but just arguing about anything, nothing. we never really thought too much about it. anyway, now it was that calamitous christmas eve, 2006. as always, there had been a happy dinner celebration with brad s side of the family. christmas eve, we would go to my grandma s. they re in town. and then, back home, games and stockings stuffing. and of course a real up real early and open all the presents. lisa had no idea that brad had brought her a 3500 dollar diamond ring. and got the kids to help him pick it out. back he went in for his chance to hide it in her stocking. lisa kept filling on the computer. and the kids were playing a board game. i think it was monopoly. just played downstairs for a while and then eventually went up to our rooms. it was well after midnight when they heard the raised voices downstairs.
those were the sudden blow ups. where the moon went dark and the kids scattered. they would fight maybe once every couple of weeks or something. mostly later in the evening, at night. after they had been drinking. they would be yelling. and maybe slamming doors. things like that. but just arguing about anything, nothing. we never really thought too much about it. anyway, now it was that calamitous christmas eve, 2006. as always, there had been a happy dinner celebration with brad s side of the family. christmas eve, we would go to my grandma s. they re in town. and then, back home, games and stockings stuffing. and of course a real up real early and open all the presents. lisa had no idea that brad had brought her a 3500 dollar diamond ring. and got the kids to help him pick it out. back he went in for his chance to hide it in her stocking. lisa kept filling on the computer.
the economic drove has been fairly robust and wages and incomes are up. as you look at 2021, it does at first look like prices were up more than wages were up, but that forgets that there was an average of 3500 dollar tax cut for the average person. if you add the tax cut to the amount that wages went up, overall we are a little bit better in 2021. but i wouldn t be too rosy. there is a reason why people think that the economy is bad and that a lot of that has to do with prices. gas prices and food prices are going up. i think we can get control of that if we can get control of the virus and go back to spend money on services, which is what we used to spend money time on, and take more pressure off of physical goods.
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