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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Human Nature
A woman that I know has been living - very well, thank you - off of maintenance payments (used to be called alimony) from her ex-husband for a few years. Her ex is a doctor. Since the divorce, this woman has gone back to school and is now a teacher. She lives so "American" that she absolutely HAS TO HAVE her maintenance income in addition to her salary in order to keep her home and her way of life.
Mr. Ex only owes about a year and a half more of maintenance payments, but he's suddenly quit paying his monthly check. Now, until the courts squeeze lemonade out of a cantaloupe, Ms. Ex has to borrow money in order to make ends meet.
It would make sense for Ms. Ex to try to sell her house now, before her payments run out, so that she can buy a less expensive house and become self-sufficient. It would have made even more sense to have done that years ago when the housing market was better. By now, she could have saved up a lot of cash for a rainy day.
But there are no plans to move. When the maintenance checks stop permanently, what will she do? When we run out of oil, drinkable water, fish in the ocean, etc., etc., what will we do?
Oh, who cares? Let's just stay with the status quo and worry about it tomorrow.
Mr. Ex only owes about a year and a half more of maintenance payments, but he's suddenly quit paying his monthly check. Now, until the courts squeeze lemonade out of a cantaloupe, Ms. Ex has to borrow money in order to make ends meet.
It would make sense for Ms. Ex to try to sell her house now, before her payments run out, so that she can buy a less expensive house and become self-sufficient. It would have made even more sense to have done that years ago when the housing market was better. By now, she could have saved up a lot of cash for a rainy day.
But there are no plans to move. When the maintenance checks stop permanently, what will she do? When we run out of oil, drinkable water, fish in the ocean, etc., etc., what will we do?
Oh, who cares? Let's just stay with the status quo and worry about it tomorrow.
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posted by Carol at 5:40 PM
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Famous Last Words
I just visited a blog that had a link which allowed me to find out what kind of donut I am. I was curious, so I took the test. But I had to lie since I can't remember the last donut I ever ate and I've never had a Krispy Kreme donut in my life. It's not much fun to answer questions that are totally irrelevant to me.
So I checked out the "What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?" test. Now I don't have to worry about that part of my life - it's all taken care of - and I can just blather on until the time comes to give my last great and (not) profound line:
So I checked out the "What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?" test. Now I don't have to worry about that part of my life - it's all taken care of - and I can just blather on until the time comes to give my last great and (not) profound line:
Your Famous Last Words Will Be: |
 "What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous." |
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posted by Carol at 6:02 PM
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Monday, July 02, 2007
Oy
First it's W, now it's the rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park. Participants in the March 4 Peace walk across the U.S. were detained for wearing March 4 Peace signs on their shirts. IT'S A PARK!!! You should be able to wear what you want!
Oy! Oy! Oy!
I wasn't going to connect with the marchers, because their route doesn't come near me, but ya know what??? I just might travel on up now and support them for awhile.
Peace walkers stopped at Rocky Mountain park
By Kieran Nicholson
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 07/02/2007 05:28:08 PM MDT
Two young peace activists said they were stopped at an entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday and ordered to remove peace placards on their chests before entering the park.
Mike Israel, 18, and Ashley Casale, 19, are on a "March for Peace" from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
The pair said they were stopped by a park ranger at a gate beyond Grand Lake and told they couldn't go inside the park wearing the placards, which read: "March 4 Peace."
"They stopped us and said our signs are too political," said Casale, a student a Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
The peace activists were detained for several hours, Casale said.
Eventually, the pair agreed not to wear the placards but wrote the same message on their T-shirts and continued their journey.
Park officials could not be reached for comment this morning.
Oy! Oy! Oy!
I wasn't going to connect with the marchers, because their route doesn't come near me, but ya know what??? I just might travel on up now and support them for awhile.
Peace walkers stopped at Rocky Mountain park
By Kieran Nicholson
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 07/02/2007 05:28:08 PM MDT
Two young peace activists said they were stopped at an entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday and ordered to remove peace placards on their chests before entering the park.
Mike Israel, 18, and Ashley Casale, 19, are on a "March for Peace" from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
The pair said they were stopped by a park ranger at a gate beyond Grand Lake and told they couldn't go inside the park wearing the placards, which read: "March 4 Peace."
"They stopped us and said our signs are too political," said Casale, a student a Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
The peace activists were detained for several hours, Casale said.
Eventually, the pair agreed not to wear the placards but wrote the same message on their T-shirts and continued their journey.
Park officials could not be reached for comment this morning.
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posted by Carol at 5:54 PM
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