About the shop

Alright, I told you about the shop but haven't got to why I left. When we returned home I was trying to find her (we'll call her "D"). I asked my neighbor who happens to be friends with her, where she was. When we left she was staying at her brother's because she had just left her husband coz he slept with her sister. Actually he's her x but she was living with him again. The last place I would have looked was at his house, if he even has a house left. My neighbor "J" said she was drunk and on pills again and staying with HER SISTER!?. I was already thinking about leaving the shop but wanted to tell her first. With the storm and everything, I didn't it would do very well right now. After speaking to J and then my renter..I'm fixing to tell ya about that...I knew it (the shop) would never do any good. I doubt that anyone who knows her would want to buy anything from her so they wouldn't buy from me either being in there with her. I'm no angel and I knew she wasn't either. What people do on their own time is their own business to a certain extent.
My renter "M" told me that while I was gone she paid him a little visit. His "wife" or whatever, (that's another story) had evacuated with her job at the old folks home. D proceeded to sit there and get drunk and started going on about her sister and x. She wanted to have sex with M. He told her he wasn't available and if "T" came home she would probably kill someone. D said she would make him forget all about her and so on..In the meantime her x had parked his truck in my drive until they cleared the road to his house. She grabbed the bolt cutters and wanted to hit his truck with them. M managed to stop her and told him (her x) he better come get his truck. So she decides to start on the guys working on the road. They're trying to work and she keeps cussing at them and they keep telling her to go on. And thenn--the media was trying to interview M about the storm and she walks up (yelp, still drunk) and says "What the hell is going on here?" Needless to say, that didn't get showed. Do I need to say more? I know you can't wait but not now. Smoke time:-)

Back to my story

My "back again" post might end up here twice. This computer is sooo sloooww. Better than nothing.
In the last post I mentioned getting a spot on a shop then getting out of it. I had a yard sale before I moved and met this lady who lives down the road from me. She asked if I was interested in selling some of my stuff in her shop. I said I would try it but couldn't be there a lot because I work. She said she would be there most of the time. At first it was ok. I would go there some days when I got off to put out more things and stay if she wanted to leave early. A lot of times, she had already left. I was really looking forward to trying to make something out of it. I'm glad now I didn't order more mdse. We were open about 3 weeks when we had to evacuate. That was the first place I checked when we came back. It was close to the exit is why..not because I cared more about it than my house. Everything was just the way we left it. The building is pretty old and I was really surprised it wasn't damaged. bbl again, got to go to work:-(

Back again

There's so much to tell..where do I start...haven't posted here since July. I think we were trying to get moved into the new house. Mama and I got a double wide and put it behind the old house. We spent 5 nights in it and had to evacuate. Stayed 2 weeks at my son's house. Oh, before that my computer crashed..its a goner. A friend at work had this one in her shed and gave it to me. I figured it would get destroyed in the storm but it survived. I miss my dsl. I'm using dial up right now and this computer has windows95 in it. My xp is still at the shop with my other computer. Their roof collasped so its in their storage right now. I lost everything in the other computer and most of it wasn't on disk. I hope to get my son's computer soon. I'm getting them a new one for Christmas, or should I say Christmas, birthday, anniversary, etc.
We were lucky compared to some others when "Rita" hit. A pine tree fell on our master bath, there's a hole about the size of a basketball and 2 smaller ones in the roof and ceiling. I was supposed to get an estimate today but he didn't show up. Glad FEMA put a good tarp on it coz it looks like its going to be a while before I get it repaired. My old house has a metal strip hanging from the roof and that's it!; and the lil house my renter lives in didn't get a scratch. I hated seeing my new house damaged but like I said, we were one of the lucky ones. Its a mess everywhere. I'll probably be cleaning up my yard for the next month or so. 4 trees fell in it and I have a big tree that didn't fall but some of the limbs that fell out of it are the size of small trees.
On the brighter side, I really enjoyed spending time with my son and grandson. I hadn't seen my grandson in 5 months. My son had been down a couple of times helping me house hunt and move. I also liked the break from work. I'll have to be careful what I wish for. Before the storm I was trying to get moved in the new house and had just got a space in a thrift shop to sell my stuff,needed to get my old house ready to rent, plus going to work..There were times I would think I needed to get away from all of it a while; I got my wish, but that's not exactly what I had in mind.:-)
I moved out of the shop when I got back. That didn't last long. I'll tell about that later. I better sign off for now. I'm hoping this post shows up. cyl, Tere

quick note

Hope my journal friends found me. Can't log in there. Between dial up or either this old computer, I can't block pop ups yet and that's what I get when I try to log in. Anyway, bbl, Tere