I WANT TO START BY SAYING I WAS OVERDOSING ON SADNESS, WATCHING AND FEELING HELPLESS...CONSTANT NEWS ON DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND THE FRUSTRATION OF POLITICS PREVENTING AID..BUT THEN AGAIN, I HAVE TO AGREE THAT THE ARMY HAD TO BE THERE TO PROTECT BOTH THE PEOPLE AND THE AID WORKERS...THERE ARE DECISIONS THAT HAD TO BE MADE.....THEY HAD TO DO WHAT THEY HAD TO DO....EVEN IF IT PROLONGERD THE FOOD AND WATER. UNRULY STARVING PEOPLE BECOME MURDEROUS MOBS. AND THAT HAD TO BE PREVENTED.
I NEEDED A DAY OFF. bUT, THE NEWS JUST WENT ON....AND THE SADNESS CONTINUES....
jUST THINK HAD NATURE....NOT HAVE WAITED UNTILL 2010.....HAD IT BEEN 100 YEARS BEFORE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO COMMUNICATION EXCEPT (MAYBE) THE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.... THERE WOULDNT HAVE BEEN ANY AIRPLANES TO BRING FOOD,WATER AND HELP, ITHIN DAYS. IT IS STILL HORRIBLE....BUT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED ALREADY...SOME SURVIED BY MEDICAL HELP, AMPUTATIONS, MEDICATIONS...THAT ALREADY HAVE ARRIVED. THE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND WOULD HAVE DIED, BUT WITHIN A FEW WEEKS, THE MAJORITY OF THE SURVIVORS WILL GET FOOD,WATER, AND MEDICINES....MEDICINE THAT DIDNT EXIST BACK THEN. MILLIONS WOULD HAVE DIED FROM DISEASE AND HUNGER..HAD THIS BEEN YEARS AGO..
tHE EMPLOYEES OF GRANNYS ATTIC, ARE MORE THAN EMPLOYEES. THEY ARE PART OF THE GREAT GRANNYS DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. EVERYONE CARES ABOUT EVERYONE....GLEN HAS BEEN A APRT OF IT FOR 36YEARS, HIS BROTHER JOHN 26, RICH 18 YEARS, EDDIE AND JUAN 8 YEARS, MIKE 12 YEARS, DOTTY ON AND OFF FOR 20 YEARS......DOTTY IS OFFICICAL DEN MOTHER.....SHE NOT ONLY COOKS AND FEEDS BUDDYDOG, BUT BRINGS FOOD ON SPECIAL OCASSIONS LIKE BIRTHDAYS, AND OTHER EVENTS.. TODAY SHE BROUGHT A BUNCH OF GOODIES.....AND A FABULOUS CUSTARD CAKE, COVERED WITH FRESH FRUITS....WITH PINK CANDLES...FOR EDDIE TO LIGHT AND BLOW OUT. DOTTY BROUGHT THE INCREDIENTS TO MAKE TUNA-MOLE, A TUNA SALAD WITH TOMATOES, AVOCADOS, CILANTRO,ONION, LIME JUICE,AND FINELY CHOPPED JALAPINOS...SERVED IN VARIOUS MEXICAN AND OTHER BREADS,,,A NICE GREEN SALAD... WE ATE, AND THEN SANG, AND SHOWED EDDIE OUR LOVE.... AND WE DO THIS FOR EVERYONE.....
wHAT MAKES BEING IN THE STORE TOLERABLE.....EVEN IF WE MAKE A FE NICE SALES, UNLESS THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE STORE MOST OF THE TIME, SCHMOOZING....PEOPLE COMING IN TO SELL US STUFF....OR GOING OUT ON HOUSE CALLS..IT CAN GET DULL AND BORNING.....
TODAY, WE STARTED WITH JERRY (WHO WE AFFECTIONALELY CALL "OPRAH" DELIVERED SOME THINGS FROM ELLIOT....OUR GOD FATHER......TWO OF WHAT HE BROUGHT WERE DAMAGED BEYOND BELIFE AND I REFUSED DELIVERY......A MIMI ARGUEMENT ENSUED..BUT WAS SOON CALMED....JOHN WAS OUT ON A HOUSE CALL, MILE WAS ON ANOTHER HOUSE CALL, AND CUSTOMERS WERE COMING IN....FIRST ONE BOUGHT A BUNCH OF TOBY MUGS....AND FOR LUCK TO START THE DAY, I GAVE IT TO HER ABOUT HALF PRICE......SHE ACCEPTED..AND WITH IN SECONDS, AS IF RICH KNEW I JUST TOOK IN 200, HE SOLD ME A MIRROR FOR $100 AND A TABLE FOR $100... easy come....easy go......Mike came back and negotiated a deal...of trading a good painting for a piece of jewelry and 5 lladros.....didnt make any cash on the deal, but we have 5 porcelain statues supposedly worth a bunch.
John came back kvetching about the mold i the basement of the house he went to.....a house full of furniture, from the same era that my parents furniture came from...and the same store. CANES in Passaic.... a fancy schmancy store, on Monroe Street Passaic.....a street that i wouldnt want to walk on in daylight now.....and no more fancy smaller stores exist anymore.....
We then started the birthday noshfest.. A woman came in during eating my tuna-mole sandwhich, and i helped her open a box of glasses and a vase..which we made a deal.....I also went out with a woman, to her car to look at other things.....that turned out to be nothing I would even allow her to throw in our dumpster....but I do try not to be nasty, or too denegrading.....I just say, that" at this time ( and not for the next 3000 years) can I use these....They must be very sentimental.....so I suggest that you keep them a bit longer, or donate them to chairty (if you can find one desperate enough).....But sometimes, when I am tyring to be very kind, they get hostile that I dont want it and come up with more questions like "why dont you want them?" or "well I happen to know that they are valuable...or my friend told me they are worth a lot and "she knows" I love so many have friends who"know".....they have their PHD in antiques....sometimes...people do bring i thigs to sell and want more than we can get.....like the lady who wanted me to pay her 50dollars each for used Waterford CRYSTAL wine glasses.....which one can buy new in the box at their closeout store.
THen Miss KITTY from England came in....Miss Kitty is a very attractive English woman who buys antique chairs and reovers them in wild fabrics....I sold her a pair of chairs.....for 200 that I paid 200.....but only offered 125, but the person who ran the estate sale made me pay 200......and that is another story for another day.
I just wanted to take in money....and these were ugly fabric covered....no one wanted them. and a bird in the hand is better than in Barbaras BUSH
Just called ELLIOT.. His brother Bobby, who is much like RAINMAN, but does have a drivers license..and can hold down a job, driving for Elliot.....underwent the knife tonight....for an obstruction; he had colon cancer about a year ago...and this sounds bad..that a new mass developed.....it doent sound good...but all we can do is pray for the best (pray is a generic word) Bobby is a poor soul...never hurt anyone in his life. a kind gentle soul...not too bright....went thru life..with no real worries, no real happiness.....and his perception of the world.....is most different than any of ours.. He didnt have to worry about money, politics, who was president....ELliot took care of him always......
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