Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year's Eve Peeps!

And I wish it to all who have already celebrated the New Year, most likely on the other side of the world, to make this new one happier and healthier than all the previous ones. Let’s face it; anything will have to be more prosperous, right?

Although, we did survive, and I know many of you did too.
Our New Year, 2010, sounds so science fictionish doesn’t it?
What we all have to do more than make up resolutions is just to have a definite game plan for all we do in the coming year.
Be it, saving money, finding that job, trying to get necessary things accomplished to make things better for you and your family, whatever.
Planning a way to tackle the jobs is always better than going into anything without thinking it out, but always remember to throw in some fun too!
And so that is the best way to change things on a personal level.

Being happy is something all of us should strive for, and I am not saying that the way to become happier is to immerse ones self in materialistic garb, oh no!
Read a funny article or book, see a funny sitcom or movie, and yes it is all right to watch the boob tube, I won’t tell that you aren’t reading constantly or looking only at PBS, how informative, but dull at times, anyway.
We all need to keep our funny bones primed, and enjoy more of the simple things in life.

When was the last time you watched a sunrise or a sunset?
Did you know that tonight will be our second full moon for this month, December, and that it only occurs 7 times in the 19-year Metonic cycle that we have two full moons in one month! How about that friends, amazing, and free too!

Now to appreciating the fact that when we awake every morning, we awake!
We get out of our beds, and yes we have beds, and that we get out of them, wow, aren’t we lucky?
I also know that when I open my refrigerator door that usually there is some food in there, wow, on that!
I turn on the faucet and the water comes out, boy is that great or what?

And so when you do your own tally on what amazes you too and that you have taken for granted, remember not everyone in this world has what you have, so think about that, and smile, a big stupid one, and then promise to volunteer so others can be as lucky and happy as you are!

Happy New Year and ponder about your good life, and I will wish you all a good night, and remind us all to count those blessings and we will too!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Global really warming? and Are you getting old when you fear the stranger at the door?

I think that we may have to revisit that possibility of Global Warming concept.
Why, you logically ask concerned for my universal awareness bone?
Well, lately I don’t know if it’s just me, but I truly doubt it, it has been downright chilly down here in the southland, don’t all you locals think so too? Now I can be wrong, I’ve been wrong before, but I feel like a liar with my come on down attitude for the warmth here. Hear me out… this morning and for honestly the last few days it has been running in the forties in the A.M.! But of course it has warmed up to the sixties or low seventies, but still, for our southwest standards that is way colder than I can remember in years gone by living here.
I mean the news vine has also reported that you northerners are having records broken with your snowfall! Now does that sound hot to you? Sorry, Paris Hilton to use your fabulous word that means something entirely different, here I do mean air temperature, not a body/ person or object sexually superior, OK? Clarification is always absolutely necessary when speaking on the world arena, right?
Al Gore you are one of my all time heroes and I am not trying to counter any of your scientific discoveries, but I am just voicing my inadequacies to understand just how this Global Warming really works, and yes I saw your film, and the glaciers melting, but still these other things do confuse, and I am sure not just me that’s all I am going to say.

Now to the other part of tonight’s title, the fear of the stranger at the door, and its meaning that you are getting old, another yesterday item I forgot to discuss. My answer to myself is eyesight, and stupidity. I could not see who was at our door, but that I got a glimpse that it appeared it was a male, and this was from one room away, and instinctively I called out the back door to Hubby to answer it, since I was sitting here at the computer and the fact that we rarely get uninvited guests knocking on our door on any given afternoon, one can never be too careful, can one? And so I shouted out I’ll be there in a minute, which was not at all true since it was actually Hubby who was there in a few minutes.
Relief when the door was opened and it was our across the street our own resident female gay neighbor and her Mom and Dad from Pittsburgh, she had wanted us to meet them, and she brought holiday cookies too!
Of course when we get any company these days I am a bit like Skipper very excited to see them. Oh I don’t jump on them like he does oh no I just talk their heads off with excited joy! We were able to manage to entertain them with a tour of our palatial quarter acre and homestead. Oddly enough they did appear impressed, which was nice. I offered drinks, tea, coffee or soda, but no takers, but they did need one thing from us and we were able to oblige, to print out the boarding passes for their leaving earlier today, and I was overjoyed with that ability to be helpful. It was the least I could do after torturing them with incessant talking. Oh well, such is me.

Good night to all and to count those blessings and we will too!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A few days of catching up...

Yesterday we did go out and the object of our journey was to spend our Holiday money foolishly and recklessly! I had forgotten to discuss it here due to that upsetting in-law phone call, and so here you have it for tonight’s Blog.

And so once we cashed our checks at the bank drive through we went on to my favorite outlet store, Bealls, a southern fave.

My article of desire this time was to find a small boat to fit into the décor of my bathroom atop my cabinet above the toilet, which had recently changed slightly with the removal of the silk vines and the metal flamingo who was repositioned in the living room with his other avian contemporaries, and if I do say so myself he/she looks just marvelous there!

The boat Hubby found on the clearance shelve was all wooden blue and white colored with a natural canvas sail adorned with a fish appliqué in navy blue and matching to the boat, wooden stand, and it was marked $16.99 but with its 30% off which brought it down to $11.89, and even with the discounted $1.49 white frame that I also found and with my additional 15% Monday’s special discount for us fifty and over setters, the total came to only $12.17 with tax included, what a deal!
I love smart shopping and great deals, don’t you?

Our next stop was to go to Jo-Ann’s Fabrics and Crafts. I have been trying to find additional wooden letters in the two inch scale in the Times Roman font, but they didn’t have them; my problem is I always seem to run out of ‘E’s does anyone else?
They have lotsa fun things in there, and I did stock up on some of my missing acrylic paints.

Then we went to lunch at a little hole in the strip mall wall, an Italian restaurant, which I assumed was just a pizza joint, but it was so much more, a deli, as well as a very unique sit down luncheonette type diner with many more choices other than pizza.

I ordered a cup of pasta fazoul and side salad; please forgive any misspellings my Italian friends, but you get the gist. Hubby ordered a meatball sub, we both had coffee, and yes it was early enough for me, before 2 P.M. it was around 12:30 ish!

Our last stop was to find a sympathy card to send to Hubby’s cousin on the death of her 95 year old Mom, and we accomplished that at our grocery, Publix, which carries a lot of stuff besides groceries. All missions were almost completed, but Hubby chose to spend his gift at a later date.

I must admit that even though we just went out for a few hours it was great to just go and do something different for a change, always in my opinion.

Good night to all and to all count those blessing and we will too!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Knowing is half the battle...but who really does...

Have you ever wondered what makes siblings brought up in the same family with the same Mom and Dad, turn out so differently?
I do.
It has always amazed me why some children are sweet, loving, generous and good natured while a sib could be the extreme opposite.
Why is that?

That amazes me, but it is not that unusual, even when in a small family of two children.
Of course we expect larger families to have larger quantities of differentials.
I know what I am about to say is an extreme example, but do any of you out there remember the movie, ‘The Bad Seed’?
Yep, that is the extreme… to those who may not recall the premise or have never seen the flick let me give you a short synopsis…an only child was to the world angelic but in reality a serial murderess, at only eight years old! Scared the heck out of me as a child, but then we didn’t have the ratings system we have now so all movies were considered family entertainment, back in 1956. I bet it would have been an “R” rating if there were a rating system in check, and then I never would have seen it, since at that time I was very young myself, a mere six years old. That left all of us kiddies with the horrible thought that some kids are truly dangerous and not to be trusted when they acted saccharine sweet!
Eddie Haskell from the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ series also comes to mind but of course in not the same violent way, but rest assured he was extremely devious. He would be oh so polite to the adults and then scheme to do something just dreadful with his contemporaries leading the pact. In actuality, the actor, Ken Osmond, no relation, who played the role grew up quite well and became a very well respected police officer, who I believe now must be retired since he is in sixties.

The only reason I mention this is because lately we have been hearing on and off again from Hubby’s Sis and her Hubby and he and her have been trying to get into Mom’s garage where they supposedly left garden furniture, and wanted to return one of the beds they stole from the house, a trade. Well, while Hubby was up there he was in his Mom’s garage many times over the course of the week, and he didn’t see any boxes with outdoor furniture in it, and besides why now, they just had two feet of snow and are expecting more this week! He said that they can keep the bed they had stolen and he told them that they have nothing of theirs in Mom’s garage! After what they did to Hubby’s Mom, stealing so many of her things, money, antiques, stocks, bonds etc, you really can’t blame him for being suspicious, and rightfully so.
You see, they all grew up together, Hubby, Sis and Bro and had the same parents, and each one is so different personality wise, even somewhat in looks, but they are definitely biologically related; other than that not so much.

I only had a half brother, same Mom but different fathers, and so that is not a fair comparison for me to make, but we were definitely nothing alike.

On that thought to ponder, I will bid you all a good night and hope you all enjoy counting those blessings and we will too!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Anyone out there making up a New Year's resolution?

New Year’s resolution, what a predicament if you tell anyone close to you that you see often, say like everyday, a spouse or a child, woops then you better keep your promise to yourself or by golly they will let you know that you didn’t!

Now, New Year's Eve is this Thursday, and I wonder just how many of you out there do that sort of thing? In a way I am pretty sure many have the best of intentions of following through with their betterment of themselves and make those resolutions, but oh well, we all know how that goes…

It is not to say that we of the human race do not continue to desire or to keep our own self established wishes to improve on a yearly basis its just that I think that many of us give ourselves too many lofty goals or ones that are made halfheartedly.

I will loose ten pounds, quit smoking, try harder at this or that, are all some that I have heard myself over the years. And I have been one of those who when younger thought the idea was just dandy. But as we get older some of us, anyway consider that most of what we feel we must accomplish could be done at just about any time of the year not only on New Year’s Day.

Why, I finally did quit smoking on July 11.2006, a date that had no particular significance to me, but one that I will never forget just the same and I am still not smoking to this day.
That’s my point, if we truly want ourselves therefore our lives to be better there is no special date that you must wait to start!
You can start now, tomorrow or any day you so desire, and do you know why?
Because YOU want to!
Nobody can change you but you.
Although, many spouses and boyfriends/girlfriends or significant others at times appear to want to try, but it’s only something each one of us can do for or to ourselves!

I must admit that I too have tried to change someone under the so-called heading because I love you, ha! We all know that if we were not who we were they wouldn’t have fallen for us in the first place.

On that thoughtful note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

A much calmer day today!

Do you know what finally calmed me to sleep last night?
A glass of red wine did the trick! Who needs warm milk? LOL

Why didn’t I think of that when I was suffering and unable to sleep the night before? I did try some decafe green tea.
Oh well, silly me, and it was so simple.

Not only did I sleep well for me last night; I napped this afternoon for a whole twenty minutes!

Somewhere I heard that is the recommended time allowance for a nap, any longer than a half an hour could cause grogginess and prevent sleeping that same night.
Makes sense to me, I seem to remember when the boys were young and they were outgrowing their naps if they would continue to take an afternoon one, it would be difficult to get them to bed that night.
I suppose as we get older we sort of retrogress to that same state.

As I first stated today was a much quieter day.
I made a super homemade fish chowder with shrimp and clams, veggies, and even some cheddar, a stick to your ribs type of yummy good stuff with my homemade corn bread on the side turning it into an entirely good for you meal, and we had it for our dinner, mmmmmm oh so good!

One of our favorite PBS how–to shows, This Old House, was finally back in its time slot, it had been missing for weeks, but get this, we kept getting the no signal sign across the screen. At first I thought that our antenna did not have enough oomph for our signal and so I called the place we bought it from, and they insisted it was the best for the job and also had the additional amplification necessary to do the job, and so after we conferred awhile we thought perhaps it was a flaw at the station, and so I called them.
They were all gone until after the first of the year, and they had no other number for their engineering department.
All the other channels worked so we truly believed that they were at fault.
Ten minutes left in the program and oddly enough the signal came back!
Just in time to see the next half hour of the same series, but the first one is lost forever?
The question mark is because I think I could watch it online but it takes forever to load.
Our computer not their problem this time, we still have dial up and everything takes forever.

Some of our other favorites on PBS are the History Detectives and Scientific America to name a few.

Sometimes relaxing and doing only what makes you happy is a good thing…nah at this stage of life, always try for the happiness mode!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Today was Christmas...

But you know the expression that “every day seems just like the other”; well that was what today was like, on of all days, Christmas!
Sadly, days are gone with the big family gatherings, and children running around.
How I so wished for the next generation of that, but it did not happen.
No; not at all.

Our number one son, the eldest has a new girlfriend for nearly a year now that doesn’t seem at all interested in the family thing, since we have still not met her! All of his previous amours we have been able to meet and we included in all things family, but not this one…
And you all know about our estrangement from our youngest, his idea totally; not ours!

Other family is scattered hither and yon; from literally one coast of the country to the other, but you too have been told of them and if we lived closer who knows if that relationship would be one of closeness; I’m not going to fool myself, probably not.
And most all of mine is dead.

So now I can see why so many feel sad at this time of he year; it is a given.
When Hubby worked and if I knew I would be alone, which would be often since he was nice to cover for the young deputies so they could spend the time with their families, I would volunteer and serve Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter dinners at a local church, and feel very useful and happy that I could help.
But now I don’t have that option, since I can’t get around so well on my own, and I don’t drive anymore so there is more time to pine away the miserable lonely hours even with Hubby here who appears to not mind the less crowded rooms in our home, but I miss it, badly. I was rather a social butterfly in my day.

I do like being with other people and chatting up a storm, but Hubby not so much.
We were invited to our neighbors across the canal, but I am struggling with the after affects of one heck of a very sleepless night. It was after four A.M. when I finally closed my peepers. But this time not totally due to a painful night…I stupidly made myself a mocha hot chocolate using caffeinated coffee at about three thirty yesterday afternoon, and caffeine has this awful affect on me…and so I was up all night!
The results of one sleepless night I am paying for with exhaustion, pain, and irritability, which sadly to say Hubby reacts to just as irritably, and so we had many arguments today, and so neither of us would make good company for anyone not even ourselves.

I did try to nap, and just before writing this I also tried to go to bed, actually at this early hour I am dressed for it, but oddly enough it seems I am what they call overtired, is that too an oxymoron? Because now I cannot even lie down without my body screaming no!

And so I thought writing this now would help, but it hasn’t, and I don’t know what to do…I hope I have not acquired an irreversible sleep pattern, only time will tell…

Oh well… Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve...

Ah the eve of any special holiday is rampant with anticipation, but none more so than on this prestigious occasion for all those little ones who tried so hard to behave and in all efforts to be good to be realized for the enormous rewards of that positive behavior to be seen by the almighty Claus, the Santa man, the St. of Nick, the Father of Christmas… I could go on but its best for you to see for yourselves and if I don’t say so myself educational for the kiddies too: copy and paste this site to see all the international names of the jolly chubby dear man in the red suit: http://www.christmas-day.org/multiculturism-santas.html
Another site of interest for following Santa’s path to your home: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/track3d.html

Aint technology great! Any-who those littuns should be good for at least a few hours, don’t you think?
We grownups can now think about how not to screw up the special day without using too much planning.
Better to let it all happen naturally and don’t be upset if things aren’t perfect, they never are, and who is perfect anyway! Not me, not you, nobody!
The best thing is to have lotsa fun!
The main thing is that everything is done by now, right?
If not, so you know that you did your best, and that’s all anyone can expect you to do, really.

Back to technology, it enabled me and Hubby again to send off our messages of holiday joy to the ones we care about.
Translation: we emailed Christmas cards from a classy site that we actually had to join and pay money for, but very worth it, and not that dear in price, and made us feel happy about what we sent; the site is copy and paste if interested: http://www.jacquielawson.com/default.asp

We have been using free E-cards for years but whenever anybody sent any from this particular site above that I mentioned we would be blown away by the product sent for years and so we finally joined!

Remember dearies that this is the night before so be a little traditional and read that famous poem, you know the one….”The night before Christmas…” Its one of the freebies in life, and it will mean so much to the children. If not in your hands try this technological miracle I am sure there is a link, nah better yet!

“ Twas the Night before Christmas Poem
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"”

Copy and paste: http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm
For more info and thanks to this site for the poem.

My present to all of you!

And good night to all and to all of you count those blessings and we will too!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

I may be brief...

Eyes dilated wide open! Today was my visit to the ophthalmologist, and yes he did determine that my cataracts are worse, oddly enough in both eyes, and that they should come out and soon, but not until next year, my next appointment is January 6th!

And so since I do take nearly forever for my eyes to reverse themselves and they were dilated around three this afternoon and are no better now at nearly six I suspect that it will be a long fuzzy sighted night for me…since the last time that this dilation thing occurred at one P.M. and took until nearly nine P.M. before I had any normal looking pupils, oh well, we will see.. Means more now than when I usually say that!

Other than that the doc is the one who does work with you for a payment program and charges a fraction of what the other guys wanted, at $1877 an eye total surgery, compared to the other guys $5500 an eye, and yes, he is a board certified M.D. Ophthalmologist who studied at Johns Hopkins, how about that?! I guess my old ways of not giving up; and my good ole tried and true perseverance is still within me!

Tonight’s writing is a wee bit tricky, you know me; it is all that without dilated peepers, but tonight’s dealings are even more so. And so as I first indicated I will reluctantly say good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

There's a chill in the air...

It’s cooler more than usual here today; ha you are all saying, serves you right for flaunting all those warm days at us!
You are right I shouldn’t have done it, but it felt so right to say it and besides the chamber of commerce appreciated the accolades of attitude, and ‘the see what you are missing’ style of my writing prowess.

But I digress, yes we were cooler here today, high sixties barely reaching seventy degrees, but…… tomorrow we’ll be back up into the mid to high seventies and by Christmas Eve near eighty! Ha, ha, ha… to you now!

Yes, dear readers we live in paradise, and we know that you are all jealous!
Do you all know how to rectify your problem?
Come on down!
Yes! We even have the accommodations to take on that massive migration!

Now you all must know that we have deals more deals than you can even imagine buy low sell nah let the grandkids sell after you are gone!
Since you are gonna wanta stay until taps are playing!
We are the up and coming state here, nearly a blank slate for jobs, housing and anything else that comes to mind.
Don’t forget we also have weather that is 99% of the time great!
And beaches that are circumventing our entire circumference!
Topographically speaking our innards contains orchards of citrus, strawberries, and we have cattle and horse ranches and antique towns that are a wee bit hilly.
We’ve got islands to our south, I suppose that you other place people have heard about the Florida Keys, well there they are right there in these US of A to enjoy and celebrate as if you were on a tropical island! One side you can swim in the Atlantic Ocean and on the other you can swim in the Gulf of Mexico, wow; same about either side of the state!
We got it all, and we love our tourists and homesteaders!

And so if you are all tired with shoveling those white fluffies, and downright annoyed by not being able to swim, surf, water ski, or boat, fish or scuba whenever you really want to, then I say COME ON DOWN!
PS: Oldies have a lottery, BINGO and arcades and don’t forget the Seminole Indian Gambling joints scattered throughout the state!

We sure seem to have more room than ever now, we lost a few of the chickens who couldn’t stick out the hard times and left, but that means we got more room for you!
So as I said before, just a few times…COME ON DOWN, ya hear?

Good night to all and to all count those blessings (we got those (blessings) here too in the sunshine state!), and we will count ours too!

Monday, December 21, 2009

What to do with your retirement...

The best ideas of what to do when you retire is to do…………………whatever you want to do! Really!
And not me, or anyone else should assume to tell you how, what or when you should do something or nothing at all.
That’s the joy of retirement; the freedom to do or not do stuff!

It’s sort of like becoming a person of a certain age, which you actually are if you are retired, any-who… where for the first time you found out that there is no guilt in saying ‘no’ to someone or something, or weeding out your friends to the short list to who really makes you enjoy what you are interested in, and respects you for who you are and that doesn’t try to change you.
Almost the same as finding your life mate, yes that’s it, I would think.

Ah the joys of relaxation… the kids are grown and gone and making their own way in life without needing your assistance financially any longer just your undying love forever…so it is just you and your spouse deciding on how, what, when or why you might do this or that, and if you really want to… oh such a delicious peaceful way to live! Too bad we didn’t have that choice when we were young, but that is what we strived for all those years to be able to take back our freedom of not answering to anyone but our own selves! What a miraculous undertaking that you have been rewarded with, and with wisdom and self esteem acquired along the way your decisions should be admirable, and appropriate for you and the ones you love.

Oh you thought I was being totally selfish, no there is no room for that at all. Yes, we all do have someone to answer to, elderly parents, and our children or even if we are lucky enough, also our grandchildren, who all just want to make sure that you both are really OK! You know the drill…but I am just saying after all that… just you two can make those decisions for you two too nobody else but you, collectively.

What brought on this night’s rant?
Oh, I guess just some of the emails that I have been receiving lately on the topic.
Not living life to the fullest bologna, you know the type; make each day full as if it were your last, or live life as if you were dying, or better yet the one I remember from early momhood, each day is a new beginning!
Some are over the top and others just seem slightly morbid, but that’s just me.
The one that I like to live by is: just live according to your own code of ethics, which in my case is the golden rule, treat others how you want to be treated, and the rest is just plain gravy!

On that positive tone I will brow beat you all into submission by wishing you a very good night and to count those blessings and we will too!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Signing and how we talk to our closest family members...

When I think of signing I get all warm and fuzzy, not sad at all… you ask why?
Well, I will tell you why…when our boys were small our number one son was involved in scouting, from cub scouts to weebelos to eventually Boy Scouts, and our younger son was dragged along, not that unwillingly for the ride, so to speak. Hubby and I both became quite involved ourselves since both of us had also been scouts as children. He became scouting coordinator for our entire county of Ocean in good ole NJ, and I was an assistant when number one was a cubby and a weebelo. One of the things we learned in scouting is signing for the deaf, and so we all learned the alphabet, and a few simple phrases, nothing fancy. But it was such a fond memory of their growing up time I had to relay it to you all.

Coincidentally, as a deputy Hubby became an Explorer senior advisor which is also for scouting but through the Sheriff’s Office, and prior to that he sat on the board of a non-profit called H.I.P., hearing impaired persons. An organization that would help people in their locale finds aids to function well in society and to assist others to understand. They also offered a signing class, which Hubby thoughtfully signed us up for, but unfortunately my hand surgery was scheduled too close to the class and we had to back out; this was back in August of 2001, sadly we never ever did take the class.

But signing has always been someway incorporated into our lifestyles…our younger son used sign language to train our first Yorkie rightfully so named Benji, and he was brilliant and could do whatever our son wanted him to with just a movement of his hand this way or that. Over the years other canines in our family have not been as sharp, although I am not yet giving up on Skipper, who I fondly compare on occasion to a Marley-type dog at times. I have started to try hand signals with him, even the ones I have altered to be communicatively original, maybe not that original.
To tell him I love him, I point to my eye, then my heart, and then to him, simple!
OK, I see that isn’t original at all!
Oh well, I do think though that I may be getting through to him, sort of?
He is so very lovable, its hard to be strict with him, since he seems to only misbehave when company arrives, stays or leaves…I know we have to do something!

He’s about five and half years old now, and I was sure with time he would calm down, but he hasn’t. Skipper loves people and so he jumps up on them and feels he must kiss each and every one of them! He’s never vicious just overwhelmingly lovable, as I said.
He was neutered at one year’s old, for any of you who are wondering if that could be the problem. You know Benji (was a seven pound dog), and never was neutered and lived fourteen years, maybe we should all rethink this neutering thing, after all Skipper, at fifteen pounds has never gotten out or loose at all in all his five and half years, and I wonder… that’s all I am saying… maybe that was a mistake? Now I am going to have all the spay and neutering people up in arms about the over population of the domestic animal kingdom and I can’t agree more! It’s a crisis that is too sad for words, but what happened to responsible ownership? I know, I know sadly no one is that responsible anymore.

What I do know is that non speaking communication is exhilarating and not ordinary, and something that perhaps I am willing to still learn in my future. I will put it on my bucket list, since I think it is doable.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Cold enough for you?

White Christmas looks eminent! Good for you all!
Hey you northerners… look at it this way your blizzard waited for the weekend to give you what you all thrill for!
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, not!
Won’t happen here, or should I say can’t; I think it has something to do with some type of law against warm sub-tropical temperatures locales having to be held to a warmer esteem! So come on down…oh no you can’t; at least not until your airports reopen…. so sorry! It all boils down to choices, some are good and some are cold! Sorry, my weird sense of humor.

Our weather was dry but rather chilly today in the mid seventies, and yes the sun did come out. Yours will too, tomorrow, tomorrow the sun’s gonna come out tomorrow!
Don’t you worry your little chilled hearts about it; spring will be there in no time, that’s right, no time soon; what? Maybe March, but more than likely April!
Sorry I was on a roll.


Thanks guys in the senate for passing the health care bill! (Almost)
It was just on our news tonight…I wonder…could it be because of my letter? NAH!
That would be great though to think that one could change the minds of the many, wouldn’t it be something? Back in the sixties we thought that way.

Not as good as I had hoped for, the pre-existing plan for adults won’t take effect until 2014!
I am still up the creek without a paddle!
Copy and paste this below site, what was said:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/article/obama-hails-60th-senate-vote-for-health/825498
Damn!

But at least for pre-existing children’s conditions it will pass immediately!
I will be sixty-four in 2014 and already on Medicare.
Oh well, we won the war but not the battle, as the expression goes…

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Singing in the rain, singing in the rain....

Well, I won’t be out in the rain singing anytime soon, but it is a lovely memory of that movie, don’t you think?
The rain came in this morning rather violently causing tornado watches and warnings throughout the region, fortunately none developed. You see, December is usually the driest month of the year here, and we already broke a few records with our unusual rainfall! I suppose the rain is making up now for that rather dry summer we just had. But at least we aren’t as bad off as our other coast here, the east coast, because they had fourteen inches in Miami and we only had a few… Whoa to them with all their flooding!

It was hunkering down soup making kind of a day, and so that is what I did, yep I made some New England clam chowder, which was just what the weather called for!
Snowy days up north in those days they were great baking days warming up the kitchen and the moods of the children when they would have a day off from school due to the snow, and play outside building forts, sledding, skating or whatever and come back inside to take a break for lunch. In those days the wood stove (upstairs) and the fireplace (downstairs) would also be ignited to add to the ambiance and lessen the heating bills!

These days in the southland we really didn’t need any soup to warm us since even with the cooling rain it was still in the mid seventies most of the day. It’s just that with the gloomy weather mood we needed some internally warmth hugs; you all know what I mean, right?

Weather has always had an effect on human behavior or mood since time immemorial, but does anyone really know why? Psychologists and other mind doctors have tried to uncover the reasoning, and it is still up in the air, so to speak. But we all know that sunshine makes us smile, and gloomy rain makes us sad, and now there is even a syndrome connected to it. Something to think about and verify when the next time you look out during the nasty weather, do something that makes you happy while inside, and when the weather is great…go out and enjoy it! That’s the ticket!

On that conclusive note I will wish you all a very good night and count those blessings and I will too!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Hooray, hooray! Today I was able to take the first step to some relief...

Earlier today, actually this morning, I called an Ophthalmologist that sees first time fifty-nine year old patients for free! And so I have an appointment for next Wednesday! He is also willing to set up a payment plan for surgery; well that we will see how that works…nothing ventured nothing gained; crossing my fingers that it is doable cost wise!

The other problem that Hubby and I tackled today was trying to find the cause of my chronic sinus trouble. I hope that what we did do will help the condition. Oh, you want to know what we did? I hear you!

Well, we had all over the house these dried expensive very pretty flowers that were gifted to us from my cousins with containers as well, yep the same ones (cousins) I speak of regularly, anywho… since I have been not able to keep up with the dusting, especially in high places and they were dust magnets that really were getting, dare I should say without shame, well extremely fuzzy bunnies!
I used to vacuum at all levels in our home but now it is Hubby’s job, and let’s put it this way… his joy of vacuuming is right up there with weeding in his mind I do believe, or maybe even toilet cleaning!

And so to make our lives simpler, which really is what life at our age and physical condition should be about, we bagged them up and removed each and every one of them!
My dilemma is what to do with them now.
They have been banished into the garage but that only adds to the clutter, any suggestion would be very much welcomed?

The other thing I continually find myself doing is while listening to the news about the healthcare bill, and hearing who is holding it up I email those senators with that two thousand word letter I sent to our governor, who by the way has not replied at all and that was sent on the eighth of this month. The senators have been receiving copies over the last two days; wish me luck!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...la, la, la, lala etcetera

It is hard to believe that with mid eighties that nary a sun soul was able to shiver, and so this is the song of the south…la, la, la, we go a caroling in bikinis and Speedos and jiggle and jive to the swaying palms…what an image, you all got that?

But it is oh so true, we have been blessed with no white Christmas’s ever unless you count Aunt Sally’s shaking her dandruff filled head and the Salty Dog’s surf shop white tops from our broiling surf PICS, yea it is Christmastime in the tropics! And we like it like that! Uh Huh, Uh huh, Uh Huh…that’s the way we like it yea, yea, yea!

Nine more days to count until the big day!
Have you gotten what you wanted without going astray?
Sales and deals are calling all of us to do what comes naturally buy, buy, and just buy all that we must try!

Soon our little ones will be home for the holidays which means it is time to get those swimsuits rinsed from the last weekend they were used, oh yeah, that was just the last one, wasn’t it?

Celebrations are different here; we swim in the New Year with fireworks that aren’t really legal unless you are chasing crows from your crops… Hmm, we got crows and we got crops, a bumper one this year too! Broccoli, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce and string beans oh my! I suppose we would be legal to shoot those brilliantly colorful finger stealers if we so desired…good thing that we don’t, but all our neighbors do!
Ah…the holidays in the southland it’s a wee bit different here, but that’s the way we like it, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh etc, enjoy!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tis the season!

Shop, shop until you drop; this is the way we show how much we care!
It is so true that we as a capitalistic nation truly believe that spending oodles on our loved ones during this time of year is how we show them that we really love them…
But when did that all start to become the norm?

I remember also being caught up in the frenzy like everyone else when our boys were small and also using dear old St. Nick to keep them behaving well until the fated night of his arrival! Even, dare I say using that old faithful if you don’t believe in him (St. Nick or Santa); he may not come to our home…

Manipulation is what all parents do to help children to learn, at times, right from wrong, but then we screw it up with dangling materialistic rewards in the advent of that proper behavior, does that seem right to you?

Now when I think back I guess it was bordering on cruelty.
But who has not done it?

Negotiating is a better way to look at all those child rearing years, better than beating them into submission, right?

Wow I must sound just dreadful on my parenting skills abilities.
Reasoning was another way to go too, but rarely worked even though we had very intelligent fairly well behaved sons.
And boy, am I glad those years have passed, and that our sons ended up well educated, productive, and gainfully employed men in spite of me!

Go forward Americans and go out and make the economy fruitful for all!
Yes, that’s right shop until you drop, and torture those kiddies with not getting a thing if they act badly! It is somewhat of a tradition, and if I must say so our ‘Generation Xers’, were a rather wonderful group who ended up quite well in the citizenship department.
Perhaps a bit of emotional maneuvering is what this next line of specimens could use.

So tonight I will wish you all that you find whatever you are looking for and have the bucks to pay for it and now I will say goodnight to all and tell you to count your blessings and we will too!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Today...

Sorry to say that when you have so much excitement like we had yesterday…you really need an ordinary day to renew your stamina when you’re our age.
And so we balanced out our momentum by sticking around the home front once again.

This is a good thing since through revitalizing your motor is regenerated; you do know that it is all about utilizing R & R appropriately? Of course you do!

Hubby used this day not quite as gently as I did, he took it upon himself to redo our fish pond since the fatality rate has been rising, and we are now down to just eight from our original twelve, which could be attributed to the old age of our Goldfish who are genuine Goldfish not Koi. Which are actually carp that are all in the same general family but life expectancies are way different. Goldfish live outside generally about five to six years while Koi can live thirty or more. Thus the price difference too, Goldfish a dollar a dozen, Koi $75 or more for each!

So that is why ours may very well have just reached the end of their life cycle, or maybe our algae became more dominant in the pond either way we are now crystal clear once again due to Hubby’s renewal of our pond. Interestingly the only other type of fish in our pond is the Mosquito eaters which are live bearers, they are freebies from our county extension, just call and they bring them right out to your pond, yes they do deliver! Well, those little beggars that actually began as a mere dozen are now well over one hundred strong we bet, since they move too much we haven’t actually been able to take an exact count!

While Hubby was busy with all that I did the usual this and that indoors…preparing meals straightening the house, dusting etc. you all are well aware of the daily routines of home maintenance. Taking breaks in between with relaxation.
We also got out two Christmas/Holiday cards out to Hubby’s Mom and our number one son, with a little something in each, if you know what I mean? You don’t. LOL
Mom got a dinner out card plus a forty percent off coupon for her favorite craft store. Number one son got a check to do hopefully with whatever he wants to do; both of them are not that easy to shop for.

On that joyous note we will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Changing up our norm!

We did, and maybe you should too.
We are pretty much go out in the late morning or early afternoon type peeps.
But today we changed that up and left the home front after four thirty P.M.!
And we started our miniscule errands stopping at the grocery to pick up bleach and a gift card for Hubby’s Mom to put in her tomorrow sent out Christmas card.
Then we went over to the warehouse store to pick up coffee and water at their bargain prices and to renew our yearly membership that is up in three days, but not now we are good for another year!
Then on to the mall, oh yea that’s right we went there for the Menorah candle lighting ceremony that we had not been to before, and this was their fifth!
They had latkes with applesauce for a small donation, live music and games like dreidl, spin the top for those who don’t know what a dreidl is, for the children it was all very lovely!
After all that we caught a late dinner at the chain Italian restaurant (using Hubby’s gift card from one of the neighbor's gave him for his 60th birthday celebration) known for great soups salads and breadsticks, you all know the one.

And now we are home joyously pooped!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Just the jolt I needed this holiday season, find your new norm!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Another day another faux pas...but also a lovely card from a dear old friend

Last part first: my dear old friend, my only follower other than Hubby, well she really isn’t old, at least not more than six weeks older than me anyway, ha! I meant old in the sense known the longest since we were both toddlers when we first met. She sent me an online card for Hanukah, which was a great memory from our childhood when we in our neighborhood we would all celebrate our holidays together, and this was all my friends’ way before the advent of Sesame Street!
Diversity was our block on Gordon Drive in Paramus NJ, with I think, if I recall something like twenty six homes on it.
And we were all different, and yet mostly all friends or friendly, what a great growing up time we all had.
This is not to say that we didn’t have disagreements, of course we did, and yes we acted like we were family in every way!

First part now: I decided to call my cousins in Venice, not Italy you all know where… well to wish them a happy holiday too, and see how my uncle got situated; he had arrived last night from Vegas.
And I got my cousin in-law on the phone and asked the provocative question how are you, uncle so and so, his girlfriend etc.
Well. I was told my cousin says everyone is fine when they are not, and this is because he doesn’t really know or want to share, who knows…Then I am told both her hips will be operated on in two weeks this was a given and in my opinion I thought long overdue, since this problem is over a year old. Maybe you remember that she was the one who broke her hip falling off a ladder a year ago October when in her art class, and had to have emergency surgery that was real serious and she lost a lot of blood and needed transfusions etc.! Well, the surgery didn’t fix the problem. And her other hip cracked as well causing her constant tremendous pain and a need to give herself some type of personal injections to aid in the healing process for months!
So I was relieved for her sake that the surgery was finally being done, rightfully so, right?
Any-who, she complained about needing it and I said something stupid like you should be happy that you have insurance to cover it, unlike me who doesn’t!

Now I know that was stupid but I couldn’t take it back and then I stupidly went on, on about my dilemma which they both know full well about, but for some strange reason still don’t quite understand, is that clear?
She put her husband, my cousin on the phone and I basically did the same thing to him but with an apology!
But you know something I am angry at the ones who complain about needing the surgery for a problem that will be fixed by it, and that they do have the finances or the insurance to do it with…. SO SORRY!
What am I jealous? Or is it more simple than that am I just plain angry, you betcha! Life’s not fair; we all know that, what was I thinking?
I should be put away until I am socially acceptable.
The filtering system in my conversation ability is null, and so I suppose I will have to hermit myself more so than I am already!
But I used to love people now they just annoy me to no end.

On that night’s switcheroo of attitude I will bid you all a good night and to all count your blessings and I will too, ha! Still looking…

Friday, December 11, 2009

Happy Chanukah, and back to our norm...

Tonight I wish all who celebrate this holiday to have a Happy Chanukah!
Our family is quite diverse and we celebrate most all holidays including Chanukah so the same to you and yours.

Our day, as I said above, today we got back to our non-exciting usual. We went to the grocery as we had planned and I did take care of Hubby’s dirty laundry from his trip.He actually finished the load by folding it all and putting it away, what a joy to have him back!

He left the faraway cold country apparently just in time since because, according to the email from the neighbor, who indicated that they’re high for today was only 23 degrees, brrr. Boy, Florida is so nice in comparison!

We wrote back and let him know that this weekend that here it will be in the mid-eighties, are we bad or what? LOL

Now this could be fun, and after all was said and done Hubby truly believes he does have Hubby’s Mom’s welfare in her best interest, and has adopted her as his own since his Mom had passed away ten years ago. We can only hope that he is genuine for Mom’s sake.

Hubby also expressed how miserable the traffic was up there in cold country compared to here in the southern warmth, how soon we forget, but now ours doesn’t seem as bad to him, ha!

I am so glad that I have him to drive us around instead of me. Maybe because we have so many tourists this time of year and that when they come down they seem to act like they are lost most of the time, perhaps they are not pretending I bet, but I beg to differ with Hubby, here too they are pretty darn bad drivers also!

We both have this pet-peeve of people not using their directional indicators, and switching lanes the last minute without any warning or telling! Why do people do that? I always wondered since when we are taught to drive we are always told to use them.
Aggressive drivers are rampant too, and then you get some of those way too slow ones…
You know the ones that can barely see over the steering wheel, male or female but very light colored hair either gray or white usually…but Hubby’s hair is that color too now!
Uh oh, but he can see just fine over the steering wheel, and he insists that his driver’s license says his hair is brown, oh well…

On that silly note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hubby's home safe and sound!

Hooray! He was missed terribly.
But he is very tired, and did stop at the rib restaurant on his way home to bring home dinner that I had called in.

I haven’t driven in nearly two years due to medications and my physical condition, and so there is not very much food left in the house right now and we will have to go shopping soon; tomorrow if he is rested.

I’m exhausted too, and I really have no idea why.
I haven’t been doing a whole lot.

I think the Mom horror stories that Hubby are relaying to me are extremely frustrating me to no end.
To think that she doesn’t seem to have the ability to think logically about situations, but her physical health is excellent, and yet she does not have a diagnosed dementia, but we are pretty sure she does have one of the many.
Alzheimer’s is just the most notorious.

Hopefully one of the many doctors she sees will intervene.
Since she is now seeing a geriatric one.
I had recommended her seeing one who specializes in the elderly, but I think I did say seniors, which sounds better.
I also had told her to try AARP for her supplement with her Medicare but she didn’t remember who her coverage was with, and Hubby had no idea and never once asked me on his many cell calls home to me!
Bro also was not aware that Mom offered us the lot in Arizona way back when, which he sold for two hundred thousand, but we turned it down. And it was I who suggested to Mom to give it to Bro since he lived closer, being in Washington State. My bad, his mortgage was paid off twenty years ago due to another one of my faux pas!
Boy am I stupid or what?
Don’t answer that one.

I am way stressed out right now and I find this all terribly disturbing.

Good night to you all, and count those blessings if you got ‘em, and maybe tis the season to share some?

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Twenty-Four Hours after a Meltdown and a New Rationale...

I checked and I found out that I think, now I could be wrong I have been wrong before, but I may be eligible for Medicare in about two and half years! Yea!
Now that makes me think that I do have an alternative to this situation that I am not at all fond of, and will have a logical hopeful escape hatch in the not too distant future.
Oh what a difference a day makes.
And I was trying so hard, also racking my brain for more concepts or choices and came up with this one!

Yep, I truly think that I am one of a few people who cannot wait to age; at least get to my sixty-second birthday with as little wear and tear added on as possible.
So now it is up to me to slow down the progress of the inevitable, but how?
Anyone got any ideas, I’m open?

I suppose not harping on my dilemma might help with my morale.
But that’s hard when every movement and use of body parts including my only eye causes me to have instant recall, and a bit of anger.
The rich do live longer due to having access!
Sorry, there I go again, but you all know that is true.

Any-who, tomorrow Hubby will be home by dinner barring any unforeseen circumstances, I do mean, slowed down by weather nothing, OMG more ominous!
He arrives in the south land warm weather again by around 4:10 P.M., but then he has about and hour drive home, which is iffy since that will be around when everyone else will be heading home ala rush hour.

I paid the bill on his trip already since we received our e-bill on our bank account today, and as we all know those credit card interest rates are becoming out of sight even for the best customers and best rating; it just seems so unfair, again. We have this superb rating that we did to be a good customer, and for our own sake if we ever needed to borrow and now we are being punished for paying on time by being charged higher rates, but since we don’t charge more than we can afford, and pay it off before those interest rates kick in I guess it is a moot point that I am making, huh? But it still seems wrong to me…If we have another hurricane and we are waiting on our insurance money we could need a lower rate, you never know, you know what I mean?

Have you noticed how unfair life is becoming even if you have been so careful to try to do it all right? I know that we trained our children that life happens and that we were the generation of spoiled brats with our parents determined to make all of our lives easier.
But when we had hard times when raising our kids I was always honest with them.

Some may think that I am being ridiculous but you know those ‘Giving Trees’ that give free holiday gifts to seniors, well the last two years have been difficult to get all those gifts donated….WELL folks these are hard times and if anybody should understand I would think it would be those who went through the first depression, don’t you?
Besides when you get to eighty or ninety or beyond and live in a ‘facility’, don’t you think you have just about all the things that you have room for? I could be wrong; I have been wrong before.
Please don’t send any hate mail to me, please.
I am just trying to be logical here.
Young children I do understand do not understand, but still they should at the appropriate age; be told that times are not so great, reality check for life, I say!
Nothing wrong with them learning that it is better to give than to receive, and not to be so greedy!

On that note of Scroogism I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Today I wrote a two thousand word letter to the governor of our state!

Writing anything of that length, two thousand words or there about is rather much for most people to read at one sitting especially in an email, but I write like I talk. Both could probably be considered over the top, but when my number one son called today he said that the governor probably won’t read it when I told him what I did…well who knows. Maybe someone in his office will.

The letter consisted of mainly how disappointed I was in the insurance for all concepts for our state that is NOT TRUE that I found out about once again yesterday.
Venting in writing is healthy, right?
I was honest and thoughtful and by no means mean.

What I tried to express was that I am at a loss for what to do with my medical issues without being able to get health insurance due to being pre-existing, and my medical issues not going away without medical intervention. And that we were too rich for most all programs, and too poor to pay off the expenses my surgeries would be with us, at this time, still paying off my hospital stay from April.
I think I was reasonable and rational in my clear concise explanations.

Over the last few years people have made wild suggestions of divorcing Hubby that making me a single poor woman with no income.
Or moving out of the country to a more health concerned country.

It just makes me ill to think that I can go blind in America because I cannot afford the surgery to have my cataracts fixed! While if in a third world country I would be eligible for free surgery from those boat doctors stopping onshore!
And that I will also remain lame and dependent on alternate means to get around because I haven’t enough monies to pay for joint replacement surgeries in my hips and shoulders!
This is America friends, and that is all I am saying, does this sound fair to you?
I know I can save up and or pay it off, but we are not working, husband is on disability, and I don’t drive so our small income is not about to change anytime soon, you know that and so do I.

Depressing is the word that comes to mind, and quality of life issues is what is all really about, but as I have said before I want to live the alternative is not something I want to think about, although it would be an easy way out of my misery!
I know you say that I am not fatally ill. Well I am in pain and my quality of life is miserable. But unless you have a fatal disease no one seems to understand that!

I will stop for tonight since I find myself being considerably repetitious today.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Nearly 200 billion in the Black! It should happen to me...

We (our government) apparently found some money, President Obama said, and so now we are two hundred billion in the black, and it came from what was not used from those stimulus packages, how about that? So we’ve been told, and now it will be used to create jobs! OK, good idea.

Today is December 7th way back on this date in 1941 is when Pearl Harbor was bombed, which created the catapult to put us into the second world war after more than two thousand people were killed, sound familiar?
Studying history is for the reason of not repeating it, the actual expression goes that: “those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.”
I prefer this one for its reasoning, since it appears to me to be more truthful:
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Hubby and Mom thought that Mom had an appointment with the hearing aid place this morning at nine thirty, and so they went. But Mom once again proved her need for one, by getting the time wrong; it was actually for five thirty this evening!
The house across the street appeared to be shown today; it is on the market as being sold for a bargain price in a short sale and it is now rented. The actual homeowners are going into foreclosure for over a year now, which makes their price a fourth of the value of ours. Which isn’t that high a price even though we are on the water and only five minutes by boat to the harbor; those inner circle homes were always the cheap seats since they do not have water access, but originally only priced about a third less.
I foolishly made some more desperate calls for personal help for my cataracts and hips and shoulders. First I called one of the hospital RN’s you can ask questions about anything. My question was about the speeding up of the loss of vision in my left eye since September, for the last month my new glasses have not worked, so I suppose it is worse, and I am definitely riding nearly blind with one fair right eye.
The internet medical info could not tell me why or any reason it has seemed to speed up, while for years both eyes had been like 3’s on a scale of 1 to 10, then in September my left became an eight, and now must be a ten, ten being no vision in the eye at all, (well that’s not totally true its like looking through the fog,) real fast, huh? And so I thought I could find out why and maybe also find out how to fix it. I do know that the Solu Medrol in the 1000 mg doses I was given for three days by IV are more than likely responsible, since that was easy enough to look up, but I haven’t had anymore prednisone or steroids since then, and so why worse? Oh well.
My problem is much more ominous I tried one more Ophthalmologist and they told me that it would be eleven thousand for the regular surgery and I stopped the woman before she went onto the high test or fancier one! I laughed at her, and said something sublime like for the uninsured, and what does she think that I am made of money!
I was angry and it was the fifth one I had tried, and yes I called the state insurance program again. And the woman there nearly cried with me when she heard my story! But again I fall between the cracks too rich for real help and too poor to pay the bill, and so no insurance programs for me either! I told her to tell our governor, it's not for the pre-existing like he says it is!
That Hill Burton info that nice woman gave to me was also a dead end for me, not poor enough for them either.
And so I ate my way into comfort, I suppose it’s better than my smoking skinny days, but just as dangerous and destructive! Yep, I am officially obese, but get this even if I had insurance and could get the stomach surgery to rectify the problem having a neurological/ an autoimmune disease like MS disqualifies you!
And since eyes are 11K, hips and shoulders must be around ten times that by size, I think? Anybody got any ideas?
I know, but I want to live.
Today was a crying sad eating myself into a tizzy sort of day.
It probably doesn’t help that I am getting cabin fever; maybe I should take the scooter for a runaround the neighborhood tomorrow? I have been to the mailbox roadside with the scooter, great transport for the job, and the back yard is walker territory, but I no longer go near the dock or boat lift.
Ah, life on my own aint what it’s cracked up to be, I miss Hubby, and he says he misses me too! He will be back in three more days, yea!
Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Hi there...

I sure hope you all realize what I went through to get here?
You don’t?
Well, let me tell you our browser was reading this connection all WRONG, saying that we were not connected at all and I had to shut completely down, how about that?
Guess they were way mistaken!
All I did was shut the whole shebang down and restart it all over again, so there powers that be!

Life has gotten more complicated on a daily basis, huh?
Does it seem that way to you too?
Most appliances are respectable and reliable.
But some, you know the rest of that… expletives usually follow!

Hubby and Mom are moving right along getting things done up there in cold country; and they actually went to one of her banks today!
Yea, I know it’s Sunday, but yes, they were open for the last four years on Sunday so Hubby was told, how about that?

Tomorrow Hubby has a ton of calls to make on Mom’s behalf; Monday will be a very busy day for the two of them.
Mom is going to look at washers and dryers and get her hearing aid too!
I was wrong about her having a washer and dryer she never did take her old ones from the other house, and so she did not have any in her basement.
Hubby has talked her into the prospect of using half of her pantry for a stackable set like ours. The hookups were put in the original space anyway, but they just haven’t been used.
Organizing the space has proven to leave enough room for the two pieces plus enough for her pantry items, which are many. Hubby is helping her to scale down from too many of the same things. Not can goods, but cooking utensils, pots etc., apparently.

I am happier for Skipper since he is now eating, drinking and going out to relieve himself, in other words acting more normal for him; which is really an oxymoron for him, being quite a character.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Blow-hard or good neighbor?

Time will tell I suspect if this giant of a man who is 6’6” and 300 pounds; if he is a blow-hard or a really nice good neighbor.

Mom’s neighbor seems to feel the necessity to let my Hubby know that he has this or that materialistic thing and that if my Hubby’s Mom needs anything he can get it for her at a rock bottom price or give his spares to her for free. Example he took a picture of Hubby in their snow shower and emailed it stating that it was taken with his iPhone, huh, so what?
I don’t think I have once mentioned my Cannon camera when emailing PICS.

You all know the expression: “if it sounds too good to be true than it probably is?”
I know. I know this is her neighbor that Hubby never ever met before three days ago, but Mom has known him for twelve years.
It’s just unfortunately in my adult nature to be skeptical when people try too hard, you know what I mean?
And yes I suppose you can say I am jaded, but not without reason.
I have been too trusting over the years and ended up in very bad hurtful situations.

Another expression comes to mind, “all that glitters is not gold.”
Why does he live in a small condo and have his daughter and son-in-law living with him?
He is sixty-five years old and has not yet retired, if he is so wealthy, what’s with that?
I don’t know here’s another expression: “if it walks like a duck then perhaps it is a duck?” that one I’m not exactly clear on.

Any-who he has offered his financial advisor for Mom, his lawyers for Mom etc, etc, etc…, I suppose that is also very nice of him.
But what’s in it for him I wonder?
Could he truly be such a nice guy?
I know my own Dad was the kind of man that would go out of his way for people and expect nothing in return, then why I am I not getting this one’s intent?

I have no right to interfere in what is happening up there I suppose, except for the fact that I have known my mother-in-law for 42 years and have been married to her son nearly 39 of those. Other than that I guess I should keep my big mouth shut, and leave well enough alone.

Besides with my phone insistence and coaching Hubby has kept Mom on track to throw things out! He says many boxes have been tossed into the recycling which comes this Tuesday!

I guess it must be the fact that I am so far away from the action and that I seem to not be able to get the blow by blow as it occurs; I have always been such a hands on type of woman, a ‘Type A’, even in this condition.

That’s it for tonight and so I will wish you all a good night and count those blessings and I will too!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Full Disclosure

My own personal excitement for today was that as I used the computer today I noticed that we lost another of our Goldfish from our pond since he/she was lying on her side.
This all was during a tremendous downpour that was pretty much the theme of most of today, the dry season of the south!
There was a short window of opportunity of non rain for a short while and so I chose that time to go out and verify that the Goldie had come to the end of his life cycle, and with my walker I maneuvered myself to the side yard to retrieve the net for just such occasions and I was able to pull back the protective netting over the pond and capture the dead fishy on top of it. As I balanced the net with the fish on top of it I made my way towards the canal to place him gently amongst his comrades. I slowly got the netting into position and tossed him towards the water, but he only made it onto the shoreline and so I decided to go closer to make his body go into the drink, but alas I lost hold of my walker, and it too fell into the canal or mud would be a better explanation since the tide was out.
My wonderful neighbors across the canal yelled don’t move and they drove around the block and came to my rescue!
How embarrassing, but I am very thankful they were there!

Now onto more important information…
To be fair I am no doctor, and Hubby’s Mom has always been somewhat of a packrat.
But the reports from Hubby’s visual of what he has been experiencing over the last two days would indicate to anybody that his Mom has gone over the top with saving things.
Hallways, bathrooms, basement and garage as well as the guest bedroom as well as her own, all this finds Hubby having to maneuver around the boxes and he can only access his bed from one of the two sides; the whole home is full of boxes! Of papers of things she hasn’t had a chance to get to; some were nine years old by the dates he read. Only one of the two bathrooms are accessible and that one had a bad toilet that Hubby I suspect has already fixed since I do know they were picking up the appropriate parts at the discount store where they also were picking up groceries, since Mom neglected to get those. All she had in the frig was some eggs, milk and frozen chicken in her freezer compartment.
Now some might think that this might be because of unforeseen financial difficulties, but it is definitely NOT the case. Mom is quite solvent with pensions, stocks, bonds, real-estate, investments and a fully paid for condo that is worth a few hundred thousand.
So what gives you ask? She is not well and apparently from all logical information she is suffering from OCD or Obsessive Compulsive disorder, which manifests itself in hoarding, which is treatable; if she is willing to go the route with anti-depressants and major counseling.
Today I spoke with eldercare (www.eldercare.gov) in her area; somehow she was already in their system.
Apparently, someone from her senior center happened to mention that she was having difficulty feeding herself.
Not true, she can feed herself fine she just doesn’t feel grocery shopping is necessary.
She wants freebies like today, a free lecture and lunch was how my Hubby got something to eat, and the only transportation was a friend and her husband from her senior group who also took them to the discount store after, since Mom still hasn’t found her registration or insurance card for her car in her garage!

Hubby is quite upset with his Mom’s situation, but he and I are not giving up on her yet!
She wants to live on her own, and by all means we want what she wants for herself…independence, but realistically she needs some help.
And she has to decide that is what she will have to do in order to keep that independence.
It is evident that no one but Hubby and his sister have entered her home in quite some time, she visits her friends, or like to today she waited for their car in front of her home and went outside to hop in their car!
I at least think that no one else is aware of what she is going through or something would have been done to help her, and I don’t mean how her daughter was trying to by putting her away, besides that was helping Sissy more than Mom, that’s way too over the top for what should be done!
What’s needed more than anything is medication and counseling and an in house intervention.
She only seems to save papers not garbage and pets, but still in overwhelming amounts and also I would think a fire hazard. They must be removed.

I can only hope that the case worker that was supposed to meet with Mom last month and apparently didn’t will contact Hubby before he leaves next week! I have her number for Hubby to call her and he will most likely have to on Monday!

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

You don't realize how much you miss someone until they are gone...

I know it has only been since this morning but I miss Hubby!
There I’ve said it.
Silly I do know, but since he’s been retired these last three years we have not been apart except when I was in the hospital for three nights, but he was there daily for hours at a time.
You all are either not surprised or laughing uncontrollably since you may have never had a relationship that was this way I suspect; the laughers that is.
It’s not like he has been incommunicado or anything; he has called me on his cell phone at least five times already today!

Maybe it’s the fact that poor little Skipper has been lying on the back of the couch most of the day staring out the window waiting for him to come home…It’s hard to explain to a dog that Daddy won’t be back for a week.

Skipper did his usual voraciously eating display of his food at the moment that Hubby went to say goodbye, but he (Skipper) suffers terribly from separation anxiety, always has; he hates us to say goodbye, even to go to the store.

I blame his hurricane experience that he went through as a young pup, screwing his emotions up. He’s still not thrilled with thunder storms either, but he was just five and half months old when Hurricane Charley hit us here with all its devastation.
After all I still have issues too!

Hopefully, Skipper will come down from his perch long enough to go out and do his euphemistic ‘business’, you know what I mean, oh darn, poop and wee!
Now that was very grown up of me, but you get the point.

Anybody have any ideas how to handle this strange situation with Skipper?
Hubby said that he was just as bad when I had been hospitalized last April, and said that he had kept looking for me in our bed and elsewhere throughout the house and outside too! But that was only three days that Hubby had to deal with it; I have a week… He just came to me to huddle behind me on this computer chair; he does that on the dining chair too. I guess he is taking a break from his watch out the window.

Today I also adjusted my eating to those boxed meals I mentioned, so far I had a Weight watcher’s Enchilada for lunch, and a Lean Cuisine steak tips Dijon for dinner, not bad, I know.
I suppose while grocery shopping I decided that I might as well try all the professionals in the field of dietary restrictive menus. I have eight more left from a few others.

Skipper has returned to his window watch…

On that worrisome note I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step... and transgressions

Confucius said that, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”; but was he being literal or metaphoric?
Interpretation is either or I would say.
But in my Hubby’s case it is literal and he has succumbed to a very slight apprehension, which I really wish that I could waylay, and make it all OK for him not to have concern.
But that is a normal reaction when anybody is flying after several years of not.

And as for Tiger Woods… he has decided to become cryptic in his explanation of his car crash incident’s causes. He has said that he has apologized to his family for his transgressions?

“Main Entry: transgression
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
Results
infringement or violation of a law, command, or duty b. the spread of the sea over land areas and the consequent unconformable deposit of sediments on older rocks.”

Thanks to Merriam Webster’s dictionary definition that is as clear as mud.

The media once again has exploited his true confession with so-called proof, by incrimination of a young woman’s affair with the young golf pro by playing his voice mail indicating that there was a relationship over and over again. How awful for Tiger’s wife and two young children. And shame on you Tiger for doing that if it is true, but you are no more perfect than any other human being, and we should all remember that and not be so judgmental.

The main thing is that you manned up and confessed and are now in a healing process with your own family. My only hope for you is that you will never ever do it again and that your wife will look past this and that she will try to forgive you. And I do know if you are sincere she will if true love prevails for you both, and don’t forget those adorable two children that need you!

Earlier this week I suggested to you to do what your Dad would do in this horrendous situation, well I think he is smiling down on you now for being truthful in the end. Of course he is more than likely shaking his head in disgust about what you did, but we all know that if we can learn from our mistakes, and never repeat those mistakes, then we are very decent people and there is hope for you, since you do come from good people and you do know that! So behave young man like you were taught, and use that self control, which not only works in your sports field, but in life too! And practice makes perfect, but look who I am telling that to.

On that motherly advice I will bid you all a good night and to all count your blessings and I will too!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The process of preparation has begun...

The first of all that it takes to make me be able to hunker down for the week’s time Hubby will be away has begun today.
We went to the grocery and got me some easy to prepare dietetic types of frozen meals for one. As well as stocking up on fresh fruit and veggies that also will be helpful while he is on his mission. Perhaps without Hubby around I will now be able to lose some weight, ha!
Tomorrow Skipper and Hubby will both be getting their haircuts; not that, that has anything to do with the parental well being operation ability to proceed in any way shape or form, but they both look a little bit shabby or shaggy in that area. You know what I mean; and it creates a more relaxing day the day before the journey.
The packing has been well underway and had basically been completed with two small carryon cases. This way Hubby won’t have to wait for his luggage on that darn carousel. Believe me for a short trip like he’s going on it’s the best way to travel.
I did misspeak slightly…
Although, I have never lived alone I did travel alone while a district manager and had to stay occasionally in farther away locations overnight, and then as a college student I did have the pleasure of getting to study for a while in Europe. And most recently I have been on over night or a few days trips in state and to Tennessee for the arthritis foundation not to mention the few times I flew back to go to NJ for my parent’s business back in the 1980’s and to one of my aunts funerals around then; other than that …accept when Hubby was gone for two weeks with his Explorer Scouts to the competitions in Arizona a few years ago. So I guess I have been alone before when I really think about it, but I was actually pretty healthy then, between things since I do have the relapsing and remitting type of MS.

Being alone is not something that I fear.
After all I don’t live in a backwoods away from the world environment; I live in a suburban area that all I have to do in case of an emergency is to dial 911 for assistance.
Our neighbors across the canal were made aware of Hubby going soon and also will be there for me by checking on me or to call if need be which is really very nice of them.
Hopefully that won’t be anything I will need to do.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Monday, November 30, 2009

Dear Tiger Woods:

Hello Mr. Woods, you don't know me but I have been somewhat of a fan of your sport’s abilities since you began your career at that very young age.

As a mother of two young adult men, one older than you and the other one not much younger than you, just about two months; I have always been impressed with your love of family, and your natural ability to play golf with perfection and to choose wisely in all that you have accomplished professionally.

That is why your recent automobile crash, unfortunately in the public’s view made me terribly surprised that you felt it necessary to allow the stupidity of tongues to wag relentlessly when with one short interview with you that could all be put to rest.
You see, most everyone believes that you are a public figure, which is true, you do know that.

Coming forward to explain and waylay any foolishness could very easily be rectified with you just telling everyone what actually happened, not all are curious with an agenda; I truly believe many just care about you and your welfare, as I do as a fan.
I’m sure that once you and your family have discussed it that is what you will do, but the longer you wait the more than likely more speculation will be causing you more grief.

I think that your honesty is expected as you have proved to always speak your mind.

I lost my Dad at the age of 35, and he to me was also a great man like your Dad was to you, and so whenever I have a dilemma I wonder what he would do in the situation, and I try for that. Maybe that could help you now with your decisions? Let’s put it this way; it couldn’t hurt.

That is all I want to say, as a mother I wish you a speedy recovery and as a fan too!


Take care be well,
Sincerely,
T

Sunday, November 29, 2009

SHUT UP!

You heard right, I said “SHUT UP!”
Now in the old days if I said that to anyone especially a parent I would be in way big trouble; to them it was like using expletives and showing strong disrespect!
But today people use it conversationally to express they're emotion in not truly believing what you may have just said; as simple as that.
In the old days those two simplistic words expressed disgust in someone speaking about something extraordinarily too long or with too much unnecessary information and telling them to stop, but in a very rude way.

The reason I used those two words in my title was to perhaps shock you a little and get your attention; did it work?
If you are reading this I suppose it did!
Any-who excuse all the mistakes that I have been making lately, there have been a wee bit more than in even my recent past, you see my eyes are slightly worse, vision wise and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
“Pity the fool” that’s how that ridiculous saying goes, but I am no one’s fool and I want no one’s pity, you betcha that is true, true, true!

Now on with other matters of the today’s day it was pretty quiet as you probably have figured out from all this filler nonsense that I have written. But I did accomplish a few loads of wash while goofing off and playing an online game.

Hubby even made the turkey marathon of eating disappear temporarily by offering to pick up burgers from the golden arches; am I a queen or what? LOL

When he left on his mission I turned to say goodbye, but rolled this computer chair over my left tootsie’s big toe, and got it caught under it, and I could hear that Hubby was already electronically putting the garage door down from within the car! I took a deep breath and said to myself I can do this, and I stood up while holding onto the desk, and jostled my unglamorously injured big toe from its entrapment. I waited for the pain and blood to ooze and it came soon, and did not disappoint at all.
Once over the initial miniscule shock I hobble into the bathroom, found the peroxide, antibiotic cream, and the band aid box and began to issue emergency aide to myself.
See, I am still capable! No pity here.
So long as no one moves my stuff from where I originally put it I will be doing just fine; you betcha!

New topic our lovely neighbors loaned Hubby some books written by an author that we both enjoy, but guess what the topic in the one Hubby chose to read first is, it starts out with a plane crash, not too good a choice for someone who will be flying this week and was never that fond of the idea! Oh well, he laughed after telling me.
Let us all (pray, hope wish or whatever you do in these cases, and thanks upfront), that all will go smoothly for him and his Mom on his short trip up and back from cold country!

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Brrrrrrrrr, and brrrrrrrrrrrr, and brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

I do know that the above expression is not grammatically correct, but even so it is accurate. Here in the Sunshine State it has become temporarily very cold!
Last night it was actually in the fifties, and today it never ever made it up into the seventies, would you believe? I know…that isn’t supposed to happen here, we even put the heat on!

You aren’t too sympathetic though I bet, huh, all of the rest of you people are lucky if you get our lows for your highs, am I right?
Well, that would explain the lack of concern for us fellow Americans the southern branch.

It was all of your choices to be up there in that cold, mine on the other hand was to be here in the southern belt in the warmth and sunshine, and right now I feel gypped.
Do you all know that expression that you get what you pay for?
Well, that doesn’t apply here, LOL!

If that were the case we would have tons of sunshine and warmth always after twenty-three plus years that we have been paying to live here!

Gosh, just think about it if we could pay for our weather like we do everything else, do you think we could special order perfection?
No hurricanes, floods, snowstorms, ice storms, windstorms, mudslides, tornadoes you name it everyday the same beautiful weather day in and day out, wow, wouldn’t that be something?

Maybe it would be a bit boring, huh?
Yes, and we all would have nothing so-called uncontroversial to discuss at family gatherings and the like, when all else causes conflict and arguments, we must have the weather to talk about.
If it was always the same day after day that wouldn’t be much fun would it?
So the powers who be, who make our weather be it the weather genies, deities if you so believe, or the mystical weather gurus who dance the forecasts into our lives or whomever; they are apparently there for our amusement and entertainment to be able to also discuss non fighting material to be presented at any and all social events for opening conversation starters.

So now we know the true reason for the differences in the weather and regional discussions to take place hopefully without any menacing from those differences, OK?

I am so glad that we could clear that up for all of us through deductive reasoning, and who of you thought that Arthur Conan Doyle was dead?

On that crazy note I will bid you all good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Ordinarily I am too outspoken, and today was no different...

Many of you must have noticed by now that I am no shrinking violet in the opinion department, and so when my Bro-in-Law called today it took all my gumption to speak softly, not too loudly to be heard over Hubby’s and his conversation. Shocker that he called at all and an extremely rare occasion, are you all wondering why? Well, he called Mom, yes I know. And according to her this also doesn’t occur too often, but he did, and Mom told him that Hubby was going up there to help her straighten out her things. Bro had his alarms go off and needed to know specifics apparently, and so hubby spilled the beans about what Sissy had said and done and that some of it implicated him, Bro too, in her conspiracy!

He was upset and so Hubby sent him the email from Sissy that spelled it all out. He called back to say that he did say much of it but it was all taken out of context.
Boy, what a tangle web we weave when we practice to deceive!
But he might be telling the truth, but who knows at this point, actions speak louder than words.

And he did nothing, while Sissy created havoc for Mom all over the place and in every avenue of her life, removing furniture, her car, money, stocks and bonds, even drugging her to believe she could have something wrong with her! But we have been down this road before, so sorry that I seem to be revisiting this arena nightly.
Until it is all fixed, it will be on my topic list as a priority.

Hubby’s priorities will be many.
He will try to organize all of her confusion, and then make her safe with some type of alert system, and get her long distance phone service so she can make calls to us as well as receive them, and set up her laundry to be more accessible. Right now it is in her basement and she does have some balance issues and those steps are so dangerous she has to be driven to a Laundromat. There has to be a better way for a nearly eighty-nine year old to accomplish everyday tasks. Also to see if there are some adult services to check in on her through her local counsel on aging or granny nannies, just so she feels safe always, and can still maintain her home and lifestyle.

On that concerned note I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Turkey days come and turkey days go... and this one went...

As Thanksgiving comes to an end for this year this one we can put down in the record books as being… all right; when all was said and done.
Not that we had an enormous bunch of people over for guests or anything of the such, but the miniscule dinner that was prepared fortunately nothing at all went wrong; which in my book is somewhat of a blessing in its own right.

Our day of thanks was marked by tiny ness in the quantity of guests, besides Hubby and myself we at the last moment invited the single person from across the street when we both noticed that she was home and there were no other cars there to celebrate this auspicious occasion with her.

Hubby and I ate early around three, and were wondering where our guest was.
About five-ish she called to say that she had fallen asleep and asked for our forgiveness, of course we could forgive and we had quite a bit of leftovers anyway. Come on over I said whenever for we are here for the duration, and after all isn’t that a big part of what this day is all about being thankful and forgiveness too!

Mom was enjoying her Thanksgiving way up in Pennsylvania with her neighbors too, and number one son was spending the day with his girlfriend who made dinner way up where they are about two and half hours away.
So all was right with the world and all was happiness individually or with family and friends what more could anyone wish for?
Being realistic that is all any of us can be happy for each other no matter where or with whom.

And so to my readership I too wish that you too had a very pleasant celebration today and even if it wasn't what we used to think as the way it all should be, hopefully that it was happy and calm and with people you had some fondness for.
That’s the way we should all think happiness is not to be dealt in one certain form or consistency it should be flexible, and then we will all know what it truly is… acceptance of not always the usual and ready for anything!

On that note I will once again bid you all a very happy good night and to all of you tonight would be a great night to start count those blessings if you haven’t been and we will too!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Events have changed...

Hubby has now made airline reservations for his big trip to his Mom’s, and he will be leaving next week for a week. He has found a reasonable rate to go from Southwest Airlines, and will drive to the airport in Fort Myers and leave our car in long term parking there. I don’t drive so it doesn’t matter to me, and it will be there for him when he arrives home. And Mom said she will be putting the insurance back on her car for him to drive her around to accomplish whatever needs to be done while there.

We will be putting our heads together briefly to compose a to-do list for what needs to be done in the week that he will be there.
Mom has complained about her junk-mail piling up, so that should be gone through and appropriately disposed of.
Next: is her personal papers and assets that needed to be filed and checked for their appropriate dating and where it all goes more than likely into a new filing system that Hubby will probably be getting for her while there.

Her neighbor will be picking Hubby up from the airport.
That also will be very helpful.

I suppose it is a big relief knowing Hubby won’t be driving all that way by himself.
But if you know me I will still be worrying about this and that anyway.

Please understand that the last time I was all by myself was quite a while ago, and so that in itself is a bit scary, but I’ve got you all there, right?

Time passes and life goes on but growing up is hard to do when you basically have never lived alone. I commuted to college from my parents home, got married from my parents home, thus never have lived alone!

And so I will look at my week as somewhat of an adventure with challenges…fortunately I do still have somewhat of a brain, although some may argue that point.

More questions: what will Sissy do now that Mom has changed the will successfully and has made Hubby in charge and more than that, but if I tell you I would have to kill you! (Mom’s decision, by the way! All Hubby said to her is that she should do what she WANTS, not what somebody else does!)
Hope Hubby knows how to call the authorities, what am I crazy? (Sissy probably does think that I am and that everyone else is too who doesn’t agree with her, LOL)
Hubby’s a retired cop; of course he does! Just in case, it’s 911! (Kidding of course)

All of this cloak and dagger prospects makes me wonder though… going in stealth and leaving the same way. I feel like telling him this is his assignment if he wishes to complete it he should destroy this file once he has read it. Sound familiar? I believe Mission Impossible, although I hope his is possible to complete within his allotted time period, we can only HOPE!

On this note of mystery and suspense I will acknowledge that you should be bidding good night to all and to count those blessings and we will too!

Speaking My Mind: Which way will the war go?

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