….whoops, no I’m not. This actually is my seventh day of being very concerned about the virus, isolating myself from everyone and realizing that this may go on for quite some time. When thinking about what I am going to be doing, I thought reading and watching movies on netflix and amazon prime, but should there be more. Perhaps I could use this time to be productive, catching up on things that I have been procrastinating about. I could go through all the boxes of pictures, I could tackle my closet once and for all, I could go through files that contain obsolete information. My thought process even included cleaning out cabinets, cleaning the garage, writing my obituary. When none of the above appealed to me, other than reading and watching tv and the only thing that made a little sense was writing my obituary, I realized if I dropped the word obituary and thought writing, that may be the answer.
Quite a few years ago I started a blog. I enjoyed thoroughly writing and sharing information about The Villages, personal experiences from present and also my past. I really had a lot of fun writing it. However, in 2015 Sean designed and patented golf cart sun visors, and my life took a sudden turn. (www.golfcartvisors.com) I abandoned my blog and for two years concentrated on Sean\u2019s business. I have always been encouraged to go back to writing it again and when I do, I find my blog format has changed and I have to relearn everything\u2026blah, blah, blah \u2026 and at this point I can\u2019t even figure out how to download pictures from my phone. (I could do it from my old camera, but not my phone??) So if you get to see this just know that I am on a first name basis with Go Daddy technicians and pleading for help from my son Joe, who encouraged and set up my original blog.
Friends I have spoken to have expressed the concern over the virus, but they are almost as concerned about the lack of social interaction with their friends. Hence, I decided to start up my blog again to stay in touch. Instead of sitting over a Chicken Piccata dinner after class, we could just go to the blog and continue our conversations. It would only be a handful of people. But then I thought I\u2019d like to include my sisters, my brother and my children and their spouses, and even my grandsons. (How fun it would be if they actually read their 82 year old grandmother\u2018s blog, and shared their wisdom and advice with us.)
Hence, instead of writing my obituary I am starting a new life with my blog. I encourage those of you who feel the need to socialize, share what you are doing, see what others are keeping busy with, please leave a comment. If successful it will be fun, uplifting and\/or informative. Definitely no politics, no complaining, and no virus news, we get enough of that on the news. Rather again, what are you doing, what are you reading, what wisdom would you like to share?
Hope to hear from you and hope we will all be on the road again soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be aware of anything you send to the blog will be posted for all to see. I will be able to remove comments I do not feel are not in the spirit of the blog. You can send me private comments to cpriestner@comcast.net <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short explanation. If you go to the blog and read the last several blogs they were posted about the fact I had been scammed by a local car dealer. I tried to seek damages from April to August with no luck. I decided to blog about it and I sent blog to salesman, sales manager and the owner. As they do a lot of business in The Villages, 3 blogs and 3 days later they installed a new $1800 GPS at their expense. <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ….whoops, no I’m not. This actually is my seventh day of being very concerned about the virus, isolating myself from everyone and realizing that this may go on for quite some time. When thinking about what I am going to be doing, I thought reading and watching movies on netflix and amazon prime, but should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}