I grew up in an aviation family which moved every 8 months to 5 years. When that is all you know, you think it is normal. Normal not to have repetitive friends, normal not to stay connected to people you loved and enjoyed.
Long before the days of EMAIL, FACEBOOK and TWITTER. (On that note I have connected with the friends I went to high school with in South East Asia and they all live in different parts of the world). Thank Goodness for that part of social media!
I am grateful for technology on many levels and on many levels I abhor it! Abhor it when it comes to the over whelming amounts of emails I receive in ONE Day. God forbid you go on vacation and have NO ACCESS to email. I would want to shoot myself at 200 plus emails a day. I'm the techno for the team....My Brother/Partner would rather find another career than have to handle the Teams emails. I on the other hand leave the details of contracts up to him. Being the type "A", multi-Tasker, I miss the contract details that he can catch so we each manage a different aspect of the business. This is what makes a GREAT Team and in our case family-(Mom who lives with me after being widowed is our Bookkeeper).
Back to the point of this BLOG! After dealing with this week's overwhelming contracts, negotiations and just the normal amount of stuff that goes with being a successful team.....I left the office early (8:00pm), on a Friday night.
I wanted to go to the mall to see what I had been missing out on the latest and greatest for fashion. Admittedly I get a lot of good ideas from the magazines that arrive at the house but the trip to the mall, was the GREAT reassurance, 
that I was not MISSING THE BOAT! Or maybe at 51, I'm just too old for that, "HOT BOOTY", look. I did catch myself saying this a lot as I walked thru the mall...."THAT IS NOT ME!"
Prior to reaching the mall - I saw the AT&T store and whipped in there. Nana/Mom/The Bookkeeper needs a NEW CELLPHONE. She text's my kids, me, my brother and I think her personal trainer. Nana wants nothing to do with Google - she is actually AFRAID of Computers! We really have to push her! She is hilarious at family functions as she tells people, "My Daughter tells me to, "Google", whenever I need anything." Hey, works for me (the Daughter)....Nana on the other hand would rather I do it for her. NOPE-I still have to push her beyond her fears of technology.
So back to the title of this BLOG! At the AT&T store, I think I am going to waltz in there and say, I need a phone for Nana aka Mom. She likes to text....doesn't need Google and has to be able to see the numbers and keys. Well this just was not going to be as easy as I thought. If they had one choice and color, I could have called it an evening! There were three choices of phones and multiple colors. UMMMM SORRY - Love you Mom and I AM NOT MAKING THAT DECISION for you!
So Anthony says to me, WELLLLLLLLL................If you are sending Mom in without you she has to be an authorized account user, Anthony! FIX ME UP!!! After he accesses my account he says....Oh Tara Carter is on your account as an authorized user. Yes Anthony that is my oldest daughter. Anthony says, I know Tara. Is she still friends with Taimy? Yes Anthony. If you know Tara and Taimy, then you know NANA, He responds with - THAT'S YOUR MOM?!?!?!?!
The end result is - Anthony will be taking care of Nana and all I have to do is pay the bill. I am INCREDIBLY Happy as I leave AT&T and thinking to myself.......Thank goodness my girls were fortunate enough to grow up in the same town, with the same friends since pre-school (unlike me who had to wait 40 years for Facebook to come around to reconnect).
In the end as I drove to the mall, I could not stop smiling and being happy about living in the same town for 25 years!!! I am SOOOOO Lucky!!! Joy
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