Oh, ugh, Dana. Not enough money, short term, nothing else on offer (YET) is a terrible combination.
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
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Jesse - Oct 15, 2013 1:12:21 pm PDT #9145 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Zenkitty - Oct 15, 2013 1:14:02 pm PDT #9146 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
how close are you to retirement? If I were going to retire within 5 years, I might have put all my holdings in cash long before now. Given my time horizon, I should be fine leaving everything where it is and waiting for the markets to come back in 2-3 years.
12 years, if all goes as planned. (bwahahaha) Last time a crash loomed, I did just that: left it alone, bought some stuff when it got cheap, and waited. My fear this time is a nebulous fear that it won't come back, or that I'll be wiped out so far I won't be able to recover.
Sheesh, I sound like I actually have a lot of money to worry about! Maybe I should just relax.
Ginger - Oct 15, 2013 1:14:24 pm PDT #9147 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Timing the market is a fool's game.
SuziQ - Oct 15, 2013 1:15:59 pm PDT #9148 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
At our big silent auction we have a dessert auction. I won a "Fruit of the Forest" pie. Had no clue what it was until we broke into it today. It is a combo of rhubarb, apple, and strawberry. At least that is what I've identified so far. It is also NOM!!!
Zenkitty - Oct 15, 2013 1:17:16 pm PDT #9149 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Timing the market is a fool's game.
That is true.
le nubian - Oct 15, 2013 1:19:39 pm PDT #9150 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yep, Ginger's right.
Zenkitty, not to add to your worries, but in the short term we will have bigger things to worry about than the stock market if this shit doesn't get handled.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2013 1:21:19 pm PDT #9151 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bah, all the CI fruit pie recipes other than apples (which I guess bring their own pectin) use highly starchy thickeners. I can stick with apple/pear.
However I'm looking at the one I made for the office and wondering what they've done to deserve it recently.
billytea - Oct 15, 2013 1:22:30 pm PDT #9152 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Timing the market is a fool's game.
And my job description!
Steph L. - Oct 15, 2013 1:23:29 pm PDT #9153 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am thinking I should find out where John Boehner lives - I'm guessing it's some gated community in the deep suburbs - and go stand in front of his house with torches and pitchforks. You're with me, right, Teppy?
I feel like it's Butler County somewhere. Maybe West Chester? Possibly we could run him down at IKEA.
Sue - Oct 15, 2013 1:24:24 pm PDT #9154 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I think I would do a lattice on top of blueberry pie. Which I have never made, myself.
I'm not sure about this. Blueberry's an oozy, leaky mess with a full crust, IME. Apple is my favourite fruit pie. It's amazing what using different apples can do to the flavour and texture.
In truth, I am a cream pie person. Cocunut cream, lemon meringue, key lime. If only my M-f meringues didn't weep.
I spent the weekend with the family for T-giving. You know how some families band together in a crisis? Yeah, my family is not one of those. It was a minor plumbing crisis, but man, I wanted to punch people in the face a lot. I also had a headache most of the weekend, but the turkey was good.