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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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ajrwdwgirl said:
@Figgy1 you would have loved being at my house today. Sunny and 93 today with just enough of a breeze to keep it feeling nice out. I was going to have a mojito but we need lime juice (already on the list) so i had a Kona Hanalei a POG beer. Very refreshing!
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Same high here today.
We have yet to reach trip-digits...really odd for us this year... :cyclops:


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FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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Are they letting people try on clothes in the malls now? I'm afraid to buy things online because I never keep anything. Though I did buy my running shoes online last year and they are amazing. I just bought new sneakers too but I'm not sure how they will hold up in the heat (wool).
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Tony the Tigger said:
I am of the mindset that ultimately everything happens for a reason. My path has been and will be my path.

However she (and her husband) were not doing that to help nudge me in any way. I turned that very negative situation into a positive - per usual. I have always credited my late Grandmother and God (and to a lesser degree, teachers) for my grounding and stability. If I had turned out to be a drug addict, it would have been understandable, given the years of abuse and absolute craziness.

It definitely blew up my chances of going to college at that time, but honestly, I didn't want to go yet. It also blew up the family. Forgiveness or not, I will never forget her throwing the ceramic dog planter at my head as I was trying to grab what I absolutely needed to take with me, and as I was reminded to "take only what you paid for, in garbage bags, because that's what you are." Seventeen years old. Really?

I slept in my car for a couple of weeks, resigned from my two jobs because I had nowhere to iron my shirts, ended up staying with my step-Grandmother for a couple of weeks, got my first full-time job and apartment.



I had dreamed and plotted to get out of that house for many years. And I was "this close." LOL. The moment I turned 10, I got two paper routes so never had to ask for anything, because it would ultimately get thrown up to my face eventually. (if I had to hear one more time how this guy "didn't have to feed me and put a roof over my head because he's not your real father...") I worked illegally at a bakery across town when I was about 14, and then at an office when I was 15. (Still with one of the paper routes.) By 16, I worked at a retail store and a bank. When I resigned from the bank at 17, I was the Assistant Vice President's assistant. Within a few months, I was back at the retail store as a key carrying manager.

All of those experiences got me to this moment. This moment is good. (That doesn't mean I'm going to thank my mother for emotionally unstable parenting.)
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Forgiving was not my intent, my intent was that sometimes the worse things that happen to any of us turn out to be defining moments that spur us on to success. That is what I think of you. Was the situation bad? Yes! Emotionally, but it made you stronger and more determined to succeed and that is a good thing coming out of a less then great event. You don't have to forgive, all you have to do is recognize your own achievements and let the past die off. You appear to have made it on you own. You owe no one but yourself for your success. The past is unchangeable, but the present and the future can be controlled to some degree if one is smart enough to do it.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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FutureCEO said:
Are they letting people try on clothes in the malls now? I'm afraid to buy things online because I never keep anything. Though I did buy my running shoes online last year and they are amazing. I just bought new sneakers too but I'm not sure how they will hold up in the heat (wool).
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It varies by state (and by individual businesses). Finally up here, yes, they opened up the rooms (places like Kohls, for example). I don't go to many stores, so I can't say it's all of them, but Kohls is certainly one of the largest stores to reinstate this. (If you have some favorite stores, maybe just call ahead and ask them.)
 

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