Feeling confused and upset caused me to choose these musings in this pseudo normalcy world by this pseudo normalcy gal!

I have to stop posting articles on my Facebook page, only due to the controversy I seem to cause... I hadn't for quite some time and today I chose to do it with people commenting with two negatives and only one positive before the comments upset me enough to remove it altogether... showing I have a low threshold for criticism.  That seems to be my M.O., what's that expression,  "if you can't stand the heat get out of the fire"???

Disappointed and saddened that an old friend went back to smoking recently, but she has more stress in her life beyond COVID-19, taking care of an elderly Mom with severe dementia. Kudos to her for not putting her in a nursing home, with all that has been happening in too many of them. As another old friend has said not all are bad, she is a retired nurse who had spent much of her career working in them. 

I personally am celebrating my fourteenth year of quitting smoking on July 11, 2006, is when I quit!

I just realized I called both women "old" friends, of course, they are! We are all old at seventy years old! The one that went back to smoking I have known since we were both thirteen, and the nurse I knew as a very young child from a year and a half then they moved later on, and we had too, but we had lost touch so they did not know that! I was sixteen when we moved from Paramus to Emerson NJ.

Any-who, my concerns are politically motivated with what I posted. I am now registered with a specific party after years of not wanting to be due to all the phone calls, texting, and emails. I had been non-partisan for years and years!

That had allowed me to vote without all the hubbub, and so wanting this time to vote in the primary, which I had but my choice had lost. It's okay since I do prefer the one that won now who is more appropriate and has the most experience for the job. 

The texts and emails though are really annoying. We are not rich by any means and yet I am asked for donations.
Perhaps I would have contributed if things were different these days, but do any of us know whether our money is safe at this time. We have a small state pension and social security for income, but who knows what could happen until we unseat the current administration!!!

So although we are okay, I do not want to rock our financial boat, so to speak.
Yes, we eat take away a lot but it is cost-effective more than you know with just the two of us, we get a couple of meals from many that we choose. 

And it is so much easier and we need not turn on the oven and make the air-conditioning work harder! It can even be fun, with so many different cuisines around here, and economy-wise we are helping local businesses too!

But Hubby has remained a registered non-partisan for the very reasons I mentioned above, and our money is our money!
Dollars are dollars and who doesn't need a bit more for emergencies???
It is hurricane season after all.

We are stocking up on can goods, batteries, etc for that as well.

So far on that front, we have had six of the twenty possible named storms to date, nearly five months more to go! It only takes one for a direct hit to cause more turmoil!!

And so it is prudent to try to save and prepare as we have previous years without adding in all the racial unrest and coronavirus in too!

Staying aware of all those important things and adding severe storm possibilities into that mix is quite frightening, to say the least!!

I do know that I am NOT alone though.

Today, I realized how fragile my nerves are with just those first two paragraphs... with the sorrowful reluctance to sound redundant those incidents unnerved me.

I thought at this age my emotional IQ had increased to handling things in life better, but I guess not. Seeing negativity at what I had done posting an article shook me to my floated to the top core... not good! 

My friend who went back to smoking made me feel bad for her situation and yet I wish I could have said something that might have helped her more to stay quit. I just told her we care about her. Not much you can say to anyone with what she is going through and all.

I have been a self-inflicted prisoner in my own home for nearly four months!
Only going outside early with our fur kids in the backyard, then Hubby takes over due to triple digits in the feels like temperatures nearly daily! Multiple sclerosis enemy is the severe heat.

This laptop and my phone and of course TV and absolutely mostly Hubby and the fur kids too have been my sanity!

And so no I have not called 988 yet for any reasons, I feel for all who do not have what I have!

In so many ways I am blessed, and I do know it, not taking any of it for granted. Too many friends are widows already!

And that scares me too.
I take solace in the fact that Hubby's parents lived till their eighties and nineties, while mine only until their seventies, so this decade will be difficult for me. And on his side his mom and grandmother outlived their husbands on my side just the opposite, the men outlived the women... years ago I would kid and say so we will have a tie!!! On the who will go first unsaid question...

Turning seventy eleven days ago could have been why this is happening now in my head a delayed reaction??? My Mom did not make it to her seventieth first birthday!

Enough already!

I must use some of my distractions... talk to you tomorrow, okay, folks with a different topic and attitude so I will sign off now... but you go on read the rest, please...

 

Moving on to ...

PRESIDENT NEXT!

VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE!

Sanity runs in his family, and kindness, and smarts! Plenty of experience too! Did I mention EXPERIENCE! And level headed clear thinking!

Possible running mates for Joe...shortlist  https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-floyd-death-reshapes-biden-104049419.html:

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-needs-joe-biden-111108051.html

And so we must go...

Be smart and be safe! 

Happy good night to all!

Count those blessings and we will too!

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

Take it, Bella! ( I am a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be four years old! We are all rescues so no one knows for sure.)I did this so I will be.

Aussie shut it down!

(I am an Australian Shepherd, an interesting factoid I was supposed to be a miniature but...as you might know I AM NOT! But I am now over two and a half years old, so I am the baby HA! I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me.)

No tail/tale publishing circa 2018.

Don't forget us too!

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!

And me Chance, I am a Bichon Frise mix, first I thought Maltese but now I am considering poodle? I am pictured here with Mom and Dad at the Port Charlotte Animal Welfare League! I am five years old they think.