65 years!

would have been 39

OK, I guess I misunderstood, when I read ont_gal's "would have been."

I don't think I get it.

I don't either!

:::lost:::

?? My son is 42 years, but I doubt it means that.

How many years you've been married or would have been married?

OHMYGOSH..... 60 and counting!

No clue

Half a century.

15 years so far.

52 on Monday

61

Sue

36 is coming up....

46 years !!

Grandparents 68 years would have been 69 this October but grandpa passed away this week, they don't make people like them anymore.
Parents will be 44 or 45 this October
Me NEVER 0 zip nadda no way :)

Never say 'never', frogged. :)

Almost 32.

I still don't get it!!!!

48 years

sorry friends! I was miffed. Neither of my daughters thought of my "special day" yesterday.

I came to the United States of America, in particular Oklahoma, 42 years ago.

and I chose to stay here, after I divorced my reason to come here in the first place.

It is kind of bittersweet... cause without coming here, I wouldn't know all my friends, all my KT friends, would not have my gorgeous two daughters, nor my beautiful grand children.

Sooo, I have been in Oklahoma for 42 years now.

Moni

Congrats Moni. Glad you came, and glad you stayed. You are awesome.

55 ... this coming Oct. 15, 16 and 17 ... (took us three days to get married) ...

... 11 years married ... apart for 43 plus.

I said at an investment gathering the other night where we've come to know one another pretty well, that my ex- had got a raw deal (and one guy said what ... apart from getting you).

We met on a blind date, and she wasn't my date, but we spent some time together, got engaged, there was talk of marriage, but I felt that, in case she might be stuck with providing for the family in a few years, that three years toward a four-year degree would be as food as nothing, so she stayed and got her degree, then came to Korea and we were married there ... and son born there. She was nine years younger than I.

Son needed eye care, we settled in Canada, was in parish work, Sue took her internship at a local hosp., was taken on as second head of food service at a local psych. hospital.

Not long after that we parted, later she became head of the department. After about 20 years, there was talk of closing her hosp. or a similar one about 15 mi. away, so she, figuring that taking the golden handshake in preference to possible severance en route out the door, retired early.

Being a US. person, she'd head in her RV to FL about mid-Dec, follow a route from there to Texas where she'd developed a number of friends ... and extended the trip to Arizona when daughter was there and returned about mid-March. With a number of hobbies and friends, she had a ball ... for about 10 years, then, ironically, her gut did her in - colon cancer. At 66, the young ones said that, in the normal course of things, she'd have retired the year before ... and I said that she'd have been sick for most of that year.

That was 10 years ago last July.

And I'm still kicking around.

When I said that a number of things in life just ain't fair ... several agreed with me.

ole joyful (the thought police don't like "ain't")

Moni,

Please tell us more about yourself. I know you are German. What made you decide to leave Germany for the United States? Did any of your relatives come to the USA, too?

Have you ever thought about donating some of your time to transcribing German records for Ancestry.com?

Lindsay, do you remember being 18, and "in love"?

He was military in Germany, originally from Oklahoma.

No, I don't want to have another job... nor do I enjoy translating. For me it is either or... while here, I do English, and in Germany I speak German.

:)

Moni

On October 29 I will have been living in Australia (emigrated as a child from the US) for 45 years. No desire to live in the US (sorry folks :-) ), I'm happy here.

This morning I was trying to figure out your post and finally decided it had to be how long you had been in the U.S.

Thanks Moni. I'm also so glad you are here (and couldn't imagine a 'war bride' being here that many years.... My time warp, for sure) Anyway, Our Country is better for your being here....so glad you came

And, OJ.... how nice of you to share a bit more about your life. Have you written a memoir? I believe we who have served 'on distant shores' have a story that is worth sharing. I'm working on mine, and I am constantly aware of what a privilege it has been.

Moni - I'm so glad you're here in the States too. Germany's loss is our gain. Oklahoma should declare a Moni Day!

Did you let your girls know that forgot your big day?

I posted the same number on facebook. Just a girlfriend replied cause she knew... Mel didn't, but he is on a cruise, and totally offline...

I was disappointed, but I am over it. :)

Moni

children take dates for granted...I'm lucky if the kids call on my bday and they never call on our anniversary...in feb it will be 45...

one of my mother's dear friends (all three are gone now) were like you...bob met Freda while stationed in Germany (air force) and ended up in las vegas!

So ... it isn't how long we'd been married.

Some time ago when someone here asked in how many places we'd lived ... I counted 22 locations in my (then 80 or so) years.

For quite a few years, as missionary worker overseas and parish clergyperson, I've lived in employer-provided housing, and during several of my years overseas there were a few or several persons sharing housing.

About 40 years ago, when house prices were rising substantially, a number of clergy chose to own their own homes, especially in the city, partially related to younger and older families' housing needs being quite different.

Also related to some of the clergy feeling that they'd like to benefit from the rising values of owning their own home.

I said that many of them would develop a much lower gain than they expected, and when they asked my reason, said that many move in six, eight or ten years or so ... that it'd be mainly the real estate people, lawyers, home inspectors, land transfer fees, etc. that'd eat up most of the gain, each time they sold and bought elsewhere. It'd work if they stayed in one home for an extended period.

ole joyful