Usual

Today was somewhat back to the old grind of what we consider usual.
There’s a word for a little more scrutiny, huh?
Since in reality it means what is common for you, which could be way unusual for the rest of us, huh?

Let’s play with this for a minute.
If every morning I usually get up at seven A.M. and exercise and then go into the shower to get ready to go work, have breakfast and then leave for work that would be my usual, right?
But if the next day I awake at ten A.M. and then go to the fridge look inside decide there is nothing I want in it and then think I will go out for breakfast and get one of those grand slam thingy’s because I can go to the gym later since I am not working that would not be my usual, correct?

Hmmm, we all have rituals that we follow and some days more than others.
But deviating from them makes us… what?
More interesting or NOT boring, huh?

OK, so today I suppose was NOT my usual, here’s my true confession…I awoke at eight thirty, wow I slept half the day away! So unlike me! LOL!
But to be fair I did stay up to watch the Sound of Music until after eleven.
How many of you saw it when it first came out? (Maybe again last night for the millionth time that it has since been on the TV, but to be honest I don’t think we watched it on the TV since the boys have been on their own…)
Anyway I did and boy did Hubby when it originally came out!
Why you ask?
My dear Hubby was an assistant manager of the Fox Theater in Hackensack New Jersey and so he got to see it every night for months since it was held over then! Way back in 1965 when we were both teenagers.

We did not know each other then.
Interestingly though I went to see it at that same theater with my cousin who was more like a brother at the time and I do believe there were adults with us probably my aunt and uncle his parents and perhaps my own parents but for some reason I can’t seem to remember that.
We all remember the movie though, us alive ones, he and I and wow it was something!
I think it was the first movie that had an intermission like at the live Broadway shows.
And it was just as great as going to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall or any Broadway show, which we had done often if you recall my childhood neighborhood… and growing up fifteen minutes from the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan.
And many of my neighbors either being actors, singers or dancers, techs or producers and directors on Broadway or in TV during those years of growing up in Paramus New Jersey! A great youth to remember, don’t you all think?

Any-who, usual was never ever in those days, many were unique.
You know I do believe remembering all that made it easier for me to conform to the quiet lifestyle that I have most days now.

Moving on...
Who knows… we are going to have a Florida freeze tonight here in southwest Florida will you believe?
Gosh Hubby had to go out and bring in our baby tomato plants and our potted pineapple that I started from the top of one, it’s really easy and I am sure many of you have done it yourselves. Ours is enormous now but nothing compared to my avocado seed that has to be about fifteen feet now with a trunk of nearly a foot wide! PS it was planted in the ground years ago!
As you can tell I am a proud Momma of my plants!
Well, what else have I got, no youngins anymore or grands.

On that beating an old repetitive horse sing song once again, my usual form of wishful self pity.
I will say instead that I want you all to 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?

PS the story was fictional for the Sound of Music and if you Google it you will know what I said is true, but made for a great movie!