Contest!

Have you ever had the feeling come over you like you have been here before? Different but kind of the same? Excited but relaxed?

Saturday afternoon we pulled in to the Piggly-Wiggly  ops now Bi-lo ran around the store like a crazy man pulling things from the shelves as if there were a major snow storm about to hit! Who knows where 6A, 61 and 62 were! In less than 10 minutes 6 covered every single isle in that store and each item he chose was a Bi-Lo special! Time to find the rest of the family! Long lines at the checkout so why not get in line and have them come to me with their stuff…. Not a good idea… really has this down to a science, a week of shopping in 15 minutes! Let’s see if anyone else can match that! Yes we certainly ended up with a strange mix of items, but 6 was good for the week and that is all that matters. Same store different name! We loaded up the car, it all fit nicely in the trunk no one had to sit with bags of food on their laps, and off we went! Soon we arrived at the condo or is it a villa (don’t know the difference and don’t care). It was a new one this year, everyone could not wait to get in and see how nice it was. DO you think anyone could take a bag up with them? (6 will let you draw your own conclusion )6 stood at the trunk of the car looking up those 40 steps wondering if anyone was going to help unload the car this year. It builds charter! 6 took as many bags as he could including one in his mouth and walked those 40 steps one by one, at least 10 times. Car empty! They were still looking at the condo! Here is what was different: different floors, different kitchen finishes, different couch, different TV, but once again the same floor plan, in reality it was in a different location and had different colors. Time to start dinner, same process same food only from Bi-Lo and not from wall-mart! Off to church, 6 did not have to drive (nice), same priest, but he did not ask for money this time. (He may have but 6 did not understand a word he said). Came back from church, opened the Rex (but it was not Rex this year) we only killed two bottles not 8 like we did last year, put the final touches on dinner, rang the bell,  ate the dinner, changed my spaghetti splattered clothes, and all went for a walk on the beach, cranked up the music (7’s choice this year), and scared away all the nice families also walking on the beach at the time.  Made it to the Sanctuary wanted to go in for a drink, but the usual excuses came out.. I am not dressed for the sanctuary; I left my shoes back at the boardwalk…. Yada yada yada… The bottom line is no one wanted to buy me a simple drink! (you think 6 was going to buy drinks for that many people?) Came home went to bed, 6 does have to say that was a nice big bed, it was a California king and it did not have a indentation (hole) where some weight challenged person  must have laid for 15 years,  in the center so 6 did not have to spend the week holding on for dear life!

As you can see different but kind of the same! Let’s have a contest for next year! 6 heard that 8 was saying we should look into a house, 6 is game! His logic is we were now minorities on the beach for we don’t have tattoo’s, so either we all get them or move up the beach you know over there on Melody lane! As a wise man always said “After three days fish stink”! (Anyone know who 6 is referring to?)  SO here is the contest: Who ever comes up with a suitable plan that changes things but at the same time meets the strange quarks of each individual (so that they are not pissed off on Saturday night and we all have to live with them for a week), will win a bottle of Rex or a 6 pack of Milwaukee’s best for their own consumption! Join in.. let the ideas flow! 

Words of wisdom:  no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’ Luke 5-37:39