What's in a screen name?
Tink is actually my nickname since birth, bestowed upon me by my godfather. I am now 60 years old and no longer look like a pixie.
Tink
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Tiredretiredlawyer
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Re: Tink
To us you do!
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
Re: Tink
We'll need a photo for verification, though.
Hi tink!
Tink
Good evening, all!
I can't tell how much I missed this place but, life got in the way. A lot of life changes in the last four years. We closed our Kawasaki dealership, had elders to take care of, disabled daughter and grandchildren to take care of, job hunting (not easy when you are nearly 60), then Covid, husband's work accident in December followed by my heart attack in March, and now another grandchild on the way.
I lost my Mom two years ago and that first year was rough. I was her primary caregiver for 13 years and her passing left a huge hole in my life. It took me a year to start moving forward again.
My heart is fine, two stents and a couple of days in the hospital. We are fortunate to have a hospital one mile from our house that now has a Cath Lab. I felt pressure in my chest on a Sunday evening and knew I need to go and Hubby ran me to the ER, it would have taken longer if we called 911. Within minutes of arrival I was medicated and off to the Cath Lab. I had an ECG last month and there is no damage to my heart, I feel great and twenty pounds slid off me without trying. I am now back to my high school graduation weight. I'm 62, I gotta brag.
My job is insane. We were bought out by a large corporation and my pay and benefits increased immensely, but it added to my workload and then one of my coworkers got hurt on the job a month after my heart attack and her job got dumped on me. She is still off. Then my boss quit and they restructured us and half his job got dumped on me. It's more than I want to do and I hate the OT. I am so ready to retire and if my hubby gets a job he has interviewed for four times, I might be able to do it in January.
How has everyone else been doing?
I can't tell how much I missed this place but, life got in the way. A lot of life changes in the last four years. We closed our Kawasaki dealership, had elders to take care of, disabled daughter and grandchildren to take care of, job hunting (not easy when you are nearly 60), then Covid, husband's work accident in December followed by my heart attack in March, and now another grandchild on the way.
I lost my Mom two years ago and that first year was rough. I was her primary caregiver for 13 years and her passing left a huge hole in my life. It took me a year to start moving forward again.
My heart is fine, two stents and a couple of days in the hospital. We are fortunate to have a hospital one mile from our house that now has a Cath Lab. I felt pressure in my chest on a Sunday evening and knew I need to go and Hubby ran me to the ER, it would have taken longer if we called 911. Within minutes of arrival I was medicated and off to the Cath Lab. I had an ECG last month and there is no damage to my heart, I feel great and twenty pounds slid off me without trying. I am now back to my high school graduation weight. I'm 62, I gotta brag.
My job is insane. We were bought out by a large corporation and my pay and benefits increased immensely, but it added to my workload and then one of my coworkers got hurt on the job a month after my heart attack and her job got dumped on me. She is still off. Then my boss quit and they restructured us and half his job got dumped on me. It's more than I want to do and I hate the OT. I am so ready to retire and if my hubby gets a job he has interviewed for four times, I might be able to do it in January.
How has everyone else been doing?
Tink
Welcome back!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Slim Cognito
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Tiredretiredlawyer
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Tink
Tink’s BACK! I’m a Mimi now with two granddaughters and 4 grandoggies!
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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Frater I*I
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I've gotten my FAA Airframe & Powerplant certificate and am now working general aviation fixing windup planes getting the experience to move into an entry level position with the FAA as an Aviation Safety Inspector...
Welcome back...
Welcome back...
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
Tink
Welcome back!!!
My husband and I both retired - him from FEMA, me from the practice of law. We bought a 5K sq ft fixer-upper on the side of Massanutten Mountain overlooking the beautiful Page Valley, with Shenandoah National Park in the distance.
My husband and I both retired - him from FEMA, me from the practice of law. We bought a 5K sq ft fixer-upper on the side of Massanutten Mountain overlooking the beautiful Page Valley, with Shenandoah National Park in the distance.
"Hey! We left this England place because it was bogus, and if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too!" -- Thomas Jefferson
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Foggy
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Tink
I had four major surgeries on my shoulders (and too many dislocations to count), but they seem to be stabilized now and I'm moving forward. Fizzikal therapy this a.m. and I'm SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU BACK.
Mimi told me that nobody leaves Fogbow, they just take a break.
Mimi told me that nobody leaves Fogbow, they just take a break.
We went for a ride,We got outside,
The sand was hot,
She wanted to dance ...
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northland10
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Kriselda Gray
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I was rather surprised to learn that was true for me
When I left I had no intention of ever coming back, but after several years, I just missed y'all.
Tink
Very true. Also, when I took some time off I only stopped reading the forum. I kept in touch with, and even visited, many Fogbowers.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:59 amI was rather surprised to learn that was true for me
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness.
—Theodore Roosevelt
—Theodore Roosevelt
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Kriselda Gray
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I didn't. I'd hit one of my real low points in my depression and felt my presence here was barely tolerated, if even that. It wasn't I got past that and was able to build myself back up that I felt like maybe I'd misjudged things and decided to try again. I'm very glad I did.
Tink
Hey, Tink! 
I have a sister who was a little pixie and everyone called her Tink as well. She has a Tinkerbelle tattoo on one of her ankles. I think I remember you from the old Fogbow but it's been a while!
I have a sister who was a little pixie and everyone called her Tink as well. She has a Tinkerbelle tattoo on one of her ankles. I think I remember you from the old Fogbow but it's been a while!
There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
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