Sometimes you just gotta

I have fallen behind. I used to have a tshirt that read " the hurrier I go the behinder I get". 

Well, that's so true for the last couple of years. Jerry is my priority. 

So, I'm getting behind. Things like....

Checking expiration dates

Cleaning out the fridge

Putting papers in the recycle buggie

    I did finally put the recycle buggie time 

    On my phone so I could remember

     Which Monday it is. 

I've tried to get all the house work done. Ain't happened all in one day like it use to. But I've figured it out. I have a dusting rag that I put in areas-tv or tables by chairs or pictures and that's where I clean that day. Then if something has a drawer it gets cleaned out another day. 

Voila!! It works!!

It just takes a little flexibility. 

Life is for living!!!

Living is just that

OR

It can be more!!

There are seasons in everyone's life that are stressful. A pregnant woman whose spouse leaves because of the baby. A military family that has someone deployed. People in their fifties who have to take care of themselves, their kids and both sets of parents. 

Life is not a bed of roses. 

It's your choice to be bitter or be better. 

Better is best. Less stress. 

It's Officially Summer at our house

I know that by the calendar it's not summer. I have white hair but I can read. 

I also know animals know more about what's what than people do. We had a mutt once. So cute!  There was a tornado in Fredrick OK, that's about an hour away, and she hid behind the recliner. When I picked her up the Gaia down her back was standing straight up!!  

So when I saw Heckle and Jeckle fly in this morning I just KNEW!!

SUMMER!!!

Nightmares!!

I haven't had a nightmare in years. In fact I think the last one was when Lance told us the plot of a movie he had seen. 

During the night I woke up screaming!!

Lance was one of the high school

students in the commercial art class I took for 4 years. Loved it!! And the "us" would be my friend Linda. The art class called us " the Linda's".  

Back to nightmares--I had them all the time as a kid. When we finally got TV--that new thing on the market- dad wouldn't let me watch some things because of the nightmares. 

Once I dreamed that a man in a trench coat with a hat on with the brim pulled low over his eyes was following me. So I made a big fist and turned around to knock him out quicker than a roadrunner can run.  Then I starting saying " it's Jerry. I know it is! I can't hit him. He's my husband." But hit him I did. 

Woke him up when I popped him in the nose. I told him he had a bad dream and to go back to sleep. 

I've never told him the real reason he woke up. 

I had nightmares after taking the kids to see Willie Wonka with Gene Wilder!!  That was scary to me. 

All my nightmares are in color. 

Why am I blogging this?  I don't know,I think it's just important for me to get all these memories out. 

Taking about changes

When I was a kid-back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth-we moved. A LOT.

I went to 3 kindergartens. In one year.  3---that's a LOT.

By the time I went to high school the total was 26. That's a lot more!!  

Did I resent it? Did I get anxious? Did I go into tantrums?

NOT!!!

I learned a lot. How to step back from what's going on and to analyze it. I learned how to be flexible in my mind and desires. I learned how to accept others for what and who they are. 

It made me who I am today. 

Things NEVER stay the same

I've known for years! Or it might just be since I had a birthday over 50, that things change. 

Sometimes rapidly, but most of the time change is slow. 

Tornadoes rage through Oklahoma this time of the year and in a matter of minutes the damage is done. Earthquakes in Oklahoma too cause damage quickly. 

Hurricanes on the other hand takes hours to makes changes to the area they go over. 

Change also comes as we age. My hair starting turning white when I was 22. Now it's all white. Joint pain, and headaches, allergies and food tolerance. That happens to all of us. 

And you know what--it's ok!!  Changes are what life is about!!

Embrace those changes!!  

Allergy time

This year Jerry's nose is running and his eyes are itchy. 

Yuck!!!!

Allergies!!

I got him some antihistamine and it works but takes about an hour. In the mean time he sniffs, coughs, rubs his eyes, and is just miserable. 

Me I just try to blow my nose because it stops up. 

That's yuck too!!!