Sunday, July 31, 2016

Quieter

Friends, Romans and all other nationalities and countrymen and women...lend me you eyes, since if I said ears you still wouldn't hear me!
The time has arrived for all good people to come to the aid of their lands, foreign and domestic.
With soft written words to soothe all the players in those lands and to remind them that now is when we should be our brethren's keepers with calmness and care and trust each one for another to be loving and peaceful forever more!
Doubt is not a word to be used ever again, trust is the word for all!
We must concede that this is the only world we have and that we must engage in positivity to maintain its persons freedoms to all reside in pleasant harmony always!
Violence is to be dissolved by the all of the most intelligent realms, which if done means everybody!
Weapons shall be dissolved, destroyed or dismantled!
We as a united race of one, being all human beings race, we must be open hearted to each and everyone of us.
Then and only then all will be right with this world, did I mention the only one we got?
Space travel for anybody is still decades away, truly, think about that, hmm?
Be realistic, Okey dokey!

Moving on...

I have noticed that you all in Russia have been reading these blogs of mine the most of all nations and so please be it known that we are people who need to be happy and healthy and have love and peace in our lives just like all of you, so be aware that we would appreciate you using those traits with us of kindness and understanding too, and we will thank you and return that behavior!
That's all!

Love to all, be well, peace, and spread blessings all a round!

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

PS: Good Luck World in the Olympics next weekend!

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Zero tolerance!

What has happened to morality?
Why must people still be told not to drink or drug and drive, i.e. any motorized vehicle? (Or bicycle or walk outside for that matter.)
Why isn't bigotry dead yet?
Why is bullying still something families don't discuss and teach that it is wrong to do?
Why is it that in a nation of somewhat well educated people that we still have so much to learn about social graces preventing us from embarrassing ourselves; http://toi.edu/Training%20Materials/leading%20spiritual%20movements/Student%20Notes/F1Social%20Graces.pdf not just us, but the rest of the world included?
Are we not adults?
Can we also learn to accept peoples' differences and save ourselves from ourselves?
Just asking.

Moving on...

Today and yesterday were for us purging the messy paperwork days in our home.
Files and baskets mostly and thankfully we do own our own shredder, which made short work of it.
So much had been saved in the name of, "maybe we need this", ha?
Not anymore.
Most all records have gone paperless and digital for years.
So we have now freed ourselves and are proud to say that we are uncluttered from the mess!
Next my deep drawers in my night stand's turn.
Most people would neaten up if... they thought what if we had a horrendous accident and did not come home one day would we want family to have to contend with our left behind disorder?
Pretty heavy duty stuff and an extreme way to think about it, hmm?
Even unexpected company seeing messiness?
I say always do it for yourself, but for further motivation think about those other things...
SCARY!
A project a day, but best not to let it ever get out of hand to overwhelm.

Love to all, be well, peace and spread those blessings all around!

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

Friday, July 29, 2016

Both Conventions are over for the next four years...

It's as if this is the lull, baby/bridal shower/ bachelor party all done, before the BIG EVENT the wedding/baby in reality our voting this November!
Anticipation with arguing via more debates, but just the two candidates/couple who might need counseling or not with all the shouting about to begin! Gosh it has been ongoing.
One never knows does one.
Should be something, I almost said "interesting", but it has been, really, thus far?
Different I would say, embarrassing, I would agree, and it is sad too that half the adults seem to not know how to play nice, ya know what I mean?
There can only be one winner.
Thankfully, we do not live in medieval times or they might consider dueling to the end.
Hill, short for Hillary, but you knew that, could still win if that were the case, she's full of spunk, ya know?
If she looked as if she was losing, Bill would step in and back her up, have her six, he would be her second I am more than sure.
Orange Frothy Haired Guy's wife and kids wouldn't want to get themselves actual dirt dirty, and then their ward, the above mentioned, would be fired, literarily!
I hate to say this when he loses conventionally I do believe he will need to be committed, being a bad loser and all, and not to mention that he is BONKERS! In my opinion.
Yup! I'm just stating the obvious! (To most of us sane ones.)

Any-who, the upcoming debates I sure hope we get some legitimate engaging information; actually Hill has been quite explanatory and upfront in telling us how she will accomplish all our concerns with her well thought out plans, but the other one has been vague and feels it's only on a need to know basis, his apparently, no one else's which is illogical, since this is a democracy not a dictatorship! Someone should teach him about civics, the persons rights and duties as a citizen is the simple definition, all the processes that affect people's beliefs: for more details goto: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civic-education/

Love to all, be well, peace, and share all those blessings!

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




Thursday, July 28, 2016

Where everybody treats you swell!

That's a throwback word for ya all, swell, slang, hmm?
I guess most think of something anything growing larger is to "swell", even figuratively to swell with pride" that you cannot actually see that one swelling that is, ha, but it was an older definition that I was meaning that everything is great, or if the intonation is negative it can also be "just swell", in that case it is not so good.
But in my title I do mean being treated well.
Places we seem to go to fairly regularly like the Thai CafĂ©, Olympias', Cracker Barrel, even Ruby Tuesdays, the restaurant, not Tuesday Morning the retail store (I had goofed a few blogs ago, but since fixed my mistake using one for the other, oops.) when they see me riding in they move things out of the way including that chair I wont be using; and that's downright friendly in my book!
What?
Who is that masked woman?
This aint no western, okay western Florida that is southwest Florida to you folks, ha!
So when I mosey into any of those eateries they treat me real swell that's all I am saying, kindly like.

Moving on...

Body parts misbehaving now, shoulder, my right one, and sadly my vision has been too, blurry that is, in and out while trying to read, yep books on hold again! Dagnabbit!
I am ouching at the moment so that is it for now...

Love to all, be well, peace,
and share those blessings all around!

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


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Americans must vote!

Well, actually if you don't want to you don't have to...BUT, yep a really BIG BUT if...and this is if the ramifications of you NOT voting you would not want to have to live with the knowledge that the one you didn't really, really, really want to win, WON!
Oh no you wouldn't!
HORRORS!
Our votes count!
And what would you say to all those soldiers fighting for your ability to, hmm?

I suppose some of you are wondering why I would be so strongly recommending to not deny your vote and to use it, perhaps?
Since I cannot hear your response I will tell you anyway, Okey dokey!
Here it goes... I had PT again today, but the facility is also for independent exercise, and an octogenarian woman who we knew as an acquaintance when Hubby used to take me there for that purpose was there.
She uses a walker due to arthritis and balance issues, we actually have the same one, that transformer one to a transporter; anyway after the normal hello greeting we got on the topic of politics, we both passed over the how do you feel health wise questions with good days bad days answer.
Eileen, that is her name; Hubby reminded me, and he's the one that usually forgets, this time he knew and I forgot.
So Eileen said she doesn't like any of them and so I said well I hope that doesn't mean that you are not going to vote, and she nearly whispered, "yes".
I said you should vote; then I mentioned all the soldiers keeping our freedoms safe, and making it so we can vote.
And not voting is just sad.
Bernie saw that we all have to come together and he is a uniter not a divider with his support for Hillary.
I didn't tell her that since she did seem to have absolute negative opinions about all the candidates including the Orange Frothy Haired Guy with quite a bit of negative emotion about him when I asked if she would vote for him, and that made me smile with a smidge of hope...Just vote I told her, but do not, not; do vote for America!  

Love to all, be well, peace, and spread those blessings around!

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



Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Another day another test

Duplex arterial us=ultrasound=lower extremities.
Again my chair planed for the test, once the gurney was removed the tech began.
Being the test was at one thirty we ate lunch at home, nostalgically eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, smooth peanut butter, I prefer chunky, but that's what we had, and apricot jam, mmm, mmm, good! And of course the obligatory soup too! Oddly and surprisingly great tasting light baked potato soup by Campbell's, of course.
Not a combo most would prefer, but what the heck thinking out of the box is fashionable, true?
YUP!

So after the test we did go to Publix, our grocery store.
We stocked up on tuna BOGO @ $3.99 eight cans that means fifty cents apiece, what a deal!
Light soups also eight cans.
Great for light dinner or lunch.
Sounds like we didn't buy much but when all was said and done we spent over two hundred and fourteen bucks for this and that's!
Maceo, the produce guy, welcomed me as if I'm a long lost loved family member with hugs and air kisses, so very sweet of him, nice man.

Then again as always the trip brought us home.

Oh today I brought my fortune cookie message to fruition with rekindling my Kindle with ten chosen books. I once had been a voracious reader, a book a day was my motto and that had been done.
But my compromised eyesight, legally blind, for about four years caused the lapse, and once surgically corrected my excuses have been plentiful for the last two years, for shame.
I am changing that and in spite of our hectic schedule I got in fourteen chapters so far, of an autobiography, My Mother Was Nuts, of Penny Marshall, a dancer, an actor comedienne, writer, author, director and so much more.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings all around!

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

Monday, July 25, 2016

I didn't light the fire...

Dr. Nord, Bealls Outlet, McDonalds, Radio Shack, Tuesday Morning and Sports Rehab...SIX and all before two P.M.; all in four and half hours, start to finish!
No Billy Joels here, but my history for today was humongous, ha!

Dr. Nord, six month check up, A1C down a point, Cholesterol down seven, Triglycerides down twenty-seven, thyroid medication continues to be just right!
Beall's Outlet, three items: two bathing suit cover-ups that make perfectly adorable tops for slacks, one white man shirt look in front with rolled up sleeves but in back a cut out lacey see-thru, the other a navy simple one but with jazzed up lace trimmed sleeves both in cotton and one real cute peignoir set that has a flamingo print robe, real sweet!
McDonalds, lunch: Santa Fe Salad for me with grilled chicken, Hubby Big Mac and mediums fries, two ice waters.
Radio Shack, time to waste after lunch at Mickey D's, but check out their stereo systems for the TV; not in our/Hubby's price range, STICKER SHOCK, even on sale.
Tuesday Morning, more fish hunt, getting to be more like a snipe hunt, tee hee, more wasting time until...!
Sports Rehab, for PT, physical therapy and assessment, more therapy was added on and then onward to...

HOME!

See we are busy bodies, but not nosey bodies, ha!

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings for all!

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

PS: Too close to home...not far from here. Our hearts go out to Ft. Myers and their most recent horrors; it does seem like our prayers appear not to be heard, sadly.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

"Turn off the TV and the computer and exercise your mind with a good book."

Do, Do, Do, Do...DO!
It's as if I am being watched...SCARY!
That was an odd modern fortune cookie message and it was mine and a correct assumption, oops. Have to work on changing things up a little.
Hubby's was also right on target as well, but he does do what it suggests, "You have many special gifts, go experiment with them!" His, "Honey-dos", qualify I think, albeit, he is quite diverse in those gifts.
Okay, I do believe that both were a bit too preachy, hmm?

Tonight, as you may have already guessed we had Chinese food for dinner.
We shared a quart of lobster lo mein, and a quart of egg drop soup, with still enough left over for another meal.

And although China City's prices went up we both still were able to eat for under fifteen bucks and we will eat again from the same take out choices tomorrow, not a bad deal in my opinion!

We do appear to eat out and take out a lot more than many I suspect, but it's my fault since I feel guilty that Hubby does too much for me as it is, so for him to cook too often too is expecting a lot from any husband who is also a care giver of a disabled wife, in my opinion.
Boy, am I opinionated tonight, so what else is new, ha?
That's what this blog is all about, my opinions, true?

Not every night though that Hubby does it all.
I still try to help, but sadly it is minimal.
Not because I am lazy, well sort of these days, but in reality it is just because I cannot, and that does make me sad and very frustrated.
Marriage is a partnership if done right.
Oh well, just thoughts...at least my brain still functions, sort of, another one of my opinions, ha.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings to all!

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




Saturday, July 23, 2016

Fish located in its position

If only...nah!
Never mind.
Many of us wish for things that are not that easy to come by, while others of us don't bother to think outside of the box at all, who's worse?
No judging here.
Oh maybe, just a bissel, a little, a teensy weensy, perhaps.
Imaging what could be is another form of a wish.
Sometimes it is left unspoken due to fear of being thought of as being silly, odd, or too outrageous!
But at times speaking your thought can be freeing, in the sense of putting ideas out there.
Don't get me wrong not to do it to be told you are smart, dumb or crazy, but to validate that you are thinking.
Oh I don't know...much, hmm?
Speak up and out is all I am trying to say!

Moving on...

Today, I did something stupid, yes again!
Most of us in our family do what doctors tell you to NEVER do and what is that one might ask, no but say you did for argument's sake, okay, and that is clean our ears with a Q-tip...I suppose most of you know where I am going with this... well... perhaps for the same reason I stopped cutting Hubby's hair a while back I should have stopped using Q-tips to clean the inner part of my outer ear, my hands tend to jump when I least expect them to, and that is what occurred this morning after my shower when I was cleaning my right ear after my left one was done successfully. My hand jumped and I felt the pain, but thought it was a momentary glitch, nothing serious.
After lunch I took a nap and my outer part of my ear was sore behind the ear, you know where.
Normally, with sinus and frequent earaches I put an alcohol dipped cotton ball in my ear and it seems to help, and so I did this again. Although this time after a while the cotton ball had a yellowish stain on it and at first I just figured it was more than likely just ear wax, but then it was red, blood!
So I Google it and it came up with infection, injury to the eardrum or severe head injury! And I did remember the painful cleaning of this morning...
Well, I had no symptoms of any infection or head injury, well except my usual that is... I had Hubby check to see if the outer part of the ear was cut or scratched and he said that my ear canal was caked with dried blood!
BIG OOPS!
The article said if it is a ruptured eardrum to keep it dry, and when showering put a Vaseline dipped cotton ball in it to do that, so I removed that alcohol one and foolishly put the Vaseline one in and then reread for the shower protection and so now I have a dry cotton ball in it, hope this keeps the dirt out?
Feeling FOOLISH!
Good thing I have my GP office visit early this week, that's all.

Love to all, be well, and not stupid, peace and blessings all around!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! (I hope that I will be hearing too! Bud dump da)

Friday, July 22, 2016

Tests with no way to cheat

Yep, I had two more today, a chest X-ray that they made me stand up for, since my chair has too much metal on it to be allowed. I was holding onto the machine for less than two minutes but it really felt like two minutes, ha!
The first test was actually the tummy ultrasound, yes just the same as expectant Moms get, it was done with me in my BIG Blue, motorized wheelchair, reclining it back perfectly right alongside the machine, cool, oh so very cool, ha!
I sure hope I pass these too.
Getting the list done.
Finished the questionnaire for the psych test before we left, kept my mind off of food.

After testing we went over to the mall for lunch to Ruby Tuesdays.
I had their grilled salmon over Caesar salad with their chicken tortilla soup that Hubby and I shared, he had the bacon cheeseburger with fries, we both had ice water with lemons on the side.
And then we tried Beall's again for my fish search and this time we struck pay dirt in a colorful large metal one, designer one, signed with a tag saying $34.99, but with a 30% discount plus an additional discount having it come in at just over $20 including tax!
Sure it's more expensive than my others, but worth it being a designer one and signed by Leoma Lovegrove, and all! 
See more of her work on Facebook, under her name, Leoma Lovegrove.

Leftover pizza and minestrone soup for dinner, only two meals again, wonder how Saturday will go.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings for all!

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


Thursday, July 21, 2016

Oddities in life

Stomach was misbehaving while at the rehabilitation physical therapy that caused me to cut, no actually needed for me to reschedule my PT for today. It will be tagged onto the end of my number of days that is in only a couple of weeks.
The oddity is that when we got home instead of taking Imodium or the likes of other upset stomach medicine I was very hungry and ate a homemade leftover dish that had brown rice in it along with cheese, albeit parmesan and it worked! After that my appetite has been horribly desiring to be fed? So I gorged myself, and oh what guilt, but I ate supper too!
No decent explanation for any of this.
Although, yesterday. we did eat only two meals, brunch and dinner.
I really thought that might be a good idea for me to do on a regular basis? Guess not if this is what happens, ha.

Two phone messages awaited for us when we arrived home.
One was from my neuro's office manager who had gotten a message from my internist, but had no idea why.
We figured it out when I returned her call, about my pre-test for the surgery!
The other was to verify I would be coming in for my us= ultrasound, who knew?
For my tummy!
And yes, Paula I would think you would.
My cousin who heads up the teaching program for such things.
I received the packet with all my doctors to see and tests needed to be done, a bit exhausting and a smidge overwhelming.
The questionnaire for the psych evaluation alone is around twenty pages!
All this for bariatric surgery, making sure my heads on straight I suppose.
Plus a chest x-ray, and us=ultrasound of my arteries in my limbs, 30 more blood tests, some an overlap with yesterday's, so will be subtracted.
Heart/vascular doctor has been scheduled, and awaiting the sleep test night to be scheduled too.

The worst part of this whole thing is that I am constantly tired, and my ankles swell so I get into bed and stay there.
Oh well, my sloth-like metabolism is horribly difficult to work around; meaning to think about weight loss concepts.
MS heat issues, previous skin cancer, causing sun shyness, inability to walk and on and on...
Not excuses in my case, truths.

Sorry!
Bad day.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

PS Ya know something, what is the best part of life; there's always tomorrow, another day! YAY!
BIG SMILE inserted here.






Wednesday, July 20, 2016

No idle people living here!

Early out to the blood suckers and golden liquid examiners; in tandem this time, yup Hubby and me sharing this special time together, ha!
We have doctors' appointments next week a few days from one another, six month check-ups.
Mine also is pre-op.
After we ate brunch at Bob Evans, and Hubby had what I horribly call a heart attack on a plate, two eggs a bunch of sausages, home fries and white toast with butter, though, this time we both had their terrific coffee!
I on the other hand had their fit breakfast, egg whites scrambled, two cranberry half dollar pancakes with melon and pineapple chunks, two of each, and a bunch of purple grapes, total calories 370!

When we arrived home we had several messages, actually four.
The sleep doctor's office called to tell us they had an opening this afternoon; I had been scheduled the end of August originally.
So we went and I am now going to have that sleep apnea test overnight very soon.

We stopped for dinner in the same row of businesses where the test will be happening.
Bella Napoli a pizzeria and Italian food place, been there eight years.
Hubby had their baked ziti and I had their eggplant parmesan with spaghetti, both were served with warm bread and decent salads.
The food was very good!
Mine was so much I had to take a little bit home, Hubby finished his, except a half of sausage that was put in with mine.
Another fulfilling day, pun intended, ha!

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

PS Hubby read a 102 degree outside temp on the car accurate thermometer while on our trips today, WOW!

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Onward and upward

Padded shelf standing brace to lay your arms with bars of plastic to grab on to as I stood once again between the even parallel bars. My left wrist/hand was my assist side from push off from my chair, since my right wrist appears to be too sore to be helpful with the adjusting to my standing position, but success was had!
Bending my feet from my ankles with lifts of both feet as I sit, counts of ten reps, raising arms up and down to a count of ten, no make that twelve.
Quite an exhausting workout!

After we exchanged our wrong copier ink for new at Office Depot, very helpful and pleasant Hubby reported, as I waited in the car.
You see, the new Wi-Fi HP copier we had gotten just this past December 5th is now obsolete and so when we went to replace its ink nothing was compatible, and so we went back to Best Buy and asked them what had happened they confirmed it was now an obsolete product and replaced it with a brand new next generation one that was twice as much without the additional charge to us and its ink use promises to be much more practical and greener, longer lasting.
Both companies were surprisingly very generous and pleasant.

After we ate lunch at Firehouse Subs, Hubby had his pastrami NY steamer and I had their salad also named firehouse @ 370 calories, and Hubby's was 720! But he could use them and I do not need them, we both had ice water with lemons on the side.

Then gas at Sam's Club for $2.03.9 a gallon, lastly Publix and then home!

Hubby is picking up pizza from Bocca Lupa's full moon tonight, so half price large!

Whew and so we made another fruitful day under our belts.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

Monday, July 18, 2016

BREAKING BAD!

Eclectic I told you so, and I was happy to know that the five seasons of Breaking Bad an AMC series well renowned and Emmy winning was included in my Netflix choices.
It's a cable show and anyone who knows Hubby and me we have not had cable now since March of 1995!  
But we knew about this show and others due to discussions on network programming that we do have.
And for my binge watching needs this show fits the bill.
Although my last two shows were more seasons apiece, more than twice as many years and still going strong, hope I am not let down when it ends... this one's intensity and tantalizing story line though might be more appealing taken in smaller doses in shorter quantitative tastings.
Thankfully my cringe factor has been squelched and my judgmental old Jewish woman instincts have been thrust back to my childhood when I nearly watched burlesque type shows up in the Catskill mountains without a flinch!
All making me more open-minded now, as one should be at this stage of her life, truly!
The concept of the tale is as old as time itself, circumstances beyond this man's control make him need to become, shall I say, creative, yes that will do, in how to support himself and his family. 
Of course that includes not such legal means, but this is fiction folks, although some might agree that it is a possible conclusion to some people's ways of fixing their money needs.
Sadly, the root of a lot of evil, money that is... Oops there I go again!
But in reality goodness and sweetness cannot pay the bills, and we all have that, don't we?
A man like that works hard all his life, even at fifty with two jobs, and who has a loving wife working too, and a beautiful son with special needs and another baby on the way and top it all off with him being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and never having smoked a day in his life!
Using your teaching chemistry skills to run and make meth in a lab for easy money, BIG easy money, could somehow seem like the answer to all your financial woes... and so that is the synopsis of this series, which I sort of surmised from all I heard through the years, it ran from 2008-2013, five whole years. So my journey has begun...finished so far Season 1 pilot 1 and that skillfully made the image match my previous accountings...years to go.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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


Sunday, July 17, 2016

Summer mode

Enough already with the fears of the dangerous weather!
We in Florida, not all the we's, just me I suspect, forget that this IS our rainy/hurricane season!
Whew, poo, poo, poo hope I didn't just jinx us with the mentioning of that "H" word...you know the one, hurricane, Geez that was close, hope no one heard me upstairs!
Thor or whomever causes such things, ya know?

So I suppose now I can move on to regular programming, blogging that is!

I had a rude awakening a few hours ago.
What was that one might ask?
I know you didn't, since I still can't hear you, but for argument's sake let's say that you did, okay?
I have run through all twelve seasons of NCIS on Netflix!
Did the same with Bones, and almost every single HGTV show they have, so now what?

The fall new shows seem so faraway for NCIS and Bones, although Fox has one more new show for Bones until the fall this coming Thursday @ eight, their season's last until then!
So many other shows available, but I suppose I am a bit picky.
Although, my tastes are eclectic, more so than most I think.
So far though with only having this streaming availability for the last two months my exploring has led to a somewhat safe area with my choices.

I won't dare ask any of you to suggest, because that would not be fair; tastes being what they are and all.
But perhaps, I should stop the whole shebang of streaming for a while.
Hubby watched some movies and he is now only on the fifth season of NCIS.
See I have retired to bed due to how I have been feeling while he has his viewing pleasure in the living room, thus not being on the same entertainment pages.

I got it!
My old favorite movies are choices too!
Back to the Future, all of them I think.
ET that I started one early morning.
Anything Spielberg truly would be good.
Eureka!

Love to all,  be well, peace, and blessings!

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




Saturday, July 16, 2016

Black as the night at only five thirty in the evening!

Storm promising to come in from the inland counties.
Blaring roaring thunder preceding the moisture.
Swimming pool acting as if blue JELLO or like Jurassic Park with its nearly wave like actions!
Wind, perhaps gale force moving the rains now on a east to west angle, hitting the window in our bedroom as if wanting to come in!
NO!
Thankfully, we have strong storm type enclosures.
Even without the shutters on there is much protection!
On the radar map it comes in in bold yellow and red colorings.
Warnings of severe thunderstorms are announced on our phones and TV, but no tornadoes!
Lightning too, reports minute by minute.
Sinuses, headaches, earaches can all be blamed on the barometric pressure!
Oh joy adding to the pains one must endure daily.
LOUD!
Very, very LOUD!
Exploding due to another high heated temperature day!
Frightening, in the sense of possible electric outages being caused?
So I will end here for now good night to all!

Friday, July 15, 2016

Eighty-four, no more...

Will it ever end...
Hearts torn out from the losses.
Tears with little time to dry up since then they pour out again, and again without much warning, none.
Talking and wanting the wars to stop appear to not be heard our strong desires fall on deaf ears.
But we must not give up or in.
Strength and resilience is all we can retain in this horrible worldwide battle for what?
To make the populace less?
Hate is not power or righteousness; it is a cancer that has destroyed too many lives!
Be strong to resist this negativity and help the world to create peace for all!

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Well, where should I start...

...today was aggravating, frustrating and productive!
My wrists have been showing some bruising and swelling, since they had been working hard on the parallel bars lifting me, very BIG me! Not to mention all the action on this keyboard...any-who, really who knows where the blame lies, but it does make for a difficult PT, physical therapy session.
That is trying to find what exercises will work for my needs.
Today Jaye, the woman, was my PT and she was trying everything but agreed that the parallel bars could be put off until my wrists felt better and even then we will be using more steps to balance on so my lift I imagine will not be that far for me to push?
We did gentle stretches in, ankles and arms with the red band this time, the stronger one and I was able to do it to the count of eight, but then we iced my wrists for ten minutes.
Annoying to know you gotta try and get stronger, but no matter what you do... lets put it this way it isn't that easy! That is supposed to be true for anything worthwhile in life though.

After the session we did eat lunch out at the Thai Café, it had been quite a while since our last visit, perhaps a few months.
Hubby had crispy duck and I had the curry duck, both were wonderful!
Food has been known to spread joy, true?

Anyway... from there we came home and I was happy to see that my neuro sent the prescription for my cooling vest telling them I do have MS, they need validation.
The reason we came right home is we have been having problems with our internet that is provided by CentryLink and I had called yesterday and they said on the phone that they would be here Friday afternoon between 1-5P.M., we asked for before four.
Then I got an email follow up and that said they would be here today!
So this morning I called before we left for PT and asked which was correct?
They said today, this afternoon.
And I tried to nail their time down, ha, I can hear you all saying that it is feudal, hmm?
I know I can't really hear you, but we all know like the cable guy no one truly knows when these people will arrive, not even them I have been told, ha!
So, I subliminally inserted into the conversation after two and before four please, leaving time for going out to lunch after my eleven A.M. forty-five minute PT session.
And somehow it appeared to work even though we managed to come home at one fifteen, they came at 2:47 P.M., but they did not leave our area till nearly six!
I will most definitely hold them to their suggestion of a seven day discount due to the problems they were here for just last Friday too!
It was on their outside lines that were frayed, they kept threatening if they had to come into our home we would be charged!
But alas it was blocks away, although they did need access to our garage, which technically was not inside our home...and they replaced the faulty wiring and expressed that the buffering, cutting off internet issue shall now be totally fine and no longer a problem!

They had put Hubby to work watching the meter in the garage where it comes into the house...for hours our service including our phones fluttered and me with two doctors to call back that left messages while we were out!
Both were for the pre-op surgery list, and there are a few more to go, one today was the sleep specialist and the other the heart/vascular specialist, and they have now been scheduled!
This all may take longer than I thought, since just those two are scheduled nearly a month from one another.
So the dye has been cast, thus the productive portion that I mentioned above.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings all around!

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



 

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Under fire!

Lightning!
Emergency notifications are too frequent!
We in Port Charlotte are under a severe thunder storm warning!
With forty to fifty mile an hour winds!
Hail in Ft. Myers and elsewhere!
I think I shall talk to you all tomorrow!

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Geez this is embarrassing...

...I had requested people that do read this anyway to just join my blogger folks, it's easy just sign up on the right side of this post or any post (of mine i.e.), and the results were shameful (mine, shame that is.) since I got bupkiss, nada, nil, not-a-thing, no one and that is the embarrassing part, still that minute amount of eleven to admitting reading my blog! Well, how come as many as I have said before that fifteen hundred do in a month's time, but remain nameless, let me know that you are there, come on, please.

Oh well...this IS way too embarrassing, me begging... I love you anyway!

Although... on the brighter side two more joined my followers on Facebook and now I have two hundred and two, FAN-TAS-TIC and thank you all ever so much!

Moving on...

Substance is probably what you are waiting for, and so here is some...I told you that when all else fails Bernie would support a Hillary presidential run, he is "the man", after all, fine job sir, a gentleman always who spoke his decision today to believe that Hillary will be a good choice for president with his honesty and warmth backing her all the way!
And of course she will be the right choice over the horrific presumptive GOP candidate, true!
Sanders' supporters need to join the outcome that chose Hillary for the nominee and to turn out in the numbers needed to make the win on election day a truly BIG win!

Another move on...

PT, physical therapy today again with Jeff, mostly all on the parallel bars, Jeff had an assistant today, Hannah, a nineteen year old University of Florida student in physical therapy. She gets college assessment, but is a volunteer, she mostly observed. She is local, but that school is in Gainesville Florida, hours away, where our younger son finished up his education in their nuclear engineering department through the Navy.
Afterwards Hubby ran into get the ink for the printer at Office Depot, and then we stopped over at
Target's to see if they had any fish, but no, we did pick up a floor mat for our laundry room there though our laundry room that also is our mudroom and access to the garage.
The most recent one was once pretty, but now is holey, and was not much for stopping grassy dirt from coming into the house. The new one is more the outside type with a rough surface that should scrap shoes and Gus's little feet off before entering the rest of the house and our white floors!
It is black with an anchor design, one BIG one, which is fine since the laundry room has a nautical dĂ©cor.
Lastly we ate lunch at IHOP, probably for the first time in twenty years, it was their fifty-eighth anniversary today and they had short stacks of pancakes for fifty-eight cents, two cents less than back in 1958 when they opened. But alas we had lunch, Hubby a cheesesteak and me a grilled chicken salad with pecans and a wonderful citrus sauce over mixed greens, and I also had their very delish chicken noodle soup and Hubby had their potato soup, we enjoyed those as well, both with iced water with lemons on the side. Tuesdays are senior discount days there, which was another nice little perk.


Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

PS thunder is roaring in my background, outside, and so I felt it best to end now!

Monday, July 11, 2016

200 followers 5000 friends; no complaints here!

That is my Facebook tally, nothing to complain about, but both fluctuate daily, down and up for followers are possible, but even the 5,000 friends goes to 4,999 or 8 and goes back to the limit pretty fast, nice! I'm getting a kick out of this! As we all know I'm easy.
Sure 200 followers are not the most one can have, but still are pretty darn amazing!
Thank you folks!
May I suggest also to join onto my blog where for eight years at this time I seem to show only 11 followers, which makes me sorta sad; but here's the interesting part over a thousand read it monthly, some months nearly fifteen hundred, true? Which keeps me going!
I wonder why they don't admit it?
Am I NOT a guilty pleasure to truly be embarrassed about reading and discuss?
Come on folks, we all have them, hmm?
LOL!

Moving on...

Any-who, today I had one of those bad MS days where you think it could be a stroke, or a heart attack or YAY just my Multiple sclerosis making me feel horrid.
Dropping half a dozen things, numbness from the head down to my toes, but on both sides YAY since a stroke is only on one, chest pain so bad I had Hubby take my blood pressure that also gives the heart beats, pressure low and beats high for me and resting, but still with in the normal range.
No heart attack, no stroke only explanation nasty day with good ole MS!
Going to the hospital is a waste of time and can in my case be lethal due to my previous experiences, so nope I will not go!
Anyway, if this continues they would just call my doctor to ask about putting me again on IV steroids for a few days, and no I don't want that!
Fattening, necrosis and heart disease are just a few of the too many possible side effects.
Still in bed.

My new first time ordered hospital style bed tray will be arriving tomorrow, since lately I have been in bed more than most places in the house, home, our sanctuary.
I read the reviews online and for the money this one was the best deal for $44.99 on sale, the Drive brand, the same as my two walkers, and I thought that I pushed the button to deliver it to the store five miles away for free delivery, but I guess I didn't and the charge was only $4.97 for delivery to our home on the fourteenth, but I took a chance and called the customer service to rectify my mistake and...they took off the charges and still are delivering it two days earlier tomorrow to our home from Walmart!
Okay, I have been angry with Walmart too with the way they have been treating their employees, but I understand they have been working on it, and that is my reasoning for shopping there, plus the price was right and they were the one that came up when I Googled the product, and that's my excuse the only one I can come up with, hmm?
I am a get on the band wagon type ole gal from way back with injustices, but some do change or at least try to? My motto reads well below.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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

PS the answer to my question of the day of,  "Why is it my tenth anniversary and for what?", is...
Ten years ago today I quit smoking cigarettes, and no I do not smoke anything else... yet! Ha!
And on a sad note today would have been my cousin Lionel's birthday, but he passed away this past December, and he is sorely missed by his loving wife and seven adult children and all the in-laws and grands too! What a legacy he has left, all that love, what a guy he was.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Arcadia!

Arcadia Florida that is, located a little over twenty-eight miles east of here, inland.
Known for its antiquing, rodeos, fresh produce, yes including oranges, and yet we weren't there for any of that!
Animal Ark of Arcadia was our destination and where Gus became ours on December 27, 2014, they were the liaison between Canine Castaways and our adoptee, it is also a veterinary clinic.

PTSD is not only a all too common malady of soldiers these days, but also a legitimate one found in too many rescue abandoned and mistreated domestic animals.
Prior to us receiving our Gus AKA Gaston, he was living on the wildly exotic streets of Naples Florida, and exaggeration, poetic licensing let's say; that is until Animal control picked him up!
Where they neutered him, gave him the proper inoculations and his ID chip, and from there he was sent to Arcadia where he received his first grooming, or maybe the other way around, his story is unclear, so we cannot determine how his extreme fears began.
Mainly they manifest themselves in many issues of being disturbed while asleep, being bathed and groomed, or picked up, towels, plastic bags, or being examined and given shots during veterinary exams.
Yep Cujo had nothing on sweet little Gus whenever any of those things are going on!
Our little Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde fellow can become quite incorrigible.
Now about a year and half later Hubby and I had a discussion about him, he had bitten us both a few times out of fear, and his previous grooming situation was too expensive for us to maintain for years and years as well as his medical needs. You see the vet we were going to was charging a few hundred dollars each time to put Gus under anesthesia for grooming and exams and that was every couple of months!
I truthfully told Hubby that we cannot financially handle this; I still take care of all bills, it is my nearly only contribution these days.
With confusion, tears, misery and literally at my wits end a few months ago I called the Ark where we had picked up Gaston then from for adoption and asked for help while explaining like I just did here our situation.
We have always had pets, but never a problem of this extreme like this before.
Even the sweetest dogs had bitten me, but only once and all was forgiven and then never ever again.
Gus is a repeat biter, and he was getting into a very untidy matted dirty mess and would not allow anyone to take care of him.
All the other dogs I was able to care for or at least send them to a groomer without the groomer saying that they wanted to eat them!
Pricing seems wrong to mention with any living things need, but let's get real we were getting gouged and until we were exonerated by the Ark we even questioned whether we were being too cheap and maybe animal parenting is something we should have to reconsider at this point in our lives.
But the woman I spoke to there was wonderfully compassionate and understanding and recommended one of the foster parents who is a groomer and lives in our town, and so we spoke and she suggested a playdate with her and her foster four legged pups, but sadly that was months ago and one of hers was quite ill on IVs and we had been postponed.
Gus has been a mess for a couple of weeks now, too long to go for anyone who loves animals.
But we had no alternative, and tried calling her again, that is Hubby did.
And so last week on Wednesday Gus had his first playdate with her four-legged kids.
He played well, but flunked bathing and clipping!
So she agreed he did need to be "put under", he had unsuccessfully tried to bite her twice.
And she called the Ark and they offered on Sunday, that is today, to put Gus under and get the job done for a nominal fee of free!
Although, in the future there will be a charge, about every three months of forty-five for sedation and forty for the grooming, manageable, and YAY!
Hubby and I ate lunch nearby at a local eatery while we waited for word that Gus would be all done, and he was.
Looking rather well groomed, but groggy, sadly again, no other choice; it is hard to do, believe it or not.

And so there are truly good people in this world who understand, remember that folks.
Gus is happy, Hubby is happy and I am happy, so a win, win, win!

Love to all, be well, peace and blessings!

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

PS their vet is now Gus's new doctor!

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Reincarnation

Do you ever have feelings of Deja vu?
Do you ever know/understand a foreign language, but never have studied it?
Have you been able to identify people that you never met, or has an associated scent help with distinct memories?
Have you had these feelings more significantly as a child or as an adult or both?
Do news stories seem all too familiar?
So many coincidences and so perhaps they are not really, since we all know that the law of averages tells us that it is impossible for too many of them, or is it?

Okay!
No, we are not entering into the Twilight Zone!
Shall I continue?
I can't hear you, of course I can't in this one way medium, so I will take your silence as a YES!

Now for any of the religions that believe in reincarnation please turn off your computers now please or go to another site, because I do not want to sound rude, but I do have a logical theory why the above all might have actual explanations.

Onto my plausible theories...

When I was a child, or maybe yourselves too this has happened to, as I have mentioned before that my parents were older than most of my friends' parents by ten to fifteen years in many cases, so their childhood memories, or their stories and songs etc. that were told to me and that I have saved/stored them in my mind were a few decades older than my years of knowledge should have been or is.
Some perhaps are accessed when I least expect them to be, which on occasion has baffled even the adult me on where it came from.
Other things like finding out that I can understand Latin has mainly to do with my interest in writing and therefor word derivations that I used to fanatically look up at the drop of a hat, out of curiosity.
Most people who write or have an uncanny ability in grasping the English language and the meanings of most words, have this aptitude; nothing new there.

Sure when I was a kid I did think I was able to predict the future, one case in particular was when we had been away to a hotel in Lakewood NJ from Paramus for the holidays and when we got back to school it was fire prevention week and our second grade class was asked to draw posters and so I drew a picture of the hotel we had just stayed at on fire with fire trucks and firemen putting it out and even put the name of the hotel on the marque, well the next week it did actually burn down!
Scared me!
That had to be a very weird coincidence.
Other similar things though had happened before and since, although not as grand.
I am sure just more coincidences!
EVIL!
NOT!
Now onto the evening news or even newspapers or radio news lets just say for arguments' sake  all methods of information, sadly history does repeat itself, Ta Da, we all know that!
Lastly, as far as knowing or feeling as if you know someone it is more than likely that mutual friends or family have described them to you and you kept that in you head, see explained.

Although, it can/has happened with complete strangers...who knows then what lurks, hmm?

HA!

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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


Friday, July 8, 2016

AGAIN!

Speechless!
Horrified!
Saddened!
Heartbroken!
Questions without answers!
Again!
No reason justifies!
Guns don't kill people, people do!
Racism is sadly not dead!
Hatred still looms way too large from all sides!
What to do, what to do!
People must stop hurting each other!
Again!
Prayers are not working!
Condolences are sent to deaf ears!
No one learns from these mistakes!
History class has failed!
1965 riots are being replayed!
STOP! STOP! STOP!
It did not work before!
No more!
Again!
No more!
Talk!
Be human!
Care!
Love your neighbor!
Yes you can!
You can!
You have to!
Please!
Never again!
For the children...

Thursday, July 7, 2016

"Look! Good fortune is around you."

And so I did.
Look that is, and sure enough I found that it is; good fortune that is.
Funny how sometimes reminders come from the strangest places.
Oh I do realize that things could be worse, but I try not to too often think about how bad it could get, i.e..
And it inevitably will, of course it will due to the MS, but why harp on it truly.

So much discussion from a non-specific non-personal source.
I bet you all guessed by now though of where this face smacking, figuratively speaking of course, that it came from a fortune cookie, hmm?

Yes, tonight Hubby and I shared a quart, not finished yet of lobster lo mein, along with egg drop soup, and also a few fortune cookies, mine was the one above.
I did eat it, which is odd, I usually don't, since I feel someone changed the recipe from the ones I used to remember from childhood, yep fifty years ago.
To me these taste like sugar cones, which is in my mind what sugar cones should taste like NOT fortune cookies, sorry!
Fortune cookie to me had their own unique formula of flavoring, indescribable, sorry.
But don't we all have memories associated with foods' flavors, and scents of things bringing those wonderful times back to us?
Rarely are those particular senses are wracked up to be negative recalls.
And let me be clear these cookie where NOT negative, just different and slightly off; so I usually give mine to Hubby, but tonight, maybe because of what it said, I did eat it.

Tonight, I once again found myself in need of room service, yep bedroom service, so I was trayed, bed trayed, no such word as trayed my spell checker says.
But that is what I call to be delivered my meals in my bed, due to not being able to get out of it;
ankles swell regularly these days due to chair, a form of lymphedema.
So when we get home from errands like we did today, PT this time with Jaye, a woman, four weeks down here from New Hampshire, and after getting gas for 2.05.9 at the Sam's Club then lunch at Applebee's, where we had soup and half sandwiches and our iced waters with lemon on the side.
Lastly checking out stuff at Home Depot for repairs new doors needed for our side courtyard shed, but Hubby has to get it when me and BIG Blue are home.
Oh I almost forgot I did get a beach towel from Beall's Outlet, a velour bold printed one, large enough to throw onto BIG Blue, my chair's name!
Keeping her cool is important for me, and I also wore my cooling vest in and outside due to the heat!
It did help, very well.
I have to remember to get the new one that I can have, since I waited the five years required, I must call tomorrow, the Velcro is detaching from the one I have. I suppose I can use the fabric glue temporarily, but it is fraying too, oh well it is time for a new one. 

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings!

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




Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Soul searching!

At times assumptions, they can be true.
But then I giggle because to assume means to most making an ass of you and me!
Cringe factor has been numbing over the years.
Any-who, a Facebook friend who is from where I grew up, but he moved there after I had moved away with my parents, one town over, is quite politically passionate.
And suggested I was friends  with people whose feelings politically were the polar opposite of mine.
I foolishly insisted that I do not associate with people who are for the presumptive GOP candidate that I find disgraceful and an embarrassment to all I hold near and dear as an American, with he projecting hatred of most all people that are different from himself... but after some very short research by reading the ongoing discussions about such things on Facebook I found many people I did go to school with had complete opposite feelings politically from myself!
Not shocking or disturbing, but more like a rude awakening, I profess to accept all people and for all groups and also believe that everyone has a right to think whatever they want, but not try to make me concede to their ideas, and to respect me as well for what I think to be right.
Mutual respect and acceptance is all I ever ask.
Although, a bit unnerving when you get right down to it, and I secretly fear that their thoughts might be bigoted, and that their expressed hate for the way the government has been run by our current president when you yourself voted for him twice, scares me!
So much hate is deafening!
And a boy I had a crush on in second grade is now quoting the Frothy Orange Haired Guy spewing's, yeah I am pissed!
See my cringe factor has truly diminished.
I feel horrid that my radar on people's character is so off, how could I be so wrong?
Women who I thought were my dear ole gal pals from school appear to be Neo Nazi sympathizers, Gosh how could I be so wrong?
I'm too old for any of this, so let's keep this between us.
Most of us grew up with the same values, or so I thought.
Suburbia in the 1950's and 60's, sure was bit paranoid due to the cold war and many including us had a bomb shelter in the basement and worked for Civil Defense, my Mom was a co-president of our local chapter or some such thing.
Then we realized if those bombs struck here/there none of that would do any good!
In the 1960s sure we were divided with our boys going to war whether they wanted to or not due to the draft, many did go willing and many stayed home, some fled the country, and others stayed and complained about the war taking our brothers, sons, fathers, friends, and the younger ones, eighteen to twenty couldn't even vote but could die in a war that most could not even understand why we were there, it was a civil war in a far away land, called Viet Nam!
But they went and a lot came home in body bags, too many.
And me with a brother who fought in another similar war in Korea over a decade before, all I could remember from the age of five is visiting my brother at the VA hospital in Washington D.C. with amputees and other not nice for five year olds to see injuries, scary and long lasting, etched in my brain for eternity. My brother had no outward scars, his were all inside, he had PTSD before anyone knew what it was called, he had been a medic in the Air Force and saw more than his brain could process, he was one of those kids that couldn't vote for their choices, nineteen when he signed up.

So that stuck with me, I guess and molded my feelings about all wars, they were bad, wars, and people were good, especially soldiers! So I love soldiers still and still to this day hate all wars, so hate me for that!

Politically it had an enormous effect on me and my thoughts, and so I guess that is one of the many reasons I am a "LIBERAL", if it means anti-war, and proud of it!
So that includes all of the downtrodden, minorities, that I am a proud person of being a Jew, disabled, and most recently an obese person. I used say that being a woman was a minority, but percentage wise we are not, but how we are still treated in pay in the workplace we are still not equitably treated or about the ability to choose for ourselves about bodies with pregnancies or preventing them or abortion. Not for me personally, but I do believe that all women should have the right to make that decision and no one has the right to tell us that we don't.
This is America and so many rights have been questioned that it hurts my soul to think that there are people who want to shut the door and prevent others who also want the ability of our freedoms of so many things not to be allowed to be here!

Read what is on the Statue of Liberty you Frothy Orange Haired Guy!
Hate is not in our vocabulary, at least it wasn't, shouldn't be especially now that we all need each other, always, and that is why they most only want in to escape persecution, and your ancestors did that too!

And here I thought I had nothing to say tonight...oh well, hope it hasn't fallen on deaf ears.

Love to all, even my naysayers, be well, even the ones who have never been ill, peace, to the whole world home included, and blessings to even the many of us who question if there is a deity!

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



  


Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Heated up!

Even with rains and fires all over the country and other lands too with flooding and killings due to nature's wrath.
Many parts of our country have numerically reached triple digits with their local weather.
Here our numbers are very high at double digits, but with heat indices the feels like temperatures are way over one hundred, some are as high as one hundred fourteen!
The Gulf water temperature is ninety!
Some may say that is so nice, but no it isn't not enough contrast to be refreshing and if anything develops off the coasts of Africa or even in the Gulf here the probability of a hurricane can be much more possible, they LOVE warm water!
Scary?
Not yet.
Nothing is out there.
But it is still July, just July.
More hurricanes form in August and September than July, and by then without enough cooling rains, what will those south eastern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico water temperatures be by then?
Something to think about, hmm?

Moving on...

Today, I once again had PT, physical therapy with Jeff.
My PT person has me doing stretches and balancing in the respect of leaning forward, as well as marching in my chair, also stretching with the yellow band held in my hands.
I still have spasms during everything.
But I have been getting cold packs when there for my neck and back to help the ridiculous overheating that seems to be inevitable coming in from just from the parking lot, even when I speed up to their automatic door and enter in a very short time period! Crazy!
My seat of my chair heats up when Hubby removes it from our back of the van, in seconds it seems to get very hot, hot, hot!
The seat is fabric but the whole thing is black, only the base trim is blue, vivid, my favorite.
Any-who, I suppose taking a towel might be advantageous to cover it all up; like I used to do in my all white outside Mustang, but with pretty blue vinyl inside that also got very hot when I was working in entertainment way back in the early 1990's in Daytona.
Since then I made sure all of our vehicles had fabric inside for that very reason.
Florida gets very, very warm, DUH!
So, that can be one solution and perhaps the other would be to put in for another cooling vest that I can since the five years for doing such things were up in April!

Now I have some sort of a plan of attack to resolve my heating up issue.

Oh another thing, I did have History of Art courses while in college and I did quite well in it receiving A's, so I have always enjoyed going to museums, from all the NYC to all of the European ones while there.
And even when our boys were small a great way to keep them busy on rainy days during camping trips, and they loved going to the Smithsonian, several times, not to mention the local historic ones also in PA and NJ!
Recently I found out that our Bank of America credit cards give you free access to certain museums on the first weekend's of every month! http://about.bankofamerica.com/en-us/global-impact/arts-and-culture.html
Check your cards too, perhaps you have that available, it appears to be national, perhaps international, since they are.
So now Hubby and I have decided to go to the in state offerings, periodically for long weekend cool vacations. Since I cannot be a beach person any longer this will be just another fun idea, probably starting in August if it doesn't interfere with my up coming surgery.

Love to all, be well, peace and spread the blessings!

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

PS For all you tourists our waters here do not have that muck that is on the other coast, just saying folks...thinking, all of the time, ha!

 

Monday, July 4, 2016

Sunday, July 3, 2016

On the eve of an important day in our history!

The festivities have begun!
Probably since Friday! I used to believe as a child that it was to celebrate my birthday.
Early start to celebrate on tomorrow being our 240th birthday of our independence, July fourth! Easy to remember since our youngest son was born on the year of the bi-centennial, and he had turned forty in February with a special birth certificate was given out to him then, when he had been born, very festive!
Odd how the UK just got it for themselves within the past month, independence, after all these years, ha, hmm?
Sharing anything is difficult for most, but have you noticed that countries seem to have the worst ability to do it, and why should they have to, really?
Individuality is a fair commodity to have.
But being unfriendly is not, neither is isolationism, ya know?
Now in truth no man stands alone, nor woman for that matter.
We eventually find we need one another and then trust is what we can share too.
Funny how like adolescents needing their freedom to spread their wings, some citizenries do as well.
And so the saying goes if you let them leave they shall come back to you, or some sort of a smart para formation, i.e. information, of a metaphor of an idiom then expression, right, you all know what I mean.
Sure you do.
The reference was for stubborn people/countries included etc..

Any-who, what I have been trying to do is validate our desire to scare dogs, and small children, and wow ourselves with magnificent colors with loud musical accompaniments yonder up high in the sky and for them too, those little ones, to change their fears into ahhhhs! Usually by holding their ears in an effort block the noise while pointing up.
Yes, and so very, very loud, and colorful and scary at the times of so many non lethal explosions causing excitement and LOVE for one's country is easily expressed and understood by the whole darn world!
For even though traditions may be slightly different, we all have them, and that my friends is the commonality of all human beings!

Love to all, be well, peace and blessings to spread around always!

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

PS The ye ole broken record lady here still insists for you to have fun, but be puleese be safe too!

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Fireworks!

Are illegal in most states as well as here in Florida, unless you sign a paper "stating their use to chase birds from your property", dangerous loophole.
In New Jersey they were also illegal, but it never seemed to stop people.
Deaths, fires and body parts blown off was and has been the most horrid results of parents not supervising their children or even when they have with what is essentially explosives!
Sure they make pretty designs in the sky, but even professionals in the field have been injured or maimed, and at times killed.
Leaving them to the "experts" is not only practical, but also safer.
Locally it amazes us on how many can or will set off hundreds maybe thousands of dollars worth in our lower income neighborhood while living in a rental home or driving a heap.
Yep, priorities.
At one time this was a somewhat middleclass vacation home neighborhood, and the ones who bought to renovate and live full time or at least half the year showed pride in caring for them.
But due to the hurricanes, and the economy, many sold out cheap allowing people to choose to fix them up for a more transient society, causing homes values to fall, and the interest in maintaining them less than pristine, sadly.
Why not move, one might ask?
Well, our surrounding homes upkeep has had a domino effect on the neighborhood with values not earth shakenly creating "appreciation", interesting word with many meanings; such increase in value as well as interest in caring for.
Plus we have been here eighteen years and have watched the ebb and flows of how it has gone... and always hope that our care and renovations to our needs are just that we are always tweaking it, but we do love our tiny home of just over one thousand square feet, our enough and forever home.
Besides we were here first before most!
All we can do is hope that people who have love of home whether ownership or even renting move in each and every time and show their love too, that is all.
And so we maintain our home with hopes that it encourages others to do the same and makes the neighborhood more desirable for desirables!
Funny, right now the three homes that do surround us are rented and when Hubby mows our lawn they seem to follow suit too.
Yep, good behavior can be contagious.
Oh and that other thing, that important thing, about safety with "fireworks", I feel that between Hubby being a Fire Chief in NJ and a deputy down here in Florida, retired after nearly a quarter century of both, the horror stories have been way too many!
So please enjoy it all, but be safe!

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings to all!

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

Friday, July 1, 2016

66 not 666!

Impossible!

No... and here's why.
The devil did NOT make me do it, luck apparently did, getting older. Yes my quote, "The only alternative to not getting older? Dead, of course, silly!" So yep I am lucky, since 66 is...

My New Age as of 6:30 P.M., born at six pounds eleven ounces, nineteen inches long, if I recall what I had been told, polite then waiting until after dinner that my parents had been out at another couples' home, to my parents who were older then, than most, at thirty-nine and forty-three years of age.
Yep, sixty-six years ago today I was a small baby, but aren't most all of us?
Mom had help, I think, don't recall being told who.
Actually my Mom was young for her age, how did I know this, well I would come home from school and she would be busy in the kitchen doing housewife chores(1950s folks, just saying) and dancing to the rock and roll music on the radio.
Well, not full out dancing, more like swaying to it...ya know what I mean?
Pleasantly enjoying the beats.
She had sung, her sister Lilly, two years younger than her was the dancer, as far as I know the next in line two years younger again than Lil was Barney and he did not have that type of talent, neither did Pearl at least no one mentioned it, two years younger than him and lastly was the baby, Bill, he, two years younger still than Pearl.
Yes, my Mom was the eldest of the five.
And no she was not the maternal type even then I was told.
Didn't have to be, my grandparents had help for that.
These are just facts, no mean spirit involved, just the facts of what I had been told.
Grandma and Grandpa were not real old with that bunch since Grandma married Grandpa way back then at the tender age of sixteen having my Mom two years later, and each child every two then after.
Oh this was way back in the years 1909, married, child bearing form 1911 to 1921, way back!
Grandpa was from Russia, Grandma was from England, and they were wealthy first from their  dairy farm that they sold out to Borden and then being a developer/builder in Hillside and Elizabeth NJ, everything from neighborhoods' homes, apartment buildings, hospitals, Ys, stores etc.
Grandma died in a car accident at only fifty-six, six months before I was born, and I was named for her, she too sang in the Synagogue I was told.
Grandpa I did get to know him, I was seven when he died in his late seventies from a second heart attack that first was what had caused the car accident when Grandma died, sad.
My Mom had been married the first time young too to a musician, at eighteen, and had my half-brother when just twenty.
Apparently being in that business was conducive to philandering, and so he did and my Mom got divorced while still young but with a young child. She became a legal secretary to support them, and although my Father's brother was a lawyer that he had put through law school that was not how they met. Dad had also been married before, but his wife had had a heart condition and sadly she died while swimming doing her favorite thing, she was only twenty-nine. Dad was thirty-three when he married Mom a blind date brought he and my Mom together a while before that, my Mom was twenty-nine, and they apparently hit it off and so they fell in love! And as the story goes for years they both wanted a baby, a girl, but my Mom had to have some type of surgery to have me, yep way back then!
I suppose I was worth waiting for, and ten years later I was born.
Basically that is pretty much how this day happened sixty-six years ago today, according to my clock on this laptop I was born in about fifteen minutes then.

Long story, forgive!

Moving on, on to today and now.

And my love brought home to me today a special dinner of lobster, shrimp, scallops and mussels over linguini with a Caesar salad, he had stuffed flounder with a garden salad and baked potato. Both put away in the fridge with half saved for tomorrow.

Key lime pie for my little dessert, yes a tiny pie! Yay!
Yep Red Lobster.

Love to all, be well, peace, and blessings to spred around!

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

Thank you to all my well wishers!

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