Sunday, May 31, 2015

More?

What about enough?
When you have what is just right for you that is defined as enough, and of course that is different for each of us so I am not judging...
Why does it appear that others believe what is right for you or what you should do is basically what they want too?
Who are these people?
Where do they come from and where do they get these ideas from?
I don't know any of them these days, do you?
Whew that was close!


PS we live with enough; not that that matters to anyone but us, ha.

Moving on...

Most of us are aware of the horrendous storms causing flooding in Texas and Oklahoma and the couple dozen deaths and all our prayers are with all those survivors.

Onward and so here we go...

Thoughts whether connected or disconnected can be relevant so let's try that.
Today was another mundane one, day, commonplace by most standards, but neither boring nor exciting.
Going about business that is non commercial, our own business at home and completing what needs to be done daily is called being responsible.
Hubby tackled the cleanliness of our eleven hundred gallon backyard fish pond by pumping it out, which is a delicate operation.
He must protect the hundreds of mosquito eater fish, the ones we received a few dozen of from our local county extension years ago. They are quite prolific breeders and their importance is in eating all the mosquito larvae that might land in our pond. Basically they are non-chemical mosquito control.
We are sadly down to only two goldfish, since their life expectancy is about five or six years but these have lived over eleven years!
The last two of the dozen we had, sorrowfully a couple were lost to predators of the heron type, others died a natural death. And yes these are the little goldfish that you win at the fairs or buy at the pet store, but in a pond they grow to an amazing large size, over a foot long; a few even grew longer!

Any-who, every once and awhile the leaves and gardenias do not desiccate, breakdown, as well as they should so Hubby intervenes as in today. The slow delivering of city water does not cause ich or shock due to the way it is slowly put in.

My job was more average one of a couple of loads of laundry and meal preparations; done and done!

On that ordinary day without surprises allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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


 

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Mind set

Along we go, at times, through our lives...unobstructed.
And during those times we might become oblivious and slightly self absorbed with our own lives and forget that there is a whole lot of people that we know, if even not too well, but know of that are also moving along this life's trail and who may have hit a bump, a lump, a glitch, a nasty period that messes with their usual being of who and how they are.
So it is only appropriate that we as others living amongst these human beings of our interest that we have a bit of an obligation to become more observant, true?
Merrily we go along, but not always either.
So when a fellow people falls or trips or has a not usual day or days or weeks or months or years, whatever some bell/alarm in our head should go off wakening us up to the need to be aware. 
Heck Facebook heralds so many other things why not sick lists, hurts lists or accidents lists too?
I demand a NOTIFICATION when my Facebook pals have had that horrid ill or surgery or broken leg or what-have-you, sterilizations and other too personal things that cause some think that they are too cringe worthy when discussing, are to be informing only on a need to know basis.

I cannot express this enough we all need to be interrupted to be informed like news bulletins please!
I insist, no I demand that this newest service, perhaps an app could be more efficient, but something has to be done and now sooner rather than later!
Being in the dark is not acceptable.
Aren't we all doing the social media thingy to be closer to the world, even if it only includes our own immediate world?
But seriously even with doing diligence and trying hard not to be too nosy I was fortunate to come upon a faithful reader of this blog for all these years who became MIA and so I did a search, and of course I was saddened to find out that he didn't just realize that he didn't need to read this crap anymore, but he was legitimately out of commission!

WHOA!

Reality check... he wasn't here reading this drivel and this self absorbed narcissistic driven being stopped and looked and wondered about someone else, perhaps a breakthrough... and why they were not around and I/me truthfully worried for their safety, health or who knows what? Not for them wising up about this being a waste of their time.

The rest of my unconscionable and plausible conclusions thoughts will be left unsaid out of a true concern for the welfare of my enduring fan, and yes his words not mine.
My prayers and good happy vibes are being sent as I write tonight, since he is already loved well by his family and dear female partner, and so even with all of them he should know that his loyal nightly acceptance of what he sees here is not too shocking from this extremely well educated man to declare of this humble grammatically incorrect hack is as if he is a distant family member who actually gets me and likes me and for that I am more than grateful.


And I am sure I can say all this because he probably is very busy working on getting better right now and has no time for this junk that has not true classification or class either, ha!
So I do hope he is resting and taking a very important break to put only positivity into himself for the cure in the way of fluids.
Be well friend, a Facebook friend.

On that going off track to back to myself, allow me, sorry, to be the  very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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


Friday, May 29, 2015

Page

So very white and blank and looming large with nothingness staring back until now.
Now it is filling with non-informative compliance manufactured necessities from a grown odd brain needing to fill the void.  
No one demands it and or even politely requests it, it is self driven with at times an intensity that is nearly palatable to only the composer of this neediness to fill this nightly emptiness.
Strange as it may seem to the many, to the few or make that the one, it is at times all encompassing with an unrealistic desire to be heard.
With a true platform the mind details of just what topic or why when shouting so truly quietly, soundlessly, but flinging the thoughts and opinions so very far to the immediate range of persons or farther out to others surrounding the vacuum of unrestrained non-rigidity of the social medias but alas reaching ever so further out to the world at large, and yes that is so very LARGE!

And flung to the ends of the earth in reality, not just spoken by written word but by transmissions made from here to outer space possibly, beyond this galaxy.
Who knows what interceptions have been occurring daily, hourly or even as I write here tonight, another thought to ponder.

Of course I realize most of what I say is questionable when it comes to plausible concepts beyond this world, but still it does make one think.And truthfully not that weirdly implausible since scientists in the field have been sending out messages for decades hoping to make contact.Any-who, even "they" might be looking for validation, i.e.scientists as well as ETs, your non-movie invented extra terrestrials, ya know or maybe you don't.

Doesn't matter to me for you can address those ideas on your own soapbox wherever that may be.

On that note once again explaining me in jest for you or not, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Complexities in life thee name is...

Perhaps most all humans?
Sure you have your borderline psychotics,and full fledged ones too, and narcissists, phobics, schizophrenics, including paranoids then you have your bi-polars, obsessive compulsives, and hyper-active  and people that are overly emotional, and throw in a few others that when diagnosed can be helped if not become a BIG problem and lest us not forget the so-called normals that have to deal with all the rest, and so yes people are extremely complex.  
What else is new, really?

I ask you than why should we subdivide us more by race, religion, national origin and financial status?

The world is screwed up and in all the insanity is there truly anyone sane anymore if ever, totally?
My first impression is no.
How we deal with problem solving on a daily basis is indicative of the how we maintain our decorum in life and can determine our abilities in continuing on the straight and narrow path of what is considered appropriate behavior by most civilizations, true?

Wars and hate make me continue to wonder when or if it will ever end, ya know?
Thus my conclusions that most in this world must be in grave need of medical intervention, not weaponry, biological, tanks or nuclear or any other destructive devices that our so-called brilliant minds amongst us can devise!  

I have been deemed sane often enough by people in the mental health professions that I had enlisted during tough times in my life, grief from loss, human and disaster wise and other difficult times in life. The truth is sometimes we must go and ask someone, an impartial professional opinion and input on how to handle things or even as a sounding board of listening so as not to torture loved ones or friends with a litany of worries or complaints; sometimes it is just nicer to give them all a break, ya know.

And then there is always writing your concerns down to express your true feelings, objections or problems and either burying, destroying what you are thinking in ink later so it is done and done once you read it a few times to try and decipher why, what or when you can change or keep the same or remove the anger that caused you to explode for no reason what-so-ever but feel better that no one knew since it was only on
paper that can be shredded or burned or thrown away, but if you did it here, on a computerized techno device you are so screwed because mechanical cyber technological programs are forever even when you think you have deleted them, aha!

So like me writing nightly here either don't say anything you will regret, NOT, or don't do this choice of mine.
Yep, keep it all bottled up and endure ulcers, but now they say they are caused by bacteria so no not them, but perhaps sleepless nights, probably, and over eating or not eating at all due to some foolish mistakes in there cluttering up your mind thinking about "THAT" when you should be thinking about something else like what you are doing when you are doing it...!
Yep, that IT, or any other its in your its your muddled brain might be able to come with, unfortunately you have too much white noise to think clearly and so people start yelling at you to pay attention and then watch OUT!
You finally explode and tell them what you really think and have been thinking all this time!
Geez that felt good you think and quite cathartic actually. 

So there you have it, what I have no idea or yes it why people could be might be or are quite complex and so aren't we all delightfully, horrifically or terrifically or happily or hatefully angrily so many adverbs so much time on my hands, so let me catch you next time!

On that note of not much allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night, yeah right, yeah, and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings, just do it, and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Music always makes exercising more pleasant

Sure many of you have had those Walkman type listening music devices, I never did.
While accomplishing my exercise routine I felt the need for me to talk to whomever was next to me while on any and all of the tortuous equipment that was endured in the process of becoming healthy and slender for the over four years I went religiously five days a week to Gold's Gym and the other one that closed, sadly I cannot recall its name and I wrote an item on it way back when.

Although, my music to exercise was a boom box prior to that when teaching my seniors Aquatics class. I used tapes of old favorites as well as a nice repertoire of dancing game songs, like the hokey pokey that had turned 100 while I was still teaching at South Port Square retirement village in Port Charlotte way back when. We also did the chicken dance that many do at weddings on dry land and a few others that I am forgetting now.
Basically we had fun, even listening to the PBS easy listening stations via the local college, which most all loved, quite relaxing in between.

Years ago our son's girlfriend gave Hubby a Sony portable radio/CD/cassette player in blue for Father's Day. I do believe it was in 2003 or there about, we still have it and she bought it for our then new boat that did not have one, a radio that is, and we still have that boat too, oddly enough. 

Any-who, as I have done from time to time too, when I remember, today I brought it outside to be played on an oldies FM radio station while doing my now daily pool exercises, it always makes the time go just right, not faster per se but nicely by...Along with my musical accompaniment I also found my yellow band to attach to the pool stair railing to accomplish my shoulder strengthening exercises given to me by one of my many physical therapists over the years, I have different colors which represent strengths. Placing your shoulders under the water as with most other body parts makes the exercises appear more gentle to one's body part. Although, for some reason even so, at times at night I seem to feel my body part rejecting that thoughtful concept, ya know?
OUCH!

Anyway, it is all good for me, oh sure...

Moving on...

And thankfully at this time we as Floridians can consider ourselves very fortunate weather wise.
Even with next Monday starting the official beginning of hurricane season due to El Nino we appear to be in luck with very few major storms predicted for this year from June 1, 2015 to November 30, 2015 the count is 6-11 named storms and 0-2 category 2 or greater making landfall, but as we all know it only takes one to devastate. 

And as I watch and listen to the news nightly about the un-named storms hitting and flooding Oklahoma and Texas with nineteen plus deaths and so many more missing that all seems to make the above predictions useless, a storm is a storm and can create havoc no matter what. All we can do is try and be prepared for whatever the emergency management people tell us to do, but then there is always that unexplained situation that comes with or without being prepared, and then we have got to learn survival skills. Some news stations are telling us how to help ourselves in flash floods, basically what to do and we should all listen whether we think it will happen or not, since it is just another way of knowing we are prepared when the unbelievable happens!

On that note of praying for you all to please be safe folks and keep your ears and eyes to the news stories around you to know what to do in any possibility, and we shall all be better for that, now 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 those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

OH Dear, just put a cork in it!

Hubby and I became wine imbibers late in life for while raising our sons we were teetotalers, all those years until 9/11. By then they were were basically grown men anyway and we were in our fifties and I had read that wine at night was healthful for people of that age and so we chose to become wine drinkers, until I became sooo fat and realized sadly just last year that wine can add more calories to my evening meals than I really needed and so last year I chose to stop and Hubby came along for the ride, his choice. 

Over those many years of enjoying the grape we did have a hobby of keeping those that were corked their corks and they ended up in many mayonnaise jars, some were not, yes we even drank twist top ones, shocker, ha. And over these last few years the craft of making usable items with the corks has showed up at nearly all craft shows. But we made our first project years ago while still drinking the white and red and pink fermented dry or sweet or a little of either of those or none of either vine ripened liquids, a trivet with a thrift shop picture frame back with aluminum, and filled with corks in a herring bone pattern, many think it looks like artwork. When our new furniture arrived this weekend we realized we had a slight dilemma with the cup holders for our coffee mugs. The handles were sticking out as they should but made them unable to sit in the recessed holders. It was my suggestion to utilize some more of our excessive stash of corks in those mayonnaise jars kept in the garage on shelves full of them and this was a perfect project for their use. And so it was Hubby's background in engineering that kicked in once again and it was he who thought up how to solve the problem with wooden disks that could be put in and out easily topped off with the right height of corks. This time he enlisted our plastic ones, since their height was slightly higher than the natural cork corks, got that. I also noticed that although we had plenty of room for my 10" laptop to sit in between our seats when it was charging it would get a little too warm for my comfort zone to leave it there unattended. And so Hubby took its dimensions too and created a very large trivet of sorts out of wood he conformed to a frame-like piece with his special cutting and sanding equipment and hot glued real corks into it, and yes he has become better than me with "my" hot glue gun.
 

 Here you can even see Hubby made little feet for the large laptop trivet, he had sliced two in half for that.
 My coffee cup is crooked due to how I put it in, Hubby's is sitting straighter although he had to shim his cup trivet, due to his handle being lower.These are in our spare chairs seating for photography purposes; I did not want to disturb Hubby he had a busy day with grocery shopping and lawn mowing, what a guy!


Regular glasses for cold beverages fit quite well.

On that note of a freebie concept for you to copy if you so desire, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS special occasions and holidays we still will have some wine, just not nightly, okey dokey.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Memorial Day

Ahhh the unofficial start of summer for so many in my country that live north of here, Florida that is; here it's summer most all of the year!
I heard something disturbing, "that now is the time to start making your young children water safe," that was on the evening news tonight.
Why we don't all receive a "water baby, tadpole, beginner" or what-have-you coupons for swim lessons when we exit the maternity ward with our life wards, our babies, now why don't we it is in my opinion a grave mistake.

I suppose it is the same reason we do not receiving testing, permitting, or licensing to become parents. Sadly we have more rules for vehicles or domestic pets than our own offspring rearing.
Children can drown and do way more often than they should.
In Florida alone it is one of the biggest killers of children under five years of age more than other types of accidents or illnesses!

Now you see my point...our children were in water safety classes by two years of age at our condo pool, Number One Son, and then at the Y, in a class called tadpoles at three years of age, and when I found out about water baby classes our younger son was only seven months old and went!
We always lived near either pools or waterways or both.
Common sense and decent gal pals who also chose to safe guard their children way back in the 1970's when our own sons were those little ones was a smart collaboration. Many had been school teachers prior to motherhood. So the concept has been around a very long time.
Why even I had swimming lessons as a five year old in New Jersey and water life saving courses as a teen.
Our sons love and respect the water and are water skiers, surfers and SCUBA trained and certified as well as avid boaters, so is Hubby all of the above except a surfer; not too much surfing growing up in New Jersey. He even taught water skiing as a teen in the Poconos. I taught Aquatics here in Florida in 1997- 2001. 
And thankfully no accidents of the horrendous kind ever occurred.

Maybe it's just the girl scout in me, always being prepared, ya know?

In conclusion programs are out there, and truly I wonder why the hospitals don't give parents some info too as they should with reminding them NOT to leave your sleeping child in a HOT CAR!!!!!!

Any-who, on that note of seriously hoping for a safe summer for all my friends north, south or wherever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Sunday, May 24, 2015

The eve of the holiday that's original name was...

The name when first begun Decoration Day now known as Memorial Day.

Here's a great site to share with the family for tonight and tomorrow:

http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/memorial-day-history

It is so very important for the young ones to know that the day is not just the unofficial start of summer or a day of picnics and barbecues, outdoor games and boating, fishing but an important remembrance holiday for our veterans past and present.

Moving on...

John Forbes Nash Jr. and his wife, Alicia, were killed today in a taxi cab accident in New Jersey on the turnpike, he was 86 and she was 82, and if you don't recall who he was he was a Nobel laureate mathematician who was still a professor at Princeton, who the movie A Beautiful Mind was about, his dealing with schizophrenia; Russel Crowe played him. He and his wife will be sorely missed.

Anne Meara also died today at age 85 and as of this writing the details have not been available, but if anyone of you remember her as the delightful other half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara than you have quite a hysterically memory of a modern day Burns and Allen, oops not that modern, but that funny and loving as a couple for sixty-one years. Their son is the well renown actor Ben Stiller, of course with those genes, his movies are usually all comedies, except a Night at A Museums' franchise, subtly funny but more fun.

Days like this reminds us of the importance of remembering the ones no longer with us, as well as to be thankful for the ones surrounding us in the here and now.

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

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

Saturday, May 23, 2015

They're heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

Nope, not Poltergeist or even the movie, although, I did hear that the movie remake has either just been released or will be soon, no subterfuge with that comment.

As you very well can see our duo power recliner loveseats have arrived in lush micro suede of almond coloration, a set for us and one for any other twosomes that visit. Tonight, Saturday night is once again our movie night and tonight's movie selection, of Hubby's pick is the most recent Hobbit movie. Last week my pick was Into the Woods, which we both had enjoyed, hope tonight's choice is as enjoyable.
 
The throws this time are only used for head pillows, although it is slightly overkill since they are more than comfortable without them.
                                     
The Surefit cover I had bought quite some time ago to hide the other's flaws sort of fits our other white sofa in our sunroom, it is a sleeper as well as the blue flannel denim one similar to the one in every way as the old one except in its fabric and the fact it is a sleeper the other wasn't; we did have them put that one into the garage and this one in the sunroom has neutral rattan trim, while the other didn't, so I guess they were not at all alike, ha! The TV is one of the two large screen TVs Number One Son gave to us a few months ago, and the blue denim sleeper/sofa is across from it.
That TV should fit into the breakfront in the living/media room, how fancy does that sound, when the big one in there is no longer working we think, Hubby keeps measuring it and according to him it should.

We seemed to have found a home for the sofa, thus why it is in the garage to be protected from our afternoon storms. Yes, the Cultural Center's thrift shop has decided to welcome its gifting, and Hubby will put the 84" couch into our van which can hold an 4'X8' piece of plywood, and someone will help him get it out once there tomorrow afternoon, finally!  

Sadly, the two recliners were put out on the street and within moments of that a woman, a well dressed and rather young blonde woman had picked up one to examine and once she realized it was not functioning properly I presume she then put it back... she appeared to come from a neighbor's home just the other side of the empty lot next door to us.

Unfortunately, since then it has rained upon them, making them less desirable, I suppose for the usual forages of that sort of thing... only time will tell. I myself had once found our guest-room chair sitting out for collection and Hubby had painted it and I had upholstered it, up-cycled, my street find it looks marvelous to this day...so sometimes who knows what treasures could be found in another's trash.

Meanwhile our car is spending the night out, hopefully no harm will come to Connie, our van; she has been spoiled pleasantly living indoors in her garage.

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

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

 

Friday, May 22, 2015

Four strikes and you're out!

Not a baseball game since that would be just silly; everyone knows its three.
Nah trying hard to find a home for our sofa and two recliners being gifted.
True they are not in great shape, I even confessed to how they actually are here last night.
But Hubby and I thought perhaps one of the local Habitat for Humanity, Good Will, Salvation Army or VA thrift shops could recondition them?
None would take them due to our honest description; I suppose they would have if I lied? But if they were in great condition why would I be getting rid of them, I ask you?
Even at first our local Waste Management, garbage/trash collection, said to make an appointment for pick up and since we have not used our three free ones for the year it would be at no cost to us, but it will be within the next ten days, gee thanks.
Hubby made that call and knew something was askew since he has noticed our neighbors all over here having their unwanted larger items being picked up weekly on any Wednesday the truck has been coming through then and he called the person on that inconsistency!
Next move was to ask to speak to their supervisor, and even then they said that person would have to call him back and she did a few hours later; surprise.
She verified Hubby was correct and there was no problem putting our items out for pickup.
Our local number goes to Lakeland, their main office, which he called back after and Hubby let them know what happened with the first person who basically called him a liar. They apologized and asked if she could use the instance in training and he said that was a good idea. Hubby felt they should be aware that each area is different for them, not one size fits all mentality.

So there is our most recent dilemma, and so if you see our set out there it is only because the delivery people helped put them there when they had to be gone for our new ones to fit in their old places, got that?
Although, we discussed putting them in the garage until Wednesday, but that means our car would be out and we are not sure if we want to do that so, we will see what we will see. Plus Hubby would have to put them out and they are quite cumbersome although he does have the right equipment to do it with, again it's a fifty/fifty decision. If they do go out sometimes junk collectors scavenge the neighborhood looking for stuff and maybe they will take them?  

That's our day in a nutshell, although I have not missed one day in our pool since last Saturday and my pains are diminishing daily but sadly not at night, baffling? Hubby kindly vacuumed and washed all floors! What a guy!

On that slightly mysterious note allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Thursday, May 21, 2015

How many times are appropriate to repair something before replacing it, really?

In my opinion enough is enough when you have seemed to lose count.

And such is the situation with my recliner that Hubby has fixed the mechanism too many times to remember, and it is only a little over ten years old.

I can remember when furniture lasted.
Like the furniture we sold to the people who bought our home in NJ, it was still like new at fifteen years old then in 1986, we bought most when we married in 1971, although our bedroom set was a gift from my parents at that time too.
It was all sold since we felt it was cheaper than moving it all and since we have been through too many to mention incarnations of other home furnishings since moving here to Florida.

Our sofa also has become beyond cleaning and torn ever so slightly but enough to know about, in the worn areas. Hubby's recliner, the mate to mine has been torn with wear marks as well, thus all our throws and Surefit covers over the three.
But my mechanism was the thruster that determined that something had to be done, since Hubby has configured parts to sustain its ability to move without too much difficulty for my right shoulder to manipulate the contraption/lever to place my legs in an upright and comfortable position for my too many days very sore body!The lithium oil he used this time really stunk too, and even with his valiant efforts within hours a screw and washer spilled out from beneath the worn out piece!

Aggravation and constant difficulty with each of the three items made it evident we had to do something, but affordability was just as important to us as well as comfort, and so we searched the web since last Sunday.
Apparently, the timing is right due to the holiday weekend the sales are on!
Lazy boy and Baers and Rooms to Go oh my, American Signature, Savon were not as good a buy!
Although as we shopped we kept coming back to Rooms to Go, and no whenever we bought furniture before we paid cash for anything we bought, never ever financed furniture it just seemed silly to us. 
But as they advertise no interest till 2020 now, amazing and true we found out!
Not getting crazy and staying within budget of what if we decided to pay for the whole thing early, no early payment penalty either, only forty bucks a month, for a couple thousand dollars worth of furniture would you believe with a percentage down, a little more than ten percent!
So once we were approved for three times more than what we actually were spending we made the deal and so we will be getting our delivery Saturday!
Two reclining powered loveseats doubled, less is more, shorter than the sofa but only a few inches wider than our recliner with our current table in between, in ivory micro suede with extra stain protector a little bit more but still within budget.
We rarely entertain anymore but this is our TV movie room and so
whenever Number One Son comes now with his gal we will all be comfortable to entertain them! YAY hip hip hooray!

Years ago a friend from the Arthritis Foundation Aquatics group had suggested them to me, that is Rooms to Go, personally I didn't get the concept and it was not my style to have too matchy, matchy furniture and the payment plan seemed too good to be true, so I went the route of buy as you go and see what you like instead and it worked fine for years.
Now I get the concept, you can be as original or matchy, matchy as you care to be, and oddly enough we did buy twins this time, but as always what we have accessorized wise is not like that, but individually accumulated as we have gone along, so I suppose our rooms to go does go! Heehee!

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

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

PS if in the Port Charlotte Florida Rooms to Go ask for Patricia she was a very helpful salesperson and she made the sale since she helped us just right.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Missing certain famous personalities

Many people who made their marks on my listening skills over the years.
Somehow when they spoke I actually would shut up and perk up those two oraffixes on either side of my head that allow sound to be distributed throughout the cerebellum et al to try and comprehend the verbal discourse resoundingly vibrating the airwaves that TV transmitted.
Erma Bombeck, Andy Rooney, even Johnny Carson would cause a stop and stir in my too verbose communicator below my nose.
Oh how I would actually enjoy their ways of expression from the euphemistic to the cut to the chase to the blatant in your face commentary. Always with a flair of intellect and humor of touching the relateable reality in all of us.
Politically incorrect at times as well as right on target with describing the absurd in all of our lives that had been newsworthy.
Seeing through it all and coming out the other end with a take that we would find agreeable.
Yep, in our heads saying: yeah so true.

Those were talents inborn.
Are they lost?
Shall we ever see the likes of them again?
I don't know, but I hope so.  
Some have come close, and so the search will continue for my attention span is dwindling so I hear, eight seconds these days, but I respectfully disagree. My attention is being saved for truly interesting to listen to folks that's all; so there and yes once again I have stuck my adult tongue out at you who claim otherwise!

On that note of the true loss of the voices to be heard to learn from, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS My theory about our attention span dilemma perhaps we need quality sounds to listen to, since everything else just seems to be white noise at times, hmm?

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Thoughts on bikers, of all things

When we had our deli in Ormond Beach Florida in the late 1980's, bikers were scary looking but oddly enough pleasant and polite as our customers, no issues ever occurred.
You see, at that time before there was only one Bike Week in March just before Spring Breakers would all converge on Daytona Beach, our next door neighbor. 
Since then I do believe there are two with the other one being in October, calling it cleverly Biketober?
Any-who, in those days Harley Davidson motorcycles were too expensive for the common man or woman to have added into their vehicle garages, so we were told. If making an honest wage you would have to be a professional otherwise involved in crime!
And many of the people who did visit for this event were not ornery or of the criminal types, some were even doctors or lawyers by profession and were considered weekend warriors.
But again not in a violent way, just in the concept of the roadways, warriors of the roadways, ya know?

We were not naive at all I think, of course there were many bad evil gangs/types existing then too, Outlaws, Hell's Angel's and the like, oh sure for decades prior and since.
But the ones we met in our little restaurant and me individually working later on in promotion and in that capacity I dealt directly with the people during the Bike Week event all types. Why skinny me was even decked out in a leather outfit promoting some commercial handouts that I was given to do as a spokes model; funny I cannot remember for whom the product being promoting was, but I also was as well for my job as entertainment manager was booking old rock bands for the clubs/bars they were going to then.Bikers liked old rock and roll, while then college kids were into Reggae, and NASCAR were country lovers etc.

Most bikers had incredible ink artwork bestowed upon their persons, tats, or tattoos if you prefer, ankles, arms, necks some even on their faces,backs and chests could be seen since the weather was usually warm enough for their exposure too, fascinating actually, never my style though.
Never felt the need or desire, ya know?
And thankfully our sons did not either. 

  What brought this rehashing thinking of bikers, since our own Number One Son had a Harley and another bike, motorcycle, as an adult as well as one as a teen, until recently, and Hubby had one when we dated well over forty years ago and we did have a lot of fun. But he and I agreed to get rid of it when we married and had our first child since his neighbor's son died due to him foolishly placing the child on the gas tank and driving the child slowly around the neighborhood where the toddler fell off, horrific!

Any-who, there are bikers and then they are BIKERS' Gangs and what happened in Texas is appalling and without explanation that is no rhyme or reason and makes what happened makes me sick.

Its reminiscent of all types of people though being thrown into the same classification, not all in a group are the same that is all I think I am trying to say, good and bad people exist in all types of interests.

Many bikers help with non-profits like Toys for Tots and Multiple sclerosis. I cannot understand why so many could act like wild animals...sorry! Although, that is a insult to many animals who would never do what those BIKER GANGS people did, no excuses for that.

On those disconnected thoughts and memories of mine  if they mean anything to you or me, truly, allow me now to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Monday, May 18, 2015

Day three


 
Back in the saddle again, nah in the water; I was kidding. Its been years, decades since I was on a horse.
I exercise an hour, split with a break on the half hour in between.
I would love to never get out out of the pool, but like most of us that stay in water too long our fingers and toes begin to shrivel.
Does that mean anything bad?
I wonder.
I just recall from childhood from even in the bathtub that was a sign you were in too long there too and it was time to get out, but why?
Basically you are at first hydrated then dehydrated thus the change, simple hmm?
Thanks to: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-fingers-wrinkle-in/

Moving on...
This evening the sky is amicable not showing any ominous clouds, just those fluffy white ones in between the sky-blue sky, redundancy at its finest!.
Right now though without a cooling rain storm we have a 95F degree reading on our outdoor thermometer with only 33% humidity! 
A dry heat like in Arizona! 
But this is southwest Florida, a sub-tropical climate, and we are supposed to be humid...now!
Humidity is the usual signal for a cooling rain to come and do its job of refreshing us from our heat?
For over a week the local meteorologists have been insisting we are early into our rainy season, well, what's this all about?  
Now our local guy, Robert Van Winkle, not to be confused with the Vanilla Ice guy of the same name, ours is a meteorologist, so he claims, hee hee, anyway he is saying by Wednesday we may have some tropical(rain) activity(wet) by then,whew, I was concerned, no not really!
Happy I am inside in air-conditioning!
My water exercises are in the morning when it is brrr in the low eighties these days, and the pool is a wee bit higher at my ultimate temp of 85F.

On that note of letting the stars to come together just right, please allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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


Sunday, May 17, 2015

Back to the pool!

Yes, I actually returned to our own home one yesterday, swimming pool that is, since Friday the PA, physician's assistant, gave me the go ahead to normalcy, whatever that is.
And oddly enough the sore in my ear as I had said, before going to her that it was almost entirely healed, but still hurts when I miss the foam ear doughnut placed upon my pillow that Hubby cut out as per my ear specs/size needed as per PA recommended. I almost did not use the medication that she prescribed since the sore was hard to locate, but I did according to her directions.
My thought is that perhaps it will help with the pain? I will call Monday/tomorrow if it still appears healed to verify she wants me to use it due to the pain.
It does seem odd that when not in the doughnut hole the direct pressure causes severe pain, wonder why that is?
Oh well... a little mystery in life.

I suppose with my darn bursitis in my right shoulder that too will have to be looked at by my other PA in orthopedics.Maybe not though since I have re-begun my ROM, range of motion, water exercises for it once again. Between my ear and shoulder late night TV has been a godsend for distracting me while dealing with this sleeplessness caused by the pain even with two medications in me to supposedly deal with it, Baclofen and Gabapentin, but lower doses. Even Hubby has been understanding with letting the TV  stay on in the bedroom rather loudly since my hearing is slightly less, knowing that if I leave to go into another room my chances of falling back to sleep are lessened.
So many shows have had finales and Dave Letterman is retiring with Wednesday being his last show.
This new young fellow after him, James Corden, he took over Craig Ferguson's late late show; we had watched James Corden in the movie of Into the Woods last night, a Netflix rental. He played the Baker, a wonderful enjoyable musical PG movie, good old fashioned fun with Merril Streep and additional bevy of familiar talented named actors.
Broadway shows in the home; how terrific!
On weekends one of my favorite shows, Bones, is on in reruns on NBC, Saturday after SNL at one A.M. and Sunday night also on NBC at midnight, its usual channel is Fox on Thursdays at eight for new shows.

I seem to be more of a night owl these days, but somehow still awake before seven A.M. too, thus my many naps.

It's crazy with the new contraption actually working for helping take the pressure off that left ear and another bed pillow that helps you sit up in bed thingy, cannot remember its name, keeps my right shoulder elevated while on my left side, its used sideways, strange bed contortions but it does seem to work as long as nothing moves out of place, ha, oh what fun, NOT! Good thing we have a king sized bed.
My numbness in my lower extremities is well exaggerated when I try sleeping on my back, most likely due to the Multiple sclerosis as far as I have been able to decipher/glean from online information, although I see my neuro in a few weeks and I will write that down as another question for him. My three toes on my right foot are also constantly numb, and my arms and legs are considerably stiffer when getting out of bed in the A.M., but also after naps, scary at times, truly.

These medical explanations on my blogs bore many, forgive, but they are for my own cataloging and to access later on for remembering.

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

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


Saturday, May 16, 2015

A dock transformed pictorial. From an ugly duckling to a whimsical swan/flamingo et all; you decide?

So you have a very nasty looking dock that no matter how many times you repair this enormous underused space it never ever seems to help, since the spanse of 24'X28' seems to be harder to span even with many supports, and so the boards curl and look horrid, but after about ten years... of rebuilds... Major surgery is the decision to make the whole thing look better and function just right. Deconstruction is cautious since many of the boards that are still good will be recycled and therefore reused. And so they were by being turned over and eventually painted in their new configuration. The whole projects bottom line was less than two hundred dollars and that was mostly for the fill dirt in the hole; who said dirt is cheap!Hubby was going to store the remaining extra unused boards and I suggested a deck with a table to be made with them. We already had the base from an outdoor PVC tabletop that was from an original set purchased back in 1986 when we had first moved to the other coast and put that pool in, actually Hubby said the base would work; I had thought it was long gone, his idea...Over the years other tops had been made for it, in fact one years ago I had even painted a tropical sunset on, but that deteriorated too from our relentlessness glorious sunshine! This time Hubby made the top of 2X6's and it is the same as the deck and dock and painted very nicely the same color as them too with protective waterproof low VOC and non-toxic outdoor stain.It is quite heavy so not likely to end up in the canal from treacherous winds. The chairs you will see in that lattice pattern were purchased I do believe at Target after the hurricane or just before, can't seem to recall, but they are more than ten years old, at the very least eleven. The giant pink, very pink flamingo was also bought a very long time ago and at one time it moved and had lights, all gone now, but Pinkie does get painted regularly when he needs it, yep that's HIS name! The golden pineapple was a freebie and Hubby had fished it out of the canal when we first moved in seventeen years ago. I read that the pineapple is the symbol for welcome and so it was placed on the dock post. I saw on something that although I had painted it dark garden green and Hubby continued the coloration for the last few years, I saw that now not unlike our doorbell surround which is a brass pineapple that now glitzy golden colored pineapples were all the current rage and so Hubby did that for me, he sprayed it gold with interior gold paint we had left over, so it might not last but looks great right now. The umbrella we had for years too from BIG LOTS. So there you have it another place to plop yourself out side for a cooling beverage or a view of the sunset...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Florida our home! Continue your viewing of our mutual ideas.






























Good night to all and to all count those blessings and share the ones that others might need and next time please be here please or be square, ya hear!

PS that chimaera is also ancient purchased from our Publix grocery years ago, maybe ten?

Friday, May 15, 2015

If...

Basal cell carcinoma is possible so we, the P.A. Sam and me are trying a last ditch effort for three more weeks with another topical anti-biotic, Mupirocin 2% cream, 3 refills, 2x a day, $10 co-pay, otherwise $119.95, and then if that doesn't work a biopsy will be called for, since basal cell carcinoma is slow growing and two months, it will be by then that is how long the protocol calls for waiting for the procedure according to this very young female Samantha Bono P.A. in dermatology. 
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/skincancer-basalandsquamouscell/detailedguide/skin-cancer-basal-and-squamous-cell-what-is-basal-and-squamous-cell

Meanwhile she zapped two precancerous lesions with liquid nitrogen one on my nose and the other on my bottom lip. 
My inability to sleep has been resolved by having me buy, from Joanne's Crafts and Fabric some foam rubber, to make a pillow with a hole for my ear in it, which I will have Hubby do and then it is supposed to take the pressure off of my ear for sleeping; hope it works. I think I will slip it into my pillow case with my regular pillow so it stays put, but if the pressure continues then I suppose I will have to take it out and put it on top.
And although my zinc oxide is good, SPF 50 is better, so I picked that up too as per PA.
Always seem to never use the stuff up and most need to be tossed within months and did you ever notice how they only sell large, too large for most individuals to use? Hubby refuses to use it.
They should have more size choices, oh I don't know like individual personal, or large person size who sun-worships or small person size who sun-worships, child size, pre-teen size, teen size, family size small, family size large etc. to infinity and back!
Okay, now I get it, not cost effective, hmm?
But someone out there might think about it, true?
All these one size fits all does not really work, ya know?

Any-who, the day went bad, I had a one thirty appointment and wasn't seen till nearly three. I was so warm in the room waiting I had to ask for some cooling, get this: they moved a fan in the room; in Florida? Couldn't they lower the air-conditioning? Not happy.
I also have this rather weird issue when in the examining room which was the too warm room, it was mid-nineties outside today, anyway I have in recent years acquired slight claustrophobia so I instinctively open the door. Not all physicians' offices approve of this behavior though I have found, since this breaks their confidentiality or privacy issues that to me are not real anyway... they allowed me that personal privilege there today, wow.

From there we went to Sam's Club and picked up two coffees and topped off the gas tank, they too are now no real bargain at $2.61.9 a gallon for regular. Then over to Millennium for two renewal prescriptions and then for my new one at the Publix Pharmacy.  It had not been called in yet there. I had asked the woman in front of me in line if I could just ask a question and when she didn't respond I asked the pharmacist if it had been called in yet, he checked and the woman had a tissy fit saying I cut in line! Perhaps she was hard of hearing and didn't hear my question but boy was she angry!
And I was in no mood.
I left to pick up a rotisserie chicken at the deli and sides, and she was there too.
I went back to their pharmacy after I picked up the sunscreen and still no call in from the doctor's office; Jeremiah the pharmacist had called them too, he said that the PA was in between patients and would call later.
We went to Joanne's for the foam and Hubby suggested I call from the same parking lot, and they still had no call in. I made sure they had the correct phone number for us and they had our cells not the home I told them to get rid of the cells and only to call our home number, since the cells have limited minutes and we don't use them much. I gave her our number again and sure enough, adding to the bad day, when I finally figured I would be getting the medication on Monday I gave them one more call hoping I was wrong and I was, it was ready. She had the wrong number and insisted they had called and it stated our voice mail was not set up yet! But that was the WRONG number I told her, ours has an answering/voice mail on our home phone. But she argued, and said the two accounts of husband and wife are not looked at since they might be different , I ask you for a HOME PHONE??????

Anyway the outside day has ended and I am safe at home and I was told I can now go into the pool again, with medication and sunscreen and some spit and a prayer so I don't drown!I will wait till tomorrow which is another day and things could be better by then, who knows, who cares...just me anyway! Hee Hee!

Good night to all and count and share those blessings and be here or be square next time if you please, ya hear! 

Thursday, May 14, 2015

The heat is on...

In our area, of course it is May now, but we appear to be echoing our March and April's nineties weather, degrees Fahrenheit that is, whether we want to or not, most every day and that is HOT even for sunny FLORIDA, for May.
Sure hot is better than heavy winds, stormy, heavy rains, tornadoes, drought, mudslides, flooding or snow that our country has been having nightly reported on the news.
Even some mild tremors of the earthquake nature were felt in California a few weeks ago, thankfully that, so far, did not signal the BIG ONE...yet, as they out there, tend to say.

So between the world killing each other, police killing non-suspects and suspects and suspects or non-suspects killing police, terrorists running rampant, earthquakes in Asia, and volcanic eruptions in South America, doom and gloom seems to be all around us. Train crashes, planes crashes...Domestic violence is on the rise, human trafficking is too numerous and devastating to hear and within our realm sadly, drugs are plentiful and this time I mean illegal ones; all of this makes one feel helpless to make a dent in it all for what can we do.
Overwhelming, hmm?
And that is an understatement.

Natural disasters are out of our hands, although we should listen to emergency management people to be prepared for our own local weather problems to know what to do, but local legal issues can be under our control with getting involved in local government on a smaller scale from city meetings and committees we do have the power to change laws, and voting might be the most important factor in anyone's life to be a part of the answer instead of apathetic and have that feeling of not being able to do anything, our votes count, get involved.

Many problems that are  mentioned on the nightly news do have peaceful ways to handle them if educating the general population with on the how. Theft is usually due to people feeling the need to have more than they can get by legal means, a feeling of life gypping them. Education and jobs and a way to know that there is a better way for them to get what they want.
Mental health issues to date seem to be one of the most definitive reasons people have killed, intervention with people who have these severe illnesses needs to be identified sooner rather than later and medically helped before these horrendous acts occur. So it is  better for people to pay closer attention in the family, by friends, at school, or work situations etc. is so very necessary.

Families that are frustrated by money woes or addiction issues appear to be the highest ones with domestic violence, easier reporting and removal of parties being dangerous should not be short term there should be much more counseling when anything is reported for all parties safety as well as law enforcement intervening. Proper psychiatrists and clergy should be involved in talking out any domestic disputes, novices have proven to NOT know what will push the wrong buttons, which have caused deaths!

These are just some probable redundantly ways that you have more than likely heard of to try to change this world a little bit one day at a time, as if walking one step at a time...and such is life.

Of course if you are A-political you can always turn the news off and stay in your hidey hole and let the chips fall where they may...or talk a good story and suggest, as many do and not follow through either, or complain and again do not-a-thing! Sorrowfully true for most.

That is the best part of being/existing, if lucky enough to be in the land of the free and the home of the brave we all have choices!

On that thoughtful 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 whom and we will too!

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

PS tonight's my last night of ear drops, hooray!  I was told to go for eight days' use and I am done!
 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Update

As of tonight I have decided to keep my tentative doctor's appointment with the dermatologist at the end of this week, they just called to confirm.
I had called yesterday morning saying that the drops have seemed to have cured my middle ear infection but the cut on the outer ear although slightly better looking still hurts. I was told by them I should keep my appointment. 
It has been a few years anyway since this Florida body that does go out but not as often as I once did has been checked for sun skin issues. My history of precancerous lesions is sadly numerous, but they were all lasered and never ever developed into anything worse, and one even was biopsied and found to be benign.
In Florida the suggestion for us all year round residents is to be skin checked yearly.
That is why I am once again slightly concerned, being light skinned and blue-eyed also adds to the possibility of being more susceptible, although everyone is, to having the glorious sun have its way with you, but not always in a good way and for me it's been years since I was checked, due mostly to my crazy insurance problems!   
And yes, I was one of those foolish teenagers up north in the summers that even use to use iodine and baby oil combined to get a tan, oh horrors!
Seriously bad mistake.

In a way my Multiple sclerosis these last few years since 2006 diagnosed might have helped slightly with not exposing me too much to the sun's harmful rays, since I am heat sensitive and sadly I tend to stay inside more than ever before in my whole life. Although, just going in and out of the house to the car to a building is enough to do it they say.( There are those "theys", again, oh well...)

So as I just elongated my explanation of why I will be going into see the dermatologist and as you know that is just my style, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS as I promised a twofer!
 Please read my morning one if you haven't it tells the tale of our last night's storm that did have fifty mile an hour winds, some gusts higher and here where we live we had nearly four inches of rain when all was said and done!


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