Tuesday, May 31, 2016

PT...

Question to self, "...if it is not doing anything marginally good, is it worth continuing?"
Answer, "I don't know!?." I do know the words, "baby steps", are replaying in my head. Although, leaving the house in the heat even for just moments going from air-conditioning and out of it does seem to take a toll on me, spasm wise.
Next question to self, "How do you stop hackers from going into your emails?"
I just changed my password as was recommended by my email address. I had forty-two mailer daemons when I came home from PT, and I never emailed anyone! I deleted them all without opening them and so now I do not know to whom they all were trying to go to.
PS if you have received anything odd from me via email, it was not me! I rarely email these days and when I do it is not usually odd, anymore... ha!
Question, " Is semi-intelligent political opinionated commentary something that we all should share?"
Answer, "Why not? This is America! So right or wrong gives all of us that ability to state what we think within reason, not inciting to riot or being a racist or such, oh wait one candidate does do that, but still no in my book! Although, this is America and damn it he can do that!"

Enough of that!

Moving on...

I am obsessed again with more shows on that streaming Netflix, and it is a BIG WOW!
Again I was foolish not to get this all those times before I was offered it free for a month with my other new techno devices and so reasonable to continue at $7.99 a month!
And of course me the dummy did not get it that it works even on my computer or I suppose the phone as well?
Now Hubby can enjoy regular TV or other Netflix shows in the living room, while I can too with my laptop and TV in the bedroom lying down, oh miracle of miracles!
So I was slow on the uptake, not the first time, nothing new there, hmm?

I will end here for tonight.
Love to all, be well, blessings!

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







Monday, May 30, 2016

Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

...fertilize your lawn.
Many cities in our country, perhaps the world with water as a premium commodity and the necessity of the cleanliness of natural water ways and absolute to maintain we have laws in place to protect them.
Locally, years ago they made it illegal to fertilize lawns during the rainy season due to runoff into drains that run into canals and directly into the waterways to the harbor and out to the Gulf.
High nitrogen is a direct issue with it causing algae blooms; disclaimer non high nitrogen or even natural forms of fertilizing, except ammonia of course are acceptable during the season.
So there is a season to fertilize and then not to.
The time to is from December first to May thirty-first that you can, just before our hurricane/rainy season and just after, June first to November thirtieth that you cannot, simple, hmm?
But many do not do it, due to the same ones who negate the warnings during droughts to STOP watering all together, hmm we all know who those people are, don't we?
But this high nitrogen issue has been around for years and years as well as our days for watering too, whether drought or not determines smart use of your water and common sense by now most would think.
For years in New Jersey we were in the sprinkler business and had added rain gauges with our systems, simple micro switch that turned them off when it determined it was raining or had rained enough not to need to put on the system. On the other coast of Florida they were in the process of putting in a reclaimed water system in the 1990's, which would make reuse of grey water, smart and efficient. There we had just a shallow well for our sprinklers, in NJ we had an artesian one, but here they felt our water table, aquifer, was too high and so in the eighteen years we have been here it is the first home that we have not had a sprinkler system, and so we have used nature to supplement our expensive city water system, oddly enough the highest priced usage in our state and of our sixty-seven counties here in Florida. So when NOT in rainy season and still get rain in our forecasts that is when I used to, now Hubby goes out to spread the weed and feed, and Hubby did it again yesterday for our last time out of the rainy season. The rain was supposed to come yesterday, and now today but so far nothing, still waiting, noisy but nothing yet, irony, hmm?

Moving on...

The shower install is looking great, but still being worked on, Hubby fortunately had leftover white tiles from the original floor 16" X 16" white ceramic enough to fill the floor where the old shower insert was in the room and he had to spend quite a bit of time removing the partials that surrounded it, but now will be whole tiles up to the entrance of where the marble entry and floor into the shower begins and flows into the newer design. If we hadn't enough left we had seen spill type concepts that flow into the room of the new tile into the old which were an interesting way to handle the change over, but this one luckily will work better. They no longer make this tile anymore, we found out when we removed the white carpet from the last room we had wanted to continue it in years ago and had to decide on the marble then. Hubby had just enough for the bathroom and where he will be widening the two door openings with larger wider doors very soon too, cutting it close with only seven full and then several cut offs. We definitely realize now the importance of saving some from whatever project you might be doing. Our original main room floors were done with this tile after Hurricane Charley had water logged and buckled our new wood floors that had been recently installed way back then in the early 2000s with our first renovations before the hurricane.
Any-who we had chosen tile to not have to worry about that happening again, although we had carpeted the bedrooms and later realized with our puppy Skipper that white carpeting was a BIG mistake, duh!

So now our smarter choices, and more durable ones are  throughout our home. At first our attaining the same tiles were not a problem until the guestroom; then they had been discontinued no matter how we had tried to get them all over the net too back then.
After all the tile in the house next door were the only part of that home left after the hurricane blew it away!

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

And remember our soldiers who gave their lives for our freedoms, and the ones serving now continuing that privilege for us all.

PS: This just in: THE RAIN IS HERE NOW, YAY!

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Geez, a realization just went through my subtle brain...

... it has been nearly eight years, next month on June 25, it will be, since I begun this experiment of cohesiveness in stick-to-it-ness to trying to care enough to go on without boring myself with lacking the concern for boring others by trial and error compositions daily without rhyme or distinct reasoning doodah of whatever this has been and become, got that?
So you think that is a mouthful, well no arguing from me.
I must admit that for some one of my mediocre intelligence and issues with recalling formal grammar, to be frank I do believe that it has gone considerably well.
My adventures in making all you grammar Nazis cringe has been my pleasure!
Redundancy as well as Norm Crosby's malapropisms were never intentional, but very many have spewed forth when I least expected them to come through.
And oh yes, let's not forget my ending sentences with all those prepositions.
I must be a daily rattling to too many to actually know fans of teaching whatnot to do to their students, hmm?  
All I can say is to all of you is that I am happy to oblige!
Most of my readers, oh let's make that many, rather stay anonymous for reasons that one can only guess or I suspect to be their own whys and wherefores, embarrassment, ashamed, who knows really, since they NEVER EVER say, to much to my chagrin, not really!
Fear is a great equalizer!
If they were to come from out of the woodwork my ability to speak may very well become suppressed. "Oh dear", I hear you all saying in unison, not really, since this medium form is totally one sided.
Any-who, oh how I love to wander with my thoughts hither and yon.
Safe in my environment.
Out spoken as all get out!
Offender of many, nah, make that quite a few.
Without an obligation, actually a fear, to get feedback.
A one sided wonder.
No wonder when I do speak to actual people I always get the last word in no matter what the backlash... oh no, did I just open a can of worms?

It has been nice spending this time with all of you so far and I truly hope that anything that I have said tonight has not turned off your viewing future pleasure, anywhere, even here.
Please continue.
I will no matter what your thoughts might be.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Jumpy!

How many of you out there turn off your sound on your techno device(s)?
I do, most of the time.
And I will tell you why, because of what just happened to me due to me NOT turning it off just now.
Those pop-up commercials are so very loud and annoying! When I started to write tonight one just popped up in the lower left hand corner here on my laptop and made me jump nearly off the bed!
To me it is just easier to turn the sound back on for anything I actually would want to hear, and I had forgotten to turn it off apparently.
Did you notice that even some sites warn you to turn it on before so, of course you do, silly me, so that they can better inform you, ha?

Moving on...

Yesterday's exhaustive painful experience has subsided.
And if you must know I was made to stand holding onto even parallel bars, for a few moments, not minutes and made to do heal and foot stretches while back in my ride.
My spasms continue in frequency according to air temperature whether indoors or out, as well as movement requested of me, and the fluctuations in each situation.
Gosh, what a wuss I appear to be to you and to me, although my gyrations are unsettling for all others who witness them as well as myself. 
Yep, the dance of the type that is NOT choreographed, sadly, miserably, thy name is spasm.
I truly thought that all the physical therapy would be helpful, with many objectives in reasoning, in preventing too early onset of atrophy, energizing me, perhaps even dealing with this ridiculous burning twisting pain that I still have even with the increase in medications of 1200mg. of the Gabapentin and 60 mg. of the Baclofen, so far it has not helped any of those aforementioned issues too much really. I have been having therapy again now for nearly two months counting the in-home OT, occupational therapy and PT, physical therapy, I suppose I am once again an impatient patient.
Oh well...
Just thought that I owed you all an explanation for last night's blog shorty or not.

Today, I got some laundry done, miraculously, while Hubby continues to work on the shower space that looks fantastic so far! The three and half walls have all been fully tiled with the white subways and grouted too now, the marble bench seat is also completed as well as the subway tiles that surround its base; all looks great!
Pictures hopefully to come.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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



Friday, May 27, 2016

Turn it off!

Is it just me or do you also believe that the news programs run the same stories over and over again in a loop?
And so many "fluff pieces", as Hubby and I call those too cutesy not genuine newsworthy stories, animals top the list, but children do too. Love both truly but not when they have been turned into what is supposed to be some true news, ya know?
Sometimes I think they scan YouTube to get their fillers or the social media sites where they are so prevalent.

Today I had PT, and feel crappy, probably need an attitude adjustment too, so I will end here tonight.
I can barely lift my head to write, so forgive.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Thursday, May 26, 2016

I believe that...

... Many people in life have agendas.
Some don't; like myself.
The others that do are well thought out it in their life's plan.
I on the other hand allow life to just happen.
The one's who know early on where they are going get very disappointed if for some reason it doesn't work out the way they planned, and some do not even have a contingency/back up plan.
I only move on from anything that has not gone the way I had wanted, but then again my plan wasn't too strong to begin with, since most things have just happened to me. I seem to go with the flow.
Those who have that failure can be devastated and stunted in making further decisions.
But if you are like me you try to forget and move on to something else.
Plans/planning people can get themselves in weird predicaments.
Why one I know once determined exactly what sex her children were going to be born and how many of each she would have and in what order, and yes I know today that is possible to make happen but this was decades ago.
I was just hoping they were healthy.
Planning is a good thing for most of what you need to do in life with family, but sometimes things happen, no one has control over such things as illness.
And many think that if you live a healthy lifestyle that you are immune, but no too many non smoking never drinking vegetarians proper BMI athletes have had heart attacks, and others get cancer so nope no one is immune.
Too many people have accidents that causes paraplegia, or quadriplegia, flesh eating bacteria, neurological diseases, genetic diabetes, strokes etc. and no way now or ever where anyone can plan for those or really want to; so nope, I learned life can be most unexpected and to not become too insane you must deal with whatever hand you are dealt.
I wanted three kids but instead after five pregnancies I got two healthy boys, yep, so I moved on, I was thirty-one back then.
I thought now at this older age that I would be still active and travelling/ sightseeing by walking all over, well we have done quite a bit from the car and sure I will figure out the way to still do it now that I can with my new ride, motorized wheel chair due to my progressive Multiple sclerosis, after all the chair has a good six hours on a full charge.
Planning is fine, but if the plans don't work out, move on and forward, always forward!
Try a new way to get whatever you want to accomplish done and it is alright to be disappointed but not for too long, then move on... Gosh I am starting to sound too preachy, preachy, forgive! Getting older but not necessarily wiser.

In closing I suppose you might be able to tell this was a quiet day for me today.
The only thing I did accomplish while home all day was to separate my May magazines from my early arrival June ones and watch the Property Brothers on Netflix!
Oh and yes another day of Hubby's progress on my accessible shower with me as the sidewalk supervisor with asked pertinent input. It is all tiled with the subways on the three and half walls as well as the base to the four foot bench, and the seat has the marble attached too. Tomorrow Hubby grouts and then the marble hex floor will be installed!

Once the fixtures are installed with the grab rails the latest project will be all done! And it will be safe for me to roll into the shower! Right now I have difficulty raising my legs over the tub to get onto my shower chair, I have to hold tight to my sink and the inside the tub grab rail, quite precarious and a bit scary! But I do it daily because clean is in my DNA; although, some believe too often showering causes drier skin and therefore more wrinkles, who knows, who cares...ME, ha!

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Productive day!

Saw my neuro eye doc today, sounds redundant, anyway he said my eyes appear to be stable and to come back in six months, yay! He is the one that keeps an eye on my optic nerves, pun intended, bud dump bum!

From there we went to Home Depot and picked up the rest of my shower overhaul/conversion tiles, the eighty subways Hubby needed to finish up around the base of the seat and some wall cut offs, the top has the 18"X18" marble tiles, and lastly the eighteen matted sheets of 12" X12"of the Grecian hexagon small marble tiles for the floor. We also chose a white hand held shower head that Hubby can hang up, it's a Moen, so fairly decent in quality and as well as two safety hand rails, 16" long for strategic placement in the shower stall.

Oh Geez, I almost forgot finally that we bought another Mandevilla in white replacing the one that died last fall, a little different from the other one on the other trellis, smaller blossoms, in front of the cottage fence around the pool, the two trellises face the saltwater canal. We had been waiting months for it to come in. Feeling the need to try to grow one from the other one so we had stuck the clippings in rooting hormone and potting soil, we had tried several clippings, but this time it did not work. We have grown avocadoes and mangoes from pits, and pineapples from tops, Pandora vines from their seed pods etc., but for some reason no matter what we did we could not recreate, clone another Mandevilla!

 After the depot we finally went to lunch late for us, nearly two o'clock, at TGIF and lastly Hubby picked up Gus's Heartworm/ flea medication combo, at the vets, Trifexis, six months' worth with the fifteen dollar rebate form, this stuff is nearly one hundred bucks for just six months!

Getting home was a relief, it was fun to be out again, but also exhausting.

That was my day and I hope you did accomplish what you had to too.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Disgusted!

Okay, I am no politico in the sense of knowing about each candidates or spouses personal lives and odd proclivities, only on what was brought out years ago and why one of the spouses was impeached, everyone knows that of course. What does that have to do with the now candidate of his wife, herself?
But apparently the discussion of these things by the Frothy Orange Haired Guy appears to be more important than what he will actually be doing to solve America's problems, I don't get why he won't address that. I hate to assume, but I believe as most it's because he doesn't have any idea what he will do. In my opinion, he is just looking to live in the Whitehouse and have a few more people to push around!
And besides we all know while his closest opponent has been married once he has been married three times and that he has children with all three of his wives, hmm?
So if decency is not what he is trying to project, with him actually being a hypocrite; then ask yourselves what?
He was married when he became involved with other women, and yet they did not forgive and they chose to move on and they got rid of him! Looks like the pot is calling the kettle black:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black, hmm, ya think?
Something to think about.
Nah, a waste of time!
So is everything about this election year I am now beginning to think.
Of course other election years have been just horrid too with all the muck raking the candidates would throw at one another, but somehow this contest just seems worse. I suppose they all do, year after year.
I have very passionate about the candidates friends on Facebook with them finding/digging up information from soundbites from media programs all over the airwaves and articles from print media as well on and off line.
Most all the things that they find puts each candidate in a negative light. Most people during an election year, in all my years have never said nice things about any of the opposing contenders that I can recall, and I have been voting since 1972.
Geez, did I say that out loud?
That sounds like a very long time, and it is.
Over forty years... yep.
So as any good patriot should feel is the need to know as much as they can about the candidates before they make that final all important decision on election day, everything else is just clutter noise bites that are unnecessarily way too loud and causes more confusion as I grow older on what are truths and what are falsehoods, sure there are sites that decipher that as well.
So I am finding myself tuning out and that is a shame.
At first I felt like they were informing me on things I had missed to glean for myself, but now it just seems sadly angry and redundant.
Oh I don't know they are passionate and mean well!
So they have their right to express themselves, as I have the right to ignore them too, sorry.

And still...

Love to all, be well, and blessings.

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

Monday, May 23, 2016

Back on track

Today was another evaluation for PT, physical therapy, out patient edition.
Adam did the eval and after he examined me, and during that time I had some nasty spasms and even when I stood with his old school walker, no seat and no wheels, I nearly fell, and he determined that to start me two days a week would be good not to make me too tired and I am already scheduled for the next month.

Hubby took me to lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant after, the only one we know of, the Thai Café.
We both had our usual's Hubby's crispy duck and mine curry duck, both with iced water and lemons; they serve soup with every meal, this time it was a creamy chicken with scallions on top, usually its clear consume.
It was nice after I had been stuck inside for so long to get out even with a medical necessity stop before the fun one.
My new ride fit easily into their restaurant and as soon as they saw me come in they removed the unnecessary chair from the table in front of us, which was a very kind touch for seamless seating purposes.

Our intentions were to go to Home Depot to pick out my shower floor tile that I had changed my original idea of what I had wanted, that would have been after lunch, but I was pooped, so Hubby suggested going in few days after my six month neuro eye doc appointment, and so we will.
He is nearly done with the entire shower stall with the subway tiles.
The seat that is 4' long x 16" deep 16" high will now be getting marble of 18" square tiles fitted appropriately on top, instead of more subway tiles, the marble tiles were left over from the guest room floor and so now I wanted to make the floor in the shower the smaller hexagon marble tiles that aren't too smooth, since the larger white shiny hex tiles that I originally chose to me now made me start worrying about Hubby slipping on them and the tumbled hex marble ones are not smooth, smooth, and so in my mind less of a fall hazard in my opinion, got that?
At least I did not think about it after it was all done with those white shiny hex tiles, hmm?
And it will look great; I saw it online in a similar shower with the marble seat and the subway tiles, and the small hex marble floor tiles, the whole combo!

The floor is now much less square footage than doing the whole thing like I originally had wanted with even marble subway tiles which are real pretty, but were not cost effective for us.
We are saving on those large marble tiles that we had left, and it is just enough, three that will be cut to fit, since Hubby already measured them, what luck. With the bench taking up a lot of floor space the floor is not that big so even though the marble tumbled hexagon tiles are quite expensive, YOLO, you only live once, true?

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Addiction, addiction!

Addiction!
Sung to the melody of the song, "Tradition" from Fiddler on the Roof.
I am Tobi the Blogger and I am here to confess that I am an addict.
Yes, sad but true.

Houzz, Home and Garden, Pinterest or some other decorating site must have spilled the beans on me that I have stated that I cannot get enough of those types of sites, plus the fact we had access while on our last few fall mini vacations at the hotels due to all of those cable channels, oh dear...!

I just spent an entire Sunday watching one after another of HGTV, specifically, "House Hunters", renovations, 14 episodes and they are not alone in my viewing pleasure, Love it or List, Property Brothers, Fixer Upper, Flip or Flop have all been watched during these last five days of one after another I am sure they're more, tell me that they're more, please?...And yes, I am bleary eyed, strained, pained in my eyes.
They say confession is good for the soul, and so I have another one to mention since many who know me must be wondering how a gal without cable, or satellite or any of those super channel installs could be watching any preferred channels that most of the rest of the world watches daily without stealing them, hmm?

I/we never would ever do that, by the way...well, I am here to say that with our fancy new LED SMART WIFI TV it just so happens to come with a free month of streaming NETFLIX, so there I said it, and now all of you know, and I am so ashamed, not really. I am grateful for this wonderful opportunity; too beauty queen-ish, oh well?
But we have till next month to decide after twenty-one years of no fanciful channel surfing to succumb to the charms of this more desirable form of entertainment by the multitudes on our own terms and choice of pricing.

In case some are wondering why we ever stopped having/paying for/attaining cable like, "normal people" do, so it was like this, way back then when we moved from the east coast of Florida to the west coast of Florida the cable business went berserk with pricing, circa January of 1995, and it was no longer a customer's choice for channels, they wanted you had to take their packages that would somehow omit the channels we so desired, and if we wanted them they would be "extra" in cost; channels that we had had for years and years, even in New Jersey, so now do you understand?
It was them, not us, truly.

Any-who, that is the germ of how my selective TV watching came to pass.
There is an upside to this addiction of mine, oh I forgot that I have also watched, Bones; they're older episodes, anyway the streaming WIFI device is only abled through the living room TV, so when I go into our bedroom that TV is just normal and so my addiction has to be curbed for sleep purposes, right.
That is unless I have another sleepless night like I have been known to have, and then I would be able to go into our living room and enjoy a few rounds of my favorite guilty pleasures more, more and more!
STOP THE MADNESS!

Although, since it has been too hot, hot, hot to even go out with my new ride this is fine entertainment that is just right for my odd sensitivities.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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



Saturday, May 21, 2016

Dear Future World:

As a member of this race of us all, i.e. called human, I would like you all to know that we have given you this legacy that we must work together and play nice and treat each other with dignity and make sure that tomorrow's generation knows that they were loved and that we cared for each other and that hate was demolished long ago, in fact the word "hate" no longer exists in your future, since this is the only world we have to pass on and if we hadn't realized that it would not have been here for you to enjoy.
We felt that the air and water were also major necessities and so we took very good care of them as well to pass on that healthy balance to all of you.
And through all medical discoveries we are proud that you do not know what cancer, neurological disorders, mental illness or infant diseases, senility, etc. are or what being "sick" means, and when you receive this declaration for the future from this time capsule derived from all men and women taking the pledge to make life better for all of this "race", called human beings, no matter what is the color of our skin, religious preference, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation or transitions; we are also happy to see that it is no longer any question about any of those small minute differences of our past in ancient times that sadly caused ridiculous quandaries of notoriety,  although since we have found a way to all co-exist and be happy and productive in only the nature of living well with one another through understanding and mutual assisting with whatever our friends and family needs.
Living life is truly a pleasure now and we are hoping for all to "get it" too; so to speak?
Too much time had been wasted not working towards a common goal.
All of us then realized we wanted the same things and once that came to pass we had something, truly "something" to share.

I seriously hope upon you reading all this that our goodness of love for this planet and all who reside on it including all wild and domestic creatures besides us human beings are here for your hearts to envelope with your true understanding that continues, "into infinity and beyond!" (Love that line. From Toy Story, an animated movie, if I recall correctly. And nothing's wrong with borrowing that well spoken line from there, true?)

Reality check...
Nice sentiments/ thoughts; only wish I knew how to pull them all off to make them really happen...oh well, help?

You can you know start small in your own little worlds and it could flourish and spread to the ends of the earth.

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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

Friday, May 20, 2016

5-19-2016, yesterday, I made my five thousandth friend on Facebook!

I had a ridiculous goal when I started on Facebook to make a million friends; little did I know that would mean 5k divided into 1m, due to that is the maximum friends that you are allowed on one account, the five thousand.
I think my reasoning was as silly as any of this gets due to my lofty reasoning of when the young actor Ashton Kutcher started his Twitter account, all those years ago, he seemed to nearly, in short order, attain one million followers!
Foolishly I thought oh what fun to try that on Facebook, but shortly later, yep, way back then I found out their restrictions about that sort of thing.
Meanwhile most of the sane users of Facebook, and yes there are many, most all of us Baby Boomers that I am related to or went to school with or know via decent others etc. are very particular on whom they befriend, selective, fearful or I have no real idea why, maybe they feel you must talk to all the ones that you acquire, regularly and or often, but I am here to attest to the fact that that is not true, not true at all! Why I hardly talk to anyone! Ha!
And as far as the safety factor goes from what I see on the boards of conversations they all seem to get hacked and have other issues more often than I seem to; sorry to everyone that I might have just offended.
Sure I have been, yes offended and hacked too, ha, but not that often.

This social experiment that we have all been a part, under the microscope of, all of these last several years, in my opinion, should be just that, and so go forth without fear and a resolve to be involved.... so do it damn-namit!
Now the question of similarity might be relatable to that of lab rats, think for awhile, stop now, that's enough, now can you understand how I look at this daily experience, and yes most of us are here every single day, scary?
Telling too much and oops, not good, it will come back to haunt ya, unless you're like me and don't really care, although most do. I wrote a disclaimer here long ago that I am way too sensitive to hear your true opinions about mine, and sadly that is still true. So I do try to be careful not to rub too many of you the wrong way, or only tackling strangers, but mostly lately trying to be a new and improved version of myself.
I have found that out when people came back stating how upsetting it all had been for them, hmm?
Listen, this whole thing if you think about it is a trial an error type of thing.
Post family pictures; no don't!
Yes, confusing.
My own sons warned me about personal PICS and how businesses, schools and all sorts of future people that might be your teachers, bosses or love interests might see what you had been up to and think unkindly of you, or other than what you were trying for, sadly true?
SO WATCH OUT!
We go through life with trying to use that common sense that we were born with, and then you join Facebook and all of sudden people have people telling them the same thing they already knew, but mixing up the way they say it, but basically things that you have known for years, and to my surprise these intelligent people post these people's "brilliant" ideas, expressions or concepts, yep a social experiment of making us all forget how to think for ourselves!
Observing, people watching that I all started way back when while I was a young credit manager working at Lord and Taylor's at the Fashion Center in Ridgewood New Jersey on my lunch break; sitting out in their lovely atrium there.
We are all the most fascinating creatures, aren't we?

Oh and in other breaking Facebook news: Did you know when you turn down a friend request they then can follow you? That alone gave me 175 followers the last time I looked a while ago. So if you have a ton of followers and just a few friends that's on you and probably how that happened, not because you're cute, although that could be it too, who knows, who cares, ha, just kidding...friend!


Any-who, my ideas for this blog, thankfully, many days comes from all of you and for that I sincerely thank you!

Love to all, be well, and blessings.

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

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Many people are irate!

And to hear them complain that if more candidates or their candidate doesn't get chosen to be the "ONE" in the end to vote for that they are NOT going to vote at all!
WHAT???????
And what does that mean for the rest of us Americans?
I really am asking, because if that should happen in the magnitude that some are saying that it might, since they are very unhappy with any of the choices, what would happen?
I do not have as good a background in historical legal government precedence's to know how that would be handled, specifically because I do not believe it has ever happened before, but I could be wrong I have been wrong before.
Although, the 2000 Bush vs. Gore election did have us waiting on pins and needles for about three months until all those hanging chads and other oddities were validated here in Florida up in D.C., since we seemed to be the one state that held our whole process up, according to what happened.
But Geez this time there are murmurings of people saying that the whole bunch sucks, choice wise.
Some guy is even making money off of stuff, like a sports team sucks type stuff, the one below is from cafepress.com:

But I ask you if that is truly what you think, and you have no solutions then what?
Sure this person is a fine capitalist, the person making a profit with his slogan below, not unlike the Orange Frothy Haired Guy, since I am more than sure you are making a small fortune on taking advantage of your fifteen minutes of fame by great marketing of that negative low hopeless mentality that's hitting too many Americans where they live, here, although for how long can you take advantage of this situation? I know as long as those pet rocks or other useless promotions.They All Suck Round Car Magnet
I DO NOT, PERSONALY! That is approve of this message above.
Others', like us say things like we will be moving out of the country and that Mexico will be the ones that will have to build a wall to keep us out! I suggested Canada instead, but Hubby hates the cold after all these years, thirty of living here in Florida. He's even willing to learn to speak Spanish, I had two years worth, but when you don't use it you lose it.

PS I am NOT promoting what that guy is doing I am just highlighting the fact that many feel as he/she does; I do seem to recall that it was a man not that that matters in the bigger picture of things.
I'm just saying...
We need to unite and choose an appropriate leader to lead from the pool of selected end runners, and not give in or up.
Sure it's hard, but most worthwhile things in life are at times, it is true though not everything.

All I have to say we must figure this out before too many give up on us.
In my opinion that would be horrible.

Love to all, and be well, and blessings.

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


Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Subject matter

I know that I nearly forgot to give you an unauthorized, barely dignified, unwanted, unwarranted,unrequested critique of my opinion on the Best Picture Academy Award winner movie, Spotlight that I was looking forward to seeing last Saturday night and we had, not that my report has any meaning to anyone, but me, although...
I suggested it would should be "great", many might have gasped at that improper comment of a subject matter with such horrific ramifications as of priests in the Catholic church molesting children, but as I look back I still feel that the movie's preconceived descriptive adjective as "great", now does seem appropriate.
Stay with me here, don't close this down, please...you see the fact remains that what was brought out in the Spotlight, the name refers to the newspaper specific investigative department of the Boston Globe, in the movie that even the ones doing the story were culpable too, and that was found out during their revisiting decades of the cases swept under the rug, suppressed for too many long years by the people in power, of course the churches' hierarchy as well as the legal professions top people and righteous opinionated journalists themselves feeling the need to protect the church due to their own feelings that had no right in the mix for an exposure of the wrongs that needed to be outed to protect so many children in the future that eventually weren't; as well as validating the experiences of the ones that had been violated historically for decades and decades!
An emotionally charged story that was years in the making to clarify those blurbs we all read about back in the early two thousands about all this going on horrendously shockingly outing of what was going on in the Catholic church to their/yours/ours children.
Of course disbelief was the first reaction and this was met then with horror, and then many priests were removed from their church we had thought, but no, most were shuffled around to different parishes.
Yes, this story was great!
Shockingly so, and it needed to be told and retold, as the situation has grown with open the flood gates, spreading or just plain becoming exposed that this was happening in so many other fields/industries such as sports with coaches, public school systems with teachers, other religious leaders ministers, rabbis, of all faiths, including volunteers in those houses of faith, the ones we as parents felt could be the most trusted with our most precious parts of us, our children, and that trust was compromised, horribly after we knew or thought these were the one that were capable of caring for our children... IT WAS A METAPHORIC SLAP IN ALL OUR FACES!
Trust no one, sadly came with that realization.
I imagine by now, an assumption, forgive me that most everyone has seen this movie, well if you didn't, you really should.
All of this, as explosive as this with such ramifications of harm to our children, women, men, elderly or any minorities, hate crimes due to sexual preference or transition should be told and told LOUDLY AND STOPPED!

That's all for Spotlight put its spotlight on remembering when things are wrong and that we all must do something to change them!

On that note of please do something if you see or hear something and together we can make a real change on how some monsters treat others and they will be STOPPED!

Love to all, be well, blessings.

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


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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Great news! Much better day!

Hubby is cancer free!
His large pink polyp that had been biopsied was benign along with all those little ones!
But it was possible if not found this early that it could have turned into a cancerous one, and since it was so large, but completely removed Hubby has to go back in five instead of ten years for another colonoscopy, but still NO CANCER FOUND! Just a precaution, thankfully.
So folks get those colonoscopies, be safe!
Hubby waited too long according to recommendations of fifty years old for your first one, he was sixty-six, and very lucky!
His Mom had had colon cancer at his age, actually at sixty-five, but she survived it and is now ninety-five, though with dementia.
One never knows does one.

My stop for going to out patient PT starts next week.

Better day!

That's all for now, have a wonderful evening, love to all, be well, blessings.

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




Monday, May 16, 2016

People are guilty of assuming and it gets me angry!

Three cases today of that happening here.
First the CenturyLink tech assumed that we had not tried a zillion times to get our new Smart Wi-Fi LED TV online for over a week we even called Magnavox three times and I had to teach the tech you cannot scroll down for caps, lower case, numbers or to clear when entering the password there are colored buttons on the remote for that, they telling me to scroll!
Also same bunch insisted the TVs Wi-Fi should work situated where it is in the breakfront but it hasn't, but it worked fine in the store as well as on our kitchen bar top.
Our Number One Son determined along with a person at a repair shop recommended by Magnavox felt that we had an older router circa 2010 and that we needed a newer faster one.
But even the repair tech here today questioned me on if we had tried it, really?
Only about three million gazillion times!!!
With and without so-called tech from the company.
So I handed Brandon the tech from CenturyLink the remote for him to try each and every combo suggested and he too realized it was failing!
Yep, its the surest way to prove your point by allowing the naysayer to do it hands on!
I kept telling him the definition of insanity this youngster of thirty who had not heard of Einstein's definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
He brought in the new router from his truck and we are now on Wi-Fi! Ta DA!

Second one: new motorized chair fitters fine wonderful people but sadly treating me as if I am an inanimate and the head rest was too tight on my neck. I straightened him out by telling him why I cannot get my hair washed in those sinks at the hair salons, they have been known to cause strokes with clogged arteries or in my case having cervical stenosis.

Number three: A stroke survivor claiming that the reason my parents and brother died from their strokes was lack of care on their parts! How dare they blame the patient. So I explained that when and where back in 1982 and 1986 and that in those days they did not have available what they have today, how dare they! My brother though was under the care of the VA hospital in 2006!

I am exhausted with the insolence of people toward each other.
Another NOT great day.
Perhaps its just me...

Good night, love to all and be well and blessings too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!






Sunday, May 15, 2016

Feet looked swollen after two and half days...


...of using my, "new ride".
I am concerned and also needing help.
My nice vein ensconced feet, similar to my hands' appearance, with that distinctive physical attribute lost their thing that made me not appear to be needing any large quantities of diuretics, due to them showing so lovely, but now I cannot see them.
My left foot has a strange purplish tinge on its outer left side as well, make that NOT well looking, at all.
So once Googled it said that it could be possibly what is called lymphedema, swelling due to lymph glands fluid accumulation; and that it can happen due to feet dangling in a wheel chair or due to some types of surgeries, such as breast cancer like my cousin's arm was, and it does happen usually to legs and arms, but the feet are most often due to wheel chair sitting/dangling.
Gosh, now what?
According to the boards I read, many were very similar to me with SPMS or PPMS, or paraplegics, ALS, and had no real choice in the matter.
I am still in transition though, I can stand and even walk for a bit, but collapse in short time spans.
And so the "cure" that was talked about was those pressure socks, diuretics, or raising your feet above your hips.
I have neither of the first two, so I opted for the latter.
Not much different than my usual in bed with a pillow under my legs only this time with three instead of just one, it also said to try to keep pressure off of the calves.
Oddly enough the info said in one case that one person had been told by their doctor to stay in bed for three days with legs raised, Geez!
Another mentioned getting an ultra sound to make sure it is not a circulatory issue.
So all in all I had what many would concede and consider a rather bad day.
In a moment of adrenalin and concern for sitting too long (blood clots, came to mind) I got out of the new monster chair and opted for my walker to go into the kitchen and start seasoned fries that Hubby had mentioned he liked and so I looked up the recipe online and put the Italian seasoning of basil, oregano and garlic together with the parmesan in a small container to shake up and sprinkle over the Or-Ida string fries after the square metal cake pan was sprayed with Pam, and promptly dumped them all over the stove and in its crack to the drawer beneath!
I cried and left the mess for Hubby, who needed more work from me like he needs a heart attack.
He has been working too hard in my opinion, he even went grocery shopping again today, and brought home Tanner crab legs from Publix that were on sale.
Our nerves are frayed.
I felt horrid with more work left for him.
Best I do not bother to try anymore, I think.
Sorry!
Quite difficult and hard in realizing that this monster of a ride is an actual necessity.
I was so upset after the "fries incident", making me know that my abilities that I took for granted are disappearing/vanishing not unlike that mystery stories' notorious ink.
I am bumbed once again.

So not to continue in this vein, pun intended; better?
Any-who, I will bid you all a fond good night and say love to all, be well, and blessings too.
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

   

Saturday, May 14, 2016

I know in my heart learning something new daily...

... is a good thing, right?
Sadly, I did learn previously how to upload PICS years ago and it always worked before on our old PC, but so far it has not been working on this laptop anymore, it did in the beginning, so no PICS of my Permobil power wheelchair, no PIC of me smiling on mine, sorry, mine is blue. Oh and according to my chair guy Rick; mine is 100% covered by insurance!

Great!

Oh another thing my chair guy, Rick, had just been up in good ole New Jersey delivering a new one to a snowbird who winter's here down south of us in Bonita Springs, south of here, and summer's in their other home in Tom's River, next door to where we moved from in Lacey Township, Bamber Lake NJ, back in 1986.

So I bet you can guess what I have been doing all day long, yep!
Sleeping? No, just a nap though.
I was maneuvering my new transport system in the house and learning my ride!
Don't worry I have not destroyed a thing, yet!
Rick set it on the slowest turtle setting, a "1", and Hubby is making sure I adhere to it, for now anyway, although that setting is preferable indoors.
I found it quite interesting that my old scooter also had its slow and fast adorably called actually the same thing with pictures of a tortoise and the hare, AKA turtle vs. rabbit, and we all know that slow and steady wins the race, true?

Moving on...

No crowded places yet, due to Hubby working on the accessible shower still, and when he went to Home Depot they only had five boxes of the subway tiles when their computer said there were supposed to be twenty, so Hubby took what they had, he was told more should be in this Tuesday.
And even though we have a van, a mini van and Home Depot is wide open and a rather nice place to try out my new power chair Hubby was picking up too many more shower necessities that we would not fit with them in the van too!

Another interesting point, to me, if not all of you, oddly enough it appears that Gus, our Havanese mix rescue dog, has taken a liking to this new monstrous creature, that is compared to my walker that most recently he had been non-stop barking at the walker that is, and he has been licking me in it as well as it and most importantly he has been very necessarily moving away from it when I power it up, since it weighs, even without me on it, according to Rick, two hundred and sixty-six pounds and with me on it considerably more!
Thankfully we have a ramp for the van, paid for out of pocket via Rick, also brought with the chair as asked, a manual ramp, not motorized, but easy for Hubby to use, and much lighter, about forty or forty-five pounds. Hubby had made me ramps for outside and the inside, due to a one step down to the sun room years ago for my first walker, so no problems there.

Well, that's it for our today's news although tonight is movie night and tonight's feature presentation is, Spotlight :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28film%29, the Best Picture Academy Award winner, should be great!

Love to all, be well, blessings.
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!



Friday, May 13, 2016

I am in my high tech motorized chair


Fancy and sensitive.
Pretty cobalt blue too!
The seat  tilts all the way back!
The head rest and arm rests are adjusted for me as well as the calf pads and feet rests, and yes there is a seatbelt as nice as a cars type.
I am in a high tech highly functioning mobility chair that looks futuristic in design.
We are so off schedule with the whole fitting and demo taking a few hours we haven't even eaten yet!
I did get to go out the front door and it was very nice being able to...
Tell you more tomorrow and perhaps a PIC or two if I can figure out how to upload.
Hubby went to pick up dinner.
Love to all, be well, blessings.
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS I think I should run a contest to give it a nick name, maybe?
  

Thursday, May 12, 2016

My Dad continued

A wonderful man, who even though he worked very hard and until I was fifteen he worked everyday except one Sunday a month until when he sold the Eclipse. He made sure Mom and I had whatever we needed or wanted, and we always were able to go to the Catskills at anytime and stay at the all inclusive hotels Kosher food three meals a day with everything from golf to indoor/outdoor swimming pools and ice skating rinks and nightly amazing up and coming singers comedians and musicians etc.. I recall trips during the fall, winter or spring for the holidays and of course when school was out/closed.
When a college student I was told if I made the Dean's list, which I had I would be gifted the continuing educational program to go to Europe and so I did, thanks Mom and Dad.
Thus my travels in 1969 to seven countries in Europe flying from country to country and staying at fine hotels and also included in that package of this charter flight for all twenty-five of us girls supervised by our History of Art professor and his wife Dr. and Mrs. Krieger visiting all points of interest as well as Couture Houses, a wonderful experience, Shannon/Dublin Ireland, London England, Edinburgh/St. Andrews Scotland, Paris France, Amsterdam Holland, Barcelona Spain, Lisbon/Estoril Portugal. (I had been to Canada as a ten year old with my parents and my Aunt Rose and my father's father Grandpa Abe and we visited both sides of Niagara Falls then.)
Those forty states and the American experience that I had the pleasure of seeing with my parents four years prior to this grown up one without them made me capable of opening my mind to understand things so much better worldwide and appreciate my home too.

Back to that slight cliffhanger that I left you all with and all those riots breaking out after we left major cities from NYC to LA, the civil rights movement was in full force and many stupid people were not happy with the changes that would mean for all people to finally have the equality they so rightly deserved!
So of course harsh realities of violence in major cities arose from the conflicts of people who could not admit that it was right and allow this rightfully long time coming change for all people to be recognized as equal, there always seems to be some who do not want to understand and care enough to love every human being as an equal...Oddly enough that summer of 1965 every BIG city we left, coincidently the riots just so happen to break out after we left them, named "race riots", due to hatred of the change that had to occur for all of us to be human beings and equal, get it? So at that age of fifteen I began my interest, real interest in seeing the news casts on TV or reading the newspapers, yep a little slower than most, but I did want to know everything then and since, and why was there so much hatred for change, and people just because of the color of their skin, more real to me than the history books were, it was happening now and where I had just been to, and it caused real emotions, I was deeply saddened and even though I was horrified I was learning everyday and found myself needing to know more.

Moving on...

I have still been having PT, physical therapy with Eileen at home, last Friday and Tuesday, today and also tomorrow, but then I will be going to a facility for out patient PT. My chair will be here tomorrow afternoon, my motorized wheelchair that is.
But don't worry MS, Multiple sclerosis, patients live as long as everyone else but their quality of life diminishes due to physical disabilities, but I also know that not being able to get up from a sitting position is a death sentence so I am trying hard to make sure that I can!
PT will continue to make sure of that.
Hubby is moving right along with our accessible shower he says by the weekend he will be putting up our choice of subway tiles, yay!

That is it for tonight folks and Hubby just said dinner is in less than ten minutes so I gotta go!
Love to all, be well, blessings.
And next time be here or be square, ya hear!


Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Thirty years goes so very fast...


So much has happened good and bad over these last thirty years, and I am more than sure all of you over that ripe old age of thirty can agree.
My Father passed away May 11, 1986 at the age of seventy-nine and three and three quarter months old, clarified on January 27, 1907 he was born.
Yes, he was forty-three when I was born due to he and my Mom being on their second marriages.
He had been a young widower at just thirty-three and my Mom was a divorcee of twenty-nine when they married, but I did not arrive until ten years later.
My Mom had a nine year old son, harder to have me the second child, mom needed some type of surgery, but Dad had none, no children previously, since his first wife had a heart condition that did take her life at the too young life of just twenty-nine while swimming, doing her favorite thing.

My Dad was a self employed business man from the age of nineteen, but had worked from the age of nine from peddling papers to delivering candy and so many more things, he had a convenience type grocery store then called Irving's Dairy in 1926-1945, his family helped him in it, since he was the middle of five children. He helped put his younger brother through law school, after he had tried it for six months going to law school himself and decided that it wasn't for him. After having the little grocery for nineteen years his cousins and his brother the attorney as well as a first cousin also an attorney along with another cousin not in the law profession all four of them went into partnership in a bowling alley/ bar/ night club/ restaurant/ snack bar called the Eclipse in Hasbrouck Heights NJ and that was again for another nineteen years 1946-1965 after two of the partners passed away, my uncle and the other cousin, dad retired.

Dad tried for six months to be a "retired" person, but he drove my Mom crazy with his antsy-ness and so he went to  temp agency Snelling and Snelling and got interesting different jobs for a few months at a time. Although, before he started this Paper Lion type lifestyle, he chose to take Mom and me on a trip of a lifetime, cross country and back, stopping at forty states and every national park and point of interest that America had to offer, and that was eight weeks long in the summer of 1965, a volatile time since every major city we left race riots began...

So much of this ongoing story to tell and I do believe I will continue tomorrow, okay?
I sadly got a late start due to technical difficulties that Hubby rectified thankfully, but I am emotionally drained.
 
Meet me back here tomorrow, okay?

 




























































































































































Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Longest hour and thirty-five minutes

Two of our local TV stations NBC and ABC out of Ft. Myers Florida lost us that is us "antennae people", as well as the Dish Network, Direct TV and Century Link for an hour and thirty-five minutes all due to an engineering problem! I kept in contact with two of the on air anchor people, women, oddly enough one from a station that had nothing to do with it at CBS, and she was more helpful with her info than the other very nice person from their station who did not seem to know what was happening, due to being on the air at the time.
The horror, me being facetious now, happened twenty minutes before the end of General Hospital and it was just getting intense, bummer, oh well. I will have to catch up tomorrow, what else do I have to do anyway, really?
The return of the stations was simultaneously, since one company here owns both of them, Waterman Broadcasting. An unidentified source did chime in from their NBC station on the messaging that I use for its station to communicate with them, the person told me that they knew about the issue and the fact was that they knew it was down and they had their engineers working on it, at the time no time was mentioned when they thought it might be fixed.
Fortunately, the programming has resumed since for both, whew!

Crazy, how we get attached to these inanimate objects, hmm?
And at first I thought it was our new TV that had broken, and so I checked the others in the house and with them all saying the same thing that the channels weren't available or some such thing, anyway that helped me to understand it was them not us, ya know that feeling of a strange relief?
But then the realization you are without that important part of your access to channels, information and the world you so do enjoy for so many reasons and then it felt bad, real bad, out of the loop, and then a wee bit of fear kicked in with a heavy measure of apprehension of concern, wondering if perhaps they don't want us, "antennae people", having access, too weird, hmm?
When I found out it wasn't "just us", in a strange way that was reassuring that they would have to be all inclusive; that means us too would be included in the fix, yay!

All is right with the world again, so my life is back on track, don't worry folks, just kidding, or am I?
On that mysterious note of is she or isn't she, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to kindly count all of 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!

THIS JUST IN THEY ARE DOWN AGAIN!  OOPS! AND OH NO!
They are back; hope this isn't a thing.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Daily grind

We all know those words.
Their meaning has been used from everything from discussing types of coffee to newspaper names to the tedium of our days, usually during the week.
Probably other euphemisms could lay claim to those two quite descriptive words, hmm? 
Any-who, in our case this movie gal/reviewer here is back to regular programing watching, thus my daily grind.
Having just twenty-one channels is not as lame as many of you might think, and darn you anyway, how judgmental, almost as bad as moi, ha, although our twenty-two years of that significant miniscule amount of decision makings daily oddly to us it is more than enough.
And with all of you consumers of those two hundred plus choices I feel sorry for you, yep, I do.
Ask me why?
I can't hear you!
But that's okay!
I will tell you anyway.
WOW!
I bet there have been more than a couple of days and nights and weekends when you have had some rather loud discussions on which program to watch, maybe?
Sure you have ten TVs, one in each of your rooms, but still there had to be an occasional conflict when wanting to spend, "quality time" together thinking that you chose the "perfect" show to share with that special someone or family member or both, and they had an all together different idea on how to accomplish that outcome of attending to add to your closeness, ya think, hmm?
I'm just saying...
Okey dokey now let's think about all that money I have saved over these years, why not?
I do believe those monies are somewhere with the ones that I have saved from quitting smoking way back on July 11 of 2006, still looking...
Anyway, somehow I am supposed to be wealthier without those two things and healthier due to that BIG one, but to both sadly I am not, and I just thought of that, well not really, but for quite some time I have been wondering.
So what!
That is not where this story was going to go.
Choices, that is what I was thinking this could be about.
Life's decisions about some that are extremely important and others that are not at all, true?
In the bigger picture of things does it really matter what you decide to watch for entertainment purposes, that is without political, educational or any other significance or value nothing more than for pure enjoyment, true?
So this topic has been defined by the fact that whatever is important to you is how YOU probably will choose the significance of choice in even in things as benign as watching the smaller than theater screen in your own daily grind at home, bud dump bum...
Oh well, and a BIG never mind.
As we all know life goes on... thankfully with or without these major decisions in our little lives, although... when we vote and everyone eighteen and older should that does make a difference so do that, be sure to do that and that will be the best thing to change things, hopefully, and making a difference will mean by doing such a tiny thing and DO NOT ARGUE PLEASE!
Just do not vote for him please!
Yep that Frothy Orange Haired Guy, DO NOT!
Thank you.

On that note of finally making a point allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to kindly count all those 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 next time for a week's worth count how many channels you actually watch, I bet it isn't even ten, deal?

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Interesting movie on the Laff channel for Mother's Day

"My Mom's New Boyfriend", is its name, circa 2008:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mom%27s_New_Boyfriend, Meg Ryan, Antonio Banderas, Colin Hanks, yep and he played Meg's son, weird seeing that and sort of refreshing since Meg and Tom Hanks, his dad, were each others love interests in Sleepless in Seattle way back in 1993:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless_in_Seattle, it was almost as if it was just so right.
And of course Colin looks exactly like his dad.
The whole pretense caught my attention since the Mom, a widow, was a very large unhealthy gal smoking and drinking soda pop when her son Henry, Colin, goes off for training in the FBI for three years and when he returns to their home in Shreveport Louisiana he calls to his Mom searching the house and he goes out to their backyard and there is a swimming pool that is new and a very shapely woman sunning herself on a lounge, and guess what? It is his Mom!
She found Buddhism and Kabala while he was gone, in her own travels to India and elsewhere, and turned her life around!

Fun ensues and her choices of boyfriends are quite varied in age as well as professions, thus the title.
Until Tommy, Antonio... Oh dear I have said too much, but if you missed it you might want to try it...I was hooked with her transformation, physically and demeanor wise.

Moving on...

Hubby continues to work on the new shower and so even with Number One Son calling to wish me a Happy Mother's Day early this morning that was lovely, I know that I did forget to mention that he had given us two flat screen TVs last year, one bigger and one smaller than the one we bought and that is a 40", and neither fit the space in our large breakfront bookcase thingy! The smaller one is in our bedroom and the larger is in the sun room and we watch that one when we eat in our dinette the view is just right from there.

I know that most people are getting away from TVs and using their phones and laptops or other adaptive devices, but we enjoy movies together.
We considered Netflix streaming that would come through our WIFI on the new TV for only $9.99 a month, but it does not have any of the flicks we chose in our queue with them oddly enough and there are ten right now.
And we only pay $8.55 for them a month, so now we have to decide if we want both or not, the first month of streaming as you all know is free.
Perhaps we might try it?
VUDU and YouTube also come up on this new TV too, if we want without cable that we haven't had since 1994, would you believe?
We have time to decide.

Any-who, my Mom's day has been pleasant and Hubby is picking up our dinner at Red Lobster right now, two lobster bisques, two seafood samplers and one Caesar salad, yep Hubby nixed the veggies again.

On that note of what more can anyone ask for, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS Moms out there Happy Mother's Day to you all!

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Saturday, May 7, 2016

I sure hope that someone does...

...A night time comedy show of a parody/satire of the election and all its previous candidates; I would watch. Saturday Night Live has quite a success with their short segments of them on their show, don't they? Geez wouldn't you?
Imagine twenty-two minutes weekly?
Geez, wouldn't you?
Although, on second thought after this is all over the hope truly is that we won't need to be reminded of this horror show, I suppose not too funny.
And scary if the presumptive outcome is how one of the GOP presumes it will be, ouch!
Never mind.

Movie on...

Hubby once again did not wait for young neighbor assistance, he accomplished the feat of moving ye ole 160 lbs. of Sony WEGA TV by engineering smarts. Removing the back and most of the innards and then making a slider of two by fours eight feet long, bought for the new shower but not installed as of yet.
He slid the remainder of the set onto it and onto a furniture dolly, brilliant! Now it awaits its proper disposal via Waste Management this coming Wednesday, on the side court yard of our home, to be rolled out then.
And voila the new one is all installed in its former location!

Now I have been watching since four P.M. on the Laff channel the original Parent Trap with Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara and Haley Mills twice over! Pure escapism with fond memories of my youth.
Circa 1961: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parent_Trap_%281961_film%29
I had thought it would be over by six, but it is still on and I was wrong it will be over by seven!
Our other entertainment for later on tonight will be the new Star Wars movie again we had watched it sadly on thee ye ole TV Wednesday night with Number One Son who had already seen it in the movie theater when it had come out last December so he was okay about our off color, literally, presentation.
Tonight's will be more movie like!

On this note of looking forward to another presentation, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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!

Friday, May 6, 2016

Mind blowing!

The night time interview shows scarily were discussing my wild concept from last night's blog, as if the Frothy Orange Haired Guy was acting/misbehaving the way he was to actually help his pal Hillary!
I do not for once or at all think that they could be reading this crap that I spew nightly, but it was one of those wild coincidences, ya know?
The interviews were with either sides family's members and was shown in clips on the morning magazine network TV shows, crazy!

Any-who, if I reached one, any "one", that would be a BIG surprise to me, ha!
Not referring to any of you of course that was meant for the political peeps.
Sure they look for stuff on the net written good or bad, but when I speak of the one who gets all the FREE advertising, months ago I chose NOT to use his given name on purpose to add to it, but you all know that, could they know too?
I suspect the way they find things they have those minions checking all the possible mentions of them anywhere and everywhere, by name though, what else, so if they were to come across my infrequent mentions that is miraculous in the sense it is not that dissimilar to finding a needle in a haystack, ya think?

Gosh, I hope that they are staff who are paid, not volunteers doing the hunting/searching for free, although I doubt it.

Moving on...

Yellow is a nice color for a sunshine, some times a room or a house or even a dress or furniture shade, but not for a person, especially if they have jaundice, heaven forbid!
So when after weeks of trying to regain some normalcy with the color on our circa 2004 Sony WEGA 32" 160 pound living room TV, that after the hurricane rebuild it had come in at 1K paid via portion of insurance monies, and the folks on screen remained YELLOW with no matter how Hubby tried to get them normal looking again, and so now we have found its next generation replacement of a Magnavox 40" Smart LED WIFI accessible plus more fun stuff yet to be tried.
Hubby has it temporarily set up on the bar between our living room and kitchen, since we got it today instead of when Number One Son was here yesterday. Number One Son had found it at Sam's Club for on $249.88 plus tax and recommended it, since our TV is on most of the day and this one uses only eight dollars a year to run! (Hubby now is waiting for the young neighbor fellow to be available to help with the moving of thee ye ole heavy TV, moving day is probably tomorrow.)
Looking forward to those miniscule electric bills, yay!
Actually, we have had a reduction for the last several months, you see air conditioning usually makes it go way up, but ours hovers at around one hundred, but we do have a tiny home, although our electric bill has been nearly two hundred a few times for the month.
We close our blinds and of course since the hurricane and rebuild we have decent windows, really those were the year before, but additional insulation after in the new ceilings that actually were found not having any previously in this then 792 square foot home built in 1958, now at 1100 square feet with jalousies gone and proper windows in and all new electric and plumbing, screen room now an enclosed sun room and additional bathroom and closed in garage instead of a carport, as well as indoor laundry room this tiny space is tight and better environmentally functioning everyday with newer appliances replaced that meet all the energy saver requirements...

Okay, I know I have visited all this before, with the pool, pond and lift and dock seawall etc. all since we moved into this fixer upper that had been an eight year rental prior to us buying it so close to the harbor five minutes by boat away via our saltwater canal.

Alrighty now it is time to thank you all again for keeping me on your reading material list, and on that note of being very lucky having you, I know that it is nice to be had, bud dump bum...allow me now to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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 5, 2016

I did this before... so here I go again...what if?

The Frothy Orange Haired Guy is playing a joke on all of us?
Go with me here...
History makes it appear that the Clintons and his family have been long time friends, photos remembrances on newsreels allows us to have proof of a more than disinterested relationship between the two clans, tribes, families; why even their own daughters have been BFFs for years.
So, what if this is a ploy, a slight of hand, a subterfuge of actually making the Hill more desirable to her naysayers if...... and this is not such a BIG IF anymore if we no longer feel "the Bern", sorry folks, but realism is sneaking around about of understanding what it appears to be the narrowing of our choices.
He has come across before as what they used to call a flim flam man, i.e. Frothy Orange Haired Guy.
These above accusations are shear speculation and plausible possibilities.
Let's face it his words have been over the top and quite close to insanity for what most would consider any normal human being stating, true?
But he continues to claim that he is sane, hmm?
So if this is true, that he is not totally bonkers, why would anyone in their right mind make such unbelievable comments that irritate the multitudes and causes others to boldly without second thoughts of logic agree?
Okay, yep, I do get it, manipulation.
Although, that is used in business practices with even decent people going after what they want, but is it a course in Wharton's curriculum for graduation? I surely do not think so, probably not.
Notoriously he is a man that has a short attention span and gets bored easily, except when he is like a dog with a bone and stubbornly having to win whatever he believes the prize is.
But after that thrill is gone...his enthusiasm diminishes like most who attain what they thought they wanted when the actual relevance of what that means come to light?
They of his ilk usually toss the win away!
For it is no longer any competition and therefore no more fun of their "game play", so they are done.
What do you think?
Or is this whole concept as off the wall as a possibility as everything else in this run for the Whitehouse for our next president?
Just another odd thought from me...

Moving on...to more important topics!

Hubby!
He has now passed another one of his many medical tests that he has recently gone through to make sure all is well.
He did have several very pink polyps and one larger one being sent off for biopsy, but his Doc told him that he is sure that he is 100% sure that Hubby is cancer free, YAY! (Doc also said Hubby had the polyps of a fifty year old, all removed now.)
The doctor has asked him to come back in two weeks for the results of the biopsy though.

All is fine, he was reassured, just procedure.

On this note of all is well, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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!     

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Number One Son and PT

All is done after less than an hour with PT, air writing with my feet, red band taut on each foot pulls, getting up and moving.

Hubby is still in prep mode for his procedure and so he cannot eat and he hides in the garage not to be tempted while Number One is now picking up our Chinese food dinners, minus none for Hubby. I feel bad and sad, but he cannot eat solids only liquids.
I chose Chinese since Hubby said he was tired of it and would not mind.

He is finding this whole thing a bit more annoying than anything else that is getting ready for the colonoscopy, and I must admit his is very different from mine.

Moving on...

Now we are enjoying our son's company so I will cut this short.

On this cheerful note allow me to be the very first to tell you all to have a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all the overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

WOMEN OF AMERICA UNITE!

Catchy title, hmm?
Sure we as women should stick to together in no matter what we believe in...that is because we as a gender tend to be more realistic, understanding, compassionate, fairer, loving, smarter, organized and dare I say liberal.
We as a gender seem to be able to put ourselves in the other persons place more easily than people of the other gender, in other words, men, oops, did I say that out loud?
No silly, I wrote it!
But in reality we can be tough when we need to be and also soft when that has to be, Geez we are natural actors, ha!
We can bring home the bacon(money, make a living) and fry it up in a pan, (bacon, pig parts or such)!
We are women, W-O-M-E-N!
Enjoli commercial said it best, circa 1978, watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA4DR4vEgrs

Okay gal pals the election might come down to our decision, just remember we are fifty-one percenters!
Yep, as usual we have the upper hand and the ability to turn the tide!
All females welcomed to put their two cents in, including neuvo gender gals, you matter too!

On this note of boy am I in BIG trouble with all the males that I love in my life, yes Hubby and two wonderful sons, kidding, sort of,...allow me anyway to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you also 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!

Girlfriends unite we can make this country work!


Monday, May 2, 2016

PT Eileen arrived on time, and more on my political view, I know who cares, bud dump bum...

Today I do believe that I may be able to prevent atrophy or at least waylay it for awhile.
A program more to my abilities than my inabilities looks promising.
Tired in a good way.
Hope is alive again.
I have been a pill while taking them, could be a relationship there, usually is.
Forgive the attitude; don't touch your dial, I will use my own attitude adjustment.
Kidding, of course, ya think?
But wouldn't it be wonderful if we all did have a personal dial that we could access to control negative emotions?
Nah, when I think about it what if we did have an on/off switch, although it would be like those Stepford wives, husbands, children or just singles either sex or both with the ability to be happy and peaceful all of the time, ABSOLUTELY NOT!
I rather die now!
Emotions are what makes us human.
Not having them is like not caring, seriously.

Self control is fine, and of course decorum in large groups, behavioral complexes are confusing for us laymen in some ways.
Take that Frothy Orange Haired Guy, please take him anywhere but here, but seriously folks he has been ranting, raving and spewing hatred about people, beyond my understanding in the respect why are others lapping up his lunacy and seem to be in unbelievable agreement with him, what gives?
How can anyone get away with such behavior so horrible, mean and bizarre and no one say this is wrong?
They follow him as if hypnotized.
FRIGHTENING!
Normal people act as if zombies following, listening to him on his every word?
He gets them to respond in kind, which is bad and they enjoy the concept of his to in sight to riot!
Many have been told horrible anti-any group of persons different from themselves to hate and they seem to agree with this horrid man/monster, hater!
How is this possible, in this day and age, haven't we learned enough from history?
He must be stopped!
But how?
It's getting down to the wire in this campaign.
Short of "firing him", if only, I wish I knew how.
That would be too easy.
Oh well.
Hopeless, hapless, now I am bumbed, you too?
Let me know if there is a way to resolve this very possible horrific possibility of he becoming the GOP Candidate and heaven forbid the actual PRESIDENT, scary!
There has got to be a legal, non-violent, logical, humane...whoa, did I say that?

On that note of Geez I have bad bad thoughts, better kept to myself, you too when it comes to him I suspect, allow me anyway to ask you to be the very first to have a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you also 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 1, 2016

Nothing accomplished! Ta Da!

A fully fruitless day.
I cannot recall a thing that I can say has been done by me worthy of reporting here, but I will give my daily details anyway.
I went to bed last night earlier than usual ten or eleven too tired to be sure and awoke around seven.
All I think that I did do today was watch the usual suspects of news magazine shows early this morning then Meet the Press, ditched the end of Face the Nation for shower time, and then chose PBS shows and DIY shows and some older movie that cannot recall circa 2000 on the Laff channel or there about and said to Hubby who came in for a break from his actual physical labor for me the new ADA shower and told him I was too tired to watch and ended up back in bed for a long lasting nap time, maybe too long?
I have tried to remember when I reentered my bed, but I cannot.
Hubby right now is out getting dinner, this time my choice was a rotisserie chicken from Publix with salads, we did need other forgotten items anyway.
All my meals were served to me via Hubby, so I cannot ask him, what a privilege to have some one so attentive, who admonishes me each and every-time not to touch a dish!
Of course it is true I might drop them and they will break, but still...now I have been threatened if I do try to help and drop any dishes and they break he will leave them where they lay!
Uh oh, I have been warned.
Thus my not doing anything mode more.
It is getting harder accepting being nearly an inanimate object, but still breathing.
Geez, I hope no one actually considers me that when I do finally escape back into the world in my new ride, the motorized wheelchair!
They had in my old manual one, while being pushed by Hubby.
Scary as that sounds...I shall be very vocal so they know that I still exist!
People are funny, make that silly when they see someone in those things, as if the brain has gone along with the body.
Sure it is true that it can, but not always... mine is still here, sort of, bud dump bum!
I promise the world at large that my voice will continue as well as my joy of speaking my mind as long as I am able to think, I think! Ta Da!

On that note of TMI again, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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!


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