Today I start a new blog. I haven't used the old one in a few years. Actually, I have an unhealthy addiction to facebook and I quit writing & posting on the old blog. I am pretty sure all 560+ of my closest FB friends do not give a flip or want to know the chaos I live in daily. Therefore, I spare them my rantings - most of the time.
This is not to say I will not post on FB, I am addicted remember! But this will be more of my whining, complaining and more personal stuff. (I'm pretty sure my family just rolled their eyes) trust me I would never hurt anyone on here...embarrass the heck out of you YES! but intentionally hurt feelings NO! That's not how I roll. I also get to ooze about how great my doggie Oliver is...he is my 3rd child..the son I never had... (I think I just felt the eyeball roll again)
Right now in the beautiful, yet liberal confines, of Charlottesville, Virginia it is hot as 3 hells! (thank you Lee for the quote). We left Camden SC (God's Country) after a 4th of July at the lake and drove straight into a furnace. It was in the upper 80's in SC, a God send. And it was 103 when we landed in our driveway on Monday.
We traveled 350 miles with 2 adults, 3 children (the oldest girl took a friend), 2 big dogs that panted, drooled and nawed relentlessly on pig femurs. Pig femurs smell bad. And last was the best passenger of all Oliver. He slept..on my lap...the whole ride. The children ate all the snacks in the 1st hour, then were hungry for lunch at 11am and then watched horror movies.
Please take note: one should NEVER let a child watch a horror movie in the car wth headphones. Why Karen, you ask? Because children
1. should not watch them, it leads to nightmares.
2. they suck in their breath and you think an 18 wheeler is barreling down on you *but... it's.... not.
3. they scream randomly and you think a dog has run in front of the truck or it just scares the crap out of you and causes swerving.
Who let them rent those movies anyway? We think "anything for a peaceful 5+ hour ride".
After 2 days of Wateree Lake tube rides & tube burns, getting pulled by DNR on many occassions, 2 fireworks displays (one that went well & one that was busted up by the po-po), packing 8 people in a golf cart in the pitch black dark with no flashlight to get from my parents next door neighbors house to theirs (its a 1/2 mile away), getting to see my granmother who is almost 97, being with my entire family, eating enough food to encourage me to run in 100 degree weather for the past 2 days, drinking enough Corona Light to hit the wagon for a week and giving myself a huge case of homesick - we came back to Va.
Don't get me wrong, I love the state of Va. Mountains, beaches, the Chesapeake Bay, history galore! I just tend to not feel settled here. Not all the way. Not the way I do in SC. When I talk of traveling to SC I'll say to a friend "Oh we are going home for a few days". They've all asked "Home? You live here, here's your house Karen, I'm sitting in your family room." Nope- SC is home. I have issues with truly liberal people (and a pile of them are right here in Cville). I think if you work hard you deserve to make it far in the world. If you don't...we'll maybe you are being weeded out? Or hopefully, if you can't, there is a hard worker in your family that can help.
Before someone yells at me- I'm not talking about the truly disabled, the elderly, ect... I'm talking about people that work the system - I will digress..... BUT I live in a county that wants everyone to have everything that all the hard working people have - even if they don't work.... go figure.
I also live in a neighborhood. Which is a bad thing, for me at least. My neighbors are not fond of my little band of truents (dogs & kids & OK, me, too). I need space, open space. I need my horse in my backyard, chickens and a goat because I am "afreared" of poison ivy. A garden spot in a place that my chicken wire fence doesn't draw stares and doesn't incite photos being turned into the community association...
I feel like most days I am so simple and low maintainance that if I got anymore laid back I'd be dead. I do have my moments. On occassion, I have no guilt in sitting on my porch and reading a book all day. Other days I'm driving kids to golf, horseback riding, the mall, friend's houses, my husband to the Audi dealership to get that old as heck car fixed one more time. I hate being inside. Unless it is REALLY cold- like it was this winter. I hate inside because that's where the laundry pile awaits and I'm not good at laundry - ask anyone on a Monday morning looking for clean undies. Plus there is chocolate inside and it calls me from it's hiding place...
"Simple and low maintainance"! Does Scott know you wrote that? Land, horse, chickens, goats, not much to ask. You will be outside most of the time doing chores and mowing. You will not be likely to let the kids use the expensive equipment. Bad thing about farm living. Sit on the porch to read and drink, and you see all the outside work that needs to be done.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about Camden. We have lived in several states and I left home at 19 and never came back but I still refer to Camden as home. It's not just a Camden thing but a SC thing. South Carolinians are just so laid back and kind. It's hard to find that in other places.
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived in VA, I would breathe a sigh of relief every time we crossed the border back into SC.
Karen you kill me! I see how hard you work woman...I need less land - smaller house than I have :-) Oh and less horses too - (and I will not have guineas!!!!)
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