i actually saw 2 old 'twilight zones' this morning!!

The house with the turret is just, well, a house, but damn, what I wouldn't give for one of those! Do you have any idea how much reading & writing I could do up there?? The house next to it on the right used to be just a big house, but the water company's office is there now...and it's still perfect!!
This is the triangle corner with a huge church in the middle; straight across the picture, on the left, is the office where my orthodontist was (I ALWAYS hated going there, didn't everybody who had to?.) My old house was halfway between the water company, and this church.

Okay...enough of memory lane stuff! I'm scared of what Monster warned about...falling in a pothole!

Scary Monster did give me some questions, I'm going to answer them here, and anyone else who wants 5 questions leave a remark in the comments that says "interview me" and I'll getcha...c'mon..I have a LOT of questions for everybody!!

1. What was your favorite TV sitcom when you were growing up?

Well, it has to be between 'All In The Family' (you knew that one, right?), or 'Family Ties'...I had/have the hugest crush on Michael J Fox!

2. If you could escape into one novel, which one would it be and what character would you be?

This is gonna sound weird, but I'd have to say "It" by Stephen King, and I'd be Mike Hanlon, I think that's him. He's the one of all his friends that stayed in their hometown, and, basically, that's me!! But, he was also kinda the 'hero' that called everyone and told them to come home again, It's back, & we need to get rid of it for good!

3. Three words that make you smile/three words that anger you?

hmmm...this is hard...

> Chocolate?

> Autumn

> ghosts

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>You can't...

>Don't...

>No...

4. Is there a job that you would never do for any amount of money?

Well...maybe being a scuba diver for Roto-Rooter...but, everything else is on the table...

5. The world as you see it; good or bad; getting better, or worse?

Well, at the moment, it seems 'uneasy', as if it's getting ready to make a movement toward one or the other...but, sad to say, I think it's getting worse forever. Our parents used to worry about 'the Bomb', and they had "fallout shelters" in the basements of our schools, the kids used to have to practice hiding under their desks at school in case we got bombed. Since 9/11, nobody in the United States can say 'nobody'll ever get us!'. No, we're not "safe" now...but then again...were we ever, or were we just telling ourselves that? Or was it simply the fact that nobody in the U.S. had ever, ever imagined that there was anybody in the world that would die so they could kill another person?

Aw, geez, that was more thinking than I thought it would be! But, c'mon, you'll have fun!

Well, I think I'm all typed out. I know I had something on my mind to write about today, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

awake, again!

Okay, the yellow house with the red porch railings on the right of this picture is the house I grew up in, from age 2 - 18, and it's the one that had good hiding places for hide-and-seek! The brown house on the left was where 3 really nice old ladies lived. Helen (one of the 3), was the one that used to take me Christmas shopping for my family every year. The big thing I remember (besides the wrapping at her house later), was going to McDonald's for dinner afterwards, and getting a Big Mac! In the styrofoam container, remember those? The great big rock in the middle is a permanent fixture there, it's been there forever! Since way before those houses were built. Which was the late 1800's. The rock was used by the president who got the troops to enlist for the Spanish-American war! In the local history books, it said that president McKinley stood on the rock to recruit guys to fight. Who knows? All I knew was we always had fun playing 'King of the Hill' on it! And when they were building our house, it was originally supposed to have 24-inch thick basement walls, but the rock is so big & deep into the ground, they had to go to 20-inch thick! I was always afraid of the basement, anyway, until I stored my beer can collection down there when I was, like 15 + !


This huge white house was the beauty parlor right across the street. My mom used to go there once a week to get her hair 'done'. I don't know what they 'did' to it, it always looked the same to me! This beauty parlor is still there, and popular with the older ladies in town still. Jim (the owner...still owns it!), when I was little, had one of those little black jockeys as a lawn ornament out in this front lawn...hmmmmm...wonder where that went?
Okay, well, I haven't done much of anything today, just ate toast with crunchy peanut butter for breakfast, did my physical therapy exercises (retch!), ate a banana, took a shower, fed the cat, & took numerous naps between everything! No, I didn't go anywhere today. But I'm pretty proud of myself so far...I STILL have a 'family size' Hershey's chocolate bar with almonds out in the kitchen 'junk food cabinet'...+ a 'family size' Almond Joy....the reason for those quotation marks is, when you see 'family size', that means 'Libby size'! And I stay 108 lbs, no matter what...cool! Oops, I really hafta go...now I hear an ice cream truck coming down the street...see ya!
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Saturday...busy day...hehehe

Here it is...the house up above the pond and fountain...mostly, the reason I took this picture was the three different shades of green of the trees you see. Yeah, I know, some reason, but, I'm nothing if not 'out there'! Besides, it's a digital camera, so there's no film to worry about wasting!

And this house is the one that I moved into with Tif when she was 1 & 1/2. Our apartment was the one on the left here. If I was sitting on the porch, I was looking straight over at the Central Christian Church (Kings' mansion) across the street, and across the back lawn of that was the house with the pond! There were 4 apartments in this house, the 2 in the front, & 2 in the back, all 2-story apartments with attics. The guy that lived in the right side was really nice & funny, we got to be really good friends...even after he scared the crap out of me one night, by going out on his roof one night, and crawling over to my roof, and knocking on the window! Holy Mother of God, I doubt if I EVER was that scared in my life! Especially because I was in the middle of a good Stephen King book, and had just settled down in bed to read it...

He used to be good at doing the 'claymation' stuff, like the Mr Bill. Everybody used to hang out over there a lot, just because you KNEW you'd end up laughing all night! One time we were drinking Rolling Rock beer (ya know, the little bottles?), and one of his friends & I somehow redid our labels on the bottles, and, I don't remember what J wrote, oh yeah, I do...'Moldy Sock', but I wrote 'Rotting Cock', and we left them on the mantel for S! I think I had my 'college fun' without going to college! (I just worked my ass off instead...but always had fun doing it...). S & his one friend, J had just graduated from Purdue and had moved here to work at the phone company. After a while, S got tired of being 'Mr Corporate', and doing office/business stuff, and he quit there, and moved back up north to his hometown, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and went back to his family's cherry farm, to work there! That was neat, and smart to do it before he had a family to depend on him!

My attic on the third floor, that had the padlock on it when I moved in was a constant source of curiousity for EVERYONE!! Finally, K & Jc (2 high school friends) & I decided we needed to know why that was there, and one of us picked it with a bobby pin. Tif was asleep in her crib, so she couldn't crawl up (babies always have to hit the stairs first, ya know!). So we went creeping up there, cuz there was no stair light. It was creaky old wooden stairs, I remember that! When we got to the top, we looked around for a lightswitch, but there wasn't one, just a bare lightbulb hanging in the middle of the ceiling. We turned it on, and were looking around...it was big, with 2 or 3 big rooms up there, and they were asking "hey, can I move in up here?". Then we went over toward the stairs, and noticed the devil worshiping things painted on the wall...the most memorable thing was the realistic hand, with the palm out, and each fingertip had a flame coming out of it, and it had the #13 on the palm! I'm SO surprised that we didn't wake Tif up, thundering down the stairs, screaming! Once we got down to the second floor, I put the lock back on, and said "now...what were you saying about moving in up there??" I lived there for the year I'd signed the lease for, and, for some reason, nobody ever asked to be a roommate again. (Good, I never wanted a roommate! I had Tif!).

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

hallelujah! i got a whole 8 hrs sleep last night, and this morning...

...cuz 4am to 12pm = 8 hrs, right? I dunno, but it's sunny and in the 70's, so I'm doin' this before I leave!

Okay...these pictures are from the same corner...obviously, it's my favorite corner in the world, even including the other states I've seen, and London, and everything! The huge building (ok, Lucy, 'ginormous!) is the back of the Central Christian Church (formerly, Kings' mansion), the fountain is across the street at my back, bluestone manor is also across the street, right in front of the fountain, the house where the guy used to yell at us for being on his lawn is across another street, and....the big old white house is across another street (obviously, it's a corner!) has, forever, had a bigtime reputation for being haunted!! As a matter of fact, I wish so bad I still had the pictures Joe & I took in the windows 20 years ago! Because (back when I was single in the late 80's), Joe was my very best friend, and we saw that this house had a "For Rent" sign in the front door. Given, we were riding around town drunk (somewhat...no, Tif wasn't with me, she was staying at Grandma & Grandpa's that night). But, we seriously talked about renting it for the 2 of us + Tif. That would've been so fun! But, I guess it was 'childhood dreams' or something...we never followed up on calling the number. But we did get a whole bunch of, well, scary looking pictures in the windows...especially into the basement, which also had one of those outside cellar doors, which in themselves give me the creeps! And this big house is diagonal from the church/mansion. Which kinda feels creepy sometimes too! Cuz I rented an apartment across the other street from there after my first divorce (at age 19/20!) for myself & Tif, who was 1 1/2 at the time and just getting good at wallking! It was a 2-story apartment, part of a house, that was divided into 4 apartments. It had an attic, too, but that's another story! Suffice it to say...the attic door was always closed...and locked! It actually had a padlock on the outside of the door! I'll post a picture of the outside of that aparment later.

I don't know what it is, I just seem to 'attract' ghosts' or something wherever I live or work! Good thing I'm all interested in 'em, huh?

I dunno...I get caught up in thinking about 'then' when I look at these too long, and here I was gonna talk about politics...huh...go figure!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

2:02 am thursday...

Believe it or not...this fountain and trees and all this are in someone's 'backyard'. Off to the right, there's a huge octagonal house built up on stilts, and down the side of the hill to the pond and fountain. This whole thing is in, like, the middle of town...I used to walk by it with my friends on the way to high school!

All right...I started this post at 2:02 am last night, but...we had the worst storm last night, and the first lightning hit right outside the window at about 2:05am...so the computer got shut off immediately! (I shut it off, not struck by lightning!). Then I went in the kitchen and found the biggest flashlight I could find, and headed to the bedroom, turned the tv on, and was set for the night!! Good thing I thought ahead and got the flashlight...electricity went off about 3 am for a few minutes...the tv went off in the middle of 'All In The Family'! Bummer, man! (how '60's of my language! You can see I grew up with 2 brothers that were 11 & 13 years older!). But it was a great show, it was the one where Mike got pissed and said the wedding's off, walked out the door, and Gloria did her famous crying "Mwahh, whaaa, Ma, augghhh!". I think maybe that's why Dad reminded me of Archie, cuz I was a lot like Gloria, and Mom is just like Edith!! Oh, and, of course, 'Cheaters' came on after that...I hate it when the husband/boyfriend goes out on the wife/girlfriend, and the woman goes back. I think if the guy screws someone else, well, he doesn't need to worry about getting back together, unless he wants to live a 'sexless' life till he dies, cuz he won't ever get any here...

And the picture of the house under the trees with the enormous yard is on the next block back...it's around the corner from the house I grew up in. The biggest thing I remember about this house? When my first best friend and I used to run around together, when we first started being allowed to go anywhere by ourselves (maybe 7 or 8 years old, and we both lived on this block!). Anyway, when we went around the block, we used to cut this corner, and walk over the grass...and OMG, did the man that lived there come out and yell at us ALWAYS! "GET OFF MY LAWN!!" Of course, we were scared off (the first time!). But, unfortunately for him, neither of our families moved until we were 18! And, she had 6 older brothers too! hahaha!

I had a 'shot hangover' for the last day & a half...that SUCKS so BAD!! But I'm good now...till next Tuesday night, anyway.

I can't wait till it quits being rainy and stormy out, cuz I haven't gone anywhere for a couple days...I'm out of candy bars! How can I live?? (snark!). I'm good on Twizzlers, I just need chocolate!!

Okay...I need to do laundry...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Tuesday...I got my ms shot a couple hours ago...

...and Tif gave it to me (in the left arm this week...I switch arms every week!), and her date was here with her, and we were all joking about something (or someone!), and I did the exact same thing I did when Tif & I went & got our bellybuttons pierced 8 years ago...I laughed while the needle was in my arm! Only Tif was 'attached' to the other end!!

And she and her date were "Quit laughing, Mom!" But I couldn't! So, here I am, laughing my ass off, and she's doing her best to keep the needle in my arm, and get the injection in! And, I might've laughed all the way through it, but when she was done, I realized how much my friggin' arm hurt!

Anyway...the first picture is this cute little house on one of the main streets downtown, and it's a museum. And the big brick house is the one on one of the main streets in this town (it's the one right across the street from the house I grew up in). And, you know what? If I could, I'd buy that house and move in!! I LOVE big old brick houses! I like the big brick one better cuz I have a much better chance of seeing a ghost there...well, maybe not...the other one is supposed to be very historical and all...I do know that my old house was close to the Underground Railroad, and all, and I found a few hiding places in there when I was a kid (great places for hide and seek!).

Tif took me to an appointment today, and I finally got to give her the bags of candy I've been getting for her everywhere when I've seen it...like the blue & white gummy sharks, and the stupid little wax pop bottle things with colored syrup in 'em. Thankfully, none of that stuff is anything I'd want! (good thing, or it would've been gone by now!). Also a good thing that she doesn't like chocolate (yet!). She's always liked anything fruity-flavored, like jolly ranchers & stuff like that. That's fine...I can get 6 candy bars and a bag of jolly ranchers, & I don't have to share my candy!! Whee! Hip-hip-hooray!

The other night I was up all night watching tv again, and it's like I'm watching the 'all 70's station'! I watched 'Three's Company', 'Good Times' (I always loved that show!), 'The Jeffersons', and 'All In The Family', which is great...everything Archie says is my dad!! I miss him...he's been gone a little over a year (Dad, not Archie!). Tif and niece B went up and put an arrangement on his grave a couple weeks ago, on the anniversary. I would go, but the 'family cemetary' is an hour north. (it's not ours, but Mom's whole family is buried there, going back for generations...even my great-grandma Libby!)

Well, time to go, Nancy Grace is coming on, and I can't miss that! I know...I'm hooked on tv...but I'm also reading while I'm listening/kinda watching...right now I'm re-reading 'Bias', by Bernard Goldberg.

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

July 15, 2007, after reunion

Okay...this is the front of the Central Christian Church, formerly, the Kings' mansion. What's really cool is that the King family lived here before they lived in the house I grew up in, and they're the ones we bought that house from when I was 2.

And, looking into the history of the area, this was originally their carriage house!

All this stuff is within about 10 blocks of where I currently live, and about 3 blocks from the house I grew up in, and 2 blocks from the Harding Home, which was behind the house I grew up in.

We had a really good reunion today! It was good enough that I didn't even realize that it was 6 or 7 pm when Bro said we were leaving, and we'd been there since 1:30! And, maybe, best of all...their house is so big, I never even saw Psycho, until I went past him going out to Bro's SUV to leave. He was sitting out in the garage talking to Uncle D, Mom's 'baby' brother (yeah, he's 70-something). No, that's wrong of me, I know...but...I'm nothing if I'm not honest!...we should all be so lucky to do that, right?

Anyway, it was really neat to see everyone again, I haven't seen everybody together, and all happy to see each other, ever! And there were a few people that I felt really stupid because I didn't recognize them right away, and I was really glad that Bro's daughter (niece A) was beside me so I could whisper "Who's that?". Duhhhh! That's awful!! I knew all these people WAY before she was born!! But it's a little bit different when the girl you're wondering about is about niece A's age, and she has 2 kids...it was one of my cousins' daughters! I could see it when she was standing beside me talking to niece & me, but until then...What's funny is that when we were all at Grandma's farm on Sundays, when Boo & were teenagers, this girl was about 5, and used to follow us EVERYWHERE, no matter how hard we tried to lose her!

All right, I know, this is getting confusing, so I'm gonna go and watch another of my favorite tv shows, 'Girls Behaving Badly'. I absolutely love this show! It sounds like it'd be x-rated or something, but it's not, it's a bunch of women in their early 20's just playing pranks on regular people, like one of them is dressed up in dodgeball clothes, and she runs up to a random person at a mall, hands them a rubber dodgeball, and yells 'Cover me!', and promptly throws her own dodgeball at a customer's head, and runs after it hits them. Then both those people look at each other, like, WTF?? This is gettin' good...one's in a porta-potty, yelling "Hey! Help me! I can't find the phone in this phone booth!!"

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Friday the 13th!

This is so awesome! This barn is in the alley right down the street from me, it's one of the things I walked past to school when I was in 6th, 7th, & 8th grade! And I never, ever thought about how cool it was to have a barn right in the middle of town, in the area of big old houses!

This is the 'Bluestone Manor', that was around the corner from the house I grew up in, and I always wanted to live here! (still do!)


Another shot of it....












I was out riding around with my camera for 2 hours yesterday, and it was AWESOME!!
Ya know what? I never realized how much I liked taking pictures of stuff I'm interested in! I took about 60 pictures in the 2 hrs I was out yesterday, and I had so much fun!! Yeah, okay, it might look weird to people driving past, but ya know what? I don't care! I've got a great camera with an enormous memory card, and a way to get around, and free time that most people don't have, so I'l take advantage of it!
I'm going up to Findlay Sunday, cuz my cousin Ky and his wife & kids are having a huge family reunion at their house...his sister & her husband & and kids and grandkids (!) and his mom (Mom's little sister) & her friend are coming up from Florida for the weekend! Now, that is really gonna be neat...this is the group of my Mom's family that I haven't seen since last year at my dad's funeral. It'll be great to see them at a happy occasion! Tif was supposed to take me, but she didn't get the day off, damn! But, Bro is gonna take me, and that'll be fun. He mentioned yesterday that he wished Mom & I could live together, he thinks that would be good for her. I do too, but, I know it wouldn't ever work, and he agrees with me, cuz Psycho has too much of a hold on her. He's way too jealous of anyone that talks to Mom, or spends time with her...it's really bad. He's a very big 'downer' for her, and only talks about his life, and how hard shit is for him "but I'll get through, Mom, I'll be okay..." How can you bitch about your life being hard, to your Mom, who has lung cancer?? He truthfully sounds just like Eeyore!!
All right, enough of that...time to get back to being Tigger!
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

the first day i haven't gone anywhere!

I totally LOVE this house!! And after you see the houses I took pictures of, you'll see why I'm 'difficult'...why, you ask? I can not do stairs, but, if you'll notice, there's not a one-story to be found in this collection...

No, I'm sure there's a one story house around somewhere that I'll like (not that I'm looking or anything...), I just like the way a 2 or 3 story looks...I think it's for the aesthetical reason, that they just seem to look more friendly & solid!
It was a gorgeous day outside, wasn't it? The brick house is right across the street from the one I grew up in, and it's got kinda a 'haunty' reputation...looks like it's well deserved, huh?

I didn't go anywhere today, and that's weird for me lately! But I still had a good day. Cleaning, going thru stuff, I have a feeling my trash pile out by the curb next Tuesday is gonna be pretty big...I'm just tired of "stuff" that we don't need, don't want, most of the time we don't have any idea it's there, or where it came from!!
But I did do something kinda weird today...but it's seemed to work. I've been having a hard time getting the back door to shut without really slamming it, and it's hard to open too, cuz it sticks at the edge. Well, so after I thought about it for awhile, I went and looked under the sink and found what I was looking for...WD-40!! And, yes, I DID spray it on the wood edges of the frame & door! And that was around noon, and it's seemed to work...(I'll find out if I close it later for the night, and then can't open it tomorrow, I guess...).
I was sitting here reading other blogs awhile ago,when somebody knocked on the door...that was different, cuz my back is to the door while I'm sitting here. So I got up & turned around, and it was a guy (kinda geeky lookin') with a bunch of pamphlets & stuff. I went to the door, and he was telling me that he's getting ready to open an Edward Jones investment place in our area, so he's going out in the neighborhood, introducing himself & investments...We talked for a while, found out he also had gone to that little elementary school down the street (difference was, that was 20 years earlier than me!). But, how coincidental is this?? I had just been posting awhile ago, about how much I wanted to learn about the stock market & investments...and he is magically put in front of my door??? Freaky...but, he really is nice, and he's not a big brute-lookin' guy...as a matter of fact...I could probly take him, even with ms! So I gave him my phn # and he said he'll be in touch, and he'll explain a lot of this stuff to me...I said, 'But I really don't have anything to invest right now", & he said that's ok, he'll help me for when I AM ready!
Life's just been weird like that lately....
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Sunday....

It is SO hot here lately, and no rain til, maybe Tuesday? Grrrrr.....oh well, at least it's not humid like, when you go outside it feels like you're breathing through a wet towel over your face!

I had so much fun today, and it didn't cost me anything...how long has it been since you've been able to say that? I didn't do a ton of stuff, I guess, but, my day was SO freakin' FULL!!

Now that I'm in the habit of getting out of this house for a few hours a day, well, I'm sitting here thinking about how much time & how many years I wasted...NEVER, EVER gonna happen again! ...the one time a few weeks ago that I said that to Tif, she said "You can't do anything about that now (hey! that's MY line!), so forget you were that way, and go forward from here.". Damn, she's such a smart kid, how'd I get so lucky?

But I did spend some money today, not cuz I had to, just cuz I wanted to...lemme tellya how spoiled my 23 year old daughter is now...the last three days I've gotten her a little bag of gummy sharks, the next day, a pack of those little wax pop bottles with colored sugar water in 'em, and yesterday, I found a pack of 'Lik-M-Aid' at the Certified station...so, of course, I stopped over at her house to drop it off...she yelled "Thanks, Mom!" then immediately started saying "What are you trying to do, make me fat??" I just looked over at her date, and giggled, and told her to keep eating, cuz I'd LOVE to have her clothes passed on to me! whoo-hooo! Anyway...I have been everywhere in the last week, EVERYWHERE!! (well, ok, in this town, anyway). Seriously, I really wish this thing had an odometer on it...when I used to drive 55 miles north to work every morning, I used the odometer every time I could! To figure out gas mileage, to check if it really WAS 80 miles to Toledo, to know that it's exactly 100 miles from my parking space beside my old apartment to the Michigan state border...hmmmm...see how exciting I made life when I was trying to think of something, to think about while I was in the car for 2 hours a day...

I rode back down toward the house I grew up in again...I do know that's about a mile. (scooter battery holds a 7 mile chg, I make sure I plug it in & charge it EVERY night!). And I took my digital camera with me, just cuz it was such a gorgeous day out, and I was going to be going by all the 2 & 3 & 4 story houses, so I was stopping every couple of houses, taking pictures of them, and all of a sudden started wondering exactly how long it would take before somebody had the cops get me because they thought I was a terrorist...I did get tons of great pictures, but I didn't get them off the camera yet.

Going around the block there, I was in front of the apartments beside the old house, and there were a few people sitting in front of one, they walked over, we talked for awhile, when I left, the lady said stop over anytime, they're always cooking out and having friends over in the summer, and I should just stop by. How cool are people?? Went a couple houses further, and here comes a guy up the sidewalk, and he stopped, we talked for a while. He was nice...albeit, I think, a little high or drunk, cuz he kept shaking my hand every 30 seconds or so...hahahaha! Came back this way, and went to the gas station for smokes. I was inside checking out the candy racks (just because they were there, ya know?), and I went by the pop cooler, and accidentally bumped the front. Immediately, I hear an older man say "Do I hear somebody speeding in here?". I said I wasn't speeding, but don't ask for my license, okay?

It's just amazing to remember how much laughter there is out there...and it's free!

Friday already...

Holy CRAP!!! OW!!!! It's too early in the morning to look at this!!


I bet this didn't feel too awful good either, but, of course, I personally wouldn't know...I'm a girl, so the first reaction I have is riotous laughter...

But, this poor little bunny almost makes me cry to look at it!!

I've been running around town on my scooter for the last couple days. I went the regular way down towards Tif's house the other day, then went the other way about 8 blocks down by my old house I grew up in, and all the other big houses down that way (geez, do I miss that neighborhood!). And it was kinda funny...it started sprinkling while I was out by the garage at my old house, and I remembered exactly where to stand so I didn't get rained on!! Wow!! A 35 year-old memory!! Then it quit sprinkling, so I took back off down the street, to the ice cream stand, cuz I wanted a couple chicken sandwiches and a strawberry milkshake...how-EVER...since it was the fourth of July, it was closed!! Grrrr....Oh well...I rode over next door to it, to the new mini-mart, that used to be a Lawson's, then a Dairy Mart. It's just a kinda little junk food store, and deli meats, and cigarettes, some frozen food...it's just the kind of place I like. Not so much for deli stuff, but, they have every kind of candy you ever thought of! I actually found a little 2/$1.00 pk of gummy sharks, remember those? Bright blue & white?? I never liked 'em, but Tif used to beg for 'em every time we saw them at a store when she was 2 or 3!! I told her last night that I found a bag for her again, when she called, and she was like, "WAHH-HOO!! I'll be over to get 'em in a couple days!!" heeheeheehee!!!
Anyway, they were kinda busy, and I'm glad to see that! I was pretty much laughing, cuz the owner is a middle-eastern man (looks like it, anyway...), and he and his wife were so nice to me! Every time I went around a stack of 12-pks of pop or a rack of chips or something, he'd run out from behind the counter, and move all the stuff, even though I said " You don't need to do that...", he'd just give me a huge smile, & say, "It's no problem!!" The funniest thing was....he was BAREFOOT!! haha!! I know a lot of people'd be yukkin' about that, but, it just kinda made him more human!!
So I spent probly $8.00 in there, on a can of peanuts, gummy sharks, candy necklaces, strawberry cookies, Take 5 candy bar, Fritos...all kinda stuff...holy crap! And, yes, it's gone already! Shut up! How long has it been since you've been in a candy store?? You'd do the same! Oh, and I got a can of Rockstar pop, but I haven't tried it yet...
I have a question...how do people get so behind on their income taxes, like, $35,000.00?? I hardly made that much when I was single!! And these don't look like 'rich people' either~! Just like the people that go on cruises, and they don't look rich, either! How does this happen? I've never gone on a cruise...or owed $35,000 to income taxes...and people that are single & keep having kids? One was all I could afford!
I was awake all night the last few nights, and saw lots of stuff on tv I haven't seen for awhile..."Good Times", "The Jeffersons", Cheers", "Roseanne"..."Blind Date", and, of course, my favorite...."Cheaters"!! There was a big black woman on there who was wanting to catch her big boyfriend cheating, and they caught him in a restautant with the girl he was cheatin with, and his girlfriend chased him into the men's room, and beat the SHIT out of his face with her shoe!! Then there was a white guy trying to catch his girlfriend cheating....he caught her having sex in the back of a car with a guy, the guy took off running, and went in a porta-potty...the boyfriend went up beside it, and just pushed it over!! The 'other guy' came crawling out of it while it was on its side!! OMG, was that FUNNY!! I'd love to bust someone with the 'cheaters' people, but I would never have the guts to...would you?
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

2nd post of the day...useless news...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287643,00.html

Monday...

You know, I usually put pictures of people doing stupid things on here...but, these won today!

If anybody's been watching the news this weekend, well, I hate to say it, but it almost seems like the 'jihadists' are making big steps toward the west, seeing that they've
easily gotten to Great Britain, & now Scotland. Thankfully, the British are on the case, and have arrested at least 7 so far.
In my opinion, these people don't seem like 'true AlQaeda' groups. The biggest clue for me would be that they actually didn't kill anybody, and the 2 guys driving the Jeep at Glasgow airport didn't stay in the truck and 'martyr' themselves. I actually would think that these are 'sleeper cells', that would like their groups to get admitted into the AlQaeda group. And, basically, I think, both tries were "failures" for them. AlQaeda seems like a 'franchise', that you earn your way into, don't you think? Unfortunately for most of us, they seem to be well-managed. At least more outside this country. I REALLY hope that our security is as tight as MI5 in England! High-fives to them all!!
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

friends...

Ouch!!!














Yeah, I'm a slacker...but it's been fun, does that count for anything? Well, it's been hot and rainy here for awhile...rainy, I can deal with...hot with rain, well, honestly, I could live without all the humidity...
Things here are going really good, though. Yesterday one of my friends from when I worked at GTE came over, and we talked forever! She belongs to that religion, ummm, I don't know what it is, but it's the one that women wear skirts or dresses only, and always wear their hair in a bun...our seats were next to each other out there, and she was always so nice that there's no way anyone would not like her!! So that was in 1996, and the building was 3 floors, with 1000 people working there...I just think how I would never have met her otherwise, and I have other friends from there that we still email. Have you ever thought about where you originally found your friends? Sometimes it's someplace you expect to have friends from, like work, or your kids' friends parents, or school, if you're going...other times you find friends that you totally can't imagine your life without them, where you'd never expect to! Like Mouse, whom I was almost mortal enemies with for about the first 2 weeks we worked together up north (it was jealousy, on both our parts!). After that we became friends, that was 21 years ago, Tif was 2 1/2, Mouse's daughter wasn't even thought of yet. But now we call each other and email a few times a week! Or Chester (a woman) that was a delivery person up there, and we still email a lot...or a great friend of both of ours that died just a few years ago of cervical cancer, which by the way is why I will always keep up with check-ups with my 'nookie-lookie' dr! Not that she didn't, but, I don't know why it had to happen. Especially to her!
Joe was over last night too, and that was great! We just sat here catching up on a lot of shit that's happened over the last 17 or 18 years! And, of course, since I'd become friends with his friends, and he'd become friends with mine, we were, well, gossiping! "Hey, whatever happened to --------?", "blah blah blah blah blah...". "And what about ---------? Did he ever marry that girl he was going with?"
"blah blah blah blah, and they have 4 kids now..."
See how life can get away from you if you're not careful??
And now we have computers that we meet anyone in the world over!! Email friends all over the United States, Australia, South Africa, Spain, London, Gibraltar, oh, everywhere! A few of whom I've even met in person, and they've come here, and some people say, 'you met them over the internet, and you let them come to your house??' Aw, c'mon. It kinda makes a difference if it's somebody you've been writing with for years, and somebody who just pops on, and you don't know them at all...'course, I guess anybody could be anybody on here, I wouldn't KNOW, but, 'years' is different from 'weeks'! And, ya know what? You're all included in the list of friends I'll always remember, even if we haven't met in "meatspace", as Xdell (aka...sexy x-y) calls it. (That expression makes me laugh every time I think of it!!).
BoUnCeS! to all my buddies!
LibbY!

...no rain...(blind melon, remember them?)

Thanks, Queenie!! This is really nice!! It's a total honor to be nominated for an award from the UK! Especially from a really talented writer like you!!

It's already been a pretty busy week here! I'm almost always too busy doing 'real stuff' instead of on the computer....which is the BEST, of course!!

Was shopping with Mom yesterday most of the day, we had fun. I have to share something kinda (really) smartass my mom said yesterday, so everyone will understand exactly where I inherited this from! She was telling me that someone said "I heard you lost your husband last year.", and all she could think was "Yes, how careless of me!" I'm sorry, but that's funny, no matter who you are!! But, when I got done laughing, I asked her if she really said that. She said, "Oh no! I could NEVER say a thing like that to someone else!" See? I inherited the brain to think of it from her, and the guts to actually say it from my dad...unfortunately, nobody passed on the brains to NOT say the stuff!!...that has to be a 'live & learn' type of thing...trouble is...(that's a Kenny Wayne Shepherd album, by the way)...when you live & DON'T learn!! By the way...if anyone sees the picture of Kenny Wayne Shepherd on that album cover....he could be one of the "Mmmm-Bop" singers grown up!! Hanson, that's it!!

I just heard on the news that it was 92 today! Yuk!! 75 to 80 would be fine, thankyouverymuch!

Kevin's dad took me out to the dr's office today, and I'm actually getting just as good with that scooter as I was driving my little cars!

When we get in the elevator, I back it in, so I don't have to mess around with trying to turn it around in there...and I always back it in the back door up the last 4 feet of ramp, cuz there's absolutely no room to turn it around back there in the laundry room!

If anyone's been keeping up with the news lately...

I feel awful for Jessie Davis's murder here in Ohio, and that of her unborn baby Chloe. May they rest in peace. That murder happened in Stark County, Ohio, where I was born, about 100 miles north of me now. I hope her baby's dad will burn in hell for her murder, especially since he's SUCH a prince that he's also the father of her 2 year old son, who was where when she was killed, and left alone in the house after he 'allegedly' took her body and buried her in a shallow grave. And he's been married to another woman for years, which says right there that he's a coward and a dirtbag with nothing about him to respect!! And that's even if he didn't kill Jessie (which there's almost no doubt that he did!)

I was awake at 3:00 am last night, when Paris Hilton got out of jail. I had the tv on Fox news, but there was live coverage everywhere, showing her walking out of the jail. News? Hardly.

All righty then. I'm out of stuff...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Wednesday June 20, 2007

Do you know the pathetic thing about this picture? I would be the person on the left, of course...see why I have SO many friends...

I really would like a bunch of opinions on this thought, okay?
Now there is a middle school in the state of Virginia that has a 'no-touch' policy...students are not allowed to touch each other. At all. No handshaking. No high-fives. No hugs for your best friend when she is crying & upset. Nothing!! Holy hell!! Next, little kids won't be allowed to play tag. Oh...that's already happening. Never mind. Or little elementary age kids won't be able to chase each other on the playground. Oh. never mind. I have to stop here...suffice it to say that, yup, I'm a fan of Fox News, but this story was also on CNN, when I was watching it later! How the HELL did we live when we were kids?? You know, no seatbelt law...parents were allowed to spank our butts when we did the wrong thing, like run into the street...we were allowed to chase each other around with bent sticks (gun shape) and yell "Bang, bang! I got you! Fall down, darn it, I GOT you!!" Teachers were even allowed to 'whack' us with a paddle if we were assholes in middle school, and not get sued. Trust me, this happened when I was in 6th grade in the 70's, when my friend & I threw chicken sandwiches at each other at lunch. I and many others lived through these things. I can just hear the arguments now..."but things are so much WORSE now! school shootings, high divorce rate, children having to be home alone after school!" Hmmmmm....has anyone ever thought that maybe that was the beginning of the cause of this shit? Maybe if parents tried to be PARENTS more than FRIENDS to their kids, it might help? Kids only have one or two parents...they can find & make their own friends!! That isn't the parents' job!! However, I guess that's being taken away from the kids too, seeing as how any kind of 'physical contact' is being taken away from them. Lemme ask you...do all you parents hug your kids regularly? I know many do, but...I'm SURE it's fewer than it used to be. Or do you ever say "I love you!". Or, heaven forbid..."No, you can't" Or "Do your chores & homework before you go out to play!" Why would ANYONE think that our kids are doing better nowadays than they used to???

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Father's Day, 2007...

Is this just kinda scary, if you think about 'maybe this is how our fighter pilots are trained??'






...but I absolutely KNOW this is wrong...but, here it is anyway...forgive me Father...

So how was everybody's Father's Day? I hope it was really happy and fun. We had a great celebration today for it...we even got most of the cookout & eating done before the skies opened up and it started raining like pouring piss out of a boot! (that's a guy's quote, ya know?).

Everything's still going really good for Tif & her friend at their house. I hafta admit, though, it is kinda funny to hear Tif say something about 'I can't afford to miss work now', 'it takes a lot of my time to keep the house clean', 'we're almost out of toilet paper, paper towels, etc...', and I heard a new one today...'I wish they'd realize they don't have to use a whole roll every time they're in there...'.No, she's not bitching at all, just joking! I love it! And, yes, everybody's right when they say you'll get along better when your kid doesn't live with you!

I was just thinking again today when I heard a commercial for a show about the #1 movies....the very best one I'd pick is (although I'm not a big 'movie person') The Wizard Of Oz! Everybody's seen that, and probably everyone was, like me, scared to death of the flying monkeys! One of my email friends in Spain even knew the movie, and loves it! I loved when that movie was on Sunday night on the Wonderful World Of Disney movie, and we were up in the country at my Grandma's farm...we'd eat, the grownups would clean up, we cousins would be all excited, and be loud til someone said 'Knock it off, or no movie!'...then we'd settle down and color or something...When the movie started, all 6 or 7 of us kids were sprawled all over the floor, with all adults sitting all prim & proper on the couches or in the dining room. Most of us kids would be asleep when the movie ended, so we each got carried out to our parents' cars, and laid down on the backseat so we'd sleep all the way home. I was the one that lived the farthest away, we were an hour south of the farm. And...I was the 'spoiled brat'...I had no one in the backseat but me, my brothers were grown up & moved out. But seriously...weren't those the 'good old days'? When you could ride home asleep in the backseat, and not have to be in a stupid carseat, or sitting up with your seatbelt on? Wow! I even used to take a bed pillow up there (Mom always made me). No, but there is absolutely no better feeling of security than 'cozying down' in a pillow & blanket in the backseat on the way home, & hearing Mom & Dad talking in the front seat (quietly...so they didn't wake up the tired little girl!). I feel bad for kids now that will never, ever be able to have that feeling, don't you?

And, hey, speaking of Mom...she had a second pet scan Wednesday, and Psycho took her out to the hospital to get the results Friday morning, and...they see no cancer in her lung or anywhere else anymore!! How great is that??? They did the biopsy on Mother's Day weekend 2006, we were told the results were 'grim' (of course, that's from Psycho!), and they said 3 to 6 months...and, thank God, it's been way over a year now!!! That's really neat to get good news at a time like this!!
Okay...gotta go~!
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Thurs June 14

Well, it's Thursday, and I finally am feeling like I'm 'human' again! Like I said, Monday kicked my ass...but it was fun...then Tuesday night, Tif gave me my Avonex shot (for ms...get it in my arm every week...fun...). I was all right with it that night, sometimes it can make me feel like shit, but it was okay that night. But then I didn't wake up til 2 pm the next day, and I had a 'shot hangover' all day til last night. But I came back to life last night around 8...and, of course, was awake all night...at 1 am, I went out in the kitchen and made a big bag of butter flavored microwave popcorn, took it in the bedroom, watched the Nancy Grace show, and I ate the whole entire bag by myself!! My God, what a damn pig! Then I started flipping channels, and found the shows "Good Times", "Cheers", "Blind Date"...holy crap...I suck. But I got up at 11 am today, and it's good.
The kitten in this picture has almost the same exact markings as Spice did! Except Spice was much cuter, because she had a regular face, not one that looked like somebody kicked her in it...
I forgot about when Joe & I were talking about our books & stuff (he reads almost as much as me!). Stephen King was our favorite back when we hung around, so we know what books & stories are each others' favorites. Like we were hooked on 'The Talisman'...he's Wolf, I'm Jacky...which makes no sense unless you've read the book...then something came up in the conversation, that made Joe say I'd probably start going around, unplugging everything, saying the government is invading my brain waves with the electricity. Then he said he knew that was from one of SK's old short stories, but he couldn't remember which one. When he said that, I remembered it a little too, and I sat and thought for a couple minutes, then said, "Oh!! 'Fornit some Fornus'!! "The Ballad Of The Flexible Bullet"!!! Okay...that makes absolutely no sense either, but he knew what I was talking about, he remembered it too then. Oh, shit, that was funny!
OMG! I just went in the kitchen to fix dinner, and it smells awful out there! Why?? Well...gotta be honest here...my fault (well, duhh)...I burnt the first bag of popcorn I made last night, burnt it til it was brown! So...I just dumped it in the trash, after I opened it and saw that. So...I have that wondrous aroma wafting through the house, even though every window is open in here, and the big fan in the attic has been on all day!! Time to go dump some Pine-Sol in a bucket, and let it sit in the kitchen, so it'll smell clean, anyway...
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Tuesday, already!

Hmmmm...maybe this might be why I don't want to live in Florida??



...and THIS needs no explanation!!








Okay...I can absolutely NOT believe this! I think, no, I know I did more yesterday than I have in the last 6 months put together! I got up at 10 am, took a shower (like always...but, that, in itself, usually wears me out, even though I have a seat & a handheld shower!). Mom came over at 11, and we went out to the salon Tif works at, and she did our hair, and that was a lot of time & energy on HER part! All I had to do was sit there, while she cut my hair, lightened it all over...the way she has to do it since my hair is so thick is, a layer of color, wrap that layer in tinfoil (no joke!!), another layer of color, wrapped in foil, etc! I ended up with foil like an inch thick on my head, and Tif was showing the other girls how much color & 'lift' she had to use on it...keep in mind, my stupid hair isn't even shoulder-length...so, I love it! And she did Mom's while mine was 'processing', but we didn't get done there til about 3! Then we went to Mom's to see the new wallpaper she was getting in the kitchen...then we came back here, cuz I needed to pick up some 'leg medicine', so my legs would bend (one more ms problem...but it is fixable with meds, which is great!)...then we went to Perkins to get something to eat...about 6, we went to Wal-Mart so I could get some stuff...we got back to my house at 8 pm!! Then Joe had left a message from standing outside the front door, cuz he was s'posed to be here at 7, and I wasn't home yet...I called him back, he came back and brought his pictures, (about 200 of 'em) from all over Europe...Greece, Rome, Italy, France, Switzerland...etc! They were awesome! He won this trip from college cuz he did so good, and the top 30-some people got $$ and this Europe trip! I never realized how OLD everything is there, til I saw these! Especially the ones of him and some friends standing in the Coliseum, and in front of some of the statues, and the Obelisk, etc! WOW! So, I made it through the whole day, til about 2 am with no nap!! OMG, I am SO excited!! However...today, I did NOT get out of bed til 3 pm, I was so worn out!! lol! Didn't matter, though...I made it yesterday!! Oh, and Joe gave me a bunch of pictures he got made for me, that he took back when Tif was 3 or 4! We were laughing about how funny it'd be if he took one to the bar he works at some nights, and Tif goes out there with her friends sometimes...and he just thumbtacked it to the wall, to see if she or anybody said anything!!
Okay...I'm 'bout done...
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

yeah...friday...

...ta-ta-ta, take me back, back to the rocking horse...back to where it all began...Take me back.. so I can start all over again...

"Poison"

That's all I've got at the moment in my head.

Anyway...well, here's my news analysis for the day..

If anyone tried to watch any news today (yes, there are those of us here that do watch it, to follow what's going on), you undoubtedly saw much more than you ever wanted to about what is going on with Paris Hilton now. Problem is, that is not news!! It's entertainment!! Meanwhile, General Peter Pace will be removed from his position in Iraq in September. How many of you knew that? Not many, I bet. Ooh, ooh, whoa I bet you don't know this! Congressman William Jefferson (D-Louisiana) was also finally indicted on his mess (bribery) that happened a couple years ago, and culminated in the FBI getting a warrant, and finding $90,000 in cash in his freezer. But, of course he's totally innocent...just ask him...

God, I'm in such a rotten-ass mood tonight. I'll quit thinking about all this, and think about when I called Boo today, and she told me that two of their 'barn cats' had kittens! She had absolutely not known about Spice, she felt awful...but then she said her kids had taken some pictures of the kittens, and she's gonna email them to me, and I get my choice when they're old enough to leave their moms...she said she won't let them go until they're at least 6 wks, preferably 8! I think that is the best way to do it! So...when I get these pictures, I'll want your opinions, okay? She described each of 'em, and they sound so CUTE!! She still has to check and see which are girls and boys, cuz

I definitely need a girl, that will be immediately spayed, of course!

I talked to Tif the last couple days, and she loves living there with her friend and friend's son! I haven't gone over yet, not cuz of any reason, just I'm 'crashing' from all the steroids, but that'll pass. I'll get there this weekend. Tif is REALLY gonna be jealous when I get a kitten. Her roommate and she agreed a long time ago that they would not have any kind of pet. Which is smart in a rented house...I'm still trying to make sure she gets renters' insurance. Something I'd never even heard of at her age! Man! What happened to me? I've never been this 'responsible'! Am I getting ready to die or something? heh... Naahhh...I'm just getting old, that's it...

Joe's gonna come over Monday night, so we can look at all his pictures from when he went to Europe after college last year...how cool! He's got tons, especially from Rome! That's gonna be fun!

Okay, I feel better now. I guess I'm finally safe to talk to again...Lorazepam is a life-saver! hehehe!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Monday...

I love the show 'Hell's Kitchen'! Chef Ramsey is such a rude sonofabitch...but he gets shit done the way he wants it!! Ya gotta admire someone like that (as long as you don't have to work for them!).
So...tonight is one of Tif's last nights living here...she and her best friend signed a lease over the weekend to rent a house for a year. Okay, I know a lot of other people have lived through this, most kids move out earlier, and usually with a boyfriend....but, thank God, she's listened to us and didn't jump into moving in with a boyfriend, and she's waited until she's 23 and has a good job!! I'm SO proud and happy for her....but there's still a downside....I'm gonna miss her terribly! But, shhhhh, don't tell anybody...:-D. I can cry about it to myself in the middle of the night, without anyone hearing it, but I'll be DAMNED if I'm gonna let her see that I'm anything but supportive of what she's doing! She's at the age that she needs this...whether I like it or not...*sigh*. But, she's only moving about 6 blocks down the road, so I can still go to her house by riding my scooter, and she'll be here a lot, I hope. I just keep thinking that when I was her age, I had a 5-year old (her, obviously!), & she's going to have such an easier time! The girl she's moving in with has a 3 year old little boy, we've known them forever, and he is SUCH a sweetie! Actually, the other day when Tif & her friend had him over, Tif & him were playing...Tif got in my electric wheelchair, and got him up on her lap, and they took off, and I guess Tif never truly believed me when I told her it was really damn fast, so if she ever got on it, be careful! Oh man, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in forever! It was kinda like watching a pinball in a machine...or, like a bumper car, or something! Or maybe, if anyone's ever been hooked on the best video game in the world....'MarioKart'! She took him out to the back door to go down the ramp, and tried to go around the corner in the laundry room, and kept getting caught on the washing machine...meanwhile, the little boy's sitting in her lap saying "Tiffany! That's the washer!" HAHA!! Then they went out & hit the ramp, and I'm surprised they ever quit!! "Do it again!!". To them, in that chair it was like a rollercoaster!! I WISH so bad I would've thought about grabbing my camera! Next time...
I did get to go "shopping" today, though. Tif brought a whole big double armload of clothes downstairs, and dumped them on my bed, and said "Anything you don't want, just go ahead and get rid of it." And this is after she already threw away 2 garbage bags full of clothes! Holy crap!! She's one of those people that will only wear Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap, etc. No WalMart stuff here! heehee. That's okay, it was all bought with her money. I'm just lucky we're both size 3's! The only problem I have is that shoe size of hers...I wear size 8 1/2...she wears 4 or 5!! Who ever heard of this happening??
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

i'm SO random today...

Oh, how humiliating for these poor animals...of course, you all know I wouldn't have anything to do with something like THIS!!

I would like to get some opinions on something...why is it that a person can't sell their kidney? Or part of their liver? They belong to YOU! I know donation of them is a great thing, but, there's an awful big shortage of donations! And, after all, this IS a free market, capitalistic economy...You have something I want...I buy it. That's how it goes here...we're not a socialist country, no matter what people think we should be! This is also why I think prostitution should be legal...it might clean up the streets if there were 'bordellos' a guy could go to! After all, I have yet to meet one who doesn't go find it for free...what makes THAT any better than him paying for it outright? Yeah, it's cheaper...but...in the long run...
Anyway...if it's MY body, why does the government have ANY say in whether I sell part of it, rent part of it, whatever? I have a perfectly good liver that I'd be willing to sell half of, so another person could also live a good productive life. Why is THAT a bad thing? Yeah, personally, I want both of my kidneys...they don't grow back, but a liver does! After all, we can sell sperm, eggs, plasma...what's the frikkin' difference? Sperm & eggs make new people...a liver or kidney or cornea does nothing but make an existing person's life better.
Better yet...if the government wants so bad to be in charge of what is done with a person's body, why don't they somehow get convicted criminals, who are getting the death penalty to give up their organs after death? They could pay the person's family for it (in advance, if need be)...I'm sure there are families who would be glad to get the money for it, if not for them, just for the convict's kids' college fund! That would be a much better way for that person to be remembered, rather than by who he killed...maybe we could remember whose life they SAVED??
That's just my opinion, though...how bout yours?
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!