Happy 4th of July!

Alone on the 4th. Lonely.  I spent the weekend getting the house ready for my guests this weekend. I could hear all the neighbors down at the beach with their families and smell the grills. At night there was fireworks down at the beach but I stayed in. I've lived here for 5 years. I love the beach and the beauty up here, but the last 2 years have seen Lake Michigan at it's highest in years so bye bye beach which is a total bummer for me since to me, that was a huge part of my decision to move up here.
What if I moved back? Would it be the same? I have friends there, but who knows if they're not going to move away and then what? My kids are there, but same thing, who knows if they are staying in Chicago for a long time?  They say you can never go home again.....hmmmm. I certainly don't want to move to a new place and start this whole thing over again. It's here or there.

The dating sights are pretty active lately.  I was contacted by a guy who looks like potential. I even sent him my phone number. Never did that before. Just had a feeling.There's another guy I'm meeting up with in 2 weeks (has a boat!) We'll see.  The woman who owns the store at which I work says you can forecast the crowds by the fishing reports. I've paid attention and the dating sights get active along with the fishing reports. When the fish get active, the guys do to I guess. Pretty funny. I'll report how it works out.

July 1, 2015
I haven't written in a long time. Still trying to get my real estate business off the ground. Selling here is so different.  It's part agricultural, part small town and part retirement community. Very different from selling in the city of Chicago. Everybody knows everyone, or they went to school, worked with or slept with everyone else.  I don't have any history with these folks so it's an uphill climb to get anywhere in this business. I like I'm trying to go up and down escalator. I'm giving it till spring and then I'm going to seriously think about moving back to Illinois or at least find a little place in town so I have a few more neighbors and don't have to drive 15 miles to buy groceries.

Been on a few dates. ALL LOSERS! Have only met frogs, still looking for that prince.(old prince haha) Met one guy for coffee the other day. 2 hours of listening to him talk about himself, his kids and grand kids, not one thing about me. Every time I tried to talk he changed the conversation back to himself.  I even had to pay for my own coffee!  When I got home I emailed him that I didn't want to see him ever again  He emailed me back "So sorry to hear that, I was looking forward to seeing you again"  WHAT!!!!???

This is a short post as I have to get up for a root canal tomorrow morning at 8am. My fun life, huh?