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Insights on keeping our balance ⚖️ in an unbalanced world. Even Seagull won't stand up |
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This current Blog ( November 1st 2023-?) is being created in Mississippi. It's a journal of my journey . My way of bringing light 🕯️ to dispel the darkness in our world. Trying to navigate the craziness of our world and raising our 2 rescue kitties 😻! Fine-tuning my skills as a writer! I fight depression almost every day and deal with chronic pain issues. Using my faith, humor and humility. I bring experience from decades of learning spiritual guidance, using teachings from faith systems I've used to cope and learn to move forward. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Enjoy at any rate 😜! To share relevant quotes and welcome feedback as always indeed 😁! If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? If I am not for others, What am I? And if not now when? Rabbi Hillel ( The Elder) 1st century |
| It's been 3 days since I posted here. After a month of doing it every day ( missed 2 ) it became a habit! I'm thinking of what to write next. I've been meaning to look at what writing survived in notebooks I was able to hold on to. Most of the time it was to see about a password or something like that! I feel very worn out from last week and hopefully it will get better. I'm mulling over how I feel about the holidays coming. I want to look forward to it like in the past, yet it's not the past anymore. I don't know what to think about the future or even in the moment right now. Things change of course. They can change from moment to moment. Hoping to find some upbeat writing in my books. Now to decide on what to make for lunch! It's warmed up to the 60 s! We had 2 days of heavy rain, thunder and lightning ⚡. Today is sunny and able to have my window open in my room. Sometimes I don't know if I write too much TMI ( too much information) . I'm just honest about my life and all it entails. I know some folks are ok with it and that should be enough! I appreciate the energy here and hope to be part of the holidays here 😁! Was able to speak with the grandkids yesterday on phone ( some) . They are doing good even so far away, miss em but glad they are ok. Will be back soon! |
| Got a nice Xmas tree from Walmart today. A few small stocking stuffers! I deleted an entry just now, it was for the best. Not feeling well but tomorrow's another day. Hope to be back when up to it. Thanks it's been nice doing the Namoblo thing! Have a blessed weekend |
| Over coffee ☕ y'all today 😁 I couldn't believe how many touched my life with comments and awesomeness 😍! It really helped me get through a challenging day 💪! I was up and moving at 7:am. ( My brain wasn't except for the happy news in my inbox!) We had to get to the laundrymat by nine 🕘 before the hoards grabbed up the big five bucks machines! We had overflow laundry 🧺 clothes, bedding kitchen towels and whew it was a lot. We got home about noon and took a break and then had lunch. Brunch or something! By 1 was putting it partly away, making bed . I was too tired to write much but did in my Wdc Notebook. ( It's small but perfect size for travel and bring down stairs. Got it with GPS! I had a message from folks on the Spondylitis site, asked if I was ok ( I haven't been there since I started the Blogging every day!) Before I came here wrote them an update and said I'd share my blog and stuff. I'm hoping I can connect with people from Roanoke, who are going through what I am. Maybe can find a good place to find decent care. Tomorrow I see you know who and don't expect much. I also posted my fundraiser link, at least people can know more about the situation and can share it. I forgot to share about the kitties 😻 and my ballet day! Yesterday I locked my bedroom door but Maxy and MoJo busted in ! Maxy on the bed MoJo on my desk and were intent on watching my pile and first position and! They were really watching me as I rose up on my toes and moved my legs to make the letter " D" ! Tomorrow I will try to make it happen after I get back from Dr who! I really appreciate y'all and was surprised to see me tagged in Nov Blogging Bliss newsletter! I realized I wasn't asked to Proof read! Thanks Wordsmitty! I did look over it for a few minutes first thing this morning but life took over. I'm so glad I took a chance on myself to do it and the unexpected the people who are in my life now 💖. Wow I'm still blown away! So gotta get up and out by 8 tomorrow! I'm sharing my thing link below 👇 If you can share if not no sweat! I'm keeping it up till January and then going back to go fund me. Have a blessed evening and tomorrow y'all! https://givesendgo.com/GBBDG?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campa... |
| Well hello there 👋😊 y'all! It's Sunday night and except for tired I'm feeling alright! It blew me away all the nice comments on bloggy and a comment I posted on a WDC question ⁉️ about do we feel welcomed here. I shared my experience and so many could relate 😁! This place has good vibes for sure, it takes time to find our nitches true that but worth it. So this week will be full tilt boogy! Today I had coffee 🥱☕ washed up and went upstairs to do ballet. It went well, with the new video class. At 10 minutes in was ready to stop but made it till almost 21 minutes! For a senior class it kicked my butt! Tomorrow will have to try later in the day, we have laundry and it's piling up 😩 ugh! I have to be out by 8 on Tuesday to see Dr pain. Hoping we can figure out to deal with meds only last couple of hours. We have to go food shopping 🛒 again sometime in the very near future. Thursday the kitties get a nail trim and by Friday should be close to the dead zone! I shared some pics of the grandkids on Facebook from memories of 10 years ago and five. I came across a post talking about what I was doing with my writing back then. I was going over some old journals and poems I wrote. Some not finished ( of course!) Got me thinking about going fishing, so to speak. Since I won't be posting every night soon. Instead I'm going to spend time with unfinished writing 😁. Maybe get some new items in my port! At least it's a start, to look at what I still have and see if it's useful. I may add what I said in the post, if I can remember lol, in the next entry! Have a blessed evening and beyond! Hugs 🤗 |
| It's almost 9 pm here in the central time zone. It's still 10 PM according to my body! Did some research on Ballet classes both in Roanoke and just the offerings online today. Most classes are at night like 8 Pm. Then I remembered 4 or so years ago in Eugene, I took the intermediate class to start because it was a morning class. ( The last class I took when I was 12 in Brooklyn NY. I lost one ballet shoe on the city bus home. My grandpa wouldn't call to get it back. That was the end of my classes.) My sister said I could take a class at night, we'd have a bus system and who says we have to get up at 6 in the morning? She's looking forward to playing bingo or something at night! Said she can always take a nap LoL! Some food for thought 💭🤔 there! I found a free online Ballet classes place! The teacher is in England and has a YouTube channel and years of classes! There is a class for seniors too! I'm going to try it tomorrow after coffee ☕😴 and wash up ( of course the kitties 😻 get fed before I take my first sip!) It's a good thing to start with something a bit easier than the one I was taking online. I was in better shape a couple of years ago running around with the grandkids and dogs. We've been out here 2 years this Feb and been stuck in a slow routine. There's not much happening near us, we are blocks away from the Gulf of Mexico and alligators! I kid you not! I started taking notes from ideas I wrote down in a mini book. The idea of writing about my experiences in life is a daunting task and I have been pushing it to the back burner. I wasn't sure if I could do this NABLOPOMO thing either! I'm famous for starting things in writing but not finishing. My writings here are testimony to that. Making weekly goals and then moving to something else. Doing this entry ( except for one night) proves that it's possible to stick with something. I have a hard time focusing sometimes. My brain has been through a lot of trauma and stress but it still seems to work! So I'm wishing y'all a good night and beautiful tomorrow 😚💖! |
| Hi y'all the following ditty was off my end of weekly goals! 🐒😜🕯️🐟🦃🥳 I've been doing more writing in this month than can remember when 😜! Reading Blogs and getting to know the authors! It's a great feeling to be connected 😁 with others of like mind! Having a blast at Andres banana blog bar🐒🍌! Thankful for a great bunch of people! 😄🤗💐😸👍😎 And that's the truth! Today we went out in search of a Christmas tree 🎄! Most years we had a live tree. Some years with the kids and later the grandkids, we'd go to the Christmas tree farms. Search out the perfect tree and cut it down with our axe! Sometimes would pick out one from the folks parked down the road. One year my sister got her wish to get a white tree. They flocked it in a machine and it looked like snow was on it! Very nice tree that year, but after the holidays found out it couldn't be recycled. In Eugene everyone put the tree on the curb but they left ours. We had to take it to the dump. Today we looked at Goodwill but they didn't have any or much of anything. We tried Walmart but needed a 3 ft and was looking for branches ( fake) that could hold ornaments. We passed on a sea green tree! We only started to look and will check out Hobby lobby and couple other places. Cheryl said we could put lights on the kitty tree and use that lol! I said oh yeah they'd like that a lot! Pains been pretty rough past 2 days with the weather being cold in the morning and then warmed up. The rain messes with the arthritis too ugh! Hard to know what to wear. So I passed on Ballet but will try tomorrow again. We'd dig out the decorations ( somehow that sentence came loose from above somewhere! ) Going into the holidays and writing as I have been doing, makes me think that even though I won't be writing every day here after next week, I will be posting more here! It was pretty much hit or miss! Sometimes once a month or even longer. Now I ( mostly) look forward to being here and checking out your blogs, seeing how folks are doing. Nice to see 🙈 folks checking on me too! Waking up with coffee 🥱☕ and checking out my notifications here and seeing who likes what, starts my day 😄 off pretty nice 👍! It goes both ways! For a writer it's better than Facebook lol , there it's folks checking out my pictures or something funny or a memory. Here it's something much more. It's nice to find that indeed! |
| Wow y'all missed yesterday and today. I just needed a break 😔. I was worried about my last post or 2. I even thought about editing or deleting some. When I wrote it that night, was feeling comfortable with " just letting it all hang out" . The truth of what was going on backstage in my life. When I kept journals for years, whatever was going on good or bad it went down on the pages. It helped me cope by getting it out and seeing things in a rational light. It was also a history book of our family and life. The weather, holidays Etc it was a record ⏺️ of years of our lives. After losing years of my journals ( boxes and boxes) I didn't write ✍️ in them as much. I wrote more online ( glad I did as some years still exists in blogs started here and WordPress etc. This week I wondered if I had been too honest and if my trust in others was a bad thing thing. Maybe I had said too much and wondered if I really belonged. I had felt so comfortable to share my life. Was I wrong? So I pulled back and didn't say anything. My depression gets the best of me sometimes and throw in a pinch of paranoia yuk! But that's the truth. I thought no one will ever read or comment again. Until I was wrong! This week is also a holiday and people have stuff going on good and sometimes tough stuff too. After reading about someone also going through it, I was able to breathe and giving whatever support I could, made me again realize I'm not alone in life's struggles. I think holidays can be great yet make tough times even tougher. I'm thankful we have each other here to share good fun times along with the sometimes S***Ty Ones... Today we were able to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving parade because of our granddaughters kindness. I rented The Godfather movie which is a family tradition,( leave the gun take the canollis!) We had homemade baked ziti and spoke with our granddaughter. It was a good day 😄. It was nice to get a C Note invite to the banana bar! I missed posting to it! Sending prayers and good vibes to everyone who needs em. I'm like a car who is old and broken but still runs! I'm still struggling with this BS pain every day but not giving up. We watched a YouTube video on Roanoke Virginia. Wow it looks perfect. It's clean and has beautiful plants down town and gorgeous views of the mountains and trees! There is a pond on the roof of the mall with real koi fish 🐠🐟. Would be nice to hangout and eat some chocolate from the store downstairs called paper chocolates! After smoking a little smoke it's legal there! Just a thought 🤔! It's a beautiful place and gave me so much hope for the future. I wish we would win the lottery, house's are cheap and the old fixer uppers are amazing to see. So much history to explore and pictures to take! Anyway have a blessed evening and beyond y'all 😁. Ps no Ballet or kitties riding yet! |
| I got to about 15 minutes of ballet this afternoon! The weather has been hard on my bones 🩻 ugh! Went to Walmart today and took some pictures of the ridiculous high prices of meat and tomorrow will post on Facebook. Maybe write about it in tomorrows blog. Burnt out on all the babies and kids and moms being brutally killed in Gaza 😢😩. If not now when will the killing stop???? |
| Hi there 🤗 dear one's! So I posted in weekly goals and this is what I said. Another Monday and here am I! I can't believe I've posted my Namoblo each day! I started back at home Ballet and have been staying in touch with others who blog here! I'm thankful 🥰 going into this week! Thanks WDC family and have a blessed thanksgiving 🦃!  I then read everyone's comment on yesterday's entry, wow thanks I also put my 2 cents in a comment for y'all! It's kinda Majickal what we have created here. A sacred space to be able to hang out with each other 🤗🌹. That we can be ourselves in good times and sometimes s * * * t y ones too! It helps to know we aren't alone in this crazy thing we call life! I did ballet peeps 🤗 today, only made 10 minutes but oh what minutes they were LoL 😁🙏. Heaven to me indeed. I danced to a video that I thought I was renting for a couple of weeks. It was 15 bucks ( the price of a class!) It was supposed to go away but didn't ( I've had it for 3 years!) It has my teacher from Ballet Fantastique studio in Eugene Oregon. It's an intermediate class ( I never took beginning because it was at 7:30 PM and was pretty wiped after raising the grandkids!) The moves are harder but I was able to handle an hour and half of class. Now I will have to work at it harder and my muscles were really feeling it lol. I could have pushed but decided not to. Will be patient and build up hopefully every day. It made me feel alive again, that I could do it. After almost 2 years of being close to an invalid, it's like as close as possible to being born again! So it's pouring out here now! A huge thunderstorm is traveling across Mississippi right now. I put a couple of towels in front of the door downstairs in case it pushes in! It has come under the door a couple of times and we don't want it to ruin our used but very nice couch, we've been paying on for the last year!! We've been blessed to get public housing and rent is only 400. Plus electric. We've been paying 1,200 in Oregon plus electric and was bearly making it. That's the only reason we have a chance at making this move we are planning.In Oregon it was years to get on any kind of housing help. It was 10 years to get on in San Diego. When we first got here we were staying with our granddaughter and her boyfriend in Biloxi. We couldn't even get a person to talk to there. We moved to an extended stay out here and it was costing almost everything we had. I googled housing out here and found out they had an office a few blocks away. We talked with them and 2 months later we got this place!! The only furniture we had was 2 beach chairs. We bought a couple of air mattresses at Walmart but after awhile the air was coming out!! Oye and I made a go fund me and raised enough to buy a couple of beds on Amazon. We found a cat tree for 10 bucks at goodwill and a few night stands. Found a couple of nice chairs by the trash. Turns out they had fleas and it took a month to get rid of them. Somehow we made it. And will continue to. So bless you all for welcoming me into your world 🙏🌍❣️. |
| Hi again 🤠 I didn't feel too good today so rested this morning. Maxy got to go out today ( MoJo was hiding under the bed and even treats couldn't get her out!) We drove by the park and was planning on finding a big branch to bring home for them to play with. We got there and saw a brand new fence and a sign to pay now to get in. We turned around and headed home. We tried earlier to figure out a way to make an extension on the crate, for more room to add a small litter box. There wasn't any. We have a small car. We are hoping we can bring them on such a long trip and it would be 2 trips. One next May to check things out and whenever the move is. There's so many what ifs. I'm trying to be positive but life has no guarantees. We've had to give up so much many times before, we didn't expect to. Hoping my sister's sight will get better... We don't know. We aren't counting on this fundraiser, we are planning on saving everything up to make it happen. We've had to move a few times and saved on our own without help. Mostly because we were priced out by rising rents. This started in San Francisco back in the 1970s. Now she's turning 70 next month and I will be 68 Wow. We will do our best and I pray we won't have to find homes for our girls. Some nights I don't feel like writing like tonight to be honest but I'm sticking with this anyway. It's cold again and wasn't up to ballet today. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better! Blessings 🙏💞 to y'all 🙂 |
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