It has been awhile since I brought you a Southernism…and this one fits perfectly! See, I have been so busy lately that you can’t even see the end of my list with a pair of binoculars and it doesn’t look like things are going to slow down anytime soon. Now in some ways that is a good thing, in others, not so much.
So, when people call me or e-mail me asking for my help on something I am having to say:
“I’ll do it if nothin’ breaks or comes untwisted.”
Basically, that is a yes but it also leaves a little wiggle room in case you need to bow out.
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Sometimes in life I am totally clueless about what is going on around me. My excuse is always that I am so busy that I don’t have time to notice but the cold hard truth is that I just don’t pay close attention. There is an old saying that ignorance is bliss and while that saying it so true in my case most days it could be better said that:
“Not only do you not know nothin’, but you don’t even suspect nothin’”
I like living in my own little world, clueless about what’s going on. It suits my purposes well. It isn’t that I am a dimwit, it’s just that I don’t have time to pay attention to a lot of non-sense. You know, stuff like the fact that I need to check out some Lipovox, or that my floor has needed to be mopped for over a week (please don’t tell anyone that). I do pay attention to what matters though. Like when my best friend needs me to call just to say Hi because she is having a bad day.
It’s all about priorities.
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Heat in the South is different from heat in the North. People that aren’t from around here don’t really get that until they come for a visit in July or August.
Then, they get it…and they truly understand.
See, it is HUMID. It is a heavy, smothering heat. And it is here early this year.
I was in the grocery store earlier this week and there were a couple of older men in line in front of me. I wasn’t trying to be nosy but I couldn’t help but hear their conversation. It went something like this:
Man#1: “Shore is hot”
Man # 2: “Yeah tis”
Man # 1: “Gotta garden a goin this year?”
Man # 2: “Naw, its too hot this year for me ta get out thar much.”
Man # 1: “Yeah, bought make ya so sluggish that ya was born tired and raised lazy.”
I think that about says it all. Hope you have a great day and an even better weekend!
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Ya know, with today’s economy they’s gonna be a lotta people who aren’t gonna be goin on vacation. My family is one of em cause:
“If a trip ’round the world cost a dollar, I wouldn’t make it to the end of the driveway.”
There are lots of people I know in that boat these days.
Today is a big day around here. Tate turns 13. That means I have one leaving the teenage years and one entering them. He has been so excited to see this day and bounced out of bed this morning screaming through the house…”I am a TEENAGER”. Not sure what he thinks that means for him, but apparently it was very important. There will be no personalized gifts this year…he wants things like an iPod Touch, a new video card for his computer, a new XBox since his is messed up. We have moved beyond all the affordable toys and into the techy aspect of things where everything costs an arm and a leg.
I hope that you have great plans for the weekend…we will be spending the majority of it either at the karate studio getting ready for a tournament on Saturday or at the tournament on Saturday watching all of the competitors, one of which will be Tate himself.
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