Sometimes in life, it seems like everything goes wrong, but luckily, I am having the opposite situation right now.......everything is going right.....or at least almost everything.

I have found that being alone here in Kentucky, all the negative things that were around me are gone & when the negative isn't around me, I don't seem to dwell on anything negative. Anything negative really stands out now but that has only been one thing. The negative being my Hertz rental car. When I extended my stay, I called them to find out how much it would cost me to extend my rental. They came back with a cost of $1900. I told them that wasn't acceptable but then called them back to ask about the discount I should be getting, the person then quoted me $1100. Well, when I took the car back last Friday, I got hit with a $2200 charge for the car.

For some reason, that negative really hit me & for almost a week, I was having a hard time functioning. I talked to their customer service, & she got me $400 back but when I questioned her she cut me off as if I should just thank her for getting me the $400. Even that price was what I said I was unwilling to pay initially. I really fell like I got tricked into that situation.....after that, I emailed a very nasty message to Hertz about what happened. As the customer service lady hung up, she sweetely told me to come back to Hertz the next time I rented......That will never happen again. I do learn from my mistakes.

Here, it took me about 1 week to get through those negative feelings.....where in California, that would have just piled ontop of all the other negatives making it all worse.
I am not feeling negative, all the people that I am around & meeting new here in Kentucky are positive, kind, helpful, & totally wonderful.

Things keep amazing me here. I purchased a hose reel & the hose connector was leaking. I went back to the store & the person who worked in the lawn & garden department (who also is a local sherriff for his other job) gave me a hose from another hose reel. He had previously helped me pick out a weed eater & told me then to call him when I needed information about purchasing a tractor. Everyone here wants to help & is glad to share their knowledge & information.

The same thing happens everytime I go to Lowe's for something. It seems that all the people who work there know me & are always giving me help with information about everything.

When I first arrived here, I was keeping notes about everything in a little notebook. When I got to the post office, I didn't have it. When I got home again, I couldn't find it anywhere....so realized that I must have laid it on the back of my car & drove off with it. I walked along the road in front of my house. As I walked back to the house, I noticed the notebook laying on my front doorstep. Where in California would anyone ever stop along the road & pick up a notebook, look at the address & bring it back to it's owner????? Not where I lived.....what awsome neighbors.

Yesterday, I was driving rather fast trying to get to one of the stores before it closed. I wasn't paying much attention to anything & had the radio up high, singing along. All of a sudden, I heard a siren. I looked in my rear view mirror & there was a police car behind me. I pulled over to get out of his way.....& oops, he pulled over too. He asked for my license & when he saw I was from California, he laughed, went back & checked out my license, came back & welcomed me to the area.....suggested that I slow down a bit & be a bit more careful since I was right around the fair area on the highway & didn't give me a ticket.

Today, the owner of the local lumber yard came out to personally measure the windows & doors in my house which desperately need replaced, not just the windows & doors, but all the rotten wood around them. He is going to have the rep from the window company come out & measure everything also.....just to make sure that everything is correct. That also came with a welcome to the town.

I have kindness surrounding me & with all the good feelings that I am surrounded with, all I am feeling are good feelings My good feelings create more good feelings from the people around me. I think kindness & good feelings are catching just like negative feelings are. It seems that when we are surrounded by negative, or when we are negative, that is what surrounds us, but when I break out of that rut, the negative that does happen has so much less effect that it did before. I really love the good feelings I am experiencing & don't want to go back into the negative life style that is hanging around California waiting for me. Looking back, I realize how miserable that negativity makes me feel.....something I didn't realize until I got away from it. My depression, my anxiety attacks, & every other part of my mental health has gotten so much better since I got away from everything there.

Such a major change in my life has made a major change in my own personal mental health & I can't imagine going back to being around that life style any more.
Debbie