u/tchotchke_editor87

▲ 30 r/Agates

[MN] Complete Laker w/ Amethyst Core on After Work Walk-About

Found this little guy on top of a large pile of discarded rocks mud and trees. Love to find them when they're still whole. With a tiny little peek of purple showing off. Found at a construction site just east of downtown St Paul Minnesota

u/tchotchke_editor87 — 1 day ago
▲ 20 r/wine

True to form, tablespoons are all that's necessary. So deep. molasses, toasted vanilla, Hard candy, cane juice. Clean palate. Zero cloy. I will share it over the week. After I have a thorough inspection. Sláinte

u/tchotchke_editor87 — 15 days ago

Steel toe. Stamp says "9 EE 09514". I can't find anything about that style. Everything seems to start with 8 or 4? I live about 30 minutes from Redwing MN so I could just pop buy lol. They are so comfortable and I love them. Thanks!

u/tchotchke_editor87 — 22 days ago

3 years on and I've finally run out of money. My lawyers are calling in my debt. They are going to withdraw from my case one week before my pretrial hearing. I don't blame them. They have a business to run and they deserve to be paid.

My ex has been trying for 3 years to take my child to Washington State. I live in Minnesota. Kid was born and raised here until mom up and left out of the blue while I was gone on a trip for work. I got the court to issue a ex parte order to force her to return to Minnesota after she refused to return and refused to be served in Washington. Ever since then it's been one defeat after another for her. Her psych eval said she was lying. Our custody evaluator said in her final report that if she wanted to stay in Washington I should be awarded primary custody and that she should only get one week a month. Mom has been flying child back and forth between Minnesota and Washington every week for the past 3 years much to the detriment of the little one. No one can seem to stop her or get it through her head that it is hurting our kid.

Now we finally have our pre trial and mediation in front of the judge. But with everything that has happened mom still refuses to give up.

Problem is she's loaded.

I'm not poor by any means. I've had the same job for 7 years and make over six figures. But I have finally found the bottom. I have emptied my 401k. Took out a second mortgage. And I have over 40K in credit card debt all for the lawyers and evaluators and mediators and the court. I was finally forced to sell my house. But it's taking longer than I had hoped and it won't be finalized before my lawyer withdraws.

Even with the home sale I would break even without being able to pay any of my credit card bills.

So what do I do? I feel like giving up. But then I think about my kid and her growing up without me or at least in a much reduced capacity and I can't bear it.

At this point I plan on going pro se because I have no other choices. Luckily the majority of the complicated stuff is out of the way, and she has already dug her hole for herself. But I find it so overwhelming to think about having to go it alone. And what if I f*** it up. Then I lose the kid and I'm out everything literally everything. I have to stop because I have to go to work and I don't want people to see that I've been crying in my car.

Anyone go pro se and succeed? I just don't have the organizational skills or the discipline too learn everything that I need to know before I go to court.

I'm not a religious man necessarily but pray for me,

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u/tchotchke_editor87 — 23 days ago

I keep thinking about how if this was a character on OeeWee's Playhouse, it would be the Swol Coffee Table that keeps trying to fight everyone at the bar.

u/tchotchke_editor87 — 24 days ago

Hey y'all. A friend of my father's received these items in a shadow box as payment for whatever it is he does. This gentleman asked my father to possibly sell them in his consignment shop that my mother and father run. The guy told my dad that he thought if they were made by a modern knapper. I told him that I thought the obsidian ones were modern but I wasn't sure about the mat black ones. They appear to have been made very long ago and have very soft edges and a sort of patina. We don't want to mislead anyone at the shop obviously, so I said I would post them here to see what y'all think. I appreciate the help. Thanks.

u/tchotchke_editor87 — 24 days ago