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O/T Holidays when Overseas in the Military

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Mon, 11/20/2023 - 8:58am

Question:  are you allowed to send Christmas presents to military stationed overseas during their deployment?  And if so I'm thinking you want to send something small so that you don't burden the military personnel having to haul it back home.   Awesomeson is in Saudi Arabia, which is a primarily Muslim country.   He has already warned me about sending items related to religion especially Christendom.  

Any gift I sent him though would not be religiously themed.

Thanksgiving Day Debacle Update

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Sat, 11/18/2023 - 1:46pm

As I anticipated,  AwesomeDIL bowed out of coming to our house for Thanksgiving which is completely reasonable.  As we all know Chef has never been reasonable.  He does not know yet that she is not coming.

This really takes a load off of me that she is not coming...I will be at her house Tuesday through Wednesday noon as I have appointments on Monday for my car and Wednesday afternoon for Chef's work van. 

Holidays Can Be A Pain

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Thu, 11/16/2023 - 6:48am

Even with PASed out skids!  So Awesomeson has been deployed to Saudi Arabia until early April.  And here in the US Thanksgiving comes rather early aka next week.  

I'm pretty sure AwesomeDIL  will not want to travel 2 hours one way with DGD2.5, stay at our non child proofed home for two nights especially after DGD had a rather bad reaction to a flu shot a week and a half ago, then travel back (lots of driving for me)

You've Heard Of Guilty Dad Syndrome

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Sun, 11/12/2023 - 8:30am

I'm pretty sure this is an offshoot of it.  It seems that Chef, despite everything that has happened,  is still trying to curry favor with his older half brother Mr Not so Neutral and Mr Not so Neutral's adult son.  He conveniently forgets that his family doesn't give him the time of day unless they want something for free from him.  The last time I've even seen Mr NSN's adult son was probably 9 years ago.  Mr NSN did a no-knock pop in about a year ago.  Mr. NSN's nature is to grab anything he can for free.

Prediction: The HousesHitter Will Be Evicted

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Sat, 11/11/2023 - 8:33am

The day after YSS's "rent payment" ends.  This has been a pattern with the Girhippo first OSS moved out right around age 19 to his uncle's house for unknown reasons.  In that case the Girhippo is going to keep quiet about him moving out and keep collecting the money until I found out on social media which she was infuriated about.

Pre CS Ending Prep

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 7:03pm

Chef's attorney advised to go to the Girhippo's county's CSEU (located in Girhippoville) and get the procedure for CS ending upon YSS (the last skid) turning 21 first week of January.  I went over there.  They kept advising me that they could not give me any case specific info (DUH).

I kept telling them I just want the account termination procedure as there is no income execution and we are autopaying directly to NYS CSEU.  The caseworker came out behind safety plexiglass hiccoughing incessantly to tell me that the account *SHOULD* terminate automatically.

Countdown Post Last Two Months

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Sat, 11/04/2023 - 6:14am

Of almost 20 yrs of CS.  For those of you who are not aware New York state is one of those few states where child support goes to age 21 regardless of the circumstances.

There are some cases here where the so-called child has moved out of the custodial parent's home, is on their own, in their own apartment, working full-time and CS still keeps going to the BM. 

But yet the so-called child has already been eligible to vote in local and general elections for the past 3 years as an adult!

VENT: Men who Are NEVER Wrong!

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Mon, 10/30/2023 - 10:40am

Take Chef (please)..  he is a frequent flyer at one of the big box stores sometimes visiting two and three times a day.

He has an AmEx card specifically for said Big Box store and he does self checkout quite frequently.  I have been with him on some of these purchases and I can tell you that he is always in a hurry.   He marches 10 steps ahead of me and by the time he gets to the checkout he is ramming his card into the scanner before the transaction even starts. 

Night and Day

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Submitted by thinkthrice on Fri, 10/13/2023 - 7:31am

I've only had two overnight visits with DIL and DGD 2.5 and WHAT A DIFFERENCE PROPER PARENTING MAKES!

DGD 2.5 Can speak in clear, concise sentences; by contrast, YSS was still grunting and pointing at age 6!

DGD gets very little screen time other than watching Daniel Tiger and Curious George on car rides.

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