January 25, 2020

Sometimes a photograph just has to be enough for a post.

Goodnight 💖

January 23/24, 2020

I deliberately didn't write yesterday so this is going to have to cover both days. I mean, I had to NOT write at least one time this month in order to keep my tradition of breaking my new year resolution. Also, January was taking too long and I think it was because I was trying to post everyday. It became a burden and burden's tend to drag out and make time go slowly. LOL, that is my excuse and I am sticking with it.

So, I watched the impeachment trial the first day, but not all of it because hey, at my age I need my beauty sleep to save whatever I have left of beauty , which isn't a whole heck of a lot. I was looking at some old pictures from back at the beginning of the century and the new millenium and I wasn't half bad looking. Then somehow 20 years went by and now I am old. I don't know how that happened, but here I am, old. Now girls at the checkout in the supermarket call me honey and sweety, and the bag boys try to take my groceries out and if I say no, they say "are you sure?" . I guess they think I am feeble or something, but I am actually still pretty strong and get around well. But it's something about this white hair I got going on that makes them think I can't push my own cart out and load the groceries into the trunk. They never offer to come home with me and unload them and carry them into the house...

Ooops, I got side tracked up there. I was talking about the impeachment and somehow ended up at the grocery store. Yep, I am old. Anyway, I watched that first day , a good bit of it but I think I fell asleep a few times. I mean how long can one listen to Adam Schiff droning on and on saying all the same old crap he said in the hearings? Gah he is annoying! The second day, I only watched a few minutes and noticed even some of the senators were nodding off, or trying to keep from nodding off.

Today I watched none of it, but I read a news story about it earlier. I read all the comments after the story too and I am sorry but this one made me laugh. Hey, I know some of you are dying to see the president get removed from office. I know it would make your day, so I am not putting this here to offend anyone. I just thought this comment was funny.

"Seriously Dems why do you need more witnesses when you have all of that indisputable evidence below? Brennan- We have indisputable evidence Comey-We have proof beyond a doubt Schiff-We have an imaginary whistleblower, who only I can see Mueller- Duh what was I investigating? Pelosi-We made up 2 fake crimes Lev Parnas- The felon note scribbler GAO-issues an Opinion Dems- you have to prove you are innocent. Really Dems when are you going to prove that he committed a crime it's been over 3 years now? The Dems who cried Wolf...LMAO "

Anyway, enough of that.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Much love <3 p="">

Lia

January 21, 2020

I got caught up watching, well actually listening to the stupid impeachment hearings and forgot to write today.

I was thinking of some things this morning to write about but now they are all gone, out of my head, leaked through the holes in my mind or something like that.

This writing everyday...

Oh well, I am the one who decided to challenge myself so here I am.

Yesterday I was talking about how there is not much to do in this town. Now don't get me wrong. There is the beach and there are lots of parks to hang out at if you like nature. That is all I really need. There aren't too many stores to shop in, unless you like Wallyworld or Target . There are a few others, but those are the two bigger ones. I hate shopping so it doesn't matter to me, but most women love to shop. There is an antique store here that has antiques and various vintage things. That store is full of old things. Anything you can think of. I love browsing through that store. It has all these little rooms with all this stuff, stuff, stuff. I found an old toy truck for my grandson which he really likes. And I buy old people there. Yes, old people. But that is for another post.

The one thing in this town that draws people from all over the world actually are the rocket launches. Most of those people are tourists from other countries that are in Orlando for the theme parks. Why people pay all that money for theme parks is beyond me. I hate theme parks. Disney, Universal, all of them. Just money suckers where you stand in line for hours for a one minute ride. Nope, not for me.

But back to the rockets. The other day, SpaceX launched a rocket and then after 90 seconds they deliberately blew it up. And then the capsule which is a test for manned flights came back down into the ocean. I got to see the rocket from my front yard as it went up, and then I got to see it explode. How cool is that?? So yeah, we don't have much to do, but we do have rockets and not many people can say that.

And that is that for today.

Much Love,

Lia

January 20, 2020

A few posts back I was talking about how fast January was going. But here it is, only January 20th which means I have 11 more days to go which means 11 more posts to make just to get through January! 😳 I hope I can come up with enough blather for 11 more posts. Because, if you recall, I so stupidly made that New Year's resolution to post everyday. And I probably shouldn't remind you, but my resolution was to post EVERYDAY, as in 366 days of 2020. Yes, stupid me decides to try to post everyday in a leap year. Gah, I am having trouble getting through January...

I live in a medium sized town but there isn't a lot going on here. Not much to do in this particular town unless you like car washes and storage units. The city puts out this newsletter called "Titusville Talking Points". It's supposed to keep everyone informed about all the new businesses that are coming to town, how far along the building process is and when to expect the grand opening. They put this newletter out every quarter. And I kid you not (well maybe I exaggerate --- I had to look up how to spell that by the way) .

Anywho, I kid you not (with some slight exaggeration), but every single quarter it seems they are bragging about another new car wash that has been built. I mean there should not be a dirty car in this whole town with all the car washes we have. I still wash my own car though. I don't trust those car washes for a lot of reasons.

First of all, they steal your money. They give you all these options, like Basic car wash, Car wash plus wax, Super Duper Deeeeeeeluxe car wash.

Well I use to use the car wash right next to the Lowes store here. I mean once I got over my fear of not being able to drive between those two guide bars or whatever ya call them. The first time I went in one, I drove too far and some loud alarm thingy goes off and scares the crap out of me. And there is this blinking sign that it took me a minute to see because I was so scared from the loud noise, thinking I had run over some attendant or something. 😁 The lighted sign says "back up". OH, they want me to back up and run over the guy again???? 😨 But of course, it was just telling me I had gone too far. So anyway, I mastered the art of driving to just the right spot to keep from setting off the alarm. Since I was used to that car wash, that is the one I used .

But the day came when it started stealing my money. I always chose Super Duper Deeeeeeeluxe car wash (That's the one where they use all those multi-colored foams on your car and rinse it three time and put more colored foam and rinse it, then put this other stuff on and then blow dries your car. It's really super duper deeeeluxe.)

It did a great job, till one day it didn't. I chose that option, and all it did was wash and rinse my car. No super duper anything. Just basic.

Well I chalked that up to maybe this is a one time glitch. But the next two times I went it did the same thing. And you know, there is never an attendant around when something like that happens. I think they know when it is not working so they go behind the old warehouse and smoke pot or something and laugh at people who pay for Super Duper Deeeeeeeeluxe and get Basic. So I quit going there. That was back in the day before we had 46 car washes in town.

There was another car wash at the Exxon station. If you bought a certain amount of gas, you got a free car wash. So one day I was with my then teenage daughter. She is now 28 so this was years ago. I got some gas, and they gave me a code to get a free car wash. I punch in the code and pull my car up and it starts squirting all these different colored foams on to my car. I thought "hmmm, this is cool, I am getting the Super Duper Deeeeeeeluxe car wash for free. So there I sit, with multi-colored foam all over my car waiting for phase two. But.....no phase two. The car wash chose that moment to break down. I look at my daughter , she looks at me, and I said "I think it broke down". She is like "what are we gonna do?" I said, "well, maybe they have a water hose here". But NO, no water hose. Nothing, nada.

I told her we would just have to drive home with the foam all over our car. She is like "MOMMMM, that will be embarrassing! I'm like "Well I don't know what else to do" and I take off down the street, heading toward my house which was about 2 miles away. Now remember, she is a teenager, she is embarrassed as heck, and she slinks down in her seat so no one can see her. I mean God forbid one of her friends sees her riding with her mom in a car covered in multi-colored foam. I just start laughing and I tell her we are almost home. No one is paying any attention to us and you aren't going to see any of your friends and even if you do, there is foam covering the windows. (I did use the wipers to clear the windshield of course).

So here I am laughing and she is slunk down in the seat and she says "Mom, this looks like we got sprayed by a sperm whale!! This is so embarrassing ) She always came up with silly things like that . Well that did it. I start laughing so hard I can barely see to drive. We made it home and my neighbor is out in his driveway and he starts laughing. He asked me what happened. My daughter gets out of the car and won't even look at him. I just start laughing again and tell him "it was a giant sperm whale" .

So yeah, I don't use any of these car washes in town. But someone must, because they keep on building them.

I had a bunch of other things to say, but this is long and people don't read long posts so

Goodnight and much love,

Lia