09/18/11 - DVCers Take Over the Dream (S.S. Member Cruise 2011) - Thread #10

calypso726 · Jul 26, 2011

disrailfan said:
Ok is it mean that I wont allow the oldest daughters fiancee` to live here for a month? (He is from Rochester, New York) I think not, but my ex-wife thinks that I could be a little more understandable of the situation.

I moved her to Rochester and then moved her back when no-one out there wanted to have her live with them. I guess its just the point that they didnt want her living with them and I dont want him living with us.

I just want them to get an apartment and move on, for crying out loud she is going to be 24 years old next month. My parents wanted me out when I turned 20.

Ok Sorry I had to rant someplace that my daughters don't frequent. They see my posts on Facebook so I can't rant there.

I will give you my experience of the tough ove I was shown and take what you will from it. Growing up the projects, lets just say I did not have the best of influences in my environment. As a teen I was going nowhere fast and quite the PIA. How my mom survived raising me and my brother is beyond me. Anyhow at 17 she told me when I turned 18 she would be moving out and I wasn't coming :eek:

Despite the fact that I got myself kicked out of high school (long story) I did get my GED before I was supposed to graduate. I got a job waiting tables. I walked to and from work everyday! I did not have a car or a driver's license. My mom wold not sign anything saying she was responsible for my actions until I turned 18. So I did not get a driver's license until I was 18. I found a place to live and learned what is was to be responsible for my own welfare. I eventually got a POS used car and I started going to community college. I went through a number of POS used cars and went put myself through school one class at a a time. It took 10 years and I graduated. Along the way, I got married to Mr. Wrong #1 and also a Mr. Wrong #2 (thrid time is a charm as they say). I learned some very valuable and hard lessons that stem directly from my mom saying enough of your BS and it's time to grow the Foxtrot up. I hated it at first, I begged to come live with her, I told her I'd be on the street if she didn't let me come back etc. I thank her everyday for doing what she did. I know for a fact had she relented, I still would never have gone back to school, I'd still be the person I was and nothing would have changed regardless of all of my promises. Today my mom is my best friend in the world! Today I know there is nothing I can not do, nothing I can not accomplish if I wish it, no goal I can't reach. Today, I believe anything and everything is possible if you want it bad enough. :love:

DizDragonfly said:
Terrie must have my back then.

But of course!

Carmouse10 said:
And now in honor of MY heroes I submit the following:

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.- Ambrose Redmoon

Nice quote!

Truffle · Jul 26, 2011

Anybody want to run up the posts to PP time? I really need to get this done pretty fast if we are going to do it.

Truffle · Jul 26, 2011

calypso726 said:
I will give you my experience of the tough ove I was shown and take what you will from it. Growing up the projects, lets just say I did not have the best of influences in my environment. As a teen I was going nowhere fast and quite the PIA. How my mom survived raising me and my brother is beyond me. Anyhow at 17 she told me when I turned 18 she would be moving out and I wasn't coming Despite the fact that I got myself kicked out of high school (long story) I did get my GED before I was supposed to graduate. I got a job waiting tables. I walked to and from work everyday! I did not have a car or a driver's license. My mom wold not sign anything saying she was responsible for my actions until I turned 18. So I did not get a driver's license until I was 18. I found a place to live and learned what is was to be responsible for my own welfare. I eventually got a POS used car and I started going to community college. I went through a number of POS used cars and went put myself through school one class at a a time. It took 10 years and I graduated. Along the way, I got married to Mr. Wrong #1 and also a Mr. Wrong #2 (thrid time is a charm as they say). I learned some very valuable and hard lessons that stem directly from my mom saying enough of your BS and it's time to grow the Foxtrot up. I hated it at first, I begged to come live with her, I told her I'd be on the street if she didn't let me come back etc. I thank her everyday for doing what she did. I know for a fact had she relented, I still would never have gone back to school, I'd still be the person I was and nothing would have changed regardless of all of my promises. Today my mom is my best friend in the world! Today I know there is nothing I can not do, nothing I can not accomplish if I wish it, no goal I can't reach. Today, I believe anything and everything is possible if you want it bad enough.

And look how great you turned out! I am glad that you went through all that, because you wouldn't be nearly the person you are today without that background, as hard as it was to live through. And I am so grateful that you are who you are!