Away

I have been away . . . did you miss me ? I missed you. Thoughts swirling in my head with no outlet is not a good thing for me. They get building up and before I know it I am snowed under in "thinks". I was away physically, house guests and Abby's 5th birthday (I still have to down load those pictures). And I was away mentally. Sort of on vacation and not using my brain for any good use other than basic living. But I think it is time to return and let some of this accumulated garbage spill out on to the Internet where it can join the endless rush of other crap. (I checked my email tonight and it is pretty much crap.)
WE had a great time entertaining our good friends from NY and this trip they didn't even kill anyone. Last time they were here, (5 years ago) they killed my dad. Or at least that is what we tell them just to keep them humble. They had the misfortune of visiting the week my dad passed away so it has stuck that they were the cause of death. (But at 97 I guess it really was just his time.) We spent a great week touring and hanging out with our other set of great NY friends who are down here for the month. We went to Ft. Lauderdale and took a river cruise on "The Jungle Queen". A fun way to spend 3 hours seeing all the water ways of that interesting city. Boy oh boy, there is a LOT of money in Florida. Some of those yachts and mansions are just unreal. I think if we got all the richy rich people to sell their yachts and donate the money to the government we would pay off the national debt and then some!
After our friends returned home we took a road trip to GA for the birthday girl's fifth birthday. We gave Abby new roller skates and she was off and skating. Well, not really. It was more like held up yet falling. But she is getting the hang of it and by the time she is a teen she will be doing figure three and a halves. (figure eights are just too hard). Abby is now in England with her mom and dad. They will be moving there in a couple of months for a couple of years. I wonder if little girls in England roller skate?
Anyway . . . I am back, the computer is on and hopefully I will be spewing thoughts for your reading enjoyment. Or at least giving you wonder at why you bother to log into this mess. But for now, Steven King awaits.. He came through once again,, I don't know how, with a HUGE volume of over a thousand pages to keep me entertained for a couple of months. Unless I put all else on the back burner and just sit and read, read, read. Which I am tempted to do but really can't justify. So it is off to bed with a good book for now. I'll be talking with you soon.

Survivor

Husband and I are playing the game of Survivor and I think I am loosing. It took me 40 years to realize we were playing so I guess I am not winning the "OUT THINK" part. And it is hard to out think some one who doesn't think. Then there is "OUT SMART". Well, let's face it, we all know who the brains are in this operation but I am NOT good at "playing games". It took me 20 years to just realize we were playing a game. I'm the "What you see is what you get" sort of person. Get that from my mom. If a thought goes through my brain it spills out my mouth. Husband on the other hand is IRISH. Irish MEN have been raised by Irish Mothers so they know how to keep quiet about everything except that which you wish they would keep quiet about. ("Have you gained weight?" asks the husband.) The Lace Curtain Irish are very good at putting on a front for the world and keeping EVERYTHING else behind those lovely lace curtains. I didn't know such a world existed until I married this man. For some one with diarrhea of the mouth I have found it very difficult to keep secrets. But I am a good student and now I can keep all sorts of secrets. Mostly from Husband ! Lastly come the "OUT LAST". Now here I thought I had an advantage. I am 6 years younger than Husband. That should count for something, right? Not in my game. The man is healthy as a horse. He takes only one pill a day for his thryoid. When he chooses to loose weight he can drop 20 lbs in about 3 weeks. Husband has never had any sort of surgery or been hospitalized since he was in his teens. How can I compete with that ? I'm on a first name basis with half the doctors in Southern Florida and take more pills than a drugged up druggie. This game sucks. I wish I had never figured out we were playing. Life is so much better when you just think you are crazy.