Well, this is her summer training, so if we cut our losses she won’t be training very much for the rest of the summer- which she’s contractually obligated to do. I could look for some local training to bridge the gap. Thinking of calling it quits after this week.
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That stinks that you’d have to double pay by arranging other training
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that’s tough and disappointing.
i’d go if she’s not learning much and disappointed.
i have a stay or go dilemma.
do i get home at midnight from a reunion in washington state; wash clothes and pack the next day, and then 6 AM the following morning drive with the boys to S20’s college 14 hours away leaving my D23 somewhere? . . . . . (I want to meet his roommates and see his new pad!) . help!
Let the boys drive themselves. Fly from DC to the college town and meet them there. D 23 can stay the night with someone. Dad? Or is he going too?
oh – washington as in State – and the far southeast US. 2300 miles apart. . . . (dad and s20 are driving S20s car from the midwest).
but that’s actually a great idea . . . . . hmmmmmmm
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I got contacts on Friday for the first time in my life, mainly because glasses and masks aren’t fun. Contacts are kind of a pain, and I think I might see more clearly with my glasses. I can’t decide if I’m just being resistant to change or if I should stick with glasses. Should this old dog learn new tricks?
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Prepack your road trip bag before you go to the reunion.
When you get home from the reunion, don’t bother with the laundry from that. Just go to sleep. In the morning, grab your road trip bag and go. Do all the laundry when you get home from the road trip.
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bgbg4us - agree w/Lindagaf - I avoid long-distance driving adventures unless absolutely necessary and leave to hubby & youth. Soooo much more pleasant (for all) when I fly. 
Re: contacts: i’ve worn my contacts for 35 years; only wear glasses when my allergies act up. Here are some pros to contacts: its so easy to do activities with contacts. It’s easier to go down stairs. It’s so easy to forget about them and it feels free. I say give them a chance
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Get the windows washed - even if they’re “only” clean for a week, that’s a week of clean windows! I get mine done 2x a year, and I always feel better after - always!
Today is our 25th anniversary. Our favorite place is not open for dinner on Tuesdays and we can’t go any other day this week. We also live in a tourist town where most restaurants are really struggling with lack of staff so service is suboptimal. My dilemma is, do we go out to another place and risk paying a lot of money for a meal that might end up not being worth it? Just get carryout instead but won’t be the same experience? We normally don’t celebrate in any other way except for a nice dinner (we don’t do gifts) and honestly, we have been apart for probably at least half of our anniversaries due to the nature of dh’s job. We would have done a trip for this “big” anniversary but with Covid, we didn’t want to plan a nice trip and then have it not be what we expected (due to rental car/flight problems, difficulty getting restaurant reservations, etc).
Lying in bed this morning we realized we should have just planned to go for a nice lunch somewhere when service would be better but unfortunately he has a full day of conference calls.
Of course, if this is my only dilemma, I realize I have it pretty good 
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My “big dilemma” last week was do I go stay with friends for free in their Hawaii timeshare or not. May seem like a no-brainer, but the associated costs are quite a lot. Said friend and I have birthdays close together, and at the end of the day we decided why not go. Once we decided we were going to their place (on Maui), we had to decide where else we would go - Big Island (BI) or Kauai. We picked Kauai, but now the Hawaii travel thread is making me think we should have picked BI.
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You might want to ask for recommendations (either for a specialized attorney, or how to find one) on the bogleheads forum at Personal Finance (Not Investing) - Bogleheads.org There are some knowledgeable posters there (as well of course as some not so great, so take everything with a grain of salt)
A book you might want to read is “The Living Trust Advisor” by Condon. He is a CA attorney so some of the advice is specific to the state, but he has a good overview of how trusts work and questions to consider and/or ask your attorney
Thanks—I will reach out to my attorney. Our D doesn’t currently get any federal or state benefits and is fiscally very responsible so I’m not sure there is any need for a trust. More to ponder.
That’s what I do with cantaloupes too.
Re: flatten or don’t flatten the boxes
Buy a roll of good packing tape, and flatten the boxes. They take up a lot less space stored that way. Teach the college kid how to re-tape the boxes if you find out you need them. Happykid is currently re-taping the boxes from when she moved to grad school for her move home. They were happy to live flat in the back of her closet these past years.
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Thanks! All of this makes me smile. I appreciate you and all of the parents in CC who
Take the time to read, reflect and respond. 
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Looks like the roof is coming down next week, and the new one is coming up soon thereafter. My gambling of not washing the windows might’ve paid off.
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My current dilemma is whether to keep my Rx at my current pharmacy or switch them to follow my pharmacist whom I really like who was promoted to take over a larger, busier pharmacy.
I’m thinking of seeing how it is at the pharmacy he transferred to and whether he can improve it. It was pretty dysfunctional at the pharmacy he’s being promoted to manage, and causing many people to switch pharmacies to their competitor or go the smaller neighborhood pharmacy he was in charge of, which was consistently ranked very highly in customer satisfaction.