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My home improvement project

March 23, 2008 By pia

That was the title of a post I wrote yesterday. I was so excited because I changed the battery to a smoke alarm. The smoke alarm is in what many of you call the “spare room.” There’s a smoke alarm in the master bedroom, another in the hallway over the stair case and two more downstairs. It went off when I took a shower in the master bedroom.

In New York we name all of our rooms. Actually we give five names to different areas of the living room. Here’s the study (pretend there’s a picture of a desk). Here’s the dining room (see imaginary desk,) This is the library. Over there is the sitting area, and that section is the actual living room.

I was feeling very proud of myself. In New York I would have gone to the house phone, spoke to the doorman, told him it was an emergency and have the handyman come up. I do have much higher ceilings in New York.

Did I mention I’m scared of heights and equally scared of live wires? When I first opened the smoke alarm, I saw live wires and almost fell off the ladder. But I went on. I had to. The smoke alarm had stopped its long siren call and went into a one a minute high pitched sound guaranteed to drive a person crazy.

This morning I took a long shower. The smoke alarm in the computerspare room went off. I can’t imagine that steam from a shower set it off….I’m calling a handyman. The high pitched sound hasn’t happened. It might. My BFF, Lucia is convinced it’s only a matter of minutes.

I haven’t been here three weeks yet and I’m relaxed. Or as relaxed as I’m capable of being.

I had some business that occupied most of my time for the two weeks before I came here. Everything was finally finished Saturday and I was able to go to the beach, two blocks from my house, in March.

That is worth everything to me. I think I love it here.

I have been watching the complete first season of Friday Night Lights. Dillon is a small Texas town where everything revolves around football. Personally I find football to be incredibly boring, and have been to exactly one game in my life. Friday Night Lights transcends football.

I forget that I’m watching TV and feel intimately involved in each person’s life. It’s an amazing show that deserves to be renewed for a third season. The first three episodes can be slow at times but are necessary to set the stories up.

I also have the first complete first season of 30 Rock, Gone, Baby, Gone, No Country for Old Men, and four of James Spader’s best films.

I’m not watching as much TV as I had planned to. It’s so beautiful here and I feel compelled to be outside as much as possible. This particular area feels like the North Fork of Long Island but with a real ocean–can’t help it I’m from Long Island and tend to compare places to places I know. It’s very country like.

When I’m inside, it’s even fun to clean. I was running the dishwasher and washer/dryer every day but have come down to earth.

Life is good and getting better every day. I reserve the right to change that last sentence.

Filed Under: north myrtle beach Tagged With: north myrtle beach, ramblings

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Comments

  1. TC says

    March 24, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Don’t be so sure it wasn’t the steam from the shower. In my brother and sister-in-law’s old house, every.single.time. I took a shower in their guest bathroom (or just about anyone took a shower in that bathroom), the smoke detectors went off. It was ridiculous.

    I thought I was renting the movie Friday Night Lights one weekend and ended up with the first disk of the first season – I was totally hooked. When I finally watched the movie I was very disappointed. The show is great, the movie not-so-much.

  2. sage says

    March 24, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Funny calling a handiman for a smoke detector! I’m glad you are enjoying Myrtle Beach.

  3. paisley says

    March 24, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    i hate to be the one that said…..”i told you so….” but i will!!!!! let it happen girl you will love it there and it will love you too!!!!

  4. Bone says

    March 25, 2008 at 2:12 am

    I think I love it here.

    That made me happier than anything in this post 🙂 So glad to hear it. I watched more non-sports-related TV tonight than I have in quite awhile–Two & A Half Men and The New Adventures Of Old Christine.

    Oh, and I firmly believe some smoke alarms are an entity.

  5. Wadena says

    March 25, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Yeah, you need an exorcist, not a handyman.

    No, actually….all you need is a hammer.

  6. WriterKat says

    April 1, 2008 at 12:29 am

    I like your NY descriptions of rooms.

    I have family in the south and they have “Great rooms”. What is a great room? For me it would be self cleaning and full of books.

    I went to an open house one day, it had a fainting room. I got a kick out of that.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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