I guess it's never too early to start learning about economics, lol.

I wonder how the bank balance would be if we thought about the exchange at 13?? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
All AW did at 13 was winge, I mean harp, I mean ask for a new bike and a football. When I got her a dress I got a disgusted look "But THATS girl stuff!!" Hello? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

A little bit of money knowledge could have been good! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Though $$$ isn't everything however it helps to keep the food on the table <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Talk about comments from children. My GS, AW's oldest boy was bemoaning the fact he could'nt be deployed and 'Why does dad get to have all the fun" !!!

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I truly hope he was just pulling our legs to get a response or the reponse he'll get from myself and his mum will be a wallop!!
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Sadly I remember Grumpy saying something very like that just before Vietnam. All soldiers who go to war become the wounded. And come home strangers.

Anyway enough of that. Sunday mass was nice. Grumpy ALMOST came along but decided the river looked better so took a fishing rod instead of a bible <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

oh well God has a mansion of many rooms as they say, might need one with a river or a lake though for SOMEONE.

When Father Russell came around after the service to say hello you know the first thing he asked of course " Where's Grumpy ? " Moments like these I wish I could sink into the ground.
"Fishin" says GS, who taught that boy to speak until spoken to the snitch.
Father got that dreamy look and said "Mmmm black bream good day for it' I knew it... Bloody men all the same <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

AW had Mikey in her arms, talk aout weight lifting, GD & GS side by side, GS was lucky the roof didn't fall on him the way he treats women. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I'd give that boy a piece of my mind if I thought he could handle a fragment of real sense <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ooooooo its Nanna time with Mikey <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Truer words were never spoken. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> I worked days today and am off to bed so I can get up and do it again tomorrow. I will hate myself in 5+ hrs. when I have to roust myself out of the sack. AW Mum--you're all in our prayers.

t&l

Actually I am a bit of a black sheep there. I tend to be ridiculed for bringing down the mood. I am still not a big fan of all the chat threads but IV did return to only one thread which was my only desire. Some people on these chat threads actually do post on "marriage building" threads. Others simply chat. Those are the ones that make me wonder. The search function is easy enough to use to spot them. For example, one of the principle posters on that other thread - do you have any idea how many "legitimate" posts that person has made in the past 12 months? Really interesting stuff. But I digress...

Actually my WW just sent me here to look for thong cut panty liners. Preferrably in black. I'll just wander... Nope - don't see them. Maybe I'll try Walmart.

try the search function....you'll find 'em!!! lol do you all remember that thread???

I admit I am still curious why these threads get four star ratings while other threads dealing with people who are in a moment of crisis and desperately needing help get no rating. I don't understand the rating system here quite yet. Maybe ToddAC can explain it to me.

But digression is the better part of valor, didn't you know? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Actually, it's easy enough to find out why this thread was started. It's in the very first post. I take no responsibility for its conception, although it bears my MB name. Why I came here to MB, when I have an unbuild-able marriage, can be found in the link posted early in "A Few Things Can Make It Through the Fog," my daughter's story of her attempt to salvage and restore her marriage. Why this thread continues now is perhaps more of a mystery to me than it is to you, although I have certainly gained insights from participating in it...and maybe even offered a few.

I'm off to work, but hello to you. Enjoy Idiotville. Everyone needs a laugh now and again. Even people in crisis. In fact, especially people in crisis. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. No thong stuff around here. I <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> just thinking about it! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Hi, Nikko--You're always up so EARLY. How do you do it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> I hate getting up like this. Staying up all night is much, MUCH better than getting up just because dawn has cracked! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

im happy when i stay in be TILL the dawn has cracked!!!lol

How would you know, when you're up every day before sunrise?And who would put the coffee on for Idiotville, if you decided to stay in and snooze? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Oh, hi Pio. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Idiotville has several black sheep, actually, but I'm sure there's always room for one more.

I am not not not trying to open up the Idiotville discussion again, but just wanted to comment on what you said about some people mostly only posting 'in there'. I cannot speak for them, but for me there were several cycles in my recovery that Iville and here were basically the only places I posted. Sometimes 'out there' can be very scary, or just painful, and there have been long stretches that I needed to keep reaching out for reassurance in a place where people understood what I was going through, even if it took the form of telling and reading funny stuff. I had nothing I was able to contribute to the board during those times, but having somewhere to be kept me here when I needed to be here.

Career Idiots? I guess whatever makes their boat float. It was much easier once I got my own thread. Now I talk about A-stuff on it, and life-stuff on here. Speaking of here, didn't you find the hygiene staff rather unhelpful in locating some of the feminine products? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Oh, as to the stars, you personally can rate any topic you like, once. Most people either don't know or just don't do it. Thie thread has more ratings now, but the reason it ended up with this many stars is kind of funny.

Mom put just one star on it, so she could find it more easily. (Blind old people are like that. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) She wanted to be modest, but I thought it was so funny that she had only put one star on that I gave her 5 stars as a cute little daughterly trick. It worked like a charm - she looked all over for her one star and couldn't find it, and I split a gut laughing at her consternation.

Don't know what the other votes were from, though.

But if you see a thread you really like, just kick some stars on it.

*psst, the black ones are right over there, between blue and orange*

My daughter, the professional writer and published author. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> And after that crack you made about the staff, I'm not helping YOU find any products around here, either! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

wrong emoticon <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Now..............where is that spell checker?







This is going to take a while.

You need a spell checker for emoticons? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Your grandpa would be rolling in his grave, except for the part about how he's still alive. I'M TELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I need an emotichecker, too. But it's what I get for being a smarty-pants and typing it into quick reply.

Hey, if I didn't post on the ridiculous threads, I wouldn't post at all. And, that means someone somewhere would miss my rare and occaisional pearl of wisdom. Or is that purl of wisdom?

Only if you are knitting perspicaciously.

(tee-hee <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)

Better a purl of wisdom than a wizz of pearldom, is what I always say. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l, the tired, the poor, the huddled mass yearning to breathe free--will 7PM ever come?