How's The Move

I’ve had a lot of people ask me, "How is living in East Texas." Well, here’s how it is - you’ll be sorry you asked.

On the first day, I came down with plantar faciitis, a foot problem that shoots pain through the heel. It’s like trying to walk on a white hot ice pick. It makes moving a lot less fun.

The movers trashed some of our stuff and didn’t want to pay for the damages. The sneaky little devils even tried to hide some of the damage with a black marker pen. They destroyed the dog house and never mentioned it - just put it out of the way in the back yard. Our grand dogs are some upset. Their little faces are so sad. They look at me as if to say, "did you do that?"

Then there’s been the internet experience. After spending literally hours on the phone and having technicians out to the house, we now have gone as long as two days without losing the service. As for connection speed, dial up is faster. I think the phone company still uses crank phones.

And, of course, there has been the broken tooth episode. The end result was an extraction with instructions not to do anything for six weeks - like eat, drink, breath, etc. Especially troubling is that I can’t blow my nose, because there is a connection between where the tooth was and the sinus.

Yes, I did have a flu shot, but I have the flu. Just imagine all that stuff in your sinus and you can’t blow your nose. I’ve had enough antibiotics that if you get in the same room with me, you will be healed of whatever you have. The only thing the antibiotics have killed is the good bacteria in my digestive system. And, I tried those plastic strips that go on your nose to help you breathe. The first two times, they worked. The third one took all the skin off my nose. With the size of my nose, that is a major injury.

I stay constantly hungry and have lost six pounds. My skinny self can’t stand to lose six ounces. Now, I can’t go outside on windy days unless I carry a boat anchor.

Got up one day this week and the left lens on my glasses fell out. Duct tape works on everything - right?

I went to a barber, because I really need a haircut. He used a bowl and some clippers. Now I look like an old kung fu movie actor. With only one lens in my glasses, I can only see one side and that’s a good thing because everyone tells me the other side looks worse than the side I can see.

The cost of laundry service is sixty percent higher than from where we moved. And, they really don’t use starch even when you beg them to.

My weekly shopping trip that used to be about eight miles round trip is now forty miles. And, food prices are higher with fewer selections.

All of this and we have been here about five weeks. I asked a friend who lives nearby if things get better. He said he couldn’t answer that because he had been here only thirty years.

Then there was today. On my shopping trip to the super center, I could not find candy in the food section. After going up and down every aisle, I finally found someone to ask. He told me that candy is located way across the store by the bicycles. (remember the plantar faciitis)

My financial controller wonders why I am so grumpy.

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