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The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread
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MOXOMUMD
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Sounds like a fun time.One of my brothers drove out here for a visit today. We went out to an excellent seafood restaurant. He had baked haddock, and I had grilled swordfish.I love fresh swordfish. We also had seaweed salad, baked potato, and shrimp with spicy dipping sauce for an appetizer, that we shared. I had key lime pie for dessert. Yum, yum, yum. Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Imho... Id keep using the Boat.
I do not like to ruin my views inside a bus. Id rather get the boat
Depends on the weather.
FutureCEO
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Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
They were both driving me crazy. In the hallway of our house, we have a big window and a ledge where you can put trees, ornaments, and such in front of the window. Dad was up there cleaning...and getting annoyed with me for standing there watching him. Given that the man fell off a ladder in that hallway when I was four, I think my concern was justified. Not to mention that he was up there in socks and leaning over with the Swiffer. He looked like he could fall off. But he was annoyed with me for insisting I watch him do it (and telling him to be careful).
Then later, I brought my brother out his lunch and set it down on the table. I set it down where I normally sit for dinner, which I think is a more comfortable chair. My brother made me move it to his spot. I swear it's like living with Sheldon.
My mom had some of her friends over later. I was glad to hang around them in order to get some estrogen.
The fact that they brought wine was just a bonus.
Bet you could use some wine after that day. Oy.
Goofyernmost
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I always found that the only thing stopping any of us from doing just that is ourselves. Good thing that all those people from Europe and other places in the world didn't let lack of getting a job get in the way. Can you imagine the courage it took to get on a ship and sail across the Atlantic with no idea what they would find on the other side. Or a Conestoga Wagon and head across a hostile wilderness to find a home? Perhaps they had less to lose, but, still it had to be scary.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
It's easier for me - my family is all still here, including all of my aunts and uncles and most of my cousins.
Unlike my friends, I never yearned to grow up and move away. Also unlike my friends, I am not in the process of uprooting my older teenaged kids to move back.
StarWarsGirl
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- In the Parks
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For those about to get some bad weather:
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
but you can.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
You can.
FutureCEO
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Couple of ways I can go to work of these places
1) a need job placement...mostly engineers and such which is not me
2) work for an international company which I'm trying to get in a couple months and then transfer over
3) get married to a national
4) start a business which is also not me
Goofyernmost
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Or just go and find whatever job you can when you get there. Success isn't always instantaneous.
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Yeah...that's what all emigrants to the USA said too.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I've shared this before ....
My Dida was still living in Germany for a while after being released from the POW camp at the end of the war.
One day, while he was working on the docks, a man announced that a ship was leaving for Canada in one hour. Strong men only, willing to work in the fields; no women, no children. He rushed home, kissed his wife, toddler and infant son good-bye and promised to send for them as soon as he could.
Less than a year later, after working 18 hour days/7 days a week, his family was reunited.
Wow that place is still packing them in.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Yep, those are similar to the hours my Grandparents worked when they just arrived. The one Gran endured more than she anticipated in the new country when she arrived as a very young woman alone and vulnerable. Some of those sweat shop owners are certainly rotting in He** for what they did to those young immigrant women. Sometimes hard, long work wasn't enough for the owners.
Goofyernmost
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I was amazed at how nervous I was about packing up and moving to North Carolina. I even had the advantage of my family already being here. I have a lot of relatives up north but none that I would call close except my sister. If my mother had still been alive, I might have waited before heading south, but, that wasn't the case so what would seem like a no brainer was a difficult decision.It's easier for me - my family is all still here, including all of my aunts and uncles and most of my cousins.
Unlike my friends, I never yearned to grow up and move away. Also unlike my friends, I am not in the process of uprooting my older teenaged kids to move back.
I was dating a very nice young (relatively) lady at the time and had to make a choice. Blood won out. I put up with a lot in my life to keep my family together and it seemed like the right thing to do. It was, but, I didn't know that for sure until I actually made the move. Now I am surrounded by people that I love and I know love me. Whatever happens, I think that I will always feel it was the right decision and I do not regret a single second of it. Sometimes it just takes a little self administered kick in the posterior to set the compass in the proper direction.