08/18/18
It's been awhile but I want to put so much down in black and white so here goes.
The great adventure started over 44 years ago when a goofy looking young man told me he was going to marry me. I was already married and so was he, therefore, I pronounced him "drunk". After all we were in my marital home with other family members at the time of his declaration….
Without going deep into the process by which we arrived as a married couple, I'll just say we became a married couple on Sept. 27, 1974 and the rest is our great adventure together.
Needless to say it hasn't all been smooth sailing, All marriages go through rough times but so far we've been able to make it work for us.
There was little money from his Marine pay and then the Sheriff's Department, which was a cut in pay from the Marines. I was a lowly insurance agent just trying to keep my office rent and bills paid but we didn't need much and we wrote a lot of notes on yellow legal pads. We kept informed on what each of us were doing. He worked a lot of shift work on the Sheriff's Department and never with weekends off.
Just short of our one year anniversary the insurance company I worked for pulled out of the area and I was diagnosed with Uterine cancer. He got orders to report to Okinawa, Japan for 13 months USMC duty. I had the surgery and he didn't go to Okinawa but he was out of the USMC.
The kids came to live with us. First my son and then my daughter when she was 16. As you already know she got pregnant the beginning of her Junior year of high school and to top it off I lost my job working for an entrepreneur.
We had good medical insurance threw the County so that wasn't a worry. She got the medical attention she needed and delivered us our first grandchild, named after a famous musician.
Jobs weren't easy to come by so we pinched those pennies and survived nicely. I made some attempts at job hunting and even volunteered to work for a politician in hopes of a job after he was elected but I only spent one day on the job. My father was in the hospital and I was needed there to sign Do Not Resuscitate papers.
The great adventure started over 44 years ago when a goofy looking young man told me he was going to marry me. I was already married and so was he, therefore, I pronounced him "drunk". After all we were in my marital home with other family members at the time of his declaration….
Without going deep into the process by which we arrived as a married couple, I'll just say we became a married couple on Sept. 27, 1974 and the rest is our great adventure together.
Needless to say it hasn't all been smooth sailing, All marriages go through rough times but so far we've been able to make it work for us.
There was little money from his Marine pay and then the Sheriff's Department, which was a cut in pay from the Marines. I was a lowly insurance agent just trying to keep my office rent and bills paid but we didn't need much and we wrote a lot of notes on yellow legal pads. We kept informed on what each of us were doing. He worked a lot of shift work on the Sheriff's Department and never with weekends off.
Just short of our one year anniversary the insurance company I worked for pulled out of the area and I was diagnosed with Uterine cancer. He got orders to report to Okinawa, Japan for 13 months USMC duty. I had the surgery and he didn't go to Okinawa but he was out of the USMC.
The kids came to live with us. First my son and then my daughter when she was 16. As you already know she got pregnant the beginning of her Junior year of high school and to top it off I lost my job working for an entrepreneur.
We had good medical insurance threw the County so that wasn't a worry. She got the medical attention she needed and delivered us our first grandchild, named after a famous musician.
Jobs weren't easy to come by so we pinched those pennies and survived nicely. I made some attempts at job hunting and even volunteered to work for a politician in hopes of a job after he was elected but I only spent one day on the job. My father was in the hospital and I was needed there to sign Do Not Resuscitate papers.
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