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Post by dockmaster on Apr 5, 2016 15:16:31 GMT
My exhusband, hence he is an ex! Bahaha
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Post by dockmaster on Feb 16, 2016 19:48:26 GMT
Well if you do wind up staying on Amelia, or GA Jenny if you come back this year and are at Main Beach and see a gypsy camp with kites flying, it is probably me. Expecially, if you see a Hello Kitty kite. I spend waay to much time on that beach, but what is a wanna be mermaid to do?
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Post by dockmaster on Feb 16, 2016 18:01:28 GMT
The shrimp festival is in April.
Another great place to eat is the Happy Tomato on 3rd Street for lunch. We also enjoy the food and beachside dining at Sliders. If you want a great bigger there is Tastys. There is also an ice cream stand on Sadler that serves Dole Whip.
I personally prefer Main Beach, but you can drive on Peters Point with a $5 permit and a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The permits are available at the various convience stores.
My family loves living in this area. We spend a great deal of time on the island all year round.
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Post by dockmaster on Feb 16, 2016 8:09:16 GMT
I do not live on the island, but I spend a considerable amount of time there. It is the closest beach to me and I love the beach. It is a quiet area. Not a lot of night life, but some of my favorite places to eat are on the island. The downtown area is charming with a lot of antique shops and little boutiques, you might see a pirate or two also. It is a hidden gem off the beaten track.
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Post by dockmaster on Feb 8, 2016 13:29:46 GMT
She's still doing it for me.
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Post by dockmaster on Feb 8, 2016 3:48:15 GMT
That is awesome!
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Post by dockmaster on Jan 15, 2016 4:43:09 GMT
It all comes down to timing.
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Post by dockmaster on Jan 14, 2016 13:41:49 GMT
That video was not made after they were released. Just sayin.
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Post by dockmaster on Jan 13, 2016 4:46:06 GMT
When we bought oldest dd's car, it came with rules.
1. The xar is for her use.
2. No driving under the influence.
3. Upon college graduation we would sign over the title to her.
The 1st time I foumd out she broke either of the 1st two rules, the car comes home to us. Period.
We bought her a new car for high school graduation. It is in my dh's name and on our insurance. No way am I going to allow my child to jeopardize our family's livelihood, by making poor choices. There are no 2nd chances.
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Post by dockmaster on Jan 10, 2016 0:30:20 GMT
We have been lucky as far a the Navy and moving goes. We did most of our moving before the kids started school and have managed to stay at this base for the last 15 years. However, DH is in a very special job that does require instructer jobs for shore duty. His last shore duty, he went and the girls and I stayed put. He came home on the weekends. He was 3 hours north. Not ideal, but better than moving kids 8n high school.
The rest of our moves were to new subs or new buildimgs on the same base. The Navy is trying to get away from moving people because of expense. We worked it out for our family.
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Post by dockmaster on Dec 3, 2015 14:00:52 GMT
My daughter is the same age and I would not even blink an eye. She drives to and from Atlanta for school (about 5 hours) every Semester and all over Atlanta while in School. She is a good driver.
I was barely 19 when I took my 1st road trip 30 years ago. Michigan to Texas with an 8 month old who was teething. Two days on the road with an Atlas and all our belongings. No cell phone or GPS back then. I had good tunes on the radio though.
The Mister and I raised string independent young ladies. I worry about them, but I am also not afraid to let them do their thing when the time.comes. I would just make sure they had a plan and plenty of money.
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Post by dockmaster on Dec 3, 2015 13:48:35 GMT
The brass button things are collar devices. They are worn on the collar points. The US one is Army I think and the other signifies MOS (military specialty) or the job they performed. I am a Navy vet and am not sure what job they signify.
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Post by dockmaster on Nov 20, 2015 21:34:45 GMT
Wax on, wax off. Make sure you go over it well to remove the excess wax.
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Post by dockmaster on Nov 10, 2015 18:03:11 GMT
We get our phones at Sam's Club when it is time for upgrades. Paid .96 for my S4 a year ago. It is not the latest and greatest, but it works for me. We have a very old Sprint plan that we intend to keep until the tell us no. It is pretty much unlimited everything except anytime minutes, which never get used because the plan has free mobile to mobile minutes.
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Post by dockmaster on Nov 10, 2015 17:52:22 GMT
My Dd did have a bf in 9th grade, he was an upper class man. They were in band together. We know his family well, or at least thought we did. The whole thing ended rather bad. Looking back I wish I had stuck to my guns of having to be 16 to date. He turned out to be a not very nice boy, who treated her very poorly at the end.
I low that I can't protect her from all heartache, but it was a situation that she might have handled better had she been a little older. She seems to have come out the other side relatively unscathed, so there is that.
Currently, there is no one she is interested in that I am aware of, of course she doesn't always make me aware either. She so far is content to hang out with the girls and make private jokes about the football team. Probably a much healthier place to be.
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Post by dockmaster on Oct 29, 2015 13:11:24 GMT
The deductible should only come into play for your repairs. It would have nothing to do with the other drivers. However, your insurance costs may go up as a result of the claim.
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Post by dockmaster on Oct 15, 2015 11:21:04 GMT
Marching band was around $300 this year, because she is in the competition marching band. This includes the following:
2 shirts 1 shorts 1 new shoes for marching-the bandos sucked Camp for 2 weeks Travel to all games and competitions Dinner when traveling And other incedentals
We have a Band Booster club that helps defray some costs, but we have to volunteer 2x to work concessions during home games. There are also numerous fund raisers through out the year.
Band trips, like the upcoming trip to Atlanta are extra.
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Post by dockmaster on Sept 1, 2015 12:17:18 GMT
I am in Kingsland, GA. Kingsland is 3 miles from the Stateline in the very SE corner of GA, just N of Jacksonville, FL. My Dd goes to school in Atlanta, so we get up that way occasionally.
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Post by dockmaster on Aug 26, 2015 19:34:01 GMT
No pants is a great way to spend an afternoon. I confess I do it way more often than I should.
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 22, 2015 2:19:47 GMT
Seems to me from all accounts the owner wasn't yelling at the kid. She yelled, "that has to stop." Pointing at the kid, but I believe the yelling was directed at the parents. That being the kid.
I would continue to patronize her establishment. She is rough around the edges, but if the food is good, who cares. I deal with younger parents it seems a lot lately. The 1 common thing I see a lot of is them not watching/parenting their children and then they get mad when someone says anything. I just smdh.
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 20, 2015 16:39:08 GMT
Lainey, my guess is he is just as worried as you are. Absence makes the fond grow harder if you know what I mean. The Navy has a thing they call the cycle of deployment. If you Google it, it may help you understand what you both have been/will be feeling. It is a real thing. These days I don't cycle as much as when our marriage was new, but I do go through it. Good luck and have a wonderful homecoming!
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 20, 2015 16:32:18 GMT
I 2nd not everyone in the military carries a gun. I was navy, the only time I had a gun in my possession was of I was standing Quarter Deck watch on the ship. Maybe once every 6 days for 4 hours of that day. Even when I stood security force, we didn't always have a weapon. If we were security force and a need arose we reported to the armory and were issued a weapon. We had no need to carry weapons to do our jobs. I had to qualify once a year, that was all the special training I got. I was never real comfortable carrying a weapon and am still not.
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 20, 2015 16:16:24 GMT
DH and I have been married 20 plus years. He has deployed dozens of times in those 20 years and I still get butterflies when he 1st comes home. I worry that maybe he finally came to his senses and will no longer want me. Irrational, maybe, but time and distance changes people sometimes. So far for us it makes us stronger and has kept our marriage fresh, but for others not so much. So I have that fear.
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Post by dockmaster on Jul 7, 2015 18:07:42 GMT
Marriage is very rewarding when you do the work. I see a lot of people who are just lazy in their relationships. Two people are going to change over the years. You have to be willing to change together and find new normals.
DH and I just celebrated 20 years. In those 20 we have watched several friends marry and divorce as many as 3 times. We have gone thru our struggles, but at the end of the day we both respect each other. We always have. I wanted to be with him because I respect the person he is and he respects me.
We love each other usually, but we always respect each other.
The other thing I see lacking in a lot of relationships is communication. DH and I have spent years at this point separated by the military. But, we communicate with each other. I am not afraid to tell him what I need, and he me. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
We spend time "feeding" our marriage. We treat it like a precious gift.
I meet couples who are newly weds and long marrieds that constantly bitch about each other. I often wonder why they got together to begin with. They don't seem to like each, let a lone respect each other.
Do I always like him, nope and I am sure there are times he wishes I would just leave him alone. But we work at it.
Marriage is hard work, and you have to be willing to do that work to make it work.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 30, 2015 12:57:50 GMT
Having served in the Navy on a ship, I have "shared" with as many as 450 women. Only 10 showers and 20 toilets and sinks. Nobody is a stranger for long. We all had our own "rack" though. Sharing racks was frowned upon.
These days, I would share with my best girlfriend's and of course my husband and kids, anyone else, nope not gonna do it.
My feelings on sharing anything these days are that it is over rated.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 29, 2015 17:02:29 GMT
My youngest was a counselor at a camp for military kids 2 weeks ago. She used to be a camper at the camp, aged out and was asked to come back as a counselor.
In 2 weeks she goes to a different camp ground to do it all again for a week. The following week she starts band camp.
Band camp is local 7-7 for the 1st week for competition marching and regular marching is the next week 8-12.
School starts the following week. We start school in early August and go through the middle of May.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 25, 2015 14:41:56 GMT
My youngest dd has a processing disorder too. She can't process phonics to save her life. So while other kids were sounding out words and learning to read, she was not. We started noticing a problem in Kindergarten, but she was not diagnosed until half way through 1st grade. She did special ed reading through 4th grade and then was released from her IEP.
At 1st they wanted to retain her, but I didn't allow them too. We didn't allow it because she has a September birthday and would have had her graduating at almost 20 years old. Didn't want her to be set up for failure so young.
Anyway, she is a sophomore this fall and at the top of her class. She is an amazing reader with an awesome vocabulary. They pretty much taught her to read through gross memorization. She catches on to new words pretty quickly these days. She still mispronounces new words , but all she needs is to hear it pronounced correctly once and she is good. She still can not and will never be able to sound out a word. She is quirky enough that she just laughs off the mistakes and explains her diability to new friends. Above all she 8s confident and well adjusted.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 22, 2015 15:51:46 GMT
I was pretty sure it had been taken off the market too. I am with you AN if I needed BC these days, I would get the implant. Norplant worked great for about 3 years and once it was removed I had no problems getting pregnant.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 22, 2015 1:31:00 GMT
I had it inserted 23 years ago by a Navy Dr. It was great for about 3 years and then the bleeding started. They tried additional hormones, but I eventually had it removed. It was inserted correctly and the removal was simple. I had a small scar for a while, but nothing but a dimple now.
I thought they took it off the market several years ago; however, I have heard there is a new and improved version out there.
Norplant worked great for me until it didn't.
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Post by dockmaster on Jun 21, 2015 4:20:07 GMT
Navy wife here, that dress will be perfect. You might want the shrug in case it is chilly in the part of FL you will be in. Here in NE FL it can get darn right frigid in January, but other parts maybe not.
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