Sure we check up on him and him on us too.
It's more than true that he will be forty-two at the end of this month.
But it was also flooding in Tampa where he works, and so of course what is a Mom or Dad to do, but call and make sure that oxymoron, of your, adult-child, is doing OK!
And he said that they did close his place to the public.
Fortunately, I was able to get him, on his hands free, on his way home.
He has given up texting, thankfully, while driving since it is against the law here.
We discussed my plight this week, and his grandfather's plot that I have been paying off so he/my dad will have perpetual care if I should pass on... Silly that I was paying yearly since 1986!
And frustrating that the cemetery would not put all those years of payment towards it, and the fact that I gave my plot away to my father's sister when we moved to Florida; since it was a family plot and her kids all still live in NJ.
Her being the business woman that she was had legal papers drawn up saying that I was giving it to her as a gift, no charge... I'm shaking my head, this was my aunt! They live in Fort Lee and my uncle had a Rolls Royce, he was a structural engineer and my two cousins went to Smith and Lehigh!
Gift horse in the mouth?
Any-who, I spoke with one of her children, her daughter, my first cousin, after she mentioned that she had them apply the couple of years that she had paid to perpetual care and they did. So I called and requested to do the same, after all I had paid for TWENTY-SIX YEARS by then, and this was a couple of years ago, and they refused. I guess my address was not as classy?
Sure the rich find out they get more freebies than us regular folks and it angers me at times... But throwing a fit with where my parents and grand parents and aunts and uncles are all buried, seemed feudal. So I finally asked for a payment plan for a one year, and right now I have paid out five months worth at $145.17 a month, and by December Dad's plot will have perpetual care like Mom's does, stupid of me not to do that right away. This guy was an idiot. It was basically a Jewish Cemetery and he asked if my Aunt's family, my Father's sister, were Jewish due to their last name might not be. Both my cousin were more so than I having had a Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah! I said they are, but what does that have to do with anything, PS he was a Jew too, his cousins were our neighbors in Paramus and belonged to our same Synagogue!
Or maybe not, so many change their faiths today.
To me it was just another bill that I felt needed to be paid for Dad, but also not to leave it behind for Hubby and our sons, ya know?
I am also doing the best I can to pay off our mortgage by paying extra monthly toward the principle as well when we refinanced last year for the same amount of years, which really are a lot less than most and with a new fixed rate of 3.75%.
I hate to say this, but in my opinion, which is quite opinionated, whatever that's worth, he is the type that gives the rest of us (JEWS) a bad name, ya know?
Anyway, I have only seven months left, but there is light at the end of our tunnel since my $561.51 will be only until June of 2015, and then with Medicare, like Hubby they will be taking $104 out of my social security, I sure hope so anyway!
On that note of hopefully knowing that there is a brighter financial side coming? Allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and we w ill too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
The storm is coming here by the racket its making; the news says we have about ten minutes left.... PS our son and his home was fine too, he just got a new tin roof on his home!
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