#ooc

As long as it's not weight loss due to stress. Because we love you even if you are an amorphous eldridge blob

Symon would arguable love you more that way

well, the BIG drop was the year my dad died

I'm heading in blob direction.

lost probably 20-25 that year

the rest has been slower

Yeah, I'm naturally slender I think. Not bragging, I stay pretty active, but I eat like shit and I've never topped 140. But when mom died, I had friends asking me if I was okay because I lost like 20 lbs and that was noticaeable

yeah

I think I just got some lucky genes mostly. my dad is slender, my mom was portly

I mean, I was 190 or over from 9th grade on

Some good news I can share! Not mine, but kinda mine

Oh, so my brother in Thailand, I've been worried about him. he has a daughter (his first! My first niece!) on the way and business is really bad for them, they had to sell their house in Bangkok and move to a cheaper rental in the countryside. They sell stuff locally, but with no Tourist trade, no locals are buying. So I sent him a $2k loan to tide them over. Because I'm not RICH or anything but I am in a comfortable position all considered and ABLE to help

He just asked me if he could pay it back (I am surprised!)

He used to be big in Crypto currency

and he found an old key he had FORGOTTEN

With a bitcoin on it

oh my

$20k!

well, damn!

Wow!!!

take the money!

I am debating take it back, and hold onto it to give back to him when he needs it. Or tell him to keep it as a gift for the baby

fair!

He is bad with money, I am afraid, but I think his recent pitfalls may have wisened him up

my approach to loans is never loan what you can't afford to give away

He made BANK with crypto some years back but blew it all

gotcha

Bought a house on impulse, sold the house for cash when he needed more cash, hit up some casinos for fun, lost $50k on a run

things like that

But he is married now and his wife is a small business owner and I think she is keeping him in line ❤️

ahhh

sounds like my SiL

Josh likes to spend money

Super secret - when we sold mom's house, I held back $3k of the money in case there were future expenses that popped up. It would have been split 3 ways otherwise. Brother and Sister FORGOT about this

Christy does NOT

My sister is, let me just say, a cunt. This is the one who refused to go see mom on her deathbed, skipped Grandma's funeral because she had camping plans, and uninvited me from her wedding when I suggested she invite mother who sobbed daily because Sis wouldn't even talk to her even 1x year to say "I'm alive and well"

uhg

Jeeze.....

Only help with everything with estate was to ask when she would get her cut...

So the $2k I sent my brother was technically HIS money and sisters

one of my aunts was like that with dad

I wasn't KEEPING his money, but I did hold onto it because I knew a time would come when he needed it more

brother asks why I don't deal with them, well...

so if I tell him to keep it, it's half his money, and half a gift from Sister (unknowingly) 😄

heh

I normally am not this devious, but I make an exception for this lady

Her Xmas greeting to me was asking if she could get some stuff she wanted from mom's storage

Because she didn't want to talk to mom's fiance and wanted me to just... take care of it somehow

from 500 miles away