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Bad Blogger–me, not the blogging platform

August 8, 2008 By pia

It’s 8/8/08 and I know this is supposed to be a great luck day and maybe it will be, but personally I can’t wait until 9/9/09 as 9 is my favorite number. In elementary school I was sent for further counseling for loving the number 9 so much.

You can read about it in the book. it makes me laugh as I know there was nothing sinister or sick about my love for 9–it has the “n” sound which is still my favorite. I think they were trying desperately to find bad neurosis in me as I did have problems and they couldn’t accept that my inability to learn many things despite my IQ and my clumsiness etc DIDN’T have to have a neurotic basis, OK psychotic, as they couldn’t find a physical base.

I’m exhausted. So much has happened since the beginning of July. I’m proud of my LIP article. It was a coming out of sorts as I sent it to every living relative. My relatives were always great to me–well my one year older boy cousin and I had a sibling rivalry–according to our Aunt A–but when we grew up we liked each other. We really like each other. Not that we’re close

My friends are my family and my sister and her family of course and my b-i-l’s family–this is getting even more exhausting.

But my family of friends are taking over my move which is happening exactly when I thought it would. (Note to self: rethink The Secret,no don’t–it was a combination of market forces, pressure on the realtors to deliver, and much else.)

I will celebrate when it’s all over. I’m overwhelmed by everything and overwhelmed by gratitude to my friends and that includes blogging friends–Alphabet Girl Who Is A Woman Now you occupy a special place in my heart–for keeping the faith and much more.

OK. I’m a bad blogger. Last Friday night my blog disappeared and while I got it back I still haven’t reinstalled the links and much else. Too much is happening in my life. Most bloggers do respect that. I find it amazing the bloggers that will de-link you immediately, not even caring about karma and really showing that they couldn’t care less about blogging as a community.

I stopped caring about links over a year and my lack of them shows that. The blogroll will be back up shortly. I apologize about that.

I plan on enjoying the next two weeks as I have to go back to New York on 8/25 to finish getting ready to move. Lucia has taken over responsibility for getting the built in wall unit down, rebuilding the wall, and painting the living room.

My sister thinks I should move to a college town, me being a great mind in need of constant stimulation and all that but I’m beginning to build myself a nice life here. I’m confused. I think I can start a book club or writing group through the library, and a writing group on the Internet.

I was going to write a post or hopefully article on what I would have done differently when I bought my apartment. Then I realized two things. Eleven years ago the info on the Internet today wasn’t around, and I didn’t buy my apartment as an investment but as a place to love and live in. Guess what? I’m going to buy my patio house as a place to love and live in also.

Me thinks I’m beginning one of those great periods of life that used to happen to me every other year for three to five years—then once a decade if I was lucky. I can’t decide if the time when Courting was hotter than hot was a great period of life or was an interesting anomaly. I don’t exactly tell people when I meet them for the first time that I have a blog and once it was taught in at least two universities and I’m a side note in blogging history.

I don’t explain why I don’t drive. Since I have been moving during the oil crisis I have been using that to my advantage and saying that I’m experimenting with living in a town with zilch public transportation without a car or valid license. Myrtle Beach actually has Greyhound buses that go everywhere, and there’s a new bus company that goes many places much cheaper and is very luxe.

I didn’t reinvent myself through my blog. I was honest but it did help me see that a person can reinvent herself, shake up her life, and become the person she was in her 20’s and 30’s before life became so complicated but without the baggage and torrid self examination

When women talk about the 40’s and early 50’s being a wondrous time, and how being over 30 brought peace and contentment I wonder about them. Did they just stop living? Were they really that together and I was missing a lot? Did they have elderly parents who were becoming more dependent and thought that was a picnic?

Life doesn’t have to be as hard as it was for me. Now that more people have aging parents, it’s not a verboten subject. My best friends found ourselves moving away from each other during our 40’s for many reasons. We have found our way back to each other, and this is a subject I might explore in my blog because if there was a mistake to be made I made it. Fortunately they love me anyway.

Filed Under: bloggers, blogging, selling an upper west side coop, upper west side Tagged With: A northerner moves to the south, baby boomer and elderly parents, baby boomers, baby boomers making new living arrangements, bloggers, blogging, north myrtle beach, selling an upper west side coop, upper west side NY

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Comments

  1. Brian says

    August 8, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Blogroll is the last thing I care about.

    Hang in there Pia.

  2. sage says

    August 8, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    Obsessed with 9, eh? lol

    Tell your sister about Coastal Carolina College! Or better yet, don’t!

    Good luck with everything.

  3. cooper says

    August 9, 2008 at 12:18 am

    I’m happy things are going well.
    As for blogrolls, I put mine on a separate page, so it is just not an issue. If people want to link to me it’s not because they are on my front page.

    You will be good for Myrtle Beach – it may take on some of what you are.

    I hope this time the good period last ten years.

  4. Doug says

    August 11, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    I can’t wait to read, in the book, how you get sent to counseling for loving 9 too much. Star-crossed numbers? But soft! What light through yonder breaks? It is the lonesome abacus and nine the promiscuous beads!

    No worries here about the blogroll. You’ll have yours fixed long before I get to mine.

  5. Bone says

    August 12, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    This is your first delinking notice from If You Read Only One Blog This Year.

    Please link to this blog within three days to avoid immediate termination or a massive public relations scandal.

    If you think you have received this notice in error, you are incorrect. We do not make mistakes.

    Link us. Now.

    Go ahead. We’ll wait.

    No, really.

    Still waiting.

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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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