Jeremy Herndon

I went to the Harley shop today. Come to find out, they were having an open house! I don’t know why they call it an open house, they’re open six days a week! I went in and looked around at all of their motorcycles; it made me feel young again! Salesmen asked me if I was interested in buying one. I told him I’d love to, the only problem is that I’m afraid I’d have to use my grocery money to fill the gas tank! He just laughed and said “welcome to the crowd!” Well, I did get a free hot dog and a soda out of it! And I did enjoy looking at some really nice bikes. On the way home, I stopped at Hardees and bought a cheeseburger. I hadn’t been to a Hardees in two years. It will probably be two years before I get the chance to go back again!

My wife is always fretting about paying our bills.  She keeps reminding me that we need to cut costs because the cost of living is going up but our income is NOT going up.  She is still upset about the price of gas having gone up so much in the recent past, and she is NOT happy about that at all!

So, she is constantly moving about the house, turning off lights and televisions and radios when there aren’t any people in the room.  I can’t even leave the living room for ten minutes to use the “facilities” without coming back to a darkened silent family room!  It drives me nuts!  When I complain to her about it, she says “well I didn’t know how long you were going to be gone, and lots of times you just go to bed or off to work or off running errands and don’t even tell me and don’t turn anything off, and I’m trying to save money and make ends meet.”

I hate that.

I’ve always heard that Utah is a beautiful state.  I’ve had several friends go there to attend college and they never came back!  I’ve had other friends go there on skiing vacations and send me postcards telling me how great the snow skiing is!  I remember learning about Salt Lake in Utah, and thought it was very odd to have an inland Lake that was salt water.  And I’ve heard that the Mormon Tabernacle temple is a beautiful sight to behold!  I’d love to go to a Utah Resort and check out the Homestead Crater too!  I love natural phenomenons like that!

I think that one of the hardest addictions to kick is the caffeine addiction! I love my morning cup of joe! I just can’t seem to get started without it! My doctor says I really should cut down on caffeine, that too much is unhealthy for me. So I have been slowly cutting back. I’m down to only one cup of joe a day. I’m pretty proud of that accomplishment! I’ve tried to switch to decaf for that one cup, but I get a terrible caffeine withdrawal headache that just does not go away – even when I take headache medicine! My wife tells me that every time she has tried to quit drinking tea that the withdrawal headache lasted for two weeks! I don’t think I can deal with that for two weeks and still go to work! Wish there was an easier way!

Walt Disney has always been a huge influence in our lives.  Both my wife and I can remember as really young children watching the Wonderful World of Disney on television, and of course watching the Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club!  We grew up with them!  And our parents took us to so many of the wonderful Disney Movies as kids.  I blame the Bambi movie for my wife’s refusal to eat venison!

My wife had the good fortune to go to DisneyWorld many more times than I have been able to go.  When she was younger she lived close enough to Orlando to be able to drive there in a one day drive, and spend a week with her grandmother that lived only a half hour away from Kissimmee!  She went there every year for many years!  Lucky lucky lucky!

But now her grandmother isn’t there anymore, and my wife moved too far away to go there frequently.  Many changes have happened; she’s never been to the Animal Kingdom part of DisneyWorld.  As much as she loves animals, I’m sure that is one place she would love to go the next time we can arrange to go.  We’ll probably be trying to rent a condo through the Orlando Vacation Rentals service when we figure out a good time to go.  We like having all the comforts of home when we go away and not just be confined to a small two-bed one-bath room at a typical motel.