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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Jacksonville in Bullets

Hello everyone in the Blogging World! Well as I had said before, things with the move to Jacksonville and St. Augustine has been smooth. I have lots of cleaning to do in my room this evening, as none of the gaming systems have been hooked up yet! But, in my 5 short days of being in North Florida, I have managed to find everything that might be useful! And I have learned some very interesting things! Let's review:

  • Jacksonville has stand alone Chik-fil-a! Back home in Miami we either had to go to the mall or take a 10-15 minute drive up to Doral to get some of this yummy delicious fast food chicken! I also decided that Chik-fil-a should create a new advertisement campaign in the style of the LOL catz! It should have a cow with the headline "You can haz chik'n!" I also learned something else, even in North Florida, you still tend to crave Chik-fil-a on Sundays! So sad!
  • Driving anywhere north of West Palm Beach is entirely different than South Florida! Driving up on I-95 was a breeze, in part because my windows were down...but also because all the other drivers were actually polite and curtious on the road! There was not too much traffic coming up here, but there were a good number of Big Rig trucks!
  • When driving on I-95 North, once you hit Daytona Beach, you can play the License Plate game quite easily. I was, safely glancing, at the many different tags that had passed by, or that I had safely passed! There was Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Connecticut, Kentucky, and more!
  • Everything is relative! Over the past couple days I have done the basic move things: (1) Changed license (2) Changed banks (3) Visited local retail stores to purchase what I had forgotten, etc. Everyone here is so nice, yet the one complaint is the rush hour traffic. I finally experienced their "rush hour" traffic on Wednesday, and let me tell you! I love this "rush hour" traffic. In their "rush hour" traffic I went 25 miles in about 20 minutes!
  • I am slowly getting to know everything I never wanted to know but asked about custom closets. I know the different levels we offer, the different add on's, etc. And I'm not even a salesperson/designer!
  • I got to drive a fork lift today! It was amusing. I have to get used to having the tires that create your steering in the rear of the vehicle!
  • I had a comment to a previous blog from Erick, who gave me the location site link to Sonny's BBQ! I thank you Erick! For those of you who don't know...I like Sonny's, in fact many of my blogging friends in Miami like Sonny's and we would regularly (2x month) drive 20 miles each way to go to our closest Sonny's. Well, now I only have to drive less than 5 miles each way! Yay!
That is mostly it for everything this week in the good ole North Florida area! Catch up with y'all next week!

2 comments:

sari said...

I'm glad you're getting along well in your new town!!

Cristina said...

It all sounds good. I'm happy for you.