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Wow. Is about all I can say and in addition, what an eye opener to life. I have been living in blindness. Well, I have been living from a perspective of a pampered person. I have discovered first hand how growing up with both mom and dad around guiding me...being there for me....giving me a moral compass...being an open refuge at any time...showing me how to use my moral compass...etc.

What a beautiful upbringing. We were poor granted, we didn't have much....but we had a large family of 10 use and we all get along together even to this day.


Now to the eye opener.

Talking with a lady this weekend. She is 27. While sobbing her eyes out...she over and over proclaimed to me that "I have nothing, I have nothing." She wants a guy to love her. Puzzled...she was with a guy at the bar already. She explained that he was essentially a piece of crap, abusive, controlling, and he told her that he will be seeing other women also. She explained to me that she didn't know who her father was..her mother was a horrible person and she was raised by her grandparents who are now not wanting anything to do with her. She kept on saying, she is a strong woman. She does not know what a loving relationship even is...she never seen one and knows nothing about it. She had learned the street way on how to survive basically.

There are so many luxuries one has that has a strong supportive base if life happens to temporarily overcome you vs. ...somebody having nothing to fall back on.

It was a sad experience. She left with a smile with the abusive man. (putting on her happy face disguise.)

Some terrible realities out in life.

I am appalled at how far ads are going.
And I thought: "I don`t feel like a prude or old fashioned, but WOW... Is nothing or anything private any more? Nothing is left to cover a person.
( I see things as small as a band aid barely covering someone`s back-side)....why bother?!
Are commercial ad companies starving??? Seeing an ad of a girl shaving much too close to her crouch, is mostly not something people are anxious to look at. Soon, we may see everything & it won`t matter, when nothing is sacred (well maybe some men who want to see much more, or doesn`t care what shows....& anything goes!!
I was taught to cover my "privates", when I was young, & taught mu 5 kids the same....You have to value what your body is for. It taught me to have the best part of me be special & not shown. The institution of being less covered, is -anything goes as long as there is money in it. Nessie G.

Do we ever truly get over losing something or someone we thought a lot of?

I had one of my cats put down recently, she had a heart attack. I have lost a lot of cats over the years but this one is sticking to me more so. This cat was what some people would call a misfit but she was a true one person cat, me and only me she would approach. I guess it was a special bond I had with her and I still look for her sitting on top of the laptop in the bedroom.

Will need a bit more time I guess.

I have a friend who visits every year. This year it was March 14th and will stay until November 7th. I'm glad you're back!

For many years I had the same stylist. She once moved to another salon and I followed her. Only 2 times in all those years did I sit with a different stylist... 'happy scissors' and the Latina with the Brazilian but lift. Moving 45 miles north wasn't trouble as I scheduled my haircuts when I had business in Miami.
COVID comes around, businesses were closed under lock-down. Nearly 14 months have passed and haircuts were local. My spouse has more than 20 years cutting hair for her son. While I didn't complain, I lost my original style. I don't follow fashion and patiently waited for the right time.
We had shopping in Miami yesterday and my stylist was working. the timing worked out and it was a happy reunion. I know she and her boyfriend struggled for a few months, but they were able to hold it together.
I got my style back and she got a $20 tip.

The best part of going to the salon is the news that none of the stylists had COVID.

...for TV, I use a Yagi UHF/VHF. FM antenna, with rotator, at tree top, and since the girls have been out on their own, don't have satellite or cable. So the kiddos talked me into getting a Roku stick, effectively turning this 10 year old flat screen TV, to a Mensa TV.
Easy to see why the cable/satellite TV companies are panicking, and sending out all sorts of mail special offers, if one signs up for several years, and contributes a pound of flesh. I'm SO impressed with this new technology in my life. Sure, the newest items such as first run movies can be had at a price. But all sorts of domestic and foreign offerings are free. The variety is large.
Mostly watch documentaries, and classic/foreign films. Just saw one by Werner Herzog on Russians living in the back woods of the Taiga, with near total self sufficiency, and few modern conveniences. Hunters, trappers and victory gardeners, during the two months of summer.
Gratitude, wisdom and perspective. The film is appropriately called, the Happy People of the Taiga.
And here I thought my lifestyles have always been mostly self sufficient. Worth viewing.

i came across a tv show called judge judy ,,,well what can i say ..i can say this absolutely shocking that the tax payers money is being abused by people on welfare ,social security ,and the likes ,,
these payments are supposedly there to help people out in hard times ,all well and good ,but and a big but at that ,,is that the system is totally flawed and more so abused ,by greed, laziness, freeloaders , and every scumbag that wishes to abuse tax payers hard earned money, these people are virtually living rent free or paying very little as that is also subsidised ,,surely it is time for the people dishing out this money to wake up to the abuse that is going on ,,
maybe a solution would be to put a bounty on the heads of these freeloaders ,
like twenty percent of the money saved by turning these scumbags in,
the genuine people on benefits would have no worries ,,just sort out the freeloaders who are sitting back laughing at the system and more so at the hard working tax payer who is footing the bill for their easy life style,
surely there must be a way of getting these lazy no good layabouts to do some work in the local community to justify the help that they receive ,,,,
and don,t even get me started on the ones abusing the disability payments ,,,,,grrrrr it makes a tax payers blood boil ,,,,,,

There are 3 entrances to my community, 2 main ones with a guardhouse and one private gate (no guard) that requires a resident sticker I.D. for access. The private gate is closest to my travels so I use it most often. Like a mini border checkpoint, there are two arms spaced only for a single car. The scanner detects a car and the first arm lifts allowing you to drive in. It drops and the second one opens. Behind all that is a security gate that opens as the first arm rises. Usually it's fully opened as the second arm rises. If not, you have to wait a second or two to proceed into the intersection of a 3-way stop.
The problem is cars on one side wanting to exit ignore the stop sign and charge into the intersection. With the gate open, my vision is blocked. I can see the stop sign but not the approaching cars.
To avoid a collision, I have to crawl into the intersection to allow ample time to stop when someone runs the stop sign.
My association president told me that gate handles more traffic than the other two combined. I'm thinking to compose a letter asking them to put a second stop sign and possibly a flashing light similar to the non-resident access on the other side of the community.
That would keep those who are Octagonally Impaired on alert!



Yeah, I know Octagonally isn't in the dictionary.

I was on my pedal bike one day when I got behind a really slow driver in a Chevette. I took it in my head that I was going to pass him so I cranked on the pedals, hauled out around him on the blind turn and got side by side with him, looked over, stuck my tongue out at him, looked ahead just in time to see this car locking up its brakes as I smashed into the bumper. I scraped myself up, got on the bike and tore off up the road as fast as I could hoping mom and dad wouldn't find out I nearly got myself killed.

The most and the best uranium deposits this side of the "US", ask hARRY rEID and his lawyer son.
Now this is where the sell off goes to Russia under bARRY"O" and the cLINTONS of 25 % of the US reserves.