I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited February 2013

    HL -- I nearly spat my coffee onto the screen!

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited February 2013

    Glad to provide a little levity on a Wednesday! 

    It kind of reminds me of "Grey's Anatomy" - the producer keeps killing people off!  A mass shooting AND a plane crash?  REALLY, how much more do those doctors at Seattle Grace have to endure?!

    L

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2013

    Just got this video from a friend.  2.56 minutes of my life...sort of...bet everybody can relate..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6oHBG3ABUJU&vq=medium

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited February 2013

    Linda - because the purchaser decided to apply for a conventional loan (80% of the value of the home, with them paying cash for the other 20%), the home must appraise at the purchase price (or higher).  The purchaser actually (according to our real estate lady - which was one of the reasons we accepted this offer instead of the other one) is intending to put down a LOT more than 20%, but they (in my opinion) applied for the loan this way, so that they would have an additional out - or possibly negotiating tool - if the appraisal came in low. 

    That said, I've kind of begun to take the attitude that I really don't even care.  If the sale goes through - well, fine and dandy.  If it doesn't, our pockets will be tighter, but we'll still follow the same path we're on.  Maybe the house won't be on the market for a few more years, and we'll use it for a homebase.  Who knows.  I just know that my stress level if FAR too high, and stress is most assuredly NOT good for cancer patients.  So, I've got to stop tweaking out!!!

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited February 2013

    Sun - i so can relate.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited February 2013

    Me too.  Story of my life!

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited February 2013

    HL, hilarious.

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited February 2013

    Garden, we are in the same position.  What will be, will be.

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited February 2013

    Oops I missed the questions above. When we first retired and hit the road we joined an RV club with a mail forwarding service called......The Escapees! That gave us a legal mailing address and voting rights. They sent our mail wherever we went.



    We thought we'd be on the road for a year or two and pick a new place. Turned into 7. Year 6 we started considering our options. Almost picked Cheyenne, Wy. Summers gorgeous until a fellow RVer who had lived there told us about the winters and winds. Then we thought about Las Vegas, Nv but they were having their real estate bubble and housing prices were absurd. We worked in an RV park there for 9 months and realized we didn't really like much about it. Great place to party, not so much to live.



    Being retired we targeted the states with no state income tax. Then it was housing prices. Then it was amenities such as quality health care. My DH needed a good cardiologist and hospital to count on. I know this isnt popular now but my DH was into Lance Armstrong and road biking. Then it was political to some extent. Austin is blue and proudly weird as their slogan says. We had stayed at a campground here in Georgetown a couple times. This county is red but shifting with every new development. Housing prices and taxes, both low and really nice neighbors. Just as many Obama signs here as the other guy. How can you not love an area that celebrates Willy Nelson?



    It all came together slowly but we love our choice. When I got my diagnosis I was very thankful that MD Anderson was just down the highway a couple hours. If I need them again I'll go in a heartbeat.





    Oh and the HEB grocery stores are marvelous.. LOL.







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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited February 2013

    Oh, Sun -- that is my life exactly.  It is so much so that I have told DH not to interrupt me when I am loading meds in my pillbox because I have forgotten some before.  Once, i completely forgot ALL my asthma meds when we went on a cruise!  SO -- pill-counting is Quiet Time Sealed in my kitchen!

    Laughing

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited February 2013

    Chick - thank-you for the information - especially about the Escapees thing, as I've been wondering how we will manage both mail (not as much of an issue as it used to be thanks to email, but still.....) and voting.  Just because we're wandering for awhile doesn't mean that I don't still care DEEPLY about issues, and I do not want to lose my voting rights just because we aren't exactly stationary for a bit.

    Blue - love the cartoon!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2013

    chick - that sounds like SUCH a wonderful adventure - I'm always inspired by anyone who CHOOSES where she/he wants to be. Have a few friends in Austin, also in Arlington - didn't realize there wasn't a state tax in TX.  Yikes, and here I am in Taxxachusetts - which I love, but oh, my....taxes.....ugh. 

    So good you're near MD Anderson.  That's how I feel about being i driving distance of Dana Farber - comforting, tho I hope I don't need them again.

    Blue - that duck cartoon is the BEST, just the best...

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited February 2013

    Coming from Maryland, I know about taxes.......state, county, city, sales, and on and on.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited February 2013

    Does SOS stand for Silly Old Sausage?  Lots of them around, especially the ones that DON'T read here.  hahahahaha!

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited February 2013

    Wow. Just looked at the calendar and realized today is the 11th anniversary of my first diagnosis. I didn't think the day would ever come when I wasn't all in my head about that day. Let the first round be on me tonight, okay?

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited February 2013

    Popping in briefly to wave hello - and off to continue my quest to find out whether "Men Are Necessary" - as Maureen Dowd questions. I say they are! I just got a new nightstand and "assembly is required." (Silent scream - wouldn't have purchased it if I had known....) I had no idea these types of screws, etc.... even existed. I am the typical distsy female. Off to see if I can make this work...

    Lindasa - that book intrigues me. I don't think much of mammograms. IMO,, they are obsolete technology and should be banished in favor of the as fiurst-line screening. My mommogram saw my tumor perfectly, but it was just one cog in the wheel.

    Anne - yey - congratulations!

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited February 2013

    Not men necessarily but furniture we can afford that doesn't require building it!  Officially a member of the "I Hate IKEA furniture instructions and their weird nuts and bolts club"

    And all the other companies selling that stuff.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited February 2013

    This isn't Ikea - It's a solid mahogany table - I didn't read the fine print. :(

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited February 2013

    Status report: men are necessary. :-)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2013

    Chick -  I used to live in MD, MA is SO MUCH higher, you can't even imagine.  Think nly CT and NY are higher, and the laws here are really loopy.

    giggling thinking of when I put together an IKEA daybed - wow...love the bed, but those instructions. Years, and more years ago when I bought a Bang & Olefson stereo, my FAVORITE instructions in the whole wide world - they began, IN LARGE PRINT, in a fancyschmancy little booklet - "Before you do it your way, try it our way."  Still smile thinking of it...

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited February 2013

    Anne -- way to go.  Its nice to be able forget to celebrate sometimes.


    Blue....loved the duck as well.  So true, so true.

    Bad weather tomorrow....sigh !!!!  I'm sure we will do fine.  Sure glad when Friday rolls around.  Our outdoor commercial furnace needed new heat exchanger and stainless steel jets.  Went out this past Friday so it has seemed a long  time now but soon....consistent heat everywhere again.

    We do have two I-heaters going.....so were not frozen, but some of the rooms are on the slightly cooler than I like side.

    Jackie

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2013

    Athena, you don't need men for that, just someone who grew up on legos, like me :)

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited February 2013

    We're thinking of retiring to VT and traveling for January-April.  Jim had said something about considering a place with lower taxes, but we really like Vermont.  It's so beautiful and so blue - but so cold.  Hadn't thought of the RV possibility, but we could bring kitties with us.  Hmm. 

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited February 2013

    WTF????

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/20/montana-gop-chairwoman-posts-picture-of-plot-to-kidnap-president-using-watermelon-as-bait/

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited February 2013

    Last 1.....LOL!

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