Recent content by Twinkle Toes

I don't see any upside for anyone in this. You buy "his" house for $75,000 and Dad's going to say you took his equity. You sell it and he has no where to live. You set up a trust that will give him 3-4% per year...he still has no where to live and the trust distribution won't be enough money...

BC/BS is seeking approval from my state for a 25% premium increase. This is an overall increase, not related to age. :(

Made strawberry jam this morning, then went shopping for ingredients to make healthy smoothies and protein bars. Gonna try to trim a pound or two so I can get into my swimsuit. Hmmm...wonder if that strawberry jam would taste good on a "healthy" protein bar?

Last day of work was December 31, 1996. Didn't retire, just decided I'd had all of the corporate fun that I could stand. I was 49 at the time.

We spent winter '08/spring '09 in Mexico. We were not house hunting there, but exploring various cities to see whether we might be interested in living "part-time" in Mexico. San Miguel and Chapala were just too "big city" for us. I must confess that we didn't spend a lot of time in either...

How many of these verbal attacks are by men vs by women? Just wondering...

Learned to drive on a stick and can't seem to convert over to automatic. Have had a few automatics...found myself trying to "shift gears". All three of our vehicles are standard shift...one has 6 forward gears, one has 5, and the other one has 3. Keeps you on your toes in that first gear is...

Well, I played with the IRS stimulus calculator again. This time, I didn't get caught in the loop as I did the other day...still don't know why that happened. Instead, I got a message that I would have been eligible for a check for $0; however, since my income was greater than $150,000, I...

Only income I have is passive. I tried using the Internal Revenue Service calculator to determine whether I will bet a stimulus check. The IRS calculator thinks I failed to include income and puts me in a loop to go back and "properly" fill out the information requested. Anyone else go...

We stopped taking family vacations years before we stopped working...I'm talking about the ones with the MIL, FIL, BILs, SILs, and all of the kids. It was a good thing when all of the kids were young (ours are the youngest), but as the kids got older the family vacations lost a lot of...

When the g-kids (2 girls) were little, I made tapes for them where I talked a little to them, introduced the next song...talk...song, etc. Used a lot of Raffi (sp?) when the girls were little. DD and DIL used the tapes differently. DD shuttled her little one around a lot in the car and she...

Still 138. Sigh.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Back to 138, lost that pound I gained last week. Am drinking more water, walking and staying away from chocolate!

I have worn progressive lense glasses for years, read a lot, and have the following observations: 1. When I first started wearing progressive lenses I had verilux lenses (which at the time were the best) and the reading strength was very low. Excellent results. BTW, fashion then was for...