SURPRISE!!!! The ole bat actually survived any number of days after the last time I was posting in Full Glum Mode. 😀
Can you imagine? Who’d’ve thunk it??
I sure wouldn’t’ve, a week ago.
Welp. The teeth still ache. The gums still burn, The fingers and the feet still tingle. But just now they ache, they burn, and they tingle one HELLUVA lot less than they did when last we visited here. So…maybe, just mayyebeeee whatever the hell this ailment is will go away.
One can always hope, eh?
This evening, the Human was feeling well enough to dodder around the neighborhood with the energy-laden corgi. 😀
What a pretty little neighborhood it is! Truly, I lucked MASSIVELY into it to have found this place and bought a house here.
Amazingly, it has NOT gone downhill in the decade or so since SDXB and I bought in here. If anything, many of the houses have been much upgraded, and their fancification has spiffed up the ‘Hood.
The outrageous lightrail, roaring up and down Main Drag West, has not, after all, emitted so much noise and hauled in so much trash as to downgrade the living conditions. If anything, it has fancified the place even more: Californicating it to the taste of younger adults.
Affluent younger adults…
This place is getting fancier and pricier by the day.
When I croak over, so it appears, M’hijito will inherit a house worth a chunk of dough in a centrally located urban neighborhood, one that may even be a place where he will want to live himself. Whether he does or not, he surely is gonna come out on top of the deal.
😀
Boyoboy, am I glad didn’t move out to Sun City with SDXB, who fled the oncoming stampede of upgrades as soon as he saw it coming. I might’ve gone with him, if I hadn’t been there and done that, thanks to my parents. They were among the original buyers out there. And…as a younger, pretty much unwelcome resident at the time, I learned to un-appreciate the place.
More recently — just over the past few weeks — my feeble li’l mind has turned back to the possibility of decamping back to Sun City. But…y’know…don’t think so!
- Don’t wanna live in a mausoleum for old folks, not ever again.
- Don’t wanna be serenaded all day from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. by the roar of fighter jets out of Luke AFB.
- Don’t wanna live in a place where Black and Brown folk are uniformly hated and reviled.
- Don’t wanna live in a place where you can’t buy fancy gourmet foods because vendors assume old people mostly want to eat frozen dinners they can microwave.
- Don’t wanna live a million miles from a decent department store.
- Don’t wanna live a million miles from a Mayo hospital.
- Don’t wanna live a million and a half miles from M’hijito’s house.
- Don’t wanna live where you never hear the sound of little kids playing in the street near your house.
Don’t wanna…don’t wanna…don’t wanna! Just wanna live here in my drab li’l middle-class tract house, smack in the middle of the Big City. 😀