In spite of it being well below freezing all day, I’m glad we had the sun shining brightly once it climbed high enough in the sky, and for sure I was multi-layered in woolies, just to keep myself comfortable.
Part of my morning was spent getting signatures on a purchase agreement for 934 – 8th St. SE which ended up selling faster than I even thought, but I had to remind myself that anything priced under $100K that’s in move-in condition, is usually gone before you know it, and thank goodness it’ll be owner-occupied. I’m sure if it was on the market any longer, there would’ve been an investor scooping it up. I still don’t understand why that handful of major rental barons in our city, don’t start selling-off some of their inventory. My gosh! They must think they’re gonna live forever. I sure’s heck wouldn’t want to be the executor of one of them when the time came to liquidate, because there’d be so many listings to where you’d almost have to hire a group of real estate agents to handle such a large inventory.
Since I was out on the east side of town, I decided to head over to Hy-Vee and pick up a few things, and wouldn’t you know, just as I was slowly driving past that fitness center next to Hy-Vee, there was a 30ish guy standing there acting like he was going to cross in front of me, but instead he stood there. Well, just as I was slowly driving past him, he had the nerve to flip me off. My gosh! What the heck is getting into people? First of all, I was driving very slow, and secondly, where he was standing, wasn’t marked as a regular crossing. Oh well, he must’ve thought he was a big man with that middle finger pointed at me.
When I got back to office, I worked on getting some docs readied on today’s sale, which will get disseminated out to the appropriate parties, and then later headed to my back office and started paying the bills that had arrived since the first of the year, and by the time I had them delivered to the Post Office, it was approaching the hour of one, and since I hadn’t eaten anything, I decided to use one of my Christmas gift cards from State Street Deli, so off I headed.
I hadn’t been in their deli for months on end, and glad to find they’re still doing well considering how hard it is to find a parking spot. While I was waiting for my order, I couldn’t help noticing how many people were busy watching me to where I was wondering if I was inappropriately over-dressed for their establishment. I really wasn’t dressed up other than I had my cashmere overcoat on, but being a little naughty, I later thought they were likely taken by the fact that I was clean-shaven, because it seems all the more men are letting their facial hair grow in every direction, but the real turn-off is when I notice the hair on a man’s back has blended in with the hair on his head. Yikes! We have an ape in the house!
Having recently noticed the growing over-use of formulaic language which includes the sounds of stammering (uh), stuttering (um, um), throat-clearing (ahem!), stalling (well, um, that is), interjected when the speaker is groping for words or at a loss for the next thought, and believe me, it has become so widespread, even people in meetings that are being recorded are doing it. Yes, we all use such language from time to time, it shouldn’t be allowed to turn into dirty habits.
It really doesn’t stop there because I’ve heard prominent people in our community unnecessarily using expletives when speaking to lower-ranking people, and likely ‘thinking’ they’re lowering themselves to their positions which ends up being a double insult. I sure am glad my mother was very much against the use of expletives in her presence, which helped me to curb the use of such vulgar words. Yes, once in a while my mouth gets a little ‘potty’, but only when in the company of familiars. Oh well, it all comes down to everything in these times being out in full audio/visual view. Right?
Three hours of my afternoon’s free time was spent working on my project, and if I’m able to get over there tomorrow afternoon for another round, it’ll continue to grow all the closer to being finished. It’s sure looking good to me.
Tonight’s One-liner is: Everything becomes a little different as soon as it’s spoken out loud.
