More on my shelf life

Today is my birthday.
It has been a good one so far.
Ed took over the dog getting up and out duties so I could hug my pillow.
I received a wonderful e-card from my niece Christine who I love so much for being such a good person...not perfect mind u but good. The card had the music from Jungle Boogie..a great song and it made my morning.
Then I heard the song by Dido..Thank you...I love this song and want to call Ed every time I hear it because I want to let him know how much I want to thank him for loving me.
Then my Angel Kitty sent me a Pet Theology forward that I thought that this must be the way the monks teach theology.
Lunch with my sister Hildam which was nice because I feel closer to her now that we do not work together and I felt pretty damn close then and not sure why because we are very different people but who cares, because it 'is what it is"! She also helps justify that I did the right thing by boggying when I did. "At the end of the day"....
Then hanging with the pack.
My best friend Jim is also Ed's best friend but for different reasons but the bonus is he is also our best friend.
Jim made a special point to bring me a birthday card and he usually gets good ones so if he made
a point to come by and give me the card, he had to have found a good one...he did..put me back on my feet...
See the beginning of the post..
It reminds me of when I was a kid, I had notepad paper with Batman on it and it had Batman sayings and different
pictures from his comic and the one I liked the best was "I have the strength of 10 because my heart is pure"! Not me
exactly but sometimes I like to think it is.
I also received a "thank you" note from a collegue at the Sentinel and it was so kind and gracious I thought perhaps she had
sent it to me by mistake. Thank you Robyn I also enjoyed working with you. You are class!

Well tonight we are going to Sushi...wish me luck.

Also..the punch line on the card inside reads this...."you are so screwed"!

Lost in time

Yesterday seemed like the lines from the Jerk...

I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

I must be getting good at this because I am forgetting what day of the week it is.
I love the Jerk but that has to be one of the greatest paragraphs in the history of movies.

Back in my baby's arms.

Sitting in the movie theater, Ed put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me close.

It felt so comfortable.  Funny I forgot and he left it there for more than an hour..his arm fell asleep and he didn't complain.  Dark Knight was good but Mummy was our kind of movie.

We are trying to settle the argument 220/221 whatever it takes..I want a 36 inch tub and he continues to act like I want a 32 inch tub.

The shower issue is finally settled because I realized the tub is important..I have a shower.

My horoscope continues to soar.  

It is only the 4th day and I am already telling myself to slow down and smell the roses.

Yesterday was a great example..not totally sure of what day it was but not really caring either.

Explaining to Ed how going to Costco was no big deal because in the past..I was always maximizing my time off.  Yesterday we wandered, slowly (Sunday in Costco is hell BTW, particularly around the foodage areas.  Me thinks it is the free samples.  I think I can take Ed there every Sunday and keep him fed for the day for $1.50(hot dog and drink and free stuff) .  Me I worry about food poisoning).  Then on to Home Depot, which I love but hated standing around while he adored and touched tools.   We spent the better part of an hour picking out tile for the floor and semi-bickering about tub sizes.  I went by and touched my Kitchen Cabinets which are a display I love with contrasting wood colors..cherry and ash..they are a display to show the two colors available but I live the way the mix.  The HD guy thought I was stoopid and talked slower when I said I liked the combination...he said, "they are there for display purpose only" , DF.

Funny thing...I pray every day that this glow continues!  I thought I would be sleepless and having anxiety attacks at 4am, but not!  

And another thing..why is it women wake up at 4am when they are troubled...You don't get a good night's sleep at that point and you can't really go back to bed if you work or have a family.

Why 4am.

Why do people always have to go to the ER at night?

Why do bird,  suddenly appear?   Everytime you are near ...

The part about the Stars tho..haven't noticed that so much.

 

Everything has a shelf life

Woke up early 5:30 but rested and ran the doggies through the routine..although they wondered why it was so dark outside?  This will prepare me for DST when 6:30 is really 5:30 and honestly I am an early bird.  I always love Siggie and Joe's routine ..wake up at 4am and drink coffee and chat and then snooze together for a while.  I will try it...I know ed will.
Anyhow, we read/watched the news and then Juni, Rocky and Hari went for a walk, trying to get spaz used to a leash, trying to remember "calm and submissive" but Rocky was scooting all over, Hari wanted to chew Junior's leash.  Junior was the only one I have calmed and submisstized!But I look behind me and here comes Jack Black and Jimmy, shoulder to shoulder and walking about 10 feet behind our little circus as if herding cats...actually they were herding cats.   They followed us for about a half a mile and when we turned around they parted to let us pass and then picked up the rear again.  I love it.
We went to see Dark Knight last night and it was good.  I won't weigh in with my over- analytical review because the way I see it if you want a review..go see it your own self!
I was extremely impressed with my nephews analysis of the BoSox's trade of Manny Ramirez.Steve is very astute at human nature.His blog is entertaining.   Frankly and here we go on the opinion part.  His videos need work.Maybe he will get better with a good editor! 
ANGELS
OK so I always profess to not be religious and I often doubt the existence of a higher powerHowever there is something that often effects me.  I don't know if it is my strict Catholic upbringing or my religion classes in college but I do believe in Angels.To the point, last night in the movies, which I found extremely dark-minded (including the 10 preview to coming attractions) when the movie was getting long and beginning to get on my nerves, my mind wandered.  I had a brief anxiety attack about our future but I recited a prayer I have known since I was a kid (thanks mom!) to St. Jude (patron saint of despair or hopeless causes) (sometimes known as my life).  The anxiety passed and I endured the end of the movie.   But...here is the Angel part, while I was waiting for Bert and Ernie to relieve themselves, (2 hour + movies are hard on older men) a former Sentinel staffer, who left last year to pursue other interests, walked up and touched my shoulder.  He asked if I was now a former employee and when I acknowledged the exit, the said,  "don't worry it only gets better from here".   That was an Angel!  This is why I like the TV show, "Saving Grace".   Grace is a bit over the top as a person and I think of myself as a cross between her(my much youger days)  and her friend Rhetta.  But what like most is her personal Angel...Earl.    I would have myself believe that my Angels are varied and many.   Thanks.
Good quote tho..."everything has a shelf life"!
Off to Arden..I have not been there in a week and it feels like month although the social worker called yesterday to see how I was doing.  "Doing well now that she is maintaining".  I guess at 95, it is all about good maintenance.

Never say never

So today I got up feeling a little peeked, i think because of the 'bloomin' onion last night and thinking today is today...and i will not say..it is the first day, blah blah blah. Instead I let Tom say it to me..  

BTW, big bro, thanks.  You empower me to move forward.

But also to pay homage to my sister Sue, she always pushes me forward. 

You know I have my naggy little doubts about whether this was the right thing to do but I kept seeing this little man  in my head and then one night there he was...

Not the last day but not day one either.

Here we go.

Hang on to your hats.

Today is my test drive and then we are off to the races.

Sue you better keep track because you always wanted me to do this.