Mistakes can happen to just about anyone...and I have proof!

And below is mine…

“Saturday, Sep. 24, 2011
2300 El Jobean Rd., Port Charlotte, FL 33948
Port Charlotte, FL

Local Phone: Please contact the Charlotte Sports Park at 941.235.5010

The Great Garage Sale at the Charlotte Sports Park
Charlotte County Community Services will host The Great Garage Sale at the Charlotte Sports Park on Saturday. Parking and admission are FREE!! Booth space for this event is available on a first-come, first-served basis. A 10x10 space consisting of one (1) 8 foot table and one chair for $21.40. A 20x20 space consisting of two (2) 8 foot tables and two chairs is available for $32.10. Completed applications along with full payment MUST be received by Wednesday, July 27. The Great Garage Sale will take place rain or shine - no refunds will be given for this event due to inclement weather.
Location: Charlotte Sports Park
Hours: 8 am-1 pm”



Today I was so looking forward to going anywhere, and so I searched
the net as I always do to see what was going on locally.

Both Hubby and I got ready to go since I needed to take my shower by the time he got up and soak my thumb avulsion injury and take my Copaxone shot and dry my hair and my thumb and re-bandage it… and get on my cooling vest; Hubby loaded in the icepacks for it.

And then I had to do a little of this and that to be ready to get into the car all to get going for our fun time out for the late morning.
We figured we would only stay for about an hour or so, and we left the house at eleven A.M. knowing that it wouldn’t be over until one P.M….
Our arrival there was about eleven twenty or so, give or take a few minutes. There were not many cars in the parking lot and we could not see any tables from where we entered and so Hubby drove round the outer circle to see perhaps if they were set back a ways…
And after a loop around to be certain I suggested to Hubby maybe it was on the ball field and since he had noticed that the gate was open and the parking lot closest to the stadium did have a sign but it said, ‘Open House’, not ‘THE GREAT Garage Sale,’ or even not so great sale. He went up to the open gate to find someone to ask, while I waited in the car.
Shortly Hubby was back shaking his head and said that the Sandcrabs were playing a game and there were about fifty people in the stands, and no garage sale tables
Just ballplayers and fans in the stadium seats.
Darn! Disappointment was thick in me.
I knew I wasn’t probably going to buy anything, except if I saw some neat looking hooks that I decided were an idea to start a collection and usually only a few bucks.
They would be on either side of our foyer mirror, the cute framed post cards I placed there from our trip to Seaside Florida back in ’05 stuck to the colorful frames I made
And there was no way to fix them without ripping them out of the frames and then tearing them to shreds, and so I thought about collecting interesting coat/hat/sweater hooks to place on either side of the mirror that they now flank. That is what I thought would be an inexpensive useful item to acquire, oh well…next time…

This is late not because of my starting late but perhaps when I tried to copy and paste the above info from its source it rearranged my margins and this has been a heck of a job trying to get it all where I could read what I wrote…
Any-who, back to my story... sweet man Hubby, asked me what we should do now, he had no idea what to do to have some excitement in our not so boring but not so calm too lives.
And so I suggested seeing if anything else was going on at the Beach Complex which was on our way home if all else failed.
We drove in and nearly as quickly drove out, nothing there either; it’s one of the ones I could find a site for.
But Hubby came through and suggested since it was nearing lunch time to go to a fast food chain, since we did have some cash on us (plus if we went in the house had lunch and then went out again Skipper would go berserk…and grab a quick lunch out would be less upsetting for him), and Long John Silvers was on our way wherever we were going and now served grilled fish too that is healthy and at bargain prices. The itinerary was decided on the Charlotte County Historical Center. That is where our book Summer of Storms is sold, published by the Peace River Center for Writers and my entry is on page 58?
Well, the books weren’t out, and they said they were in storage and would put some out and so if you go there ask for them for one.
The volunteer there was quite talkative and we seemed to be having a talk off! She and I spoke constantly, she is the cousin to one my old friends from the Writers’ Group I used to belong to.
Enthusiasm was abounding for her to explain all the historic paintings/water colors that portrayed buildings that told the story of our counties beginnings.
Many I was familiar with, since her cousin is also a history buff, especially on Punta Gorda memorable topics, since it is where she had been born and raised.
And so the visit was pleasant and access was easy for my scooter up their long wide ramp.
All in all the day had turned out to not be as big a disappoint as I first thought it would be; although we did arrive home around two thirty, and that was along day out for me.

Why you ask?
Not as one would think due to all my ailments, but I guess they could be responsible for that, but I had awoken around 3:42 A.M. and could not go back to sleep…

On that comment of interest perhaps yes or not…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

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

PS I did call the toll free number also listed when that local number gave me a recording and they told me they would have someone get back to me to see if the GREAT GARAGE SALE had been postponed or something, who knows…but the woman took my name and phone number and so may be the mystery will be solved, huh?

Bad vibes cause bad economic times...

Have you ever banged your head against the wall when you knew someone you cared about was doing something so stupid and you knew that you could help them, but they just wouldn’t listen?
Oh sure you have, especially if you raised children into their teens and beyond!

Well, sometimes when you head up a family, company or nation people who asked you to do something to solve their problems just don’t want to do what you know should work without creating a whole magillah out of it, and so you are unable to get the job at hand done.

Every night I listen to the news and of course most of the day too, but this refers to more of the national news which being only on an antenna with a converter box, but of course, we get just nightly.
And it tears out my heart to hear the frustration of our elected officials from both houses, the speaker and all the way up to our president arguing constantly and not getting the job done for us Americans who really need for them to do something for us!
I feel like a child with parents on the verge of divorce. They definitely need a mediator at this point…maybe a counselor?
Saying that this is his/the president’s one and only time he had to fix twenty years of problems in less than four years and that this is his/the president’s last shot now he should go after only one term.
And I wouldn’t blame him to throw the towel in with all the infighting since no one in Washington, D.C. seems to want to play fair.
You don’t halt everything just because you have no idea how to fix it, since your cronies need to salvage their low tax base and not pay their fair share.
Think people, think!
We need a reason to feel we hired the right people to do the job, but so far you all look like you should all be one term-ers too!

The new prospects, in my opinion, are iffy at best and too un-wielding at the very least.
Flip/ floppers, foot in the mouth sayers, stupid severe conservatism, crazy prejudicial remarks and even at times going off the deep end with their commentary; I say slim pickings in this US of A world! SCARY!

But I am only on the outside looking in…

As a superior person than to me, once said, no one has eighteen months to wait for them, meaning our government, to keep battling it out how the job of jobs comes or about!
People need answers!
And I am a people too, and so I demand to know why it is taking so damn long to get this way too important aspect of daily life straightened out?
I am that child that once believed in one government for the people by the people or whatever we were taught oh so long ago…
It narrows down to this… we need each other and so sometimes the higher ups should just learn to listen to all their constituents not just their financial supporters, you see a vote when you get down to the nitty gritty is what really counts in the bigger picture, true?
And even the poorest of us got that!

Does anyone but me think that the reason that one of the many reasons that the Stock Market is so volatile is perhaps because we as a nation have not been standing together as one, and that does the quote, “United we stand; divided we fall” sound familiar to anyone, but me?

I get nauseas nightly with listening to the news reports of how our markets US and international seem to not know what to do either…maybe we could all try harder to think instead of argue. Just a thought, but that’s all I got.
Too much time on my hands…someone please I beg of you learn how to cooperate, huh?
We as a nation/world are depending on you with our fate in your hands!

On that not so funny but concerning bit of what’s going on today… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

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

Be brave, be smarter, be happy, be open minded, be thinner, be better looking, be good, and be ready for anything!

What if we were told to be a coward, or to be dumb, or to be closed minded, be fatter, be ugly, and don’t you dare be prepared for a thing!
If the world was running in a negative parallel universe then I suppose that would be the case.

Sales pitches try hard to sell you something and so do mean-well people who try to sell you a bill of goods…

But what if you resisted following their fair, logical intentions meant to get you to become your very best, what would that say about you?

That you were maybe an independent person or a free thinker?
Or that perhaps you were one of the few who were so contrary to all who tried to help you and so to your own disadvantage of your own welfare and you did the extreme opposite with fear of your true self being compromised and possibly lost?

We know little about real motivation of individuals about doing what we hope would be considered the right thing.
But whose idea is it what the right thing is?

Often we hear about over achievers who crash and burn out trying too hard to be perfect.
I knew a few.
Those who graduated high school at fifteen and college at eighteen, wow those were ‘wunderkind’.
Some I was happy to call friends.
But miraculously many went on to become average people blending in with us regular types with no one ever knowing they were once considered brilliant and had so much promise!
So being smart can have its ups and downs, beauty too, thin too.
I tried both, pretty and thin, and to be honest at the time I was successful.
But now I am neither and I am still me, what I can’t understand is why many cannot get past the outer shell of that, which is still me.
As far as getting smarter when you aren’t brilliant everyday you can open your mind to learning something new, and that kills two birds with one stone.

Now when we have an experience that is horrendous in life, we tend to learn to be prepared for whatever may come next in that similar realm.

What brought on this train of thought, well my seventy-eight year old first cousin, my father’s sister’s son has gone back to college! And I believe that is just incredible, since he graduated years ago at the regular age for that and he was an engineer/city planner and raised seven beautiful, brilliant children all with Ivy League educations, and so I was quite impressed when I found out via an email today and sorry to admit a wee bit jealous too.
But other than type one diabetes that he unfortunately inherited from our grandma. I believe he is in good health for his age and lives in a state where excellent schools of higher education are plentiful! Hooray!
Nice to know that nothing stops some of us no matter how old you are, and that brings me back to learning…
To say we never ever stop would be redundant but that is SO TRUE!
But dear cousin of mine you don’t necessarily have to go back to a formal education to learn, you can ask questions of people, utilize the internet, go to the library for research and investigate what you care about and go to workshops and conferences for your own particular industry and on and on and on…
Learning is limitless and the ways to do it are too!
All I am saying is that it doesn’t have to cost you a dime if you want to find out anything they’re more ways than I can count to… for math also, just about anything or I should say everything!

Life is what you make of it.
How profound, nah you’ve heard that one at least two trillion times before…gosh did I just count to two trillion?
I sure did and that is how many or more ways that you can find out how and what interests you and brings that spark back to your heart for wanting more… NOW GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!

Any-who, dream on and you too will find your heart's desire and PS don’t let anyone tell you ‘TO BE,’ anything unless you want ‘TO BE or NOT TO BE', see I even know Shakespeare, ha!

On that silly, that I hope you all appreciated for that is why I am here… and also to allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

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

PS a thumb update, my avulsion of the skin injury, look it up its nasty...see I did and I learned something new...

you see I now have a smaller bandage! TA! DA!
The bill for the whole Saturday hospital run to stop the hemorrhaging was $1129, but due to no insurance I received a 75% discount when paid within in 24 hours and so we paid the whole thing of $282, on our credit card! That will be paid off next month when it comes in, amazing! And thankfully not too worrisome, huh, all we have to do is not eat out for a while, perhaps a few months, but that is doable!

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Say it anyway you want to, but I think this neo-authenticity of language of expression has it nailed correctly, a rose by any other name would stink just as bad and we call it not with love but with disgust, SPAM!
Daily we all receive it in our Spam files, how weird is that?
We have a separate file for this crap!
Sure, we don’t want any of it, but for some strange reason technology has decided with their knowing ways that it’s not good enough for our REAL EMAIL, but just right with the ability of forethought to relocate it to our special file for this ridiculous non-beneficial lack luster, insulting and mostly not accurate for our true needs garbage infiltrating our online waves…
I don’t get it, do you?

Oh sure, I get it like we all do, the SPAM mail that is, by the tens and twenties in numbers sometimes and some days more than that!
Advertising is one thing but knowing to whom you are trying to sell should be part of the how you market your products.
Listen, I am a handicapped, meaning I need help with walking from a scooter to a walker to maneuver around, and I am nearly blind with my right eye being totally legally blind and the left fogging over from my cataract lens needing to have laser surgery from my initial surgery to replace my lens back in 2010, and Hubby and I have been married for over forty-years. Not to mention I am a heterosexual Caucasian Jew and to add to those minorities I am also a very, very short woman, also a minority!Oh, I forgot did I mention that I am obese too, have you, no longer considered a minority in this plump world, but nasty just the same with stares from people who are better than you, oh wait, that’s thinner than you, ha!(not really funny, but until you’ve been here you can’t tell me, true?)

So at sixty-one I am no longer driving, and therefore not job hunting out there or here, or sadly dancing anymore or looking for a mate. I really don’t think that I need any body enhancements since I have too many and would be more than happy to share with anyone who knows the right way to have them surgically, but carefully removed and taken away to someone more needier than I, hmm?

I am a curmudgeon at best and a pain in the derriere at the very least.
This is my only outlet to sow my emotions into the outer-lands, so to speak…and so I am good for now and my near future.
Now all those checks they want to send me… I say send them!
But don’t expect me to open your SPAM MAILS before I delete them than you have no business offering them… Oh and by the by, you know all those Dell products and Apple Iphones and Ipads too, send them over too I will be more than happy to use them, but I am not signing for them and no you cannot have my only account number for my checking that has the habit of whenever we put some money in, like once a month we take it out, and that’s the way it goes, in and out, bills and necessities, got that?
And so if you found more accounts in my name send them to me too…
I will accept all freebies as long as you know that I do not give out my social security number, checking account number, credit card number or anything that personal, and neither should any of you chumps either!
I might have to clarify here, I mean the idiots who request that for validation for their dishonest employers who want to steal what little we have or you have, and so, in closing…

Life goes on, sure does, and the more it changes the more it stays the same…or fill in the blanks with your own clichés…And remember that…
We all have another commonality once again junk mail via technology, yep that’s the same stuff we still get via snail mail but not as much. What’s with that, but that’s a good thing, huh?

Oh sure Spam has been going on for a long time and to be honest I have only been online for about thirteen years, and of course its’ been all that time.
But I know for us that it comes and goes in spurts and just when you think you have a handle on stopping it… it like a bad penny comes back again!
You gotta laugh, but be careful too!

On that realization of more of life as it truly is allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count those blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

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

Funny

Yes, we all know that life can be ridiculously funny if looked at that way, or not?
But the rumor has it that laughter is the best medicine and so I am now on the look-out for the more funny in things, huh?

Let’s put it this way if funny has the impact that smiling has, why not just try it, as we all know this too is free for the investigating.
That is, if we can think of things that make us smile and laugh!
To me the facts that although our home has windows we look online at the radar from all the different available sites we keep in favorites…And why should we do this?
One guess from me would be, to see if it is raining?
YES!
But sometimes I must admit it is more in our interest to see if the storm is coming towards us, and then I guess it is a good reason to check it out, hmm?
But in reality unless it is a major storm like a hurricane, why would we bother, it’s not like we can change it’s direction by checking it out, hmm?
To me this logic can and has become silly, and even Hubby who is now in the living room with an enormous picture window of nine feet width he asked me if it still raining?
Huh?
You see, the swimming pool is out this window where I sit and the raindrops which at times can be quite entertaining or calming depending on their size, and yes size in this case does matter… They appear to make the diagnosis of if it if it is truly rainy a more definite concept, got that?
Sure you do.
There is nothing like recognition of the situation to make one feel in control of, WHAT, the weather?

And as much as we are inundated daily it seems with bad news we have been known to not only watch it, but read it. Some may say that is overkill, I think not… newspapers need friends and have news too! And soon may become a lost art form… of doing it, get your mind out of the gutter… reading and holding onto something, don’t go there again…ha!
But we do that online here and so we are green not wasting all that paper that thanks to us and us alone we have saved probably one whole tree over the last several years, how about you, can you hold up your head and proudly say that?
And sometimes/mostly even have the news on in the background on the TV too, and that saves our embarrassment in not knowing what’s going on somewhere?
Is this too much too soon, or not soon enough, all this realization of our simple not so simple silly strange lives, huh?

A common expression is that ‘life goes on’, now why do we say that like it is some profound awakening of wisdom as if a child of three noticed that the sky was blue and just asked you why?
Nah, sorry folks that is a given, yep, LIFE DOES GO ON!
And may I say with or without you too.
Now the best I can give you in the form of a profound idea is that we have two choices in life and are you interested in knowing my theory or not?
I’ll wait while you decide…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
OK I think I have been patient long enough, and so with or without your approval I will speak/write once again… here’s my deal… your choices are to be happy or not to be happy, and remember what goes with each emotion, good or bad, simplicity at its best, and friends that’s all I got!
The rest and the best is your job to make that happen, by remembering even though things at times seem just awful, we all have the power to make a cake out of cake batter, TA DA! Sorry, but I do believe the ‘lemons into lemonade’, metaphor has been way over used these days… Another suggestion is if you don’t like mine think of one of your own and make it as silly as you can!

In closing Hubby just brought me a picture of nature at its finest, no one could buy this sort of thing since it is priceless…

And this is the best part of a rainstorm, the afterglow; don’t you think?

On this glorious funny way nature has of doing things just when you don’t expect it allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and remind you to count those blessings and to kindly share those overages and we will too!

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

PS And now you can tell everyone, hooray!

What are they crazy?

Tonight raises an unbelievable dilemma for long time lovers of the boob tube’s season opener’s!
Yes, this night it appears to be like no other I can remember and I wanta know whose in-charge of scheduling all these prime time shows on different networks to premier their new year’s offerings all at the same time? So UNFAIR!
I demand a recount and now before prime time starts at eight!

Listen this is NOT good at all, they have placed, ‘Dancing With The Stars’ opposite ‘The Sing Off’ and the all the new year’s beginnings of comedy shows on CBS, not to mention Ashton Kutcher’s replacing Charlie Sheen’s job all tonight, how dare they?
True he and the Winning Guy were making buddy, buddy last night during and after the Emmy’s but still we have no idea how that show is going to unravel its new story line incorporating the new guy into the Two and A Half Men saga, with big brother/uncle’s demise, huh?
That is one cliff hanger that wasn’t hanging when we left them last year, now was it?

Decision making is not easy with this being so important to all my future understanding of what’s what in the TV-land realm. And no I do not have a DVR, and to be honest and a bit ashamed, I’m not quite sure what one is. Or if it would have the ability to keep up with this evening’s travesty to viewers who love ‘em all, programs that is?

Hubby thinks he has it all licked with his nonchalant attitude that we could find out in summer repeats and therefore he feels that we should watch, Dancing With The Stars, but what about The Sing Off, those both don’t go into repeats that I am aware of, are you sure, sure?

Gosh, just when you think you got it all figured out they do this to us, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING, REALLY?

Who said life was difficult so get used to it, must have been in the programming department of all the major networks! Heartless I say!
What do they think their average viewer is some type of idiot without needs?
We need to know that we can depend on them to keep our viewing orderly, not unlike the reciprocity of the Talk show two co-hosts Sharon Osborne of also Americas Got Talent and Julie Chen of the Talk and Big Brother they seemed to make sure they did not conflict their programming with one another, both ‘TV Angels’ who understand us as the consumers of their offerings and in my book should now venture onto the telling the other guys how to do it nicely with respect for not only the shows themselves but us the viewers!

In closing I am baffled and terribly confused and may go to bed early… BUT NO, then they would have won!
Decisions, decisions, gosh why me, why now, I ask you?
Anyone who knows me knows I have enough on my plate… and now this?

With this horrendous effort to put laughter back into my blog and make me realize how life can or should be more than happy if we try no matter what. Now allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

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

Sadly, I will be writing this blog tonight.... for all of you...

Due to my not feeling too bad! I was kidding about the sadly, ha!It's me, Tobi! Not for me sadly anyway, for you, I sure hope not!

Moving on…
Hello, readers…
Today, as one can well imagine was a day of resting and twiddling the day away… nah!
I vacuumed, and Hubby took the vacuum away from me and finished but I did about half and got a few loads of laundry done as well, as I did manage to get my own lunch and help Hubby with dinner; he did make my Carnation instant breakfast this morning though!
I napped a bit, and that was like being in a stupor, who knows why that was, could it be all that blood loss? Nah, it wasn’t enough to cause shock but a little bit of light headedness.
First thing this morning it was great to get back into the shower and wash my hair and the rest of me too, albeit with plastic bag over my hand dressing, been there before when I had hand surgery back in August of 2001 for basilar joint arthritis and wore a cast, flashback, LOL!
You see, yesterday when I sliced a chunk out of my thumb it was about seven forty-five A.M. and I was still in my nighty, and the bleeding was so severe, and running down my hand, even an hour after it first happened and again in the hospital for another hour still… What I was doing was making home fries for a nice breakfast for Hubby and with eggs so I thought and I forgot to use the pusher and instead used my hand to put the potato through and the rest was a stupid mistake on my part, and so use the pusher not your hand! And I should know better since back in the 1980’s we owned a restaurant and I was one of the chefs! So as simple as taking that shower then, it was not going to happen, unless I wanted, our white subway tiled shower to be painted with blood as if a mass murder had been committed in it…no way Jose!
And so this morning it was refreshing to be able to climb in and feel oh so clean!
I shower everyday like most and so it felt, you know, unclean without that one.

I am able to write with both hands since I don’t have to use my thumbs, but I suppose some do, but I don’t.
So I guess I will be annoying all of you once again with this jibber-jabber, talking/writing noise. Nope, I am not on any additional drugs! Just thought that was my way of staking my claim on all of you, huh?
Perhaps, I am still a little bit lightheaded from the blood loss. You know me; I will take what I can get in the way of any excuses! HA!

And so with that powerful observation of my medical abilities still on the line allow me to be first and also to cut this short tonight and to wish you all a very happy goodnight and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear?