September

I know, it is still August but in a couple of days it will be September and it was just yesterday a couple of us were lamenting the fact that it was the first of August so I am just making myself start September early so I can get used to the fact that time just keeps rolling on and I am rolling right along with it.

The kids up in Georgia will be arriving next Saturday and will be here for a week so I am cleaning house and getting the guest room ready for them and trying to decide what I am going to cook while they are here because that is one of the things they like the most, my cooking.  Right now there is some really loud thundering going on outside.  It reminds me of the loud rolling thunder I used to hear back in Indiana. We were almost surrounded by woods where I grew up and for some reason that made the thunder sound really loud and it would roll on forever.  Thunder down here has always been quick like claps of thunder, but lately, I mean this summer, we seem to have more rolling thunder.  I have no clue why that is, but it is.

Plus it was something to write and fill in blank space on this page 😜

On October 8th, well actually on the 6th I am heading up to see my baby sister in Tennessee.  I am leaving on the 6th and will stay two nights at the base with the kids then drive on up another five hours to where my sister lives.  I haven't seen her in a number of years and now I am kicking myself for not going to visit. No real excuses, just busy with life and most of my trips the last few years were to Idaho to see my daughter.  I guess I thought my sister would always be there and eventually I would get to see her again, but now I am wondering if she will make it till October because, without going into detail, I will just say it is not looking good.  Somehow it seems so unfair, she is 10 years younger than me, but the grim reaper doesn't play favorites. He is out to get us all sooner or later.

Then in November my middle daughter and her husband are taking me to see Jersey Boys over in Orlando. That is a musical which is based on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.  I like musicals so I know this will be enjoyable.  And I think they are sweet for including me in this outing.

The following week my son is taking me to see Ray LaMontagne !  Yes!!!  I had seen he was coming to Orlando, but figured I should not spend the money for the ticket and then my son texted me last week and told me to save the date because he had bought tickets to take me.  He is such a sweetheart, he pays attention to what I like and he usually finds a concert to take me to every year.   It helps that he has a very eclectic taste in music so he likes a lot of the same things I like along with all kinds of other things.  I think LaMontagne appeals to the non-existent poet inside of me 😏



Then of course in November, there is Thanksgiving and even though I have been cooking for close to 40 years, I am still expected to cook again this year .  I have really grown to hate turkey BLAH!!  Now I do it mostly for the grandkids though. Traditions ya know...

Well that is about all for now. Actually I have a gazillion things I could write, but no time at the moment and I am surprised I found time to write this useless bit of information about yours truly.

Have a great week everyone!

some disconnected thoughts that occurred to me this week and some old writing and a picture or two

I wrote the end of the story and no one even read it...

Have you ever noticed how cilantro tastes like stink bugs? (I've never eaten a stink bug of course, but I know how they smell and smell and taste go together)

It occurred to me this past week that I am homeless. (Not literally of course. Maybe I will elaborate in a later blog.)

One day I am just going to explode (because I keep too many thoughts inside) 

Forty years and nothing ever changed. 

I LOVE the sky all of the time, like this one from today

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I didn't think I liked jazz that much but whatever this is I am listening to from Rollins College radio is sooooooooooo good.  Maybe I will listen to this more.

That Chinese food last night was nasty. 

People have gone crazy in this world. 

I really miss those phone calls at 2 AM 

I wonder what became of Jay Sirrah?  One blogger I really miss. 

I saw this on someone's random page somewhere in the blogs of strangers that I read from time to time. It explains a lot. I was born in July Hahahahah    No wonder I wrote that poem down below this. 🤣

Warm Bodies

Whispered desires

a hypnotic melody

Drawing me close

unable to resist

A searing touch

branding me

Swaying to music

only we can hear

My head on your chest

as I listen

For a heart to beat

in rhythm with mine

I imagine the sound

in the darkness

As I build my reality

out of ghosts

The only warm bodies

in my bed

~Lia 2013

And that is it for now. 

Snippets

Since I have not been blogging much lately, I will just give you snippets of my summer and it will have to suffice for now because I think I have lost what little ability I have to write anyway.

My brother that lives in Missouri came to visit me in June. He stayed a few days and then left to spend two weeks in England. Two days after he came home, my little dog that was not really my dog died. She was old, almost 16 years, so it wasn't completely unexpected. She lived a good life and was active until the day before she died.  I'm glad my brother was here when it happened because I'm not sure I could have dealt with that alone.  Especially when my brother was holding her and she quit breathing for almost two minutes and we were talking about where to bury her, and suddenly she gasped and started breathing again.  It was like a horror movie.   But shortly after that she quit breathing again and that was it. Suffice it to say, we waited awhile before burying her. 

So here she is a few days before she died.  

 That was Snippet 1 a bit longer than a snippet I guess.

Snippet 2

I went to Georgia twice this year.  The last time I went up there, I was driving home and something flew off a truck that was in front of me and hit my new car. It sounded so loud I was sure there would be a dent, or a scratch or something, but when I was able to pull into the rest stop, I checked it out and there was not so much as a tiny ding on it, so I am happy about that.

Snippet 3 It's been hot as hello here in Florida and there has been a lot of rain which has caused my grass to grow to the point all I do is mow the lawn.  But the bright side is, so far no hurricanes and I am hoping there won't be any this year.  Two years in a row is more than enough for me even if I survived them both with next to no damage.  

Snippet 4  I spent two solid weeks painting my bedroom.  Well the painting part did not take that long, but I had to remove a wallpaper border that was here when I bought the house, and underneath that one was another one that the woman who owned the house before me had put up and painted over. It was godawful ugly and hard as hello to get off, so yes, two solid weeks on a job that should have taken no more than two days.   Who paints over a wallpaper border anyway???????

Snippet 5  I found out recently that my baby sister has an inoperable malignant tumor.  So I am quite bummed about this and it is part of the reason I have not felt like writing anything here.  She is 10 years younger than me so it sucks to even think about something happening to her.  I guess I will be making a trip to Tennessee where she lives just outside of Knoxville.  I should do that asap.

That is all the snippets for now because it really hasn't been a very eventful summer.  But at least I wrote something.

Have a nice week.

Lia