Mystery is making me wonder who is this stranger?

During the last week that even I would have to admit wasn’t dull one iota’s worth!
Between the ills I have had periodically and I would like to think I described rather colorfully and the breakdowns of devices from the TV to the computer, and that was only in this last week.
You would think that would be enough for anyone to keep their small brain quite busy!
But oh no, not mine!
My delicate mind of itsy bitsy ability to understand the broader picture of life instead was even before we could say that this system was a total go again was delving into her own mysterious need to know who that stranger was that had become one of her followers!

Now most would have said ‘Brava Girl’, you go and how nice that you have someone who wants to read your self proclaimed ‘drivel’, and that should have been enough just knowing that, right; nah, look who you are dealing with here, huh?
Me, the woman who once wrote five and half mystery novellas in less than two years, over nine hundred pages!
Those were the days of me being creative.
Now I am self centered on reality!
But to be fair who isn’t these days, I ask you all?
I took a detour though for a short respite I am finding that the mystery of not knowing who my spare follower is makes me need to know the truth, oh I see this is one of those true mysteries they produce on the TV or HBO, which we don’t have since we are so frugal and have a converter box and roof antennae that does look like a dish so much so that people think it is, ha!
I bet in the last fifteen years we have saved a bundle! Wonder where it all went? LOL!
We of course had cable when our sons lived with us and all the necessary channels to have any selection that they or us so desired. To be honest, the only channels I miss are CNN, the Weather Channel and HBO, but all but HBO I can get online for free. And as far as movies go we have that at home movie thing that gets mailed to you for a lot less than cable, so there you go!
Did you all notice how I got off track, but again that is just me, my train of conscientiousness way of thinking and writing.
How odd I suppose, only I am used to it and so is most everyone who does know me.

My newest follower who I do believe arrived about one week ago, I really should have welcomed her accordingly; my bad. That would have helped to get a correct date to be sure, and I wonder if she is someone new or an old friend?
Now the others are mostly known to me since they either have their real photo or their actual name on display, but this person has neither.
She is resembled and represented by a cartoon or comic caricature of a woman with spiky blonde hair and a cute but funny face. The name or pseudonym is, ‘kitty-kat’, and so I did do a search in my own friends list but came up with not a thing!
Then I did a new friends search and came up with too many!
But for clarification I do believe it is either a nickname or screen name.
My biggest fear is that I will scare them off and lose my follower, which I really don’t want to do, so please understand my bewilderment and desire to know.
I just feel the need to know my audience, so to speak.
Although, it may appear that I don’t care at times.
I do.
I suppose at this point the information that I just gave to you all is a moot point because I am pretty sure you can see her picture posted right up there on the upper right of this Blog where it says ‘Followers’ and if you place your cursor over her PIC you will see the name?

So much more has happened today; a very good FB friend showed me the ultra sound photos of her grandson in utero! How grand and new to me I have only seen the ones on TV of strangers in shows and movies, this was quite miraculous and unbelievable it actually gave me chills and a stronger desire to want some of my own grand babies, but unfortunately that is something no one has control over!

I reached over 900 Facebook friends today! And for that I am truly HAPPY!
How wonderful is that? And by the by; thanks all!

I had an ominous email saying that I should be careful on who I friend on Facebook, well she is too late, but I really thank her for the warning.
You see, in the beginning I was so fearful of who I would friend that I friended no one!
I initially had only thirty-four friends when I started my ‘million friend campaign’ way back in July!

We almost had another downing of the system since we cluelessly did what we were asked by our online provider and updated our programs with a critical necessary addition. All systems when we rebooted were not working again, scary!
It turned out that our one thing that I won’t mention was turned back on when it screwed literally with all other systems works got that?
If I was more specific I would have to kill you, understand? (‘Dirty Harry’, movie quote)
I sure hope so!That you understand that is....LOL

Any-who, tonight was not that ordinary, but who wants mundane, I ask you really?
Wow, isn’t that almost how we started tonight’s journey?
We realized that life is what you make of it, and someone else’s boring could be another’s pretty gosh darn interesting! LOL

And so on that note of a giant, what?
I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and we will too! And please folks, ‘Labor Day’ means please take a break, ok?
Nighty night everyone!

What can I say?

This absence of mine was not entirely my fault; again the computer misbehaved and caused me to not to be able to take care of business or more complicatedly said get from here to there, huh?
I so much enjoy this daily Blog, but it is not the only thing that holds my attention on this technological marvel that still baffles me after twenty-eight years of using it.
There are of course emails to all of my friends and family, which were nearly fifty in the day that I actually was completely gone from here, missing my Facebook page, and as well as our banking, that is not high finance, by the way, but just paying the bills online. Which does give me satisfaction of knowing that we can still do that money wise in this day and age where everything is so tight, financially speaking.
Intermittently, the system would work but for that last four days it was an iffy daily crap shoot, excuse my French as they say who are they? And we were aided by technicians periodically to get us back online to not being totally out of communication with the world.
At this moment I am happy to say that I have caught up with all correspondence and my new Facebook friends including birthday wishes, and of course paying those bills!
What a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.

In a way, I would have been hard tested to write this yesterday since again I was under the weather, as they say a euphemism for feeling like yuck!
I appeared to have some type of thing, bug, or food poisoning, migraine or sinus headache or whatever. Since my symptoms were all over the map of the ‘yuck descriptive arenas’!
The last four days were spent besides being ill with technical support for our malfunctioning computer on the phone with Romania, the Philippines, and oddly enough South Carolina with a total of fifteen different advisors! They all had a different take on what exactly our problem was and therefore while Hubby and I took turns speaking with them as they walked us literally through the paces of adding and subtracting the programs that might very well be causing our problems of not being able to get online!
All in all it finally came down to reinstalling a disc that we had misplaced for this version of our online Internet provider from last year, and in the last minute efforts was found under other things in our cabinet of many other discs!
Apparently most of our online access programs were corrupted although we do have an anti-virus system in place!
Of course our Internet Explorer did not work so we were unable to browse and kept getting that blue and white screen when we tried to go from here to there prior to us not being able to get online at all, and the other symptom was the fact we kept loosing half of our upper tool bar, which did happen a little while ago, and I called Hubby to shut it down and reboot, because every-time before I would do that and eventually it stopped rebooting! So I didn’t want to be responsible for it happening again!

Unfortunately, at the moment my ills have seemed to return since my MS hug and indigestion feels like I swallowed glass! So I will say happy night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

PS have one heck of a great, safe and very fun holiday weekend, you hear?

I'm back...

My dear Blog public; how are you all? I missed you all, yes each and every one of you!
Including my two new followers that I forgot to welcome appropriately the last week or so!
Being a part of this Blog world I feel so obligated to keep in touch with you all daily, and when that is not possible I feel just terrible!
Upward and onward…shall we?
The day was fought with literarily and not too much so with spinning eyeballs and sleepiness.
I am not a napper so much so unless my health is at issue, and today again it appeared to be, and I remained exhausted most of the day.
Over-night I think my spasms in my body were wracked with negative musculature and pain as well, not to mention how my eyes reacted to the dilation of what the eye doc’s office had done, and perhaps the Baclofen had an affect on me being quite tired too?
I had two doses of the medication over night several hours apart as recommended.
Supposedly I was told to take the Baclofen three times daily of twenty milligrams but I had not been taking it as perhaps I should have?
And so today I began, after those wee hours of my sleep period during the night I again took it at ten A.M. and then once more at two and so that may be very well why I was so tired; that and the fact that the night time sleep had not been that refreshing I suspect, and currently I would have been due once more at six P.M. but I didn’t feel the necessity to, and so I did not take it; maybe at bedtime?

Yesterday, after visiting the eye doctor’s office and getting a more hopeful report of my eyes may very well improve and not all is lost. I do have the cataract also in my right eye besides the optic neuritis and so within six months or more I may also be having that one taken care of. Meanwhile, the ophthalmologist gave me a new eyeglass prescription for my glasses and within the end of month and beginning tomorrow once the bills are paid we will see if we have enough to take care of that too!
You know me bills first then extras.

Hubby receives his two checks within days of each other monthly, his pension, and social security like everyone else at our ages and we have direct deposit which is the safest?
Automatically, as a state employee he receives a COLA yearly on that pension but as most all know the Federal Social Security payments have not been receiving theirs, no cost of living increases for the last two or three, I’m not quite sure which?
Anyway, even with those two monthly income checks we are by no means wealthy but able to pay all our household bills without too much strain, except when we get an extra expense that we were not expecting. Although we do know how to manage and so far so good!
But me being me you all are aware of me going slightly berserk when we get any new not planned for expenses!

Any-who, those hurricanes seem to be monopolizing our news here although none are coming to us thankfully, but to our neighbors to the north of us up towards the mid-Atlantic coast-line, oh no! North Carolina as Hurricane Earl appears to be heading towards their coast.
Terrible with another holiday weekend coming to all our tourist destination beaches up and down the United States with more needing for economic appreciation of visitors, which seem to be again scared off by something out of our control!

On that challenge to our American vacationers to watch those news/weather reports and fear not, to commit to enjoy what we all love…a holiday at the beach!

Take care be well and don’t forget to enjoy daily what us coastal inhabitants take for granted.
Happy night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

PS: And thanks President Obama for ending the war on what would have been my half brother’s seventy-ninth birthday!Who was a victim of his serving his country in the Korean War in the Air Force as a medic and died just a few years ago in a VA hospital in NJ.

Computer difficulties last night and now still this morning!

Dear friends I was not able to access this Blog last night due to AOL and Internet Explorer who still seem to be having Internet issues that are beyond my control.
Please be aware that not only was that a problem for me and Hubby but the rest of the people who use those two things!

Moving on--- I am going to try and write a wee bit and post it for you.
Any-who, although the technical glitches were abundant and prevalent I too had my own physical difficulties last night due to me going to the eye doc.
My eyes had been dilated and with my already eye problems that made it nearly impossible for me to see this to write and so if it had been working Hubby would have been writing a short note to you mentioning that!

It appears that the ophthalmologist has a better take on my eye situation than me or my neurologist. He fortunately seems to think that I may get much of my sight back in that right eye! Yippee! And he even gave me a new prescription to get filled for new eyeglass lenses! That he feels should help me see that much better! YEA!
And so I will leave you all with those positive thoughts and wish you all a very happy day since I am now writing this at 8:30 A.M. this morning Tuesday August 31st.
And hopefully I will be on here again tonight to get back on track and write something more interesting and beneficial to all, ha!
So happy day to all, and to all count those blessing always day or night and we will too!

An interesting character...

Almost like clockwork you can see a young fellow with his iPod walking our block several times daily.
He appears to be talking to himself, and so Hubby has nicknamed the boy, “Walkie-Talkie”.

None of the others on our street seems to know his point of origin from whence he came daily and so there is no known information about him, but he has become a neighborhood staple...
He seems to be in his own little world and I wonder on occasion why he walks?
It can’t be for his health or for a weight problem, because he smokes and is quite slender.

And it’s not like there is one set time, so my 'like clockwork' thought was not quite that accurate.
But he does circle our block several times throughout the day.
Walking jauntily, not running; I suspect perhaps he is listening to and singing with his music but it looks so odd his mouth moving with not being able to tell from our front window what he might be saying to himself.

And who in his right or even wrong mind would be out there rain, including lightening or shine with all the recent unbelievable heat waves of deadly triple digits?
He is an enigma who has been haunting this neighborhood for many months now.
Oh no, haunting perhaps sounds devious as if he were up to no good, and no he has never showed any signs of that.
His only non specific irregularly is that he is a mystery to all of us.
He never stops to rest that we can see as he goes past our nine foot picture window that’s why he’s so hard not to miss!
Even me with my limited eyesight; I glance at him in my left eye’s periphery as he is in it so many times a day!
And never ever has he stopped to chat that we have heard of.

The young man who more than likely does seem to be cared for and most likely is in his twenties has brown hair and usually has a baseball hat upon his head, with wrap around sun glasses appropriately on his nose and he wears different colored T-shirts throughout the day, so he stays clean; I can only imagine his reasoning for changing so often.
We have been tempted to turn around to follow him when we have passed him while driving in our car, but that seemed too invasive.
I suspect he will remain an oddity in our neighborhood for as long as he so desires.
You see the curiosity is not that he goes for a walk through our neighborhood, because many do, and some even twice a day, but “Walkie-Talkie” does it at least a half a dozen times a day, sometimes more, and on occasion he paces or at the very least changes direction right there in front of our home!
Now all you psychologists or psychiatrists out there are saying he has some disorder, the one that comes to mind is obsessive compulsive or he could even suffer from some psychosis or even just as well bulimia or anorexia? Who knows…

So far, though to date he appears to be harmless to us in the area, but at times I do worry about his safety being out in all kinds of weather and traffic; although he does seem to be unaware he must be or I am sure something unthinkable would have happened to him by now.
Amazingly no one has tried to speak directly to him.
Well, maybe the next time we go out Hubby or I could try to stop and speak to him, since we have so many questions unanswered and if he would be nicely forthcoming to our severe cases of nosiness!
Our neighbors now in their minds will be thinking of him as Walkie-Talkie too since Hubby has mentioned that’s who he thinks the young fellow is to all of them, in his mind that is… and he has told a few and they agreed that is a perfect name for him.

On that mysterious note of someday knowing, I do hope; I will wish you all a very happy night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

Something nice happened today!

This morning we went out around ten A.M.
The Cultural Center that I have mentioned before had an annual event there; I do believe this was just the second year, and we had gone to it last year.
Crazy 4 Paws, is an occasion where many venders in the pet toy, food, training display their services or animal related wares, and your entire short hairy, fury or feathered loved ones are invited to indulge with you to enjoy what was there.
Whatever you might need for your loving four-footed family member or feathered friend was on show for you to examine or even try.
Our dear Skipper was on his better behavior than last year where Hubby ended up having to remove him because he had decided to take it upon himself to give his vocal critique of the other visitors, to our dismay with loud unrelenting embarrassing barking at most all of them.
This year he seemed to have matured in his behavior and really behaved remarkably well, and greeted all other canines and with quiet sniffing, and tail wagging.
What a difference a year makes, huh?
Part of the excitement of the tour of the room is getting each vendor to sign a form they hand you as you enter the venue.
When fully completed at the end of your visit you can fill in your personal info on the bottom and therefore be entered in to win a contest!
And so I did what everyone else did as we exited the center to go to our car to go home for our lunch since it was just after eleven thirty A.M. and at this point it was all free and we are down to the end of the month financially so eating out was not on our agenda besides Skipper was with us and we weren’t going to push our luck even though now in our county there are quite a few dog friendly eateries.

We finished our lunches at home and sat down to enjoy some of our favorite how-to shows on PBS when around twelve forty-five P.M. I received a phone call.
It was a person from the center saying that I had won a free gift!
By now I was pooped and I thanked them and asked if it needed to be picked up right away, since I didn’t know at the time if Hubby would be willing to go back without me to go retrieve whatever it could be. He overheard the conversation from here at the computer so I asked him, and he said yes, and so he went and picked it up. And he brought a pretty lavender bag back filled to the brim with what I had no idea, and apparently he didn’t either since as I examined our lovely gift, I said OH NO!
For within the very pretty bag were cat toys and food and all things for a kitty… Our Casey passed away just last October from cancer, our beautiful long haired orange Tabby with amber eyes, I felt like crying. I tried immediately to call the person back from the number in my phone, but I got a recording saying that they were closed until Monday!
I begged Hubby to take it all back and suggested perhaps they didn’t know what a Bichon Frise was; I suppose that was highly unlikely considering where we were; at that pet event.
Hubby again went out, back to the Cultural Center, what a guy.
But I was still a bit annoyed that he didn’t look in the bag before he brought it home…
Any-who, while he was still in transit I looked up the number of the center in the book, and it was different from the number I tried on my cell phone from when they called.
And so I called and I got the center and explained what had happened.
I also called Hubby to let him know that and to ask if they might have a dog gift in trade?
Hubby said that they apologized and felt just awful about the mix up, and they gave him a certificate for a free pet grooming for our wonderful Skipper!
Wow! What a truly nice gift, since we both know how expensive it is to bring our darling in for grooming at forty bucks every six to eight weeks. We were going a wee bit longer since we had all those additional expenses these last few months and now it would be taken care of, oh joy, what timing!

And so as nice as that was Hubby wondered if this could mean that our luck would finally be changing for the better…who knows I said, anyway it is a very nice little surprise and who in their right mind couldn’t appreciate that, really I ask you?

On that positive note of hope and whatever… happy night to all and to all count those blessings and we well too!

Friends are to be there for you when you need that pat on the back

Mostly a friend laughs and cries with you, and they may offer you a hand up when you fall literally or metaphorically or they just have the ability to say the right thing or a kind word now and then when your day has gone into the pits...
But in reality our friends are who we can depend on when we share our deepest feelings good or bad.
Others say that a true friend is someone you may not have seen in years but can pick up a conversation with them as if it were only yesterday as if no time had passed at all.

Sadly for most of us we must wait until something in our lives significantly happens for us to know just whom we really can rely on.
Many horrors and happiness’s that are sadly or joyfully our commonalties such as births, deaths, a loss of a job, weddings or divorces or any of a number of other miseries or blissful trials that are all part of the humanness of all living beings.

The only way I know I can survive in this world of tests, which is what I do believe that all of these things are is to know that this too will pass. It’s in our own personal histories, we are survivors!
If something new comes up, well, just diagnose it in your brain for similarities of other times that it might have happened but in perhaps a slightly different way; got that?
I found making two columns what’s the worst that can happen and what’s the best?
It puts it into perspective; really you must try it if you haven’t.
Next you try to come up with resolutions for all the worst things by also writing them down, and you will be pleasantly surprised at how smart you are and how less frightening it all can be!
Or if you are lucky enough to speak with a coherent, that is one with still all their faculties, octogenarian they will say they are fearless, and you know why?
Because they have made themselves bullet proof with knowing how to react to everything and anything with intelligence, calm and grace; gotta love the elderly. I believe its called coping mechanisms, which I do remember from my psychology classes.
Problems are only as big as you make them; it’s the solutions that may be small if you give yourself time to really figure it all out why they may at first pretend to be elusive.

But I have learned it’s like physics, which I did not take but I do know one thing for sure that for every action there is an equal positive or negative reaction; and that’s a pretty safe bet. LOL
And in life you have that power to react with pulling your hair out, and going crazy or by stopping and taking a breath and thinking about all the possibilities on how to solve it.

I just feel so sorry for those who have never ever been challenged with the ups and downs in life. Why you ask?
Because they have no experience to rely on to help them out of these tribulations of course!
Although, there is rarely a truly untouched golden child anymore it appears that the world of commonalties in all peoples has become that less unique.

Talking to others about what ails us is not anymore considered airing your dirty laundry, because let’s face it who doesn’t have any? There are some who think that still which amazes me, because I wonder if they are metaphorically living under a rock.
I do know that some try to handle bad things by using denial or ignoring the problem, but let’s face it folks it usually catches up to them and becomes much larger so I say face it head on and get down to it and take care of it however you can, but we must all learn that’s the best way.
Here’s my analogy if you see a child running into traffic you don’t watch, you go get that child and save its’ life! Same thing with any other severe problem in life, you must tackle it head on and try your best and even if you fail which I didn’t bring up but that is always a possibility you know in your heart that you did all you could do! And that alone is a reward in life, at least you tried with all your might and you will never look back to any regrets because of that.


On that too preachy me just trying to subliminally help a dear friend I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

PS I saw the skin doc about my shoulders and it was not cancer but possibly pre so he froze it and all is well; well as soon as the blisters go away!