The Story of Me

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Well guys, I'm cutting you off! No more chapters from The Day Ginger Snapped. Don't cry! You can always buy a copy for yourself to see what happens to Ginger and her friends.

I will tell you this...If you've been reading along you're at the part where Ginger is about to give a speech about who she is and what she likes and what she wants. It's very close to an actual speech I gave about myself around the time it was written. I had to change some of the things and add to it in order for it to work with Fake Ginger. Trust me when I tell you, Fake Ginger got a much better reaction than I got!

I want to start sharing the story I started as part of July's Camp NanoWrimo. I actually hit the 50k mark and wasn't finished with the story so I just finished it up as part of the August camp. This story is very, VERY different from The Day Ginger Snapped so it will be interesting to see what you think. Parts of this story were hard for me to write because they are just so far removed from anything I've ever written before so be kind!

I'm sharing the Epilogue with you today. Hopefully, I'll wake up in the morning with lots and lots of messages and emails telling me that you like this and want to read more!

I have to warn you that once again you're getting the unedited version so please excuse spelling and grammar mistakes!

***I went online today and checked out my class list since I go back to school on Tuesday and learned that I have a student in my class with the same name as the main character in this story. I've never had a student by this name before. I wonder if it's some kind of sign!***

The Story of Me

When you reach the end of your life and look back you will see two things, the people you loved and the people who loved you. If you are lucky both groups will be large and filled with the same people.

I was not lucky. I died cold and alone on the streets of Miami at the age of twenty-three. I am not telling you my story so that you will feel sorry for me. I don’t deserve your sympathy. Life may have dealt me a bad hand, but they were my cards to play. If I raised a bet or doubled through when I should have checked or even folded there is no one to blame but myself.

Instead, I am telling you my story so that you will know that I was here. I lived. I walked these streets. You may have even seen me and smiled or you may have looked away so that you didn’t have to make eye contact.

My story is not glamorous and there is no happy ending. Someone once told me that it’s not about the happy ending it’s about the story. So, this is it. The story. My story.

The story of me.

Should I blame the floor or the coffee table?

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I walked into my neighbors house this afternoon to find her messing around on her computer while her husband and Orange Croc Guy pretended to watch TV, but mostly they were just napping.

I announced that they were all boring! I let them know that they needed to do something because they've been boring for weeks now and when they're boring my blog posts are boring.

My neighbor rolled her eyes at me then went back to reading on her computer. Her husband answered me with a single loud snore. Orange Croc Guy looked at me like I had three heads or something, then he had a good idea.

OCG said that if I thought they were sooooo boring I should just hang out with someone else. He then went on to suggest that I call the Cute Fajita Delivery Guy, except he didn't call him cute.

While my neighbor continued to read and her husband continued to snore I gave OCG the evil eye while he sat there and smirked at me. That's when I saw it-----the telephone sitting on the coffee table.

I moved my eyes from OCG to the phone and then back to OCG. Without saying a word I decided to go for the phone. Afterall, I'm not going to miss a chance to call the Cute Fajita Delivery Guy!

OCG saw what I was doing and made his move for the phone at the same time. Guess he didn't really want me to make that call after all. lol!

Now, according to OCG, I had no chance of getting to the phone before he did, but I don't think that's true. I think the phone was mine! I could almost feel it in my hands.

Almost!

But the floor decided to trip me and then the coffee table decided to hit me.

My three so called "friends" were almost able to make sure I wasn't really hurt before they laughed at me.

As I sat there with an ice pack on my cheek OCG pointed out that the afternoon wasn't so boring afterall.

This so wasn't the kind of "not boring" I was looking for and we never did order fajitas so the story doesn't even have a happy ending.

MONEY!

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You know how every now and then there will be a news report or article about unclaimed money and how some of it might be yours? I have always laughed at those reports/articles and dreamed of having so much money I could forget about some of it.

Well.....even though I don't have nearly enough money apparently I did forget about some!

I had some time on my hands yesterday...actually...I didn't want to do what I was supposed to be doing so I clicked on the link to see if I had millions waiting for me out there somewhere. I did...I mean, I do...I mean, I know it's not millions, but I actually had unclaimed money waiting for me.

I think it's an old saving account from North Carolina that I had forgotten about and since I moved back to Florida over 20 years ago that poor money has been waiting for me a long time. I can't wait to get it and show it how much I've missed it by spending it all. LOL!

Check out the NAUPA site to see if there's money waiting for you. You never know!

$2 Tuesday at Stuff to Scrap!

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Shel Belle Scraps has added the beautiful Serenity kit to the $2.00 Tuesday bin at Stuff to Scrap. You will only be able to pick the kit up at this price for one day, so click on the preview below and go shopping!

The 1-1-1 Challenge

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The 1-1-1 Challenge was an idea shared by Bunny Cates over a year ago, but she brought it up on twitter recently and I fell in love with it.

The idea is to take one day a week and for one hour clean out and declutter one room. You know those closets yo u haven't cleaned out in awhile? Those clothes you can't remember ever wearing? Well, isn't this a great way to tackle the problem?

Like I said I fell in love with the idea, but I'm thinking I may need to add an extra 1 to the challenge. Mainly because 1 day I plan to try this. lol!

8-7-11

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Bad Netflix, bad, bad Netflix!!!

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So, I'm already unhappy with the price increase that Netflix surprised us all with. Especially since I usually do the streaming movies and the disk. Streaming movies are usually for when I'm watching a movie alone and the disk are usually the ones I watch with OCG and/or our friends.

Well, a disk arrived in the mail today that was broken and who ever had it before me had written on the white disk sleeve that the disk was broken when they received it. Why didn't someone at Netflix notice this?

I called Netflix told them about the disk and the note that was written on the sleeve. Guess what the girl on the phone said? "Oh well." Seriously, that's what she said, "Oh well." Then she went on to tell me that as soon as I sent the broken one back in they could either send a replacement for it or send the next one in my queue----which ever I preferred.

Well, I would prefer that you not send me broken disks! Especially since it is clearly marked "broken" and if you do send me broken disks I would prefer that you say you're sorry and that it was an accident instead of saying "Oh well"!