Stain with a stitched-up nose after volunteering to carry a dresser, smiling at Beauregard’s – happy early 21st!

A young woman attempting to test students and categorise them into standards without administering a standardised test.

Stephanie from Brookdale Place Dining Services delivering sandwiches while we finished moving in.

Morgan with blue eyes at the PetSmart checkout counter.

Tommy’s Pizza.

Saying goodbye to Leonard, Brenda, Rob, Kerri, Daryl and the rest of the HarborChase staff.

Kelly the herbalist, Jenn the rocket propulsion specialist, April the doctor of chiropractic.

Was that Todd Lumpkin visiting a relative at HarborChase?

Thanks to Robert, Matt and Kennedy at Two Men and a Truck; Tonya H at the Gondolier in Athens, TN.

Getting your husband a one-day pass on the local military base so he can drop you off and take your car for its scheduled maintenance.

Thanks to Mike at Bill Penney Toyota service dept. for taking care of our 2002 Camry with 190k+ miles.

To Mrs. Rozier, happy early 85th!

In one week, it’s possible to find out your company lost a government contract, you get hired by the winning company, move your mother from one assisted living community to another (arranging a lot of background logistics), attend dance class for two hours, take your mother to visit friends at her hometown, stroll through a street festival, attend a college football game, see friends at a ’70s sock hop for high school classes 1970-1980, eat lunch with in-laws and…what else?  Wash clothes, buy cat food, prepare to teach a scrapbooking class…oh yeah, and think you lost an important refund check that causes you to say out loud in a carpark, “I can’t take it anymore…I’m going crazy!”

Frustrated, you return home, rummage through some old bills and find an envelope full of dividend checks and the all-important refund check.

All is good.

You can jump on facebook and read happy messages from your friends.

And then put clothes in the dryer / clothes in the washer, fold clothes, pet/feed the cats, and finally, after washing your face and brushing your teeth, crawl into bed with your husband in a safe and secure middle-class home.

Life is grand.

And then you get to do it all over again!