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The realities of homecoming!
We have one week under our belts at home in Florida. The joys of travel and homecoming have now faded with the reality of taking care of business.
As I wrote last week we did some pressing essentials right away but instead of decreasing, our "to do" list seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. This morning I scheduled appointments for repairs to our dishwasher, ice maker and wine fridge. They all decided to let us know they been missing us!
We ...
Home sweet home
... social security card so I had to also make a trip to the SS Office where there were many unhappy people. Their reception systems issues a number based on the services you need and once the numbers started to be called many individuals were sure their number should be called first. Quite a lot of grumbling ensued and I tried to start a cheerful conversation with the people seated near me. After ...
Pottering
Had a great day just pottering around. First day in a long while that I didn't have to set an alarm! Had a lazy day looking around some Of the local beach shops. This place is full of snow birds. (my patient had to explain this to me)! It's a person (usually retired) who moves down to Florida in the winter, to escape the snow of the north. What surprised me is that most of the shop staff are senior citizens too. We were talking about this the other night- ...
Birthday bliss
Today's my 26th birthday...in order to commiserate the fact that I'm now that much closer to 30, I've taken a few days off and have headed to Anna-Maria island. It's a beautiful place on the gulf of Mexico. My host has a condo (holiday home) here and has very kindly let me stay in it :) I've got my own wheels again now too! Drove from Sarasota to the island-without getting lost or using the gps (they don't call it a sat nav)! Stopped at arrmands circle on the way, had a ...
Home for the Holidays!
... minutes to unpack our bags and start some laundry. We then set off for Publix to replenish the fridge and pantry. I wanted to check out Cosco and Trader Joe's but Lars really didn't have the stamina to tackle two new grocery sources on our first day back so I'll do that tomorrow.
After our shopping spree at Publix we returned to the house to check on all of our electronic "stuff". We had a brief problem with our Verizon DSL and I think we need to check on ...
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