Sept 28th, 2017
What normally would take a day or two has stretched out into umpteen. The laundry list is shrinking its girth, taking an inordinate amount of time. Making the hurry of the month, inverse. I request and demand an enumeration. No there has not been an election, or any voting of any sort. Nothing like that, but here we are closing in, on the end of September, a new calendar month will be dawning. See it? The light at the end of the tunnel. I have learned that it might just be the train.
Cousin is safe in south. School opened, grocery stores too. Her month was something to behold. Her crazy has just slipped off the head lines and front and center. The fall frenzy continues for a lot of people. Guests, are fewer but more prolonged. Experience has taught me to lean into the less manic, phrenetic and plain crazy times.
That does not mean there are not any, nay, what exactly it means is that experience trumps, it means that I am less manic, frenetic and somewhat less crazy. Three hours on a reservation system, to slow down a reservation, that the guest wanted to be changed. Which it seems once it starts you cannot change. And so, they send a computer generated survey asking how they did.
The difficulty,once revealed, I am sure was not one that is unheard of. The contacting the people was the problem, who could not work the confines of the computer software. Three times around the globe, Missouri, France, India. The staff in Missouri on the second attempt, tried to the same thing and nothing was accomplished. and the supervisor in the Philippines, with whom we were disconnected on the third. Then another invoicing problem, they lost the cheque and are sending me dunning notices.
Minor hiccups, as the neighbor paints his house, but has to use my driveway. I have to use a third neighbor pavement, as the agreed to parking space on the first is taken up with the painter’s trucks. I mentioned to the professional that I could not have my drive taken up for 2.5 weeks as that is how long it has taken to get one side done. Bellicose would be a term to use about it…..
Two trees taken down, took most of the summer, gone yesterday. The yard looking very bare and I can now see into the neighbors dining room very clearly.
We had the old girls nail done, and then she had a shampoo after she and I went in the heat to the beach, the water cold, seasonal indeed. The rain started this morning, with Mom worried about the tornadoes in a place where she used to live.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up. Chuck Yeager Moi and Miss LP