my adventures with my mom

To start off my new blog I wanted to let all you bloggers know whats in store.
I just moved to Port Charlotte Florida from Miami to spend some time with my mom. About 3 months ago my step father passed away and left my mom here by herself. My 2 sisters and I tried to get her to move but she wanted her freedom and independance. See she purchased her home for cash and its payed off as well as her car. If she were to move then she would be giving all that up. In her mind she wants to die here and thats that. What can you do? So it was either leave her here by herself or move up here to help her out.
Guess which one I picked? ;)
So here I am starting my new life and I figured I'd start a new blog to go along with it.
This blog will chronicle all my adventures with her as I try to blend in with the locals while keeping some semblance of my originality.
My first 2 weeks have come and gone and today was my first day back at work. I got real lucky as the bank I work for had an opening close by. That's if you consider 50 miles close! It's in Sarasota but its real nice there. I hear that Sarasota is the art and culture hub of Florida so I look forward to visiting there after work. And it felt like I was on vacation traveling there to work. That will probably fade fast though considering I am working. But everyone at my new place is so nice. Its very laid back and everyone seems to have an interest in pleasing you. I look forward to meeting new friends and having a nice time. My first day was very quiet and the hardest part was learning everyone's name. They just have to learn 1 name while I have to learn many. Seems unfair but by the end of the week I should have everyone down pat.
My first 2 weeks here were a total disaster with only the fact that I as in a new place and spending time with my mom the only saving grace. We did some grocery shopping and my mom has problems walking so we got to get one of those motorized wheelchairs to scoot around the store in. She's pretty good at that thing too. Anyway I haven't stopped working since I got here. With unpacking and putting things away to having garage sales on both weekends. That was alot of fun...NOT! We made about 400 dollars the 2 weeks just selling junk that was in our way. We made a few mistakes along the way too by selling these old pocket knives that were worth around 30 th 50 dollars for 5 bucks each. My computer wasn't working so I couldn't jump on eBay to figure out what was a fair price. Talking about computers I had a hell of a time connecting the internet here in the boondocks. I went with Sprint/Earthlink cause preety much thats all they got. its ok ut they don't have a modem that supports USB ports and my computer doesn't have an ethernet so I bought this funky adapter that does not work. I'll probably return it and get a card that I'll have to install. That will be a story all in itself.
Well that's enough for now. But let me end by telling you what I did for Mother's day.
I took her to Ft. Myers to this real nice restaurant right on the water. People were actually riding their boats upto the docks and tying it off then getting out and sitting down to eat. pretty nice. But for some reason I was really pissed off driving up there. It was like some kind of attack and I kept losing my temper with everything. I have anger issues. But my mom had a good time and thats all that counts. We tried to go to a miniture golf place but they had hills andstairs to climb and she can't do that so we just drove around then went back home. Ended up seeing a movie. Read about it on my other blog
www.mrmoviebuff.blogspot.com
Well got to get some sleep. Big day tomorrow at work. Got to see if I remembered everything I learned today.
Bye for now...