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Calgon take me away!
I need a vacation. I mean it, don’t laugh, I really do need one. I need someone to babysit The Curmudgeon and dogs while I go find a nice warm beach somewhere. I need a break, a change in routine, a chance to recharge.
Just give me a nice, quiet shack on the beach with plumbing, electric where I can plug my lap top in, and a great place to eat nearby. A place where I don’t have to cook or clean, or worry about anything except did I remember the sun block?
You have no idea how much I’d love to disappear for a few weeks and do nothing but relax and not have to think or remember to ask The Curmudgeon if he took his medication while forgetting mine completely. Oh yes, I have done that often.
To not have to worry if that noise I heard was him falling again…yes, a peaceful vacation where I don’t hear him moan and groan all day long.
Maybe I just need to get out of the house for a few hours and go out to lunch with G. This snow has me stir crazy.
You all have a good one and if you are on a beach somewhere, please refrain from telling me about it. 😀
English: Ginowan Tropical Beach 日本語: 宜野湾トロピカルビーチ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lullaby and goodnight?
For years I’ve had trouble falling asleep. Then I discovered several ‘sleep’ CDs that helped me fall asleep like never before. I would even stay asleep for hours.
Last night my CD player died. Do you have any idea how tough it is to find a new one? Everything is MP3 players. I finally found a couple of them. I bought one at Radio Shack.
No, with the street as bad as it is I didn’t drive there. I ordered it online. 😀
It may take a few days before I get a good sleep again.
You all have a good one!
Are you a bully?
As a youngster I could never understand it when people were nasty to each other. I couldn’t see the point in it. That’s probably why even one of my own sisters had a habit of bullying me for a long time.
One day, in junior high, I had enough of being bullied by a couple of girls in school and stood up to them with great success. It felt good. The next time my sister tried to bully me, I stood up to her. Success! She quit bullying me and tried to go after the baby sister. I wouldn’t allow that.
I do not tolerate bullying. I understand it even less now than I did as a child. How and why do certain adults think that bullying is acceptable?
Bullying comes in all forms. If you are reading this and wondering if I am writing about you, you may just be a bully.
Summer road trip anyone?
I found out today while taking a survey on Facebook that I am four states short of hitting all fifty states. Those four are probably not the ones you think they are.
I missed Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. My Mother missed Rhode Island. If I manage to hit those four states this summer I’ll break my mother’s record.
Wish she could be with me. She would have been thrilled to make her final state. We had planned to make that trip one day but that day never did get here. That’s why I made a promise to myself last night.
I am going to see my four remaining states.
You all have a good one!
I think Hecuba would enjoy a road trip. Don’t you?
A foggy night…I love it!
When I took the garbage out, I had to stop and take in the sight of the heavy fog blocking out anything half a block away. I do love when the fog cloaks the cemetery. Shades of Bela Lugosi! You almost expect him to walk up and tap you on the shoulder.
Two a.m. and the temperature is up to fifty-seven degrees, the warmest it has been all day…um …well, night. Strange weather we’re having for sure.
Yesterday afternoon the fog wasn’t as dense but still had us pretty well socked in.
She doesn’t want to go out now…
Another dog post?! Yes, I guess it has been one of those weeks.
My neighbor’s little bitty rat terrier chihuahua mix dog managed to get herself locked out of the house (in their fenced in yard) yesterday. We’re glad the weather wasn’t bad and the temperature was above 50 degrees.
The Curmudgeon, once he realized that she was outside and no one was home, called the three, in case of emergency numbers, we have for them while I attempted to get her to come to me. She refused and kept running away, foolish girl, she could have spent the day in a warm crate tormenting Patty and Gavin.
At last we got a phone call and was told someone would be home shortly to take care of her. Not long after that, the neighbor’s daughter appeared and the little dog was inside and happy. Later in the evening my neighbor came over to thank us and told us the little dog had no desire to go out at the moment. 😉 I wouldn’t either if I were her.
English: A sleeping Rat Terrier (Photo credit: Wikipedia) She sort of looks likes this one only smaller and with longer hair.
RIP to both Paul Walker and Roger Rodas
My opinion may not be popular, but I feel so sorry for the family and friends left behind to grieve, and angry that they, yes I said they, pulled such stunt that endangered others. Two grown men were in the car and had to be in agreement to the reckless act for it to happen.
I find it very sad that Paul Walker and Roger Rodas, men old enough to know better, are dead because they thought that a car was a toy to be played with and were speeding on a public street.
Nope, I am planting my butt on the couch.
I will not be leaving the house today. I refuse to go anywhere near a store on Black Friday.
I had to work many a Black Friday when I was a retail manager. I hated it then and I hate it even more now. I don’t know how many of you hard-core bargain hunters are aware that most of the people working in those stores you throng to are there not from choice but because it is ‘work the day or get fired.’
Oh yes, while you get to enjoy your time off retail workers don’t get the time off. Keep this in mind when you are dragging your feet at closing time on Christmas eve too. They can’t leave until you get the heck out of the freaking store. Are the bargains really worth it?
English: DC USA, Target, Black Friday (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Honoring my Father
My father died on this day in 1995 after spending 15 years in a nursing home. He’d suffered a major stroke that took away his power of speech and some of his reason.
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him and miss him terribly. I have few pictures of him, the ones I do have, I treasure.
4/8/1915-11/27/1995
I love you Pop.
No, we don’t stuff ourselves and watch football.
Thursday, I’ll throw together a dinner for two. Nothing special… some ham, green beans, and canned yams. Maybe I’ll defrost two pieces of cheesecake for our dessert. We aren’t big into holidays after Halloween passes.
Once this week is FINALLY over with, I can get back to a somewhat normal life. Although, going shopping for normal, every-day items will become more difficult with idiot Xmas shoppers crowding the stores and parking lots.
I really hate this nonsense. When we did ‘celebrate’ the holiday I had all my shopping done by July or August. Screw getting a bargain. It’s no bargain if you have to deal with fools.
You all have a good one!
Whole green beans in a carton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Not my favorite time of year.
I truly do hate the months of November and December. I find them depressing and way over rated. My Dad died in November and we buried him in December.
I hate that a simple trip to the grocery store turns into hell on wheels because so many people are idiots. You had an entire year to shop for gifts, why did you wait until the last-minute?
Can I please just skip ahead to January? And not the first of it either since that is when my Mother died and with her the last of my immediate family.
So maybe February would be better. I could easily hibernate until then.
Not finished?
I never realized how many pictures I had to hang on the walls. Some are new and some have been down for a while.
Yesterday I climbed up and down the ladder so many times I know I’m going to feel it when I wake up. LOL! However, it was worth it, it’s so nice to see pictures on my walls.
I still have a few to hang, but the majority of them are up and I am one happy camper. When I paint, I will take down one wall’s worth at a time and hang them right back up as soon as the paint is dry.
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