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1. about 13 hours ago on JumpStart

   My dad was an accountant (and a lawyer). My mom was (now 95 and retired) an accountant. Her mom was a bookkeeper. My younger sister is an accountant – but mostly worked as bookkeeper. I am an accountant.

   I am down to a handful of clients – the tail end of my dad’s and my former boss’s practices. I need to be able to have the excitement of tax season even if only for 5 clients that I have left.

   There is something great about accounting – the numbers have to add up and balance each other to be right.

   My middle sister also took accounting in college, but ended up later becoming a teacher after going back to school. Baby sister said – “no way” about accounting, so her degree is in general business.

   I love when the numbers add up and love trying to solve why they do not. I have also ended up treasurer of every group I have belonged to – included dues monitor for my GSA troop back in fifth grade.

2. about 13 hours ago on JumpStart

   Husband was executive director of a children’s day program which served as school and mental health counseling service for the children who were emotionally disturbed. They were the last step for the children to live at home – if their problems were worse they needed to be put into residential care.

   Dealing with the staff, parents and children was hard enough – but he also had to deal with state ed and state mental health. State mental health would tell them that they had to do “X”. They would setup to do so and spend a good deal setting up for what they were told they had to do and then State Ed would come in and say “You are NOT allowed to do that.” or vice versa.

   He got so burned out that even though he was only in his 50s I told him to take a leave of absence to see if it helped I would support us (already was working full time) – and we would expand our hand crafted business to actually money with it. He quit his job after the 6 months we had talked about. Apparently I should have said a year – as after same he missed going out to work. But since then we are together almost all the time. (Have not killed each other yet.)

   So if she decides to take a leave of absence – it should be for a little longer than she thinks it should be.

3. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   Never used my thumb to dial a rotary phone (or push button one or – I am an accountant – a calculator or adding machine or computer keyboard). I have always used my fingers to type and only use thumbs for space bar on a typewriter/computer keyboard.

4. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   Our early dates were midnight movies after we each finished work at a (different than each other) retail store. Shared love of movies is what drew us together – and many of those movies (then and now) are from before we were even born.

5. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   As I posted on another thread about this – we have very nice plastic plank flooring in our kitchen and into our dining room and living room (did I forget the living room in the other post). It really looks like wood and has held up extremely well over the decades. Unless one bends down, one cannot tell that it is not wood and maybe not even then.

6. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   We have very few places in our house which do not have toys on the floors or elsewhere in the room – and we have never had children. The small bedroom is my/our Teddys room. It is populated by a large number of Teddy (and other) bears – and has nice green shag rug which came with the house when we bought it and looks like grass for them.

   (When one is not fortunate enough to have children – one becomes each other children. Plus nieces and nephew used to visit and always had something to play with.)

7. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   We had the standard square vinyl tile floors in the kitchen, the dining room, and front hall when we bought the house (a resale), we replaced it with vinyl looking like wood. It was unusual in that instead of being squares it was long and short pieces of “wood” and the plastic over the background is textured like wood. Had it put in at least 30 years ago and it still looks great and actually looks like wood unless one bends down and looks closely.

8. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   After all these decades – we are used to each other. I irk him also – such as not wanting gifts, wanting to stay home during the day to get work (house and job) done instead of going out and walking around in a different Walmart almost every day. (We have small Walmarts here, but a lot of them – we have one in close walking distance and 2 more in extended walking distance and also have more Walmarts within 15 minute/30 minute drives.)

9. about 14 hours ago on JumpStart

   He (and his mom) wanted a big wedding – his only chance he said to have a big party. I thought it a giant waste of money – especially since at the time we got married he was so nervous/scared of leaving home that we had an agreement that we could get annulled if we needed to – or he would not have gone through with it.

   Most of the first year we were married I lived alone in our apartment (never told my family) while he kept living at home – 1/2 mile away – until he was finally comfortable enough to leave home and move into the apartment.

   We later bought a house and lived about 1/4 mile from the apartment – putting us, until they both died, less than a mile from his parents’ house.

   Now, decades later, he does not think he could live without me. And of course, quite some time ago he agreed that the wedding was a huge waste of money.

10. about 14 hours ago on Ben

    Since I learned to ride on my 22 inch bicycle when I was almost at the point where I needed a 26 inch helped a lot to help me learn to ride without training wheels.