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Earlier today I spent some time at a office at Campus Towers Apartments and the lady handling my application said a phone call next week(sometime) is possible!

UPDATE: As a new and future resident of Campus Towers Apartments on the West Side of Jacksonville, FL, I will be moving there from my nephew's place at the Navy--owned Ribault Village housing community in
November

woman is the most sensible creater. She looks like a dandelion flower, easy to miss her seeds, easy to miss or let us say lose control of her strength, power, attention, patience.. also her tears easy go down. but never miss her hope, beauty, love, care, kidness, awarness.. so pay attention to how you treat her, she would ignore and hold out your ugliness, poverty, weakness.. but never forget your treatment, even the smallest details (words, gift, situation, idea, sight, thought..). I can say to a woman who is my mom, sister, daughter, wife, friend and also grandma.. we as men are nothing without you, we live togather to complete each other, we need you and you need us, at least if you could not cheer her up and make her happy. Do not hurt her, do not look at her as a machine of birth or sex, do not look at yourself that you are better than her, if you have this sterile idea try to make bebes alone as one example. Look at her as wings for bird, as colors or smells for flowers, as water for fish as 0 for 1 to be 10.. know her worth and you could not stop writing books about her, would take your phone and send both : iam sorry and i love you ? to her.
THANK YOU WOMAN

Two weeks ago I was installing pendant lights and this past weekend I was designing a brick faced wall unit. My daughter decided she wanted a fireplace built-out wall unit. She found a local company who had photos on their site but needed my help for placement in the family room.
She an my son-in-law are busy decorating the house they recently moved to and now that the sectional furniture arrived a buffet unit was purchased. Unhappy with the TV being mounted to an empty wall the brick wall unit became an item of interest.
Someone used a design program for the sofa and placement of the wall unit was equally spaced on the back wall. However, it pushed the sofa so close to the side in interfered with the sliding door access.
Measuring tape and pieces of paper represented the locations of the item to be built. I strongly disagreed the unit should be centered. "No, it doesn't fit the room" said I.
The answer was 'yes' that all the sofa components were modular and re-configuring the layout was possible. So, we moved one piece and magically... the sofa fit and so did the wall unit in the location I suggested.
It was late and I packed my laptop. Everyone was delighted I found the design solution to her wall unit.
On the way home I got some Pollo Tropical Cuban style grilled chicken and had a mini-feast!

be careful what you wish for ..

I went to a party this last weekend. My cousin's eldest daughter turned 18, so my brother, sister, mother and I had to drive from just south of Copenhagen to the southern part of Denmark. The border with Germany was a 20 minute drive away from where we were having the party.

Anyway, we set off at 11 am, and we arrived at around 2 pm. We then got settled in in our accommodation, and then we drove to the party site. A huge party tent was standing there, music was blaring out of it, and a lot of food was being brought in. When I say a lot, I really mean a LOT. Think Roman times food feasts. That's the level of food they presented. We are talking steaks, sausages, bread, a LOT of greens, dressings, cheese, fruit and whatnot. It was insane! The food was amazing! I have never eaten as much as I did then. Holy moly it was good! On top of that, there were unlimited items to drink, including soda, beer and wine.

Once the food was over, the alcohol and snacks hit the table,the music went up, and people went mad on drinking, dancing and just having fun. I got to talking with a guy and his wife. The wife was a cousin of the birthday girls mother, and her husband was SO much fun! They were on their honeymoon in Scotland, so we bonded over just how amazing Scotland is.

At one point, we were presented something called a "kinder surprise shot". Oh my that was good! But it's also extremely dangerous! The ingredients are 1 part Liquor 43, 3 parts chocolate milk and one part whipped cream. Mix it well, and serve over ice. When I get paid again, I am buying a bottle of Liquor 43, and then I am definitely making those again! Wow they were good.

As the evening went on, people got drunker and drunker. At one point, they played a song called "Hip hurra det' min fødselsdag", which translates "Hip hurray it's my birthday". During that song, a well known, and very dangerous, tradition played out. The birthday person gets a tray with 18 shots, which can be with anything from water to absinthe. People then stand in a circle, cheering on while the birthday guy/girl downs the shots as fast as possible. 49 seconds was all it took for this 18 year old girl to down them. 49... That is just insane. What is more insane, is that her friends said "I have seen her do it faster than that". Her sister turned 16 on the same day, that the 18th birthday party was held, so she got a tray of 16 shots, which she downed in.. I think it was about a minute. I swear, those people are on another level when it comes to drinking. But they are great fun to hang out with and party with.

The drive home was long and not much happened.. Well, apart from a ton of rain and four Corvettes blasting by us at full thunder. THAT was awesome!

In two years time, we are gonna go to another 18th birthday. I need to find the perfect gift!

Oh, also.. I went to a job interview today. It went well. I will know more during the week.

I'm not an apple gal hence Bella the tiny Chi has Not been given any either. Mom gave me a couple of apples saying she fried hers which I've never done. I peeled, chopped, cut a few raw pieces into Bella's food and hollered at her about 15 times to eat. I'm not sure what her problem is but she is not the least bit fond of eating which caused me to yell in a stern voice "EAT" repeatedly daily every time I feed her. Each time she smells each piece then starts to walk away - "EAT" she turns rinses and repeats to walk away. On the 15th yell she succumbs and cleans her dish.

I fried the apples according to Mom's recipe, fixed mine and the Chi's dishes, sat dows together to eat and Bella cleaned her plate before me. Say what??? She then ate two more bowls. I thought they were good but the only time I would ever fry them again is if someone gave me apples and that doesn't happen often nor buy them.

What will be interesting is if I do buy apples to cook for that damn 3 pound life of another species that I've fallen so in love with the last 12 years. No wonder one of my exes used to say if he ever gets to come back it would be one of my little dogs. I keep asking Bella if she is Ben but I get no recogniction yet if it is possible then he got to be a lucky son of a b*tch.

Mom & Dad had their 64th anniversary yesterday. Baby sister talked the care center into letting Mom and her offsprings to come see him through the glass. Lots of signs were made saying things like WE LOVE YOU, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, PLEASE EAT, et al.

There was double doors, we could go through one door into a little cubicle about 4X8 which we crowded into with are faces pressed up on the glass doors into the care center where they wheeled my Dad to on the other side. Every single one inside and out had masks on. The most fun was watching Mom say and use her hands to show Dad over and over how much she loved him. At one point we had a countdown and all screamed at once I LOVE YOU to Daddy.

I kind of felt we gave him a flash mob of love. For my MOM it was a joyous joyous day in the midst of this crazy virus. We know the care center has covid cases so we all are quaranteening ourselves for awhile, keeping fingers crossed to.

If you are blessed with kids, don't scrimp on the movies, photos, journaling and family trips. Time flies much too fast, and without such tools, memories can fade.