Genesis of my last blog...comfortable shoes.

Genesis of my last blog...comfortable shoes.

Current mood:aggravated

I was in a hurry when I blurted out my last blog, then talking to Donovan last night, I realized I didnt even post the genesis of what made me type it...

Change. Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad, sometimes warranted and sometimes not. I wonder sometimes why when something isnt broke, people need to fix it.

The genesis of my thought is thus. All the many changes in my lifestyle this month bombarding me...

...and comfortable shoes.

I am not a guy who can just buy shoes off the rack and they will be fine. I try them on, they seem good, then after a day, some quirk causes them to become useless to me and I have to remember not to get that kind again. When I find a style that is comfortable, I stick with them as long as I can, but ultimately find that while I am wearing them out, they stop making them or change the style. I have taken to buying a couple of pairs and storing them when and if I find a style that works for me. So I just pulled out a new pair of shoes from storage to find that they dont fit. And I went to the store to find they dont make them anymore. Now I am back on the voyage for comfortable shoes.

And allergy medicine. For years I have had a medicine I used to combat allergy problems, and it gave me no negative effects, and I could drink on top of it and it actually was effective. Come to find out, it is apparantly no longer available...If I had to speculate, it is because it had pseudoephedrine and since that is what the meth users are abusing, rather than relegate the drug to behind the counter status, they changed the active ingredient. I will give the new stuff a try, but I am not real happy about that...the other stuff was perfect for me.

And deodorant. I use an antiperspirant/deodorant that seems to work, smells good and was reasonably priced...then they stopped making it with no warning. Was at Big Lots several years ago, and they had a slew of it, so I bought every tube of it they had and stored it away, and just found last week that I was down to my last tube...so now I am forced to find a new antiperspirant!

And conditioner. Found a conditioner that I was very pleased with and have been using almost as long as my hair has been long...went to the store the other day to replenish my supply to find it apparantly is no longer available.

I know it sounds whiney, and there are bigger problems in the world, but, it is my world and with all the sudden changes, it just gave me pause and cause to reflect.

So now I am gonna take my strange smelling, allergy suffering, foot hurtin self outside and enjoy the changing view across the street, remain hopeful and wonder who will be moving in next door soon...and hope I dont get any tangles...

It is hard to be brand loyal when the brand keeps going away!

LOL!

Ch ch ch Changes

Chchchchanges

Current mood:worried

Man, there just seem to be so many changes going on around here...and I am hoping that nothing negative comes of them.

My neighbor to the North sold the house and moved. She had a house and a rental cottage. The tenants stayed in the cottage and now the new owner plans on using the property for a rental. Now, I know he paid top dollar for the house, and it is going to be difficult to get the mortgage covered with the rent, hence he has a premium rental amount on the house for this area...and hopefully this will bring a quality tenant...if the price were too low, you get all manner of transient activity. We have had problems in the past with renters in the area bringing seedy people to the area. The crime rate is not bad here...yet, when it is mostly the homeowners in occupancy...it is the rental people who change the climate.

I will miss my old neighbors being there, and am looking carefully to see what develops with the property without an owner occupying. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the house down the street becoming a crack house for awhile. The new occupants had to make a lot of effort to stop the flow of customers who continued to arrive months after they moved in. That attracted a really bad element to the area, and lots of transient foot traffic...

The building across the street from me has changed hands. The attorneys who have been occupying it will be there a few more months. Apparantly the building was bought by contractors who intend to use it for their offices. I am hoping they do not sublet to other businesses, or even worse, turn the park-like vacant lot in my front yard into heavy equipment storage. The lot across the street from my house that my living room looks out on is currently quite shaded, and park like. The dogs run there, and we watch the squirrels and animals play. I hope they dont take to using it for storage.

The building to the South of me is sitting vacant, in a zoning battle. The owners spent a fortune starting a renovation, much to my pleasure, but the work has ceased while the lawyers figure it out. Meanwhile, so local gang members have taken to tagging the wall. At least THIS time they didnt get the f-word up, as the neighbors saw the guy doing it and chased him off. We are getting a lot of gang tags in the area. Now they are showing up on residences...and I know it is probably just one guy with no conscience doing it.

Oh well, here is to waiting and seeing!! All I can do is keep a good thought I suppose!