Saturday, January 24, 2015

My Saturday Evening Nonsense Blog aka Dear Deers

Dear friends,  that would be dear as in near and dear to my heart as opposed to deer because if you were deer , you would probably be prancing around the yard at the ungodly hour of 4 AM eating up someone's garden and leaving piles of deer poop all over the place. And besides that, you would be naked , since of course deer do not wear clothes and I really don't want to imagine all of you , my dear friends as naked deer.  So, I am happy you are all very dear to me and not deer and since the majority of my readers happen to be males, that means you would all be naked Bucks, or would that be buck naked ? (Hmm on the other hand, that may not be such a bad thing to imagine...)

And my female readers would be Does and that reminds me of that song, "doe a deer a female deer , re a drop of golden sun, mi a name I call myself " etc etc etc,  and I really do not want that stuck in my head or it will go on and on and on like the neverending story or the song that never ends which reminds me of another song "this is the song that never ends, and it goes on and on my friend" etc etc etc.

Oh my gosh!!  Now they are both stuck in my head and I only have myself to blame , which most of the time we are the cause of our own distresses so I won't blame any of you dear does or bucks for these crazy songs that are now stuck in my head.

And now I just called you all "does and bucks" so you must actually be deer after all and now nothing makes sense to me so I should change the subject before you all realize I am quite weird at times.

Wait ! Some of you already know this, but you new readers are probably wondering if you should continue to associate with me , but I assure you I am quite harmless even if I am weird .  And one thing for certain, I am not a deer, but if you stick around long enough, I shall become quite dear to you ---

Or maybe not .

So my dear deer (s), though this seems quite queer (not THAT kind of queer but rather strange and odd from a conventional viewpoint) it shall soon become clear that I am not drunk on beer , it's just this time of year that makes me feel near and dear to all of you deer (s) , so never fear I shall end this soon and ride off into the sunset on a big John Deere (with a naked buck maybe?) , and you will all shed a tear because you will miss me here .

Now that has to be it because I am running out of words that rhyme with deer my dear (s) .


The End ~~



(You really should be laughing now)


Monday, January 5, 2015

Just a few thoughts on January 5th

Well here we are , the fifth day of the year already.  I was sick up until today and time kept right on slipping, slipping, slipping....

It's strange when a person gets sick and you lose days of your life just lying there feeling like you might be better off dead, but hoping you get through this rather quickly.  I won't go into the details but it was bad....

I seem to be doing some strange things lately which make me question if I am getting a bit daft in my old age.  Yeah, I know, I am not that old, but the things I do sometimes, make me wonder just how bad I will be when I do finally reach those "golden years" .  When exactly do those golden years begin by the way ?  I mean if you think about it , some people live to be 100 and some pass into the great beyond at a much younger age.   So if one only lives to be say, 65 , wouldn't 59 be part of their golden years ?  A very dear elderly gentleman I knew, once told me the reason they call them the golden years is that is when the doctors take all your gold !

 Hmmph, I don't have much gold and I avoid doctors as much as possible, so they won't be getting rich off of me.  If nature can't cure me, it's not going to get cured.

Of course I might change my mind if I ever come down with some major ailment, but for now, I'm keeping my gold .  Oh who am I kidding, I don't have any gold, but I do own two houses and that leads me to my next thought.

I own one house here in Florida and another in South Carolina.  Currently the one in South Carolina is on the market and hopefully by this time next year I will only own one house.   But for now I have to pay utility bills for both houses.  Last month I sat down to pay the bills for both houses.  One check goes to the City of O****  and the other goes to the City of T****.

Most of my bills I pay online, but for some reason of which I have no clue, I had not gotten around to setting up these two so I could pay them online.  I still write checks for them.   At some point I was scrolling through my check book register and noticed I had made a check out to the City of O****  for $54.26  and I wondered why I had made a check for that much to the City of O**** when that bill is usually only $29.35 .  Then I saw I had made another check out to the City of O**** for the usual amount.   I realized the $54.26 amount was actually the amount for the City of T****  and I had recorded it as the other city.   Then I started worrying....... Did I make the actual check out to the City of O**** , the one I mailed to the City of T**** ?  ( I hope you are following this so far)  .

Well I checked my bank account online but that check had not cleared yet. They seem to take forever to deposit those checks for some reason.  So I checked again a few days later and that check number had cleared the bank .  Now oddly enough, I HAD actually made it out to the City of O**** but mailed it to the City of T**** . I did however put the right account number on it.

Now what bothers me is this---  First of all, that I made the mistake in the first place.  I must be slipping (in my "golden" years) .  But, what bothers me more is that someone had to have gotten that check at the water department in the City of T****  , but they never noticed or decided not to notice that the check was made out to a whole other city.   Then they deposited that check into their bank which was TD Waterhouse........ no one caught it there.   It then went to MY bank and no on caught it there.   Not one single person in three separate institutions caught the error ??

But let ME try to go deposit a check into my bank account which is  made out to someone else and they will catch it before I can blink my eyes. (not that I have ever tried this mind you, but I feel sure they would)

Anyway, I set up my accounts on both cities so I can pay them both online now .   Oh and I did check my balance with the City of T*** and it is zero so at least it posted to my account.

Now I should be  ok as long as I keep remembering to pay the bills on time (which so far I have never paid a bill late)  and as long as my laptop keeps working and my internet is running, things should go quite smoothly from here on out :-)

Friday, January 2, 2015

Two chairs


Come sit with me as the sun begins to set in the western sky
Talk to me and tell me your plans for the new year
Reminisce and reflect on the old year as it comes to a close
Or sit with me in silence

Merry Christmas

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