Tuesday, June 25, 2013

An Anniversary!



“Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Day One

Hello world!

I'm Tobi, a woman who will be 58, next Tuesday, July first.
And I must add that I am lucky enough to have a husband, of 37 years; to enjoy this second half of life's journey, although many will say we are way past halfway!
Anyone have any ideas how to enjoy this time in our lives?

Life to this point has been a roller coaster ride, and I have never ever put on the brakes.

We are retired on a limited set income with health issues, but do enjoy family, reading, fishing, gardening, and trying to stay fit. I have volunteered for many organizations over the years, and enjoy writing, and have been published sparingly here and there.

Fortunately, we do live in Florida where the sun does shine most of the time barring any sudden showers, or heaven forbid, hurricanes.

We have two adult, single sons. Who live two hours away in either direction, and are independent capable men. A Bichon Frise four years old named Skipper, a domestic long haired cat of 12, named Casey, and a 29 year-old Cockatiel named Charley.

I have MS and arthritis, and today, I have hip pain from bursitis. Other than that I am just peachy keen!

This week I have discovered an author that I had not yet read, Nancy Pickard...how I do love female mystery writers from Florida. And male authors too that write using our state as a backdrop, Randy Wayne White, James Hall; are two that come to mind. Not to say that I don't read male authors that are not from here, Robin Cook, James Patterson, and Michael Crichton to name a few... actually all of them do live here part of the time.

First day!
Went well I think.
Hope to hear from you with positive intelligent feedback.”

I bet you thought you were in a time warp or something, hmm?
The above was my very first entry that began all this and yes, those dates and ages are all correct! And being proud to get as old as we can stems from… Since we all know that the only alternative to not getting older is…must I interject here, well, that is sadly, DEAD! So let’s all get as old as we can and tell others how old we are with pride! Okay, just me, but if you feel the urge to follow suit don’t be shy, since it really doesn’t hurt!

Unfortunately, Casey the cat, died that fall at just about thirteen, not shameful for any feline, but Charlie the Cockatiel hung in there until thirty-one, unusual for one of his species, most live to around sixteen, a few till twenty, he was definitely amazing! As we all should be, that is by trying hard to defy our normal life spans! Never give up!

I thought it would be fun to dig this up, out of the archives, here at Google’s well maintained keeping of EVERYTHING! Could you imagine if it was all stored in an old fashioned filing cabinet or even a room for such things like we oldies used to do? I suppose it would look a little like mine that I still do keep for tangible evidence and hard copies of all our necessary info that who knows when we could, might or probably would need it… although, recently Hubby did shred a few older years worth that we both felt were alright to surrender, from around circa 2005, 6, 7, 8, 9. Our taxes today all have to be kept here, in this country, for only 3-5 years now, no longer seven, which we did sufficiently! It is really a fire hazard so best to purge much more often than us! My retired fire chief Hubby and me; do as I say, not as I do…only some things, okay many…but not too many…ha!

Moving on… any-who…
Our day was much today as I suspected that it would be, calm and very quiet and as many of us know that is nothing to sneeze at, peace with quiet is always a good thing when at home that is.
And so to close this up tonight as I so often do I am here to make one severe correction, last night I wrote that only five thousand had read this in five years, well I was wrong, and I did go back and correct that, it is closer to 28,000! To be honest though before I post this tonight it is exactly, 27, 651 persons have read my five years of blogs, 349 short of what I said and that’s me honest to my detriment, but I bet you knew that!
PS I also corrected my conversion of that 20 degrees Celsius from being equivalent to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, it is actually 68 degrees F, but still chilly by our Florida standards!

Life is good and admitting that you make mistakes helps change things for the better and also allows for learning daily as I still want to do… since when you stop that, ‘learning’ thingy that is when you die! A warning only in the nicest way, but true!

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

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

Additional updates from the beginnings...More things that I forgot that dear Michael Crichton has since passed on that November of 2008...and I lost the eyesight in my right eye on July 2, of 2010, from Optic Neuritis, which caused me to give up one of my first loves, reading, since lefty gets very tired and becomes blurry in that process!

Chant with me here...
                          FIVE MORE YEARS!
                          FIVE MORE YEARS!
                          FIVE MORE YEARS!
                          FIVE MORE YEARS!
                          FIVE MORE YEARS!
        


                           OR NOT?

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