all she knows is that she wants something where she can be creative, and help people. She loves her research and design technology class, and art, and she loves learning languages. French is one of her best subjects, as is German, though she doesn't like that as much, and she's learning Japanese for fun. Who knows what form it will take, but she has 4 years of high school left and they do a whole battery of apptitude tests next year to help them choose their subjects for the last 3 years. But a 10 year old is still a long way from making career decisions.
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I think I am the same way as your 14 year old daughter @Songbird76 . I love being creative and I love to help people. I took 2 years of German and the 1st year was very basic and I left that year not really learning much. The 2nd year the first half of the year was a review and then the second half I got screwed and had to learn it pretty much on my own online which didn't really happen. So I did end up getting the credits for German I & II but came out of it learning squat. It is great your daughter is coming into high school with some really good classes that she seems to like. Tell her though she doesn't have to make up her mind right away and some classes she takes she will think are awesome and other will suck unfortunately. Tell her to also get involved socially. It is huge.
 

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