Yes! I did not remember the fellow who asked to be my friend on Face Book but I agreed to allow him to become my friend after several interview questions that I hope did not annoy him too much.
The truth is he is an attorney and accountant who had graduated the same year I did from my old high school, but I moved two years before graduation and I had actually graduated from another high school just a few towns away. We had even gone to the same junior high, but I still didn’t remember him. I Googled him to find out about him and he did definitely seem safe. Oddly enough since I agreed to allow him to be, ‘a friend’, many other people I once knew from growing up in that town appeared on my list with him as the common denominator of knowing them too; interesting.
And so I spent most of today, on and off checking this all out, and deciding just who I would ask to join me as a friend; so far no takers. We will see.
I am one of those very selective type people with a little fear mixed in. After all I had a stalker on Yahoo. He really couldn’t do too much but annoy me when I tried playing Dominoes, he would follow me from table to table. He did ask personal questions, which I of course did not answer and always wanted to chat which I didn’t I just wanted to play dominoes. Not so serious.
I read where one of my old buddies had flash flooding at her home with pictures and films just awful! It brought back the horror of going through Hurricane Charley August 13.2004, a Friday, and being stuck in our hallway with our puppy,cat and bird for four hours as our home was destroyed around us! Natural disasters are the worse because they are so unpredictable. Charley was supposed to hit Tampa 100 miles north of here, but it took a sharp right turn the last minute!
I find it difficult looking at pictures from any disasters since that fateful day, and when Katrina hit I think it triggered post traumatic stress syndrome.
Our home had to be rebuilt, and we had to do most of the work since we were under insured at that time, 80K insurance payment is all we got when we had more than 100K damage. Now we are insured for more than twice as much with the premiums to go with it. Living on a saltwater canal has advantages like being 5 minutes by boat to the harbor, fish pond, and with our pool some would say we have everything and we think we do too, but for a price. Our little retirement home is all new now (actually since five days before Christmas in 2004) and just perfect for us. It’s petite, but with my physical challenges these days it is just my right size, and we love it! We have two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a sunroom which is where our computer is with giant windows to the backyard facing the canal, pond and swimming pool, very nice view, a garage with a 10’X12’ workshop in the back of it plus a couple of well built sheds of stucco that match our home’s design.
I must always remember not to harp on that horrible day, but every year we have to deal with that threat, although we had been living here 18 years when Charley hit us directly. We had lived in Florida when Andrew hit back in 1992 but we lived five and half hours north of there, and we did go down to help after. That devastation was horrendous too, but then we could go home, this time we were home, big difference!
Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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