Saturday, April 11, 2009

I can no longer multi task either!

Sad, but true I was trying to IM my long lost cousin while I accepted my niece as a new friend on Facebook, but I screwed up both. Actually Facebook called my cell to verify who I was since when I filled out those letters that they ask you to copy I goofed I suppose and they were rightfully concerned. All in all it finally worked out, I think.

And I had, had such a nice surprise this morning in an email from that cousin; when we were kids we were so close we were even in the same classes in elementary and junior high school, also as sophomores in high school, but I moved after that and finished high school in a town a few miles away. We are only three weeks apart in age!
My cousin is an instructor in ultrasound in Maryland at a famous university in the medical department. She was always a smarty pants. And could she write! When we were just little kids she would write one story after another on the playground and pass the story around for all of us to read; she couldn’t write fast enough as far as any of us were concerned!
So far she has no idea that I also write since at that time aside from a play that I wrote and produced in seventh grade that did get me an, ‘A’ I never ever showed an interest in front of her.
She was super smart, you know the type, and even then when around extremely intelligent people I became intimidated.
But I have been published a few times, but I am sure she has gotten into non-fiction papers with her current background resume.
She too has been married for quite some time and has three adult children (an oxymoron), girls if I recall hearing correctly, and three grandchildren she told me on our short conversation on IM.
It is such a shame that we had lost contact we did have quite a bit of fun even as young adults she used to come over to our first apartment, prior to our kids, and her marriage.
Anyway, now at least we have touched base.
It will be great to catch up with one another in the near future.

And I will try hard not to ask her to look at this Blog.
I would die a thousand deaths of embarrassments compared to her writings this is garbage.
If not for content then for grammatical mistakes that I do know are rampant.
I have always said that I’m not that smart, but not that dumb either I was last tested at 120 IQ.
I have to keep reminding myself, but I suppose I am in awe of the truly smart, MENSA smart I had two friends that belonged, one I still keep in contact with.
Some people go all cottony in the mouth when they meet famous people…with me its brilliant people that do that to me, I become a babbling idiot.
I couldn’t even read a poem that my writing workshop professor had sent to the Visual Arts Center on a local level. When I stared at all those extremely artistic people staring back at me I froze. Give me a dance recital, a choral performance or piano recital, even a part in a play a musical preferably I would shine, almost be obnoxious with trying to steal the show.
But intellectuals I’m crazy bonkers flipper outer.
I truly believe they can tell that I don’t belong amongst them.
And my friend and professor saw for herself when I had to introduce a doctor at a luncheon, no problem, and yes he was smart but I guess not super smart, no insult intended.
I even had no problem with all those fashion shows I did the color commentary on for the non profits.
So it’s got to be just those big brainy people that scare me.

Any-who enough of that we were friends, more than cousins and that would be nice to be again.

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

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