Back to the Grind

I’ve been home long enough to get back to the daily grind and it ain’t pleasant.  Spent the first week unloading and putting away all that camper stuff.  Since the complex GAVE AWAY my parking spot to someone with a larger camper and I was not put near electricity (which I need to offload my camper) I took someone else’s spot and I know there’s going to be a fight at some point and I’m going to be in the middle of it.  I spent a couple of days loading up with groceries, had a dinner party so my dining room table would get cleared off of my 3 months worth of mail.

I also applied for a job teaching memoir writing at the Whalley Senior Center.  All I have to do now is fill out the paperwork to get another RCMP investigation done and drop it off. My last investigation was done less than two years ago but I just might have gone berserk in the last couple of years and swindled all those old people – oh, forgot – I’m ONE of those old people AND I now have to take an 8 hour course (paid for by ME) in First Aid.  There goes ANY salary I would have made in the first 2 or 3 weeks of teaching and, since I know me so well, I’m sure if any problems do come up I’ll be the first one out the door calling 911 – but I applied, they seemed interested in my teaching skills so I might as well increase my life’s experience.

Yesterday, finally a ray of sunshine, my friend (and neighbor) Danielle and I went to the RV Show in Chilliwack.  Met up  with another RV friend, Joan, who just returned from California.  I, of course, was looking for another place to camp for next winter and realized on my way there that the vendors would be featuring summer locations.  I entered several drawings and I think I’ll be receiving a one-week stay in a Palm Springs campground. It’s probably a new campground or a recently upgraded one and they are looking for takers – so I’ll take.  Saw nothing that would interest me in the way of a new camper – I’ll stick with my old faithful truck camper. Easy to load, easy to offload, easy to drive around even though a few campgrounds do not allow taking the camper off and living in it off the truck. Their loss since I won’t be staying at ANY of those campgrounds ever again.

Had a nice chat with (vendor) Sheila, owner, editor and publisher, of the RV Times and (vendor) Al Cohoe from the Lifestyle Conference at Okanagan College and one of my favorite people in the whole world who was flogging the conference.

Today it’s back to the rainy days and I’ll be spreading my income tax stuff all over my dining room table – but this time I’ll get it done…..or close enough.  

Let me check that calendar to see when I’m back on the road……..Joei