Pamela Rountree:  

CLASS OF 1981
Punta gorda, FL

Pamela's Story

Life I guess it’s time to finally put something here. I’m completely traumatized that it’s been 25 years since I graduated high school- logically I know that time has gone by, but mentally I’m sure I can’t possibly be the same age as my mother was when it happened! I’m not married, and I can honestly say that’s the most annoying question that I’m ever asked…. Well, that and “have you lost weight?” Both result in an answer to the negative. I worked in cable for years and I moved to New York for a really, really short time for a cable related position but moved back to Punta Gorda in 1998. I worked locally for a non-profit for a while but then decided I needed a) more money and b) MEN to work with, so I went to work at Sony in Fort Myers. At Sony, I picked out a man almost instantly, but I had to wait for him to catch on…. lol I stayed there for as long as I could take it and then moved on to a company in Bonita Springs called Source Interlink. In the past three years, Mike (from my Sony tag and release program) and I have moved from one chaotic situation to another. I’ve gone from living out of two homes, to moving all my stuff in with him, to selling his house and moving into the attached apartment of his house (closer to work for both of us), to moving back into my house for a few months prior to selling it, then to Southaven MISSISSIPPI. I know, I know- it’s an odd choice, but it’s a compromise. Mike wanted to go to the Vegas area and I won’t leave the Southeast as long as my parents are still around, so Mississippi it was. The funny thing is, we were looking at the Biloxi area as late as April 2005, but on our last trip there, we stood in the local mall parking lot, and I could only see Gulf…water as far as the eye could see. Afte...Expand for more
r Charlie, I just could NOT move somewhere that was that wide open and vulnerable. Mike had to move here early for work, so he left in September of 2005, I didn’t join him until the week before Christmas literally because of on-going dental work that needed to be finished before I left Florida and lost my insurance. I continued working for Source via the internet until February and then I became jobless. My plan was to take a month or so off just to “be”, but it’s the middle of April now, and I’m really enjoying NOT working… so unless I win the Powerball, I’m going to have to get serious about the search soon! I’m basically going to be looking for a “throw away” job. This year, we’re going to try to spend Christmas and New Years in Italy, and I need to make sure that I’m going to be able to get the time off, one way or another. I think we did really well with the “open a map and point” technique. Southaven is actually right across the state line of Tennessee- we’re in the suburbs of Memphis and about 30 minutes away from the Tunica casinos. Mike and I had decided to rent for a year first just to decide where we wanted to buy, but since I’ve only just finished “moving in” as it were (buying furniture, hanging ceiling fans, screening in the patio), we’re probably going to stay here for another year unless something spectacular comes up. It’s a really nice complex- its quiet, really centrally located (I’ve never lived so close to a mall) and we’ve become fond of the ducks that live here. We try to keep food to feed them, but more so now that it’s spring and little baby chicks are in the picture! Well, I think that’s enough yammering for a while. I’m sure I’ll come up with something again some time. I hope everyone is doing well!
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