Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Intercalary or bissextile year

Sounds intriguing and a bit, dare I say, sexy?
Actually, it’s none of that at all.
It is referencing the Leap Year.
We utilize the Gregorian calendar and most years that are easily divisible by four are leap years.
And the Gregorian calendar is a modification of the Julian calendar by the Romans and it has been this way since 46 B.C., how do you like them apples?
If you too wish to be more informed may I suggest copy and pasting this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

Moving on…
Mitt Romney squeaked by in Michigan last night’s race for the Republican nomination with 41% of the Republican vote winning and took Arizona by a large margin of 47%. Am I crazy, don’t answer that, but when did less than fifty percent become a large margin? Oh, that’s right, its Republican-speak for glass half-full, gotcha, wink, wink. Next Tuesday is Super Tuesday where ten of our states all get to vote for their selection of the nominee for the Republican candidate, and then Mr. Romney, we will see what we can see, hmm? No guts, no glory!
Either way, he still shows in the poles that he cannot beat Obama, our main man who already resides in the Whitehouse, and we all know that in the finale vote on November 6, 2012 that will be the final decision!
As I always feel in my heart and soul that time will tell.

Blogger’s note:
*All I have to say it is nice to see that solid husbands are in the running, not philanderers; although, some have been great presidents in spite of their wandering eyes or other body parts (Oops did I say that, cringe factor), hmm?
Lousy husbands but great leaders, how odd that we the Sodom and Gomorra of the world; without moralities until it comes down to choosing who watches our store/government, we hypocritically become so prudish, how odd, really; wouldn’t you say?

Hubby did his little nicety for the day by putting our neighbor’s garbage can away; the neighbor is a fireman/EMS person and is on duty overnight.
Doing any little thing is good, right, and also considered being neighborly, true?
Creating small acts of kindness are welcomed; you would be so surprised with the reactions from most people, really?
Try it and you may be very overwhelmed with any reaction you get.
Just kinda make sure that they know that you are putting it back in their yard or designated space and not stealing it…that’s why you can do it when no one is home, ha!
Those things are expensive to replace…ya know?

Any-who, be kind and all will be fine and take the time to use your own rhyme…


Now to get back to reality, sadly, again, it is a horrible nasty weather time throughout Tornado Alley of our heartland of America and many states have felt that devastation, to all of us it has caused a mutual sorrow but our hearts and support goes to them all. Please remember that.

Allow me on that bit or sorrow to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with people that need them and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Davy Jones of The Monkees TV show fame, died today of a heart attack at the too young age of sixty-six years, and I do believe he is on that ‘Last Train to Clarksville”, at least I would like to hope/think so…

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hypocritical and criminal...!

I feel just awful, and maybe you can relate…
This evening is the night before our garbage pickup in the wee hours of tomorrow morning and we like, many others, I am sure, go through their refrigerators looking for food that may be accused of being a student’s science project!
Now of course with us home more it doesn’t happen as much as it used to when we were an active family and would make mega meals or have incoming ones that would be forgotten about, and sadly meet their makers when they would either smell ungodly or turn pretty shades of non-food colors…YUCK!
Yes, this is a failing of most human beings no matter how much we all try NOT to forget those leftovers, who in their right mind wants to eat them more than one more time, really?
Sure all those food channels give you leftover recipes to make chicken thirty different ways, or chop meat or fish what-have-you, and I suppose some of us are more apt to experiment with those creative concepts, but really?

Not very conservationist of us, hmm?
We do save on most all purchases in all areas of our life, but unforgivably we cannot seem to stop this bad behavior, of tossing things that have died in the dear old fridge…
Yes, some weeks it is only one thing and others it could be as many as three items, but in my heart of hearts I feel so very bad when even one leaves… ya know it; somehow it seems so wrong!

Confessions are good for the soul, so they (Hmm, ‘they, again, I promise I won’t go there again, at least not now.) say, and nightly I disgrace myself and some of my family and friends too with these so-called redemption admissions, but I do know not everyone appreciates me being so candid…
Well, I have two words for you, TOO BAD!

And don’t tell me that most of what I write about, that you haven’t done at least once or twice yourself, hmm friends?
Chucking that chuck roast or had played chicken keep away with your chicken or tossed that tossed salad, hmm?
Don’t make me go on, fess up; we all have, dare I say wasted FOOD!
Gosh, just seeing the words trickle from the keyboard causes me to hear my Mom saying the Chinese are starving, finish this or that!
Boy, have times changed, sure people are starving but I do believe we here in the United States also have starving or underfed children too.
And just the thought makes me take pause and also wonder if I ate those leftovers would they have been fed?
Now that is completely ridiculous!
But perhaps with our over abundances of our fortunate ability to make too much, maybe just maybe before it goes the way of scientific research in our own Petri-dishes in our fridges we could take those hot well cooked meals of way too much and share?
But with who and how?
Well, that will be my assignment and once I figure those two little issues out I will get back to you, okay?

I feel so much better getting that off my chest, not literarily, figuratively, but if I did, that too would be very weird?
Any-who, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Monday, February 27, 2012

Storm coming...

And so I will try hard to beat any possible outages! Since the thunder is roaring.
Yes, here in Florida they do happen.
Why don’t you have any outages when your storms come to your part of the world?
I do believe that transformers and I don’t mean the convertible vehicles from the movies or toys, ha; these transformers appear to be the power source for our utility companies all over our fine United States.I think they are the target for lightening, really? Who knows...it seems that way to me though.
A quiet has taken over and now it seems there is a lull in its taunting of its playful rumblings.
We have been going through our normal dry period here, but this past summer was too, and so any moisture would be a welcome relief.
Since moving to this coast in 1995 from the other coast, where we had lived from 1986, amazingly we have been on watering restrictions due to a low aquifer. Meaning that the reservoirs are low too as well as personal well systems and that we at one point tried to have installed, but they were no longer doing them where we live. Thus our rain barrels that do hold 110 gallons between the two and that is for mostly our vegetable garden and other plants that need refreshment and are weeping sadly; it goes quite far when you conserve like that.
The lawn is our first in all the forty-one years without a sprinkler system due to that; Hubby was in the business in NJ for many years. City water which we have going into our home, for the first time this month’s bill was higher than our electric bill!
So you can well understand why we feel the way we do about water being a very precious commodity, and we do not take it for granted. Most don’t get that, unless they have experienced water conservations bestowed upon them by their community, and yes for the seventeen years we have only two days a week that we can water, before ten A.M. and after four P.M., due to it not evaporating. The heat of the day will do that and then you would have watered for nothing!

It’s difficult for Hubby to see the new people who bought homes across our canal watering when they shouldn’t be during the hottest part of the day and not on their designated ones…yes you can water new lawn and plantings for the first thirty day period, but neither were doing that.

They are new here they just moved in this summer and Hubby was tempted to call code enforcement but he thought that he could not, and then he even considered telling them himself but thought again about it… new people and all, dilemma!
They have introduced themselves to him, a while back and chat across the canal occasionally, but he is not longer in law enforcement and the rule of thumb was not to police your own neighborhood. Although, the patrol car was always a deterrent it seemed for most to be law abiding.

I was a devilish gal when I was able to walk and would do my constitutional around the block daily. If I saw anything off kilter I would call code while on my trek, and they appreciated and things got better around here. You see the area was in a pretty bad way between the hurricane’s devastation and the downturn causing all those horrendous foreclosures our neighborhood was pretty raggedy!
But enough of us curmudgeons complained, since that’s what we get joy from, kidding! Killjoy or not we took action and got it in return, unfortunately some squatters threatened me by saying I hope you get hit by a car, but they didn’t own one that is only the one up on blocks…
Scary, I did stop walking not much after that, but not because of that, because I couldn’t do it physically; hips and legs gave out.

And so dear friends of this world if I could ask one thing of you all, that would be think before you turn that faucet on, that’s all.
Allow me now to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Update: More good news, my yearly cranial MRI showed that my MS is stable, and you were all worried, Geez, I wasn’t, not for a minute…Oh Okay maybe just a little. See I am no good at lying… Actually, I read just the other day that my Copaxone actually can cause the demyelination to remyelination that means regenerate, miraculous, hmm? Hope so!

Meanwhile, my sinuses and thyroid and cervical stenosis all keep me on my toes and in pain… and darn those little floaters and flashers flicker from my righty eye still…!

The word for the day is ‘LE’, which in Swedish means smile!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Conclusions come to some of us...when...

They are blatantly right before your very eyes!
Obvious evaluations are also quite common amongst the truly bizarre minded, hmm?
That is not to say that we are all created equally with our observances.
Why two people could look at the same object and feel that they see two different things, artwork comes to mind; especially Impressionistic.
But with that said that’s what IT is supposed to do. Interpretation is within all of us.
And that is why although, we may speak the same languages in many of the same environments, our brains have a way of tuning in a dissimilar possible explanation for what that is or could be that we see.
I know, who would have thunk that, but extremely true.
This at times, can create havoc with trying to make you understood.
So you might ask what we could possibly do in this situation.
And I think, now remember I too have suffered this common dilemma; but perhaps you or I, may have to start listening better to whom you are dealing with to memorize their syntax and their vibes, body language of how they think, or try harder to make your words as concise as possible when engaging that person in conversation.
Misunderstandings have a horrendous way of changing relationships whether personal or business.
Even face to face or when texting or using any other techno device.
Oddly enough the Ellen Show has come up with a hilarious segment dedicated to just that, the autocorrect mistakes that go through the airwaves before you can fix them!
And so I do know from what I speak/write.

Moving on…
Last night was another not too beneficial for restorative renewal.
I went to bed before ten but awoke around one and got up for more ice for my head and neck, since it was way too soon to take anymore aspirin, my last dose had been at nine thirty. I found the show Bones was on, and I do like that and started to watch it, but fell asleep since I didn’t remember seeing the ending fortunately it was on again on a different station at five this afternoon, the same one that I missed, what luck!
By three ten I again awoke and finally did take my four 81 MG. of aspirin I did lower the dose from the five.
Didn’t want to start a trend with that higher dose, ya know?
And finally I awakened for my day at five forty-seven! TA DA!
I have been keeping track, only because Hubby seems to ask me nearly daily, and I like to be prepared for him, ha!

One thing I did notice and I knew that since our shortest day of the year, the winter solstice way back in December, our sunrise has been getting earlier, as always, but I noticed that, is what’s new.
Any-who, it was before seven A.M. that I could open the shades and let the light in, how truly nice, I think, sure it is.
Being closer to the equator here in the southern part of our country is very nice for that! Our days are longer usually than other areas of our fine country, we now have nearly twelve hours of sunlight and it is only February! No wonder we are aptly named the Sunshine State!

On that bit of an upbeat conclusion which I do hope was understandable to all who are kind enough to read my nightly drivel, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, February 25, 2012

This week...

The stock market took a much anticipated upturn due to another bailout; not here though in these United States but in Greece! Hooray for them!
And as soon as it broke the 13,000 mark it went down again, just a shorty trip below, as if to say that I am not quite ready yet, hmm?
Teasing, like that went on the next day too, but then it did a short downturn of only, 1.74; really who could complain about that? But down is down and people are fickle, and am I the only one who knew if we waited long enough it would turn around, again? Who said history doesn’t repeat itself, is not from this planet, hmm? Or do you and other speculators want to chime in or is it the reality that the time factor involved still upset your apple carts?
Come on folks, we all knew that when things hit the bottom they have nowhere else to go than up, true?
Like the housing market, I heard about it also this week, it too has been doing better, not such a glut of homes to be sold, which will leave more possibilities for new construction, and therefore more jobs!
Things do turn around in life and in my not too clear memory most times intervention is needed but then sometimes it is just a matter of wait and sees; and sometimes it rights itself.
That is not to say that there is any rhyme or reason to how it all works and as I just said sometimes involvement is needed, by influential capable people.

I find it fascinating that now our current president’s approval rating has gone up. But I don’t blame you naysayers for not trusting him, you mostly all voted for him and at the time felt that you could trust him… but you wouldn’t believe when he said that our houses of our government were fighting him at every turn that he tried to accomplish what he had promised all of us…A CHANGE, for the better…now don’t you all feel ashamed?
Sometimes holding your own is not as easy as some believe it should be… when you're dealing with mostly, GRUMPY OLD MEN, set in their ways!
And who could forget who their constituents really are, not those pork belly guys or the do me a favor and I will scratch your back too, but us little people who literarily pay them by voting for them or against them and with the taxes taken from our paychecks to make it so they can live in a customary way that only they can realize, but not any of us!
No worries for healthcare, no worries for paying their mortgages, term positions that make them untouchable in their employment…all their housing and transportation needs met and therefore their families too!
And them having retirement packages that make most of ours, those who have 401K’s look like pitiful excuses and asking themselves why would they want to live to a ripe old age, hmm; since they will never have enough to enjoy it!

But all that is about to change for the better since everything is changing for the BETTER!
Is it only me that I can see this on our horizons, the American dream for our children and their children is not lost any longer… IT WILL HAPPEN!
People will have healthcare, jobs and therefore homes and good schools and food in their fridges and all will be merry and everyone will live happily ever after! Sure it will happen… YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, AND YES WE CAN!
Now this does sound familiar, where did I hear that before?
YOU ALL KNOW!

Moving on…
Now about me the last several weeks I have been not to forthright about my nightly headaches, before the last clobbering on the freezer door. My neck is in my cervical collar more days than not and my patch is still on my right eye…I am a mess! And I have upped my aspirin intake to five 81 MG. now and my tummy is paying by needing to take my Pepcid frequency has also increased from weeks without any to my two a day limitations…Gosh, my wrist has been swollen on my right hand and arms and head awake me at night, each screaming with a different problem. My head needs ice and aspirin and my arms are going numb not unlike my thighs do too… spasms are more frequent even with my 70 MG of Baclofen, and so I am not intermingling here as much as I would like to…
Right now my tummy is in agony and I already took my Dexilant and my Pepcid…oh joy it sounds like another early to bed night…sorry I am such a downer gal tonight and make that forgive, not SORRY, I promised I would not say I was sorry anymore for things that are not my fault!

Allow me now to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
PS I think the Pepcid just kicked in! And now that was just a matter of time too, boy, I had to wait? Now I got it why all of you too were so impatient, ha!

Friday, February 24, 2012

STUPIDITY IS RAMPANT!

And not a very nice thing for me to say, that “Stupidity is rampant”, hmm?
Sure it is though, always has been.
We as human beings do, do stupid things daily, and that’s a given.
Some people eat the wrong things, high fat and sodium, smoke the wrong things (not like there are any right things to smoke) Oh maybe some meats, but the word on the street is that even those can have carcinogens too, hmm? Don’t you know people who drink too much and I don’t mean coffee?
We, for a basically smart race, that is humans, we can go way the wrong way too!
Sure we have cured many illnesses, still not all cancers and AIDS or MS or ALS or Parkinson’s…Oh darn, none of the important ones, which they all are and even the ones I did not mention! And we have been working on that spacey thingy too, but so far no one is moving to the space station or Mars or the moon like we thought that by now we might have, hmm?
And the planet is going to hell in a hand basket; as per Al Gore and others…

And so, why be happy daily about anything that goes on in this world or your little homespun privatized place in it, why?
This is what I have surmised for us guys and gals and chillin and pals know that we need us all to work in harmony and love and peace and not war… Gosh is this a 1960’s hippy story? Nah…it’s a 2012 story, and to be my very honest self, none of that has ever changed… who in their right mind would not agree, really?
But I do know that not all of us are, in their right mind, bud dump bum…HA!

Any-who, stupidity is rampant and so this is what we must do, nip it in the bud, and learn that hate and poverty is not cool.
Take control, go out of your door and try your darndest to make your neighborhood purr and move like clockwork and start with a cleanup project; contact your local code enforcement and ask perhaps if a program is already in place I know we have A Keep Charlotte Beautiful one, Hubby used to be on the board while a deputy.
Allow people to know you and offer a helping hand when you go out to that store or whatever and wave as you leave your abode, and make them wonder who you are?
Nah, they could rob you blind if they know you left!
Kidding or not? Think about it for a while, oops time’s up!

The truth is that we have very few people that we intermingle with in our own neighborhood, and that is mainly due to the fact the turnover here is way to fast to develop any relationships.
But that’s not to say that you have the same situation and so try it if you think it is something that could or would work for you…
Either way you will more than likely get a handle on the pulse of how many in your locality feel?
It’s a start and stupidity is only a closed mind to the possibilities, not really doing things that are stupid…Wait a minute of course it is too!
That was stupid of me…!
But I rather like to think of it as just, foolishness or foolhardiness or lack of common sense or idiocy, silliness, whoa now we’re talking, inanity, fifty dollar word, hmm or a folly in futility! And that deserves a very big TA DA!

On that rather, I don’t know what or really have any idea since I am mostly stupid or is that usually stupid much of the time…Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I came to this conclusion since my doctor received my MRI report this morning and her office closed at noon and she had not looked at it yet. That’s when Hubby suggested that I call the imaging center since a woman was picking up her own yesterday when I was there for my MRI, and so I said great and that’s where he went and the report wouldn’t be ready for me until ten days and my doctor gets a first looky-see, but they gave him the CD with my MRI’s on it and stupidly I thought that I could figure it out, but of course not… The pictures are very dark and my nose has disappeared in one of them and I have a weird glow around my head, scary! There is all this white stuff all over the place and I did try hard to find anything online, but what am I crazy? Don’t answer that! Even the one site was inconclusive what was what…but you all know me I want to know… and I have very little patience…STUPID!
Now I have no resolve but to wait, hmm? So typical of me making things harder for me…I suppose it is since, MY STUPIDITY IS RAMPANT, HUH?

Thursday, February 23, 2012

There appears to be a lot of action on one of my old postings...

Of an oldie but goodie of one of my previous blogs, and I think I know why with the advent of so many doctors and pharmacies having a hard time with prescribing pain medications, since it seems that the fear of them all becoming street drugs we do need to find a better way to deal with pain! Below is my reasoning of how to possibly find a better way…and I am sincerely taken aback with the fact that it has been receiving more hits on it once again. I have never done this before with any of my previous blogs, but here it is:
Endorphins VS. Adrenaline

Of Feb 26, 2011
Perhaps, I had the right idea after all…go on steal it, and I will be one of the first ones to get on line to try whatever safe idea that you professionals come up with!

I was going to be more personal in tonight’s blog due to me running the gamut of silly for the last few days.
Getting back to my complaining and ranting roots…WHOA, kidding.
But there is always something that annoys us, huh?
Well, today I had my yearly cranial MRI to see if I have a brain and I won’t know for few more days if my neuro doc decides to call me, although, the MRI tech, Sandy, said she should have the results by tonight or tomorrow at the latest!
Geez, again this not knowing is crazy making, hmm?
Kidding, about the brain finding expedition, but you all knew that, right? In reality, it is the one to see if the Copaxone is doing what it should be doing, preventing exacerbations, in the fact that I don’t have too many new lesions/plaques in my noggin from the MS. I thought I would have a problem with the closed MRI since lately when at the doctor’s office I cannot be in a room with the door closed, I thought that was considered a slight case of claustrophobia? But I did fine for the whole forty-five minutes where I was the star attraction, i.e. my brain, if there that is!
The annoyance started two days ago when first Hubby decided to mow the lawn and yes in Florida we do mow in February if the lawn needs it!
He went out to the shed to fire up the vintage 2004/05 post Hurricane Charley new then but not now and only sleeping in the its house for less than a month really, but the machine blew out black smoke when he ignited its engine, and oops! Hubby gave it its last rights almost instantly, but it was too soon for any of that, since after closer scrutiny the fact that the oil dribbling into the gas tank was a false positive of its untimely and way too soon demise! It was not the finale but a short last hoorah with a minimal comeback in its near future with a carburetor rejuvenation procedure from SUPER HUBBY making it bionic and new and well once again! Good thing too, since a new engine was priced out at about $800 bucks and a rebuild kit with all of the other accoutrements was less than $40, whew to that!
Hubby succeeded and said that after my MRI which is the rest of tonight’s story was…Tuesday again first I received by email the approval of my MRI from The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, but they did what I originally asked, they found me an open MRI but in Cape Coral about a forty mile or less round trip from here and we don’t drive that far anymore, Hubby’s back and gas etc. a whole bucket load of reasons so any-who I called their 800 number back and wrote an apology email asking if I could instead go to the closed one I went to last year here less than two miles away, and even I knew this was pushing it but I felt for many reasons I had no choice but to try to cope with my most recent fears… And so the wonderful patient woman there, Bonnie, changed it back and sent me another approval letter via email and I promptly called them and got an appointment for today at 10:30 A.M., TA DA!
One would think so anyway, hmm?
But no, not me; do I ever have anything go so well for me, nah!
By eight a.m. or there about our home phone rang, this is Teresa the woman on the end said, at the imaging center and that they had not received the faxed approval yet! She had tried calling their 800 number in NJ, but it was too early and so I said that I would try and I did but they didn’t open until 8:30 so that was the problem and so I called back…When I got through to the extension to notify them it was a voice mail and so I hung up and called back and found Bonnie’s extension and spoke directly to her and within the half hour it was all fixed, whew, again!
Who says my life is boring hasn’t walked in my shoes, true? And they are very clean too since I barely walk in them myself, bud dump bum…!
All did turn out alright and I am pretty sure that the mystery of, does she or doesn’t she have one, a brain that is, will turn out OKAY! LOL!

Why can’t I do both, oh both?
Be personal and silly!
On that whatever you think it is and you know that your opinion is important to me; when good...that is …allow me to be the first to wish you all a very a happy good night and ask you all to count all your blessings and kindly share all you overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

One thing that I was told that having a lot of friends is a good idea...

But now ‘they’ are saying that too many friends, is not a good idea, huh?
I know that I am easily confused, but this, I am sure, is confusing to you too, right?
What appears to be the conclusion of, ‘they’ again; and to this day I still have not been told who, THEY, are?
Do you know?
And why would ‘they’ have anything to say about my social life, really?

At one time I can recall in my recent past that ‘they’ said it was very emotionally healthy to cultivate many friendships…but never ever specifics why, hmm, how odd now that I think about it…Perhaps, ‘THEY’ were taking another look at their original statement and found it to be difficult to control ‘us’ and tell ‘us’ how we should, out into the world, make people like us, therefore befriend us, true? I did not know that 'they' scored us on the difficulty factor?

In my unadulterated and un-requested frequently opinion, if ever, about this controversy I do believe that we should chose a definitive side, and you can put me down for the, ‘more the merrier’, side, okay?
I know that sounds quite radical, but this is our lives people! Another something I feel that would and that we should take a stand on! No wishy washy beings here; we are all adults, right? If not over eighteen disregard all that I am saying…please, and forget what you read, immediately! Man up or woman up or whatever, up, decisions are for everyone to make for themselves, i.e. legal grown-ups! Why this is America!
Indecisiveness is done daily in our houses of government, but we are better than that; for we are the tax paying public!
Even the ones who get money back and us who break even and a few of you who actually pay, but we have rights too and don’t you ever forget it! So show ‘them’, excuse me, ‘THEY’ what your made of and do what your heart desires…Where was I? Oh, that’s right…chose wisely, but chose for you, got it? Now get it too! FRIENDS, that is whether you stand for “the more the merrier, party” slightly on the left and some may feel a bit too liberal in creating buds as in other things or, “the I got enough people that I care about and I have no room for anymore, party” a smidge on the right or some may say wrong party, but not on my watch party… Remember we are who you truly are; and so stand tall and show that you got…BOOYAH! Or Ta da! In your soul for the entire world to see, HOO RA!
At the very least you all know I am, correct and have I ever steered you wrong, yet?

Go on have some fun and be in-charge of your own good times and don’t let ‘THEY’ or even dare I say ‘ME’ tell you what you should be doing…EVER!
After all, sheep even leave the flock sometimes, don’t they?
WOW, could ‘they’ be the ‘they’ that we always hear about? Not too sure, but a fascinating concept… find your own, and I really mean it… being an individual means just that.

On that wild ride of weirdness allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ta Da! or Boorah?

Catch phrases make people…what, talk?
Or is it just a real matter of not finding the words to express what you really want to say?
My old school buddy felt that it was more appealing to use the Boorah expletive instead of my Ta da!
And so I gave it a test drive on a few pages and it didn’t run for me the way I think it is meant to, ya know?
And so I looked it up to try and get more informed on its roots, you see, that’s me, I gotta know…
I did find it in the Urban Dictionary and you can too if you copy and paste this site: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boorah
Meaning a hot bird/ guy or the Marines used it too, but not with the same meaning as above to them it means: Dude, did you hear we have to stand guard duty on Saturday?
Oh boorah. That really bites.
And then the third definition was: term used in the movie Jarhead with Jake Gyllenhall and Jamie Foxx. They say it to confirm things (I think, and to show their enthusiasm for their job. it is purely a military term.
"I love this job," said Jamie Foxx in the movie Jarhead, "Boorah."
The next Googled information is from the site below:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-booyah-mean.htm
Fans of financial advisor Jim Cramer's television program should recognize the exclamation Booyah as one of his most popular catchphrases. Most callers to Cramer's show begin their conversations with "Booyah!" followed by a question concerning possible stock investments. Cramer himself claims that the "Booyah" craze started when an investor from Louisiana called into the show to praise him for a recent piece of good advice. The caller's exuberant shout of "Boo-yah!" which he said was a popular exclamation in his state, soon caught on with other callers and Cramer himself.
Perhaps the last one was the one she meant, and I do believe it was… but mine is the only one that a conventional dictionary recognizes and here’s what Ta DA! Really means just copy and paste this site:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ta-da
Definition of TA-DA
—used as mock fanfare to call attention to something remarkable

See why I like it simplicity and mine, but a bit dated circa 1926 first known use, oh what the heck! BOO-YAH! You ALL!
On that more than silly realization and the fact that we all can learn new tricks whatever our species, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too! Boo-rah! Sort of rolls off the fingers, hmm?
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear? TA DA! No one said I couldn’t find uses for both, hmm?

Monday, February 20, 2012

Someone added helpful things to my tool bar, how thoughtful...but mysterious, hmm?

Who is this mystical magical being that I never ever see or request things from but receive from, sometimes to my thrilling need to have and on other occasions causing baffling wonderment and a bit of concern?
Do you know?
Does anyone really know?
How we receive these needed versions of comprehensive accessories to do what we have to do…?
My question is; does it only happen to me?
Or are others also receiving this uninitiated non-requested gift?
And that I will have to payback in the future or is this just another matter of unsolicited acts of kindness, I hear so much about?

I could go on all night about this, but perhaps I should become more specific in what just happened and why I am so amazed by it…Translate, define and a Wikipedia keys have appeared right above on my tool bar on my blog page, how cool is that?

But I use this word program to write and then transfer my blogs nightly from here… still though, quite a nice tool with easy access since I only have to minimum-ize this page to get to it, and boom, there I am!

Now if I wasn’t a grown up and didn’t know better I would think that the TOOL BAR FAIRY was just leading me on again, but no I tested these new additions and found them mostly all ‘user-friendly’.
Except the translate one, I will have to work out how that actually works, since for the heck of it I put in ‘bon jour’ and I waited for it to tell me ‘good day’ after I hit the French choice, maybe I should hit the English, it doesn’t have English I just tried again…oh well…, but it came back with ‘bon jour’, again. And for Wikipedia, since it is President’s Day I put in President Lincoln and it went right to their page for that dear old Abe… pretty darn good if I do say so myself!
Although, the other two did work just fine when I put in ‘spondylosis’ it came back with the correct definition of a degenerative spinal disease; see I knew it was correct since I have that too, damn!
Oops, actually that was diagnosed long before my MS and so many of my latest laundry list of maladies, but I am going off topic and for that please forgive, since I refuse to be sorry anymore for things that are NOT my fault, got it?

Now moving back to my non-controversial topic tonight of the possibility of a ‘tool bar fairy’, who appears to bestow useful toolbars on people in need of such things.
I am back in my happy place, really!

I hope that you all know that I am just messing with you, right?
Always remember that I have way too much time on my hands but sincerely not for you and I will constantly try my hardest to keep you happy and interested here nightly, deal?

And that mysterious unanswered question of the night, allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to 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, ya hear?

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Another simple project for those who love DIY's!

Today Hubby mostly, what the heck he did the whole thing but I helped a little put the full size headboard together for our guestroom. It was an all too familiar project that we both did a few years back for our own king-sized bed one.
We needed a soft padded one due to me smashing my head, and not from what you might think, get your minds out of the gutter! LOL!
No, from my sometimes too clumsy movements that cause me to hit it into the wall behind it and I really didn’t want a wooden one since it would still hurt, got it?
Hubby still had a piece of plywood left in the garage that wasn’t quite as tall as ours, ours is three feet tall and that is only because Hubby is six feet tall,…Anyway, this piece of plywood was only two feet wide but seventy-six inches long and we only needed fifty-five inches and so it was a very good candidate for the job since the bed is up against the window and the light could still come in very nicely!
We also still had the spray glue in my crafts kit, all we actually bought was the microsuede fabric that we hit right with a fifty percent off sale for that and the batting, but full price for the Scotch Guard, but the total… drum roll please… was just $32.15, that fabric usually sells for $29.16 a yard, but was half price @ $14.58 and it was only a yard plus six inches, batting was half price too for $9.99 usually $19.99, but the Scotch Guard was full price @ $12.99 and the 20% mailer gave us another $7.51 off…TA DA! PS tufting also hurts the head, all those nails so we refrain from doing that but you could…here’s what we did.





See easy as pie! Round the edges of the top piece, cover with batting stuck on with spray glue, do outside or in a well ventilated area, Hubby took the car out of the garage and did it with the door up on clean, protected saw horses. That’s one of the reasons that I couldn’t help out there, he had painted the back white since it would be seen out the window and once the smell was out of the batting he brought it into the house and on our kitchen table we attached the fabric with staples and then Hubby took it out again to spray, two coats of Scotch Guard; then when done all you have to do is periodically vacuum!

On that simple project done on the cheap, since most cost hundreds if not some may be thousands, they wanted seven hundred for our king one that we did for only $70 dollars a few years ago… Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, February 18, 2012

The day went rather well...almost all day, and then...

This morning Hubby and I had a nice breakfast here at the homestead and decided that we would definitely be going to the Greek Festival locally.
We had a few things to do around here before they opened at eleven A.M. anyway, when the fest was scheduled to start.
We arrived around eleven thirty since we tried cashing a small five dollar rebate check Hubby received from when he bought anti-freeze/coolant for our car. Oddly enough our branch of Bank of America that we hadn’t been to in a while was no longer there, closed, we had pulled up to the drive-thru and then we thought perhaps to just go to the ATM but they no longer existed!
A wee bit upsetting, but we have two more in county and we think it was just this one and so we hope.
Any-who, Hubby was smart enough to get some cash from the grocery yesterday when we bought the tomatoes so we did have enough for the two dollar each entrance fee and the great Greek lunch that we had and at this point were looking forward to.
Parking was better than last year and most previous years since they set aside a section much larger than previously for handicap spaces. And also the fact that even though the weather was changing for the warmer… this year, they had much of the vendors and specialty food inside in their air-conditioned space that was all brand new and carpeted but with special Saran type plastic over it and it crackled and popped as I road and Hubby or anyone else walked over it sort of like bubble wrap it sounded, yep an oddity!
Many other food people as well as the dessert tents were outside, and so were the shaded tented tables where the live music played or sunny outdoor eating tables.

Hubby and I had Spanakopita (spinach pie), a small Greek salad bowl, Lokaniko on Pita Bread Greek (sausage with tomato onion and Greek sauce) we had our own waters with us, but did opt to share dessert, of course the iconic 'Baklava' and also a piece of Kataiffe, (Shredded Phyllo Pastry filled with chopped nuts in syrup), a big wow, and the next best thing to going there! Greece, that is!
They had young people dancing in the dress of the country, yes they said dress not costumes and the music was quite enjoyable. The festival continues tomorrow from noon to eight P.M. It is at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church at 24411 Rampart Blvd. in Port Charlotte Florida and it is their nineteenth year of having it! We have gone nearly every year that we have lived here.

After we left there we came right home and decided that we would roast a whole chicken tonight for dinner which Hubby does on our grill, easy for me to make the small additional things that go with it like veggies and homemade gravy. Well, I was reaching into the produce bin for an onion and some garlic for the gravy and came up and smashed my head into the freezer door…and I have been since putting ice on it twenty minutes on and twenty minutes off and even took four of my 81 mg aspirins, don’t laugh, that’s the only kind we have in the house!
Aside from being a little dizzier than usual and a wee bit more so in pain I suppose I will be okay!
Who knows…hmm?

Any-who, I almost did not write tonight and that would have been a regret for me, missing out on telling you all about our very pleasant day!
So now allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, February 17, 2012

Telling too much, is it a curse or a charm...ing?

Do most people refrain from speaking to strangers in public on lines and in waiting rooms?
Sometimes, I wish that I could be so restrained, nah, it’s not within me.
I talk with as many people who appear open to it and that is with polite conversation in all waiting type situations; it seems to help make the time go faster, I think.
The smiling thing that I am an avid promoter of always seems to break the ice too.
Who can resist smiling back at a broad with a smile; oops I meant a broad smile, ha!
Chit chat is an art form not unlike other artsy stuff.
Sadly, I have this tiny little problem though, since if any of you recall I have a broken filter and as much as I try to keep the talk light and airy, nope that doesn’t work here, hmm, how about not too personal?
Sure, I know that we shouldn’t ask people what’s what with their medical issues just let them tell you, but really; when in a doctor’s waiting room?
You see, they are there for a reason and I am so sure that they will have to tell the doctor why, and so I say why not ask?
It’s only logical, true?
And let’s say you are in line with a woman who you nearly ran down with your scooter a few minutes before in an aisle in a fabric store looking for what you needed, and you find yourself apologizing, explaining that your perception is off since you only have one working eye due to ON caused by my Multiple Sclerosis, and then she confesses to you that she understands and that’s because she only has one eye working too!
I think that is a real opening for a conversation while waiting to check out, hmm?
She also says that her friend uses a scooter too, and that her daughter has a friend with MS…WE HAVE TOUCHDOWN and we take off in all different conversational directions and before we know it we are at the cash register, let the waiting games begin!
Hooray!

This gives me a time to pause because just when you feel that many don’t understand you a complete stranger changes that for you and faith in humankind rises to renew your way of thinking!

Oh yes, we did leave the compound today and went over to the Cultural Center which is in an enormous need of contributions for their Trash or Treasure store, so if you live anywhere near Charlotte County Florida, help them.

Then we went to pick up some prescriptions at the pharmacy and from there to lunch at Wally’s Barbecue restaurant they have a new $4.99 lunch menu, which Hubby and I both found items to our liking, he a grilled chicken with bacon and cheese sandwich and fries with coffee and mine a half sandwich of grilled chicken on whole wheat with lettuce and tomato and a cup of Russian soup tomato based with cabbage and of course my unsweet iced tea and extra lemons; very tasty for both and we will definitely go back again! Did I mention the chef is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu? Right here in Port Charlotte Florida!
From there it was a short trip to Jo-Anne’s Fabric and Crafts where we purchased the same cream/buff colored ultra micro suede to do the guestroom full head board that we did years ago for our king sized head board.
Also, of course, the Scotch guard and the batting, Hubby still had a large enough piece of plywood to attach it all too!
So comfortable and all you have to do is vacuum it as needed, not that often really!
And from there in the same parking lot…Publix, yes again, we were out of my almighty tomatoes, a natural anti-inflammatory, bet you knew that, hmm? Sadly, our garden ones are not quite ready yet, about two more weeks!

On that note of a little note, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all of your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, February 16, 2012

It's nice to know some things in life...

Why; one may ask?
Voracious consumers of knowledge whether it be the obscure; from hearing a rumor and needing to know the truth or a specific need to know about ones medical information in detail to better deal with what is offered…
Learning, never ever ends and it is only as limited as you are to the prospect of desiring that continuing ability to simply find out!

An active mind is a healthy mind, except when it hones in on only negativity.
The thirst for facts, to be in the know is how a smart person is created… the more you know…and all that stuff!
Why even Sir Francis Bacon got it right with his reasoning of knowing that, “knowledge is power”… and for that I am sure most all of us should all agree.

Being not at all interested in things; baffles me and I cannot believe why anyone would ever feel that way or say that, do you? But I sure have heard that quite a few times over the years… you too; I bet!

For the last few days I had been badgering, well not badgering but annoying, well not really annoying but trying to find out where the results of my TSH or follow-up thyroid test had gone to?
And so I called my two possibilities and found that it went to the wrong office and I made a big deal, well not really a big deal more like a fuss well I wouldn’t actually call it a fuss, sort of like a complaint since it had been scripted by one doctor’s office the one I liked, but was going to the one I didn’t like!
And so I told them to kindly fix it, well not kindly but to take care of it well not really take care of it but do it…please, with a cherry on top, WELL NOT THAT EITHER, that doesn’t sound like me, does it?
Any-who, it was not accomplished until I once again intervened. So after I was happy to hear that the nice doctor would call me last night with the results on our house phone line… I received a phone call from number one son, the one who loves us… anyway… we talked and talked until after nine but that phone does have call waiting on it and no interrupts were heard by either of us… so the good doctor did not call! This morning I called the other doctor’s office and found out that I had more than one choice on whom to see there and so I opted for the one I never met, and he turned out to be quite likeable and rather pleasant in character, close to a Marcus Welby, M.D. type cast, and patient with Hubby and I who do have this problem of trying to talk at the same time, oops! And I was tested for diabetes and still I am good… one thing that I still do not have, hooray! But my TSH showed that my medication would have to be doubled in value, that means in Tobi speak to take twice as much and another blood test in three more weeks to see how it is going…the Hypothyroidism, boy, am I fashionable or what?
The newest noticed ‘as seen on TV’ ill and it’s all mine another club that I never ever paid my dues to join but here I sit anyway a member! They say that timing is everything and did I finally get it right? NO!

On that bit of silly but happy to be in the know again, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS last night was my own personal anomaly of medical meeting emotional, which is or at least can be medical too and so we move on from there… and focus on the good not the what could have been or should have been… mysterious enough for you? HA! A smart woman once said always leave them wanting more and so I will!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Bad day...

Have you ever felt that whatever you did or said just wasn’t going to cut it?

Physically and emotionally today was the pits.
Not to be too mysterious since that’s not my way but… it definitely was not at all a good one as days go…
All my frustrations just cause the stress to my body that no one needs; even the healthiest of people.

And so with that said I will be saying good night now and hope for a better day tomorrow; as we all should each and every day!

Good night dear world…have a better one than me.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

"Love means never ever having to say you're sorry", and all other hogwash!

Lovely sentiments and I read that book too, Love Story, when just a young gal, when Erich Segal wrote it and it was released in 1970 it became number one on the New York Times bestsellers list that year. But before that he was on The Johnny Carson Show now, The Jay Leno Show but still, really The Tonight Show and he told the synopsis on that night. The movie came out the same year, 1970.
What the author said, at that time is that it was a love story in a short book format or something like that; again not an exact quote and it sounded like something that I could put my mind around and make short work of it and so I did… during my lunchtimes while working at Lord and Taylor’s as a credit manager and a newly engaged young woman. It was a real tear jerker for any who haven’t read it, I do recommend it highly!
But what it told me then and what I have learned since seem to not exactly jive, but that was just a story, or a novella, not reality…
Sorry Mr. Segal, he may be rolling over in his grave with my reasoning here, I sure hope not! Yes, he did sadly pass away in January of 2010.

No husband on this planet would agree that you could ever get away without apologizing…Oh maybe that’s why the divorce rate has skyrocketed since that book came out, uh oh; a light-bulb just went off in my dim brain!
Could it be that all those lovers who never ever felt the need to apologize when they should have for some idiotic misdemeanor in the love game now find themselves; ALL ALONE? Who knows, but anything is possible… and I am more than sure that the character of Fonzi, played by actor Henry Winkler, during the 1980’s also may have caused some of this too… we all recall his difficulty with saying, I’m Sorry!
Geez, MEN!
Us gals usually whimp out and apologize at the drop of a hat, until recently we even did it when it wasn’t necessary, for dying!
Guess that’s why the lesbian population has grown, logically and perhaps male gay folks are more sensitive too, so the non insiders feel… but let’s get this one right…as human beings we must realize when we do something wrong and own up to it, male or female, that’s as simple as it gets, hmm?
And so that old statement should be, “Love is saying your sorry when you know that you should and even if someone else has to point it out to you!” Got that?

Life is not always smooth and we all know that being in love and being in it for the long haul are great reasons to know when not to misbehave and then miraculously you will never ever have to say that you are sorry! TA DA!

But even for the best of us that is a total impossibility, but become astute and know what is moot and what is not, and value that or your loved one with the respect that love demands… that’s all and that is an almost wise woman’s noticing of love of over forty years, actually forty-one with the same guy!


Yes, that is Hubby and me in the middle with our beautiful wedding party; circa 2-14-1971!

And on that well, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, and make the most of it, please!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Geography!

Now, my expectations, at this age have dwindled, in the traveling realm.
That is not to say that I have not had my share of travel as a younger woman…Why as it says in my profile (Facebook) I have been to forty US states and eight countries and all of those were before I became a married woman!
But since that time I have been with my family to a few more, since we did enjoy camping up and down the eastern coastline of these fine United States! As it may prove, after reliable thought that some were actually duplications of where I had been before…ha!
But now as somewhat of a shut-in, I am honored to know that my viewers of my blog this extraordinary nightly product of my semi-dotty brain…but to my pleasant surprise, nightly, the world comes to me, via this drivel of my constant debasing need to produce…

But I digress… my point is that they come to me to read these fanciful thoughts of my own doings and goings and what-have-yous… how truly wonderful, I say!

It appears that many, besides me have way too much time on their hands too! AMAZING!
I seem to get regularly Europe and Russia as well as India, New Zealand and Australia, but on occasion Canada, Tunisia, Slovenia, The Ukraine, and Columbia, even Denmark… a genuine geography lesson for me…and on occasion there are a few that I have to look up that are not familiar and since it can all be ever changing!
And I do love it! That’s an understatement.
In the three and half plus years that I have been doing this even at my somewhat ripe older age I have been taken aback with the world’s acceptance of what I so enjoy doing…
How do I know if what they are using this for as an example of American elder culture, which this is not typical of, nor that similar to most Americans lifestyles in general… no, I am not ordinary or extraordinary in any way, shape or form…but I may be similar to someone else that you have met in passing or at work or perhaps a strange family member? That must be it? Or even just a bad English writing lesson, with so much grammatically incorrect usage, hmm?
Whatever the connection might be all I know, it is there…somewhere… and for that, I am extremely happy to know so you are all there too!
PS Tunisia is in Northern Africa, in case you were wondering…
Little island nations too have exposed themselves at times to whatever this is…
And I say that it is just TERRIFIC!
But beware this could become habit forming… I only wish…HA!
Trying to stay fresh and current is not as difficult as one may think…or not think at all; just do.
The process for all of this is almost like automatic writing as if there is another person inside of me tapping these keys, nah, got you! It’s just me…stream of conscience type creativity…not trying too hard to be coherent just to make simplicity out what is what in this world, mine, yours and ours…YES! That is it and don’t you ever forget it that this is OUR WORLD! And with that thought we should all know by now how small it has become with us all enabled to see speak and touch one another whenever we want…which could be good or bad or happy or sad, but being kind is just fine and never ever wastes anytime…and you know why because a PEACEFUL WORLD is ECONOMICALLY SOUND! No over expenditures on weaponry or hospitals to fix the lives that war causes to go awry or destroys totally, have you seen the cost of funerals these days?
We, as a human race want the same things, love, health, happiness, a roof over our heads, food, a job and an education, and the simplicity of gaining it all is in each and everyone of us! SO PLAY NICE! And we can achieve all that we so desire…for good, not for bad.

Geez, I just came the long way down from my infrequent soap box ranting, but you know something… it felt good to speak to all these nations as if I could make a difference and that would be really something, hmm? So now allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

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

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Today was a busy email day...

And I did enjoy it quite a bit.
You see, that I have been complaining that I have too much time on my hands and so it was keeping those little human paws of mine busy!
Not so much time on them today since they were full of activity doing their thing with this keyboard speaking my words over the airwaves, how truly miraculous, hmm?

I took a test that proved that my memory isn’t too bad as of yet, but the test was remembering things for us older gals… and so I think if I knew too many of the correct answers it meant that I recall all those things that happened even before I was born?
How truly odd, it asked questions from the 1940 period and I was born in 1950, oops did I say that?
Of course I did.
I actually only got sixteen out of twenty correct:
Here’s fun for all:
Now go ahead and see if you beat mine…of 16! I was this close to being wise! LOL!



NO Cheating - don't look at the answers until you take the test!!!!

History Exam... Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 40 you
can claim a handicap. This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember
about what went on in their life.

Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20. Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.

Then before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject line. Send to friends so everyone can HAVE FUN!


1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer
switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch...
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it.. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c.. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a.. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if hey were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II.
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a . Strips of dried peanut butter.
b. Chocolate licorice bars.
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-MO.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a________, Honey'
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.



15 . What was the name of the Indian Princess in the Howdy Doody Show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a.. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord , & pass the _________?
a.. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song 'Cabdriver' a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco ?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin
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ANSWERS

1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing.. Who had a steam iron?

3. (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top...

4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.

5. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg an with eyebrow pencil.

6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.



9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. (c) Polio. In beginning of August,swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi , Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. (c) Macaroni ....

14. (c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet. Maybe it's one of those childhood impressed memories, I remember her as a LIVE PERSON!

16... (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. (c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. (a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. (a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING

17- 20 correct : You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities.
Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting there.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.


On this something different idea to start you all thinking, how old am I/you really, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, February 11, 2012

I bet you thought you knew this...hmm?

Great question to ask your friends… that is when do you recall that you first…wait for it…knew that you were you?

Now some may tisk at the whole concept of the query, but not me, no never!

I think the answer is fairly clear… why is that oh dear sweet miss-know-it-all, Tobi? I know none of you would say that but let me pretend, okay?
Because we all know ourselves at different stages in our lives, and then it is gone…

Think about it, as an infant in your crib what I like to believe of as pure discovery of your body parts, feet/toes, thumbs/hands, nose/mouth, you get the idea…
And let’s not forget the cry that gets those giants to come in to your room for whatever you want or need!

As a toddler your vocalizations make it possible to communicate in your own world and sometimes in those parental giants world too. Experimenting with ba, ma, da, da and what ever noise or guttural sounds gets those large servants of yours to get you what you want and need! If not, throw a tantrum that can go either way…
Speech and pronunciation seems to allow for more of what you have to have to come forth, since those adult proprietors of your care seem to go berserk over the fact you can put two or more words together and yell and cheer when you do!

As an older child, in school, you know when the teachers like you, when you know the answers to their questions, and Mom and Dad think that you are so smart getting all those A’s!

Even though, as an adolescent, by now, you think you got this all figured out, that is, knowing everything almost…, but not quite yet…see that’s when you become a teenager formally thirteen to nineteen, and no one else knows a thing except of course your friends who know it all too!
And no one understands you, but you!

In college we experiment with our newer independence of being away on our own, trying things that the folks back in that little town of no ones would never and could never get or understand and would be shocked to know you did that!…
But… along comes love… and he/she is your world and soon he/she says after graduation you wanna marry me? And you do and in a year or two you are expecting that ‘bundle of joy’ that they all talk about since time immemorial… and you find out that GEEZ, you need those people at home that were always at your beck and call, you need them for advice, since for the first time… you haven’t a clue… or know what to do?

But each decade of our lives is a new understanding, of whom we really are, and if lucky before we die …we all will know our own truth, since nothing molds us more than what we experience in our lives and that makes us whom we eventually become…

And so I believe until the ride is over, cliché as it is, but we are all ‘works in progress’, and who would have the nerve to complain because that is why we were made… to be you and me, i.e. only oneself! So I suppose that is the answer; what was the question? LOL!

On that hopefully not to much wasting of your time, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time, please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS our younger son’s birthday is today and all we wish for him is love, health and happiness! And that he should know that we miss hearing from him and seeing him… etc.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Honesty can pay off...I think!

As crazy as my whiner semi-rant of last night was I sent it to the person that it was about.
And you know what?
It appears that it helped to clear the air and start a new friendship on a different level of understanding, wow, who would have thunk it, hmm?

Any-who, the old chum, was busy doing errands, my bad; and got back to me that night to let me know that my bombardment of forwards of those ideas from House and Garden and This Old House Magazines newsletters online that I receive a few times a week made her think about doing some new things on her own home.

Yes, at least two or three every week, like clockwork and they made her think that she would perhaps like to make some changes, starting with the drawer pulls in her kitchen.
Oops!

Yep, something’s never change…like me jumping the gun on why people do what they do… Call it over analyzing their way of thinking and my own over thinking of the why. See, a couple of years of psychology can sometimes do more harm than good! LOL! A little knowledge is a bad thing? I think not!

Any-who, today we did have a pretty busy day, since my doctor joyfully called last night with the best news about my biopsy being benign,! So I asked him about the thyroid test that I was told to have early in this month for testing how my thyroid medication was working and when I would need to come in for the results of that? I went on to tell him I held off on going for that blood work until I had the results of my biopsy but now that all was well I would be going tomorrow morning, meaning this morning and so we went!
I had to go fasting for this one and an only test for me to find out if the low dose that I am using is good enough or it has to be increased.
You see, after choking in my sleep I was put on Dexilant 60 mg. for that GERD in September and I was due for my yearly blood work and that is when the thyroid issue came up. Here I am now with this newest problem since November and it is still being tweaked thus the additional blood test. But since we hadn’t eaten we went out for breakfast, which we hadn’t done in ages…it was right next door to the pharmacy that I use and so I let them know that I needed a refill of one of my prescriptions by calling while in transit and it was all ready when we were done with our meal, so efficient, hmm?
We had an additional stop at the Publix for this and that’s and this time Hubby took the time to put my scooter together since they have room there, the other stops I used my walker since their businesses are too tight for my scooter, do I see another ADA issue for them?
Also most don’t have automatic doors, still.
I would have to check on the reasoning of public access for all from the American’s with Disabilities Act information.
I really should read that thing!
I thought it was to make sure that all individuals, able-bodied as well as disabled should and could have equal access to all buildings that were utilized by the public?
Here it is for all to read: I thought so… just copy and paste:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/hq9805.html

On that here to inform, sometimes gal, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Old friends sometimes open old wounds?

Well, it goes like this for the last several days I have been talking back forth via email to my old school chum.
And our lives have evolved somewhat differently; she was widowed and lost her sister all within a few years from each other; her father passed away years ago; but thankfully she still has the love of her Mom who is now living with her. Her relationship with her niece and her great nieces appears to be an on again off again one and not something she cares for what’s-so-ever…. Who would, not me?
And for all that I am extremely sorry for her, but as we all know I have not had a pleasant life either…
My parents died while I was still in my thirties, not too young but young enough for my sons to miss having any grandparents for as long as they should have rightfully deserved and me the right to complain now of their burden to me! Our youngest one who is estranged from us since then was at the center of hers and my relationship ending all those years ago, nearly eight!
And so why bother trying to be friends again when so much tension/strain shows from our past and bad memories?
I think it might be that she had been my BFF, Best Friend Forever, as the kids say today, and even her husband when he was still well and thriving and we had a previous falling out, said that we would get back together since we were more like sisters than friends…and hers is gone and my little sister, my niece, who was only five years younger than me is gone too both of them died of cancer… she stood along side this old pal of mine as a bridesmaid at our wedding, I only had three, and the last one was my sister-in-law and you all know what happened to her, hmm?
And so I thought that we could help each other with all this horrendous commonalities… although she has faired much better than I, health wise for herself, but her ninety-one year old Mom is loosing her sight from Macular Degeneration an is very anemic too, sadly. But manages to read the paper with some magnifying help I am more than sure and also can climb a spiral staircase to her room that she refuses to give up due to her independent attitude, and I say more power to her. You see, the master bedroom is on the main floor and even though this old friend of mine wanted to trade, her Mom has held ground since she is lucky enough to still have all her faculties; which does show that strength is inherited, for this I am sure.
And my Mom did not deal with adversity very well and that explains me… I at first crumble but through time and no other recourse I rise from my own self inflicted ashes not unlike the Phoenix; I rise again to survive!
Halleluiah!
LOL!
Kidding, not about the surviving part, but that felt good, about the Phoenix metaphor, nah that was very creative, I liked it and I will keep it in, and it really does describe me, hmm?
I do often crash and burn, but I am still here!

This is being written since I mentioned that our schedule is not that regular, that is being retired (bums), while she went back to work, part-time, after a long hiatus when married, although she did help him when needed, since he was an attorney and she was a legal secretary, and so was my Mom, by the way.
That was about seven years ago if I recall that she reentered the work force.
And so she has to organize and accomplish things, especially with her Mom and all, but we do things as they come at us, see very different.
The fact that Hubby does things that I can no longer do and I slow him up on errands runs due to needing my mobility scooter, that is quite compact and is not on the back of our vehicle but has to be put together each and every time…
And since I blatantly told her all that, she has not written back, oh wait, no she sent me a forward about, ‘Baby Boomers’, which told me that she is not getting me at all!
Multiple Sclerosis is not a hip replacement that fixes arthritis or even arthritis it is neurological and affects many people entirely differently! My eyesight is part of mine and my numbness in all major portions of my body as well as my balance from the Ataxia, and the spasms from what it is all doing to my CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, not my bones that can be fixed, not always but quite often, since I have seven types of arthritis too and worked for the foundation!
And so although I exist and thrive, in my own way… I do not have blinders on or any denial of what reminds me daily by just trying to get out of bed, and sometimes it is more difficult than others! And I am not talking about my way of thinking I am talking on the ability to get out of the bed physically!
Sorry friend, I suppose I expect too much from people… but really just to understand, although I am not terminal; I am very well challenged daily!

That’s all… and now we all know why I have no one visiting me the shut in who cannot even use her swimming pool since anything above eighty degrees means I need to wear my cooling vest and if I don’t I end up on IV Steroids that cause me to be temporarily Diabetic and needing insulin, so sorry dear old friend that I am not that sick to be cared about for many, just an annoyance…it seems… since many have stopped calling. Since my ability to help them is no longer viable for them! PS I quit smoking on 7-11-06, due to my MRI’s showing TIA’s, mini strokes, and Mom and Dad and even my brother died of strokes…! And Hubby smokes his cigars outside for me.
I AM UPSET!
Or she did have errands to do and maybe got too busy or maybe…NEVERMIND!

On the brighter side I called the hospital to see if I could take my aspirin again and they said long as my incision is okay, by now that I could and I asked about a glass of wine and they said fine to that too! In fact the lovely Shauna who also helped yesterday said have one for her too!
And so I will… PS no results yet…but they were sent to my doctor’s office too and it appears that I will know by tomorrow? She was not allowed to divulge.

On that possible reason to celebrate, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS UPDATE THIS JUST IN RESULTS OF MY BIOPSY, BEST NEWS EVER, NO CANCER, THE DOCTOR JUST CALLED! HOORAY! Now here's an idea that needs your help, is there any way to avoid these false positive mammograms causing these unnecessary biopsies? I've had four.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Yesterday, was Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday and I missed it, and oh boy; do I have coal on my face, ha!

Charles Dickens' two hundredth birthday would have been yesterday. But that can’t be right, no one yet lives to 200, do they, than why do they say that and celebrate that, kidding, but it does make you wonder, hmm? And the reason I knew that was due to all the reminders here on my welcome page and also on the crawl on the TV screen in the waiting room at the hospital yesterday! Truly Chuck so very sorry and darn I won’t be here for your next tri-centennial! Did you know that he was indirectly responsible for the expression of, what a Dickens’s of a day I am having and sure most of us have used it?

Any-who, my day yesterday went all right I suppose as those days do go…, it has been a while since I had to go into a hospital, even as an out patient, for a mini procedure like mine was yesterday, the Stereotactic needle biopsy.
I was treated very well by all the participants in the positioning, numbing, sticking, and pulling out of the sample from my better endowed than ten years previously of my womanly appendage, AKA my right breast.
No, I am not blushing with using the proper anatomical name of what half the earth’s population has in common.
Not even a wee bit of a cringe here, ha!
Well, maybe a little… I really didn’t think I would be writing to you all tonight since all I remember is lying down around eight P.M. last night in bed and falling asleep and then awaking at what I thought was two fifty-five A.M., but on closer observance it was only 12:55 A.M. but I was up and this thing was warming up and I had coffee dinging in the microwave and so with my ice-pack nestled on my chest, on and off for twenty minutes was the order, and I had already had my quota of Tylenol of eight in 24 hours and so that was a no go… my day started early and I have not slept since!
And yes, my biopsy locale is sore as well as that arm and elbow too and so I am going to call it quits a bit earlier. I got a nice phone call from Connie at the hospital wondering how I was doing and a weird letter from the doctor’s office saying that my report of 1-6-12 needed to be discussed so make an appointment and I called and no one called me back yet (the postmark was yesterday) and the same letter I received when this all began…hmm scary, dejevu; or perhaps, Ground Hog day, again?

On that, another oddity of my life, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share the overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Biopsy day

If you are reading this you are too darn close!
I always wanted to say that; LOL!
Any-who the only reason I will be writing this the night before my procedure is that my right arm is still sore from having my test.
And it’s not like I didn’t want to write to you all tonight, well maybe, kidding, it is just that I am tired and sore and we all know how complaining about that is NOT COOL!
So, really?
I am not going to.
Give us both a break for tonight and I will continue tomorrow, I hope, we will see what we can see, okay?
Nighty, nighty and sleep tight, well not too tight, keep that drinking to the minimal, you HEAR ME! HA!
Love you all… and be well, be happy and peace be with you all and smile until it hurts! Or not; no SMILE!

Monday, February 6, 2012

News can be unnerving and devastating... and yet don't we all crave to know?

The human animal is curious by nature; and so to want something as important as information is part of our genetic makeup, or our DNA.

With that said, our emotions seem to play, at times, unruly in the everlasting desire to know.
As with the horrendous outcome of the Powell case in Washington state.

The missing mother was unaccounted for since December of 2009 and her husband was saying that she was gone when he returned home with their two young sons after a mid-night camping trip in the snowy mountains with them, hmm, red flag in my book?
Sadly one of the young boys allegedly said that Mommy was in the trunk when they went there, when investigators talked to the young child, but he continued with saying that she did not come back with them… And all ended today, culminating in the horrible an explosion of the father’s home with them all in it this morning! He did take the time to email his attorney and a few other family members with, “I’m sorry, goodbye!” Not an exact quote but you get the gist, how truly so bad and sad, and sure we all were wondering about the family, but hoping for a happy ending, not this!

A wee bit less impact-full nationally but just as devastating to animal lovers here locally. Lee County, to our south, has had an outbreak of canine Parvo Virus an easily preventable but highly contagious deadly disease spread from dog to dog who is not protected. It appears that those dog parks that we were so thrilled to have, some of the visitors are not as careful about preventative care as they should be prior to attending such thrown together all types of loving pets. The problem has seemed to occur due to the downturn in the economy and many people think that they cannot afford the shots for care, but in reality any vet will tell them they are quite affordable at only ten to fifteen dollars a piece and last for a couple of years for the Parvo one that if not given can die unnecessarily and the loving canine pet should get it to save their life it could cost nearly one thousand dollars to treat it after and does not guarantee survival, and so it is a definite no brainer! Just do it!

This entire hullabaloo, made me take that extra step to check with our vet for Skipper’s shots’ record, he goes each July and gets whatever our vet knows he needs since he was a pup and the office said he had his last Parvo shot July of 2011 and he is good for three years! Whew, peace of mind, and it is priceless, ya know?

It apparently has killed many dogs in Lee County; so far here in Charlotte County we haven’t had any problems. This is more often a summer concern, but with the very warm temperatures, even higher here for us, about ten degrees higher than our usual they feel that is why we are experiencing it now.

Sometimes the news gives us all wake-up calls that are necessary to take inventory of our daily lifestyle behaviors, and for that I am grateful to our local news stations of NBC-2, WINK and our ABC affiliate, partnered with NBC, since both are owned by the same company: Waterman Broadcasting...

On that little bit of local trivia, newsworthy, I hope, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all kindly to count your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Tool bars are not for sissies...

Is it just me or are there others of us out there who do not know or use all that their tool bars have to offer?

Call me crazy and I am sure many have, but, really do you?
My home or welcome pages have varied over the many years that I have been a proud in touch with the world Internet user.
And even before the World Wide Web. I was a computer Word Program peep with modems and nothing else. And so for many years the tool bar has been a so-called member of this family in as always in the reasoning of being there without much fanfare and just being. Yes, being there…sort of like an old maiden aunt that you don’t see that often…Gosh, that sounds so awful, but I bet you do get the gist of what I am trying hard here to explain, correct?
TOOL BARS are more complicated than those aunts though!
How, you ask?
I know you really didn’t but if you did… here’s what “I would probably say”, I know that should have been what “I WOULD SAY”, Geez, I am so much more decisive than that sounded; sorry…I’M NO WHIMP!
Are you ready?
I have a screen saver button that gives me the choices of my gallery, screensavers, wallpapers, mobile, screen studio, help and feedback, and lastly: REMOVE THIS BUTTON!
I think that one is the way to go since I have been online and mostly when I have used any screen they have caused my computer to run funky, but that’s just me, you do whatever works for you, ya know? And so that one is gone, like I just took the time and did that, wow how freeing not to see it constantly glaring at me asking if I wanted to screensave!
The next one says smiley central although it says when clicked on that it has an Internet Explorer Script error and so that one will be gone! It did not leave although when asked if I wanted to continue to run this script on this page, it asked me either yes or no and I hit no and oddly enough it is still there… I suppose I will have to come back to that one, hmm? Now the one to its right is Cursor Mania, although never ever used it is quite cute and who knows when I might feel the urge to wiggle and jiggle a new shaped cursor in wow multitudes of interesting silly styles!
And so it stays; see decision making isn’t so hard after all, hmm?
But wait there’s more!
I’m not done the last button in the row is My Fun Cards, you know I never noticed this one before but it does sound like I have been missing some great stuff right here on my own, very own TOOLBAR, why it’s a technological party-time, fun for all, who knew I was missing all this right here at my beck and call at will whenever my heart desires a fiesta in its soul! Whoopee!
Life is good, and this is the free fun stuff!
My menu says gallery main page, be a star cards, group cards, photo cards, card gallery, help and feedback, and again that almighty final choice to REMOVE THIS BUTTON?
Shall we? Or shan’t we?
A real cliffhanger and so I will leave you all with that question that all people have when not sure what to do…
PU NT!
Enjoy the Super Bowl, which had kickoff a few minutes ago… I sure hope my team wins!

On that other wondering moment, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, February 4, 2012

So far...

Larry, the dog has not been found, yet, which is very sad and scary.
Another mysterious curiosity is also baffling me… and a wee bit different…
One of my many cousins is unreachable by all means usual on this planet and I am very worried.

What does one do when all logical forms of communications have been exhausted, except the one that you are unable to do?
What’s that you ask?
Physically going to her home to check in person on her well being, you see, it is not possible, since she lives more than one thousand miles away!
I have tried calling her and her Mom, my aunt and left a message on the machine, as well as emailing her and even her good friend too…but so far not a thing.
Perhaps, she is on a wonderful vacation with her immediate family since she just had a birthday?
Well, that is just the way I will have to think about it that is until I hear something definitive.

Oh, another thing I never mentioned I did hear back from our estranged son’s bride, and they had a wonderful winter vacation together. They even met up with her family during that time for a visit and she felt that the time was not right to discuss his parents with him, meaning us, Hubby and me… and so it took me over a week to write back.
I did not want to alienate her for even though I am not happy with her not trying to be a go between I do understand it is a precarious situation and that with not being handled properly could go either way.
What I basically wrote back is that I understood and that I was happy to hear they had such a nice time, yuck! Am I being saccharine sweet? Sure I am, but it’s that fear of those eggshells once again… I’m sorry, but this is so hard to do, and in spite of my true feelings of real impatience I found it within me to make light of it that is wishing our son a happy birthday which is coming up this month but then I said I guess that she can’t since she didn’t want him to know that we were talking to each other, and then I said LOL! UH oh, I suppose that is why I haven’t heard, back, yet, hmm? But I did close with that I was sure when the time was right that she would do what’s right, blah, blah, and blah…GRRRR!
But I was such a good girl and I held my keyboard typing tongue, at least until now...
Listen this is just between us, right?
You will never understand how much this time together means to me, really!

You are my confidants, my sounding boards and even sort of friends with the best of all features, the ability to listen without being too critical with your feedback! And thanks for that!

CRAZY! Yes, at times. Tell me one person with any kind of interesting personality that isn’t, hmm? LOL!
Gotta love the ones who don’t hide any of it, as we used to say in the sixties, Gosh now I am in the sixties, mine, dejevu, WOW, any-who, what I was about to say before I got a bit distracted is…
“Letting it all hang out!”
Yep, that’s what we would say, and any of us that remember that are now in the senior group whom committed that expression knowing full well its ramifications and did it anyway, say it that is and probably did it too!

On that feeling better about my whys in life with that revelation of a wise throwback, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS Great news, I just spoke with my not so missing cousin!
PSS UPDATE: LARRY THE DOG IS ALSO NOW HOME WITH HIS PEOPLE MOM AND GRANDMA!

Friday, February 3, 2012

Lost dog, pre registered and busy, busy, busy!


He has a microchip # 4A0147OC15 Home Again the toll free number to call is1-888-466-3242 Last seen corner of Weider and River Roads Montague, NJ 07827 He is prone to seizures and needs his daily Phenobarbital 2x daily, he is friendly.

Early this morning I began a large project for myself, although Hubby did most of the work.
It was putting simulated bead board around our bar divider from our kitchen to our living-room with brackets to make the counter top look as if it is actually being held up; silly, hmm?
Actually, finished off and done in the cottage style that is through- out our home. And not that expensive to do, since it is plywood sheeting that is not separate tongue and groove true bead board, but has the same affect; you decide…



And so although Hubby did the constructing; I did the painting and it was basically a white washing so as to allow for the wood grain to show through.
I did like the effect and Hubby does too, at first he had no idea of what I wanted or meant, and when I requested his help in the making sure that I didn’t miss too much of the wood, he actually put a heavy coat of paint on (by the way, we still had from our walls be painted years ago, ha!) And I explained to him that he was hiding the wood grain, and then as if a light went off, I saw the look of recognition come over his face, he got it that is what I thought was the correct affect, ‘whitewashing’!
Now, that terminology has gotten a bad rap over the years and has wandered far from its original origins…But yes, I do believe that in is humble, not meaning concealment or palliation of flaws or failures or a defeat in a game in which the loser scores no points so much in my realm of usage. For me, it was just that white-washing, as in a wooden fence, to let the grain shine through the paint, okay?
Although, it could have been due to the dear price of paint way back then and it was thinned with linseed oil or turpentine or lime to go further…more than likely.
How odd that something so cost efficient is now considered fashionable?
And in between me taping and painting I was helping or trying to help an old childhood friend find her dog…

And then…
Most of this afternoon, I was on the phone with the hospital, with the surgical nurse asking me my medical history and medications and surgeries etc. to be prepared for my procedure, next week!
And so for me it was a bit hectic and it felt good to be busy, busy, busy…and to be trying to help someone else besides myself for a change!
Who hasn’t felt more alive and useful when they realized that perhaps they could help another human being, hmm?
That’s what makes us volunteers, right? Right!

On that thought provoking note, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all to count your blessings and to kindly share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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