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Waiting… waiting… waiting… all good things are worth waiting for, hmm?
I sure hope so, anyway.
Assembly is still underway…
And Hubby said that it will be only another fifteen minutes.
Boy, am I impatient or what?
Yep, I am impatient, are you?
Sadly, I didn’t know all these years that impatient can mean annoyed, irritated, edgy, intolerant, eager, keen, raring to go, (that’s more like it), anxious, in a hurry, hurried, hasty, impulsive, impetuous, rash, hotheaded, enthusiastic, excited (now we are back on track) as I always say TA DA!

Today was a test of all that.
I awoke way too early, first time in a very long time for this early, 3:32 A.M.!
Couldn’t sleep so I grabbed my cup of java and headed over here to turn this techno marvel on with the news, nah the Nate Show to my back on the TV, same one I saw yesterday on ABC at ten A.M., apparently it is on NBC in the 3-4 A.M. time slot, Geez I was wondering why even though it was supposedly cancelled last November that Tampa’s ABC was carrying it but none of our locals were.

Tired, not yet, but soon, while in this exhilarated awake-ness of the wee morning hours I checked our credit card accounts and to my astonishment my free delivery with a ten dollar refund offer became no refund with a $12.95 charge to my account!
Not good to talk to anyone when you are sleep deprived… any-who… I called the credit card company first and told them that I was refuting the charge and that I had no intention nor did I request this monthly charge for free delivery charges that the company that I ordered from provided with my over their limit of fifty dollars for my two dresses and one cardigan last month!
I clicked on the order form that said I was also entitled to a ten dollar refund. Not that rare a happening, why even Macy’s and Kohl’s offer ten bucks back with each order over fifty dollars at their stores, so why not this Dr. Leonard’s online shop?

I will get back to my stories, but Hubby being a man of his word has brought me a picture of the finale of the project!
And I feel that I must share; do you really want to see it?
You know I could finish the story and then shoot the pics in here lastly, hmm?
Nah… drum roll please………………………………………………………………………………………… BEFORE.

And AFTER….!

Back to the story, but wasn’t that worth waiting for? And I see that I am no longer incognito, but forget what you read, okay?

Anyway, I thought the ten dollars off was all from the merchant that I purchased my clothing from since it was right in the middle of my order form.
But I was so wrong… it was not!
And today I was billed on my card over a month later with a $12.95 charge and still no discount of the ten dollars, and to say I was upset would be a vast understatement!
Unbeknownst to my usual cool exterior when accused of not realizing I went nastily off on the woman who felt I was dotty, perhaps I am a bit but that is not for a stranger to say, ya know what I mean?
Any way it was still rather early and earlier still wherever this company was, but in the end even though I called my credit card provider first, which this insolent not nice person told me would not allow for my this months charge to be refunded… well she finally did and this charge would be a monthly fee for would you believe, ‘free delivery!, huh? Is it just me?

But wait, it gets better… you know that ‘free’ one time only credit score company that is promoted on the Today Show by their financial people; ScoreSense.com?
And so again I said what the heck, and loaded Hubby’s and my names up for our scores, it had been a couple of years since we did that, and it asked for our credit card numbers, blah, blah, blah… but this free introductory offer was only a dollar a piece and so I went for it, and sure enough that same day were billed on our charge one buck each… but today we were billed $29.95 each!
Uh, oh, I hear you all saying can this gal be this dumb?
I like to think it as trusting a world renowned TV show with reputable specialists in finance and so I just think someone goofed, and it wasn’t me!
So in the long run they were the nicer of the two and gave me a reference number and the amounts will be removed within the next couple of days!
Whew!
Life can be way too exciting some days, hmm?

On those miniscule harrowing life’s experiences and a bit of colorful happiness in our lives too, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

Diligence

Diligence means assiduousness, industrious, meticulous, conscientious, thoroughness, attentiveness, carefulness all good attributes to strive for.
And many of those describe ‘our Hubby’, when he sets his mind to do something since that is how he carries it out.

With that said, today his project, ala my request, was the front door and with my design concept and his ability to do it so far half the beautification of our entrée has begun!
Tomorrow, he will attempt the wrought iron and wood chair that was purchased; gosh it must be nearly a decade or more ago from the store Big Lots. They buy lots of things in large quantities; thus the name and all the bargain prices.
And that chair has had a renaissance of injections of artful concepts of paint from its original wooden blah beginnings the last being a sort of Harlequin design, with peachy wrought iron that consistently would turn pink in our harsh sun or perhaps it was due to how I concocted the color from my acrylics, but many other shades have previously held up. The wooden slats were in alternating black and white thus the idea of a smidge of a Harlequin design.

And I am still not willing to reveal this color palette for my readership, although it is a bit chancy, and may even cause some conversation on taste.
The fact is that the rest of our home is a very neutral Navaho tan… and that is the biggest hint I will allow now!
And after all this is in the state of Florida, oops too much.

This is the third home that we have owned in the nearly twenty-six years we have been living here.
The first two had a quasi lighter version of our northern furnishings, but in golden oak and beiges and fall like colors, etc. Many consider them warm colors; but who wants to be that warm in Florida, really?
Most all of those furnishings were given to our sons when we moved from the east coast to the west coast and then resting in our little bitty home here.
And now being in our final retired little gem of a home we went native with a Floridian flair, but only on the inside, the outside was switched from blue block to white block and finally to the stucco Navaho tan, and a very mild welcoming and acceptable color in these areas. Mostly in gated communities having this shade with their barrel tiled roofs, Tuscany design, and so it is considered rather anti-gauche.

But we are in a semi-tropical area and so many people from either side of our peninsula celebrate that with an outpouring of interesting ideas and more often than not, a Caribbean feel to their homesteads. Miami and the Keys are two of the many that revel in the colors of the happiness that cheerfulness expressed when in tropical tints of peaches, limes or even purples. Many a home reflects that in those areas.
Why even our area of southwest Florida it is seen quite often making tiny cottages stand out.
We have a street here in River City AKA Punta Gorda, called Sullivan Street that has quite a few shops in those popular island shades.

Even as far north as our panhandle in a little bitty artsy village called Seaside; the cracker style homes with pastels were what make the area welcoming to most tourists, of course the authors’ conferences and artists of every type medium that you can think of somehow all ends up there at one time or another.

We were there in 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina hit the area, since it is only a stones throw from New Orleans about four hours by car and I do believe they received a bit too.

Instinctively, we cut our trip short, being only five days out; when we planned on a week or more.
It could have been due to Skipper, Hubby and I all falling ill with different ailments, but at the same time, how odd?
PS that was our last real vacation too.
But less than a year and a half later Hubby retired and the rest is history!

Lovely place and they had an interesting contest of artwork on display there, Adirondacks chairs decorated however you wanted, from people’s likenesses to inanimate objects and beyond, yep beyond; quite memorable.
What a nifty fun idea, hmm?

Any-who, now I have done it, that is given you some more ideas on how to have some fun… you see someone I know thought that my white backgrounds of furniture, floors and walls with pops of colors in accessories was cold, not warm and as I have said before color that it is pure happiness in my book so BOORAH to them!
On that note of too bad the way some think, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

HOT, HOT, HOT I RATHER NOT BE TOO HOT BECAUSE I ALREADY GOT THAT, THAT IS HOT, HOT, HOT… WHAT I WANT IS HAPPY, SO THERE!

Lowe's, Cubby's, veterinarian and Publix...what do they all have in common?

A wrought iron and wood chair, a front door, and a fish pond all benefited from our Lowe’s visit today.
The front door and chair were in need of painting and so paint was purchased and as soon as it is completed I think you may be pleasantly surprised or concerned with, what was she thinking! I’m not telling what’s up, you will have to wait!
The fish pond has been in need of flora to protect its fish occupants for quite sometime, since the local herons think it is in their personal feeding turf. We used to have more than a dozen large fish and many small ones; those being mosquito eaters and we now have six very large ones. (PS all the large ones are goldfish, @ about two dollars a dozen, that grew to about two feet long, yep, they do that!) And so for the last several months we have had to keep a netting over the pond which although solved the heron problem it was not at all attractive. Today we were able to attain the water lilies that we used to have, but the new ones are nearly twice the price, but online they were twice what we paid for the ones that we purchased today!

Any-who, once they grow into the beautiful pink, yellow and white varieties we chose they will give some protection to our fishy friends and perhaps allow the netting to be removed once again. It serves its purpose, but is not pretty at all.

For the last few months the state of Florida has been having beautiful weather and therefore more insects thinking it was their time to come out.
And that includes all the ones that annoy dogs, like fleas.
Skipper has been fortunate since we always have given him his monthly heartworm medication and also his topical flea protection which we would apply monthly too.
But the box of this particular brand, Advantage 11 had not been working and we by this past week had already used three doses with no help for dear sweet Skipper and he has had to have more baths and even we had to spray him with Adams another flea medication.
Today I called the vet and told her about what has been happening and we never had this problem here before or with Skipper. And to be honest we have used Advantage for the last few years and it worked just fine.
I told her that I would be calling the company to let them know what had happened and see if perhaps it was a bad lot or something.
The man I spoke with kept asking how we used the product and where our dog had been, blah, blah, blah… he was annoying me and Hubby for it appeared that he was not willing to see that we knew how to use the product but that in his mind we did not.
At first all I wanted for him to tell us if any other people had a problem with this lot number and I gave it to him, but he refused to check.
He said that he had been there for three years and that they never had any problems before and again he intimated that we must have used the product wrong, huh?
In the end he gave me a reference number to get a full refund and I said great I will take it.
And so I called back my vet and their office said that the doctor would give us another brand that was brand new and for just fleas and is consumed in a chewable tablet, Comfortis, and a six month supply and so we would only have to pay the difference and that is why we had the vet visit, way down in the other direction.

On our way to the vet’s was a deli that we had not been to before. But we passed it often when we went that way and its sign for Cuban sandwiches caught Hubby’s eye.
And we felt that someday we would stop there and try it and today was the day! Cubby’s, it appears that they have been in this location on the corner of route 41 south and W. Marion Avenue in Punta Gorda for nearly eight years, since Hurricane Charley apparently destroyed their Bayshore location. And in actuality they are known for their homemade ice cream which we both vowed to try next time we were in their neck of the woods. The steady flow of customers indicated to us that they have a nice client base and reputation. The Cuban sandwiches we had were tasty too, pricing is typical and the variety of offerings appears comfortable, and you can eat in or take out.

Our last stop was to Publix, again!
We should have stock in that place heaven knows we are there enough.
But we needed more fat free milk that we both drink and the sugar free Carnation instant breakfast that I do share on occasion with Hubby, who appears to be hooked on.
And last but not least more Clorox 2, I prefer without scent, due to allergies but they didn’t have it and we settled on Lavender that I know is supposed to have a calming effect.
Who doesn’t need that?
And then we came home, sweet home…!
We had my homemade soup and a salad with our own vine ripened tomatoes for our dinner tonight.
With those major lunches out we have been doing that or breakfasts for dinner many nights.
It is good to change things up sometimes, hmm?

To many this was just another mundane sort of day, but to me it was fruitful with accomplishments, and that ain’t bad in any culture, eh?

On that notice of knowing that we all have our idea of what is what in importance and excitement, well not those but you get my drift… right? Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

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

Bunny hugs all around!

Just thought that would make a nice title.
Tonight’s thoughts for what to say are rather not coming to me as swiftly as many previous nights of my own jibber jabber fluency.

We all know that many of us who talk incessantly just do it just because we enjoy hearing ourselves talk.
At least that is what some say, others believe that the people who constantly interrupt others during a conversation feel what they have to say is more important than what anybody else could possible have to say.
And then they’re the others who believe that it is a form of a mental illness that some have, to always be the center of attention and the only way to hold anyone else’s attention is to not let them speak., and by doing that therefore demand them to listen. But in reality for me, I do believe that it is just because I rarely have anyone else’s ear but Hubby’s and that is why I do it when in the company of others… just hearsay though, mine…!

Geez, listening is the true art form, isn’t it, hmm?
In my case though it may go back to being the only girl hanging out with three boy cousins and them sort of ignoring me unless I spoke about anything so I guess that they had to pay attention… Same reason for years I hated the game of Chess, since they would tell me to be quiet when they would play. Of course they offered to teach me, but I refused; thinking I could never be so quiet to play something that was supposed to be fun…
But alas when I married Hubby and we had sons, Hubby knew how to play chess and I asked him to teach our sons and both started playing when they were not more than three or four years old and they were great and would beat Hubby and each other… and again I was hushed, how truly weird, hmm?

My game was Scrabble, since my Mom and I would love to play, one of the few things as a young gal I had in common with my Mom, who had been a legal secretary in her youth and was an excellent Scrabble player since she was an excellent speller. And so when I finally beat her, it was absolutely the best!
Hubby never wanted to play Scrabble with me though, since I would beat him too. I became quite good.
See, as bad a speller as I am now I used to not be, it has got to be the MS.

We also played the Monopoly game and poker with our sons, which some people thought was just dreadful, the poker, not the Monopoly. PS we played poker for popcorn or pennies or peanuts or, you get the idea.
But I beg to differ with everyone since, due to the poker both were in the top percentile in math skills the younger one on a twelfth grade level at the age of six!
Perhaps due to the Monopoly game is why they both have always handled money very well too.

Memories are here in my heart and missing those two young men, comes to me daily with a rush of emotion and that is why… when you have family treasure them and love them till it hurts, with all those bunny hugs and big sloppy kisses and tickles and whatever else shows that affection that you truly care about them…
And keep those memories locked deep in your soul for your futures to bring up when need be; for no one can ever take them away…!

On that trip of tears for me without that touch or hug or slosh nearby, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and sincerely count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

Again we made our way out into the world and again something was askew...

“The Cultural Center of Charlotte County, Inc.
Calendars

Saturday Sale

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Apr 07, 2012
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1st and 3rd Saturday of every month, from 9am to 4pm, Flea Market for all. Flea Market will be held in the Fountain Room. If vendors are interested in signing up, spaces are only $15.00 for the day, with a 10% discount for signing up for the month. For more information, please call 941-625-XXXX ext 230.”
Plans are not something you always do when you are retired that is since you have plenty of time on your hands.
Sometimes you just look in a newspaper or online and see what’s going on locally so you can go out and do it, right?

Well, again I fouled up; I suppose since I did not follow up with a phone call. To be fair I just called now and had to leave a voice message since it is a Saturday evening after five thirty P.M. and after the event was to occur so I don’t suppose I will hear anything at the very earliest on this Monday. And after all it is a holiday weekend too.

The reason that I am telling you all this is because once again I did what most of us do I looked up something to do and trusted what I read.
And when we arrived well within the stated time that the event was to occur around eleven thirty A.M., no one was there and no Flea Market or anything was set up.
And sadly there were no people within the building to ask what had happened since mostly it was all volunteers running the show. It is a non-profit center and there are very few staff members that are on salary I do believe.
Even the main person in charge is a volunteer, which is admirable.

So I suppose it was my fault for not following up with that call.
Any-who, we ate lunch there after going through their Trash and Treasure shop, which is sadly getting thinner and thinner with their selections of items with not having as many donations as they should have. Please local Port Charlotte or Punta Gorda Florida or even further away people in Lee or Sarasota counties donate to this worthwhile non-profit it serves many people from all walks of life with low cost classes, an exercise facility, entertainment etc and a couple of shops and two restaurants too.

After our lunch at only five bucks a piece, mine, seafood Newburgh over rice pilaf and a side salad, and Hubby’s lunch of a sausage sandwich with fruit salad on the side. We shared our salads and had once again brought in our own waters, thus the deal; very tasty.

For dinner tonight I had planned out broiled salmon for tonight early. (Oddly enough, I had decided on it yesterday due to trying to be as different as possible for tomorrow’s dinner plans of the brisket. I do know that I had fish for lunch too, but with me that is doubly fine.) We had bought the salmon on sale at Publix on our last shopping spree and also acquired sweet potatoes and the makings for my Caesar salad with my own Caesar dressing, low cal and still delish!

We do try to eat healthy and we used to buy salmon more often, but have you seen those prices lately?

Any-who, we buy it when it does go on sale like all our other meals are, planned that way, you know, and I bet you do it too.

After we left the Cultural Center we did go all the way down to the Visual Arts Center of Punta Gorda, not far from Fisherman’s Village, actually across from their exit, to see their offerings and they always have showings from local artists which is very nice, they also have classes there and prizes are given for their work and displayed along side their works.
We got there just in time since they were closing by two P.M. I suppose due to the holidays.
It did leave us enough time to scurry through; oh did I mention that it is a free venue? Well, it is.

From there on our way home Hubby stopped in Publix for a couple of odds and ends, a red onion, eggs, and extra virgin olive oil, we sure go through a lot of that. Anyway, fortunately it was buy one get one free, since it is usually way too expensive and we try to buy it at Sam’s Club, where it is much cheaper, but as you have it we did forget the last time that we were there.

On another night of much too much ‘TMI’, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and we will too!

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

PS I had an email from ole chum again and they found out that her dear sweet mom’s leg arteries are way too small for their experimental procedure and so they are on a wait and hold once again, and she did wish us a Happy Passover/Easter and we wished them a Happy Easter, because that’s the way we roll… and for me that is literarily, my scooter silly’s!

Intertwining

Faiths have stories to be told that are reasoning’s of how they came about…And such are the cases of Passover and Easter, which are because of one another or due to each other is one way of thinking, but neither Christians or Jews will admit the connection in some very strict sects, but not such tight sects have realized the connection of the two.
You can Google and Bing until you find the answers you want but if you just do what I did, and that is this, just ask the magic techno eight ball search, “What is the connection between Easter and Passover?”, and you will be amazed at what comes up!
It is a ‘small world after all’; Disney had that right, ha!
Love of all people is what I wish for at any holiday actually at any time and recognition of each and everyone’s individual celebration always.
Why under our own roof we, Hubby and I grew up celebrating one of each of the aforementioned holidays and so that is why I feel the need to make others understand that we are now not so different.

Oy vey, let me just say that on this first night of Passover we ate a pizza for dinner, and this Easter Sunday two days from now, still no actual Seder but a brisket with all the trimmings, one year it was lamb and some years it has been, dare I say; a ham?
Yes, we are a diverse family with all that goes with that.
Open mindedness and joy from sharing customs and traditions and not disparaging each others ideas of what should be; unity.

When our boys were small we colored Easter eggs and hunted for them too, and had baskets filled to the brim with marsh mellow peeps, jelly beans and chocolate etc… I think for me being of my faith and Hubby being of his we enjoyed trying out each others that we missed as children or just shared with our friends and neighbors or relatives…

Times change and we move on…

This morning I took a slight offense that our local NBC affiliate had not mentioned Happy Passover to their Jewish friends and so I wrote to their comments department, three times! Why you may ask, ok, maybe not… but here is the reason why. 1. “To whom it may concer:

Please tell me that I just missed it that you have wished your Jewish friends, this weekend a Happy Passover. I have not heard it myself, which concerns me.”

2. “You are not aware of my perception being slighty off due to being blind in one eye, so sorry for my mispelling of a common word.”

3. “Now this is downright ridiculous! Spelling the word 'misspelling' wrong! LOL, sorry and please forgive!”

Now, I see that I also misspelled the word slightly, besides concern, oh well and that does make me look really stupid dealing with a news station, hmm?

In the end, though, instead of emailing back they had a lovely segment at noon presented by one of their news reporters, Leigh Dana, about Passover and Seders too!
And since the non-mention this morning at all the other airings they have included mentioning Passover when mentioning Easter, thank you NBC-2 in Fort Myers for that!
The message should be all encompassing, true? All the local chambers want to continue making our area desirable for all peoples…


This blog tonight was going to be a comparison of the two holidays but that is for you all to decide, since I would never presume for you or me to believe other than what is what in our teachings of our growing into the adults that we have become.

Our number one son called earlier and stated that the schools in their area, Tampa, call it spring time without any religious affiliation, who knows if that, is a good thing.
These are public schools not religious ones and so I do suppose it is separation of church and state to that degree.

I do know that if I go any further I will be opening a can of worms about prayers in school and all that and so I will stop here… PS we did pray when I was in school and I am still rather an open-minded gal in spite of that, ha!
So I rest my case there.

In the long run my message tonight is for all my Jewish friends and relatives to have a Happy Passover and for Hubby and relatives to have a Happy Easter, nah this is too confusing dividing it up like this…HAPPY PASSOVEREASTER to all and to all a very good night!

And kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

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

Update: I also heard from my ole chum who was by her Mom’s side at the hospital on day eleven and only more tests and still no surgery. They are in wait and see mode for deliberations while she is medicated with blood thinners and defibrillating drugs to sustain her. Ole chum even put her dear ole sweet Mom on the line and we went on a short trip down memory lane… it was nice and she did sound good. As my dear ole Dad used to say when someone was nice and special too, that they were really something and so I told her that! They knew my Dad and ole chum said so was my Dad!

Knowing one's self...

Many of us think that we are one way when we realize by comparing notes with others that we are not what we necessarily think, got that?

In this venue, at times, I am not as positive as many would like me to be all of the time and for that I am sorry to say that I am only a mere human being, well not actually sorry for that for I am very happy to be one i.e. a human being…with feelings, flaws and all that goes with them.

The part that is making me question what is what in this arena that I have chosen to be my sounding board nightly is if I have made anyone unhappy at any time…due to me expressing my reality than I suppose that is not that different from most of yours and in this medium like other forms of media you have a choice and in that way is that you don’t have to read this, since you are a free agent…!

Being someone with ideas, feelings and emotions is nothing new, and venting is far from that too.
But being public about it is still finding its way in acceptance.
Surprisingly, I heard a woman on The View today say something that I have been chirping for these last few years… If I can help one other person with our commonalities of feelings being expressed than my reasoning for doing this is justified.
Oddly enough it was from a woman who most wouldn’t believe or feel that she is known for trying to help others, Christie Brinkley.
A woman known more for her beauty than airing her dirty laundry, which sadly she has had way too much of these
last few years…And she does honestly believe that her experiences with her second X-husband and his personality flaws are more common than first suspected in males or even in females.
Sharing amongst women is as ancient as the human species and I would like to think that this latest evolution of us human beings doing this other thing that comes naturally is on the verge of coming into its own…that is with wide approval!

Ignorance has been bandied around about the people who utilize this form heralding of expressing their way of whatever floats their boats… Whether it be a political leaning, an illness and how they handle it, to family issues, crafts, gardening, being ingenious in ideas for creating unique objects into useful items or whatever you so desire…This is a free for all way to maintain your brain and its abilities to think and to share.

People don’t go out like they used to, although I am sure quite a few do, but many who are busy with work, family, friends or other ways unable to go… communicate here.

Personally it has turned into my own lifeline since I don’t do as much as I once did.
Multiple Sclerosis has stolen my joy of gardening with not being able to take the heat, swimming the same, boating too…Another slap of my reality; too much for all of you?

I admit many people with MS have abilities that I feel are luckier than me. They still drive, but my leg strength is too weak, I tried and I only could get up to fifteen miles an hour, and my perception is off with only one eye working, the other being legally blind for my optic neuritis that could not fixed after all those IV’s of Steroids… and my neck turning radius with cervical stenosis is not good either…I would hate to be responsible for killing someone because I did not see them due to any of those things.
Yes, I do understand some people have no other choices, but most fatalities were caused by people who did not have the ability to drive safely due to medications or other health related problems.
I do know that many areas do not have public transportation and if Hubby wasn’t able to take us where we had to go…I fortunately have an alternative, a mini bus that you call to pick you up and for just a nominal fee they will take you wherever you have to be.
And I suppose that does make me more capable than others who do not have such a good choice available to them.

In closing for tonight’s objective was to re-visit spilling your beans publicly or as some feel airing your dirty laundry…is this not a free land that we live in?
Is it not also a place where we have the ability to share what we know or don’t know with anyone who decides to read what we spew?
Listen, dear sweet reading public this is NOT SHAKESPEARE and I do not sell it as such… this is one challenged gal that has been married for forty-one years, that worked in the real world in diverse arenas and raised two smart, well educated handsome sons…and had traveled a bit too and so if you think you have something to share; I say ignore the naysayers and I say go for it!

But a warning, you have to be a bit tough skinned to accept anything that may be said… or filter what you say with impartiality, or ask people not to tell you if it isn’t nice, but always tell them that you love to hear what they think as long as it is not too hurtful to you… See, you get my point…ha, and last but not least go on… and try, go for it; if you dare!

Saying nothing is a lost art-form…ask the writers of Seinfeld!

On that hopefully silly end to a harsh realism of life’s trial and tribulations as put forth by none other than Christie Brinkley and yours truly, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and ask you to share those overages and we will too!

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

PS: To Whoopi and Joy over at the View, not everyone can air their daily ideas, feelings and personal inner dirt on a national TV program… And I say that with love and jealousy! Oh so you thought you didn’t do it too… well I have news for you two gals it sure sounds that way to us your public!