Sunday, January 11, 2009

Three of me

Days ago I mentioned about going online with a made up name to play a game without being stalked or caring if I won or lost. And for the heck of it I Googled the name to find out if there were possibly others with the same one and sure enough there was.
Any-who my hubby reminded me that now I have three identities including this one since in reality Tobi is my alias or more preferably sounding my pseudonym ( authors use them all of the time without concern), which by the way does mean the same thing. So now the sanity question comes up, only kidding I do not suffer from that very serious disorder called Disassociate Identity Disorder or DID, which is the other name for multiple personality disorder or Sybil.
None of those, but some women may pretend they have many different personalities, after all we are taught from an early age on to be actresses.
Show your feelings, don’t show your feelings, bottle them up, oh no express them!
Be good little girls, listen, no speak up don’t be shy.
As confusing as all that is it does prepare most of us for adulthood.

As I suffer through another viral day of nose stuffiness and ribcage pain so debilitating every-time I cough just a little bit I feel I must sit down or pass out.
I received some emails today that I wasn’t sure on how to respond to or if it was at all necessary to answer them.
The first was from our neighbor across the canal telling us that our other neighbor adjacent to her had been taken to the hospital due to congestive heart failure.
He is a lovely older man that will be eighty-one, hopefully the 21st of this month, and she mentioned that with a positive attitude that she would like us all to get together on the 23rd for a dinner with another couple that lives by them and to keep that date open.
But she also reminded us of the neighbor that lived across the street from them was hospitalized last year with the same ailment, but unfortunately passed away.
Wow, I have to think on that one.

Meanwhile, the other email that was informative, and we were waiting to hear about, was from my brother-in-law letting us know that he and his wife and youngest daughter and her family were fine.
Only problem was that his eldest daughter was the one with her three daughters in the area where the flooding is in Washington State where they all live, but it was just a three day inconvenience of closing a main thoroughfare.
He also reminded us that they live in a valley and are protected from all horrible weather by Mount Rainier. Wait a minute! Isn’t that the same Mount Rainier that has a couple of volcanoes? And he feels protected, well, who am I to say anything when I live in hurricane country. For the heck of it I just went to Wikipedia and found that they have the same blue and white signs we do for our hurricane evacuation, but theirs say volcanic eruption evacuation, anyway according to what I read most eruptions were in the 1800’s when they had seven over many years. As of 2008, there was no evidence of an imminent eruption. However, an eruption could be devastating for all areas surrounding the volcano. Mudslides called Lahars pose the most risk to life and property, well, I am so glad they feel protected by Mount Rainier. Not only is there much ice atop the volcano, the volcano is also slowly being weakened by hydrothermal activity.
Oh well, I do hope that they will be fine, really.
You see how great the Internet is all this information at the click of a mouse I truly do love it all.

Well, good night to all and to all be aware of your surroundings and even play pretend sometimes, playing is not just for kids!

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