South Carolina is the state of “Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places”, but apparently the tourism board has never been to Florence SC (where the McDonald’s incident occurred). Neither smiling, nor beautiful. With crazed men, sitting on buckets in parking lots cursing out families exiting McDonald’s (although, said bucket-man was nice enough point out to me that…
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I’ve got an idea! An idea so smart that my head would explode if I even began to know what I’m talking about
Dear Food Service Representative, who worked at McDonald’s in Florence SC (and whose name was rubbed out), I know your shift was almost over, but as a customer of your fine establishment I expect, no, demand that you fulfill your duty till my order is finished (at the very least). Actually listening is a good…
Read MoreI wasn’t betting: why don’t you just shut up for about a week?
Summer is here – with a vengeance. 90 degrees. No school. Sweating. Irritability. Discovering a summer schedule. Vacation on the horizon. Needless to say, I\’m distracted. Saturday Sonya and I got to go out – the first time in about 2 months. We went down to Newport on the Levee and dinned at Claddagh Irish…
Read MoreIf It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother
Some things are easier to be candid about than others, yet it’s the things that I am more apt to hide that I want my friends to know about. Some things seem to be connected to so much pain that it seems almost trite to just let them roll off my tongue, if you know…
Read MoreIt’s just easier to call you stupid
From now on, the titles are all Family Guy quotes because my brain is far to exhausted to be original. My body intuitively knows that “school is out”. 17 years (or so) of having 3 months leisure is ingrained into my system. Everything in me is shutting down – putting on shorts, watching the blue…
Read MoreWelcome to the wait
Not much to report in the circus. It feels as if we’ve pulled into a sidetrack waiting for others to pass by as we wait. The weekend? Meh. Normal. We had the “inspection” Saturday morning – we all went to the Wilcoxon’s for about an hour and half (Sonya and Kim exercised, the kids and…
Read MoreCaught up in the whirlwind
It feels as though I’ve been swooped up by a current and it’s a bit exhausting. I’m just about zapped of physical and mental energy and will be happy when we can truly celebrate the selling of our house and the buying of another. Our house was on the market three days and in those…
Read MoreNo slowing down
The race continues. Today Tony comes over to take some pictures, have us fill out paperwork and I’d assume in a few days we’ll be ready to have the “For Sale” sign in our front yard. Today is the inspection of the new house. And sometimes Jerry (electrician) comes over to fix our broken doorbell,…
Read MoreWelcome to our home
So, we were up late last night with Tony (again, let me reiterate, the best realtor) making our offering, signing our name and initials, proposing when too close and when to move (and had several moments of diversion and joking). So, today there was one counter offer, one final approval on our part and the…
Read MoreNo turning back
There’s not turning back. The offer is “out there” now. Better still – our current house isn’t even on the market. Nope. Not even ready to show. We are idiots, but have this insane faith that it will sell fast (after we get things up to par to show — like clean our clutter, minimize,…
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