The Medic Dad Chronicles

I have spoken in the past on some of my financial woes, being in so much debt will really bring you down. You sit there and work day after day after day to try to get ahead and go nowhere. I will never forget the day that my friend Bill asked me..." so Jed(my nickname when I worked in Germany, more on that later), You have been working here for 6 years or so(and he did some math out loud in the air) and you should have made about $300k, what do you have to show for it?" I was making great money when I was working over there, unfortunately, I was spending a lot of money as well. The biggest issue was that I didn't have anything to show for it. I was smart enough not to buy new cars all the time, but I was dumb with my money in other ways. I remember that I saved $10k in the last couple of months before I moved to Ga and that was all I had to start with when I got here. I had to buy a house, fix it up, and then get the rest of my family from Germany. So here I am with no mo...

 So, I had a request to write more family stories, some of these will be funny, and some may not be so funny. There is a small stone house somewhat in the middle of our town, It has been turned into several different businesses over the years. When the kids were younger that house was turned into a little restaurant and the owner was a friend of ours. The food was pretty good and all the kids could find something they liked. Well, as our luck would have it they had a karaoke machine. I am not sure how it all came about but Chris decided that he was going to sing a song. Now mind you this is a smaller place and the majority of the people eating there are on the older side. So Chris goes out and looks at the book with all the songs listed and picks one out. So here we all are looking at Chris when the music starts, and the kids are laughing right away as they know what it is. It took Angie and I a hot second to place it, it was "Right Thurr" by Chingy! Needless to say Angie and...