Welcome back everyone!
I want to take a few lines to say thank you to the international readers
who read the blog over October despite my lack of posts. One week the blog actually had more readers
from Russia than America…very impressive.
Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to enjoy the stories and
stresses! Now, onto the post:
In honor of November’s arrival I’m going to give you the top
5 things that have caused me stress recently.
They are in no particular order except for that #5 is the most
stressful. Enjoy!
1.
With all of the retired citizens of Citrus
County, you’d think that I would have lost some of my disdain for the driving
habits that are commonplace on the highways and trails on my way to work…I haven’t. Let me begin by explaining that my morning
commute has become much more enjoyable as I have started to leave earlier so I
can avoid some of the “I have nowhere to be right now” crowd (which is more
prevalent than makes sense). HOWEVER,
every night I head to the gym around 8:30pm and travel on a dark stretch of
road known as Homosassa Trail. The speed
limit is 55 and it serves as a connection between two highways that I need to
travel. It never fails that someone in a
wood-panel laminated PT cruiser or a Cadillac sedan is driving with its brights
on…at 40 mph. This is my nightmare.
(note: if you happen to be someone over the age of 70 and you get nervous while
driving on dark stretches of road and you don’t know how to push the gas pedal
downward so as to propel your vehicle at or about the posted speed limit…you
should probably avoid stretches of road that are not well lit and require
speeds above 35.)
2.
What happened to “I Used To Be Fat” on
MTV?!?! This was a fantastic show! I came home early from the gym tonight only to
find that some True Life episode had taken its place? Maybe I missed the memo…or maybe I just haven’t
been watching as much MTV now that Jersey Shore is between seasons, but I am
thoroughly disappointed. (Note: one of
my favorite afternoons was about 3 Sunday’s ago when I watched a marathon
session of the first season while eating absurd amounts of food…yay
metabolism!!) (note #2: apparently the show is on at 10:30 ET…and rather than
delete the above stress, I’ll just make this extra note…my blog)
3.
I missed an event in Citrus County this last
weekend known as The Great American Cooter Fest…I repeat: I MISSED THE GREAT AMERICAN COOTER FESTIVAL!!!. You cannot imagine my level of
disappointment. With events such as the
Miss Cooter Fest Finals and the Cooter Scooter Race in which you can win the “Cooter
Cup”, I feel like I missed an opportunity. Here is a link for those of you interested in
what “The Legend of the Cooter” is all about: http://bit.ly/tRO2lJ
(Note: I was also unable to attend the
Mullet Festival with my friend RT up in the Niceville/Ft Walton Beach area a
few weekends ago…again…just a missed opportunity…but don’t worry, this weekend
is the “Stone Crab Jam” and there will be a lengthy post about the insane
amount of Stone Crab that I take down.)
4.
This Eastern Time Zone is really messing with my
head…and TV watching schedule (as you can tell from stress #2). I am so used to looking at listed airing
times and automatically deducting an hour or two (I grew up in the Mountain
Time Zone) to find out when the show will be on, that I’ve found it hard to
break the habit. Additionally, I cannot
believe how late sporting events start out here! Some of the World Series games didn’t get
over until well after midnight…and don’t get me started on Monday Night
Football. It’s almost impossible to
finish watching these games unless I’m invested (and for those of you who know
me well enough…you know that I don’t really have a vested interest in most sports/teams…at
least not to the point where I will lose sleep over catching a game that I’ll
see the highlights of the next morning).
Overall, I’ve started to get used to the TV schedule, but it isn’t
coming easily…hard to break old habits.
5.
This is the final…and most important stress…for
this post. Yesterday, while walking in
toward the front door from my car…I saw the largest spider I have ever seen
that wasn’t separated from me by a thick wall of glass. It seriously looked like a tarantula…and
apparently it could have been one. I don’t
pretend to like spiders, but I have never been afraid of them…until I saw this
one sauntering across the sidewalk. It
looked like it was hungry and wanted to snack on a crane…or one of these sickly
looking cows that Florida breeds. (not to get off on a rant here, but you should
see the cows down here…they look like they are absolutely starving. I’m not sure you can get a steak big enough
for a full portion from any single cow.
Now I’m not sure if these are the “free range” cows or “grass fed” cows,
but I can tell you that there’s a reason that the best beef comes from the
Mid-West…I’ll be sticking to stone crab, oysters, and shrimp while I’m down
here.) I now check under my covers and pillows before I go to bed to make sure
I don’t become some spider’s midnight snack…and that...is stressfull.
Thanks for reading everyone!
If anyone has any good Halloween stories that they would like to share
on here, feel free to write them up and email me by Thursday!
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