Middle child headed down to see Manatees in Florida....she just took off on a whim!
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My middle child keeps me on my toes....she is like a fairy just flickering around with no real path in life.
She can't figure out what she wants to do with herself, so she just keeps going from thing to thing for a bit and I never know whats next. She went on a trip with me once and fell in love with Manatees.....so she decided to move down there to try to be near them. She didn't realize they migrated away during the summer. She loved her time down there anyway....working on fishing boats and a large honeybee farm.
She eventually moved north of us to Mentone and worked in antiques and as a hostess at a restaurant. She told me she quit her hostess job because they wouldn't let her sing with the live entertainment performing there. She is a really good singer.....and they loved it, but she DID have an actually job to do.
Since the antique thing is something she can do whenever she wants and she just quit that job she found herself with some time on her hands. Most other people would go search for the next job.....but not this girl.
She packed her car up and has headed south to see the Manatees. Keeping up with this one is why my hair is silver.
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Never had kids, but thinking that the U.S.A.F. might give her some direction.
Free career training if played correctly.
I know a couple folks that this worked out for them.
I remember those days of doing things on a whim then life got in the way. Now I am at a point in life that I can return to that lifestyle but haven't had the urge to do so. Tell her this sedate old poop is envious and hopes she has fun! Someday she will look back and treasure the memories she is creating now. Bob
Well good for her! We only get to be young once, might just as well take the bull by the horns and enjoy it while she can.
He has a security job at a corporate office building....its something he happened on by a friend. He just has to check badges and "boop" people in the building. He's making really good money with good benefits and he likes the people he is working with. He's been all over the place for the past year. Its been a rough go for sure with him....but hopefully he has found something that works.
I'm pretty happy with how things are going with both of them right now.
Not all who wander are lost.
good for her we all know we get one chance at this and sounds like she is making the best of hers be safe and careful young lady and enjoy it all
I have heard many times . when some one about to die no one says ,
wow I wish I had of worked harder or spent more time at the office or at work . ( granted if they did they mind was gone 😲)
The last line of your comment reminds me of something a friend told me. She is a licensed therapist that does work in counseling people with terminal illnesses.
One thing she said a dying person never said to her was “I wish I had sent more time at the office or at work”.
Instead they all talked about things they wished that they had not done and can’t do now.
I envy your daughter! So much freedom. I miss it!
Merc
We have a photographer....he does a great job on our items each week. He is heading to Arizona tonight. He has a generator, blow up mattress, all the supplies to "camp" in his jeep while he is on his trip. He is going to be gone for a full week....just taking pictures. He calls it his "recharging" adventures. He loves the desert.
I love the idea of getting away, but I cannot imagine sleeping in my car for a week.
She's a good egg, really. Is this the same kiddo of yours that was looking to maybe move out west?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Yes.....she hasn't given up on the idea, but she is making things work in Mentone for now. They have a big art related community out there and its hippy-dippy enough for her to feel like she isn't stuck living in dreary old Alabama. She has friends that have beehives she has been helping maintain....an antiqe store she helps manage...and several groups of friends that are nothing at all alike. She wants to travel and see the world a bit before she settles down, but she doesn't really have a good path that will let her do this. I'm fine with her just planning some trips. WHY does being a sharecropper tempt this child??? I hope she learns better before trying some of the silly stuff she threatens to do.
Experience is the best teacher there is!
I'm so glad to hear of a young person out "doing things" instead of sitting in their mother's basement, worrying about their "anxiety".
You are a good parent to not get in her way. 😀
Merc
Kids!