Some days may be sour, but add a little sugar and the journey is always sweet. Welcome to Its Lemonade Life. I’m Patti Loveless. Thanks for watching. Hear a hilarious story about blowing out my favorite flip flops and listen to the banter between me and Big Al on our road trip. Watch the video below, or read the blog for all of my added comments after editing the video!
Real Estate Road Trip to View Some Property
Boy, do I have a treat for y’all? I have a little bit of the road trip with Big Al. When we went up to North Georgia, I was going to try to post the whole video as one, and I’m not going to be able to do that because we recorded over three hours footage and so I’ve been lazy about getting that ready and she asked me about it the other day, so I wanted to start putting that on here in pieces and parts and I hope y’all enjoy it.
Hilarious Story about flip flops
I also wanted to tell you a story that came up today. This is a story of Patti-ness that comes up from time to time and we laugh so hard at it. So RJ and I had taken our youngest daughter, Leah and her friend Erin to Disney World for a summer vacation, and we were walking through the Polynesian and I had on a pair of flip flops, and if you’ve never been to the Polynesian, let me describe it for you. It’s the kind of tropical atmosphere where everybody wears their favorite flip flops.
Setting the Scene- A favorite flip flops kinda place
It is absolutely beautiful. Inside it is just as far as you can up is the atrium. It’s stories and stories high and everything echoes in there and they’ve got all of this lush greenery. I mean, it’s a Polynesian, so it’s kind of like Hawaii, right? Lush forestry. Flip flop situations. Of course, it’s all inside. We’re not in a forest, but the plants were beautiful. There’s waterfalls, there’s music that’s lightly playing, and all around you, there’s stores and like the spa where you can go get a massage. There’s a restaurant that’s really excellent, and then you can see all of the floors. You can see the balconies from every floor. It’s very similar to the interior of Wilderness Lodge or the animal kingdom.
So anyway, it’s very plush. So here we go. We’re walking across that atrium and I’m in my favorite flip flops and just all of a sudden out of nowhere like *that* and my flip flop had broken and part of it flew across the atrium. Part of it flew across the atrium and the girls busted out laughing
And RJ just was like, what just happened? I didn’t know. I don’t know why he was asking me, but we looked down and the toe piece, the thong part of my favorite flip-flop was gone. Just the strap was there and it was my whole flip-flop- It was up my leg on my calf, I’m telling you, it made the loudest noise in that echoed and everybody in the place, I think some people even did a duck-and- cover.
What in world happened?
Oh, so here I’m with the one flip flop on my foot, one broken flip flop halfway up my leg, and I looked across the atrium and I made eye contact with the lady in the store. She was standing at the front of the store and she just gently motioned me over to the store. So we had to go over there and buy me a brand new pair of Disney World flip-flops. How did my flip-flop Get up my leg to my calf? I have no idea, but that is one of our all time favorite stories. Favorite, favorite, favorite stories! Grab you a pair of my favorite flip flops here!
RJ brought that up in the car today and I thought you guys would enjoy it. We didn’t take any pictures. The girls were crying. They were laughing so hard …that, my friends, is Patti-ness. Enjoy a little bit of me and Allison now.
The big reveal: my favorite flip flops
I’ve learned to buy my sandals carefully to make sure they’re high quality and won’t be causing any scenes in public places. These are an excellent options! (I’m an affiliate, so I make commissions when you shop my links)
These yellow box flips flops have all the best features. The sole is thick and comfy. It won’t get squished up like the 99 cent flip flops you’re used to. The foam is dense enough to support your foot but still soft enough to feel nice. Nobody wants a rock hard flip flop!
The straps are wide to provide plenty of support. But the toe piece is slender enough to be comfy and not cause irritation. You can get 7 different colors in the polka dot style; more than 10 color option in the woven style wedge look version; plus they have sparkle versions and a more upscale looking flip flop with a leather look.
On The road for real estate research
Try to keep up with this crazy conversation. It sound like two ADHD-ers riding around and drinking a little too much caffeine.
A: That’s what Juan needs for his bones.
P: What’s what he needs for his bones?
A: A heatedblanket for the car.
P: Does it plug into an outlet? I mean like a cigarette lighter? I was going to say, because we have ACDC power over here too.
A: In the back in black. Yeah.
P: You’re going to go to sleep, aren’t you?
A:Yeah.
Leaving too early for RJ- he missed the flip flop story
Lord. Give us safe travels. Amen. Here we go. Pawpaw. How’s sad? RJs not going with us.
A: He said it was too early. Think it was too early. He’s probably going. Why are they just now pulling out of the driveway? It takes us a while to pull out. Listen, I saw you didn’t edit my burp out…I thought that was a real cat. That’s definitely a statue. I’m pretty sure that might be a raccoon. Either that or that cat really looks us far.
Strange Things are discussed on road trips
P: That may be their dead cat, that they’ve stuffed.
A: Well, I plan when Willis passes, I plan to make him into a lamp because he’s the light of my life.
P: You’re not going to keep him in the living room, right?
A: No. It’ll be in the bedroom. Juan loves that idea. Just right by the bed. Anyway, I saw you didn’t edit that out and I did not. I told you I was going to report your video.
P: Did you report it?
A: No. It took you a week to post it. And you fighting with Facebook, so I felt bad to report it.
P: You know what? Facebook never did help me post the video. I finally got it to load myself
A: Are we headed to noon-too-luh?
P: I don’t know. It’s 1109. You got 51 minutes for noon. tla.
A: Ron kept asking “Why do you keep saying noon tula?” I said say it. He said noon, tula. And I said, wasn’t that fun? It just rolls off noon tula. Now, do we think it could be Cherokee? Do we think that it could be noon? Tuda? How do you spell it? Silent noon. T toot lie. Does that have H on the end? No.
But could that that t be silent is the question or could there be an H in there that doesn’t belong like an Armurchee? There’s only one R. Yeah, because it’s Armuchee is the proper way to say it. And if you’re from Armuchee, you got to say Armurchee
P: It’s pretty out here. I like it. You know what that smells like? No, no, I know. Other than like a nasty gerbil cage.
More Chit Chat nonsense from our drive
No, it wouldn’t be Boomers, gen X, gen X that were teenagers during the seventies. They say it smells like skunk. Look at the power plant with those clouds. They’re pretty, let’s see if we can turn this arounds. Got before. That ain’t what it feels like. No, it ain’t way back when in my innocence, in my on TikTok.
This girl calls the Dollar General, the holler general. She’s in the south. That’s we go to the holler general. Holler general boy. I tell you what, we need to get to the storage business. Don’t you make They don’t. You make the people carry some sort of content coverage. A tree had fallen on the boat slips. What way Chatoo? Is it chat or chat?
I think it’s chat. Chat. I like that though. Chateau Chatto. Fun fact. There are no non manmade lakes in Georgia. Is that true though?
The truth from the internet- or is it?
The natural water bodies that occur in Georgia are primarily located in the southern part of the state in the Coastal Plain, where sinkhole lakes and isolated wetlands in natural shallow depressions largely fed by rain and shallow groundwater, called Carolina bays, form. Hence, the majority of lakes in Georgia that are now enjoyed for recreational, industrial, municipal, and federal government uses are made by people.
New Georgia Encylcopedia
Whether natural or manmade, any kind of water is great for flip flops. When the weather is right and the water is calm, grab your favorite flip flops and enjoy an afternoon on the lake, river, creek, pond, or pool!
What is going on here? Watch the video to make it make sense
Do you watch that show on, is it on Netflix? Maybe YouTube where the guy goes into very rural parts and interviews families and they follow this one particular family that they’re, I think they’re a bunch of, and Brad family in Kentucky. Yeah, they just showed us the garden yesterday. The Whitaker’s Whitaker’s. That’s them.
They’ve got this whole, those are so stupid. The trucks where they lower the rear end. I know. It’s like they got a dirty diaper when you have the dates. He’s a dumpy in the back. Right? Dumpy in the back. That guy though does a whole series on that family and it’s pretty interesting. Yeah, we’re in Cartersville. What would you like for breakfast, lunch, brunch. Brunch. I don’t care. I mean, I can wait if you want to wait.
Hey, too bad it’s Sunday. We can’t go to Brandy’s. Although on the same, we couldn’t go to Ellijay if we ate Brandy’s. We just need that roll of toilet paper that was in my floor.
What every Real Estate Agent should keep in their Car
There’s a roll of toilet paper out your seat, kind of rig. You think I’m driving here? We’re realtors. We keep toilet paper in the car and boots and boots and hammers and screwdrivers and wrenches. I think there’s a sledgehammer back there. A gallon of water, some grease or some water. Some WD 40, some caulk. What else? A knife and a handgun. Snacks for people’s ill children when they’re looking at houses. Snacks for me when I’m driving around Ill children. That’s true. That’s true.
Definitely keep a spare set of flip flops. You never know when they might come in handy. Maybe your favorite flip flops have a blowout. Maybe you get your boots muddy and needs to change before you drive home. Either way, it’s wise to keep an extra pair.
Memory is a strange thing
It’s funny how you remember just the weirdest things. I can’t remember what I did yesterday, but I remember the craziest stuff I had to pee. No, that’s car’s. You mean to let you go in at McDonald’s? Ooh, steak and shake. You want steak and shake? You want steak and shake like steak shake. If I can get over it or McDonald’s, I don’t care. You put Alright, little blue trunk on. I like their little shoer fries. Where did the steak and shake go? Left. There it is.
Louis, Georgia Bay.
Thoughts on the Flip Flop story
Well, now that I’ve edited the video and watched it all back, I’ve cracked up again at my story about blowing out my favorite flip flops. I hope you enjoyed the Patti-ness. I know it looks like we left a little bit early and we didn’t have a whole lot of energy, but I promise you the trip did pick up energy and we had a great time, so stay tuned to watch more of that as I get some of it edited.
And I do have one question for you. How many times did Allison yawn how many times? In the next video we’re going to show you what we ate at Steak and Shake and we’ll give you a food review and then we’ll show you some of our shenanigans and all the laughter and good times we had while we were in North Georgia looking at that piece of land. Thanks for watching. Much love.
Wasn’t that just sweet? We won’t be sour if you like, follow, comment and share with others. Everybody likes a little lemonade in their life. I’m Patty Loveless. Stay tuned for our next Fresh Squeezed video.