Posted on 04/30/2013 1:58:09 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
“That’s a lot of charm.”
15% is not that big of a discount. Maybe charm had nothing to do with it. “Accept my price or I write a mean song about you”.
Yeah, maybe. But her bedrooms are 1200 square feet.
Five bedrooms? If I spent $17m I’d think it would have more than that.
Her money.
We lived in Rhode Island for several years when I was a girl. I agree, it is beautiful. Some of my parents’ Navy friends still have summer homes in New England, and winter in The Villages, in Florida.
Whats the difference between country and western?
-— but the slacker urge is so strong ... ——
My youngest has that slacker streak too. I guess it takes being hungry for some people.
Whenever I saw some daylight as a kid, I’d run with it.
-— summer homes in New England, and winter in The Villages, in Florida.——
That’s the way to go. I can definitely live without January and February.
My 9-year-old granddaughter, an aspiring singer (lol), is a big Taylor Swift fan, so I’ve listened to my fair share of her tunes. My favorite is “Never Grow Up,” which chokes me up every time I hear it.
I don’t get it. I had one brother at home. My kids have (currently) a total of nine in the house. And yet, they seem to have no drive to achieve independence. Even my 16-year-old, who’s going to be a National Merit Scholar, is looking at in-state universities. At his age, with my test scores (better than his!), I’d drawn a circle 1,000 miles in diameter and wasn’t looking inside.
And I wasn’t hungry, either. I just wanted distance. How can homeschooled kids who do nothing but gripe about their constrictions not want some distance, and go for it when it’s within reach.
Elen can sing in Spanish. If she learned half a dozen songs, she could make more than I do as a wedding-and-funeral soloist, because she has a better voice and more free time. One of the other girls in the homeschool association has a recording contract at 16 ... admittedly, she writes her own songs, but Elen could be working every weekend as a guitarist/soloist, if she wanted to.
It beats the heck out of babysitting!
“They have people like that in New England, too.”
Harvard Law, Class of 1998
I like Swift. More two steppin beat please.
My brother is the slacker. Which sucks if you are 56.
I have two girls. The oldest is going to college, but will be commuting. She should graduate without owing any money. All she needs is a piece of paper to be a teacher, and that's what I told her. So we're getting the cheapest one.
I've told them both that I have no problem with them living at home before they get married, as long as they work, pay rent, and put some money away.
That would be a lot harder to do with nine. I don't have any advice for you. Maybe by the time they get to their early 20s, they'll be ready to go.
Big enough for 10 families of illegals!! lol
I always assumed you had teeth.
Your own teeth.
That's a difficult question to answer. What we now call "Country & Western" was once called "folk music" or "hillbilly music" by the music industry, but by the the late '40's had settled on "Country & Western."
The music industry doesn't seem to have made much of an effort to distinguish "Country" from "Western." However, in my view, "Western" music would would cover groups such as The Beverly Hillbillies and The Four Aces, who sing cowboy songs and Western ballads, while "Country" would include music of the South, the Appalachians, and rural communities outside the West--acts such as Lulu Belle & Scotty or Fiddlin' John Carson.
Anoreth joined the Coast Guard at 18. She wanted Something Totally Different, and got it! Now she’s planning to re-up, having nothing else major that she wants to do with the next 4 hours.
On the other hand, Bill is sitting home, at 19, listening to me bitch, complaining about sharing a room with room, and his big idea is going to the local state university branch next year, after another year at community college. Not that that’s bad, compared to huge student loans and no (or a useless) degree, but he has a lot of ability: academic, musical, and artistic.
I meant to say “four years,” but given Anoreth’s event horizon, “four hours” isn’t totally wrong. If she gets the urge for college, it can be worked out in the context of a Gunny’s life in the Coast Guard.
Yeah, that makes sense.
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