Wife says some of my stuff has to go...

[Artfldgr]

Accent on some... heh...

[PinkDiamond]

How much stuff does she want you to sell, all of it? Hopefully it will go toward more opals to cut.

[Artfldgr]

we want a home, and reality came in the door, and now she is like... wtf?
you know how long i been warning her... but now, she finds she is a bout half a mill short for a basic home in the city.
ha ha ha.

soooo... i have new parcels and there will be a nice big stone coming up..
will be selling most stuff... then rebuild later..

lots of rough other stones as we want to focus on what can earn$$$

about 100 stones over between 10ct and 20ct should do
anyone want to guess what that can reach?

[Artfldgr]

PS.. i told her if she didnt wake up from my warnings.. eventually life will wake her up and it wont be pleasant...
what can you do other than wait

Her big thing was that now she cant go back and she realizes that what we will do now would have been on top of before and she could have had a child if she stopped acting like one and started focusing on family... but with antifamily feminsits telling them to have a good time, well, she got punked like millinos of other women who are now sittig home.. like my neigbor who is alone, family exterminated as she was the last one, wasted her youth on a toyboy that never stayed, now has nothig and only dirt bag guys want to bother which she doesnt, she drinks a bottle of whine and smokes by an open window... and THAT is i guess, her room of her own as paglia spoke about...

nothing i can do about a past that is wasted and no way to go back..
you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink...
(well you can, but lets not get into details about rubber hoses and pumps - it spoils a perfectly good aphorism)

[PinkDiamond]

I'm so glad you're back. I just love your wit and wisdom, and the way you express your take on things. You're a patient man, Art.

[kjsspot]

Sounds like you're having a rough patch. It's hard watching the ones we love not reaching their potential.

[Artfldgr]

there is nothing positive to do but be patient...
you love em, you cant beat em, they cant beat you, going nutty fruitcake don't work,
nor is it all that satisfying (or even good for the furniture or neighbors)...

the thing is that if i could pull twenties out of the unicorns butt i would.. and i wouldn't bother at all
though it would be nice to see what we build together too...
there is something about that when done right that is very satisfying
[when done wrong you kind of never get to that part]

dont get the wrong picture, she is sweet, and we are ok...
but if one wants more than i can do breaking my back, sorry.
i have but one back to break for my family... ha ha

Cie la vie... Que sera sera!

[kjsspot]

at some point you just have to say: I love you. I work hard for you. What you want does actually matter to me and I'll do everything in my power to get that for you. But I can't do it alone. I don't have infinite abilities nor resources and if I break thing get worse instead of better. Marriage is a partnership and if there's something you want that we don't have, it's just as much you as it is me.

I mean, you've gotta take care of yourself to even be able to take care of others.