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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve spent my entire life bouncing around North Carolina.

I lived in the last house in China Grove, NC from birth until age 13.
From 13 to 23 I lived in a house in “downtown” China Grove.
From 23 to 29 I lived in Greenville, NC. First in an apartment near the Ford place, then in the infamous house Complicated Friend and I are trying to get rid of.
From 29 to last year I lived in Asheville, NC.
From the beginning of this year to now I’ve been staying in Arden, NC.
I’m moving again in the next couple of weeks. No clue where yet.

I really hate moving. My goal is to find a place I can stay for a bit to save up enough money to get a nice apartment or possibly hopefully a trailer somewhere.

Yes, my goal is to be trailer trash. :wink: Stately Agony Aunt Manor does not have to be that stately as long as it has enough room for me and a cat. Maybe two cats if I’m feeling spendy.

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Just got word that the wife of my former boss from when I lived in Cottonfield County died yesterday. It was expected.

I guess I’ll be funeralizing as soon as I know of the arrangements.

:frowning:
On a much happier note, a recipe for y’all:

Asian Slaw with Tangy Rice Vinegar Dressing

4 cups of shredded Chinese/Napa cabbage
½ cup shredded carrot
1 cup bean sprouts
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 cup rice vinegar
½ cup white sugar* (can substitute Splenda)
1 t grated fresh ginger*
1 t crushed fresh garlic*
*to taste

Combine cabbage, carrot and bean sprouts in a large bowl. Whisk together the remaining ingredients. Toss with greens.

Best when refrigerated overnight.

Veggie substitutions are left to the cook.

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If this bank security thing doesn’t work out, I may have a future in repairing old sewing machines.

Over the weekend, I resurrected two Singer Touch & Sews that needed major work and saved them from the landfill. They both needed gears replaced and subsequent re-timing. The local sewing machine shop said “$200 labor plus parts” for each. :eek: Instead, for about $35 in parts and some time and oily fingers, we’ve got two more sewing machines ready to take on the world.

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During Ye Olde College Days, I moved once a year, every year, for a decade. In August. In Texas. I don’t want to move again for a good, long while.

But there are empty boxes in the attic. Just in case.

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Condolences to former VunderBoss & family.

I must be starting to feel more like myself these days because I wrote a review of a bad book yesterday.

Also, between the time Sassy Chica and Ms. Anne went to work this morning and I rolled out of bed an hour later, someone stole Clown’s moped from right outside my window. I didn’t hear a thing. He is pissed and out lookin’ for the thieves.

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Morning. I made it all the way to work and had forgotten my laptop this morning :rolleyes:

Anyways back on topic we stayed put when I was a kid back in a small town in the UK. We were in a rental flat until I was about 16 months old when my parents could afford to buy their own place. That house was about 2 miles from the flat and we lived there for the rest of my time at home until I was 24. My parents still live there. I lived at home the entire time I went to Uni so I could work and afford to not get into debt. I did spend a semester in Australia in Brisbane when I was at school. After I graduated I ran away and joined the circus aka working in the oilfield and in the past 11 years I have lived/spent time in the following places:
[ul]
[li]Norway[/li][li]Denmark[/li][li]Holland[/li][li]The middle of the North Sea on a rig[/li][li]Scotland[/li][li]Paris, France[/li][li]Germany[/li][li]Kazakstan[/li][li]Azerbijian[/li][li]Romania[/li][li]Hungary[/li][li]Libya[/li][li]Algeria[/li][li]Congo[/li][li]Gabon[/li][li]Angola[/li][li]South Africa[/li][li]Nigeria[/li][li]Equitorial Guinea[/li][li]Ghana[/li][li]USA - Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Lousiana, California, Colorado, Utah[/li][/ul]And I am sure there are more. I got my Dad’s itchy feet but now I am ready to settle down and put down roots for a while. I have found I hate packing and moving. A lot.

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Moving, eh?

In childhood moved from Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD (Western suburbs of Baltimore) age 3 to -
Carney, MD (Northern suburbs of Baltimore) to -
Various places at University of MD, College Park to -
My parents place after college, Princess Anne, MD to -
Salisbury, MD with some roomies at my first job to -
Lancaster, PA at my 2nd job to -
Parkville, MD (Northern suburbs of Baltimore) near my childhood home for my 3rd job then moved around to -
Elkridge, MD (Southern suburbs of Baltimore) to -
Cockeysville, MD (Northern suburbs of Baltimore) to -
My first house in Lutherille, MD (Northern suburbs of Baltimore) then I got job in DC so I moved to -
Jefferson, MD (Far Northwest of DC near Frederick MD) then my first wife divorced me leaving the house and I met my second wife who has serious issues so I left there and moved to -
Spotsylvania, VA (Halfway between DC and Richmond) where my 2nd wife lost her mind so I left there and recently moved to -
Annapolis, MD where I am typing this now.

Bob, thanks for the recipe! I’ll add it to tonight’s midnight shopping list.

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Holy cow, we’re a mobile bunch.

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Off to Fat Club, where being a loser is A Good Thing.

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**mmmmmmm **- I don’t believe you’re working oilfields. I think you’re an international spy. There’s something sneaky about the way you type…

:smiley:

Back from Walmart. Hush - they have the best deal on cat litter, and I got some other stuff while I was there. I also filled the Sonata while out - almost $60!! I miss the good old days when you could fill your tank with $10 and have enough left over to get a soda. Oh well.

It’s overcast and it drizzled a bit while I was out. I have zero motivation. But I’m going to try to get the blue bedroom cleaned and organized today. I suspect a lot of the crap in there can just be tossed.

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Outside of the college years, I’ve spent my whole life within 35 miles of Chicago and I can’t imagine not being around here.

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See, that’s the way I am. I can’t imagine not living in NC. I like it here. It’s nice and I know the people.

You and me can sit on our front porches telling those damn move-a-lot whippersnappers to get off of our lawns.

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Spaz, I hate to point this out, but YOU are a whippersnapper! :stuck_out_tongue: Damned uppity young 'uns…

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Well, let’s be clear, take away work, education or significant others, I would have moved 0 times.

It ain’t by choice.

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Excellent work SOAPY
Odd how things come full circle
Born Houston TX about a mile from my current domicile
Deer Park TX at 5
Lafayette LA at 6
Big Spring TX at 10
Houston at 16
Borger TX at 19
Houston again
Dallas at 22
Fayetteville AR at 24
Dallas at 26
Houston at 30
Austin,Houston,Austin,Houston for a decade
And I will depart for…
Oakland CALIFORNIA at the end of the year
Mawnin all
That is all
JIM

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Arest warrents and pitchfork weilding mobs of peasants will do that. :wink:

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Hrm, I’ve hopped around a little; a LOT compared to people I generally have known, but barely at all compared to most of you folk! :stuck_out_tongue:

Vermont: Born, lived in Charlotte and Burlington, about 6 years total.

Illinois: Moved to Bolingbrook for 1 year, moved to St. Charles for another 8

Idaho: Moved to Boise, graduated high school; moved to Sun Valley to work at the resort.

Oregon: Moved to Portland with fiancee met at resort; lived there a year, met another fiancee <whoops>, moved back to Sun Valley; moved to Eugene with new fiancee; lived there for the next 5 or 6 years. Hated it at first, 'cause fiancee was an ass, but after I got out of that, grew used to Eugene and ended up really enjoying it.

Worked in Alaska, rather, Alaskan waters, on and off.

After one Alaska trip, went ‘home’ to Boise to visit for a few months; met another fiancee, and followed him to

Indiana: Bloomington. Was there a year, went back on the boats for work and…um…didn’t come back. >.<

Boise: again, to visit, but familial circumstances led me to remain there for another ten years. The job situation sucked so bad that when an online friend from Virginia told me to come on down and try it out there, I did, so…

Virginia: Virginia Beach. Was there about 5 years, had steady work, but a long-distance relationship with a gent elsewhere led me to…

California: Imperial, which is where I have been for about 4 years now, and where I married Mr. Long-Distance about a year ago.

And there is another move on the horizon. Mr.Tao has been here his entire life, due to the fact that his kids are here. But the boys’ mother is moving to Montana this summer. After the last two years of hearing she’s going to move <insert random place> and wondering where we’re going to have to jump to keep up with them, this one seems a definite ‘go’. As the boys’ mother has remarried, and the boys now have a whole new family, including other boys to grow up with, we’ve decided, at this point, to stay put for at least a year, and see how it works out. If it works out for the boys, and they want to stay in Montana, then I’m probably dragging Mr. Tao back to Boise, if no other ideas come into play. At this point I’d be happy to go wherever Mr. Tao wants to, as the job situation in Bosie STILL IS SUCKY, but that will take some time for him to think about, I am guessing.

All in all, I’m a PNW girl and will do my best to stay that way from now on, though.

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**Tugig **- you mean you’d still be living with your folks?? :eek:

Taking a break from cleaning the back bedroom. I just figured out why our electric bill may have been too high - the electric mattress pad in that room was on and has been on for who knows how long!! I don’t think it was heating the bed, but the lights on it were blinking, and they never do that, so I’m not sure what was going on, but it was still using electricity that it shouldn’t have been using.

Much stuff is being thrown away, recycled, or sorted and filed. I was actually able to put some winter blankets and afghans in the closet, so yay for organization! I found my daughter’s pickle jar full of change - I’ve been asking her to get it out of here. Today she gets her last warning - she gets it by the end of the week, or it’s going into my savings account.

Kids… sheesh.

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Sssssshhhhh…if I told you well we all know what happens next :smiley:

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Born in Seattle, parents moved to Richland, Wa. (Eastern Wa.) when I was 6 months old, then back to Seattle when I was 1. Dad remodeled a house in North City and I lived there until I was 13.

My parents divorced when I was 9, and in 1973 mom remarried and we moved to Lake Stevens, Wa. We lived in two houses there, and it was all pretty traumatic as step-dad was psychotic and among other things tried to run my mom, one of my brothers and me over with the car.

At 14 we moved to Smokey Point, Wa. (with psycho step-dad) and after a few more blowups I moved in with my aunt and uncle in Lake City, Wa.

A year later I moved back in with mom, crazy step-dad and my two brothers, in Marysville, Wa. I could not take the step-dad’s insanity and moved into a foster home in Marysville, Wa.

Mom finally kicked step-dad to the curb when I was 15, and I moved back in with her and my brothers, in an apartment in Marysville Wa.

New step-dad came into the picture when I was 17 and a senior in high school. After graduating I moved into a cute little house in, yep, Marysville. I moved after a year into a 4 plex with a great roommate in Smokey Point.

After almost a year my roommate got married, and the combination of paying the rent by myself and the commute, I moved to Everett.

Two years later my boyfriend and I rented a 104 year old farmhouse in Sultan, Wa. which is right up in the foothills of the Cascades. We were on 7 acres of river front property, complete with chickens and a half bull/half steer. Anyone here from Wa. Knows what happened when autumn rolled around. The river came all the way across the property to the steps of the porch; the chickens and beef-on-the-hoof floated away. :*(

Boyfriend was behaving spectacularly badly, so I packed my 1961 Rambler American (this was 1980) and I drove from western Wa. to Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio. In December. In January 1981 my boyfriend convinced me to come back, and I did.
In May 1981 I finally broke up with my boyfriend and moved into another cute little house in Kenmore, Wa. on Lake Washington.

In October 1981 I moved back up to Everett, had a few apartments there, lived in Brier for a while, eventually moving back to Everett in 1982. Bounced around a couple of apartments before staying in one for 5 years.

Then I made the decision to make a big move, and in 1989 I went to live in Larsen Bay, AK. a tiny Native fishing village on the west side of Kodiak Island. I lived in two houses there before moving into Kodiak. I lived in a trailer, an apt. a house on Pillar Mountain, then two other trailers in the 17 years I lived in Kodiak.

In 2010 my marriage blew up, and after receiving an inheritance which facilitated the move, I brought my two youngest kids, two cats and eight dogs back to Marysville, Wa. where I purchased the house I am living in now.

I love my house, and have been having a blast decorating and landscaping. I have no plans to move anytime soon. My mom and step-dad live a mile up the hill from me, and my dad and step-mom live just a short jaunt up I5. I must confess, it is very good to be back in what has become my home town.

Mom always reminds me that my first name means the wanderer, lol!

It’s a drizzly day here, I had plans to put some gladiolas in today, we’ll see if there is a break in the rain. There is a pork roast waiting for me to pop it in the oven, but first I am going to try out a new quick bread recipe; Orange Cream Cheese bread, it sounds yummy. My #3 daughter goes in to the dentist in a bit to have a tooth extracted, and my son goes to work about the same time, so I will be unsupervised. Let the party begin! :smiley: