“If You Don’t Have Something Nice to Say…..”
….my mother would say,”….don’t say anything at all.” So I’ve been stewing at the shit that the universe has thrown my way for the past month.
My mother didn’t practice what she preached either. And I believe more that “honesty is the best policy”.
After a fabulous but short vacation on Anegada, we came back to a ridiculously screwed up ad in “the publication formerly known as the pink paper”, loud music blaring into the night and a resulting altercation with one of “St. Croix’s finest”, a letter to the chief and commissioner of police reporting the offending (and offensive) “officer”, a small claims court battle with Juan F. Luis Hospital (still not settled), a negligent property manager for the property we’ll be renting for the next year, and the news of Michael’s job being terminated.
Needless to say, I’ve too depressed and pissed off and still busy with getting ready to move, to write.
We had spent all of our money fixing up SunDog House, and now the expected income for the season was not coming in due to the messed up ad (when there are 3 contact numbers and the first 2 are wrong, how many people will call the third?)
Anyway, our ad will be fixed next month, and we’ve gotten our first confirmed reservation for SunDog House, so things should be getting better.
January 6th, 2010 at 7:45 am
Great! Good things are coming.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:49 am
I think that Sun Dog House will catch on and hopefully the website will be the place most folks go to contact you. The frigid weather, it’s even snowing in Florida, will drive them down here.
Hope they gave you a “make good” ad in a next publication. In this age of ethernet comms, I almost never type anything myself and copy and paste most information to avoid typos, at least on my end. Deciphering chicken scratch handwriting is still part of typesetting-layout but very little now-a-days.