Up to Her (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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She was a whiz kid, according to Ms. G, straight A student with AP classes up the wazoo, scholarship money for school, and her eyes on becoming a pediatrician someday.

She flunked out of her single disastrous semester of college, losing her scholarship and her way, taking up with the high school football star who also didn't live up to his potential and went to seed in a bad way.

She and boyfriend ended up living with her mom, he couldn't get a job because he couldn't pass a drug test, she drifting and uncertain.

The nail in her coffin was his convincing her to pawn a couple of items of jewelry he claimed he'd had for years but actually had been stolen from their landlord's house across the street, resulting in both of their arrests and, of course, the landlord evicting the whole group effective immediately.

This past weekend Ms. G spent helping mom and mom's sister pack up everything and move to mom's sister's house while she agreed to a 28-day inpatient stay at rehab as opposed to being left on the street with no food, money or phone; boyfriend will cool his heels in jail until and unless he can make bond, which is doubtful in the near future and probably right where he needs to be.

She now has to decide to either get on the straight and narrow for real and do whatever she has to do to get the court and the landlord to drop the charges and let her pay restitution, or face a life of no options because of a criminal record, and she has until the end of the 28 days to make up her mind.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Nail.      

(Another of those true stories Ms. G somehow gets mixed up in.)

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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!

I really like white picket fences.

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

I'm going to live my best life,

not boring, meek and mild,

adventure's what I long for,

to make it wet and wild!

I can't believe I'm finally here,

I'm living out my dream,

We're on the rapids goin' for broke

and I can't help but scream!

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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

Today i am thankful for my mostly drama-free life!

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Today is:

Bachelors' Day -- according to legend, and you may pick which you prefer:

     a) women are allowed to propose to men on this day, because of a deal St. Bridget made with St. Patrick, and a man who refuses such a proposal must pay her a penalty, or

     b) this is the one day of the year bachelors are immune from marriage proposals

International Underlings' Day -- created by Peter D. Morris for all of us who are neither a boss nor a professional assistant, as both of those have their own day; unofficially celebrated on Feb. 28 or Mar. 1 in non leap years, but this year it's official!

Leap Year Day

Rare Disease Day  

St. Oswald of Worcester's Day

Surf and Turf Day

Birthdays Today

Antonio Sabato, Jr., 1972

Tony Robbins, 1960

Gretchen Christopher, 1940

Jack Lousma, 1936

Dinah Shore, 1916

Jimmy Dorsey, 1904

William Wellman, 1896

Herman Hollerith, 1860

Gioacchino Rossini, 1792

Ann Lee, 1736

Today in History

The Romans create the first Leap Year by adding a day to their calendar, BC46

The Scottish Parliament makes it illegal for a man to refuse to marry a woman who proposes on Leap Day, the only day women could propose; his penalty for refusing would be to give her a kiss, some gold, and a pair of gloves (to hide the fact that she didn't have a wedding ring), 1288

Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies, 1504

February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style, 1712

The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations, 1796

St. Petersburg, Florida, is incorporated, 1892

In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old, 1916

Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air, 1936

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award, 1940

In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco, 1940

An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country, 1960

The Family Circus comic strip debuts, 1960

In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds), 1964

Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract, 1972

Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal, 1980

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader, 1984

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town, 1988

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup, 2004

Construction of the Tokyo Skytree is completed, the tallest tower in the world and the second tallest artificial structure in the world, 2012

The US and The Taliban sign a deal to end 18-year war in Afghanistan, 2020