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So on june first i arrive at my cottage in michigan. i had given the renter 3 months notice that i would be back on june 1st. plenty of time to find another place.
when i arrived i could not believe the horrific state of my house. i left it fully furnished with antiques. nearly everything was...
After driving from Ft. Worth to St. Louis just before Memorial Day, i caught up with college room mate and his new girlfriend who is a retired polo player. we stayed at her family's estate. we stayed up until 5 a.m. talking and drinking. the next day we went next door to the polo field and took...
Several weeks ago the neighborhood children a couple of properties over arrived at my house to sell me popcorn in a box as a fundraiser for their little cub scout troop. I happily paid $15.00 for a one dollar box of popcorn. There wre 3 boys (all brothers) 4, 6 and 8 years old.
This morning...
Well I picked up a potential new P.R. client this past week. Some guy called "Bubba" that owns a metal fabrication shop started making what is called "Plow Disc Cookers". I had never seen such a thing. On a farmers plow, there are discs that are used to actually plow the ground. Bubba took a...
As I have related previously, my much anticipated Christmas plans were to visit my grandmothers 2 aunts in Sante Fe, New Mexico - spectacular ladies in their 90s.
After correspondance with the one aunt about lodging, she agreed to let me have the guest house for my stay. As per my request to...
When I got the oil changed in my car a couple of weeks ago, the guy showed me that I had a leaky brake line and showed me where the leak was.
Not wanting to have to take it to the Cadillac dealership where I would have been inevitably raped, I asked a local business owner I know where I should...
After seeing the much repeated ads. for Starbucks new instant coffee, this morning I decided to actually go there and try it out. I was running late and got that to go along with a peppermint mocha w/whipped cream.
I got in the car, put my mint mocha in the cup holder while i was sipping my...
It has been awhile since my last post. Things have been rather busy, starting with work.
A marketing agency hired me to handle the publicity for a client of theirs. The chef restaurant owner finally decided on a grand opening date. I was given all of 4 business days in which to orchestrate...
All right, so things with the new room mate continue to go along very well which is a huge relief given my previous living situation.
so new room mate asked me yesterday if i liked chicken fried steak. i have never had chicken fried steak (or chicken fried anything for that matter) and asked...
OK - so if you had read previously in my blog about the 'hostess with the mostess psychosis' that i had originally stayed with upon my arrival in Texas, you will know that i was alarmed at her bizarre behavior.
This past Tuesday i had been in Dallas all day interviewing for jobs, had a job...
Most of the time, re-invention happens as a result of ones initiative in order to achieve new found recognition or definition.
I have had to re-invent myself as a simple matter of time, place and circumstance.
Where am i? What do people want of me?
What would "they" like to see or hear...
Today i had an interview in Dallas at a huge ad agency. It was not an interview for an actual positon since they told me they had no such positions. My reconstructive/pastic surgeon/the guy that rebuilt my face with titanium told me to call this agency so i did.
That's how i got this...
SO - hot girl that i went out with on wednesday that asked me out for tonight stopped by the house to pick me up and off we headed for the place we were going to.
Some place called Galss Cactus in Grapevine.
As we were on the way there, she told me that a guy she had met on e-harmony from 2...
So it was nice to go out on Wednesday with a hot chick and know she wanted to fuck and have a baby. That would be one good looking kid.
Then yesterday i made out to a friend's place for dinner with another friend. Yesterday was my first day off pain meds. and as it turns out, i wasn't sick. The...
So today - wednesday - i had a post-op follow up with the surgeon.
He was amazed at how well i was healing and how quickly. I asked him why and he told me that one week after such a surgery to have so little exterior bruising is remarkable.
That's great. But since this morning i had been so...
Well, well -
i was able to sleep in this sunday morning. thank you pain meds.
when i woke up all sleepy head like and walked out of my room into the living room i saw this woman i am staying with sitting on the living room floor surrounded with papers, and files.
i got some cranberry juice...
When i was able to be out of the hospital bed and get out of the buliding and walk around outside it was fantastic.
Fresh air, exercise.
As i walked out the front door there was an older man in his seventies sitting on a bench. He had white hair and a nice walking stick that i noticed and it...
Lest anyone forget or be unawarem the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday. Do make a point to watch.
I am just off the phone with my surgeon and am assured that all will be well. So all i have to do is wake up in 5 hours and head to hospital and get to it.
I was rather disconcerted when the...
Tonight I was pondering the actuality of having this surgery that apparently doesn't 'have to be done' but shold be and needs to be done.
of course i want to have my face back, but with the possibility of being blind, i would rather be disfigured than be blind.
i am told that going blind...
The phone just rang with news from the hospital that my surgery will take place on Wed. 29 April at 7:30 a.m. in downtown Dallas with a check in time of two hours prior.
So it's good to know when all of this will happen.
In other news the guy i rented my house to has failed for the past three...