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All My Children Discussion Group
That's not a mistake in the date in my topic. It's 2014! What are you going to be doing ten years from now? Where will you be? Any predictions?
If I think about where I was ten years ago, not much has changed. But ten years from now....Most likely I'll still be working at the same job. That's fine. Maybe I'll be a mother-in-law by then and hopefully I'll be a grandmother, too. I suspect we will still be here in this house only the house will be filled with children running around. I hope I still have my cats, Cleo and Charlie!
What will you be doing ten years from now? Will you retire to Florida or Arizona? Maybe you'll move to Canada?
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I did the Daily Topic for several years. I found this and had to share. I am still doing the same job just in a different place. I am a mother-in-law, we do have grandchildren and still live here in the same house. And best of all Cleo and Charlie are sleeping downstairs.
Let me see if I can post the other people who posted that day.
I didn't see my name, I think maybe I too was running from a storm. I know I was posting regularly here. That was 2 months before my mom passed away...and that's something I would not have predicted because my grandparents were still alive.
In that past 7 years (not really 8 yet, just 7 and a few months) Son graduated from Riverboy to Marineboy and back to civilian boy... Elfgirl graduated and had a baby. The Royal one is 16, driving, and about to graduate (early)... and my baby who was just in 2nd grade is going to be in HIGH SCHOOL next year. We're still in the same house. We lost my mom, and both my grandparents (my mom in 2004, my grandpa in 2005, and my grandma in 2006)
Oh and that's the year we had a WHITE CHRISTMAS first time in my life. It snowed 13 inches on Christmas Eve night and continued till morning. Here, in Texas, it rarely snows before Jan if it snows at all.
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As far as my 2004 future predictions went: we are still in the same house and have travelled a lot over the last six years. valleyguy took early retirement and is now working part-time at the cinema, affording us free entertainment every week, and also has a growing handyman business established. I'm beginning a new job tomorrow in the PSW field. I did work at a nursing home for a year and my health took me out, but I'm getting back into the game tomorrow doing home care. Two of our now five grandchildren are teenagers, and our parents who are now octagenarians are still living independantly with few health issues. We've rethought the move across country as the BC weather, which was the big draw for us, has become less enticing with the global changes. Time to make a new 10 year plan and see how that pans out!
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What fun Anita! As I was scrolling up I was wondering if I'd posted and there I was, one of my alter-egos, in all my glory! It was fun to see the names too, amazing how many of us still post here.
My predictions were all pretty spot on, we are living in a different house (the one we built) and I'm still dreading Cody leaving in 2 years, even though he's 16, driving, and driving me crazy!
Oh, and the rain finally stopped.
Thanks for the trip down memory cyberlane!
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Anita, what a treat to read these old posts!
I'm retired now, but still in the same house in MD. We'd still like to make the move to SoCal, especially on a cold night in January, but don't know how soon that will be possible. Still no grandchildren!
But I have no complaints . . .we are healthy and comfortable, our family is well and pretty much drama free. Our son has a good job. And I still have MediaDomain message boards!
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OhMyGosh, Anita! What a trip down memory lane! It is so cool to see those posts and "hear" those names again.
My prediction was pretty much right on. We're in our "new house" and love it. The cabin is still there, as is the river. And we're still hoping that by 2014 Mr.K will be retired.
Sometimes I really miss the "old days" here.
Thanks again for posting this!
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Happy Birthday, Aunt Grace!! Have a wonderful one.
In ten years? I expect to be retired, hopefully living in SoCal within an hour or so of my son, in a bungalow with just enough room for MrT and me, with maybe an extra room for a grandchild or two. I really, really want grandchildren!
The next ten years are hard to predict, because MrT's mother, her health, and her financial situation are such important factors and are unknowable. In addition, my son Nick has to cooperate for me to get the grandchildren!
I love to learn, and plan to take courses as long as I can. That sounds like a great way to spend the last years of my life!
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10 years from now I'm hoping this stupid storm will finally be gone. It's worse today than yesterday - rain, wind, ugh! We still have power though, so I guess it's not really all that bad. Just starting to get a little cabin fever. And they're not even showing the MDA telethon on our local ABC station, goshdarnit! Hmm, maybe that means AMC will be on? Maybe this isn't so bad after all!
Seriously though Anita, you just made me realize that 10 years from now I'll be suffering from empty nest syndrome. Little Z should be starting his freshman year in college and if he goes away it will be very hard on me. Of course he hasn't hit his teenage years yet so it might just be a relief, but when I think about it now I get a huge lump in my throat.
I know I won't be living in the same house I'm in now, since we're trying to buy a new one right now, and our ultimate plan is to build our dream house that hopefully one day will be filled with grandchildren (on a temporary basis, that is). We would like to stay in this area though, hurricanes and all.
Hope everyone has a nice Labor Day, and if anyone needs some rain, I've got some for ya - real cheap!
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Ten years from now, I will definitely be retired. Other than that, who knows? I hope I am a grandma by then! I hope I get to travel the country to see the national parks. I hope I have time (and the eyesight) to do all those crafts projects and read all the books that have piled up in the last 10 years! I hope my health holds up and retirement is a life of relaxation and not an endless series of medical problems.
I don't think that is too much to hope for!
Fun topic!
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And a Happy Birthday holler to Ray!
What a timely topic, Anita. A new chapter begins in my life tomorrow. I will be returning to school to take a Personal Support Worker (PSW) course. It will entail 8 weeks of full-time in class schooling and 330 hours of placement. At that point I will be certified and plan on using my certification to work part-time with senior citizens in nursing homes, or to expand my capabilities and responsibilities as a volunteer. I am not nervous about beginning school again. I did it ten years ago to earn my high school diploma, and found it to be an energizing and fulfilling experience.
Yesterday we attended a celebration of the marriage of my sister and brother-in-law this past January. My sister had her laptop there, in which she had loaded some photos she'd found in my parents basement. They dated back to the 40's and went on through the mid 80's. There were black and white pictures of my parents, pictures of of us as children and young adults, including granny dresses, mini dresses, jeans dragging on the ground, and funny hairdon'ts. There were pictures of my nieces and nephews and my own children. It was a marvel to watch, and truly marked the passage of time, and how it happens without us realizing it. This summer the generation of my parents great-granchildren began. The circle of life is amazing and thrilling.
Ten years from now the photo album of my life will hopefully include the children of my children, and will include my current grandchildren, three of whom will be teenagers, in their own unique outfits and hairdoes. valleyguy and I will still be in this house, and will travel, and will be planning and plotting our retirement, which may include a move across country (if I can bear to leave my children and their children). If our parents, God willing, are still with us, they will probably require a lot of care and attention, which may put off our own plans for a time. Which is fine. My favourite uncle suffered a stroke last Monday. The prognosis is good, and he is taking this as a warning. We will visit him this afternoon for the first time since it happened. I cannot wait to put my arms around him. It brings an awareness of the fragility of life and plans home. A lesson that has been brought home to me many times in my life.
So, tomorrow morning as I begin the newest phase of my life I will remember that "Today is the first day of the rest of my life."
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Y'all party hearty, now, ya' heah?
In ten years I hope to still be planting daisies and not pushing them up! Twould be grand to be seein' a grandchild graduate from college or winning a Nobel prize. Imagine there'll be a smaller house somewhere . . . LarBear and I will be getting on each other's last nerve. And ice cream. Let there be ice cream.
Thought for the day:
Don't get even. Get odd!
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In ten years I hope to heck that this project about trying to remodel and add an addition to our house will be DONE and will have come out just as we envisioned it! I hope Mr.K is retired and that we are both healthy and enjoying traveling and visiting family and friends and then coming back home. I hope our cabin is still standing on the banks of the Skykomish River--in other words, I hope the Sky has stayed within its course. We were at the little Index Museum over the weekend looking at old photos of the town, and it is fairly dramatic where houses used to be and where river is now. Mother Nature does what she wants.
Another great topic, Anita. I hope you and everyone here are all having a marvelous weekend.
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where do i think i will be in 10 years from now? well hopefully not much will change. i would like to think that in 10 years that my children are settled with their lives and have jobs that make them happy. maybe even be married although they will only be in their late 20's. i would like to think that i found a job over the last 10years that gave us the additional income that we so badly need, and that i'm happy with what i'm doing. i would like to be living in that larger home and content with what i've accomplished.
well i'm off to finish some chores. tomorrow is a busy day, the first day of school for the guys and my first official day back to work too. we need to get to bed early tonight!!
i hope everyone had a great weekend. to those in the path of the hurricane, i hope all is well with you.
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Hi everyone. Boy am I late. Just got home from the Jersey shore. The weather was fab but the ocean was churning due to the hurricanes coming up the coast. I swam two days and it was rough then we were forbidden in the water - red flags everywhere.I hope all our friends in it's wake are okay. I just got word that my cousin is fine and had minimal damage to his home in West Palm Beach.He did spend some time in a shelter as a precaution.
In ten years I hope to own a summer place somewhere near water and overlooking a golf course. Actually I hope that happens a lot sooner than ten years (lol).
If ya want to read about my latest misadventure check my abridged version on the personal board.
Glad to be home. Now I have a few days of AMC to watch. Later gaters.
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Ten years from now? You're kidding, right?
Okay, I know I'll still be living in the same house as I will never move again. Ever. I'm going straight from here to the crematory.
I suspect I'll still be a mother-in-law, but I'll have two instead of just one great son-in-law.
My grandbaby will be going on ELEVEN...no way...he's just now walking around assisted by furniture, human legs, walls, large dogs, bathtubs, fireplace hearths.....anything else he can pull up with....and I suspect there will be a few more grandbabies to spoil by then.
And I'll have that rose garden established and thriving by then!!!
Having the attic and the basement cleared of junk is an iffy...but that's the goal.
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