Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Truth

Why is the truth so elusive for some and so downright simple for others to say?
Many say it’s because some feel others are too weak to accept the truth and so they sugar coat it thinking I don’t want to hurt their feelings.

Come on… the world and people in general have been through so much to date and we are all getting tougher and learning how to accept the occasional inevitable.
Or is it fear of causing jealousy?
Perhaps being secretive is just a way to hide the actual real reason for doing something, oh and not saying something about something that should be told is just as good as lying in my book!
Whatever the reason people lie; it has always baffled me.
Since I personally have never been very good at doing it!
Oh sure, I tried like everyone else but when all was said and done I came clean and said what it was tried and true anyway, eventually…
How odd to know people that do it so well and to be related to such people like that and that is one thing I can’t take is when someone lies to me it makes me oh so sad.
It’s called ‘a dirty little lie’ for a reason, right?
And the worst of it is when it happens to you personally without knowing cause; it makes you unable to trust people sadly.
People who are related or are true friends deserve to be open and honest with one another, right?
Am I such a Pollyanna to want everyone to play nice?
Well, if not nice; honestly?
I suppose this topic during the holiday season is getting old fast.
But we all lie on occasion, but mostly to the wee ones, huh? (Wink)
You know what I mean, and that is harmless and quite gratifying to a point to see the smiles on the children’s faces when they believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny or what-have-you.
That’s more like telling a fantasy story though with all the characters involved in the occasion.
But sometimes I wonder with all those icons that man/woman created to represent those holidays wouldn’t it be more beneficial to just celebrate the religious aspects of them?
And say to the children that all those symbols of the holidays were created to make it have a fun side and to sell lotsa of things; which in reality we all know they were.
Shades of ‘Miracle on 34th Street’, there sorry folks!
But we all celebrate different holidays around the world which all have their symbols to represent different things other than the actual real reason we do celebrate them.

As silly as this must seem to many then must I beg to ask; why is lying a sin in so many religions?
All these good people who follow their all mighty man or woman or symbol have the desire to not speak the truth and probably lie daily.
Catholics go to confession to be forgiven and Jews cast their sins into the water during their high holy days… so I suppose the almighty has knowledge that we as human beings are imperfect, of course we are!
So why am I so judgmental I ask you?
Because it’s personal and my feelings are hurt the most when I find out that I have been lied to!
I guess this is CRAZY part TWO! LOL!
PS the liars were not living in this household and not our sons, although the culprits used our home for their hotel while they built theirs.
But other relatives that I believed were telling me the truth.

I hear you all saying…GROW UP!
This is the way of the world, people lie, get over it…!
I know I will but it is still raw because it is only a few days old.
Another good thing is as human beings we are all resilient!
Me being one of those who forgives and forgets, but some hold grudges I have never ever done that.
I have renewed friendships over weird horrible hurts, but some people aren’t willing to forgive.
Forgiving may be the hardest thing for some to do but not for me.
The hard part is when the other party or parties doesn’t want to come half of the way to meet up for the forgiveness. Then it cannot work, and some people are like that I have sadly found in this life span that is way too short to not forgive, got that?

On this still not funny blog tonight I will stop once again, but boy it sure feels good to release some of those feelings and perhaps get some feedback from any of you?
Since I am sure many have been lied to and were not very happy about it when you found out and I wonder how you handled it?

On that sharing the thought comment I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

Please be here or be square tomorrow night, OK?

PS the new medication has me feeling much better now!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Crazy!

Today was just that, CRAZY!
From the morning to this evening all things crazy have been going on.
All last night it was pretty ghastly my stomach did not let up with its eruptions of no desires to be full of anything.
Consequently between my now swollen still very sore face and one heck of a belly ache again sleep was not forthcoming and me and Betty are becoming fast friends with the nurse call thingy I had to do once again this time at two A.M.

She concluded like all others since that the pain meds were the culprit causing the problem and told me not to take them anymore and of course I figured that one out right away and then suggested that I call back the dental surgeon in the morning to call in a nauseas medication for me; and so knowing that the dental doc’s office opened at eight A.M. I called then.
The receptionist said that the dentist was due in at nine and she would ask her then, I said OK only one more hour I can hold on for relief that long.
Ten o’clock came and went and still no call back and finally at ten thirty the receptionist called back saying that the dentist said that she doesn’t call in stomach medication that I should call my primary physician and have them do it.
Well, I really don’t have one and so I went berserk!
I think I may have to find another dentist who works cheap.
Now what?
I couldn’t even hold water down, and so I called my last resort… the free clinic who I had been to only once before but they were very understanding and helpful with ideas in the form of other numbers to call plus an evening appointment if all else failed.
And it did, and so at five o’clock this evening when I had taken no more pain meds for more than fourteen hours but had managed to swallow the penicillin pill for the four o’clock dose, you see I didn’t take any other of my oral meds for fear they would be wasted in la toilette bowl, but I did get my Copaxone shot of course! But I knew the importance of the antibiotic to save the day!
Only within minutes of swallowing it the burning and nauseas returned and so we made sure we got to that appointment for fear of another night of no sleep.
And Hubby is at the pharmacy now waiting on my newest drug for hopeful pleasantry of sleep causing.
And in the somnambulistic state for over a week now I wrote a scathing letter to my cousins of nearby but have not seen for over a year now, it felt good when I did it but although I meant every word I suspect I would not have been as thoughtless if my brain had been more rested, perhaps? Although, I did it last night too to my other cousin, but who needs family, HA! I am so bad.
You know this not sleeping thing due to pain and stomach explosions is no fun and does not allow for clear or concise thinking or scrawling…MY BAD!
Oh well, no fixing this…I fear.

On those stupidities reigning comments that I spread around without thought or care, and I will wish you all better than me for a family member and to count your blessings and share your overages and we will take another look around for ours, HUH?

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Wrong!

Last night I confessed that I checked online to see what was causing my mouth problems and I was wrong.
Yep, I was.
Since today I could no longer wait with all the pain to go until tomorrow to the dental office and so I took the emergency route instead and ended up going today.

You see, I was wrong about the diagnosis of only having ONE abscessed tooth since it turns out that I had TWO! Numerically in the mouth numbers ‘14 and 19’, directly above and below one another on the same left side of my mouth towards the back!
I told you it was one helluva BIG OUCH!

And so oral surgery was performed today, needless to say the Novocain is wearing off and the pain, even though I was given the hard stuff, ‘Hydrocordone 5 500 MG’ (to take every six to eight hours, the first 5 stands for bit/acetaminophen) as well as Penicillin 500 MG (4X a day), which I took both of them nearly two hours ago, but for some unknown reason I am now once again in major OUCH LAND!

Is there no rest for the weary?

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid… I was this close (my finger tips, thumb and pointer, are actually touching) to having much more serious issues to deal with learning from the NIH; the National Institute for Health has info on the consequences I just missed developing. And so did the dental tech tell me, brain infection, bone infection and on and on and on…

Any-who, my upper tooth, number 14, was drained for that infection, which will eventually have a root canal, but number 19 the bottom one was beyond salvaging and needed to be extracted as well as its root bone and I had a cadaver bone grafted there for a future stem and implant, whoa, you see what I mean nasty!

I knew that it would be bad but never this bad, when all is said and done we are also talking financially draining of over FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Just what was done today was $1672 that was paid from my Care Credit account that is a no interest account for eighteen months, paying off $93 a month to keep from paying any interest, not too bad.
But that is the same account that I am still paying off my cataract surgery from, which is nearly half done with that one, darn this is still no fun!
Hopefully, the remainder of work will be done over several months and we will manage somehow…
Anyone want to pay me for this drivel?
I sure could use the money now.

Any-who…
I am so pooped now, as you can well imagine, not sleeping decently for a week, and tonight doesn’t appear to look too good for any dreamland either.

Well, I guess I didn’t keep that promise of more entertaining blogging yet, but we have weeks and months now that I was given the prospect of living once again longer, a reprieve once more!

On that trying so hard to be more positive ending to my day, for I think I will try to hit the hay (go to sleep) for our international peeps (people). Oddly enough my one cousin seemed to not realize that ‘peeps’, was just a slang term for ‘people’; since she accused me of using a dirty word! And this is my wordsmith one, cousin that is, believe it or not a translator by profession?
Oh well, she does deal with ‘proper language’, not this hack stuff!

So curiosity aside on why people do what they do I will like to wish all my fine readership a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time PLEASE be here or be square, OK?

PS If your glands are swollen and your mouth hurts get to the doctor fast, please don’t be stupid like I was!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Diagnosis

Is it true that only a hypochondriac self diagnoses?
Who cares, let’s put it this way my mouth/tooth/glands/throat thingy is not any better and I took it upon myself to try online how to relieve it.
And sure enough it has been narrowed down to one thing, but I bet many have figured it out before I did.
It appears that I may have a simple case of an abscess tooth!
Now, it’s not that simple when you are going through it and anyone who has will vouch for me including Hubby!
What through me is I still don’t have any fever, but then again I have been taking aspirin for the pain and I suspect that could be why.

There are too many possibilities when one ignores the side affects of not taking care of this problem as soon as possible, and boy are they scary!
But that doctor appointment I have Monday is for a DDS, a dentist!
Why do things seem to happen during the holiday season, I ask you all?
Who needs the added aggravation and additional expense?
Just when I take care of one problem another seems to occur.

Moving on…
Any-who…
Back to our computer…OH NO! I can hear you all saying, now what?
Well, not that much… our computer has been functioning incredibly and I asked Hubby if he would be kind enough to reinstall our printer and scanner while I made terrific turkey soup!
He did the scanner first, we had the re-install discs for both…well he put the printer one in lastly and a horrendous noise emanated from the disc drive not unlike a poor kitty being mauled by some massive predator; and then a strange jingling sound not unlike loose change going in to a metal bowl!
Yep, you got that right the disc drive ate the printer disc and destroyed itself in the process!
Argh……… what can I say?
Another day another issue to handle and Hubby stepped up to the plate and shut down the computer, got the driver open, and took the whole mess out into the garage to try to solder the broken wire, and then called the Geek Squad, and asked about its feasibility of being repaired and they said its better to replace it since it only is about fifty bucks, and even conferred with number one son too.
Meanwhile I had a thought with my concern over not having a printer …what if the manufacturer’s site had free downloads and they did! So Hubby got the whole shebang installed and as soon as the month begins financially we will set aside monies (again) for our newest repair, which is not so immediate anymore.

On that somewhat brighter note I will hope for the rest of your holiday weekend to go better than ours, although, you know it could be worse…this isn’t so bad…gosh I don’t want to verbalize what could make it any nastier since I am slightly superstitious…
So I will move on to where I was going to wishing you all a very happy good night and to all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
So please dear friends and family next time be here or be square, and perhaps I will eventually become more entertaining once again?

Friday, November 26, 2010

OUCH!

You heard that right.
At this very moment I am in quite a bit of pain, and also on hold to have this situation resolved not before Monday morning, my doctor appointment.

Yes, this is another one of those … getting old things.
Sorry about this topic taking over.
But little else has been able to clear my brain to allow other things in.

As you can see we are happily on the net due to the marvelous techs at Microsoft!
For nearly three hours this morning they gave it their all and finally got our IE8 installed.
Now my life on this thing is in super speed literally, things are moving at the blink of an eye…!
So fast so that when I posted something and it went, it was faster than the old brain receiving the concept and so I automatically thought that it had not gone at all… wow industrial strength, I think that ‘Speedy Gonzalez’, has taken over my keyboard et al!

Moving on…
Any-who…

Our Montreal neighbors came by for a visit too, while the procedure of gaining entrée into the realm of motor speedways… and highways of the Internet was still going on.
Sadly, it was not how I wanted to greet these fine neighbors who summer at their other home in the great northern hemisphere and who we hadn’t seen since last spring! I thought when I started at eight thirty A.M. that by our agreed upon visit time of eleven fifteen all would be done, but best laid plans and all once again...
I had to wake Hubby too so I could have him take over the phone just for me to shower and take my medications including doing my Copaxone shot, he was pooped from yesterday since he did most of the work with our turkey on the ‘barbie’ and all and all the festivities not to mention him staying up with me for a few nights of experimentation with other types of meds to fix my problem that proved to only be temporary fixes.
And so I was very rushed to be ready on time...
But I was ready and all done with my bodily necessities by the time they arrived, but not completely done with the computer being adjusted by those Micro pros, at the time they had been taking over the functions of it anyway; basically I was just monitoring it all at the time.


It appears my little joke about this mouth/gland/throat/tooth problem could very well prove to help me lose those unflattering LBS, after all, since whenever I try to eat that is when the pain is enhanced to those scales that the medicos ask you about, you know the ones… on a scale from one to ten how is yours?
Well, the best it has been since Sunday is a four or five and now anywhere from an eight to ten I would say!
And I am the woman who walked on a broken leg for a few days and then drove herself to the hospital!
I also was in labor with one of my pregnancies for nearly thirty hours, so I do know pain personally. And this is one heck of a BIG OW!

Sorry for the day after ‘the big one’ to be such ‘a me’, type of me day… complain, complain, complain…but I think I have created an art form for it, huh? At least a venue you have to admit, right? (Wink LOL! PLEASE!)

On that mixed revue type of blabbering I will wish you all a very pleasant and happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS hope you got there first for your run to the stores race!
PSS Our neighbors were here for just a right amount of time and we enjoyed seeing them.
They have the knack for always leaving you wanting more...
PSSS Mr. President please feel better I too have been there with stitches in the lip, only mine was from a dog bite and I had forty tiny ones by a plastic surgeon, hope yours come out as well as mine did, you need that great smile to stay intact since its your money maker, as the saying goes...

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving!

The day was one of quiet anticipation and finally joy and then exhaustion.
But to be honest aren’t all holidays pretty much the same?
We all hope for and look so much forward to the day of all the year that we hope something… special will happen, but in reality the waiting and desire does not always match up to our thought processes which are usually a wee bit beyond reality and more so than the actuality?

As you might have noticed from my ghastly words of gibberish, ok over explanation then, I am beyond gloriously tired and very nearly too close to the walking dead of fatigue; how awful a statement is that?
Sorry but weariness in this severe strength does have that affect on me.

Moving on though…
To be most honest, the day was extremely tentative only in the respect that my ills had been so nasty the night before that they almost had me running to the hospital for relief.
And so in turn they did not allow me to sleep and no refreshing respite was forthcoming until I took somewhat drastic measures…
By calling one of those hospital nurse people that answer medical questions all night long, and once I informed her of what exactly was going on with my throat/glands swelling and or abscess tooth or medication causing possibly the problem she insisted that I go to the hospital before I had trouble breathing.
I asked her if ‘Benedryl’, the antihistamine might help if it was an allergic reaction… and she said… that could work!
But if it didn’t I should get to the hospital immediately!
And so I did take two the adult dosage and in within about an hour or so I was pleasantly in dreamland.

So now you all understand why the exhaustion and I tried my hardest not to say anything to number one son with his gal here, but Hubby blew my cover… and the cat was out of the bag before I could stop it and so I had no choice but to ‘fess-up’ (An old slang term for confessing) like they used to say in those really bad ‘B’ movies of the 1940’s.
And my not eating certain food was explained away appropriately!
I even made a joke about if this continues this could be just my way of shedding some of my nasty LBS!
And so all was ‘okey dokey’ (Folksy OKAY) and we continued to chat and number one even helped Hubby get us online at our new address and supersonic transport service called DSL!
And now we are like all you regular folk; no longer the poor relation on dial up!
WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE BEST OF THEM, YEA!

A true Thanksgiving story, NAH!

Onward and upward with silliness to continue for ever I do hope!

I would love to wish all who celebrated today a very happy THANKSGIVING and to ask you all to count those blessings with those loved ones and share those overages with the others and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Eve

The night before is the eve of a special day.

And tonight folks it is the United States of America’s night before Thanksgiving!

A holiday that has its origins in a feast shared by colonists and Native Americans at Plymouth Massachusetts in 1621; and so if wish for more info just copy and paste: http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm

But it is not an international holiday.

I was surprised to find that only a few countries celebrate it, Canada being one of them, but theirs is a month earlier than ours.

Live and learn.

Until recently I never thought about it, that is whether other countries felt the desire to party due the abundance of the harvest of crops.

But we have turned it into a being thankful for more than that, since that is the American way of doing things we so enjoy elaborating… and so children and adults alike have a tendency to say while seated at a long table, prior to consuming their bounty, what they are most thankful for.

It has nearly become a religious experience with much thoughtfulness of most comments.

Although of the years many take the time to be a wee bit silly.

Example: Being thankful for having a new alarm clock that is sure to wake them early enough to make it to the malls to be the first in line for ‘Black Friday’, the day after!

(For any international people who don’t know what ‘Black Friday’ is, it is the demarcation for the start of Christmas shopping!)

Or for being on the winning team in a sport or having the winning ticket for the lottery or thankful for not being the shortest in class or the tallest or… you get the idea, silly things.

But some people are thankful for health, love, family, succeeding at a job and the like.

Intriguing turn of events.

We as a nation have always been thankful for what has come our way in spite of devastating odds at times and I suppose if we all come around to realizing, if only once a year, but I am sure for most it occurs to them more, as much as daily.



I am pretty sure though this is just as refreshing to know that we all can find something to be thankful for once a year even if it is just a minute detail but special in its own way to us.



How the day become one of gluttony and football is beyond me… but I'm not that smart.

On that note of well, you know me...

Everyone please whether you celebrate the Thanks or the giving parts of the day... remember to count those blessings and share those overages...HEY WAIT! HOLD THE PRESSES! I ASK YOU TO CELEBRATE THANKS AND GIVING NIGHTLY RIGHT HERE! How about that? LOL!And of course we will too!

And so continue...GOOD JOB PEEPS!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Company

Tis the season to have what we all call company and what does that mean really?
And ‘company’ is for the sole purpose of enjoyment of others not of the immediate or perhaps of the immediate family and or friends circle that you do not see daily or regularly to spend some time with in your home or maybe even at theirs, but then you would be their company, got that?
Gotta love the concept and wonder who started it?
Company, I mean being it has so many meanings, visitors, a group of soldiers, a chartered commercial organization.
Gosh if I was not an English speaking person and knew what I meant I could possibly become confused, huh?
Who knows I could think we were going to be attacked by a bunch of soldiers or taken over by another business, ha!

Again I am so happy that I have grown up with this language although I must admit it still has a wondrous ability to confound me when I least expect it.
I know I am not that smart, but neither am I that dumb.

The type of visitors/company that we do love though is any!
That all inclusive family and friends, neighbors too type of Peeps!
It’s just that I wish at times they would not be so ceremonious about their comings and goings, you know what I mean?
Impromptu guests are sometimes the best.
You know the ones without too much fanfare.
But when they arrive the joy exudes from their being, which causes you to not want them to leave.
Gosh, it’s been ages since we felt that…but you all know I bet what I do mean, right?

These are people who are of the ilk of taking you as you are and are welcoming to what is new in your life as you truly are with theirs since the exchange of conversation is mutual to a fault, not really a fault but perhaps longer than either of you care to stop…a longing for that unadulterated love of a fellow human being who gets you and you them!
And tells you that they truly find you interesting and you them as well, simpatico, wow what a feeling!
Lovers feel that, and so do old friends.
But on occasion we have that with even our own family members, what a wonderful concept!
And yes that thing called love without question; in other words ‘acceptance’.

Some days lets face it we might have been at one time or another perhaps a little bit too judgmental of others from critiquing wardrobes, hairstyles, even tattoos or piercings, appearances in general; not to mention behavior or jobs or attitudes or educations. We as humans have a tendency to on occasion believe that we know the tried and true way to do this or wear that.
And so as the euphemistic, ‘they’ say, we all do.
Sadly some are more subtle than others, but lets’ admit it we do, do it!

And with the holiday season upon us I would like to make a suggestion to all of us human beings… to try and not comment on those differences that may irk us and just enjoy what you’ve got…people in your realm or vicinity of your giving loving selfless selves to be rewarded with a good listening ear and loving open heart and with as many hugs as you can stand or sit as in my case!
Those are the truly free welcoming gifts to all and probably the best remembered!

Oh and yes to my friend who sent the little anecdote forward about compassion, yes love is compassion when putting yourself in the other person’s place then you can really understand what they are going through; its as simple as that!

On that note of course of we all knew... I will bid you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and ask you to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?


PS Update on my swollen glands: this morning they were feeling better so I called my doc and told her that, but they have been hurting on and off all day long since so more aspirin and warm compresses seem to help. Since I have too many things to do for Thanksgiving for time for this additional ailment!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Hullabaloo

An interesting word that I am sure not many of this latest generation has heard of in recent years.
But to us ‘Baby Boomers’ it meant a TV show that was our MTV of the 1960’s along with Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and Shindig.
For more info copy and paste: wikipedia.org/wiki/Hullabaloo_(TV_series) -

But oddly enough those above reasons are not why I chose that word for tonight’s title.
It was its actual meaning of: ‘a din also uproar’.
I will allow the English majors to diagnose what type of word form it is, since me knowing its distinctive unusual connotation is enough for me to see its versatility.
And so I dusted it off and decided it was about time it came out of the basement or attic or perhaps just our closets of wherever unused words lie dormant and send it into my vocabulary web of controversy.
That’s a mouthful!
But I am more than sure you are intrigued to know where I am going from here, huh?

Last night I had a bit of bad luck health wise again I seemed to have acquired swollen glands but mostly on my left side of my neck and jaw.
And so this woman of needing to know persona logically ‘wanted to know’ what remedies one could find to fix the problem and if this might be another symptom of my MS?
And so I Googled 'Swollen Glands and MS', and ended up in one of those forums online discussions with others who also experienced this.
Many said it was due to their administering of the injections of Copaxone and others were tested for everything from the common flu to Lymphoma, scary!
Of course there is always that thought in anyone’s mind with this problem but I tried to go the sedate cautious route and so I contacted my support people, Shared Solutions, for my Copaxone, but it was Sunday night and so I didn’t get a hold of them until this morning and they said to call my Neuro and I did.
And she got back to me much sooner than I thought with her busy schedule.
We were grocery shopping for Thanksgiving when she called me on my cell in the store.
She disputed the comments of the forum but I said that the support people said that in the adverse reactions section of their PDF file said on page three that 7% reported Lymphadenopathy, swollen glands. She said that she felt that it would be according to what she read swollen glands on the side of the body like under my arm from where I was most recently injected, not in the neck or jaw.
I mentioned I had no fever and that I had, had my flu shot in September.
She said if it still is not better to come in tomorrow for a check up but to continue with the injections.
I said I hope it would be better since I was using aspirin, warm compresses and hot tea, and even hot chicken bouillon for my choices to contend with it.
Although, aspirin and me don’t get along too well since I have a sensitive stomach, but it did help me sleep last night with my warm compress too!
My Doc then said just call one way or another and I thought that was so nice of her.
Of course I agreed. Was this my uproar?

Pleasantly surprised was my other interesting happening of the day.
Around four thirty this afternoon I received a phone call.
But to my astonishment it was from the other side of the world!
One of my Facebook friends from all places called me from New Zealand! (11:30 A.M tomorrow there, when she called if you were wondering)
Why in the world would someone with a life and so far away from my one boring one contact me from a landline?
Apparently, she just had gotten a new international phone line and was contacting a few of us, her Facebook friends.
That was so nice to be included in that, but also totally unexpected, she did tell me how much she enjoys these Blogs, which I did of course appreciate, just sooo amazingly decent and kind of her. Still incredulous I do believe that is the farthest long distance call I have ever received!

This was my DIN!

On that tidbit of wow I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and be sure to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Assumptions

It was bound to happen sooner or later, huh?
The word that’s meaning can cause me to cringe.
We all have done it over the years assumed something about somebody.
Or just plain took the giant leap into reacting to what we had assumed!

I am not anymore depressed than anyone else in the world.
We are all naturally affected by what goes on around us in the home on the news or just life in general.
Did I ever tell any of you that I did have a few semesters of psychology?
Well, I did.
And in order for someone to be considered clinically depressed they must be overwhelmingly sad for long periods of time or suicidal or both.
So when we all have that quota of bad days that does not qualify us as being clinically depressed, OK?
Unless you are that way constantly, and for many months in a row with fatalistic thinking that encompasses your daily activities and creates a human being with no ability to change their attitude about life and that has given up.
Sadly, then you are someone who needs immediate intervention before you do harm to yourself or others.

My point is that although I have bad or what I call sad days and I am resilient enough to never ever have more than one or two in a row.
So most of the lovely cheerful notices (forwards) that I get about attitude are singing to the choir when or if it is meant for me to change my frown and turn it upside down! LOL!
You see I am the one who has been doing it for years!
Gotta love the forwards that I receive, some have been around for years and others are just different versions of the same old ones.
I have learned especially now not to forward most since I having all these technical problems, and because most who have been online have seen them all before.
Yesterday I received one of those urban legend ones about MS being not an actual ill but symptomatically caused by artificial sweeteners, and that was sent by a well meaning friend.
I first saw that one way back in 2005 or maybe earlier and quickly asked my well respected Multiple Sclerosis Neurologist about the possibility. He laughed and said no that it had been a joke for years and there was no truth in it.
I only wish that it was true, but the first time I saw it I was so concerned I read my artificial sweetener label and found out that mine didn’t even have the chemical composition of the one in question! Whew.
Then another well meaning person told me that all my medical problems were due to mold, and since we had any of it and all of it removed after the hurricane I was baffled.
Any-who, you gotta love the old wives tales that have come down from history, which in many cases have proven to be fact at some time in our time, interesting, huh?
So one never really knows, does one?

And so over the last several years I always ask the people of that profession for information and never ever assume that what my well meaning laymen friends tell me is true unless I can back it up with factual info from the ones who studied it for years!
Sorry folks, but I do respect your concern.

On the lighter side: On Friday with all my time on my hands I spoke on the phone, cell with all those roll over minutes, to my cousin who also has MS, the one in Ohio. She did not have a very good recent report form her Neuro. Apparently, her latest MRI showed more lesions than before, and she had been off all MS medication for nearly seven months due to her other meds being too dangerous and that is why they were stopped. Her Neuro, who just so happens to be a woman like mine is going to be putting her on the newest medication which for the first time is in pill form and has been approved by the FDA!
She was hopeful and I was too for her, since she had been on so many different ones over her nearly thirty-six year fight with her MS.
We spoke for nearly two hours about our children, relationships, things in general, our common family members, and what we like to do for fun, etc.
We giggled like school girls at times and got as serious as a heart attack at others.
And in the end we promised to call each other whenever, and she being single at this time requested for me if I would try to find her a guy!
If any of you recall she is my cousin that was in her youth a Farah Fawcett look-a-like and even in her older self she still has it.
She is a liberal arts grad, who worked for the airlines as a flight attendant, in those days a STEWARDESS, for eighteen years, and they wanted her to do commercials, but she was too shy and refused.
For any guy she would be a great gal to know.
I’m not much of a matchmaker anymore, although in my youth I did have a success story of one couple that I did introduce and they later married.
But I lost touch and who knows if they still are…
That was quite an honor for her to think I had the ability to find her someone good enough for her, wow is an understatement… who knows what I might turn up.

On that thoughtful idea to maybe try a new profession, HA, I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Deal

Sometimes a good deal is not what you think…
For nearly twelve years we have been with one online subscriber; if nothing else we have been loyal.
And so when I kept trying to install Internet Explorer 8 after I thought that with our new hard drive should work I was sadly surprised to find out that my assumption was way off… and we have discussed many times before why assuming is not what it is cracked up to be…its: ‘making an ass of you and me’;(Don't worry I do still cringe using that expletive!) for those of us with short term memory loss I felt it was only beneficial to mention!

The one equation of the whole process I did not take into causing any problems within my simplistic brain was… that us bargain hunters of ye olde in the ages… are still on DIAL UP!
I know I am so ashamed!
Penny wise and dollar foolish in this case since the deal we made yesterday combining our home phone and speedy service on this thing actually came out to less by a few bucks a month than what we were paying! And it will be good to go in less than a week, yea!
Oh well, I never said I was a ‘know it all’…
Although, some may think I think I am, but nah not really.
Confidence and arrogance once again come too close together sometimes I must admit.
Number two son has always had that problem too, hmmm that explains a lot!

Let me clarify what I have learned in these later years… I was brilliant when I was fifteen years old and knew everything and as I got older I found out that I know very little!
At least when I was fifteen I thought I knew everything and now at this ripe old senior age, by AARP standards anyway, I KNOW NOTHING!
And that is sooo true folks, but I am sure you were all ahead of the game and could have told me that months ago, right? LOL!

Any-who…
And so my brain is a clean slate, so to speak.

Unfortunately, my love of recognition and conversation and butting into others questioning posts is now on hold, but watch out… I will come back with some really good zingers I truly hope so anyway.

Fun is wherever you find it and so we all know at our different ages and target audience stages in life one can be hysterically funny to a few and just plain annoying to others when some of us go totally unnoticed at all to many.

And so you gotta have a gimmick as they say in the biz… that’s the show biz honey!
You gotta grab ‘em on the funny-bone (elbow kids, it’s in the elbow, nothing irreverent or indecent here moms or dads) to make them see what’s what, huh?
Sure I do have to.

Joy can be an inflexible lover in the writing biz, but who doesn’t know the power of expressing it in volumes of flowery enthusiastic dialogue?
Sure we all do when we set our mini minds to it.
My point is I started off tonight with explaining about the deal that went down with our new online subscriber and how silly I was not to see it for what it was all these years… the better smarter way to go.

But that is not the only deal I wanted to discuss tonight it was my idea to have more readership when all is back to normal or I should say better than normal, and what I would personally love is to know who my tried and true followers are, OK?
Not too much to ask really.

On that note of curiosity, which I have been told is one of the many proofs of trying to learn more… I will wish you a very happy good night and to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Well...

Not as good as it gets.
Yes, our computer seems to be working fine now.
But our online is not.
Have you ever felt that you were misunderstood?
Sure you have.
We all have at one time or another.

You see, since I have no idea what the mess exactly was that the person who stole my Face book ID did except for being told that they were sending out continuous SPAM.
Is it my job to apologize, for something that I did not do and did not know about?
What is the proper protocol on something like this?

I guess even though I had no idea that any of it was going on until I was informed by email by Face book it wouldn’t hurt to say that I feel awful about it?
But I honestly was totally unawares that it was going on at the time.

Meanwhile, I have not been able to click on anything on my page but I still can see what everyone else is posting... and so this is my warning to all I am watching you! LOL!
And some of it seems to be directed at me?
Or I could be paranoid? Something I would like to not be considered or right about, but…
Most of you out there do realize that I try nightly to write as much tongue in cheek humor as I can when the mood suits me.
But not even Jim Carey can be silly all the time, right?
OK BAD EXAMPLE!
He’s always funny!

There are some nights though like most of us that I cannot be chipper, since folks I am human… JUST LIKE YOU ARE TOO! LOL
At least I think you are, but then again most of you are just words in the wind like I am to you too! And I suppose I am the most ‘big winded’ of us all!

Silly is as silly does and one must always try to find a way for that to be the prevalent situation.
See ‘Situation’ can mean more than just washboard abs on a fake New Jerseyite! (For those who didn’t know or live under a rock; he is a New Yorker!) LOL!

At times you may have noticed that I do enjoy metaphorically getting on my ‘Soapbox’, and expressing my biased opinions about this or that.
Don’t we all enjoy doing that when speaking with our buds?

And at times I do like to share anything that I might consider important to the world at large to hear about in an unbiased format.
As you must realized by now that Blogging has not gained the respect of being a journalistic medium as of yet, but I do hope I live long enough when I might see that change.

I know in my case not being paid for this hogwash does take the legitimacy out of it, but did you know that some guest journalists on tried and true respected newspapers do not get paid either for their contributions?
Yep, that’s true, I haven’t been paid for any of mine, contributions that is, and I did have a few by-lines in one just such paper.

So I guess I can say that I have been able to maintain my amateur status, since if I recall correctly what establishes you as a professional in a certain occupation, is being PAID for that JOB!
So far, not one itsy bitsy amount of moola changed hands and I do think that on occasion I was worthy of something?
I suppose love is more than what anyone can pay me for any of this…since I do so really enjoy what I do here.
But with the Face book page down and me not being able to post to it sadly I feel just awful that I don’t have anyone seemingly reading this… it makes me sad enough to cry.
Oh dear!
That’s definitely not silly, is it?

My personal information that I do share here is for me to be able to see it and adjust to it and perhaps solve those little issues that grind at my soul, and it is quite helpful.
Have you ever made a list of things of why to do or not do something?
The best way I found is to use one side for the good reasons and the other for the bad reasons not to do it.
It puts decision making into perspective, and weighs the pluses and minuses to be more logical in my choices.

This forum has helped me voice many concerns in my reality and in retrospect with everyone who has read this I do believe similar situations for many of us has been helping others; at least that’s what my comments of feedback have told me.
And you know something that makes me even feel better about this whether I share at times a little too much I do know that someone out there may have had that commonality and got it and I helped them too!

So as silly as I want to try to be sometimes honest heartfelt commentary is a good thing and I will not change what’s true about me.

On that note of letting you all know where I stand in my world, which is yours too…I will bid you all a very happy good night and ask you to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Repetition

Hello peeps; today has been a devilish repetition of the last several weeks.
Our computer though had its last hoorah and it took it upon itself to really crash beyond our usual consideration of using our restoration discs.
Hubby diagnosed it correctly by the ticking noise sort like a small bomb or old fashioned clock and The Geek Crew at Best Buys had our much needed new hard drive at a price that wasn’t lethal to our finances.
We did upgrade to more GB’s, 500, and hopefully we will be good for another few years!
It did come with a three years warrantee. They tried to talk us into 999.9 but I called number one son and he said we didn’t need that much and so we listened to him and saved twenty bucks more!
And all new now for less than sixty bucks!

The fact that Hubby had been saying that was the problem all along makes me feel silly that we didn’t really fix it sooner… but when I would call all those tech retail outlets type places they gave me wild prices of hundreds of dollars to replace the tower, and stupidly I didn’t ask about just the hard-drive, duh, my bad.

But I still have a bit of a glitch online with my Facebook page it appears that it is frozen to my touch of anything that I may try to do. I received an email notice that someone stole my identity and that I should contact them and set up a new password but when I tried to open the notice nothing would!
And not only Facebook but almost all online searches are extremely slow.
This is crazy, any suggestions?
I guess I can contact my online subscription.
Hopefully that will help.
Now even the printer is working ala Hubby’s perseverance once again!
It’s so nice to let a man take over some times; it nearly makes me giggle with the thrill of it all.
Nah, but trusting someone other than yourself sometimes is difficult and since although married all these years being in the business world you do become slightly skeptical and rightfully so.
Not that I am saying you should trust no one I am saying it may be hard to decide who is trustworthy enough to hand that over to, got that?
Family should be always trustworthy but many know sadly that is sometimes not the case.
All you to have to do is to watch or read the news nightly to know that is true.
Wives paying hit men, husband’s doing the same kids killing parents must I go on; truly frightening!
Scary, huh, but even when you think that you know a friend they could be devious too and back stab you too.
Not a very nice topic… but unfortunately these things do happen.

Trust is an issue with me because of many being nice and taking advantage of me and then stabbing me, metaphorically in the back.
Like this problem with Facebook saying that someone is actually sending people SPAM with my ID, how did that happen when I friended all those more than 1500 peeps?
Now what do I do?
Help!

On that needy request and exhausting day I will still wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And please next time be here or be square, OK?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Birthday!

Today is Hubby’s birthday!
And it was his year older than me one! Whew!
You heard that right, yes for four and half months a year we are the same age at the same time!
Do you know something?
I don’t like that, and as much as I complain he still has done nothing about it.
Change is sometimes not going to happen, and so I guess I should get resigned to that fact in my life.
Last year was the bigger celebratory one anyway and so we had a very nice shindig with quite a few guests.
This year was not that major although my intention to create a happy day for him is what I tentatively did try to do.
But the best laid plans of men and or women…you know the rest…
First of all our computer is only doing some things these last few days since it is not well.
It doesn’t recognize our printer for some reason beyond my control, and so my plan ‘B’ to make Hubby a birthday card had failed before I got started.
These last two years I have not been able to drive due to the weakness/numbness in my legs and all my medication, and so getting out by myself to buy one was out too!
And so to not put the public at large in jeopardy I have taken the initiative to NOT drive, as well as our auto insurance company the one previously questioning my abilities when I only used a cane, imagine now with a four wheeled walker or mobility scooter to get from here to there what they would say? PS, We went with another insurance company for premium reasons, better deal, not because of me.
So I am a backseat driver who is great at that for as long as I know I can keep the world safe from me…who knows if that could change…
And so after Hubby turned down my offer for a fancy breakfast I asked what he would like to do, I had already made him a rough pen and ink birthday card on computer paper and placed it at his table setting.

Dear sweet Hubby wanted to go to the mall of all places!
And so we went.
Me in my scooter and him on his two feet went up and back around the mall and then stopped at Sears to see if they had a barbecue rotisserie kit for our great barbecue that we were smart enough to buy before the hurricane hit and put it into the garage, it is stainless inside and out and a five burner with a side burner too.
The reason I wanted to try it for our Thanksgiving this year, a rotisserie turkey, since it was just the four of us going to be here and we would only need a small one.
Last time we had tried to barbecue a turkey was on our first Thanksgiving in Florida on the east coast in Ormond Beach way back in 1986 and it was a disaster since it was too large and we eventually took it off and threw it in the oven!
That had marred the concept all these years… so this is a breakthrough for us to try it once again, wish us luck!
Oh that’s right we had been previously searching the net to try and find a place with the best price for the rotisserie and most were ridiculously priced at a few hundred bucks!
And so when we saw this universal Char Broil one for only $39.99 we bought it!
Hubby still was not sure we got the BEST deal and so he stopped at Home Depot and the same one there was nearly seventy bucks for the same exact one!
Good shopping I would say.

Before we left the mall we did not go to the food court this time for lunch but tried a new restaurant that was there, and the food was not that good so I won’t mention the name.
But Hubby asked for his burger to be medium and it was nearly breathing and even the shrimp in my salad tasted as if it was raw and just defrosted! I know we should have sent them back, and there was a time that this old gal would have but these days I just don’t go back…Last time for that place. Hope we don’t get sick, stay tuned for that one.

We came home and after relaxing for a few hours I suggested we eat out again, twice in one day? What are we on vacation or something? Yep, birthdays should be stay-cations, especially when Hubby was thinking he was going to make dinner.
I said let’s get out of here.
And so we did, and went to our local home-style comfort food chain, and again Hubby and I had a mixed revue. We both ordered from the fifty-five and over menu the open-faced roast beef sandwich that came with mash potatoes and gravy and would you believe more bread! I thought it came with glazed baby carrots but only the younger crowd got the healthier fair apparently, and so I got the side of carrots that we shared for two bucks more which would have been the same price as the under fifty-five peeps for each of us, got that?
Any-who the meat was more like pot roast than roast beef since it was rough-stew in texture and tasty but nothing like slabs of roast beef that we are used to.
So I thought they gave us the wrong meat, but the waitress insisted it was correct.
Geez, twice in one day, but this was cooked all the way through and tasted good and so I said OK to leave it.
Too tired to argue, but I did mention that it was Hubby’s birthday and they brought him an ice cream Sunday and sang to him before we left.
Nice touch.
All in all it was not that terrible a day for not being the ‘big one’ day; Hubby has just reported that it was a very happy good day although he feels stuffed like a puffer fish! Uh oh they are toxic if prepared the wrong way! LOL!

Number one son called too to wish him a very happy b-day and to confirm that he will be here next week to do it in person!
Now I feel better that not all was lost; see where there is a will there is a way!

On that note of making the best of what life gives you… I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Anticipation

When we expect something, usually good to happen, we look forward to that occurrence.
Although, many also feel whenever something bad will be happening they anticipate that as well.
It’s an inside feeling, a premonition we sometimes get, a gut feeling.
There are people who believe that it is our ‘sixth sense’.
Some who even want you to think that they have powers of intuition?
Sorry guys but in most beings that is only a female thing.
Though having a gut feeling us gals will leave to you guys, but not always.
But INTUITION is definitely a woman thing.
And in many cases a Mommy one.
Let’s face it or grasp it in the reality of the concept anyone can have it, male female young or old.
It appears that most do not develop it as acutely as others.
Could you imagine us all knowing, yes that’s it…all knowing! LOL!
To actually know what is going to happen before it does; each and every day?
Cool!
Movies have been made on just that idea, but usually the main characters were aliens, and not from an outside of your country, from a place much further away, from outer space and not even in our own Milky Way, gazillions of light years away!
Wouldn’t that be a joke on all those scientists and sci-fi writers when we all, just us ‘earthlings’ were the ones that had that incredible ability?
All right we do know that it is in all of us the possibility of that ‘all knowing gene’, but underdeveloped.
I think that hormones must have something to do with adjusting its strength pretty much like most abilities in men or women.
An acute attuned extraordinary insight what-have-you that needs to be tweaked by oh I don’t know what, but if I did… I would absolutely have an amazing impressive ability to share with you all!

Although, in my past I have one hard to explain happening that was quite an extraordinary coincidence, let me refresh your memories since I do believe I told this tale once before… I was in first grade and it was Christmas vacation and my parents decided that we would go down to the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park I do believe about an hour and a half away from our Paramus, north Jersey home and stay at a hotel with and indoor pool and ice rink, both sports that I even enjoyed at that tender age of six.
When we came back from our vacation it was Fire Prevention Week and in those days the youngsters were told to make posters on the topic, and mine portrayed a hotel burning and I placed a marquee on it with the hotel’s name the same as the one we just had stayed at and…two weeks later… not unlike my poster there was a photo on the front page of the local paper, The Bergen Record with …the hotel that I had drawn and had stayed at on fire just like in my POSTER… with the SAME NAME...ooooooooooooo, ooooooooooooooo, ooooooooo, SCARY, especially at the age of six!
And no, I did not think or claim to be a witch, but I did think that perhaps I was a jinx?
Frightening may be I had a premonition or was it that I anticipated the possibility and being so young had no idea what it meant or if anyone would believe me?
Sadly I don’t recall the before sequence so clearly.

Other things in my life happened concurrently on occasion when I either wished them or thought them.
For a while there my anticipation of ‘my power’ I truly as a child felt meant that I was a jinx.
No one to tell this craziness to and so I held it inside; and eventually as I grew up I realized that it was just a silly unrealistic idea. But many bad things kept happening and some times I thought, really thought it was my fault.
But you see that’s the power of negative thinking not anticipation, positive thinking has the same ability in reverse!
And so I may suggest especially to my own thought processes, and you too if you care to follow suite and to think only good positive thoughts, and see where that will lead, OK?
It couldn’t hurt, right? Ah...some good anticipation!

Happy night to all and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Monday, November 15, 2010

Happy

A word I try to use as often as I can.
One of the simplest concepts and yet at times difficult to achieve, every day we hear people say when this or that happens then they will be ‘happy’.

I truly believe that no one or thing can make you ‘happy’ that it is totally up to you to do it for yourself.
And so I started the ‘Happy Morning’ program on Face book and it really took off.
Now I wonder how many actually remember the initial concept was mine.
Why you ask?
Oh no real reason.
It’s not like I took out a copyright or anything on the expression…besides I gave it with love for my fellow men and women to use indiscriminately all over the net, no make that the world and not just on Face book.
And since I am not the ‘word police’ there is no way of knowing how many times a day my ‘peeps’ are actually using it.
There’s another Tobi-ism, well not really it’s been around forever I am pretty sure but it was my idea to utilize it with ‘happy’ in a cheerful morning greeting.
And now it’s used all over the place and I feel redundant if I too use it in the morning when some earlier risers use it first! I am so off schedule with the time change and all, it’s not really my fault they beat me to it and my computer has been finicky too…oh well just more excuses…sorry!

Does that sound like a happy peep to you?
No, I am slightly miffed and I do tend to cringe when I see that some other FB peep has beaten me to the ‘happy morning peep’, punch-line so to speak; silly, huh?
You betcha!
So much so that I have taken the latitude of going for the entire day greeting instead; I do know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
But it became my trademark, sort of…
Preposterous you all say, and you thought I couldn’t hear you, ha!
Of course you are right that would be crazy if I COULD HEAR YOU!
As ridiculous as tonight’s tongue in cheek Blog is, but it’s mine.
I would like to see you all copy this verbatim… of course you can just copy and paste. LOL!
In reality though who would want to take ownership of this drivel, again this is my own!
So hands off!

Down and dirty is how I will start playing this morning salutation thing; did you all enjoy my short lived alliteration ones?
There could be more of those; so watch out folks; yep 'folks' is not mine anymore than 'peeps' or 'happy', but it does have its rewards of being folksy, huh?
Take that you copy-cats!
Warmth up the wazoo!
Yep, did you notice how many times I have been mentioning sunshine, yep if that’s not warm I don’t know what is!
After all this is the…Sunshine State…HA!
And have I mentioned lately about not being oily?
Yes the one about the: “only oil on our beaches is suntan oil!”
Even as well, whoops that was not meant to be a pun but then again… that is oil getting old.
Can’t we oil just well wish oil tourists to ‘COME ON DOWN FOLKSY PEEPS SINCE WE ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEE YOU OIL!

On that more than wild invitation I will wish you oil a very wonderfully happy good night and to oil count those blessings and share those overages and we well too!
See after you say it a while it takes away its power to hurt…oil, well, happy, peeps, nope, OUCH!
KIDDING! Or am I?

And please next time be here or be square, OK?

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Quiet

Many think that ‘quiet’ is over-rated, but not me.
Now that I have gotten the hang of it I believe that I do it quite well.
Time was when I would be so sad because I couldn’t stand the too quiet atmosphere of our home.
But now … I reflect on all the craziness of my younger years, which I did eventually enjoy and say, whew boy that was great but this is good too!
How many empty nesters out there know what I am talking about?
Considering our youngest went away to college at the normal age of eighteen and he is now a few months from his thirty-fifth birthday we have had a long time to adjust.
And now I think I can. LOL!

So after our somewhat busy going out for fun day yesterday; today was a stay at home and relax day.
Well if doing laundry and preparing enjoyable healthy meals is relaxing then I did that.
Hubby mowed the lawn and did other yard intensive work.

How soon we all forget when we were doing those balancing acts we call ‘making a life for our family’.
Besides working fulltime and checking homework being a mommy-taxi, doing cooking and cleaning and book-keeping for home and business, you name it, we all have done it.
And so this did take time to adjust to.
Since even when that last child leaves for being on their own and comes back periodically to visit or do laundry or you go there to shop and clean for them or help them move or whatever…one of our sons moved five times while in college and we were there for every move and my helpful cleaning got his deposits back each and every time with compliments that they didn’t believe how a young guy could be so clean, and of course I said nothing because they told my son not me. The eldest commuted to college from our home and didn’t leave until he was nearly twenty-three and I told him I was joining his dad on the other Florida coast five and half hours from where we were living… He temporarily moved in with his brother then bought his own home. I had stayed back to try and sell our home but found out that the realtors could do it fine without me and it empty.
Little did I believe that having well educated resourceful sons would end their need for me, but in many ways it has, and that makes me very sad when I think about it too much, but relieved too that we created these wonderful beings of such capabilities.
Now I bet you all can relate if not now soon; since it is how it goes…
Children are on loan no one owns them, but if you’re lucky they shall return periodically with their own families that they too created since you taught them that, you can only hope…like I still do.

We did hear from our eldest, he and his main squeeze, wow does that show my age or what will be HERE for Thanksgiving! His gal or girlfriend or what is the proper name for adults with close relationships since he is nearly forty and she is?
They asked to take us out but we said we can manage since it’s only the four of us.
And who’s open for dinner on Thanksgiving anyway?
One year we did try that when we only had five of us for dinner and it was rather cold feeling and no leftovers either.
But I do understand that they know my condition and were trying to make it easier on me and his Dad, my Hubby. But we work well as a team and the joy of knowing they are coming down to visit is just the shot in the adrenalin maker I needed; I believe it’s the anticipation.
Love is like that.
Kids do that.

On that thought of a GREAT beginning to the holiday season I will wish you all the same to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

PS And dear younger son let me try again for you to know how much we miss seeing you!Perhaps someday that will change with you wanting to see us as much as we want to see you …since we will always love you too!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Bazaar!

How many out there have gone to their local holiday bazaars, in this case a Christmas Bazaar? But other holidays are represented although somewhat less expressively.
Ours at the Cultural Center is a tradition here for forty years!
Of course we haven’t been coming to them for all those years but as many as I can remember since we have been living here.

This year’s due to the bad economy I expected for it to be rather small and not that crowded.
Negative of me I must admit, but I like to think I am a realist. To my pleasant surprise it was bigger than ever and it was throughout the facility from end to end, even outside!
The parking situation was basically waiting for someone to pull out of a spot so you could pull into it, and we got lucky with a handicapped space just for us towards the back of the facility. I did try to get feedback from the vendors and it was mixed on how they were doing. We did buy two things a plant and some dry bean soup that they gave samples of the prepared version for all to try, after we concluded that we both would enjoy it I made the small purchase.

We arrived around eleven thirty in the morning and stayed until after two!
Yes, we ate lunch there too; a meatball sub for Hubby and fish and chips and salad for me, coffee for him and my own bottled water for me, it is commonplace there so no one feels like they shouldn’t.
I did give Hubby most of my chips, and our whole lunch was only about twelve bucks for the two of us, pretty good, eh, less than a drive thru and better too?

When we arrived home we were mostly pooped and so we relaxed. I always wonder how I get so tired when I am using my mobility scooter but I do.
And so we turned on our PBS stations just in time for some gardening shows we enjoy.
After the first one I began making the soup we had just purchased at the bazaar and took out the baguette from the freezer and prepared to make a salad.
Whenever we eat a big or heavy lunch we have decided to have a lighter supper.
The soup had alternate instructions and so I tried them a vegetarian choice of adding stewed tomatoes which I keep in my pantry for my own soups and other such things, and adding in a diced potato which we always seem to have.
It called for canned carrots but I had fresh and it did not call for scallions or garlic or onions but I put them in my machine and then gently microwaved them for only two minute in extra virgin olive oil.
The whole project took only an hour from prep to eating; perfect end to a perfectly happy fine day!

Well, the day isn’t over really, is it?
And we have two movies waiting in the wings for our evening entertainment tonight; Letters to Juliet and The Ghost Writer.


On that busy schedule for fun and excitement, well not so much for the rest of you I suppose but for me… Happy night to all and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Dues

Can any of you remember why we do things for anyone?
Is it for them or for us?
Altruism is the best reason to help another human being but do we not always wonder that perhaps we are creating some type of a good Karma that we can cash in on when we need it some time in our future?
Nah, that would be just plain wrong…
Being generous should be without thinking of what I can get in return for that generosity, of course!
Some times though in life we forget that is the best feeling in the world; giving unselfishly!
When I volunteered and was thanked profusely by others for what I did that made me feel wonderful inside, no lie!
I used to tell people that was my reason for doing it, plain and simple.
But sadly many would say to me I wouldn’t do anything unless I was being paid for it!
Although networking in non-profit is nearly as prolific as in a for-profit business and so anyone who has the time and desire to help others should not consider it a total waste of their connection time. It spreads good will throughout the community and it should also not be your only motivation.
Most, good, non-profit organizations have very few paid or staff people; they are mostly volunteer driven; as they should be.

Does anyone out there believe that the almighty is keeping score?
Like most organized religions seem to believe, but I am not into theology studies that he/she may be when deciding who goes to heaven or hell.
Or even staying just in the middle in Limbo?
Now if you believe that then the concept of paying ones dues works on your ethical behavior in life and creates a being of goodness without faults or meanness or flaws or any bad adjectives you can possibly think of, right?
Well, folks… let me ask all of you do you think the world is in that mode of thinking?
Don’t we all wish?

I’m not saying that altruism is dead; but like chivalry it seems to be harder to find.
I know the economy has been responsible for most not being able to give monies to any organizations but time is good too, and they love the help usually, just ask.
Cleaning out a closet or garage to donate stuff helps them and helps you too!

As times get better and they will, mark my words…
More people will try their hardest to make all areas of their life improve.
It’s the nature of the human animal that we all are resilient!

And so the next time you see some one who looks like they might need you for anything just perform that ‘unselfish act of kindness’ that I think Oprah started years ago or something that sounded similar to that.
Dues don’t count in life but in some clubs and organizations so pay up!lol

On that note of silliness… try and have a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Action!

That’s right the word for tonight is, ‘ACTION!’
It is a word that has many uses and reuses in the fact that we all know how in a movie the director uses it to say, “Action!” which then means for the actors to begin acting.

But it also can mean doing something about something, like in ‘taking action’; true?

And now I will discuss what type of action I took.
All of you have known that I am quite disgusted with the enormity of my major problem.
Oh, you are not?
Well, let me refresh your memories…
Yes, I do know that what has happened to me is not that unusual and that many suffer with the same malady.
In fact the news has carried many stories on the topic.
And it even has been affecting our children and grandchildren; now this is one of the times that I am happy that I don’t have any youngins or grands!
Why does that still sound rather cold of me?
Not when you hear why I am saying it… one word ‘OBESITY!’
I suppose I could have entitled tonight’s Blog that, but I felt it might have turned too many people off.
I should know better than most about this subject since I wrote a newspaper item by-line on it way back in 2002 or 3, can’t rightly remember.
But that’s not important, my gym body self, lean 103 LBS me, and I felt really good about me and my health, no prescriptions then only vitamins!
So I do believe, at the time my research still holds up to scrutiny.
I did go on about how a waistline of more than thirty-five inches for a woman was obese and the same for a man’s over forty inches; mine was twenty at the time.
So I knew I knew what I was talking about to be tried and true.
Children were also discussed in that article.
My theory was just and has proven to be true.
I stated that as the times have changed and children don’t play outside like we all did and are inside more, and take the school bus more or are driven more from here to there when we all played until the street lights went on and walked all over wherever we wanted to get to… but the times had changed with ADAM WALSH being kidnapped and murdered and not to mention those milk cartons with all those others who to this day some are either still missing or dead!
And our fears were rightfully so; and so we all went into our protection mode and created indoor entertainment for our dear ones, to keep them safe, and it has worked mostly.
But sadly it created chubby kids who are cautious of all strangers.
And these lovely offspring are prone to diabetes and heart disease.
But alas some new indoor technological products for our little ones have become cardio in action! And so perhaps this generation is not totally lost!

Thinking about those times of pretty terrific health, and yes folks I probably had MS and knew I did have my seven types of arthritis, but moving was the answer… it was this falling and Ataxia that shut this old gal down and created this monster of a Jabba the Hut look-a-like or Buddha body transformation.
Talk about unhealthy me!
Well, it has gotten so bad that there are literal days that I HATE ME, and so I avoid the mirror; what can I say?
I am bigger than even when I was pregnant with my sons and gained quite a bit but then I lost it within six weeks of walking, walking, and more walking.
Cheapest and best way to cut those pounds peeps!
That is if you can do it.
You see with my balance issue and numbness in my legs plus my hips compromised by the osteoarthritis in them walking has not been a choice for me these days, but I do so wish…
Any-who, what I did may sound like a last hope for this lumpy ludicrous lady who feels that she wants to take any options she might have.
And no I cannot afford or am able to have gastric by-pass since Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder and that does not meet the bariatric surgeon’s criteria since it can be very dangerous. I have also seen it not work too.
So this is what I have been doing for weeks trying to find a local gym that would be willing to take me on, (most thought I was a fall liability with the balance issue) and one that wouldn’t cost us an arm and a leg.

Drum roll please... I found two!
The Rehab at the Promenades, about two miles from the house that I used to go to for physical therapy and occupational therapy and NMT, and Achieve Fitness, also about two miles from the house, whose personal trainer was willing to come to my home for a nominal fee and set up a program on my equipment that garnishes the rest of this room.
My stationary bike, treadmill, and my three sets of free weights not to mention my Yoga mat; those two are neatly tucked away in a trunk with casters. Our pool is out right now since it is too cool probably or too cold, I think, but we will see.
MY ACTION!
I am still wanting to see myself have something to look forward to, perhaps it will be a slimmer healthier me? It would be so nice to shed the heart and cholesterol meds.

On that note of my way of positivity I would be remiss not to mention on this day of all our Veterans so to all those brave men and women who are now and who have in the past served in our military if it wasn’t for all of you this Blog would not exist you have preserved my most precious freedom the one of speech! Thank you all for taking ACTION for all of us Americans who appreciate why you do what you all do so well and unselfishly!

Happy night to all and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time you hear be here or be square, OK?

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Comments

How are you at taking criticism?
For me, it changes from day to day.
I do think that when I can take it the best is when I am well rested almost like any small child would be able to consider those words of not agreeing with them and their behavior.
Why is it that most critiquing of a person or a behavior is considered constructive?
Are there also constructive insults?
Huh, you say.
We, in the general public whom may be on the other end of those words of others trying to help us become something that we are not and don’t always hear or foresee the positive in that lexis of verbiage for our own good.

Challenging as most discussions are, on so many topics that may be the most stimulating I find it is the actual realization that many of us need to throw out remarks and bring them out into the forefront of the mix for public scrutiny.
Doing this on occasion has proven to stir up all sorts of commentary which is amazing to me because of what it is that truly seems to get people fired up.
Obscure ideas or expressed feelings seem to get many people up in arms at different times of the year or during trends of perpetual gossip on almost any topic or any field of interest.

Last night I was really wholeheartedly disturbed by the fact that Bristol Palin was safe once again on Dancing with the Stars and so I posted it and consequently although not a humongous amount of feedback but all pretty much with the same wondering attitude no one who responded knew, how can this be?
Has this young woman “Palin’ somehow charmed the watchers of the program therefore the major part of the audience from all over the world that is responsible for voting her to stay on even though the judges have constantly given her the lowest scores and rightfully so? Listen I may not be a major ballroom dancer, but I did take ballroom dancing as well as ballet, acrobatics, tap, jazz and toe for a total of twelve years, and so I feel I can tell if she has any ability… And sure she has improved quite a bit and good for you Miss Bristol but… you still are NOT that good! Sorry that was a wee bit too harsh well let’s face it others are much better than you and should NOT have left.
What’s up with the vote?
Are they being tampered with, and that is just a question friends; not an accusation, oh all right it may very well be interpreted that way.
But really I am sure I am not alone in that theory, true?
Is that a knock at my door? LOL!
Ooops, could they be coming for me?
Is the Tea Party that powerful and needy to do away with a little old outspoken disabled half blind woman who tosses out accusations with a glimmer of truth in the possibility?
Don’t answer that let me be surprised.
Besides I have protection, a retired cop Hubby and a fierce noble dog named Skipper!
Although, I suspect that I am too small potatoes to be on their hate hit list of peeps who speak negatively of them and theirs.
I try my hardest to be diplomatic when I write this nightly.
Many may not even realize my true bias in reality of who I am and what I stand up for?
Am I that cautious?

It all comes back to negative comments and sensitivity in my lack of being able to take those words that have little luster and no compassion.
OK, me too Bristol and I am old enough to be your granny and so please accept my apology you have improved but even you must admit that the others that have left should not have?
I suppose I am beating a dead horse again, but if they don’t do something about the unfair way of choosing the winners on these competitive performing shows, such as Dancing with the Stars, America’s Got Talent and American Idol they will be loosing more viewers, mark my words!
And I may be one of the first to stop watching, but I guess that won’t change things unless we start a rebellion movement? Nah…

Why can’t people just get one vote like in other elections, perhaps that would solve the problem, and they should sign in or prove they are just that ONE person, what do you all think about that?

Oh well, it’s just a thought, like so much of my stuff is.

On that note of wanting to know what can be done I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Money!

Now that I have gotten all your attention… let me go on with this thought …Is it truly the route of all evil?
And is it also NOT capable of buying love?
Perhaps, but most of us want it, need it and use it daily in some form from actual paper bills and metal change to credit or debit cards, checks, to electronic transfers, stocks, bonds etc, what-have-you, true?
Does it demand our respect?
Do some people seem to worship it?
Do those who do not have it mean that they are lesser people because of that?
Do the others who have too much of it think they are better than the others who have less? And how much is really too much?

A resounding… ‘I DON’T KNOW!’
To be realistic no one does, but many think they do.
More, more and more seems to be the ways most think about it while some of us actually know when enough is enough.

May I make a suggestion since the world has been in this economic mess that all of us should re-evaluate what’s really important to us when it comes to money and living within those means?

Sure our families are number one with most, our roof over our head and the ability to have gainful employment if we so desire, and no concern of paying our monthly bills.
Yep, we all need the bare necessities in life and some peace of mind, huh?

Our feelings about money develop at a very young age.
Some of us start working when we know that we want something to buy, as I did at the age of twelve since my mom and I had a disagreement on my clothes that I like to wear we had a critical preteen mom stalemate on style.
And so I started to baby-sit to earn the money to buy my own clothes at fifty cents an hour and a dollar after midnight, which I did and I even walked the distance to the mall to buy them at Lerner’s a great clothing store and very reasonable in the early 1960’s. I walked to that mall several miles, since my mom did not drive! I know I was only a twelve year old but it was sooo much safer in those days.
And besides determination is a wonderful motivator!
I did baby-sit until the age of sixteen when I was working Saturdays from the age of fifteen for my father at his bowling alley cocktail lounge in the snack bar for the kids’ league on Saturday mornings making or I should say burning hot dogs, burgers and French fries etc. By my senior year of high school I was working after school for Ohrbachs’s department store at the mall I used to walk to, but now we had moved further away and I had to take a bus and use some of my own monies for that, since I didn’t have a car but I had my license and was saving up for my car, by working.
Another girl was working there too and so eventually we carpooled since she had her own car and we split the gas.
By the spring I had saved enough to buy my first car a two year old 1966 Chevelle Malibu, a turquoise beauty in the year of 1968!
I worked all through college but moved up to Lord and Taylor’s and after becoming a floor manager I became a credit manager, thus my knowledge of money!

And so did Hubby too work from the time he was fourteen until just four years ago when he retired.

After Hubby and I married and had children and our own businesses we set up accounts for our boys for when they helped us in our businesses and paid them, and both sons were able to buy their own cars because of that before they turned fifteen!
And they learned the work ethic I hope from us, since both of them worked all through high school and college too! And to this day are gainfully employed and own, their own homes too in this difficult economy which makes us so proud with fingers crossed that all continues well for them forever!

So there is no denying money has its value but to each and everyone of us that value may remain elusive. It is so individualized and unique to each and everyone. I am so happy not that I was so sick and could not handle a larger home like we used to have four and five bedroom ones but that were able to scale down before everything went all screwy or as I like to say ‘cafluey’, another Tobi-ism! And that was way back in December, New Years Eve of 1998! And so we were OK when this all happened and I thank the almighty nightly for that; since we were able to manage much better on less.
Let’s face it we only have the basics but it is our enough, and when you find your enough I will be happy for you too!

That’s what money is I guess whatever one thinks is just right for them, huh?

On that realization and respect for another one of those differences in life that we all share…I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all ask you to also count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Monday, November 8, 2010

Hysterical!

Some things in life just make you have to laugh even when you least expect it…
Let me start at the beginning…

Many are aware that I am doing whatever it takes to try to make myself feel as good as one can with my Multiple Sclerosis and so when my doctor recommended me to go on the injectable medication Copaxone I was thrilled, I know it meant injections daily perhaps for the rest of my life, what am I crazy?
But this medication was one of the few that had very little side affects and would not interact negatively with my other medications plus after it was in your system it would prevent relapses of the disease!
That’s why I said metaphorically in my head, ‘bring it on and yea!’

The only thing that has been a wee bit of a problem for me is my lumpy body and slight itchiness and occasional redness at the injection sites from being stuck in seven different locations weekly, never allowing to inject in the same location two days in a row. There is a specific regimen on how to proceed: the injections are given in a clockwise motion around the body. In my case I start with my left thigh then my right the next day then my tummy, then Hubby takes over for my left upper arm the first of his days then my right upper arm the next day, and then my right upper hip the next and lastly my left upper hip, and the week starts all over again, seven days a week!

The problem solving for my slight reactions have been rubbing the bumps the next day, cool compresses for the slight redness and itching or if it gets beyond normal using that topical Benedryl stick for insect bites seems to help and I asked if I can use that and so I do.

Anyone who has dealt with itchiness knows that somehow it seems to get worse at night when you are trying to get some sleep, right?
Listen folks I am now getting into the funny part, I know you have all been extremely patient wondering when that was going to happen…
Bear with me and you won’t be disappointed.

In my bathroom I have a small plastic white tray that is designated for my comb, disposable facial washcloths, makeup and the like including eyelash curler and the occasional OTC medications such my Benadryl stick as well as my dry eye, eye drops.

Well, last night like clock work my tummy began to itch overwhelmingly and so I went into the bathroom to grab the itch stick as I so boldly call it and unscrewed the top and nothing would come out so I pushed it against my wrist and still nothing I turned it over and smacked like a catsup bottle and nothing then either! Gosh this was awful my itch was driving me crazy, now I can hear you all saying that’s only a short drive, huh?
Any-who, I knew I had an older one somewhere in my purse or perhaps in my night stand somewhere so I did a mad search and finally after checking all over found the older model and relief was immediate and I fell off to sleep…

Next morning I come in here to start this thing up once again, since we have now decided to turn it completely off so no Gremlins can infiltrate during the night, we hope…
And while powering up this thing I noticed very weird black circles perfectly formed on my left wrist in a square-ish pattern almost perfectly in alignment.
How odd I said to myself, could there be some strange bedbug in my nighttime quarters attacking me during my slumber, since I rubbed it and it wouldn’t come off!

Here comes the funny part…just then my metaphoric light bulb went off in my head!
I retraced my steps from my awakening of the night back to my bathroom in my mad search for itch relief and I found no Benadryl stick could be found in that plastic tray, no matter how hard I searched…but my , now get this…. My Mascara was right where my itchy stick should have been and sure enough at night with my severely compromised eyesight that was my mysterious marking causer on my wrist no strange new breed of insect, but waterproof black mascara!

Are you all laughing yet?
I am still, sometimes it’s a good thing to screw up, and this was just one of those times!

On that note of joyousness in my world I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And please folks next time be here or be square, OK?

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Mind

I would like to propose a thought to all of you out there.
Who doesn’t know the expression, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”?
Yes, I can hear you and no I didn’t think you were dumb or any such thing!
It was just a rhetorical question, OK? And yes that is a question mark at the end of my so-called rhetorical question and yes I do now understand why you thought what you thought and I am very sorry then and now are we OK again?

Ooops there I go throwing out those damn question marks out all over the place and yes I will for now on try to watch that! Unnecessary use of such things is notorious by me especially, but I am educable and will try to learn a different way to handle such questionable items in my writings, OK.
Since we can all agree with that above statement, second line down, we may also like to agree that our minds can play tricks on us, and yes when we are as sober as a judge…PS excuse all these clichés tonight but go with me here I am getting to my point therefore my topic for this evening…
Perceptions are all in our minds and yet we may all look at the same thing and see something totally dissimilar in it; wild, huh?
I think so and very interesting in my opinion.

You see these medical issue things that I have been dealing with daily and usually quite badly have been perceived differently by myself and Hubby.
I have some really bad days, but any of you know that who have been reading this with any regularity so bad that bed becomes my haven, but then sometimes I feel a wee bit better and wish or think that I can go and do what I used to do if only I had some help or modifications, and now does that sound so bad?

Hubby and I have been having loud disagreements of just these things.
With my periodic desire to try to accomplish my love of gardening while admittedly needing his help of course and that is what is at issue.
My timing seems to be off with requesting his assist plus he feels it’s easier if he just does it himself than be my literal, go-for.

See that is what I am getting at I want so much to try to do things but admittedly I know that I need help to do certain things that others can just do with little or no thought.
Anyone have any ideas for compromise on this topic?
I know there is a large MS posse out there.
And I bet many have their spouses as their care givers, what’s the solution?

Every-time we loudly discuss any of these similar subject matters I retort that I might as well not do anything!
Silly, I sound just like a spoiled teenager, don’t I?
But it is so frustrating not being allowed to do what little you would like to try to do.
Gardening is one of those art forms, in my mind with tangible evidence of what you accomplish, you know what I mean?
It’s so wonderful to see those veggies or flowers or whatever blossom and to know you played a small part in that process, true?
Here’s my point my first statement, yep, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”, and I feel like mine sometimes is being wasted, well if not altogether done in perhaps not used to its fullest potential, how’s that?
Being creative has to be utilized in an actual situation to be rewarding, and that is where I rest my case.
It’s not good enough to just think something one must not only visualize what it is they want they must do it!
Another old cliché comes to mind, ha, and I did mean that pun, all talk and no action does not get you what you want in life.

To be honest I do know the first part is correct with that statement but I did take a bit of poetic license with that last part, please forgive.

On that somewhat thoughtful note with no actual conclusion to this issue I will wistfully wish you all a happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Saturday, November 6, 2010

OUTING!

Nah…folks you got the wrong one…I am already out about being a…. hetero! LOL! Not that there is anything wrong with the other possibility.
Hubby and I left the compound today together! YES, you heard that right, I went out too into my small unique world encompassing a five mile radius.
We found out that we were definitely having a worthwhile to investigate festive goings on at our event’s center down the road a piece over the bridge in River City AKA Punta Gorda, less than three miles from the homestead. And it is a yearly happening for the last ten that I haven’t yet missed and it is called ‘Artsensation’, and it is just as it says!
The Arts and Humanities council runs the thing with financial support from local businesses.
The venue has changed over the years from ball parks and fair grounds to colleges to Fishville.
But this years choice was a very wise one and indoors; for although our weather at this time of the year is mostly predictable we occasionally will have a sudden cold snap or a heat wave!
I must admit though this day was nearly perfection except for the wee bit of wind.
Clear cobalt blue skies with low humidity and a very decent breeze.
Ah Florida… to all our friends up north, remember we are here for you when you can’t take it anymore.

The actual sights to see were art work of every dimension imaginable, ceramics, paintings of water colors, acrylics, sculptures, books, news publications and magazines, music from instruments of all kinds including voices of adults and children’s bands and choirs, and dance performances too.
So lovely and quite a rewarding experience, but sadly it is only for six hours once a year!

After we left the fun and pleasantries that we held with joy in our hearts we decided to catch a late lunch at a Tai restaurant we had been to once before that was on the way home. Unfortunately, when Hubby checked to see if they were open since usually it’s hard to find a parking space there but today there were barely any cars and so he got out first to check and there was a sign on the door stating that there had been a death in the family so they were closed.
Oh we felt bad for the family and felt bad for us since they have very good food.
So our plans had to change up, and so we thought perhaps the Cultural Center, less than two miles from our home, might have something going on there, and so we went there next, since they also have a restaurant kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Hubby did a reconnaissance once again and nothing was going on and the menu did not have anything he wanted or was interested in, it is changed often.
So upward and onward…
Hubby thought maybe a pizza chain that offers a Bistro might be to both our likings and we had not been there since they rebuilt after the hurricane six years ago.
Hubby again went in to check and he came out saying that we had more in our produce bin in our frig than they had on their salad bar!
And so we moved on once again.

Next we tried the Chinese buffet across from the pizza chain and we both realized that we could get more what we wanted at another buffet with worldwide choices a few more miles up the road!
And so that is where we finally ate our very late for us lunch!
Boy, does that sound indecisive or what?
Nah, we just have so many choices in such a small area which actually is great!
We have every nationality selection that you can think of from Indian to Japanese to Tai to Chinese and Seafood and delis and Cuban just you name it… I bet we have it and we are not that big a city! Actually, where we are, is not even a city; it’s unincorporated, as they say down here in Florida, a non-city.

On that little more interesting note of us having a better day I will leave you all with asking you for you all to have a very happy night and to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

PS Fall back tonight remember peeps!

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