I wouldn’t call where I am living now a big city. However, it is big in comparison to the small town I lived in for 50 years with my husband. Where we owned our own home and raised 2 children. There is a population there of 4700 give or take a few one way or the other. The only people that stay there are the old folks. The young ones leave just as soon as they can for greener pastures. I should amend that last statement; the young ones whose folks own businesses inherit from their parents and stay. For example, the main pharmacy in town has passed through 3 generations in the time I lived there. That family owns half of downtown and many houses in town.
My city now is about 35,000, not big at all but filled with one way streets and a chopped up downtown. You drive through several smaller towns all in a row and you are in Peoria about 20 minutes later, Now that is not a terribly large city, about 115,234 according to the last census in 2011. Where I lived before was about 30 miles from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, combined population 112, 809 according to the 2011 census. I could find my way around just about everywhere there. That is where I did my shopping, doctors, etc.
Wow, I am really feeling nostalgic again today. I am a bit aggravated today too. I went to my pharmacy where I had pre-ordered some prescriptions. The main one was not filled because they didn’t have it in stock. I have enough to last for a couple more days and I was assured it would be in tomorrow afternoon. And life goes on.
It is 40 degrees and drizzling rain this morning, not enough to help much but at least it is raining.
I hope you all are having a blessed day. Stay safe and be happy!!
Beth
Hi Beth, sorry I have not been by lately. Hope all is well with you and yours. Hope your health issues are better too. How is Rae? You ready for Christmas? I still haven't finished my shopping, hopefully will get to it this week. Take care and know I think of you often.Hugs,Pat Stanley
ReplyDeleteIt is so nice to hear from you Pat. Meeting you was a wonderful experience that I look back on with happy memories.
Deletesmall towns definitely have advantages and disadvantages, too - especially when it comes to shopping or availability of necessities.
ReplyDeleteBlessings......
ReplyDeletehmmmm, its how a town dies, when the young up and leave and then the older ones eventually die. That's progress/evolution I guess?
Hope you get your meds, shame you have to wait when its important that you have them.
Keep my ear to the prayer and hoping you get your meds and all is well.
stay blessed.
rhapsody
And so it does go on dear Sis.. I agree that small town life is nice in some ways, but in others NOT. I cannot tell you the number of times the pharmacy did NOT have mom's meds and we had to go out of town for them too. Our town is much like your old one, only the ones who are older or built their businesses up are still around. Everyone knows everyone's personal business which I don't care for at all. Sad thing when a town can only handle one grocery store and ONE fast food place.. pretty sad. Hope your week ahead goes well and without the white stuff too!! XOXO
ReplyDeleteNot a big town where I live either but we do have kmart, walmart and home depot!
ReplyDeleteHi Beth,
ReplyDeleteHope your meds arrive in time and that you have a good week
Hugs Nita
It is terribly frustrating to drive to the pharmacy only to find out that your order is not ready. Hopefully, it won't be raining when you go back tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMany blog friends are expecting bitter cold and snow later today. We are still warm - 75 this afternoon. We did have a trace of rain yesterday.
Hope you will have a pleasant afternoon.
I really don't understand why pharmacies run out of medicine like that. It's happened to me quite a few times and I have never figured it out! Hope you're having a good weekend. Sorry to hear of your sister's surgery and you being so far away. I hope all goes well.
ReplyDeleteI've had that happen as well....no medication!! And sometimes I miss a day:) I know the area you speak of....very similiar to my own hometown...fractured...broken up. The city continues to shrink in population. The only ones who stay are the poor because they can't leave. When I was in high school, one third of the kids were on food stamps. Today over half get some kind of government help with their meals. Very sad. I moved from my small town of Two Rivers because the people were stuck in their ways. I couldn't be around that and it scared me.....that I'd die trapped in a place unwilling to change. Today I go home and love every minute spent with my family and outdoors. But I never regret the decision I made so many years ago about coming out to Tucson.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're feeling better from the past couple weeks. Stay warm. I enjoy your daily thoughts and reflections. Chris
Sending happy Sunday wishes to you, Beth. I hope you are feeling better today. Take care of yourself! xo Nellie
ReplyDeletesending you love prayers & HUGS mama Beth hope you get those meds in so you do not have to fret on them. I am from what was once a small town but with the university there it is very large now but only 50 minutes away our current town is 1100. 1 lil country store.
ReplyDeleteI live in a small town too. Most of the time I really like being here. I hope your meds come in for you. That's frustrating to have to wait for them when they are out of stock.
ReplyDeleteIt is strange to go from small town living to city living. We live in Green Bay and they call it the city with the small town feel. It really is, too. Hope you get your meds tomorrow- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteBeth, It's been raining almost the entire day around these parts. Boring to me. Oh i know how it can be to go pick up a script and it not be ready. Wishing you a nice week ahead.xo,Susie
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a small town and absolutely loved it. But, now I live in a city and love it. I love all of the conveniences of a big city but wouldn't trade anything for my childhood in a tiny town.
ReplyDeleteHope your meds come in when they are suppose to.
Judy
You would think they could call you! lol So do you like it there? It is 70 degrees here - way to hot. sandie
ReplyDeletemy son is a pharmacist, they are so over worked and expected to fill prescriptions by the number. at my sons pharmacy, they are required to fill 700 per day/8 hours. he never gets lunch and can barely get a bathroom break. it's really stressful work and they just don't have enough help.
ReplyDeletei have lived in a big town my entire life and would love to move to a small little place!!
My town has gone from around 30,000 in the 70's to 66,000 now. But the AREA that we live in....used to be a bunch of little towns....has all become one huge conglomeration with nearly half a million now. It stinks. When I was around 10, I knew directions to any street in our town. Back then, all the names were in alphabetical order with words to the north of central and letters of the alphabet to the south. Numbers went east and west with odd on one side and even on the other. Simple. Now, who knows where streets are??? There are too many different subdivisions and they all have weird names. And the traffic is awful. You cannot cross I-35 on foot EVER...not even at 3 in the morning. That wasn't the case when I was young.
ReplyDeleteI used to work in a drug store/gift shop in the 70's and 80's. The good thing about not having your drug on the day you come in for it is when it comes in, you KNOW it's fresh! There's always a sunny side if you look hard enough. :) Hope they get it in before you run out. If not, call your doctor...maybe he has some samples you can HAVE. My mom has gotten a lot of samples from her primary physician. It has saved her some money!
It's interesting comparing places we have called home. I hope your medications arrive in time.
ReplyDeleteWe traveled through your area while I was in the truck with Bill. I thought of you.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get all of your meds & feel good for the holidays and New Year.
I have been to and lived in many cities...some huge...mega-huge but I will always prefer the size of the city we're in now...about 180,000. We've got the best of all worlds. The weather here is freezing and mostly cloudy...boring. Thinking of you Beth, have a good day.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry about the meds I hate when that happens I wish they would just give a call and let you know. This has happen to me a couple times.
ReplyDeleteMy old town was pretty small (now it's really big), this one we live in is pretty big.
I have never lived in a small town although my mother spent the first 14yrs of her life in a very small town population of only a few hundred people then she moved to Newcastle where she has lived since............Newcastle is divided into many suburbs and feels like a small town although it has a population of 500,000 so not that small at all............lol
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/ St. Paul, MN) and with the suburbs it has something like 3.3 million people. Fargo/Moorhead (a smaller version of twin cities) and surrounding suburbs is over 200,000 so much smaller than what I was used to. But I prefer it here to the large metro area...except that most of my friends and family live in the Twin Cities and I am over 250 miles away. ;)
ReplyDeleteSo annoying about the medication not being in. I'm late reading (and not commenting on all of them, but am reading) so I hope you got them. :)
When I left my birthplace 40 years ago it was a town..It's now a City.
ReplyDeleteHope you get your med's sorted out Beth
Hugs Sheila x