There is an additional source of stress, of late.
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The hell?
(reigning pot-stirrer champeen of the world...)
Do not forget the age of my parents, young Pat. My mom will be 80 next summer. They just can't keep maintaining this house.
I'm well aware of your parents age.
So what, they're out on the street?
And so assuming not...
And how does this cause you stress?
Are they headed into an apartment, in a retirement community? Florida?
Perhaps I'm insensitive to the emotional effect of aging parents...
- Not out on the street. Still living there, with plans to move to an apartment.
- How this causes me stress: Bascially, that they've lived in this house for 41 years - the only house I've ever known them in. I'm going to miss the house. But also, undeniable proof that my parents are old, by any measure. Also - I bore witness to the phenomenon of my grandma living ever so slightly beyond her retirement income and slowly burning through her savings as she lived far longer than she expected. I had been pushing them to move into a condo for that reason (taking the sale profit and plunking it down on something they would just own). However, a conversation with my dad last night assured me that their expected monthly expenses will not exceed their income. House sale income will be used for travel.
- Planning to stay in Waterloo, I believe. Basically, the proximity to Sean & my sister.
- There's definitely a lot of emotional effects related to aging parents. Particularly with respect to my dad (who I've admittedly never known as a particulaly young man). When I look at pictures of him from when I was under ten, he was strong, vital, and still relatively svelte, and it's pretty remarkable now to see how far he has declihed in the time since.
Wow - I can certainly understand the stressful side to this.
Lot of amazing memories. The formative years.
So many:
The Morton Downey Jr years.
The tracer disk years (followed by the)
Laser tag years
The Axis and Allies years
The backyard whiffle ball years
The homemade 'posey' hoop years
The Paul Revere's pizza years
The 'perfect form' years
The "fill in the blank" ass years
The field of 64 years
The ....
So many more.
Good times. We shall drink heartily to its memory.
Worthy of a few toasts, I'd think.
I'll add a few "years:"
- The "I'm going to get a bowl of ice cream and head on to bed" years.
- The Gibbs ruining D&D years.
- The Blazing Saddles years.
- the Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend/Millenium years.
- The "maxing out" years.
- The "rolling down the hill at Bontrager" years.
- the pizza after birthday party basketball at Kittrell years.
I will add...
These are all the years I missed. Damn it! Growing up on the East Side had it's downs. I wonder if we would have been friends back then?
nah
I have a few memories of that house. I recall watching "Summer Rental" and "No Way Out" in the basement. And, oh yeah, "Back to the Beach."
CF Bear - if you hadn't grown up in East Waterloo you wouldn't have your street cred, and without that, what have you got?
I sure hope that I have more to offer than that. Chances are that I things would be totally different for me and I would be a completely different person, thus making it unlikely that I would be your friend. I am glad that destiny has paved the path for me to be friends with such great and awesome men. I am blessed with the best friends ever.
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CF: Likewise, other than the Frodo/Sam thing. Tough to beat that "friendship"
some of my most intense memories of my own:
- The sound, smell, and (yes) taste of the heating vents & curled up in front of at an early age.
- jumping over the front bush.
- various stunts down the hill out back
- various stunts involved with the Silver Maple in back
- the 2 huge weeping willows (pre-modern friendships)
- sleepovers in the basement
- desperate late night marathons attempting to catch nudity on softcore Showtime porn
- runs; particularly out Crossroads way, through the Rydell parking lot
- late night reading in bed, looking up to see the light in the hall and the little pattern of "x"s around the fixture.
- eating Jeno's pizza, watching Dukes of Hazzard, and playing nerf basketball over the doorjam in the living room when my parents went out of Friday nights.
- piano lessons and cracking off pieces of 20-year old wedding cake from the chest freezer
- sights and sounds of Christmastime
- sliding down the stairs in a pillowcase
Obviously, too many more to mention. I'm almost starting to tear up.
Anyway these were some intense ones that just came to mind.
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