Tequila!

This past week was eventful - went to an evening out with a huge group of Realtors.  We all met at this new place that opened up that has a movie theater, sports bars, bowling alley, private banquet rooms, theater for musical venues, dance floor with live entertainment, huge state of the art game room that you would expect to have been imported from Tokyo.... it's a really fun place!!!  A few too many tequila shots passed around.. but all in all, it was fun.

Did Happy Hour again at Mitchell's Seafood Market, this time I had a Martini made with some kind of Lychee juice mixed in... refreshing; shared appetizers for dinner.... and then home and straight to bed. 

But, then the weekend rolled in and I did NOTHING - well, I did chores that HAD to be done, but then I watched Winter Bone (I thought it was very good, but depressing and I personally don't believe it stands a chance to win next to The Kings Speech).... though the movie made me think of where I once lived, in Southern Illinois... it had a bit of that Ozarky feel.  We were very close to Missouri... in a small place called Raccoon Township (says enough); and I was pregnant and stuck living in such poverty - not a way of life I ever expected for myself.  I was a bit scared of the strange family that live across the road from us - they announced their arrival with hoots and hollers from their truck as they sped down their dirt drive, their dogs howling from the wooded area that protected and hid the actual house.  I never saw the house, never saw the people, honestly, I imagine they were quite right out of "Deliverance".... no, they were right out of "Winter Bone".... How happy I was to get away from there!  We moved into a 2 bedroom apartment in Jacksonville, Florida - rent paid for 3 months up front because of a move-in special; my ex-husband had started working for a large alarm company; and I was able to stay home for a little bit with my baby son.... No more poverty... EVEN when I was going through the divorce, could barely make ends meet, and was POOR, I never had to live as I did when we were in Illinois... The last time I was in that area, I drove past the old house we lived in - it was boarded up, vacant, just rotting away.... it should have been bulldozed when we left it those many, many years ago.  Mice, Termites, Wasps, you name it... it was pretty nasty... on top of the broken water pipes from a winter's freeze...sinking foundation... the house was awful!!!!


Ughhh... Memory Lane isn't always a pleasant trip.... so .... on to the present now....