The entire discussion reminded me of a few years ago when my sister accepted a job out in Los Angeles, and had to find some Los Angeles movers to help her with her relocation process. She told me that she had hired a Los Angeles moving company to do everything that needed to be done – even the packing! I thought that was amazing, I had never heard of a company that will do the packing for you in addition to the transportation! I wonder if the LA movers are the only ones that do that, or if it is a service available around the US and I just live under a rock.

Surf Camp offers surfing programs for kids, teenagers, adults, and families.  They offer day camps and overnight camps.  My sons are too old for the teenager’s camps, so they want to sign up for the overnight adult camp.  The overnight adult camp would be for one week, off the coast of North Carolina.  The camp takes them to several different islands for them to learn how to surf, and includes side trips that includes a boat trip to an undeveloped barrier island and a trip to the new 84,000 square-foot Fort Fisher Aquarium.

We all agreed that it was a darn shame that her table was ruined, and to make it even worse the company refused to pay her anywhere near the value of the table because they said it was so old that it wasn’t worth anything! And then they said that a little bit of carpenter’s glue would fix it as good as new. Obviously that was very distressing to Alecia, and she was asking us what course of action we thought she could take. Since she had not had the table appraised before the move, we agreed that there probably was not a whole lot that she could do other than to take the table to a restoration company and ask them to fix it as best as they can.

I used to date a man who loved trains.  I think in the end we broke up because he wanted to spend his every waking moment around/in/on a train, and he was neglecting our relationship just so he could be around trains.  So I think that is another big reason I don’t like trains!  Every time I see one, I am reminded of how I was dumped by the guy I was in love with for a train!

My husband never wanted to go to any of these, even though I DID want to go. Since he didn’t want to go, we never did go. Not once. I knew if I pushed the issue he would just pout and make me miserable with his passive-aggressive behavior, and it just wasn’t worth putting up with his crabby attitude.

We were married for thirteen years, and every year he would say he did not want to go. When we broke up, all of a sudden he started going to those Cape Cod family weeks! Wouldn’t you know it! When we were going through marriage counseling he admitted that there were a lot of times that he wanted to go and do things but declared himself uninterested and unwilling to do them simply because he knew that I wanted to do them and he wanted to prevent me from doing them. What a guy!

I’ve been to Cap Code once – to drive around the town, and never did get to leave the car. Maybe one day I’ll be able to actually go there and spend a couple of days and find out for myself why so many people like to go there!

My girlfriend says she met him one night when they were just hanging around the fire station. Some of the guys were watching Direct TV and a couple of them were playing the board game, Monopoly. When she and her BFF walked in, the guys playing Monopoly invited the girls to join the game. She says the game lasted 8 hours before her future hubby won that game and she fell in love with him that night. Not because he won the game, but because they had 8 wonderful hours together, laughing and teasing each other, telling stories and getting to know each.

i think that is the loveliest love story I’ve ever heard.

Well, this morning it occurred to me that if we can’t afford to pay for the flights to go down there, then we should offer the use of the condo for free to our adult kids for them to use on THEIR vacation.  It’s not something that my hubby has wanted to do (he has a hard time sharing) but when I mentioned it to him today he was all for it!  So I’m going to mention it to our kids right off before he changes his mind!

She is going to be busy packing up everything in her house and getting ready to move up there. Thank goodness the new company is helping with moving expenses. But she says that she is selling her old car and leaving it behind so she can buy something new from a Chicago Honda Dealer when she gets to the Windy City. She sent me this link to check it out: http://www.ednapletonhonda.com

I’m so excited for her – she deserves a great job for a good company. This will give her a chance at a new life since her divorce. She can get a new apartment, that new Honda Accord she’s been wanting, and she’ll be meeting all new people.

I remember when she went up there for the interview last month. She was so sure she was going to get this job that she spent the rest of the afternoon at a Honda Dealer In Chicago, looking at new cars. She even reads the dealership’s blog now, to read up on all things Honda, I guess.

I wish I could get a new car. It sure would be nice to have something that wouldn’t be breaking down all the time. I could just call the dealer and bring it in for service instead of constantly searching for a mechanic that can do the work and can be trusted. Knock on wood, my car will hold out the rest of this year, and then after Christmas maybe I can shop around for my own new car next year.

Now in my mind, removal costs might be the charge I’d have to pay someone for ridding my yard of skunks, or hauling the garbage to the transfer station.  It took me a few minutes and a few messages back and forth to realize that in Britain, removal costs refer to to cost of moving your household from one location to another.  Here in the United States, we hire moving companies to do that.  In Britain, they hire removal companies.  Now I can understand the concept of hiring someone to remove the contents from the house you are moving out of, but what about putting the furniture into the new house?  Wouldn’t you have to hire an installation company for that?  Why not call them transfer companies, because they transfer your furnishings from one place to another?

I know that is a little gruesome to be talking about – I hope you are not reading this and trying to eat your dinner or anything like that. But I have never seen a live armadillo in my life and I find it remarkable that my sister has seen more than two dozen dead ones, plus some live ones running across the road that almost got run over

So is it just me? Or does the fact that Arkansas has experienced all three of these natural disasters, plus some recent earthquake clusters AND the unexplained death of thousands of blackbirds in three cities mean anything?

My heart goes out to the good people of Arkansas. I hope they find some peace from all this bad weather soon.