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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Got my paystub a few minutes ago....they put my regular pay, Christmas bonus, and unpaid vacation/sick time all into one check. Guess who made the IRS happy today.

[Hal-9000]

I hope you found some joy in that my friend.

Saw you replied to a post in another thread, got an email on my phone and was quite literally giddy about it but couldn't get back to my computer to reply until now. Really missed you. Wishing you a very happy Christmas, in whatever form that may look like this year. Kisses.

Thanks GF, you're too kind.

Just for the record, every time I see Trudeau I associate him with you.

I can't unsee it now.

Hope things are well with you and the Mrs.

[Hal-9000]

I put all my money in Christmas tree futures this year....I was waiting for the right time, so I'mma cash out today, I am sure I'll make a killing

Since they legalized it up here, I've been putting all my spare money into weed..

[Godfather]

Got my paystub a few minutes ago....they put my regular pay, Christmas bonus, and unpaid vacation/sick time all into one check. Guess who made the IRS happy today.

You know, I never support rioting at all, but those yellow vests in France seem to have won their battle for no taxes on year-end bonus and overtime pay I wouldn't hate that at all... I swear the tax rate on OT and bonus is higher but I've never looked into it.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Thanks GF, you're too kind.

Just for the record, every time I see Trudeau I associate him with you.

I can't unsee it now.

Hope things are well with you and the Mrs.

[Hal-9000]

I got a great Christmas gift late last week....a card from my mom that when you read between the lines, it basically says fuck off.

I got one gift this year Lance, from my sister.

Brother can once again travel across the country, rent cars etc....but he can't get jack shit for me.

I in turn, searched for and curated some really good old pictures of my parents together and got them put onto Christmas tree ornaments. A different picture for each one.

So far I've made my sister, my niece and my nephew cry

I can hardly wait until my brother and his wife open theirs (she has a heart, he is left wanting..)


Sorry about your Mom man. At least she sent a card?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You know, I never support rioting at all, but those yellow vests in France seem to have won their battle for no taxes on year-end bonus and overtime pay I wouldn't hate that at all... I swear the tax rate on OT and bonus is higher but I've never looked into it.

It would have been better and I would have had less taxes taken out if they would have broken it up into 2 or 3 separate checks, but because they rolled it all into one, the amount of the check pushed it into the highest withholding bracket, so they took 35% out in taxes from this paycheck.

[Hal-9000]

I hope you found some joy in that my friend.

Saw you replied to a post in another thread, got an email on my phone and was quite literally giddy about it but couldn't get back to my computer to reply until now. Really missed you. Wishing you a very happy Christmas, in whatever form that may look like this year. Kisses.

Geez it was a heart ripper yesterday. My Mom's facility was a ghost town, the parking lot was empty. Skeleton crew and not one family member visiting their loved ones.

I felt so bad, I had some fudge my sister makes every year (for like 10 people) and shared it around with some of the patients and staff.

It was a rough day GF. If I ever start showing symptoms of that disease I hope someone takes me out.

[KevinD]

Yeah, I hate when they do that. Oh well, even a straight bonus check (not that I get them anymore) is taxed as a "gift" so, 33.33%

[Godfather]

Geez it was a heart ripper yesterday. My Mom's facility was a ghost town, the parking lot was empty. Skeleton crew and not one family member visiting their loved ones.

I felt so bad, I had some fudge my sister makes every year (for like 10 people) and shared it around with some of the patients and staff.

It was a rough day GF. If I ever start showing symptoms of that disease I hope someone takes me out.

Sorry to hear mean, that's so tough. Good for you for spending time there, it's not easy to do.

I get the sentiment about nursing homes being especially depressing this time of year, my grandmother's in the same place right now with dementia. She says the most outrageous shit these days but at least she has a sense of humor about it. Every visit is a challenge though.

[Hal-9000]

Sorry to hear mean, that's so tough. Good for you for spending time there, it's not easy to do.

I get the sentiment about nursing homes being especially depressing this time of year, my grandmother's in the same place right now with dementia. She says the most outrageous shit these days but at least she has a sense of humor about it. Every visit is a challenge though.

My Mom is one of the better patients at her place. The others are like some of the people from that movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I hate to say...

Still, she walked in there and is in a wheelchair permanently now. It's the little things that crush my soul. My Mom was a very neat, organized person. Now she'll dump her drink into her food or try to eat things she shouldn't.

I shouldn't be relating this. I guess if there's one positive, it's that my Mom used to be a very introverted, private person who didn't do much socializing. Now because of the dementia she's very open with strangers and has lost any and all of her old OCD tendencies about living. It's like they say, people do revert back into becoming children.

[Pony]

My Mom has it as well, She is still pretty coherent, just really forgetful, some childlike tendencies, major change in diet and a pretty rapid decline in health, She still shuffles around though and knows who we all are. She did open her Xmas stocking 4 times yesterday though.

[Hal-9000]

My Mom has it as well, She is still pretty coherent, just really forgetful, some childlike tendencies, major change in diet and a pretty rapid decline in health, She still shuffles around though and knows who we all are. She did open her Xmas stocking 4 times yesterday though.

Hang onto these times. My Mom was like that too for a few years. The worst she would do is repeatedly ask the same things and become a little confused about how long she lived here. I used to think - Alzheimer's isn't such a bad disease, you just have to remind the person what their name is, where they are and what year it is.

Of course it gets a lot worse than that over time.

Every case is different and the sad part about my Mom is that she forgot about my Dad first. To the point she became afraid of him and she stopped going to bed at night. I became the buffer. Every night she would approach me slowly, ask when we were going home and could I ask 'that guy' upstairs on the couch to go home to his own place.

She had been married to my Dad for 62 years at that point, living in this house for over 50 years together.

I think I saw what true love really was when my Dad would visit her every day at the home we put her in, buy her things and do all of the necessary stuff you have to when a loved one suffers from dementia, and no matter how badly my Mom treated him he was always there for her.

The day my Dad got his confirmed cancer diagnosis I was there at the hospital with my sister and brother. Specialist said we have all of the CT scans, your cancer is stage four and we can't cure this.

My Dad started crying (which never happens) and we immediately said - Oh dad, we'll fight this with you! We'll never leave you alone! Sometimes the doctors are wrong!

He said - I'm not crying because of the diagnosis, I'm happy your mother won't understand any of this or have to go through it with me.

jeezus fuck

[deebakes]

heart breaking

[Hal-9000]

sorry

I'm switching emotions now.

From crippling sad memories to full on inspired hatred

my brother is coming to visit