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Thank you, Linda, for confirming I am not insane! The financial and paperwork end was onerous and also ensuring the management company was at least going to deliver the very basic things they agree to do. I figure if the company is unresponsive pre-sale what is the likelihood they will be helpful once they have all your money.
Hubby completely detached his rotator cuff and after about 2 months he had surgery yesterday, which was successful.Now I am home taking care of a man in extreme pain. :(
Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary.In that time we have been through: being laid off (him), taking early retirement (me), death of a parent (him) , a full house remodel (us), breast cancer [twice] (me), fertility treatments (due to cancer).
Through it all, we remain strong and the most fighting we've done was about the actual wedding itself! Here's to marrying a great guy and my best friend!!
JoLene wrote: "Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary.In that time we have been through: being laid off (him), taking early retirement (me), death of a parent (him) , a full house remodel (us), breast cancer [t..."
Happy Anniversary, JoLene.
Booknblues wrote: "Hubby completely detached his rotator cuff and after about 2 months he had surgery yesterday, which was successful.Now I am home taking care of a man in extreme pain. :("
Hope he gets well soon and you see some relief.
JoLene wrote: "Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary.In that time we have been through: being laid off (him), taking early retirement (me), death of a parent (him) , a full house remodel (us), breast cancer [t..."
Congratulations for getting through all that and Happy Anniversary
Wow, JoLene, those have been some very eventful years. Congrats on the anniversary!
I'm most likely going to be pretty sporatic in my activity for a bit. My DD, SIL and my granddaughter are all living with us until they close on their new home in early June. Also coming with them are their two dogs, one cat and six chickens to add to our one dog and two cats. Whenever I get a chance to read, I fall asleep! "The ole gray mare, she ain't what she used to be..."
Booknblues wrote: "Hubby completely detached his rotator cuff and after about 2 months he had surgery yesterday, which was successful.Now I am home taking care of a man in extreme pain. :("
Ouch!!! Your poor hubby. Good luck with the nursing part . . .I hope the pain lessens quickly.
JoLene wrote: "Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary.In that time we have been through: being laid off (him), taking early retirement (me), death of a parent (him) , a full house remodel (us), breast cancer [t..."
Yowser - - it's wonderful that you have your best friend by your side through all these challenges. You must both be tough! Or wonderful supports for one another. Or both! Happy, happy anniversary. So sorry I'm so late with this message . . .life is happening, and it needs to slow down so I can pay attention to the things that make me happy (PBT).
Marti wrote: "I'm most likely going to be pretty sporatic in my activity for a bit. My DD, SIL and my granddaughter are all living with us until they close on their new home in early June. Also coming with them ..."Ok, that's a big crowd, but something tells me it will be fun! We will miss you here though so please make sure to come back once the whole gang has settled into their new digs!
Anita wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Hubby completely detached his rotator cuff and after about 2 months he had surgery yesterday, which was successful.Now I am home taking care of a man in extreme pain. :("
Ouch..."
He is much better today and able to cut back on pain meds. Such a relief for both of us. Thanks.
Booknblues wrote: "Anita wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Hubby completely detached his rotator cuff and after about 2 months he had surgery yesterday, which was successful.Now I am home taking care of a man in extreme p..."
So happy to hear he is much better today!! Hopefully he will continue to heal rapidly. In the meantime, you take care of yourself too - - it's hard to be a caretaker.
Booknblues - Here's to a speedy recovery for your hubby (and some rest for you!) Getting off the pain meds is a huge accomplishment. Jolene - Congrats on the anniversary! It truly is a blessing to have a great partner.
Marti - Oh, my! I feel your pain, and I only had my "baby" brother, his wife and 3 kids sharing our house for 4 days!
Book Concierge wrote: "Booknblues - Here's to a speedy recovery for your hubby (and some rest for you!) Getting off the pain meds is a huge accomplishment. ."The ironic thing is that I had a rotator cuff surgery about 7 years ago . Mine wasn't quite as severe 90% tear instead of totally detached, I wasn't required to wear the sling anywhere near the time hubby is, but I do understand completely what he is going through.
Anita wrote: " you take care of yourself too - - it's hard to be a caretaker. ."
It sure is, thankful to be going back to work tomorrow. I only work part time, but am grateful for that.
Booknblues: So glad to hear the recovery is going well.JoLene: Happy Anniversary to two people who must have been made for each other. What a trial you both have been through but love is always the answer!
Marti: Good luck with that full house!!
Wow, lots of things going on in my semi absence moving my daughter back home from her third year in university/college.Booknblues--I hope the recovery continues steadily
JoLene--happy anniversary!
Now we're waiting for my college daughter's final grade. Four are in, and so far, so good.
Karin wrote: ".Now we're waiting for my college daughter's final grade. Four are in, and so far, so good.."
This is one pass I have given myself since my son has gone to college. I no longer look at his grades. Boy, I'm so much happier.
Anita wrote: "Karin wrote: ".Now we're waiting for my college daughter's final grade. Four are in, and so far, so good.."
This is one pass I have given myself since my son has gone to college. I no longer look..."
Yes, I'm sure that can be the case. In our case, her tuition/fees/housing waiver is contingent on her cumulative GPA, it's imperative at least one of us checks her grades, and she doesn't want to.
Anita wrote: "Karin wrote: ".Now we're waiting for my college daughter's final grade. Four are in, and so far, so good.."
This is one pass I have given myself since my son has gone to college. I no longer look..."
When my son started college in 1996, we were not allowed to get his grades without his permission! He was 18, and even though we were paying the bills, we did not have the right to see his grades.
AJ wrote: "I have recently been so busy that I haven't read a book in about two weeks... I will be going on holiday in a few days though so I plan to get some reading done then.I have a favour to ask though..."
The other choices were business and realistic.
LOL business sounds like a tag we will never choose, unless we go back to choosing tags by the randomizer!
I imagine there are creative ways to get around the business tag. Wouldn't have been my interest either...
annapi wrote: "LOL business sounds like a tag we will never choose, unless we go back to choosing tags by the randomizer!"We could go back to choosing the tags completely at random at some point. While I like the voting aspect the randomizer definitely made sure we got to some of those lesser read tags!
It seems like we used one other way of selecting at some point too but I can't think of what it was off the top of my head...
Didn't people make suggestions? I thought we did, and can't remember how it was done. I think either one person made 3 or three people each made one or something. Then we voted. I seem to remember the randomizer being a new thing at some point after I joined.
Nicole wrote: "annapi wrote: "LOL business sounds like a tag we will never choose, unless we go back to choosing tags by the randomizer!"We could go back to choosing the tags completely at random at some point...."
At some point in the past, a member was chosen at random and s/he got to pick the next month's tag. Didn't Anita give us clues and we tried to guess?
Oh, the clues. They were horrible to come up with! We will not be doing clues again any time soon.
Nicole wrote: "Oh, the clues. They were horrible to come up with! We will not be doing clues again any time soon."I can understand that thinking up those clues became a tremendous burden. But I have very fond memories of the discussion threads that resulted from our attempts to figure them out.
The problem was that you guts are just too smart for us! Lol
Nicole wrote: "annapi wrote: "LOL business sounds like a tag we will never choose, unless we go back to choosing tags by the randomizer!"We could go back to choosing the tags completely at random at some point...."
We never completely relied on the randomizer for tags. The randomizer is the way we do it now to select the three to vote on.
Before that, the randomizer was used to choose one of our members who signed up. They would get to choose one of the top 200 tags. No voting.
I had completely forgotten about the clues!
LibraryCin wrote: "Before that, the randomizer was used to choose one of our members who signed up. They would get to choose one of the top 200 tags. No voting..."
That's the way I was trying to remember. I guess there was no voting at that time.
me too! but I was terrible at guessing. I just liked reading all the clues and guesses as everyone else was figuring it out.
I was specifically referring to the NYC housing market when I replied to Anita. I have lived in the NYC area my entire life and it is a nightmare to deal with. My daughter has traveled all over the world starting when she graduated college and I never helped her with any of that. I never found her an apartment when she lived in NYC, but I certainly had to help with all the paper work since she was in school and didn't have the income to qualify for the apartment, so I had to guarantee it. But I haven't done that again and she's quite capable. My youngest decided to move to California last year and found an apartment on her own before she moved and although I had to co-sign her lease she is managing on her own. I'm proud of them both, but I still worry about them - it's just ingrained in moms I think.