Your Dad's birthday is in October? My father would be 75 on Wednesday next week.
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Your Dad's birthday is in October? My father would be 75 on Wednesday next week.
squib
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No my dad's birthday is Sept 20 th , oh ya JA you outed me again! Sept is the 9th month. Oh well. My IPF birthday is a month later than my dad's birthday! I think he will be 85 but judging from my math with the b-day's I won't bet my life on it. Even if a spider bit me on my ear! I HATE spider bites more than being wrong! Of course I have a sister who once told me she'd rather be right than happy! She and I stay as far apart as possible. I'd rather be happy than anything! I am very close to my Dad and my brother's, my mom died when I was 22 , way too young! But she comes to visit me now and again. It ifs great because when I dream about her it feels like I have had a whole day visit with her.
squib
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Does your Dad's birthday come close to mine? Sept. 20th is my Dad's b-day , when is yours? Oh, has your dad passed like my mom? I'm sorry, I'm not very clear minded today! The spider bite has now infiltrated my right nostril so I can't breathe that well. On the other hand JA has a full blown cold and can still see the errors of my thinking! What about your mom, Johanna, is she as brilliantly as smart as you? Or are you an orphan at such a young age? I'm sorry if this sounds brutal. I can't figure out how evse to say it! Sorry. :-(
MoonlitSonata
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MusicBytheScorps
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My father's birthday is on September 18th, two days before your father's.
He died six years ago, my mother's still alive. She'll be 72 in November. Like you, I always was closer to my dad than to her. If you ask me about her intelligence: no, she isn't briliant, a teacher would say she's "average". But since my father and grandmother died six years ago (within 5 months), she's living alone in her house, with an income which is a third of mine, without any problems. And she refuses to get help.
Lol. Young age, me? I'd rather say I'm in the middle years of my life.
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My father's birthday is on September 18th, two days before your father's.
Like you, I always was closer to my dad than to her. If you ask me about her intelligence: no, she isn't briliant, a teacher would say she's "average". But since my father and grandmother died six years ago (within 5 months), she's living alone in her house, with an income which is a third of mine, without any problems. And she refuses to get help.
Do you think she actually needs help and is too proud, or cannot afford it? Or is she just independent, or a combination of those possibilities?
I often wonder with older people, whether it's sometimes good to be proud and independent, or sometimes just foolish. But I think sometimes we expect older people to give up their dignity. In their place, I wouldn't be so keen to, either. (Of course, I do not know your mother at all, and I'm not drawing any conclusions about her circumstances.)
I know that my grandfather, my last surviving grandparent, lived frugally and independently till the end and took pains to do everything he could for himself, asking for help only when needed, like when he couldn't lift a 50-pound bag of rice, as we Chinese eat so much of it. At the end, he had taken care of all his financial affairs, had a paid-up cemetery plot, etc. In his late 80s, he was offered an angioplasty and refused, saying that he'd lived long after Grandma and their contemporaries, and had lived to see his kids and their kids well settled, and he was at peace with dying.
Even now, we marvel at what a champ Grandpa was. We should all be so lucky to leave our business as well settled, and leave so many behind who not only loved him, but respected him.
Maybe it's a combination of both. She likes to be independent. As long as she doesn't need help, she won't ask for it. My mother experienced the years after WW II, she was just a child and had to work for her (richer) relatives. Sometimes she's too proud to ask for help. She says she doesn't want to bother my sister and me, we'd have enough to care for.
Is it over or are they still playing?
The Roughriders lost 29-31 to the Toronto Argonauts.
Sorry to hear that. Are they still heading their division?
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