About Ginger…a sleep deprived, North Carolina gal, y’all.
I’m a 50 year old baby boomer. I have three, fantastic and talented adult sons and one teenage step daughter. I’m married to the world’s most thoughtful and generous man. I have a great big rottweiler that thinks she’s a teddy bear.
I live in a beautiful, coastal, Southern town….Wilmington, North Carolina. I was born here, to parents who were born here. My grandmother and I graduated from the same high school. I love this place….it’s in my blood. The people, the customs, the food, the oak trees, the historic buildings, the battleship, the gardens, the salt air, full of screaming sea gulls, and the lonely river that flows through it.
My husband and I both work at the world’s largest fiber making plant, Corning. We work 12 hour swing shifts, so we’re permanently dazed and confused. We work with a menagerie of interesting characters. When you work side by side with folks, in a dangerous environment, from 7 pm to 7 am, night after night, month after month, year after year…..well, you get to know them better that you’d want to, I reckon. All of ‘em are like family, really. And just like family, you love some dearly, and others you’d like to kick into last week.
( Jan. 23, 2009: This post has been edited to correct spelling errors, thanks to our resident school teacher – the offbeat, the idiosyncratic, and the just plain bizarre Jan, over at planetjan!)
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My family (mom’s sisters, etc.) are from Jacksonville and used to live in Swansboro. I know your area fairly well as my aunt was also in the hospital in Wilmington…I think it was Wilmington…hmm…
Wow. Sounds like a wonderful place to live. You sound very content. I am a baby boomer as well. I am in MN. and right now at 1:15pm, it’s 30 degree’s out – so a little bit cooler than your area, I’ll bet. Your job sounds very interesting. I thought of a comedic sitcom as I read it. Keep smiling!
A little buzzin birdie told me it’s your birthday… Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day.
Nice site, have fun at work tonight. Wilmington, isn’t that where the battleship is moored? Seems like I have been there before.
DS
Happy birthday, Ginger!
Where’s your spin? Ah, it’s your birthday, no worries. Next week, I expect two.
Happy Birthday. Thanks for stopping by!!!
I love Wilmington!! We’ve touristed there a few times.
Hi Ginger!
Thanks for stopping by the blog. Yeah, menopause; it mostly sucks!
7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sweetie, I don’t know how you do it. I barely function from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Someday I’ll realize my ultimate career goal: Getting paid to breath. Unfortunately, I’ll probably stop the next day.
Happy Belated Birthday!
Mind if I stalk you a bit? I love N.C.
Happy belated! I’m pretty sure I saw a masked picture of you over at Debbie’s place a while ago. You wild lady, you!
Glad that you have such a warm relationship with your rottweiler. I always love to see one of my kin is appreciated. Visited your blog and enjoyed it. http://www.SandySays1.wordpress.com
Happy birthday. Cute feet.
Hola, Ginger, I have been missing my sandals, and by the looks of it (your footsies), I think you have them. How rude.
Baby booming bloggers abound around here. Whoopee! If the rumor’s true, happy b-day.
And Happy New Year, too.
KJ
http://fragrantliar.blogspot.com
Nice to meet you… I wandered in from Jan’s Sushi. We have rottweilers too.. they all think they are teddy bears. Yours is adorable!
Di
The Blue Ridge Gal
http://theblueridgegal.blogspot.com/2009/01/settling-in.html
Just read the news: Happy Birthday!!
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Happy late birthday!
Thanks for stopping by the other day. I love your puppy!
that’s a fine looking rottie. I’ve adopted a Jack Russell recently. Happy belated!
Happy birthday! Nice sandals. I like red.
Beautiful dog. I am a dog lover myself. My family line comes from North Carolina, we settled in Alabama, (most of us anyway). Friday is my surname. I live at the bottom of Alabama near the Gulf Coast. Love your pictures.
My family all lives in Beaufort! I have a handful of friends that ended up in Wilmington…..you live in a beautiful town!
Hi,
I enjoyed reading a little about you and your world and I want to come again.
I LOVE your state but have never spent a lot of time in the coastal area- just in the mountains in the western part! Your area sounds just about perfect!
Thanks for visiting me today and I hope you can come again.
Junie
Oh, I love you! And we’re both Carolina girls…what greatness we were born in to! Love your blog too and thanks for adding me to your blogroll. You have a wonderful sense of humor.
I love your site. Keep it up !
I found this website looking for the definition for “slab bacon”. Is this” streak of fat/streakof lean “?
Great site…keep up the good work.
Excellent site, keep up the good work
Cool site, love the info. I do a lot of research online on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read…
-Bill-Bartmann
I gotta say, I like the way you think and write. I grew up on an island here in North Carolina. Harkers Island. I’m 45 and post-menapausal. I teach computers in middle school and also have grown children. Actually, grown stepchildren. I wish I still lived on the coast, but I married a man who lives in Raleigh, so I’ve had to relocated.
I, too, raised my rottie like a child. He was the only one God blessed me with until my stepchildren. He had a very long German registered name, but I called him Khemosabi (Khemo for short). I had to put him down last September and I’m still grieving. It’s not as intense, of course, but I still sometimes think of him and just start crying all over again.
In January my husband and I went got another Rottie. I was in a hurry and didn’t research like I should have. I bought my new baby from a backyard breeder, also. For a short time I regreted. Poor little Wasabi was separated from his mom at 5 weeks. He has a profound overbite and no social skills. He’s now 9 months old and I’m still working with him. I say I regretted it for a short time because I also rationalize what would have happened to him if I hadn’t purchased him? You should ask yourself the same question when you look at Hannah. I think we did the right thing. She is loved, as my Khemo was loved and as Bear is now loved. Had we not taken them, someone with less love and understanding may have bred them, abused them, neglected them, or put them in a shelter or they could have ended up in a rescue.
I agree it helps them to continue their business when you buy from a backyard breeder, but what is the alternative? Not buying the puppies won’t necessarily stop them from breeding them.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and let you know I enjoy your blog.
Hi Donna! It is nice to meet you – I am partial, of course, to other North Carolina gals! I’m so sorry that you had to say good bye to your baby. One day I will have to cross that bridge, and if I start to think about it for very long, I start to cry a little already. I know how hard it must have been for you!
And yes, I agree that we did not make a mistake when we got Hannah. Bad hips and all, I wouldn’t trade her for the world. And I’m glad that SHE has US to take care of her!
Good luck with your new baby, and please drop in to visit me anytime!