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Happy Easter, Passover, Ramadan.
Mom, dad, and DW picked me up at the airport at 20:00 on Friday evening. We had a great quick weekend at mom and dad's. Saturday we had breakfast with mom, dad, niece, and her DH then went to my brother's house for a morning visit on Saturday. We ended up having lunch at my brothers "club".
Have I mentioned that my baby bro is a business executive savant? He has done exceptionally well. No envy on my part. Just pure pride in the man, DH, dad, son, brother, and leader that he is. Please give me a lump in my throat proud big brother reset moment. Ha... hmmmm.
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Its alive!!!
We got proof of life yesterday. It started with a text. "Sorry, I am having memory problems and keep forgetting to call.".
We both got home early enough to speak with him. He sounded good, works seems to be going well. I always get nervous when he goes radio silent as this was highly indicative of poor performance when he was in his late HS phase.
His cat is apparently demanding, happy, and torturing him. I like this cat.
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Its alive!!!
We got proof of life yesterday. It started with a text. "Sorry, I am having memory problems and keep forgetting to call.".
We both got home early enough to speak with him. He sounded good, works seems to be going well. I always get nervous when he goes radio silent as this was highly indicative of poor performance when he was in his late HS phase.
His cat is apparently demanding, happy, and torturing him. I like this cat.
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O/T: Man-brain brain farts?
Guidance requested.
Some background.
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I know that it may appear that our blended family life was all conflict.
It really was not. DW, SS, and me had a wonderful life as a family while SS was growing up. We had very little drama IRL. The drama was SpermClan generated. All we did was counter their crap. We had to make that as painful as neccessary to force behavioral changes. That took some number of years to figure out. Once we did, it could be several years before they decided to roll out their old tricks. At which point we increased the pain settings and fried them. The cycle could be annual, or as long as 3-ish years between their resurecting their toxic tricks.
O/T: When you do a favor for someone, whose time frame is it on?
Your availability and convenience, or their need?
My DW is doing BIL2's and SIL2's taxes from 21, 22, and 23. DW is a very high cost CPA. BIL2/SIL2 are hard workers, make crap financial choices, don't do their taxes for years at a time. They gave her their 20 information mid yaer 23.
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I accepted a verbal offer this AM.
Woo hoo!
Knock on wood the written offer, CBC, and on boarding all go well. They should. Unless some unrecognized alter ego surfaces. Which might be interesting.
Not great from a base (~30% low)... but incredible variable comp and more than doubles our current marital income. It also lets us stay where we are and continue to keep the focus on DW's career.
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Lumps and leaky eyeballs.
Damn this incredible woman.
No wonder I have man cards on volume order from the print shop.
I got my usual stak of VD cards for DW. All year long, I always grab any VD card that reminds me of her, makes me laugh, or reminds me of her and gives me a lump or a sniffle.
Because I missed my usual over the top spoil her for Groundhogs day. A thing we have done for a very long time. Instead of the usual 4-6 cards, I ended up with 10. It took me an hour to fill them out, put some snappy comment on the envelope,
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2yo terrorist News Story - By mom.
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OT - SMH
She is brilliant. Incredibly qualified and professional. Makes informed $multimillion decisions nearly instantly, caring, engaging, basically spectacular.
So, why.... smh?
It is nearly 2AM and she has been surfing shoes (flats, wedges, low heeled sandals).... for hours.
Asks my opinion repeatedly , harrumphs, then dives back in. Gets angry and stomps off to bed.
A very good friend of ours is turning 50 and we are commanded to attend the shindig. Outdoors but a cocktail dress/Jacket and tie event on grass. So no heels.
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