...I cant help but feel so sorry for her. After being diagnosed with cervical cancer back in August, she has spent the last few months under going treatment, only today to find out that it has spread into other organs and that one of the only things they can do now is try prolong her life. She is only 27. Thats one year older than me. The big C really is one of the most terrifying things out there for me and the thought of someone only a year older than me with two kids being told ...
Once in a small wood she kissed me pitying a piteous boy a broken arm with a writeable cast. She signed the cast kissed me I walked home on the tops of trees and she left for the earth I never came down.
He was a quiet, studious young man; clean cut, very polite, very nice looking. I used to say hello to him while shopping at a particular store where he was employed. I used to ask him about how his grades were and such, because that was a topic that he enjoyed talking about -- school, his favorite subjects and his thoughts. I found ...
Ok, so some of you were probably reading the grand plan entry thinking "yeah, nice idea kilt, but how?" This is the how. The main benefit to my job currently is the profit sharing plan. I can take money out of it tax free for certain reasons (such as opening your own business), and I get a decent return from it. I was speaking to my boss today about my grand plan & how much he thought I could get from the profit sharing in the 10 years till the plan takes ...
Updated 02-03-2009 at 07:42 PM by kilted exile
It's a number, and also doubles for 'no' in German (ok, yes it would be spelled nein!) which is kind of how I feel today. My son is nine. Nine, 9, neuf, niente, neuve and so on. In preparing for his birthday last night this number hit me like a tsunami. It is nine years ago since he arrived; how has it gone so quickly? It seems such a short time ago, and yet he is so grown up. And in an equivalent length of time he will officially be an adult and then ...