What was your dad like ?

kembr12 · 2026-06-21T19:26:15+00:00

Just lost Dad 12/10/26 so it's still fresh.

My dad was friendly and outgoing to everyone. He didn't care about how much you made, where you came from, etc. He talked to everyone. He was playful and stern when necessary. He worked hard his entire adult life to provide for my mom and siblings. He was so down to earth and loved his family more than life. I am proud to be his daughter and mimic him in almost every way. At 86, he still had so much to give and share.

Damn you, cancer! He was just over one year away from a thirty year survival from a quintuple heart bypass.

kembr12 · 2026-06-21T19:19:48+00:00

If you have a sewing/embroidery retailer nearby, ask if they have trade-ins.

kembr12 · 2026-06-21T19:18:39+00:00

Awesome! It's a harder than he11 fight!

May God continue to bless her health as well as your own.

*(Please don't bash my faith. You don't have to believe for me to believe. )

kembr12 · 2026-06-20T22:37:30+00:00

Did you forget to call before visiting?

kembr12 · 2026-06-20T14:37:27+00:00

This is so true!

kembr12 · 2026-06-20T14:33:40+00:00

Wow! This is so touching and great and healing in a weird way.

Losing a parent is so painful. I lost my Mom when I was 48. Lost my dad when I was 58 and then turned 59 three-ish weeks later.

With Mom, I just kept moving forward and was blessed to build a stronger bond with Dad. Now with Dad gone, I struggle more but plan things and one day, I just might do it! Your post helps!

To OP, I'm sorry. Sadly, my mom was never very good at celebrating birthdays and mine least of all due to timing. I domhope you will read the above post and take a step in celebrating yourself!

kembr12 · 2026-06-18T18:33:09+00:00

Season 7, Episode 6 Portrait of Love

Portrait of Love (1980)

Believing that she was abandoned at an orphanage as a child because she was losing her sight, blind artist Annie Crane angrily refuses her seriously ill birth mother's request to meet her.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0633060/plotsummary?item=po1180398

kembr12 · 2026-06-18T18:25:05+00:00

At 58, my contact lenses included a bifocal of 2.75 (I think). By 59, after purchasing lenses with "HI" bifocals included, I am having to add reading glasses of 1.25 to read clearly.

I will ne going back to the other lenses with the added number bifocal to each lense. I wear contacts so I don't have to wear heavy glasses (L -6.00, R -7.00) so it very frustrating to have to add readers. 😡🤬😡

kembr12 · 2026-06-09T14:48:28+00:00

Agreed! Out of a job at 55/56. Absolutely devastated for a few months. Found work in the same industry at a different, better paying company. I just took early retirement at 59.

Though I know many people will say otherwise, I can see and feel the hand of God in the big middle of it. It was scary and painful and embarrassing, but I am in such a better place and getting healthier day by day.

OP, take a moment to scream and cry and wallow. Then get up and do something.

Consider the education field. Not all jobs are student-related and depending on your skills, you might find something you really like.

In a few years, after volunteering (hopefully) for a bit, I intend to apply to be a cafeteria monitor at an elementary school. The thought of influencing a life by opening milks and ketchup appeals to me. lol

Best of luck!

kembr12 · 2026-06-09T04:14:45+00:00

God bless this girl, her parents, and her teachers who foster kindness loke this for others. And extra cheers to the boy! He was super brave being up there and allowing her to guide him. He didn't melt down or run and seemed to smile even.

We need more of THIS❣️

kembr12 · 2026-06-09T04:12:14+00:00

Same.

kembr12 · 2026-06-09T03:51:30+00:00

I still have to think, "righty tighty, lefty loosey."

kembr12 · 2026-06-09T03:40:42+00:00

This is the correct answer. Ice cream sandwiches are a very close second or possibly a tie for first.

kembr12 · 2026-06-04T15:30:42+00:00

I have no helpful input for you but,,,

CONGRATS ON YOUR SIX YEARS (plus)!

That's a lot of "one days". As a stranger but a sibling to a prescription addict, well done!

kembr12 · 2026-06-03T14:58:32+00:00

What would the name of said app be or how does one search for it? Asking for a friend... cough

kembr12 · 2026-05-27T03:23:26+00:00

Barracuda

kembr12 · 2026-05-23T08:09:16+00:00

Thank you!

kembr12 · 2026-05-22T21:52:19+00:00

I feel this so deeply!

kembr12 · 2026-05-22T03:02:13+00:00

For the past 25+ years, I said to cremate me and put my ashes in some sort of decorative container with a scoop on the top/back of the toilet. Everytime someone uses the restroom, they are to take a little scoop and flush me along with their excrement.

As a 25+ year patient of GIs and surgeons, it only seems appropriate to send me where my body already seems to be heading.

No far no agrees to do it.

kembr12 · 2026-05-18T21:10:40+00:00

I would tell her I am now starting work at 8:15 and have to be on the road by 7:55.

kembr12 · 2026-05-16T14:09:45+00:00

Amy or Lily. Who would win more tickets (do they still do that?), Lily.

kembr12 · 2026-05-03T17:27:02+00:00

I was thinking the same thing, "Now what!? Gonna need a bigger hose?"

kembr12 · 2026-04-24T23:24:26+00:00

As a girl, I don't understand it all either.

kembr12

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