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RANTS! & Raves! 11.21
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A beautiful day in the neighborhood. The boy is quietly playing in the toy room. Okay, not so quietly, but quietly enough that the other five are not up yet.
Hubby and eldest son are coming home today.
Eldest daughter is home.
We celebrate the Lord’s blessings tomorrow.
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Read the story here: http://jeannedamoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/here-comes-the-bride-and-sixty-babies/
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Michelle:
The story of Luke & Sarah is just beautiful, thank you for sharing. With the constant repetition of bad news in the media, it’s even more important to be reminded that there really are good people around us.
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Does waiting in line for hours to meet Sarah Palin make someone a “groupie?”
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I put out one rat trap and two mouse traps last night. I caught no mice and no rats this morning.
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Tuesday, my wife and I will celebrate 44 years of marriage. Tuesday, we will visit our granddaughter in her kindergarten class. She may embarrass us or we may embarrass her.
We may or may not celebrate Thanksgiving this year, with or without our daughter and her partner and our granddaughter.
Nevertheless, my wife and I, if we are still alive (at 65 for me and 63 for her), will be thankful. Religious believers wonder how atheists can be thankful without a God to be thankful to.
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Happy early anniversary RN and Mrs. RN!
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How is everybody today?
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Happy Anniversary to the Randoms.
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Random – Happy 44th to you & the Mrs.
Donna – A dog beach?
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Thank you for all the anniversary well wishes. I will try to behave myself from now until November 24th. Though I am not sure that a marriage that took place in a Unitarian church really counts. The service (which I barely remember) contained words from the Bible and from Khalil Gibran.
And neither of us has worn a wedding ring for years. In fact, I never wore a wedding ring.
Does that matter?
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Does it matter to who?
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Congrats RN. Staying married that long is something to be proud of. Too bad the Evangelicals have an almost (if not more than) 50% divorce rate.
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Peter L – It has been mentioned that the 50% divorce rate is among “self-professed” Christians, but among Christians who actually attend church regularly, it is much lower. Sorry I don’t have the actual stats to back that up.
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Random Name (23): You’re actually in very good company. Neither the Quakers nor Puritans wore wedding “rings.”
Jewelry was not “plain” enough.
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Karen O: thanks for your post at 26, I’d recently heard that as well. And when you think about it, it does make sense. Don’t something like 90% of all Americans claim to be Christian? So often people do still use that label because of the family tradition they were raised in.
And yes, this is L.A., so we have a few dog “beaches.” I’ll post some pics on Facebook when I get them out of my phone. We came home wet, sandy and happy.
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Donna – What do you call a beach for cats?
A BIG litter box!
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I need a newer car anyway, but I have no idea if the other guy had insurance or if anyone will pay much at all for my car (15 years old, 163K) . . . but hopefully it will pay enough to get me started on the price for another car, because this was still a dependable vehicle and I haven’t yet saved for another one. (My rule is always buy with cash; not having cash for a newer one, and this one being still good, I’ve held onto it.)
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Oh yes, and
my car isn’t OK, but I am.
I’d never even been in a car in an accident before, let alone the one driving. I was in the intersection and suddenly another vehicle was almost in front of me, and I slammed on the brakes and hit the horn. I’ve been in a lot of near misses in my life, and it was 12:30 at night, and somehow I just expected he’d stop in time and we’d be OK, but next thing I knew, his pickup was in front of my car and my hood was crumpling up. But I had the right-of-way (I had flashing yellow; he had flashing red), and he confirmed his guilt by fleeing the scene. I don’t know if he stopped at the light and then went, or didn’t stop at all. His vehicle was dark red and I didn’t even see it till it was right there (I suspect he didn’t have lights on either, although it all happened so fast, and my glasses were knocked off, that all I knew was the color of the vehicle and that it was a pickup). Whereas he had no excuse at all not to see my white car, with headlights, on the major street with the right-of-way . . .
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Oh no, Cheryl! I’m so glad you’re OK and that the other driver was caught.
So sorry about your car and just the whole experience of a car accident. I’ve been in a few fender benders, and it all happens so fast (I still remember being stopped at a light and the dread of watching in the rear view mirror as the driver behind me seemingly had no clue that cars were stopped ahead).
I’ll pray that God will guide you in finding a dependable, affordable car (my last one, a VW, was also 14 yrs old with more than 200,000 miles on it, they can go a really long time nowadays).
Prayers — and a hug.
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You’ll probably feel stiff today, even when we’re not seriously hurt, our bodies seem to tense up in these accidents — and you may have gotten a few bumps you weren’t aware of. Don’t hesitate to go to the doctor, just to make sure. (When I was rear-ended that time I was on my way to the doctor’s office for bronchitis, so he went ahead and took a few X-rays just to make sure nothing was amiss.)
Did you call your insurance agent? I think we all have uninsured motorist coverage in a standard policy these days, let the insurance company worry about going after him. Either way, you should be covered. Any witnesses?
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Ouch, Cheryl. Take it easy for a few days.
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Cheryl: What an unpleasant experience! Glad you’re okay – God still has big plans for you! May He provide for you richly in these days and weeks ahead.
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My thoughts are with you Cheryl
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Cheryl, you say “they caught him” indicates that the police wrote up the accident. That is important. You probably didn’t have collision coverage for a 15 yr old car. So, try to collect from his insurance company. He has to carry liability insurance. Call your company about this.
Now is a good time to buy a car. Get some guy to go with you. For some reason, it helps to have a guy negotiating with car salesmen. However, I think my middle granddaughter bought her own car. A Dodge, she said she got a good deal.
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I heard the best award acceptance speech I’ve ever heard last night. Our Lions District 31A convention was dedicated to a certain lady. When she was presented with the award last night, she said. “Oooh. What can I say, I’m gonna cry.” And that was it. The perfect speech. A guy, and lots of women couldn’t get away with that.
I realize that some things irritate me just because I’m type A (Someone here has me correctly tagged as INFJ.), but it bothers me when the chairman (chairlady in this case), seems to have to figure what he needs to do next when he’s in charge of a convention with 200 people attending.
When I was president of our club, attendance about 45, I always knew what I was going to do next. I ran a tight meeting.
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Yep, Chas, the police wrote up the accident, and gave me a number to give my insurance agent (and mentioned that it wasn’t my fault). The fact that they caught him, and quickly, when the only thing I could tell them was “it was a red pickup”–my glasses flew off in the accident, so even though I thought of checking his license plate when he sped off, I realized I couldn’t see–suggests to me that he did something else at least equally stupid shortly after leaving me (another accident?) and he was likely drunk, and I can thank God it wasn’t worse.
And my neck is a little sore this morning, and the friend I talked to this morning (to explain my absence from church) told me to get some sleep, and a hot bath. But I really don’t think I “tensed up”–in Chicago I was in so many “near misses” in equally stupid scenarios of someone running in front of me or otherwise nearly causing an accident that I really didn’t expect a collision, and was surprised to see and hear metal crumpling. If it had been daylight I’d have seen him earlier (and been more alert) and probably not had an accident at all, but then, if it had been daylight we wouldn’t have been the only cars in the intersection and it might have been worse. So overall, I’m carless but content it isn’t worse. It occurred to me briefly after the accident that had it been worse, it would have been really hard on the brother I was visiting, especially if it had been a scenario of his being “the last person who saw me alive.” God is good.
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Cheryl – I’m so glad you’re okay.
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CherylD, so sorry to here about your accident. I pray everything will go smoothly when you search for another vehicle.
My daughter (who lives near Spring Hill) had a similar thing happen one day when she was up visiting us. She was supposed to have left the next day, but that had to be extended. To make matters worse, her husband was up in Alaska on his job as a commercial fishermen and he was also signed as an owner on the vehicle. Though, insurance would pay for a rental, she couldn’t get anyone to rent her one since she was under 25 at the time. It was a hassle for sure and she still misses the car, since it was paid for and a great car. She has never had one that good since.
I hope your next vehicle is even better than this one!
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I was having such a good time on WMB but Musing is back so I guess I will have to stay away for a while since I hate his gloating.
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Cheryl D, very sorry to hear about your car but glad you’re okay. Praying that you’ll be able to find a good replacement.
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Cheryl: Monty would tell you to take a bath in 100 dissolved aspirins.
It seemed to a cure for just about anything.
The other driver was either under the influence — or perhaps had a suspended license or some other reason that prompted him to get out of there. But hit and run really puts someone in so much more trouble — and you’d think he’d just want to make sure you were OK, but then again …. Crazy world.
Chas is right, this is probably a good time to buy a car, but if you go to lot it is good to take someone else with you, preferably a guy.
I got a pretty good deal on a “little-used” car with ridiculously low mileage from Carmax (no bargaining, they give you a set price and that’s it). I’d been pricing the Jeep Liberties for several months, so pretty much knew it was a reasonable price — but while it was much cheaper than buying new, it wasn’t exactly cheap either.
When my friend needed a car a few years ago, she only had $2,500 to spend & was able to find a used Jetta with 60,000+ miles on it through the VW mechanic I’d been going to for many years (it belonged to another customer of his). So sometimes connections with someone you trust can really pay off.
Anyway, glad you’re basically OK — God has a purpose in everything, so who knows ….. It’ll all work together for good, somehow, some way.
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I’ve actually always bought my cars with/ from a man I know.
My first car, my brother bought a car at auction, and someone had bid on, but not bought, a different car, and he recommended I buy it (just $500). It had some issues, but was a good little car the two years I owned it, and I sold it for $400 when I went to college.
My second car I bought from a co-worker. It had to be repaired more than I liked, but its overall cost-per-month to buy, insure, run, repair, etc. was only around $100 a month over the years I owned it, so well worth it.
This car I bought through cars.com, a full ten years and three months ago. I took a male co-worker with me, and then took the car to my mechanic for an inspection, and everyone approved the sale. I bought it at $1,000 below blue book, and it has been the best car I ever drove (I know, out of a grand total of three).
And one of my brothers actually is about to sell two cars and he thinks one (my sister-in-law’s car) would be a good match for me, and it sounds like it is within my price range and dependable. I didn’t tell him a definite yes, but as well as he maintains his cars and as good as that one has been for them, it sounds like I probably can’t do better, and he’ll sell it to me for a bit less than he’s advertising it. (It’s family musical cars, though–he’s selling them to buy a van from another brother!!)
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Cheryl, the car from your brother might be a good deal. You know the history of the car, you can buy it for less than you would a dealer, because a dealer isn’t going to give him much for it. They don’t want more cars, they want to MOVE cars.
What kind of car is it?
Don’t buy a Durango or Hummer .
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Cheryl, I agree, the family car sounds like an excellent solution.
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IAF – it isn’t gloating, it’s wishful thinking.
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Maybe I’m jealous because I could never get away with something like that.
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Yes, Chas. The song has a nice melody, but like a lot of songs, the words are about disgusting, selfish behavior and there is nothing gentle about that.
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And I know you would never behave like that!
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Chas, it’s a Ford I think (not my first choice, but I’d already decided this isn’t a time to be picky, but just to get a reliable car), not sure what model. It’s four years old, 93K most of it from them, and my brother is diligent on maintenance. He said the only problem they’ve ever had was a window issue the dealer fixed for free, and he’d drive it to California tomorrow. I know that my sis-in-law loved it, and it would be my prettiest car ever(burgundy) and is somewhat “loaded” on features I think. I put about 10,000 on a car per year, so it should last me several years, enough to save for another Toyota hopefully.
Nana, the police referred to the accident not being my fault, and gave me a number to give to my insurance, so they should treat it as the other guy’s fault. I don’t have comprehensive anymore, but do have uninsured/underinsured, so even if the other guy was without insurance, it should be covered. The car won’t be worth much, but I’ve been with the company a dozen years or more, and hopefully they’ll be generous.
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It’s good to hear you’re all right, Cheryl D.
I’ve had a few close calls like that, most of which were my fault in not seeing a car or something, so I’d have been to blame had anything happened. [grimace]
But as the saying goes, “Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” And with H-bombs, I might add.
I hope you get a good car.
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Chas, it’s actually not a Ford, but “a 2004 Chevy Malibu Classic, automatic, 93,000 miles. Power windows, locks, cruise, A/C, AM/FM CD player, 4 cylinder.” Cruise would be wonderful; I’ve never had it, and would love it for trips. I put about 10,000 a year on a car, so even though that’s high mileage, it would take me six years to take it to 150K . . . probably long enough to save for a Toyota. I don’t know anything about Chevys, having owned only one American car (an AMC). My dad owned a Chevy when I was growing up, but that would have been a 1970 or so . . .
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In January, I will start teaching senior driver safety classes for AARP. Cheryl, would you like to come teach a little segment about my class? I think we are supposed to keep religion out of our classes, though. I don’t know if that would cramp your style.
I am glad that you were not injured and hope you solve your transportation needs reasonably soon and reasonably well.
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Cheryl, the odds are it will. Keep looking Up
please.
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Cheryl! The Chevvy used to be America’s car. My first car was a Chevvy. You don’t remember
“Baseball, ice cream, apple pie, and Chevrolet”?
Before 1955, Chevrolet only made six cylindar cars. Ford made the Ford V8. Then in 1955 Chevrolet made a V8 that won about six out of the first ten places in Darlington. My dad had a ‘55 V8.
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Cheryl, for what it’s worth, my daughter has a Malibu that she has driven for years. It well over 100,000 miles on it, with very little trouble. The newer Malibus are supposed to be even better. Hers is an earlier model than 2004.
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It’s okay, IAF. I tend to avoid the threads he’s on too. My reasons have more to do with being a Grammar Nazi, though.
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