My Free Money Tree in the Philippines is Bare

money I have just had a "falling out" with some of the "in-laws" that live in my compound. For some reason, they seem to think that I have an unlimited amount of cash on hand or that I'm hiding money from them — money that they think they deserve more than I do. When I start giving the details as to why we are not getting along, I'm sure you'll understand the situation from my point of view. If not, then you just aren't thinking straight.

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22nd Wedding Anniversary

Today is me and my wife's 22nd wedding anniversary. If you take into account the number of marriages that fail within the first few years and couple it with the fact that I'm Caucasian and my wife is Filipino, you can say that we tremendously beat the odds. Don't ask me for marriage advice though, because I really can't tell you how we beat those odds.

My older son is 26 years-old. He is my adopted stepson. He was 2 years-old when I and his mother met and 5 years-old when the adoption went through. Right now, he's in Germany with his wife who's in the US Air Force. I received an email message from him earlier this morning. My younger son is 21 years-old and going to college at the Global City College on SBMA. He's at school right now.

We don't have anything planned for our anniversary this year. We don't plan to do much of anything with our anniversaries until our 25th in three years. The silver anniversary will probably include something unusual, but I don't know what it is yet.

Having said all that, I'm probably going to spend the rest of the day away from the computer and with my wife, doing the things that she enjoys.