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A whole lot of nothing

May 8, 2011 By pia

This weekend was Mayfest It’s funny as it’s the ultimate beach music weekend but very few shaggers come. Lil Red and her husband have been living here forever and went for the first time yesterday as I forced them invited them nicely!!!
We had perfect seats. Our beach chairs were on the side near the entrance to a hotel bar and bathroom. We could see, drink and….Perfect! And only four blocks from home.

Then this morning for the fourth Sunday in a row my New York Times didn’t come. Yes. I. Am. Taking. This. Personally. I already gave up the other six days of the week as the delivery person only delivered on Sundays. Then she/he stopped. Jobs are scarce here so it really angers me when somebody has a job with a guaranteed salary plus tips and doesn’t deliver. Or am I supposed to be understanding? Does the delivery person only think liberals read The Times and therefore delivery isn’t important? Or did the person notice the Mezzuah on my front door and actually know what it is and dislike it?

When the paper claims they assigned a supervisor to investigate and the paper still doesn’t come–nor does the replacement copy you start asking yourself all sorts of stupid stuff. I don’t want to open my computer on Sundays but need the number and then need to twitter my complaint.* So on Sunday’s I’m a regular Debbie Downer! God do I hate cute and cloying expressions. When did women begin receiving visits from Aunt Flo? It’s the stupidest expression I have ever heard. Just had to get that out.

I know somebody who lost his home to foreclosure this past week and have been both sad and upset. My inclination is to help but I can’t lend money. I was giving this person work but I want to go on vacation. I want to spend some money on myself. I, I, and more I. It’s all about me.

I understand that times are tough and we have to help each other. But what happens when you have helped and helped a person and the money doesn’t go to the mortgage? I was taught that you pay rent, mortgage, whatever keeps a roof over your head first, then I guess anything to do with a car, then electric.

Oh hell I’m overly responsible, and almost offered to pay this persons bills for him but that wouldn’t help in the long run and I hate paying my own bills. So I’m sad and feel guilty that I can’t help more when he ignored the problem for too long. Round here and in some conservative blogs I read it’s assumed that Republicans are responsible and God’s gift to the world when Democrats aren’t responsible.

Well he likes Palin and Bachmann and I am very proud of President Obama. Bin Laden and stem cell research all in one week!!!!!!!!! Even Bill Clinton couldn’t get government funded stem cell research passed. As I said on Facebook where I’m actually funny when appropriate and clever when needed, if stem cell research had been passed years ago I might be bitching about having to celebrate Mother’s Day instead of wistfully remembering my mother as her only problem was macular degeneration and they kept waiting for stem cell research.

My Mom was always ahead of her time. She made motherhood look like a walk in the park, was older though looked younger and I miss her everyday.

I finally made it to the front page of Psychology Today though it might not be by the time you read this!

That’s three essential reads and one front page which is very rare for Personal Perspectives so I’m proud. But I thought that a post about a birth mother–separating the reality from the fantasy–would be well received. And it’s an indirect homage to the only Mother I care about and no longer feel guilty about that!
So I think my Mom would like that post. Actually she loved most things I wrote. But she only read my researched articles which were pithy, factual and she claimed, fascinating!
*I realize how absurd that statement is. Many people here don’t have health insurance. Tourism is the only industry. Many people are a paycheck or less from eviction or foreclosure. So when a person has a job they should do it and be glad to. If I knew I wasn’t going to get the paper I would read the magazine and other sections during the week. But I always think “this week it will come.” Never pays to be an optimist or relax about anything–and I moved here to optimistically relax

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: a fish out of water, A northerner moves to the south

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Comments

  1. Bone says

    May 8, 2011 at 10:04 am

    A couple of weeks ago, I was halfway through a post about Aunt Flo before I realized the blogger wasn’t referring to her mother’s sister. Thanks for not subjecting me to such here.

    Your PT article is excellent, and turned into a wonderful tribute to your mother. Congrats on your front page status!

    Also, something tells me the most important thing in this post to you is your New York Times not being delivered 🙂

  2. pia says

    May 8, 2011 at 11:04 am

    @Bone
    Thanks for understanding me 🙂 My Mom would die if she weren’t from that absurd expression that’s just so darn clever, I want to shake the people who use it out of their stupefied lives.

  3. Elly Lou says

    May 8, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    I tried so damn hard to get the Sunday Times, but week after week it didn’t show. It’s possible it was stolen, I suppose, but the replacement copies never showed either. I’m about to move and I hope to try it again…but this post doesn’t have me feeling very optimistic.

  4. pia says

    May 8, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    @Elly Lou
    Good luck. I live in a cul de sac and have one neighbor who wouldn’t be interested and the family next door is hardly ever here. This morning I sat on the front deck from the time I called to the time it was too late for the replacement copy to come. Nada.
    And they wonder why they’re losing money and subscriptions!!!!!

  5. Sage says

    May 8, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    Even back in the late 70s, I was able buy the NTY on Sunday afternoon at a newstand in Wilmington–I remember getting it after church and it would be Tuesday or Wednesday before I had it read… I hope your service gets better–there are a lot of things I don’t mind reading on the computer–but I do like the feel of a newspaper and a book.

  6. Doug says

    May 9, 2011 at 6:44 am

    I’m also annoyed when people don’t do jobs they have, but I blame the liberals.

  7. pia says

    May 9, 2011 at 6:54 am

    @Sage
    I actually got used to reading it on computer but can’t decide between tablet or desktop. And have different ways of reading depending on the way I’m reading

  8. pia says

    May 9, 2011 at 6:56 am

    @Doug
    Kind of hard to blame the liberals here when there are so few of us. I’m actually just blaming the delivery person

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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.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
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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