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grayswan

lakehouse

Jan 21, 2015 08:25

Dropping my tax return on a lake front cabin (on it's own peninsula!) in vermont as a down payment. Was doing really well paying off the house in 4 years but this property was just too a deal good to pass up, well it was after I haggled them down 21% on the price. I can wait to lounge on my boat all day and fish... I should mount some kind of ( Read more... )

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geminiwench January 23 2015, 18:32:25 UTC

Sounds like a right brandy dock spot.

Congrats on the new retreat!

grayswan January 24 2015, 23:30:09 UTC

how are you doing these days.

geminiwench January 30 2015, 23:58:52 UTC

I'm doing these days so hard, the days think they're nights, and the nights know they're my *bitch*.

... whatever that means.

I'm just livin' the dream. Going to school, quit my job at the crazy house and spending the last two years living with my man friend. School is exactly as silly as I remember it, and I have no officially been out of school longer than I was ever in it. Yet.. its the same joke I remember from when I was a kid. *shrug* So, that's fun!

And you? A reintroduction of your circumstances is in order after all this time!

grayswan February 3 2015, 12:24:01 UTC

yeah. The modern school system is a joke. I went to college for computer programming after going to a vocational highschool for the same. College was high school level knowledge with classmates that didn't give a shit and teachers that cared less. I lasted one semester and left., looked for the hardest thing I could do, found that was qualifying for nuclear engineering in the navy and signed up ( ... )

geminiwench February 4 2015, 19:02:44 UTC

My insistence on school being for learning, made my "education" difficult ( ... )

grayswan February 4 2015, 21:33:01 UTC

Nice. Yeah it really is just a piece of paper. I wanted to be a blacksmith when I was younger and I still plan to build a forge in vermont, but the second I had kids my brain switched over to provider mode. I will probably never benefit from my BS directly but it has guided me into a few interviews that I otherwise might not have had. If you can get a degree for cheap then do it, but it isn't worth the $30+k a year people seem to think is acceptable. I also sew and crochet and have dozens of other hobbies that I barely have time for. I don't knit, I learned how frustrating it is to drop a stitch mid project and said never again. I did however get my gf to start knitting and she's finally working on my Tom Baker scarf now. Soooo excited.

Courted eh? Were you betrothed or something? Did your parents give his parents three sheep and a goat when you were born? You seem too intelligent to be a Jehovas witness... so I'll assume it's not that. Well I'm glad it worked out for you. he sounds awesome. Wish I had a square sailin man...

geminiwench February 6 2015, 13:02:48 UTC

O no, I do everything on the cheap. I stayed out of school until I was ready based on the fact that as a first time college student you get a bounty of student aid, even when there is no aid available. But ONLY the first time I am enrolled. If I drop out before my degree, I can't get that subsidy again ( ... )

grayswan February 10 2015, 20:16:05 UTC

that works. I've had my way with female of the species and i've developed my methods over a few dozen relationships. I wouldn't say I courted more than a handful and I might argue the origin of the phrase but I hear you. I had some fool ass ideas of what a relationship was supposed to be, developed by writers like Roger Zelazny and movies like The Princess Bride... so I was set up to be walked all over from the get go. I corrected that early on though ( ... )

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