‘allo!!

So this guy walks into a bar and says "ouch!"

hehe…  I was out at a crawfish boil on Saturday.  It was a lot of fun, with good people, good food, and even some good beer!  All day long I kept looking around for another non-smoker.  I guess that group of friends likes to hang out with other smokers, because everyone there smoked except me.  They were passing around lighters because I think only two people had them.  Ah the memories of trying to get your lighter back from friends who had pocketed them.  (SO glad those days are over!)  I realized something at the same time I realized I was the only non-smoker;  I didn’t WANT one.  They weren’t bothering me as much as the citronella candles that were burning everywhere, but I just didn’t want one.  Does that mean I’m truly a non-smoker now?  It was so nice to figure that out.  Then I got to work today, and was stressing out at one point, and thought to myself, "a cigarette break would sure be nice right about now!".  I don’t really now if I wanted a cigarette, or if I just wanted a break.  I’m hoping the break.  I guess it doesn’t matter because I didn’t get either.  🙂  The one, I wouldn’t take, and the other, I couldn’t.  Oh well.

So I am moving along on getting my house ready for the market.  I think I should be ready in about a week or two, if I keep at it.  I had  a friend move in temporarily.  It will help with the bills, and he just needs someplace to stay until he buys a condo or something.  He’s looking with my real estate agent, so if he buys through her, I’ll get  a referral bonus.  That’ll come in handy!

I went down to Myrtle Beach, SC, and Charlotte, NC for a week before Memorial Day.  Had a good time.  My God children’s parents treated me and the Godmother to a weekend at the beach in a condo with them and the kids.  It was a very nice condo, right on the beach.  I think I would prefer to be on a higher up floor.  We were on the first floor, overlooking the hot tub and pool.  Directly outside my bedroom door to the balcony was the hot tub.  Normally, this could be a good thing.  (except one day when there was a woolly mammoth in the hot tub…  shudder!!!)  but every night we were there, a group of kids (different kids each night) from the bar next door would decide it would be a good idea to jump the four foot fence and get in the hot tub and pool of our condo complex.  and if you haven’t guessed it by now, kids coming out of the bar next door at closing time don’t know how to be secretive about it.  There was no whispering and courtesy for those people around them who might want to be oh, say sleeping? at 3 AM!!!!  I could hear them throwing each other in the pool, screaming when thrown, hilarious uproars of laughter…  You get the hint.  Now this wouldn’t be a bad thing if I were my parents.  It takes a LOT to wake them up, because they are both chainsaws.  Some nights you think they are trying to see who can snore louder than the other.  Or having snoring conversations…   I, on the other hand, wake up if someone comes in the room.  They could be hovering over the floor.  They don’t have to make noise.  They don’t have to breathe.  I just sense their presence and wake up.  Noise….  yeah, not something I can deal with when trying to sleep.  And I had an abundance of that, every night I was at the condo, between 1 and 3 AM somewhere.  But only for about 3 minutes for each group.  The condo complex security was good!  It never took them long to be down there shooing away the trespassers.  The last night we were there was the night that took the longest for security to show up (about ten minutes that day).  I figured, let’s see what we have here…  and got up and checked out the kids…  Well, I say "kids", but they were all legal adults.   I could tell that by the fact that they were all very well intoxicated, so they MUST be 21 or more, right?  Well…  I checked them out.  The girls were all pretty good looking.  The guys were about 50/50.  They did have nice bodies though, sitting there in their wet underwear when they got out of the hot tub or pool…  yes, they were all in their underwear, girls included.  I could see pants lying all around.  It was kinda of fun to watch!  Nothing physical happened, but it was still fun to watch.  The best looking guy actually got out of the hot tub and stood in his dripping underwear for a while.  Unfortunately, he was wearing boxers, so nothing could be seen…  only imagined…  LOL

I went to Charlotte after Myrtle Beach and spent a few days with the Godchildren and their parents.  It was relaxing, but I started chomping on the bit to come home and work on the house, so I came home on Friday and had Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to work on the house.  And I did.  I finished my walk in closet, and made some pretty good progress on the kitchen.  LIttle bit more and she’ll be ready! 

Well, I better get to the get-go, and get something done around here.  Talk to you all soon!  Everyone take care and enjoy this beautiful weather!  (the summer weather, not specifically the weather going on right now).