What is something others do that sparks your admiration?
I’m not sure that I admire people, but I will say that something I admire and love about others is when they tell the truth no matter what. I also admire it when people are loyal to others in that they do not talk badly about others even when they are not around. I love it when people are not fake and have good morals and ethics.
Do you ever see wild animals?
I see wild animals all the time, almost daily. In fact, there was a raccoon on my roof the other day just sitting there eating something. And I have horses and I ride them the trail, so I often see deer, coyotes and other wild animals, even bears sometimes. We also have opossums and skunks around here. On occasion, I do see a fox or two. And I have run into the occasional mountain lion and bobcat.
Are you more of a night or morning person?
I have never really thought about whether I am an evening or a morning person. I suppose it depends on the day and what is going on. I think I am usually more of a morning person though, because I am normally not the type of person who likes to stay up really late. I’d rather get up at 6:00 am and start my day. Although I do like working out later in the day, depending on the day. In the evening I’d rather just lounge around and watch tv.
Last year my dad died unexpectedly. At this time last year, it was the last two weeks of my dad’s life, but of course at the time we didn’t know that. Ironically we discussed what would happen if one of my parents passed away, which was odd, but then two weeks later I got the call from my mom that my dad had been rushed to the hospital, and the doctors were trying to revive him. My husband, son and I started driving to the hospital but my dad was gone before we could get there.
One of the things that we discussed with my parents last year, was that if something happened to either one of my parents, the surviving person could sell the house for a good amount of money so they would have enough money to live on and not have to worry about anything. And that is where we’re at right now……we just sold my parents’ house, and I am standing in the middle of the house and it’s empty. And it’s no longer my mother’s house. It’s owned by somebody else who apparently is going to completely gut it and add a second story to it, and perhaps add a garage under the first floor because the guy says he has six cars. My mom does it know this is going to happen, and I don’t know if she would care, but I’m just not going to tell her just in case.
So I’m standing in the middle of the house. It’s quiet. It’s just me. The house feels different. I am remembering all of the good times, and thinking about all of the memories in this house. I told my husband to wait outside because I wanted a few minutes in the house alone, and I wanted to be the last one inside the house before the new owner took possession. I look out my old bedroom window for the last time and remember how my boyfriend used to come to my bedroom window in the middle of the night. We would talk through the window, and he would tell me about his day at the police academy, or we would discuss other things. It was a nice time….just he and I in the middle of the night talking and nothing more. In fact, many of my friends would come to my bedroom window and sit and talk to me. I had a lot of interesting conversations at that bedroom window.
It’s weird that the house is not going to be my parents’ house anymore. I can’t wrap my head around it even though I am adult with a family ad my own house, I guess I just never thought this day would come. It feels odd. I hope the new owner treats the house well, but I don’t think he will. I think the guy that bought the house is a jackass to be honest with you, but it is what it is. He’s a screenwriter. He’s not a very good screenwriter, but he thinks that he is.
Sidebar……I just heard that the National Historical Society for the city is not going to approve the renovation for the house, and I admit that I am laughing about it because the new owner is an obnoxious prick. But now…….Mr Screenwriter is pissed off. Oh well! I wish that a family had bought my parents’ house. Maybe this guy will sell it now that he cannot do what he wants, and I do get the impression that he often gets his way. Not this time!
Goodby house! You are full of memories and you have good energy. Maybe some of your good energy will rub off on the new owner. Or maybe he just needs to get laid. Who knows.
Name your top three pet peeves.
Hmmmm….I’m not sure that I have actually thought about what may pet peeves would be, but I guess if I am going to come up with something to answer the question I would say that a pet peeve would be when people block the aisle at the market and look at social media on their phone. I understand looking at shopping lists on your phone, but I’m talking about being rude and not paying attention to other people around you because you want to watch someone lick cake off the floor on TikTok. LOL.
And I suppose another pet peeve would be people who can’t wait their turn in line at a left turn signal like everyone else, and they cut people.
And to summarize it, rude people in general who do not consider other people’s feelings.
I am on the Nextdoor app and half of the time I am not even sure why I am on it. Sometimes there are some useful posts and information, but most of the time people are arguing on the posts and telling people they are stupid for making the post. However, I would not have the amazing plumber and air conditioning company that I have had I not asked for recommendations on Nextdoor, so there is that. Honestly, most of the time there is a bunch of drivel and negativity, and my most recent post on Nextdoor is proof of that.
Last week I saw a couple of posts on Nextdoor about an Amazon delivery driver who may have removed the item being delivered from the packaging and just set the empty envelope in front of their door, and pretended he delivered an envelope with something inside. I could see from the Ring video posted that it was the same guy, and it was about a mile from me both times. The other day I got a delivery and when I went to retrieve it about a minute after the Amazon driver left it, I found an empty envelope, and there should have been two paperback books in there. I inspected the envelope and I could see where it had been carefully opened and resealed. Ironically, the two books were about crime. I was pretty miffed because these books were a birthday present to myself, and I was really looking forward to reading them. But all I had was an empty envelope.
I looked at the footage from my Ring camera and what do you know, it was the same Amazon driver from the other two posts on Nextdoor. I attempted to find those other two posts so I could add my Ring video to one of the posts, but wouldn’t you know I could not long find either post, which is typical for Nextdoor…..you can never find a post ever again. Ok, so I decided to create my own post about this guy because apparently we have an Amazon driver in the area who is stealing from people. Worth posting about it right? Um well…….sure. LOL
So I started my post. I didn’t want attention from the post; I just wanted to inform and I was hoping that maybe, just maybe, people would realize that. Silly me. I tried to think of all the things that people would tell me so that I could add them to my post, like “Did you report it because you need to report it”, “How do you know he delivered an empty envelope”, actually you could see in the video that the envelope clearly did not have two books in it but ok…….“Did you ask for a replacement”, and so on and so forth. I felt that I explained the situation really thoroughly and carefully. I felt that I was clear that I only meant to inform, and I stated that since there were two other incidents just like this with the same Amazon delivery guy, that maybe people needed to know. Um sure.
The post did not disappoint. There were people commenting seconds after I created the post telling me to report it (I clearly said I reported it), people telling me I could get a replacement. People saying that they appreciate my post. People telling me that Amazon sucks. One of the people who this also happened to commiserated with me and said they appreciate me also reporting this. But then……all the idiotic comments started to appear. “You have way too much time on your hands. This is a stupid post.” “Get over it and just request new books. Why do you need to tell the neighbors about this.” “Quit freaking out and get a life.” “Thanks for wasting my time with this crap.” “You’re making way too big a deal about this. Calm down!!!” “Who cares! You’re an idiot!” “You can’t prove the driver took it. What if someone ran up to your door and took it. Stop accusing people of committing crime!” And so on and so on……I actually laughed about it because I knew what was going to happen, although I did hold out hope that perhaps I would not get all these crazy comments.
So I sat there and kept reading the comments as they appeared. There were 200 comments in all before I stopped reading them. Only about 50 were supportive, and the rest were mean and viscous. One of my reactions was, “Shit, these people live in my community! Yikes!” I purposely do not have my actual address listed nor do I have my profession or anything about myself just for the reason that people seem to be a little nutty. Although, I am not sure if they are just hiding behind a keyboard and in person they would not act like this?
I have noticed a pattern about comments on posts on any type social media, etc., because they are all the same. You have the supportive comments, then the comments that attack, then someone attacking the attackers, then someone telling the poster that they are sorry it happened or that they support whatever, then the comments where there is an attack and I’m not even sure what the person is saying…..it’s like they just attack randomly. It’s always the same. I have studied hundreds of posts on social media, and there is always the same pattern.
So I sat there wondering if I was going to delete the Nextdoor app, because really what good is it? I did delete my post and I did not reply to anyone because why give life to the idiots. Lol. I have found some good information on the app, and sometimes I am grateful for the information posted about the neighborhood. I decided to give it time to see if it’s worth it to keep it, and I won’t make any decisions today. However, this morning I was already alerted to a post about someone’s dog peeing on someone else’s lawn and there was a video of the offender, with the poster losing their mind over a dog peeing at the edge of their lawn. I just laughed. I am betting that I will appear in a video with my cute little Jack Russell peeing at the edge of someone’s lawn. And of course the comments do not disappoint!
What major historical events do you remember?
One of the first major historical events that I remember was when Ronald Reagan was shot. I was 12 at the time, and I remember that the Iran hostage crisis was ongoing at that time too. I didn’t pay much attention to the news at that age, but my dad always watched the 6:00 pm news with Walter Cronkite, so I sometimes paid attention to what was happening. I remember tuning out a lot of what was happening.
The first major historical event that really affected me as an adult was 911. I remember everything about that day, and where I was when I heard what was happening. At first I thought it was a skit being put on by Mark and Brian, the two guys I used to listen to first thing in the morning on KLOS radio station. But I soon realized that they were not joking. I was a horse trainer at the time, and I was close to the stable so I went to work anyway.
When I got to the stable everyone was watching a tv that one of the other horse trainers had. We all thought that we were going to get bombed. I ended up going back home to talk to my then husband, who was not concerned at all, and told me I’m an idiot for caring about it. Actually he was the idiot, and I divorced him a year later. But that’s beside the point.
What are you most proud of in your life?
I think the thing that I am more proud of is my perseverance to not give up even when I really wanted to give up. I realized my dream of starting my own business and being my own boss because I did not give up.
I’m going to vent for a minute just because I need to. It’s been a rough year, and people have not been kind. This year is better than last year, but it has still been a weird year and I’m over it.
I’m at a point where I just might start carrying a spray bottle full of water so I can start spritzing rude people in the face. Now wouldn’t that be something! I am imagining people’s reaction. But I won’t do it. Lol.
I would also like to start knocking cell phones out of people’s hands too. I think we as a society spend way too much time looking at our phones. I admit I used to look at my phone too much at times, but I no longer look at my phone very much, and I actually feel better.
It has been unseasonably hot this month and I think the heat is getting to people. But perhaps it is also the way that society has changed. People have become so rude, and think that they can say or do whatever they want. People often do not think about what their words do to others.
Ok, what else is bothering me today. My mother is a very rude person and she seems to think that it’s ok to say whatever she wants to me. I don’t think she realizes how bad she makes me feel sometimes, and if I tell her she dismisses me and gets upset, and tells me I’m a bad person.
My husband was a jackass today. Sometimes he is just a jackass. Nobody’s perfect, including me, but I do know that I definitely do not actually ever intend to hurt other people verbally, but my husband does not think its an issue to yell at me from time to time. And ever since my son turned 18 he has been telling his dad to stuff it when he is rude. My son is 6ft 2 inches and my husband is 5ft 10 inches so my son wins those arguments. Ha, ha! But I do tell my son to not be disrespectful to his dad.
Things have been so crazy lately that I even abandoned my blog for awhile, but I am going to make every effort to keep writing and not give up again.
What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Hmmm. Maybe that is a question better left unanswered. LOL. But okay, if I am going to answer it, then something most people do not know about me is that I am really good at learning languages. In fact, I am so good at learning language that I taught myself basic Turkish just by watching Turkish dramas with subtitles. I speak, read and write Spanish fluently, I am fairly fluent in French, and I can understand basic Italian/Sicilian.
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