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11-17-2014, 03:31 PM
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Irritating me yesterday, but I'm over it today.
So my wife and I were talking about how things have just been too much lately and how it would be awesome to take a vacation. So I started looking at winter break airfares to warm climates, and was hoping for some miracle sale or something, but of course, all the warm places I could thin of during school break are $750 per person RT just for airfare (times 4.) Too much. So then I found direct round trip flights to St. Augustine for $164 each. Outstanding! We can afford that! Stay in some crappy motel and rent a cheap car. It seemed doable. So I mentioned it to the kids. "Hey, let's go to Florida after Christmas for a week." And they completely shot me down. They want to stay home in case their friends happen to want to get together. I'm not one to force people to let me spend a couple grand on them taking them on vacation. So I dropped the idea. But who are these kids? |
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11-17-2014, 03:52 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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You and the wife take that week off anyway. Take yourselves a staycation. Stay the night or weekend right there in/near town in a really nice hotel. Spend a little bit of that couple grand on yerownselves. Throw the kids at some relatives/friends for the night/weekend.
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11-17-2014, 04:03 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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I agree. When they're little, vacations are for the kids. When they're older, vacations are for the grownups. I admit it felt weird, even a little wrong, when we first decided to go on a vacation without the kids this summer. But it was awesome. And they did just fine with the Grandmas. And when it was looking like there might be a day in the middle where the Grandmas couldn't make the coverage, some friends at the church offered to stay with them if we needed. You'd be surprised how excited old people are to get to take care of kids for a couple days.
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11-17-2014, 07:04 PM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Chain 'em to a radiator for a week, with a blanket and some food. They'll need even less food if you turn the heat off, because their metabolism slows down in hibernation.
Oh, and a pot to piss in. 
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12-03-2014, 09:50 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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A Badger ripped up the back lawn again last night. Generally speaking, it’s a fairly straightforward job reinstating the turf as long as it has been rolled back and is still connected to the rest of the lawn in a substantial manner. Unfortunately, the same area is excavated time after time and the turf is beginning to fragment, the consequence being that I didn’t have enough turf left to fill the holes.
I’d hoped that the worst was over as there can’t be too many of the grubs they like left. Anyway, there’s always an entry on the credit side of the ledger to balance it out. Post #10459 Last edited by Carruthers; 12-03-2014 at 09:57 AM. |
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12-03-2014, 02:33 PM
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Virulent hiccups AND nosebleed.
And Limes didn't even get my pics. Bad day all round here.
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12-03-2014, 02:56 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Would it cheer you up at all to know I found your pink camera?
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12-03-2014, 04:21 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
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12-03-2014, 04:23 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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12-03-2014, 04:47 PM
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Got the pics! Will post 2moz. Sent by thought transference
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12-03-2014, 08:47 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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My cure for virulent hiccups is multiple slowww sips of water. Over and over, very slow. It seems to get the old irritable diaphragm back into order. YMMV.
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12-04-2014, 11:44 AM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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day three of my man cold. I just spent $18 on Scorched Earth strength Mucinex. If swallowing the tablets won't help I'll crush them up and snort them.
Guaifenesin rulez
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12-04-2014, 01:45 PM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Fucking Shrews! Again.
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12-04-2014, 01:55 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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Just leave the goddamned door standing wide fucking open. Why bother even moving the fucking thing toward closed? Hell, it's almost forty goddamn degrees! Why do we even have fucking walls?
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12-04-2014, 01:56 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Also: If there was a button that could kill every blue jay on the planet, I would jump up & down on that bitch.
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