Leelanau Whippersnapper

Well it’s been a little while since I’ve written.  What can I say, this is the busy season at work right now.  OK, I’ve also had the house to myself and have had nothing to bitch about on that front.  Anyhow, I was explaining to an old friend today that we’ve made the transition from red-neck-ville to I’m-better-than-you-ville.  Believe it or not, I like the second one better than the first.  Finally, people shopping who wear all their clothes and who have all their teeth.  They snap, whistle, and whip hostilities through the air but at least I can’t smell them coming a mile away!!!  I’ll trade arragonce for meth-head stupidity any day.  To say the last work has been CRAZY busy.  Sad thing is, it’s only 3/4 as busy as it was this time last year.  With gas now at a whopping $4.12 a gallon out here in Leelanau, NOBODY is going anywhere unless they have to.  I spend a good 1/3 of my day on the phone with people who are price shopping becuase they only want to drive to one place to get their shit.  You know, I hate gas prices too but Jesus Christ, I don’t sit at home all day and make phone calls to plan my shopping visits.   I don’t know, I, being a good little consumer, just know where to shop and how to shop.  Guess that comes from working in retail.  Maybe it comes from being gay.

The personal life has been interesting lately.  Seems I’ve been the only one lately with his shit together.  Whether it’s regarding money or regarding what to do with my life, I got it going on right now and I’m pretty darn happy with my life.  I’m not real happy with some of the things that have gone on in the past year but you know what, I’ll survive and I’ll get over my sorrow about some of the things and people I’ve lost and I’ll move on.  There is a HUGE difference in how I am dealing with this vs. how I might have dealt with it 10 years ago.  I’m a much happier person now than I was then.  I’m also much more sure of myself and my position in life.  I guess that comes with age.  I had my “mid-life” crisis when I was in my early 20’s.  I got it out of the way really fucking early.  I’m glad too becuase it’s a LOT easier to enjoy life when you are not carrying around so much fucking angst.

OK, that’s it for now.  I’ve got to get some other things done tonight.  I’ll leave you with another random picture.

So I was at work today and I heard this come on over the loud speaker.  Click on it and then continue reading while you listen.  Maybe it was just the combination of the music and the man I had just waited on with no teeth who clearly had not showered in months but I just about died.  In EVERY other setting, that song is hardly wroth hearing, in this one however, it fits the customers I see every day to a tee!  The weather is getting nicer up here and the means the really strange ones come out of hiding and start going shopping.  We were SLAMMED at work today finally!  I’ve been waiting for a weekend like this one for months and finally we had a nice day with no rain and no wind.  People have finally realized that everything is pretty late this year  so they better get their shit going.  It will be full on summer in a few weeks now….we don’t get spring up here, just winter and summer.  Well, it won’t be that drastic but the season is very short up here, you’ve got to take full advantage of it when you have it.

Jirar comes home this next week, its unlikely I’ll have another entry on this blog until after he has gone again.  I spent my evening tonight outside raking leaves.  I got the entire back yard picked up and it looks amazing right now.  I have a big problem with gophers though or something.  There are lots of holes in the yard where the dirt has been pushed up.  I was a fool and left all the leaves from fall on the lawn all winter so it has taken me the better part of a week now to get them off the lawn now that it’s spring.  I pretty much have a lawn of dirt now.  I hope to God the grass grows.  I need to get out there now with the fertilizer and grass seed and see if I can push it along.  Once I get that done, I need to fumigate the yard.  I have huge problems with bugs at this property.  I can control them if I keep the grass very short and I spray killer all over the the yard.  Hard to do though becuase I have to get stuff that is pet safe and it’s not very effective.

OK, I need to get off to bed now.  I’ll write again in a week.