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Jun 30, 2013 08:29AM
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Hi everyone :) How''s your summer going?
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It's going great, how about you?
It has been so rainy/thunderstormy here that it is hard to get things done - yardwork/garden wise. It has rained or thunderstormed every day for about 7 days now. I ended up mowing in the rain this afternoon because I couldn't let it go anymore the grass is growing so fast. Good thing is that it is usually clear in the morning and I have been able to go out and run each morning, dropping some weight. I also have some summer work lined up so I should be making some extra cash.
How about everyone else?
Running at five in the morning because of the heat wave. Plus, still trying to get moving in stuff done. I think the weeds are growing faster than I can dispatch them.
We are not super hot but it is still best to run as early as possible. I run around 6 and it is cool enough then.
it is currently 8:30 and 96degrees. Two more days and of this then a cooling trend.
we caught a break tho, it was supposed to be 106, is only 102 those three days. heck, over 100 is hot no matter what.
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the desert is beautiful. however I'm now in Washington state. it gets this warm, but it seems a little early. my friends in Arizona are getting temps higher than usual as well.
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SE quadrant is desert and much drier than Tacoma. but still too warm. they are in the nineties this week.
My summer has been quite the vacation. I've been either relaxing at home, reading, going to the beach, or eating ice cream. I'm hoping to travel before I have to go back to school in September.
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Where are you from that you don't have a beach?
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Ahhh, I see. Lol. Have you always lived there? Or did you move there?
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That's a good way to settle :) I'd love to move out of my home state. I've been living here for 17 years. I need to explore.
I live in NJ currently and have been here for more years than I want to think about. Before that i lived all over the world because my dad was in the service and we moved around a lot. The plan was for me to let my daughter graduate HS next year and then finally get out, but with how the housing market is I don't think I can get rid of the house....sigh..depressing thinking about being stuck here for the long haul.
Fanficfan44 wrote: "I live in NJ currently and have been here for more years than I want to think about. Before that i lived all over the world because my dad was in the service and we moved around a lot. The plan wa..."I live in NJ and wouldn't want to go anywhere else. I've spent 9 months in Texas and that was pretty bad.
I was an Army brat too! Do ice been moving every year and a half since I was born! Then my dad retired and we moved to Chicago for a job and I've been dying to get out ever since! Can't stand the cold!
Kandice wrote: "I was an Army brat too! Do ice been moving every year and a half since I was born! Then my dad retired and we moved to Chicago for a job and I've been dying to get out ever since! Can't stand the c..."That is how I ended up in NJ, my Dad retired out of McGuire AFB when I was in HS and so I ended up going to college in NJ, due to financial aid. Then I met my ex, had kids and here I still am.
navy brat. still on the move after all these years
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I am happy here but I am wondering what it would be like to live in Utah. I drove through it once 18 years ago and I've never stopped thinking about it.
At 61 and after 9 years of literally living on wheels i have chosen a place that is "home" and even if i continue to wander, when it is time to go that is where i will go and pay rent on it year round. That is of course unless my family leaves here and then i will likely find somewhere else unless i become thoroughly entrenched and don't want to move.the irony is that i expected this particular phase of constant moving to end after 5 years due to infirmity. when it didn't i just kind of "floated" until forced to come up with a plan B. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?
Basically I stopped moving because my ex was from N. When we first got married I tried to convince him to move but he had lived here all his life and couldn't conceive of it. I should have realized then that we weren't compatible ;0. It is hard to get used to staying in one place. I would like to move down south somewhere. I've seen some great places in Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi, although I also loved the west coast when I was out there - Washington State and Oregon. Oh, well.
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My husband got a job for contract work that would take us all over the country. I homeschooled andplanned to to get an rv so we could travel with him. Unfortunately a better job offer came that was stationary. We moved to Maryland. It was the worse decision we made. I did not enjoy the east coast at all.
We hope to float some more when the kids are off on their own.
i also did not care for the east coast nor the south. A big part of that was climate.
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I lived in Huntsville, AL and would recommend it highly. I lived in Washington State and although I loved it, Oregon would have been my first choice. I can't speak to anything other than the coast though. The Oregon coast is so amazing.
It's a challenge to make that first step. You'll do it if it's right for you. :)
Whoa. Am I the only one without a great background history here? Geez. I've lived here all my life.
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:) I hope so. Hopefully it'll be just as great. What does everyone work as? Or what are you working towards becoming?
I am working toward being contentedly retired. Finding that niche where i belong and usefully using the hours of my days. (But then it sounds like i am significantly older than most of you.)
Age is nothing but a number to me. I want to become a poet, open my own dance studio for the community to keep kids off the streets and publish at least one book.
I got my first degree is psychology but found I couldn't make a living off of it without a doctorate so I started working at a nursing school which has no inspired me to become a nurse! I have one more pre- req for that and then a year on a wait list for the clinical portion! In the meantime I am a quilter starting up my own Etsy page and hoping to make some money for school there too!
i am also a quilter. my current project is a throw sized quilt for each of my 7 grands. i would like to get that project done before the greats start arriving
That's a lot of projects! I'm in the middle of a queen size rag quilt using the Joel Dewberry Aviary 2 line, it's for me BC I feel in love with the line :) some baby quilts for others are on the table next! It's a fun summer! Good luck with your quilts!!
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I went to school to become a zoologist. I became a mom and domestic goddess instead, although it's similar to working at a zoo. ;)
I am now working on becoming a Master Naturalist.
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Send me your page once you get established. I love supporting people on Etsy.
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I have that same problem! That's why I love rag quilts BC you get to quilt each piece so it's a lot easier than a huge quilt on my tiny machine!
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Congratulations! I had a birthday last week--59 years old this year. Thankfully, it wasn't that painful milestone birthday that's coming up next summer. I can wait a bit for that one!
Connie N. wrote: "Congratulations! I had a birthday last week--59 years old this year. Thankfully, it wasn't that painful milestone birthday that's coming up next summer. I can wait a bit for that one!"I turned 60 in June and it has been great. I am now the youngest in my running category and have won 7 medals in 9 competitions since I had that milestone!
Iamabibliophile wrote: "I can't believe it. I am turning 40 next week. Where have the last 20 years gone?"Still a baby :) I am 48 not that far from 50.
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Iamabibliophile wrote: "I can't believe it. I am turning 40 next week. Where have the last 20 years gone?"Happy birthday! At 66 I can hardly remember back to 40.
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It's been an amazing 40 so far which was kind of unexpected.
