Wow! You are truly a STRANGE chick...LOL.
Let me see if I can address all that rambling...LOL.
1. "See, you ARE retired!!! You said you didn't want to say that you were retired in the other thread but there you are, you're are ...[sic]"
Ummmm...lol...there isn't anything wrong with being retired. I merely said that when I say I'm retired, it raises eyebrows and the discussion ends up being about the same thing every time I meet people and it gets old. I don't even get why you bring this up.
2. "Why you insist on thinking there's something wrong with my feet and hands I have no idea but, again, more schizoid delusions ..."
Just a reference to your saying that I had a nail appointment, as if that were something so foreign and strange to you...lol.
3. "And we have established that ALL Native Americans live in poverty on reservations, and as you've said, numerous times, you're a Native American (what tribe, honey) so you must have worked your way off the reservation, right, dear? I bet you placed first in every dance competition at the pow-wows, too

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Who established that all Native Americans live in poverty on reservations? You are hallucinating now. The only thing that I ever mentioned is that there are scholarships that are available for Native Americans if you can trace your lineage through the records at the BIA. I didn't really remember that your husband was Native American, and as far as I know, this conversation, and our beef with one another had nothing to do with Native Americans, and it was never brought up before now. ???? I honestly think you are losing your mind. I've never said an negative thing about any race, heritage, etc on this board, ever. You are drawing at straws if you try to play that card here. No one is going to buy that I'm a racist.
For the record, I'm 1/4 Cherokee and never grew up on a reservation. However, you are right about me working my way through law school by working two jobs, going to school and earning full tuition academic scholarships. So let me get this straight, I'm a native american that is prejudiced against native americans? LOL. I may be having an identity crisis, but it isn't that severe...lol.
4. "Is that why you persist in thinking the whole world, but most particularly me, envious of all your husband's money, because I've mentioned that I'm married to a Native American? So you automatically assume we're poor? Eating out of soup kitchens?
No, you just think that EVERYONE is jealous, bitter, and envious of you, what DID you do to get where you are now I wonder. Why are you so insistent on telling a total stranger, repeatedly, how much time, money and energy you've donated to the less fortunate? You know, you really are doing an outstanding job of convincing me of your benevolence

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I don't think everyone is bitter and jealous. I think you are. LOL. Why do I think that? Because you came in and proved it by repeatedly attacking someone who was always nice to you and everyone in here. You brought up all this shit, not me. Why did I mention giving time and energy to the less fortunate? Because you brought it up by saying how I am never generous or some other bullshit like that. Are you really this petty and silly all the time?
5. "And I'm particularly impressed by the respect you exhibit for working class people, and especially the esteem you obviously have for working women ... and you so quick to throw away the career that you worked so hard to attain (which you never miss an opportunity to bring up). Am I supposed to be impressed that you turned your back on something that was so hard for you. Obviously you took great pride in your accomplishment to have been so quick to turn your back on it (but, lest we forget, you are most DEFINITELY not materialistic). "
The only one that came in and showed any disrespect is you. I always have applauded working women and stay-at-home moms. I've never said a nagative word about it. You are the one who came in, guns blazing, using the terms as pejoratives. Why did I walk away from my career? I fell in love with someone who had run a business in Florida for 15 years, and I wanted to spend my life with him. My law firm was only a year old. His business was more profitable, and I agreed to move down here. I had just lost my mother to a long bout of cancer. I was trying to take care of a dying woman in my home and run a fledgling law office. He helped me through that aftermath and helped me close my law firm and prepare for a future down here. He will be retiring in two years, and we want to do things together. Taking the bar down here and getting the results would take several months. Then, as soon as I got back into it, he would be retired. He is not crazy about the idea of us both working so many hours and being under lots of stress when we don't really need the extra money. It just made more sense this way.
6. "Why bother getting a degree in law if you walked away from it? In one post you say you don't need to work, in another you say you work around the home, in another you say the children are grown and don’t need you, in another you say you don’t cook, clean or do any of that, then you create THIS thread where you’re spending three hours doing cardio ... and in between your roses and your cardio and travel arrangements and chicken dinners and charity work you’re posting your little fingers off here in EF, so which is it? If you have that much time on your hands why don't you practice what you trained to do? Why aren’t you working in the career you struggled to achieve? Just because you don't NEED to? Since when does THAT stop anyone from doing anything they enjoy? If you were such a great lawyer, why don’t you apply that powerful intellect to something other than bickering in cyberspace with a bitter old hag like myself?
Something about you doesn’t make sense. I've worked for lawyers, did it for years, and I'll tell ya something, HR, I NEVER met a lawyer who a) didn't LOVE the work and b) didn't LOVE making money."
Well, I think I explained it above, and I have talked about it on here before too. My SO doesn't need my help to pay the bills. That is by the grace of God and good fortune. We are not Bill Gates rich, but we get to do some nice things sometimes and he is a good provider. I love that about him, among many other things. When, I said that the kids are old enough that I don't think I earn the title of "stay at home mom" that is because they are in school all day. I think the title is better suited for moms with younger kids. My step kids are 18, 13, and 11.
As far as doing what you love, there are parts of law that I loved, but I had some really difficult times. I have wrestled in my mind going back to law, because there are parts of it that I do love. That was sort of the meaning of the thread. I was having a bit of a problem not working now and putting a finger on my own identity. You took the oppurtunity to come in and throw daggers at someone for no apparent reason.
I'm not sure if law is what I want to do now or not. I have tossed many different ideas up in the air and am somewhat in a quagmire. There are many things that I enjoy doing besides law, and my fella likes having me available to take off on a moments notice whenever he can get away from work, himself.
You are a seething mad woman for some unknown reason. Perhaps you need to take a nap during the day...lol.