Saturday, December 31, 2016

Let us all try and make 2017 the best year ever!

Yule log with classic Christmas music with contemporary voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-yyCItiToQ

Auld Lang Syne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPnhaGWBnys
Original with the lyrics and translation too!


Vintage New Year's songs: 40's 50's 60's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-2k7hKvaW0

Top New Years songs ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myk_Uoe8NTE

ABBA New Year!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcYO3F8YIxs


Enjoy my selections and have a very Happy Healthy and Safe and Prosperous New Year!

Happy last night of Hanukkah to all!

Love to all!

Peace to the world!
 

Friday, December 30, 2016

Whew! I am all calmed and cooled down tonight!

We all have to take a break sometimes... don't we?
Stress can kill.
So I am now taking a deep cleansing breath and releasing the bad air!

Hubby and I even left our palatial manor and wandered amongst the wild crazies returning things still!
But we were on a mission to Home Depot for our next project that is a hush, hush right now...it was more like a feasibility study, although we both hope to realize it is possible.

Hubby also had to pick up some boat hoses at the AutoZone and then of course there was Publix grocery to stop at for New Year's dinner choices and the etcetera's to go with, lobster tails were on sale for $6.99 a piece so I bet you know what we are having, hmm?
Herring for good luck!
And for some reason mussels, Hubby's want, who knows why, I didn't.
Although, my niece Arlene did love them, perhaps he was channeling her?
Sadly she passed away just thirteen days before her fifty-first birthday back in 2006.
She was my half brother Dan's daughter, he was nineteen years older than me, and made me an aunt at five, he was twenty-four by then.
Funny story that I have told many times before, due to being so excited to become an aunt, like I am more than sure our elder son was to become a big brother and others with siblings younger,  becoming big sisters, but I had it in my head to tell everyone and even my kindergarten teacher.
Unfortunately, this was in the beginning of the school year, Arlene was due to be born in October, anyway, my teacher did not know me and therefor believe me I guess, and so she took it upon herself to call my Mom thinking I was telling a story/lie, and my Mom confirmed it was true, exoneration, whew!
I don't think I have a dishonest face and at five years of age I am more than sure I didn't, ha!

Moving on...

Any-who, we had a cold front come through last night so our temperatures were in the fifties overnight and only mid sixties for the day, brrrrrrrrrrr!

I know, I know, my friends and family up north would love the mid sixties!
Seventies to return tomorrow and eighties by Sunday!

*It happened again; this posted when I was still writing, it was no where near finished yet!
I hope my avid lying in wait fans realized it that it wasn't done, since it showed that I  had gotten several hits when this happened! I had not edited either.

Well, maybe I should leave well enough alone.

Good night to all, TTYT!






  

Thursday, December 29, 2016

As we approach the upcoming year's end...

Sadness looms large for many that have been lost this year in all industries as well to many dealing with personal losses.
As we know the only two things in life we cannot change is death and taxes, make that three since for many of us dealing with sky rocketing insurance premiums too is a given!

Sorry folks, but I digress...

Any-who, I have a few tongue and cheek ways to deal with all the horrific misery of loss this year, and one way is to think that... at least they won't be here for the devastation of America due to our president- elect stealing his office while all of the time thinking that America was just another nice little acquisition for his collection of businesses allowed to default for another tax write off!
Or watch as he turns democracy into a  Monarchy with him a narcissistic misogynistic racist frothy-silvery orange haired guy at the helm turning our nation into a joke to be scoffed at by all other nations.
The people that count, of course, will all be sorely missed by us all, but thankfully they will no longer have to endure tweets from a scandalous lout who speaks first and then thinks about what he has written days or weeks later or when one of his spawns or his "Kelley" catches it to remind him to play nice, because he is in the BIG leagues now, huh?
Unfortunately, for the ones of us left behind to deal with all this chatter with him without any backbone and very little knowledge on how government works or even diplomatic protocols do, just by using bluster and short spurts of eventual thought to be retractable tweets when realized too rash statements or if possible totally realizing inappropriate and then he might rescinded them or backstroke on them with lies! "No, I meant this, not that or they should do it or they better do what I say! For the King has spoken!"

In reality, this was not a tongue in cheek emotional outburst from a definite non-political candidate or legit journalist for that matter, but just a very concerned American citizen.

And sadly, horrifically I truly hope that when once that DJ takes the reigns, notice the spelling of the word "reigns", of this fine land that I love that people don't realize there is no hope anymore and commit that final act of not being able to live under the rule of a dictator tormentor and outright scary evil being... all of us should...

WE MUST NEVER EVER GIVE UP OR GIVE IN!
WE MUST CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER, SOMEHOW SOMEWAY!
THIS SHALL NEVER EVER TURN INTO ANOTHER NAZI TAKEN OVER COUNTRY,
WHERE WE ARE SINGLED OUT FOR OUR DIFFERENCES!   
BUT HOW?
WHAT CAN WE DO?
SOMEONE HELP US!
 
NOW, BEFORE IT GETS ANY LATER WE MUST LEARN HOW TO HELP OURSELVES!
 
 
AND I AM TRULY SORRY FOR ALL THE LOVED ONES WHO HAVE PASSED!

PS on a lighter note my $53.49 will be taken care of in the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours so I have been told on my bank's end, they spoke to Best Buy's Geek Squads billing department and it will now be subtracted and even Steven; I spoke with my bank again today and yeah! FINALLY!
See perseverance and persistence can will out! My fifth try. Now as a nation perhaps... the squeaky wheel and all that, my friends of like mindedness perhaps our persistence can work too, hmmm?
 

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Dancing in the dark...

Not really, but I was wondering what type of a response that title would get me; won't know until after this posts tonight though.

It is funny about my risqué post from last night, thirty read it and only two responded to the content, one with a personal relatable analogy from their own experience and the other just liking it and finding it cool, thanks again to both.
Sure we are all squeamish about some things as far as discussing, death, illness, sex, not so much anymore, religion, still, violence, yep, and it used be politics, but that was then and this is now.
So much has changed some things for the better and some things for the worse; but I have found not discussing certain things can be a disadvantage in life.

Openness, especially with family and friends in the long run can make things better, or not.
I have gotten myself into BIG trouble with my unfiltered comments in the name of honesty, anyway, discussing those topics couldn't hurt if everyone would just accept each others right to say what they truly feel, oh I don't know...
Nah, better not.

Although, I think that it is interesting that the two times I mentioned the porn-like sex in those Netflix shows many read them ( I can get the numbers off of my stats page on Google), but not many commented on them, interesting.

People are hung up on those things, I think or find it difficult to talk about them, and the Internet probably is not the best place to speak out for many, unlike me.

What we say/write here stays here, forever!

Many wonder why I tell all, or not all... I do for the most part protect our sons privacy, neither use social media at all anymore, and Hubby's somewhat kept, his privacy that is, that is why so much is about just me, who cares about me really!

I am an open book, without any secrets really!

This is my diary, but hard not to mention them, so I try hard to not mention them at all!

Moving on...

My camera/phone to hook into this laptop has had too many issues, but between that bathroom redo and this latest production of  my hospital table, you know the kind they have when you are in your room, mine is used for me when I can't get up out of bed, which is daily, but it was an ugly ordinary brown in our white coastal styled furniture bedroom, and so I asked Hubby to spray paint the base with white Rustoleum, and then I had ordered marble contact paper online that came yesterday, $7.99 for an 18" X 19' roll with free shipping, and yes we have plenty left and that is on the top of the table now, a total redo!
Bright and cheerful!

Last two nights we had simple meals last night was salmon with leftover scalloped potatoes and spinach for me and mixed veggies for Hubby, and tonight we had skinless chicken breast with baked potatoes, and cauliflower for him and Brussels sprouts for me.

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

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






 

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

I am confused...

Nothing new there, most who know me, really know me would say.
When did porn become mainstreamed?
Maybe I am so naïve that this is not porn that I have been seeing but just heavy duty R rated entertainment?

Don't get me wrong I'm no prude, who am I kidding of course I am, but when is it that gratuitous sexually graphic scenes needed to be as an integral part of the storylines telling? I guess I would be lying if I failed in admitting that I like most people enjoy healthy looking people male or female to look at, goals to set for most of us, except by unrealism of the enhanced by plastic surgeries. Let's face it most at our best are not that perfect!

Plus F'ing this and that all of the time, when in reality there are so many more flamboyant curse words that can be used, too much of redundancy, truly.

That said with this new Sense8 that has its male on female, female on female, male on male, you name it even innocence of not yet ready for sex. shown, whew!

Although, I am now on the series sixth show of the first season in spite of the above cringe worthy commentary and experiences to this sheltered from all that gal...

If I were an anthropologist I suppose I could adjust my judgmental prudish attitude and use it instead for good as an observation of different cultural mores and so let it be said, a non-doctorate student of the current cultural habits of this world and its inhabitants, I'm good, I guess... get over it folks and I will try to too!

Any-who, this is the other confusing part of this series, people overlap thought processes telepathy and teleportation is not unusual either, but not by need or desire, it just happens and the person is as baffled as the viewer is, me and this is a worldwide production with scenes in Dubai, India, Africa, London, Chicago, San Francisco, South Korea and Mexico so they go real far, not Star Trek far but far.

Actually, this last one I just finished, the fifth in the first season show did start to make it a bit more understandable... well we will see what we can see... It is almost like those scary movies we all watched as kids where we used pillows to hide behind for those scenes that would make us suck our thumbs again out of fear, but we would peek over the pillow to see around it and get those chills up  our arms where the hair stands on ends; albeit this is with sexual scenes; nothing that I ever saw any of those as a child and I am more than sure my parents in their graves are delighted with that little known fact!

Definitely not recommended for children, even some adults, me for instance, but I am on an educational mission, really!
I am a people watcher from way back, but usually at malls fully dressed, me and them!
The game then was to figure out their back stories of careers or why they were there and for what, etc.

Moving on...

Update... Best Buy denies having given me a second refund, and says they only have one in their information as being for  the amount of $53.49 the amount of the one item, not the two that I checked again today to make sure it was still there on my credit card account and it is.

Oh well, Merry Christmas Happy Hanukah to me! How many times should I continue to try to settle this, so far its been four times!
I suppose I can try the bank again for another conference call with them arbitrating with their proof I am just trying to right a wrong... Maybe I should wait a few weeks when things have really calmed down for all businesses after the holidays?
I feel bad about this not much can be done about this now.

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

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

PS Sorry friends who celebrate Kwanzaa I had misspelled it yesterday, shear stupidity on my end, although, I did correct my mistakes, more than once, please forgive, but happy second day of that holiday to all. A FB friend subtly told me that I had misspelled it, but I hadn't caught on.. .all fixed now. To my credit my spell checker hadn't picked up on it either, although that is no excuse.








 

Monday, December 26, 2016

Back to the old grind

Creating interesting dishes out of leftovers!
Gypsy style Stroganoff of a sort from leftover brisket: just caramelize an onion, stir in a large quantity of mushrooms, healthy amount of peas, several cloves of garlic, decent handful of cherry tomatoes, sodium free beef bullion packet with a cup of water and enough of flour for thickening and stir, add in the brisket shredded with its juices, all poured over two types of leftover cooked packaged noodles, wide eggless and spirals with eggs included, already in the noodles, there were mini amounts left of each so added together to make it just right; thus the Gypsy touch of a bissel of this and a bissel of that.
At the very last moment add in fat free Greek yogurt, see milchig and fleishig, dairy and meat together, there was a time I would have said YUCK with feeling and meant it, but being married to a Gentile, a Catholic at that, we learn what once made us weak now makes us stronger, LOL! Kidding of course, but life does make you learn to acclimate, and that includes trying new things.
All sorts, Oy vey I almost forgot, add a smidge of butter too!
Oh and put in a large oven safe container, in my case my very large Corning ware covered casserole dish, and heat for about fifteen minutes on 400 degrees in oven then remove lid and turn over the oven to broil for about 3 to 4 minutes, but watch carefully and voila dinner for another ten days two months or freeze when tired of it before it all goes bad!

Moving on...

Then of course there was additional streaming on Netflix, choices were of two that so far are only a year into their original programming. And yes I had finished the whole five years of the Ghost Whisperer, and moved on days ago... OA for its one season that may be or not renewed I hope it is, and then I moved on to the Travelers that has been renewed, but so far only one season in the can, and finished by me earlier today; so now I moved on to another original Netflix one, Sense8 and it opens with Daryl Hannah, yep the Splash gal, in a provocative scene and she did age well, anyway and that handsome Middle Eastern guy from Lost is in it too and it has five stars, so I began that.
And yes, that is my criteria to watch a five star rating or at least four and a half, and an interesting synopsis in a genre that I prefer and then I am hooked.
Also more than one season is a plus; this one is two seasons so far, hopefully more down the line or news of in the grapevine.

More onward...

Laundry was done and exercises too, back on track!
As well as my culinary skills charged.

Too far...

I do have a slight issue with my neck though, wasn't going to mention it, but the jugular vein does appear swollen,  and there are two pearl shaped bumps alongside of it, and a bit of a bruise... but I do not have a fever and I can swallow not too bad and so far I know no one is available with the holiday and its not worthy of a nine one one call so I am taking the wait and see attitude, hope I am right this time... that is all signing off for tonight!

In closing...

Happy Kwanzaa and third night of Hanukah, and extended Christmas celebration day!
A happy good night to all!

      

Sunday, December 25, 2016

What an odd family we are!

Friday night I made potato latkes, shredded potatoes in the food processor and then squeezed out liquid with a dish towel, and onions shredded too and also squeezed, then in my stainless steel bowl with Kosher salt, pepper flour and an egg, scooped with my medium melon baller and yielded seventeen bite size ones in my glass rectangular and metal square pans, and this time baked in the oven for dinner with fancy non-fat Greek yogurt with chives a pinch of garlic powder and applesauce. Last night we had a brisket made the way Mom had with orange juice and marmalade a bissel, about a teaspoon full, and about the same of brown sugar, two squirts of ketchup but Hunts without that high fructose corn syrup!
Onions, baby carrots, celery, garlic cloves, a half a dozen cherry tomatoes, and a bunch, handful of frozen mushrooms thyme and bay leafs as well as sodium free beef bullion powder packet all in my small crock pot after flouring and browning the meat cut in half sautéed in Pam and olive oil with Kosher salt and pepper in a pan on the stove. I had cut the brisket in half that was only 2.24 lbs. we had half of that 1.12 LBS. and froze the other half, but it was just for the two of us and we had plenty for lotsa leftovers still! Potatoes would not fit in my tiny crock pot we have a large one in the storage and so in the end we chose instant mashed potatoes to have the dinner over, dessert was pie alamode, apple pie with French vanilla ice cream.
Tonight, again just for the two of us a very low sodium 12 oz. ham steak with this time homemade scalloped potatoes, pealed and sliced two potatoes and half an onion placed into a small square Corning ware dish that had been sprayed with Pam then layered potatoes slices onions, a splash of milk, Kosher salt and pepper, teensy weeny bits of butter in between, alternating till all potatoes and onions are used up then cooked in microwave for six minutes then topped with cheddar cheese and placed in the oven alongside the ham steak that had been plied with pineapple juice, brown sugar and cloves and pineapple rings on top, with still more leftovers after all was said and done, and fresh baby carrots blanched and frozen peas heated till just right without losing their color!
Oh of course I only ate mouthfuls of all of those meals and it is proven by the fact that I have now lost another pound, not including the three I had to lose by regaining be an oops over a week ago and  so I did lose four pounds then.
Thus that explains the leftovers.
For days and days actually.
I had brisket of beef soup today for lunch just added some water and another sprinkle of sodium free beef bullion to the cup and leftover container, too much for just my soup.
The brisket was as all should be fork tender, and broke up with the veggies making it perfect for my soft diet that I graduated to as of nine plus weeks out of surgery from my gastric sleeve surgery!

 The odd part is that we celebrate all holidays and no we are not Kosher, the salt thing is due to lower sodium, but we do enjoy family memories. And food does that for most all of us reminds of us of family... and I know at this time of the year we remember those things... with fondness and happy inward smiles, and outward ones too...So Happy Smiles to All!
And let those food memories flourish and pass them all around!

 

Friday, December 23, 2016

Anticipation...

The BIG day arrived this afternoon!
What, one might wonder or ask, or not.
Well, I will tell you anyway.
This afternoon after three P.M. I removed my packing/gauze and bandage over my jugular on the lower portion of the right side of my neck, and the result was surprising.
Not totally unnoticeable, more like a tiny pimple bump on the lower side of the right of my neck, okay but not invisible like it had been when it was going in the vena cava filter.
Although, I am more than sure that its tiny weeny pimple will diminish over time, probably by tomorrow.
Geez, it could have been so much worse, I know that!
I am one lucky gal.

Moving on...

Now for an odd dilemma that I most likely caused with my unruly temper at times... Do you remember that $53.49 unauthorized renewal charge by Best Buy's Geek Squad for an anti-virus?

Well, the refund had not shown up in a timely fashion on my online bank's charge account and so I called the local Best Buy and complained. My reasoning is they quickly, immediately charge you, but when it comes to doing their refunding it takes seven to ten business days, what's with that, hmm?
So I told them it had been seven business days and there was nothing on my account indicating that they took care of the refund and I wanted it now!

Electronically it is instantaneously taken care of for so many different transactions why not for non-tangible product ones, as in this cancellation of the anti-virus?
All done electronically by them.

So the local Geek Squad manager said that she would take care of it now, and I suspect she had for... the original one suddenly appeared on my bank charge account online a week after it was said to be issued that very afternoon, after I spoke to their local office and I was relieved and then when I checked yesterday to make sure all was still copasetic, but to my astonishment there was another refund for the same amount from Best Buy! And so now for the last two days I have been trying to get them to take it back!

But get this, they are at a loss as they do not know how to do it!
I had even called my credit card bank to arbitrate this odd dilemma and we even did a conference call with them and us, and after about a half an hour their person told us they had no ability to change this.

They also agreed to turn the call over to someone who could take care of it and put us on hold to accomplish the transfer with my bank stoically holding on with me, and we both were horrified to hear that the wait time would be an hour and so as I had my son calling in on call waiting I suggested to the bank person that I would try again later, and that was today.

And I did, as I had before I explained the problem and the foreign person for Best Buy on an island in the south pacific, and he said to me so you want to reinstall your anti-virus; what??????????????????

I really thought I was making some progress, since they said they were the billing department for Best Buy's Geek Squad, and they were the only ones that could handle this, NOT!
So I explained as calmly as I could, and said that I wanted them to remove the second refund that was not necessary since the first one came through.
Oh I had called the local store and this time they insisted no one there could do this transaction!

After another too long to count conversation I was told that she would have some one call me back in an hour or two, and that was just before eleven A.M. this morning, and it is now nearly six P.M., after that by the time I post this.
I guess since I have checked the time difference and they are thirteen hours ahead of us in the Philippines', but it was two hours from when we spoke, not any particular time zone, I think, huh?

Could I now be the one not understanding?
Who knows... I guess I could consider it a Hanukah gift, although that would be dishonest, and I am nothing if not honest, and so I will prevail!
Perhaps after the weekend when their lives are less busy.

On this note of frustration in a consumer reverse situation, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Not such smooth sailing for vena cava removal

It started at eleven thirty A.M. with a phone call asking me if we could be there forty-five minutes earlier than I was originally scheduled to be there; we said okay. The drive up US 41/Tamiami Trail was one red light after another, but taking I75 would have been worse, its too far inland from the hospital, but after leaving for the only 24 miles trip we arrived in an hour and a half, a minute before our scheduled time.

Getting to the hospital earlier is a bit confusing, since I did not seem to go down to the pre-op floor any sooner.
An hour and a half later I was on the second floor from the fourth, after being prepped and the lovely nurse seemed to have difficulty with getting the IV in my left hand so after a few tries I noticed there was a wad of gauze and what looked like packing tape left on that hand, but no IV. She moved over to my right one that was a definite win win and my IV was implanted, deserving of three 10's. Shelly, the nurse, was lucky my skin sensations are very low so I felt very little during the whole process. She didn't ask, so I did not tell.
I had a blood pressure cuff and was told the cardiac lines would be installed in the OR.
My team was of five or six if I recall correctly, including the GPS/ ultrasound tracker to find the filter tech and surgeon.
Prior to me entering the OR Megan, my nurse, informed me on all that could happen/ translation go wrong, they might not be able to find it, or it might be embedded in me and take some time to get out, it might have gravitated to a  hard to get out location and that instead of going through my jugular vein and they might have to go through the femoral artery above the thigh or make two holes in my neck for fishing purposes or some such thing or if it could not be removed due to not being found or too long under I would have to leave it in or come back for another go at it at a later date....

Any-who, it was too late to leave after I was told all the pitfalls of removing the thing... I was pretty much hooked up to everything plus my ride was left in the room, 413 that I would be eventually be going back to if I should survive the procedure that takes about twenty minutes to four hours depending on any of those ifs ands or buts, or none at all.

I was a medium situation, since it took nearly an hour and half to remove, it had embedded itself in me, and it was supposed to be only a temporary visitor.
And although, I was given just twilight sleep anesthesia I slept through the whole thing, and when I awoke I was a terrified!
A male tech or nurse, who did not introduce himself and so I pretended I was asleep still, and hoped I was having only a nightmare, not an actual occurrence, too scary because he was saying as he pressed on my neck hard that he could not stop the bleeding from my jugular vein!
Again when I finally was completely awake my neck was well packed with gauze and dressing, not a dream nor nightmare!
They had given me heparin.

Between my two hands and my neck's dressings and my orange colored betadine solution on my face, right shoulder and arm I gave up on the idea of putting on makeup after all dressed, all that medicinal doings for, if I recall, the needle is small and thin and did not leave even a mark at all when originally put in, and I was assured in spite of this time having it take longer to remove I have only one hole in my neck again, and my thigh was not touched!

The unveiling is tomorrow, PS my left hand is black and blue but with a very slight stick mark, meanwhile my right hand looks totally unscathed and had been well gauzed and bandaged too!
Hope my neck has the same result for tomorrow.
The worse part is not being able to bathe in my case shower for two whole days.
 Actually I take that back, not being able to sleep on my right side due to my neck, and having to sleep on the side that I am not supposed to, since I get that pressure sore too often on my left ear, but I did it anyway with my ear pillow.
And oh yeah, not being allowed to do my exercises, first the nurse said no driving or wine, I said I haven't driven in years and we don't have wine anymore due to the calories and no lifting anything eight pounds or more. I said then I can lift my two pound weights for my bed exercises and she said no, when she realized that I had MS! No exercising even in bed until next week!

We arrived home around seven last night.
Long day, for us and Gus, our rescue Havanese, Shih zu mix, but he was left home and did fine.

This morning I read the instructions when to call the doctor or nurse for any problems.
I had awoken with a swollen face and hands, and panicked those problems were on the list so I called the nurse thinking I would have to go back to the hospital or call 911, but I was told that it was probably the IV's, and sure enough after losing those three pounds that I had gained, and lost before going to the hospital the morning of...I had gained back two of them!
Darn IVs!
Well I was able to lose the fluids during the day.
Thank goodness!
And after I did eat spinach of all things it appeared to get my face looking better, well like me!

On this note of till tomorrow if I have my own American Horror Story or not, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Best Buy and GEMaffair

Best  Buy's refund showed up today credited to our account, oddly enough just after I told them it was not there, curious. In case you forgot they had charged us for another year of anti-virus that we hadn't authorized!
As far as this so-called company GEMaffair.com they now have tried to charge me for a restocking fee of six dollars, and it was subtracted from my refund that I still haven't received!
At first I thought it was the delivery charges, that were ridiculous for an item that weighed less than a few grams and they were charged $6.99  for the return trip.
I have never been charged for a restocking fee, but then again I have rarely if ever returned things by mail, most of our returns have been by going back into brick and mortar shops.
PS I finally did get my 14K gold and onyx earrings that looked exactly like the picture that they were chosen from, and believe it or not they were from Walmart online; they do not sell real gold and gems in the store, but online only. They came yesterday and were identical to the picture and looked like the ones I had thought I had ordered from GEMaffair.com, but theirs weren't.
I knew I wasn't crazy and they did bait and switch me, they were selling them under the guise of Sears, and still do.
Sears though will not do anything they say that you have to go through them.
Meanwhile I filed the complaint with my other credit card company that I have been with for over forty years and I had put the first earrings, the wrong ones on, and telling them the whole story of what transpired!

Also we did go out yesterday to Walmart, a rare thing these days, but Hubby and I needed unmentionables, and towels from their House and Garden line, and I took a look at some costume earrings, since over the years my supply has dwindled, and I found three pairs that came in less than my new gold and onyx for all of them put together! Small loops all three, one is gold plated and diamond cut silver and another is a set of dolphins in gold plate in loops too, as well as sideways hearts diamond cut silver and gold plated loops, I have a necklace real of 14K gold and diamonds in a heart  that was a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary gift one for our Valentines' anniversary as well as a bracelet for our thirtieth with three hearts in gold. I had had good gold heart earrings years ago, but lost one of those too.
That's me...oh well... some of us are better off with costume jewelry, although I have kept the receipt for the three pairs to make sure that I don't have any problems. I have had pierced ears for fifty-three years and even so over the years if I have put cheap earrings in them I will still get an infection. Lately though I have been wearing a pair that was very cheap a sale pair from Walmart about half the price of the ones bought yesterday and they were bought a few years ago and I hadn't had the problem so I thought I would give it a try again, but I kept that receipt in case the new ones were a problem; one never knows does one.

Any-who, this was my change gears night, and on that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night, and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

 

Monday, December 19, 2016

Depressed!

Biting the bullet, but Not a happy camper, why me/us, idioms galore!
An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from its constituents usual meaning.
I know this must be fascinating, but let's get back to why we are here this evening...I'm BUMMED OUT!
We're up, we're down, we are turned all around, including upside down!
The stress keeps coming and then my friends we get that awful feeling in the pit of our collective stomachs that aches and aches and seizes up and wants to make you vomit, but you are too grownup to act that way when not getting your way, the American way, all of the popular kids voted that way!
We chose someone and we were told NO!
How dare they!
My heart breaks daily with uncertainty of what will happen to this land that I love from sea to shinning sea!
Oh me oh my why??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
No joy left in Mudville the mighty Casey has struck out!
We are Casey.
Americans are Casey.
Most of the popular voters are Casey!
Hope is lost, and must be found, but where??????????????????????????????????????????
Help!

I did my part by voting and when that wasn't enough I signed petitions.
This is the first time in all the forty-four years that I have voted that I have been this disappointed with the outcome, sure my person lost before, but at least they had morality and modicum of concern for America and Americans, not just themselves!
This is horrid.
This is so very sad.
Devastating.
Frightening.
I so wish I could feel more futurism about our nation.
Frothy-Haired Guy, DJ has been confirmed by the electorate as the new dictator of our world, or he could get bored and quit! Then, my friends hope will resume temporarily until Pres. Pence and if he gets impeached then Ryan speaks! OH NO! Gloomy is our existence for years to come... find something to make us all smile my Facebook pals PLEASE!
Who knows what lurks in our homeland... but we all should CARE! 





 

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Russia!

They have been watching little ole me, why?

Stats:

102 this week alone, 228 for the month so far Russian count.

5, 294 all time in my entire blogging history to date, those are views from there, Russia, of my blog.

This month so far for all ten countries including USA is so far 6,719.

All time history to date, 89,149 of everyone.

Interesting!

Interesting?

Paranoia is a strange thing.

But with Pres-elect DJ so much in the news with his chosen cabinet and his making nice nice with Putin and all maybe they think all "BLOGGERS" are politicos with commentary on their fair-orange-haired child/man with some regularity?

I am NOT reporting what I think this round.

Fear?

Maybe.

Concern for my safety?

Maybe?

Who knows...

These are scary times.

Even the legit press is taking a breather, trying to regain equilibrium, how can I compete with them and they with so much ability to gain entry into the inner sanctum of the narcissistic fool's actual tweets when I don't even use my account of that!

Everything I get is second or third hand and of little or no use.

True I read whatever I can get my hands on even from my good hearted gung-ho souls/friends on FB, but not enough to form a decent reliable framework to gain traction on this entirely unpredictable possible next dictator of what used to be a democratic society of free thinkers with voices in the land that I love of these United States of AMERICA!

Where to go with my opinions frozen, never before did I ever think I would be afraid to say what I feel... but at times I do.

Not good, no, not at all!

Lets face it an abusive, misogynist, racist president has never been my dream for the person in charge of our FREE NATION, how could this have happened?
I so wish that the CIA and FBI would make it so that their proof of interference meant we all get a do over, logically we should hold another election day, most would be willing to, why not??????

Recounts have been done on local and state levels when there were problems, from machines to hanging chads and dimples, why not for international slanting for the votes??????????????????
With proof!
I am sure Barack would be willing to stay on until this all gets sorted out, he's such a great guy and PRESIDENT!
Anything worthwhile is worth waiting for...HILLARY hang in there!

  On these notes allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings, without Russian interference please, and share those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Saturday, December 17, 2016

City Farmers Market!

With music and very nice fruits and vegetables, as well as samples!
A great test of my will power, make that won't power; I ate nothing!.

The train of thoughts starts early here...
I am so ashamed to mention I had a slight set back with gaining three pounds, but I got back on track and have already lost most of it, yay!
Just put myself back on a stricter more appealing to me anyway soup and ice pops and protein drink choices, not diet.
Decision making, good or bad.
Also with clogged internal plumbing, now clearing, much better.

And today I also found out that my too low diastolic dysfunction has been known for the last fifteen years to be as dangerous in heart disease as high systolic.
It has to do with the chambers of the heart and whether or not they are flexible or stiff, too much salt can harm either.
I have never been a BIG salt eater, but lately I do seem to find myself adding Kosher salt to things I never bothered with, PS treating some people for high blood pressure for too long like I was, over eleven years, when my pressure was good could trigger it!
Mine was more like white coat syndrome, that is when a medical professional takes your blood pressure, when our lives were in turmoil then, but Hubby's is hereditary, his Mom and brother both have it, but my parents didn't.
My diastolic has been mostly in the fifties, and I seem better when it goes into the sixties.
Normal blood pressure is considered 120/80, mine runs around 105/ 54, see, too low.
High blood pressure is considered at anything around or above 140/90.
And contrary to some people's and even some medical people's conclusion, low after sixty is not better than high!
Heart disease is the same as with high, plus dizziness and falls are more prevalent.
So be aware and go to a doctor to be sure.

We almost never left the house today due to me feeling as if I was going to pass out, I was sweating too, but apparently a cold sweat since my body temperature when taken was only 97.3!
Now if I hadn't taken my thyroid medication that I had, and my nausea medication which I did take since I was also feeling nauseas and a Pepcid and all this happened when after I was lying back in bed due to the dizziness!
But within about forty-five minutes it passed or we would have been going to the hospital instead of the Farmers Market today!
We came home early, since we knew that I couldn't eat there.
I had my own homemade soup for lunch while being lazy in bed.

(My homemade soup was chicken, shrimp and bacon with mushrooms, onions carrots celery, and garlic with two sodium free chicken bullion packets and thyme, cumin, Kosher salt and cracked black pepper and of course water thickened with flour, it was enough for several servings and a new made up recipe from leftovers in the fridge. It would be fine with a tomato base too I bet, oh I also used Old Bay seasoning too, not too much, high in sodium, but just enough.  The chicken was from the rotisserie one we had gotten a few meals from, the shrimp was from the frozen ones I could not separate, and the chopped up bacon was because I thought that a mere three slices in this quantity would jazz it up! I crisped the bacon the old fashion way in the pan and even used the heaven forbid bacon fat, with olive oil and the Pam on the pan first to sauté the onions, mushrooms, garlic and celery, even the carrots then added in the liquid from the frozen mushrooms and water and chicken bullion as well as more water and the flour, once that all came together I added it into the big pot and added more water, the chopped chicken and lastly the large shrimps halved, and voila soup!) It lasted for two days and five meals for me.
    
Hubby had a sandwich.
For dinner he picked up already made ribs at Winn Dixie  and for me, my favorite tomato basil soup, canned but Heart Smart, the brand and not too bad in its content either!

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

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

 
 
  

Friday, December 16, 2016

What's up?

QUESTIONS:

How ya doing?
Got much done...yet?
The parties just keep coming one after another?
Don't you just love the hustle and bustle of the season?

MY ANSWERS:

"Okay."
"Nottin to do."
"Nope."
(Shoulders shrugged)

YOUR ANSWERS

"Great!"
"Almost there...," but some might say "all done months ago!"
"You betcha, work, friends, schools never ending!"
"Invigorating!"

My day and yours I suspect.
One could say that I am living stress free.
And you could say that you are having a ball.

But that would be assuming, and we all know what that means, making an ass of you and me, ass-u-me, assume, now do you get it?
Of course you do/did!

Moving on...

Any-who, I just had the nurse at the hospital calling about my procedure to remove my vena cava filter next week, all those pre-op things we have to do even for out patient.
Looking forward to that, it will be sixty-seven days on something that I was told was supposed to be in me for sixty days.
YAY!

More training of thoughts...

Down to only two shows in the series of Stranger Things, of just eight, so I have been savoring them, and watching gung-ho Ghost Whisperer into the third season for that.

That is it for tonight folks so I guess it is time to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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


 

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Something odd happened today...

Anyone who is on Facebook most likely knows that they have throwback Thursdays with going back sometimes a year or more and show your posts from then, true?
Well, today there was a photograph posted by me from 2011 that I nearly forgot about because it wasn't anyone that anyone knew, even us.
See odd.
What I recall is that I had bought a frame from the thrift shop at the Cultural Center that I do fairly regularly, an excellent buy really, and you can refurbish them in any style you wish... So when I took it apart this one had a picture of a boy and girl in it, not models, but the family resemblance was obvious.
And so I felt it was probably the original owner of the frame's children, and I posted it to see if anyone recognized them to return the picture to them.
We had done a similar thing with photos that had been carried by category five winds after Hurricane Andrew in South Florida way back in1992, but in storefront windows that were still there.
And many times the keepsakes were reunited with their owners/families.
But no one claimed the photo on FB that I had posted and we already brought it back to the Cultural Center and the next time we went in we were told no one ever did claim it, and it was gone, sad.

Some things in life cannot ever be replaced, people for one, photos for another, but lesser in importance of course, and everything else is just the same as white noise in my book, and doesn't matter really and is replaceable if need be.

Going through life with seeing and having so much devastation and deaths makes one realize what is truly important.

So when you go crazy trying to find the latest and greatest toy for that child that you love so much just remember that your time of being with them is the true priceless gift...too preachy? OOPS!

Just thinking... dangerous stuff!

Moving on...

Any-who, my choice on what to watch was a split decision!
Stranger Things to me appears to be a cross between ET and Stand by Me, sort of, both excellent flicks though undeniably, but so far only one season of eight shows have been made. Although, with all the awards it is garnishing I am more than sure there will be years coming! PS I am enjoying it thoroughly, another PG-13 series if I may be so bold to rate.
So here's what I did I watched and still am watching the Ghost Whisperer a couple of those to every one of Stranger Things, talk about people who have way too much time on their hands!
But it is a scientific way to have your cake and eat it too, non calorically speaking, of course.

Next on my train of thoughts...
Anyway, I was wrong about my oyster shell grapevine wreath nearly eighteen years hanging in the alcove of our exterior entry that it was only in need of a bow; Hubby gave it a bath and the whole thing basically fell apart!
So off to Jo Anne's and back into the canal for more oyster shells Hubby went; he had already bought a new ribbon this one is in a soft shear teal, since this wreath hangs there year round.
And together after I disassembled the old one, we reassembled the new one with me tying on the new ribbon and then Hubby drilled all the new shells with their tiny holes so that the fishing line could go through like the remainder of the old ones, he also did that tedious work after I placed them where I wanted them, and voila we now have a fuller more abundant oyster shell grapevine wreath hanging to the right of our front door! Ta Da!

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

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




 

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Wholesome!

The Ghost Whisperer is a far cry from American Horror Story, but I am anything if not eclectic in my tastes for entertainment!
I did begin my newest mindless entertainment in my rerun phase of binge watching just a few days ago, I am well into their second season, in the days when seasons were twenty-two shows long...
Tame in comparison to my previous choice.
Although, I am already feeling the need to cheat on my old found comfort food of this adorable show that tries consistently to make this hard hearted gal, who just got off the American Horror Story train, to bring me to tears, and it almost has with its sweetness in the end to each of its stories!
But alas I have been eyeing another winning show that we missed, Stranger Things, it has those five stars that makes me think in my mind's eye of the realm of a thoughtful prerequisite of quality in programing, and another plus is Winona Ryder stars in it; I always liked that kid since Beetlejuice. Stranger Things has been nominated for all sorts of awards, Best Drama and Best actress, Winona Ryder and the show, both for Golden Globes!
Any-who, this streaming thingy is great and although I did see American Horror Story through to all its Netflix postings thus far, five seasons, six should be released soon to the streaming market and I do know there will a seventh season, I read that somewhere... And there were five seasons of the Ghost Whisperer... But Stranger Things keeps looming large with an enticement on my screen every-time I go to my chosen one at this point, the Ghost almost makes me cry in the end Whisperer. Who says there are no commercials on streaming sites, ha!
Still watching the same show series, but I suppose I could always come back to it... who knows I might not like Stranger Things; who am I kidding!
If they don't remove it, either of them, sometimes they do ya know, I would still have time for both... oh well!
Geez, I wish this was my most difficult decision to have to make ever, hmm, ha!
Life's dilemmas at their simplest!

Moving on...

Whether you shop online or view programming online or get your news, listen to music or watch music videos, read books, or do research or whatever, Geez, we never seem to go too far to get our work and enjoyment taken care of, games tests education... Gosh never leave! I certainly seem to be here forever!
But we must ya know...leave at times... only for a bit.
I even exercise while online, oops I have to get that done still today, since it is Wednesday!
Second week of maintaining my self promise, Monday Wednesday and Friday exercise!

So I will be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

GEMAFFAIR.com and the bank make logical moves.

GEMAFFAIR.com sent me a free return package label today! It is boxed up to go out tomorrow!
And I will be receiving my refund as soon as they receive the earrings back!
I enclosed a copy of my initial receipt with the picture of what was shown to be the earrings that I thought I was purchasing and once they look at the two together they should realize why I was such an unhappy customer!
Anyway, all is good so far... they will be refunding the purchase price, PS it had free delivery initially, so why would they think I would want to pay for the return really, hmm?

As far as the bank and Best Buy's misguided charge of $53.49, the bank's policy is to allow for a year companies etc. that may have had prior authorization to utilize your old card number, what????
I told them that it is the customers responsibility to inform whomever they deal with financially that might have access to their accounts, not the banks to allow willy nilly people who your fiduciary relationship might have changed with to gain access, NO!
Being a loyal customer for the thirty years that we have lived in Florida does have some weight apparently, we will see... I requested that corporate should write to me to let me know that this policy should be looked into and that they heard my concerns, and their customer service reassured me it will be.
Who knows...


Moving on...

Any-who, I have found over these many years that I am trying hard not to act too preachy with anything that I write.
Being in management even before being a Mom and a teacher of employees and as a volunteer teaching classes we all have a tendency to speak to others with a definite need to be listened to in order to succeed in whatever aspect of life you have for that forum at any given time for the results to work.
Does that make sense?
But in life, as in motherhood, I have tried hard never ever to talk down to anyone, or assume that they did not know things... I took it for granted they were very well informed, not ignorant!

After all, I used to tease that our sons were smarter than me by the time they were in third grade, and seriously I did believe that they were, they were! Both had genius IQs and mine was only 120, Genius starts at 130 and theirs are 155+ each; average by the way is 100-110, but I guess you all knew that.
So I never ever talked down to them, and gave them an awful lot of credit for them to think for themselves and they always amazed me with their comments on life, so grown up!

And so this brings me to people I avoid, or get annoyed with, ones who want to be your life guides, make you a millionaire, and other people who believe their way is the best way, and those who constantly post other people's quotes as if they cannot think of something to say for themselves!
And you know that they can, but they seem just lazy to me.
Thus my concern once again for sounding too preachy... I wish for everyone that posts on Facebook to post themselves what is their mindset, not someone else's, and news articles and youtube are fine to post, but quotes even those should be original!
I don't know what to say other than mine are.
And I truly believe everyone has the ability to think for themselves.
This is America after all! LOL! Stole that from someone, oops!

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

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

 

Monday, December 12, 2016

Gurgle gurgle toil and...

What the heck?
I found out by Googling that my gurgling tummy is, "quite normal" for those of us with gastric sleeve surgeries.
Refreshing, and not just a temporary ordeal a more often longer lifetime happening by the people I encountered discussing it online, anywhere from days to years after this surgery!
Guess that is why one so proudly stated that they lost ninety-four pounds and counting in a year's time!
For me that would make me anorexic at this point of my no return...
Although, at the rate I am going nine months sounds not unreasonably to be at my goal weight!
Oh and what I was doing was sort of right liquids in any form, but they seemed to believe warm instead of cold worked better.
I suppose whatever works can be a personal choice.
Lunchtime I had soup and dinner too with hot green tea, but I still feel that the ice pops help the most to get the bubbles flowing.
In between I am trying hard to get my other liquids in, like flat club soda and Propel with those electrolytes.

Moving on...

To a consumer complaint.
About two weeks ago I purchased onyx and gold earrings online on sale from a Sear's manufacturer supposedly.
They were very similar to the pair of my oval black onyx and gold set that I had lost one last April, but these were round with gold trim in 14k gold leaf-like with onyx flat like in my original pair that matched my LIM college ring.
That is why it broke my heart when I had lost the one after forty plus years!
I was quite excited that I had found a pair similar and was thrilled in anticipation of their arrival.
But once they arrived last week I was horrified that they did not look at all like the ones pictured, this pair was shaped like fake bulbous black pearls not onyxes at all and the gold trim was miniscule and the posts were only long enough to fit through a child's earlobe, never an adult's!
I went back and forth with the company and yet to no avail to replace them with the ones pictured, and I did send them a picture of the ones they sent to see the difference, but they complained it was blurry, and it was not!
They are called GEMAFFAIR.com company who told me they would refund me if I sent them back at my own expense, what?????
This I believe was a bait and switch scheme and they are liable to give me what I ordered or at least send a refund with monies for the return trip!
PS I just went to their site and MINE are No longer there!
LIARS!

I guess I will have to eat them to gain any value from them!

Not a happy camper!

Another problem arose today that appeared to be fraud.
I went to our bank online to check our account that I do at least every other day and there was a bogus charge on our credit card page, so I called them and told them I believed this to be a fraudulent charge, since it was made yesterday and neither of us had gone out or shopped online at Best Buys.
It was for $53.49 and was pending the date was 12/11/16.
While speaking to the bank they noticed that it was on our old card that had to be destroyed, since our account had been compromised before and this was last year and we had received new cards.
I asked how could that be we both cut our old cards up the same as we do with every year we receive new ones too, as we all should.
Hours later with an email I found out it was NOT a fraudulent charge per se, but an assuming one from the Geek Squad at Best Buys that we were continuing with our old anti-virus and they just charged us for an additional year unbeknownst to us when spoken to they insisted we approved this, and neither Hubby or I had!
Well, since it was not right, but not actually fraud I called the bank back since their billing department at Best Buys Geek Squad was refunding the amount.
Although, it does make one wonder how a charge could go through on a cancelled account, hmm?
Scary, when I think about it to the same bank that helped us cancel it last year, hmm?
I guess they will be getting another call tomorrow... they have been our bank for decades, shame on them!

On that note of always check and recheck, especially during the holidays, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Riled up!

Sadly as I get older I seem to have some times when people set me off, patience dwindles, although some might say that has always been somewhat of a problem for me.
When they do not listen to the words coming out of your/my mouth and when they assume to know something that they truly don't have a clue about as if they did a glance at a cheat sheet, like reading just the headlines of the newspaper and believed they knew the entire content of the article from only that! Life is more complex than that as well as its many ills.
That said, I am done for now.
Just wanted get that out there.

Moving on...

Today was a baaaaaaaaaaaad tummy day too!
I have taken to consuming just those sugar free 15 calorie fruit pops and flat club soda and Propel, instead of solid food.
I have taken my nausea medication and my Pepcid that are both in me, but neither has seemed to have changed any of this for the better.
For a moment after my shower I thought I had a hernia or something, since by my belly button my belly there appeared to be a new and different bulge sticking out!
It's gone down since.
So I suppose it was nothing.
But most of the day I have not been hungry, more thirsty.
Guess in a way that is good to get some more of those LBS. to go down.

Correction: when I had said we had gotten reservations early for our anniversary dinner and comedy club outing, I meant very, very early by more than two months!
Sorry, I forget no one remembers our anniversary date like we do, on Valentine's Day!

That's it for tonight folks, and now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

 

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Variety!

A show biz term and bible/ newspaper, also the spice of life!
Excuse the reference please all of you religious types, but Variety is to Show Business as WWD, Women's Wear Daily is to the fashion industry their BIBLE!
It means it has what is needed to know about those important trades.
And so I had the pleasure of dealing with both when I once had a life, ha!
Rolling Stone Mag is to the music industry too!
Just thinking...WSJ, Wall Street Journal is to the financial industry, JAMA, Journal of American Medicine for physicians... and on, and on we could go.
I suspect that most feel a kinship to their enterprises access to all the latest and greatest information, but I am more than sure that most are now accessible online, hmm?
Or they wouldn't exist any longer.

Moving on...

Just made our early reservations to go out for our anniversary, this year for dinner at a comedy club. Visani's right here in our little ole town, has been hailed as having great food and entertainment, five stars by most all customers' reviews, and they are on Yelp and other review sites, would you believe?
Greg Morton is the show's comedian that night and he is billed as a whining cross between Jerry Seinfeld and Jerry Lewis!
He has been on many shows like Comedy Central, Byron Allen, and is described as "Mr. Standing O", so he sounds like someone to look forward to for laughter and quite an enjoyable evening!
We have celebrated our anniversary so many different ways over the years, this will be our forty-sixth, and although we have been to comedy clubs before we have never been for an anniversary dinner and show, we had been to dinner shows that are Broadway type productions with dinner.

 Greg Morton should be just what the doctor ordered!

One year we even took the mystery dinner train and I do believe that was the most interesting one to date.
Although, our fifth anniversary on board a docked ship restaurant where we both ordered whole lobsters, not just the tail, which I would only order since then, because I went to cut into mine and it landed on the floor and the server/waitress then asked if I wanted another, damn straight I did!
Those were the days, it did seem quite expensive to us then way back in 1976, but even though I don't recall its price it was more than likely not cheap, sure did want another, and my embarrassment of the incident was halted with my pure determination to get my dinner, but I never used foul language then to attain another. Hubby even then said they probably they just brought me back the same one dusted off!
Who knows...
Ah... life, and sweet variety!

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

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










 

Friday, December 9, 2016

Got a life today!

Not really, but it makes for a great title, don't ya think?

Anyway, we did leave our palatial manor to the outer world, that means into the wilds of the town!
Up the road a piece to the Sam's Club for the ink for the copier/printer/scanner machinery, and fire extinguishers, and marine battery; last two for the boat.

Then onward to the Bed, Bath, and Beyond-er over the other way to exchange our scale, weigh-er that stopped weighing me, and Hubby too! And no I did not break it due to being too fat, it just stopped! I was never ever that fat!

The scale had been bought this past September, but the box and receipt had been saved, and as long as you have that they said it was returnable and it was, and it did turn into an exchange for a better one. Well, not necessarily, but seventeen dollars plus more expensive, who knows time will tell.

The first was white and with only a digital read out, but the second is black and silver with both the old fashioned arm that moves over the numbers, and a digital read out as well, a twofer. It doesn't match the bathroom décor, but if it works forever or at least the next year or so, it will be worth its weight in gold, get it? Its a scale, but you knew that, ha!

Guess I am little giddy from all that fresh cold air!
Yep, here in southwest Florida it stayed in the sixties most all of the time we were out!
We did have rain on and off these last few days, it was very light, but thankfully never any truly heavy stuff, but it was windy! Although only 20 to 30 MPH winds, not gale force or tornadoes that is very good.

From BB&B onto Marshalls next door and got Gus a new toy a raccoon, stuffed, but of course, his stuffed monkey needed to be stitched too often.
I also bought a couple of new bras I have gone down two sizes, even though I won't buy any other clothes some things you just gotta.

I am waiting for a bigger result and I do have clothes from going up in size so I am just reversing them, ha!

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

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

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Here we go again!

Late, I am very late for a very important date!
Writing this blog with the new day beginning at seven P.M. EST.! By Google standards apparently!
I have to accomplish my due/do diligence in a hurry.
Nah... if I don't care about the views, yep and they have been averaging well over TWO HUNDRED a day! One day it was over FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY!
Over SIX THOUSAND now a month, compared to my old numbers of twenty a day and one thousand a month!
Amazing!

Any-who, one might wonder why so late when just last night I admitted to not doing very much these days, hmm?
Well, if the truth be told I have been binge watching what could only be considered close to pornography in the name of American Horror Story!
Shocking!
I feel like a voyeur watching this stuff.
Although, the stories are such that you can not tear yourself away waiting for the next vignette to begin.
I feel a shame.
But oddly fascinated.
After all this old prude has not seen anything like this before.
I am already on season five of the five online, it has five stars for quality, and the actual stars range from Kathy Bates to Angela Bassett to Jessica Lange to Lady Gaga to Gabourey Sidibe to Cuba Gooding Jr. to Zachary Quinto, and Dylan McDermott to name just a few!
So it is amazing in its quality of actors it has drawn in to want to do this!

Graphic gory scenes and well as explicit sex scenes of all types of couples relationships, even orgy scenes, vampires, freaks, murderers, insane people, you name it!
Who would have thunk it that I would have been watching this stuff in my old age!
I was sooooooooooo wholesome!

Enough already.
I think I have made my point.
You never know...
Got to get out more... TRULY!
LOL!

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Days are running together without my ventures out into the world...

What day is it today?
Ah yes, Wednesday, and I remembered it well...not really, I almost wrote Tuesday!
No structure to life can do that to a person, what you might ask?
Confuse you, or me, yes me, not necessarily you... but maybe.
Don't get scared, it happens to the best of us, when we lose our daily routine.
It has been known to occur at any age when you cannot go to places that you previously frequented.
Missing people and places is sometimes the trigger for that loss of memory.
But alas the only cure is to find some way to create a new normal!
Yup, one that means something to you and can suffice, if only temporarily, be creative and fun loving with ideas that will wow and satisfy the most boring ordinary times and change them into crazy the good type of crazy wonderful memories!
You in?
I am.
I don't know about you, but for me I only have one surgery this month, out patient, coming up in two weeks, other than that my month is free!
No PT until January.
What to do, what to do?
So far I have started as of Monday with my exercise program for every other day or really three days a week, using my two pound free weights and those bands too in four colors of different strengths, yellow, red, blue and green, in ascending strengths I think.
Repeating the routine of six exercises to counts of five with ten repetitions each, two days worth so far and counting!
Geez, I hear your dissension, well folks it is a beginning!
 And I am trying.
Keeping positive thoughts in my brain and trying hard not to get depressed.
So many have so much family to share with and ours is so tiny compared to others.
Listen, the best part of the holidays is that, seeing people you love and that love you!
Although you should see them all year round.
But I do miss it.
Big time.

Getting a life, meaning finding things to do to keep busy is not that hard.
I painted the flag from our mailbox.
Our ceramic Christmas cat's ornaments surrounding him, looking a little bit in a need to refresh.
I will be changing ribbons too on decorations of our white poinsettias and my oyster grape wreath's blue ribbon too!
A freshening up of displays outside.
Make a BIG BOW for our rural mailbox too, I already painted its flag, but I told you that already, oh dear am I getting old and dotty? Don't answer that. And Hubby bleached the mailbox's white box and post.
In Florida between wasps' nests and mold it never seems to end.
And I suppose I shall, end this for tonight... Good night all!

  
 

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Many people revealed at this time of year too many sides

As we truly enter the holiday season so many reflect on the meaning of the Christmas-Hanukkah, Christian/ Judeo times that have brought understanding and beliefs to make the "holidays" be joyous for all! Hanukkah begins December 24th, Christmas Eve this year, united, and lasts till January 1st New Year's Eve also International, could it be a sign this year to share our beliefs of the season, I hope so!

And then there is a sad side of the season the memory of those who are no longer with us, and all faiths have that commonalty that could create depression and the best way to prevent that is we can do as citizens of this world is to make sure all human beings have comfort from one another by checking on some who might be alone, don't let that happen, share, your friends and families, be all inclusive!

And then there is a dark side to the season of racism, anti-Semitism and hate crimes against LGBT people, see something say something to someone who can change this horrific behavior!
Keep shouting that hate is not what benefits humanity, love and understanding does!
Join others with same beliefs and find ways to change those who hate, whether jailing them, or making them understand by teaching them their beliefs are wrong!
 We must unite!

Another story tonight on the news about a Synagogue in Naples Florida where the sign of its name had been shot up!

Nightly on the news people of color are shot or found guilty unjustly of crimes they did not commit!
Police officers are shot for too many believing they are against people of color, and horribly some are!
What has the world come to, when the most trusted are no longer trustworthy!
Children/teens commit crimes daily with hate in their souls, driven at times by bullying as excuses feeling no where to turn!

If it wasn't for the fact that this is the only planet that can sustain life that we have I/we would leave!
But of course we cannot.
What can we do?
I can only suggest, I feel powerless most days, and yet personally unscathed by all that tortures the world.
I am very, very, very sadly at my wit's end.
I sign petitions.
I will roll in a walk for change, I will do whatever peaceful demonstration I can do to help, but what will work, truly?
Tell me!
In the meantime all we can do is try and enjoy the season the best we can!
And be aware of our surroundings including the people in them...!

Monday, December 5, 2016

Blankety- blank blank

 Is used as a show of disapproval or instead of cursing, but in my case tonight I am at an impasse, a dead end, a stand still, a standoff, a deadlock or even a stalemate etc. etc. etc.?
I for the first time in ages cannot find something to talk about, oh wait... this is IT!

Again talking about nothing much, is this considered small talk?
Non-controversial, not very important, but conversational?
I never have gotten that social compliance quite right.
To me a conversation should have substance, in other words sharing tales of oneself of significance from the get-go that is how you get to know people!
None of that whishy washy bologna of weather talk, I suppose if it is misbehaving...that is the weather is as they are saying might happen here by tomorrow!
Gosh it's been over fifty days here without any significant rain, and tomorrow they, the weather people, meteorologists are predicting we might be getting a major wet one!
Now get your minds out of the gutter.
A major storm with heavy rain, thunder, wind, lightening and possible tornadoes like the ones bombarding our northern Gulf coast neighbors in Louisiana and Alabama et al, but we are in the southern realm of the Gulf in Southwest Florida, and yes, they are saying we of dry November standing that will go down in history as the driest November ever and that was still in hurricane season until its last day had none, no moisture at all!
And that December is having tomorrow plenty, too much in fact!
Well, to me that is a significant weather conversation, but not too polite and I bet to you too, and a bit controversial, hmm? 
Predictions, scientific predictions... how come people mostly believe the meteorologists about their daily weather forecast, but not our new Pres.-elect DJ he doesn't believe in GLOBAL WARMING???????    
Miami floods daily on our other coast the Atlantic side!

Okay, so I had something to say after all.
And it might be considered historic after tomorrow.
Hopefully, it will just be a plain Jane rain, soft and steady, because like so many places without rain for quite some time we could really, really use some...
Good night to all and to all be happy and stay inside in the case of inclement weather, unless you really like that sort of thing, hmm?
Enjoy Gene Kelly iconically sing and dance in the rain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA
 

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Streaming along...

...on Netflix, but of course!
Most recently American Horror Story, I am already into season two, with five stars and as many seasons I am a very happy binge watcher!
Except, when they get a bit too gory and the anticipation this time turned out to be more than what they looked as if what was going to be portrayed, and was not thankfully... better and whew!
The concern for the one installation of their opener threw me so off that I actually started their browser to find something less objectionable and for me to temporarily end up watching, and I did. The Ranch was what I found that was quite at the other end of the spectrum, talk about eclectic tastes I'm definitely the QUEEN! But it didn't take long for me to muster up the courage to go back to American Horror Story and see what my anticipated fear if it would be realized, but it wasn't, thank goodness!
American Horror Story is like watching a  horrible accident and as awful as it is you cannot look away.
I thought I was over those years of enjoying being scared, guess not!
In my preteens and teens Edgar Allan Poe was who I read or watched movies of to gain the same insanity of fear, later on in my twenties and thirties it was Stephen King in books and movies and now after skipping decades here I am again with the easy at my fingertips Netflix and all that it has to offer in the scare department!
Boo!

Moving on...

I am stretching while relaxing, but I should do more.
My PT gave me several exercises to be done while lying here in bed.
Even using my free weights, only my two pounders, I also have threes and fives.
Plus those colorful bands.
Just have to start a routine on Monday, and Wednesday and Friday, a few times a day ought to do it!
I have lost a total of nearly twenty nine pounds in six and half weeks!

Hubby and I made a smart decision to sell our 2003 Sea Hunt 202 Triton, 21' fishing boat with a center console and head in it there, as well as a Yamaha 115 hp four stroke outboard motor, dual batteries and a brilliant blue Bimini, live well too and we have the galvanized trailer too!
All bought new in 2003, but for the last several years it has not gotten off the lift, since I cannot get on it.
We found out on NADA, the Blue Book for boats, it is worth about half what we paid for it, at $13,500 now. It will probably be going up on Craig's list as soon as Hubby is finished detailing it. The plan is to buy a pontoon boat so I can roll right onto it instead of feeling sad about not enjoying boating anymore, we have both been boaters for over forty years and Hubby is retired Marine Patrol and a licensed boats' captain too! So its been very, very sad. Now with the weather cooling off it is more desirable for me to go out too.
Wish someone would be willing to trade us even Steven; it would be so much easier!

On this note of whatever floats your/our boats, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

 

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Chill day!

And it's not because we again had a day that began outside of our home in the high fifties, although it did, but warmed up nicely once again to dear sweet southwest Florida weather of the low eighties!

Our indoor temperature was a very cool seventy-three when I arose at six twenty A.M., and since we had left the air on instead of the heat on overnight that automatically shut off thus the lower than set on temperature that we find comfortable of seventy-five. I had to switch back to heat and seventy-six that we needed to remove that chill with no blood in us since here in the hot south and have not adapted to any cold stuff, actually it occurred the too cold to believe of our bodies, under seventy-five degrees, our BIG CHILL six months after moving here way back in 1986!

But wait I am way off course, since that wasn't the chill I was talking about at all!
I meant relaxing in our comfortable home and watching PBS on the tube, another historic rendition of Florida history, this time the Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, an antebellum mansion.
Fascinating and upsetting, but riveting.
It was an hour.
Yes, we live in a state that has a horrid history, but so much has changed, and there are not as many original many generations of native Floridians here, many here now are like us transplants from all over the country and even the world!
The mentality of hate I would have thought would have diminished with the diversity that we have found in the thirty years that we have lived here; although as much changes much does stay the same, again too sad for words, but...
Many races and cultures are here and should respect one another, but sadly from this states election results I believe we have gone backwards in time and this makes me very uneasy.
I pray so much for good positive change in my head, but that we do not fit into what the narrowest of thinking assumes to be the most righteous and decent of "their kind", neither of us fit into their mold of that!
Rather than living in fear I want to shout it to the world, I am not beautiful or thin and I am disabled and old, and so is my Hubby, just older.
We are not the Barbie and Ken dolls or white Anglo-Saxons, we are of European descent, but I am a Jew and my husband is a Catholic, not their concept of Christians oddly enough, and not their idea of what America should be filled with.
And Good Grief there are still people who believe that Medicare and Social Security are entitlements, WHAT????
Every week of our working lives those monies were set aside for our retirement, our money and yes we are all entitled to it since it IS OURS!
Get your info straight, people from other countries do not get it, and even some of our own!
Every week or every other week you get paid in the USA they take money out of your paycheck that is set aside for retirement and that is what we all collect when we retire, simple!
And that money is called Social Security and Medicare, and if you work for a city or state or a certain company that also takes money out for a pension while you work for them that too is yours once you retire, and Hubby has that too!
And that is why it is ours earned, not some hand out!
Got it?
I sure hope so.
Any questions?
Hope not!
Joan posted a petition to be signed and I did it again, oops, but I trust my old school chum from way back when, and so I committed myself and Hubby to the campaign not to let anything untoward happen to OUR MEDICARE!
The money is there, all of ours who paid in.
Here's the link, sign it if you are an American. I think it is necessary to make sure we get what is ours!  
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/medicare_killers?sp_ref=250386259.4.177230.f.561989.5&referring_akid=.11148555.kSZ9Bs&source=fb_share_sp

Friday, December 2, 2016

New post

We all know what the word new means, right? Not old.
But the word post has more than one definition.
A post for a fence is the upright pole that a portion of the structure is attached to, true?
And another post, like on here is publishing my blog for posting online!
Perhaps there are more meanings, but for lack of other immediate evidence I will utilize these.
So this is what I do nightly I publish mostly new posts, occasionally I recycle to be totally honest, but still ta da worthy!

And tonight due to physical difficulties I will keep this brief.
Without going into too many details it includes my wrists and shoulders, mid back as well as my tummy not functioning to proper capacity! In fact my stomach deals with over capacity not unlike many too full things it dumps its excess!
Forgive my graphic details.
Or maybe not too exacting in info, but most people are not really that interested in me discussing that gory details of how I vomited up my dinner!
Oops, did I write that out loud?
Geez, it's times like these when I wonder if I actually needed the surgery, I could have just become another woman of a statistic with an eating disorder; since this definitely is reacting like bulimia!
Although no fingers or hands have been stuck down my throat! Naturally discharging what once was inside of me, okay NOT naturally, than what????
Funny/weird thing is when I was too thin, ninety pounds, people thought I was anorexic, but I wasn't I just had a stomach problem called chronic gastritis!
And I was even hospitalized for it way back when, but has reoccurred when I am thin, oh joy!
Why now is this part of the recovery from gastric sleeve surgery seeming like very odd Deja vu!

I have stayed too long at the fair, my intolerance for continuing is all due to my wrists and shoulder that are being iced as I write, but still OWS!
 Good night dear friends may we meet here again tomorrow night, see ya!

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Nothing much...

...going on... PT, physical therapy, and I will be done tomorrow until after the first of the New Year.
Hubby will be happy since he has said its been boring for him hanging out doing nothing for forty-five minutes three times a week.
Today he did go over to Publix while I had PT and he picked up a few odds and ends.
After PT we both went over to Walgreen's for my protein powder 60 grams; seventy is what the doctor wants me to ingest so I can go a little over the scoop to gain my 70 grams daily and I am good!
Double chocolate flavored is what I chose, great hot or cold, plain or with berries or decafe to make mocha, versatility for a known chocoholic!
I also picked up a small cheap mascara, I throw them out too often when I don't go out and they are known bacteria causing. My lashes have been diminishing in thickness lately, nearly gone, and I haven't worn mascara I bet for nearly a year! I wonder where my lashes went...?
They used to be long and lush, and made more so by the mascara; another weird thingy that they are nearly gone with no explanation!

Hubby finally got his flu shot.
When I got mine in September, his would have been too soon and then we both got sick in October from the nurse in the hospital, but his cough held on, and just recently diminished enough to finally get his shot today!
We both got them at Walgreen's since they have that thing with getting one provides one for someone else. https://www.walgreens.com/pharmacy/immunization/all_immunizations.jsp It's in cooperation with the United Nations!
So go do it if you haven't already!

Don't you just love doing things that helps others?

Tis the season and all that.

I called the surgeon who installed my vena cava blood filter about its removal that unfortunately will be in longer than the sixty days I was told, since the doctor is away and won't be back until Monday, but I was assured I will hear from him then. He appears to be booked after the fourteenth, when my sixty days will be up.
I forgot to call to make my six month follow-up appointment with my neuro eye doc, but I have time left.

We had a healthy dinner tonight,  broiled salmon, sweet potatoes, Hubby peas and me spinach, his normal size mine minute and mushy.

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

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




 

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