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Through the eyes of a writer and traveler ๐Ÿ˜! Life and some spiritual musings.

Welcome Y'all ๐Ÿค .
I'm into animal rescue and rights. Positive vibes and activism! ๐Ÿ˜ป๐Ÿ™
It's been interesting for the past 20 years. Good folks on here and a great ๐Ÿ˜ƒ writing community.
It's time for rethinking my writing and growing as a person . Sharing how to help others and ourselves ๐Ÿ˜‰ has always been my motivation!
Hugs ๐Ÿค— to new and old peeps!

" The journey of 10,000 miles
Begins with one step ๐Ÿชœ.
--Lao Tzu

What you don't like
Don't do to another.
Rabbi Hillel


Do unto others
as you would have someone
Do unto you.
Jesus ๐Ÿ™


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June 24, 2025 at 10:49pm
June 24, 2025 at 10:49pm
#1092179
Hi y'all ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ˜ป!
I'm fried like an egg ๐Ÿณ! But wanted to thank y'all for your prayers and encouragement ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ™!
Y'all rock yah!

So this is my week's goal from the Official WDC ๐Ÿ˜‰ weekly goals!
I will make it back to being more in touch and involved with peeps and groups.

So far I've been well for four days and no morning sickness!

Has anyone watched Analyze this! With Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow?
About a Mafia Boss with an anxiety problem!
We watched it tonight ( my choice ๐Ÿ˜).
And it had a great cast and lots of laughs.
Richard C Castellani, Bill Macy and one more favorite Tony Bennett ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ˜Ž!

So here's my goals! Wish me luck ๐Ÿคž!

9:06 PM Tuesday, just ๐Ÿซง cleaned kitchen and made sure kitties ๐Ÿ˜ป have enuf food and water ๐Ÿ’ฆ ๐ŸŒŠ!
Bedtime but wanted to check in.
I got up 4 AM yesterday to be with my sis to get her 3rd eye injection. It hurt a bit this time.
She has to go till next April.
(I'm adding this part in my blog later, after reading this over! Last month I meant to tell you,we met a nice lady around our age and she was waiting for the bathroom too,at the Retinal clinic.
She wasn't wearing glasses and said she had been coming and getting eye injections there for a year. She was able to see better and drive.
This was really encouraging for us to hear. Sis had to give up reading books, painting and Sewing things.
I'm praying she will be able to do these things again.)

I worked on my entry for the Beatles contest and commented/emojis to my WDC friends and even got a get well c ๐ŸŽต note. Warmed my heart โค๏ธ ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค— and the ๐Ÿ™ prayers and well wishes from my sweet peeps too!
I only have a couple days to enter and hopefully can write โœ๏ธ a couple more to enter.
I was so bummed I was sick for most of the month ( and past year) ... Getting back in the writing riding saddle and staying on the horse ๐ŸŽ ( I pray ๐Ÿ™)
I did post a blog and got much-needed kudos as I wrote above.
Blessings ๐Ÿชป and thankful we are here together!

Good night ๐ŸŒ‰
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June 22, 2025 at 5:06pm
June 22, 2025 at 5:06pm
#1092036
Hi y'all ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿค  the ride to the Eye injection appointment will be here at 6:30 AM tomorrow!
I'm getting up at four to make sure I have time for meds, clean litter box and everything else!

I may have figured out more ๐Ÿ˜‰ to get myself well this morning.
I've been sleeping on a wedge pillow since January and I think it's making me nauseous when I wake up . Also it puts more pressure on my spine and not good.

I finished my contest entry and going to enter after all .
Glad to be connected but also feel lonely today.

I haven't been able to reach out as much. Glad for those that say hey ๐Ÿ‘‹ to me in their own way with what they have going on.

I miss my buddy and thankful he helped me find my faith again. Praying he and everyone ๐Ÿ™ who needs prayers feel mine today.
Speak ๐Ÿ™Š soon y'all โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ป๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ˜ป๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ˜Ž
June 20, 2025 at 4:40pm
June 20, 2025 at 4:40pm
#1091891
This was from my weekly goals y'all. Hope you have a blessed weekend!

Mon and today had medical appointments,did laundry yesterday and Walmart today.
Health better but some rough patches through the week.

My NP proud of me for figuring out what med made me sick, when Digestive staff didn't.
My BP is normal and may not have to take med for that!

I didn't get much done on Sea or blog. Going to write in it today.
I wrote something for the BEATles contest but not sure if I'm going to enter it.
Every writer has doubts but mine is a war I fight every day.
I've gone through this most of the 20 years here.
It's irrational but is an obstacle that won't leave!
Today at Walmart,we saw an 80-year-old man sitting in the heat , holding his little dog in his lap. Sweat running down his face.

As we found a parking spot and were talking about how sad it was and we had also been homeless with our grandkids a few years ago.
We felt bad too for his dog .

We found her a ride cart and I said I was going to bring him a five-dollar bill. It was a walk to get back to him, but I got a bottle of Coca-Cola for him and said I'll be back.

It was hot outside and I found him and said " Hi Mister, here's something to get your dog some food. We are poor and have been homeless and know what it's like. What's your dog's name?"
" Rebel" and thank you for your help!" He said with a grateful smile,as I petted the cute brown and white Rebel!
I said God bless you.๐Ÿ™

As I walked back to Walmart, I noticed a van and an older lady. They were living in the van , I could tell. My leg hurt but made it back a little slow. Thankful to be able to help.
Sis said that was awesome what I did.
We we got done shopping,we used our food stamps and spend card from Humana and some cash. For food and kitty litter and food. We had a few dollars on each and thankful we did and could help someone in need.

Have a blessed weekend ๐ŸŒน ๐Ÿชป

Praying for y'all to be safe and have progress with whatever you're working on ๐Ÿค .
Praying ๐Ÿ™ to be able to share more and trust.
Gotta feed kitties ๐Ÿ˜ป!
Any feedback welcomed.๐Ÿ˜Š


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June 15, 2025 at 1:36pm
June 15, 2025 at 1:36pm
#1091546
I started praying ๐Ÿ™ to more than I have been.
Blessed Carlos A who will be a Saint on Sept 7 th.
Figure it couldn't hurt!
This week found out I didn't have to wait another 3 weeks to be seen by digestive clinic.
We went last Tuesday and after seeing someone else who had no answers to our questions, but agreed " It was a good thing I stopped taking one of the ulcers meds because it made me sicker."

I've been fine since the day after taking it!
To me that's a miracle after being so sick and weak for the past year.


I've been praying for our friend Mike and others also. And for others around the world.

Our granddaughter Kat celebrated her 21 birthday ๐ŸŽ‚ and happy she is doing good!

I'm hoping to have more energy for writing and things.
Sending hugs ๐Ÿค— and prayers to y'all.

As I feel better will write more! And be in touch more with comments and reviews.
I'm slowly working on Sea of good karma item and thinking about the BEATles contest.

Great entries there!
Sometimes I just expect to hop up and feel good most of the time!

There's so much catching up to do.

Thankful for good souls in our paths.๐Ÿ“ฟ๐ŸŽถโ˜ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ ๐ŸŒ›๐Ÿค—

June 8, 2025 at 1:48pm
June 8, 2025 at 1:48pm
#1091056
I was hoping to start the BEATles contest today. I'm 2 weeks behind ( just seeing it yesterday on WDC)

"Are you resting, crying or writing?" I'm asked.

"I don't know what I am right now..."


" Why don't you ever know?" ( Like that's an absolute and happened every time I was asked that.)


Everyday is an argument or disagreement but called " a simple conversation"
That I'm " making more of it than it really is"
That " I'm too sensitive about everything" so she doesn't seem to be able to talk about anything that might upset me ".


She's the victim she thinks.
But in reality I am but don't enjoy the role at all.

Two different people with two different outlooks.



I offered to help find her glasses and was snapped at with" I can do it myself "

I said " I didn't know if was a bad thing to want to help".


So I'm sitting upstairs and not writing what I planned on or not playing my guitar either.

( You said "I shouldn't have bothered you and went to Mississippi and let you stay there. "
Yeah I made an error leaving Washington and coming here. I thought I was helping you and making a good choice. I also felt bad that you were homeless and nothing was working out for you to get a place, and I was trying to do the same.
I didn't want to burden my good friends with having me stay a year or more, trying to get on a list for housing.

Our incomes don't allow us to get our own place without it.
The extended stay studio was running $1600 a month.
Hard to save for deposits etc.
The good Lord Lordess led me to find a close public housing place and 2 months later we had a duplex. This is the third time our rent has gone up but still less than other places and we are thankful ๐Ÿ˜€.
What's your income?
A lifelong reality no matter how hard we worked and trying to make things different.

I battle depression and anxiety daily and at 70 it's gotten harder to " snap out of it".

She looks out for me as far as being careful about what she makes for dinner ( because of my ulcers that are getting better but awful to see in Jan.)

Part of my problem is I'm sensitive to the tone of voice or certain words that trigger me.

I've done 40 years of figuring out how people tick, and my own situations.

Why they do what they do and so on

Many people came to me over the years for advice and support.

Funny thing is I can't always get my tricks to work on me!

I'm concerned about some dear members going through their own stuff and praying ๐Ÿ™ for them.

I'm used to pulling away from people when I'm going through it. I don't like to show that part of my life too often.


I used to think " Everything that happened had a reason!"

Now not sure if that's true or things are random.

Being sick for so long didn't help and dropping to 106 lbs. Tomorrow will find out what it is now.

I started reworking Sea of Good Karma.

Not done yet.

Got an awesome review on this very spot. Hoping to thank her ๐Ÿ˜Š.

I'm stuck in a gear โš™๏ธ that's negative and praying to get out of it.
I can't bring light ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ or good things to anyone,if my candle is dark ๐ŸŒ‘.

I have always believed we are in a spiritual war.
Faith along with action that benefits others and ourselves is the right path to take. It's not the easiest one.


The devil ๐Ÿ‘ฟ๐Ÿ˜ˆ wants us to give up and not even bother doing anything good.

The devil wants us alone and to think we don't matter and no one cares about us.

Some people are more susceptible than others.


There's so much wrong in the world and it's frustrating not to be able to fix at least some of it

I need to find a way out of my own limbo.
To as the Door's sang:
" Break on through to the other side!๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿฅ๐ŸŽธ"

Last week I started another list of members/pals and user names, so can start tagging them with thanks ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š!

Getting more things organized to redo my port here!
I made 3 videos this week.
To see if I was jamming in tune with em!
I was but didn't like how serious and sick I looked in them. Bad camera angles and even though it sounded good and I was surprised at my playing ( after not having access for 3 years)!

I played with
Santana
Smooth
Black magic women and oye como vah.

Neil Young
The Loner
One of my favorites.

Maybe one day I'll write โœ๏ธ about the "B". A good friend I had as a teenager.
We jammed and talked for hours on the wall phone!

I'm going to share this in my blog today.

I figured if folks like it and me cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž!
If not there's a billion other bloggers out there! LoL ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜‚

I know there are folks that do care about me and I feel the same about them as well!๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐Ÿž๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ˜ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ˜”

Have a blessed week ๐Ÿ™ ๐ŸŒธ

Ok what I do?

Heard " Oh your writing so I'm going to sleep."
I said" what's that got to do with anything? ( I'm writing so you should go to sleep and not bother me? I didn't say you were...)

Man do I miss the days of group therapy! Not even kidding.

Being stuck in the house is hard. I used to go places on the bus/EMX in Eugene by myself. Go shopping, take Ballet ๐Ÿฉฐ. See my " Cool Shrink" Get a Dutch Bros ( double shot mocha, with blended ice, almond syrup and lots of whipped cream ๐Ÿจ!) OMG I really miss those days. Wah !
I'm praying we will make it to Pensacola in a year or so.

Hopefully before we die!

Going to get some lunch.
I had a treat this week. Amy's frozen India dinner with chick peas ,rice , cheese,peas and curry ๐Ÿ›!
Yummy ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿคค!
We have to get the car oil ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ changed this week. Fun times! We make sure the car is taken care of.
Maxy has been waking us up at 6 AM and it's driving us nuts ๐Ÿฅœ! I'm trying to break her of the habit ๐Ÿ˜ญ!!!
Bye ๐Ÿ‘‹ ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฉท
May the wheel ๐Ÿ›ž ๐ŸŽก of fortune ๐Ÿฅ  ๐Ÿ”ฎ being y'all ๐Ÿ˜‰ good things and blessings ๐Ÿ’– โ˜ฎ๏ธโœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
May 30, 2025 at 10:08pm
May 30, 2025 at 10:08pm
#1090309
Hi, y'all ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿค !
It's been a crazy week! The thunderstorms have brought a lot of pain to my spine and after we did laundry on Monday, I messed up one of my bad kneecaps putting on the fitted sheet.
I hurt it years ago break dancing!

Anyway it was messed up for a day or so but still had stuff to do.

Right now I'm in a strange headspace! Today I got a Facebook message from someone I haven't seen since 1974. We went to the same Jr high and High school and she knew my brother's. And had been at my brother's funeral in 1982. It was in Brooklyn and I was there from Oregon.

We had an interesting conversation. After my brother was killed by a police car there was a case of accidental wrongful death and my other brother robbed me of whatever my share was.
He lied and said the case wasn't settled yet but I called the lawyer in New York one day and found out it was settled 9 years before.

I called him out for lying about it, more than the money.
He stopped talking to me since 1991. I tried to make peace but he never would.
I have a niece and nephew I never met and see them on Facebook but wouldn't contact them,it wouldn't be right.

Now I hear from someone who is in touch with my brother And some other people from 1974.
It's kinda surreal to me. I figured nothing will happen until judgment day!
Not in this life.
A very good thing did happen, my guitar came!!! I was playing along with YouTube videos. The Who, Neil Young and others! Was nice to know I can still keep a tune and rhythm!

It's a blessing and made me very happy and grateful to have it.

It's funny because I wanted the Teal green one! I never cared about the color but it looks amazing!
It was on sale but went off and a blue one was on sale, so ordered that one. The green one was what came! Yay team ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜! We got PJ s at Walmart ( I got Hello Kitty of course!)
Still saving to move.
Kat our granddaughters BD is coming up and going to send her $ then next month is our Doms birthday ๐ŸŽ‚. She's going to be 21 and 13 for him!
She stays in touch with us and always asks for our advice ๐Ÿ˜€ and listens! Not like our daughters. One of mine hasn't spoken to me in five years. Since my other grandson took his life at 20.
It seems all the good we taught our kids, jumped a generation.
The grandkids got it!
One made sure the weed fairy came to see us, when nobody else could or wanted to.

That's a big help and blessing with the pain and challenges.
I've been thinking about our lives and we've been talking about different things we've been through.
All these will become stories probably told in viggies as I call em!

Vignettes

I started taking notes ๐ŸŽถ about times in Oregon,south Carolina, Georgia, New Orleans, CA and New York.

We always wanted to buy a house and stay somewhere forever. The economy and job market changed over the years and we had to move where it was viable, until it wasn't...
We had a lot of strange things happen like UFOs ๐Ÿ‘ฝ and I'm not kidding.
We had a normal life with the kids and holidays and going places. Then the landlord sold the building or jobs changed.

And boom time to plan a move again and it makes it harder to write โœ๏ธ that story or whatever until you settle down again.

We've been through so much and the past 3 years on our own finally but dealing with our issues. Her vision problems and my everythings!

I'm praying ๐Ÿ™ things will come together for us. My ulcers seem to be getting better ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿ˜‰!
I had an Amy organic India frozen lunch today! Man I missed eating them with rice, veggies and curry with cheese! I had some apple sauce too! Been eating a lot of granola as cereal and snacks and added wheat germ. Love peanut ๐Ÿฅœ butter the creamy type!

So it's 9 PM and time to play my games. I'm glad I was able to add my gift cards and get the guitar! In time I'll get a harmonica holder, so I can play both.
I've been praying for my friends here that haven't been feeling good either. I miss y'all and hope you have a blessed weekend ๐ŸŒน โค๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜˜ ๐Ÿ˜ป๐Ÿ˜ธ๐Ÿพ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“ฟ
Bye ๐Ÿ‘‹ for now
Dd


May 25, 2025 at 6:05pm
May 25, 2025 at 6:05pm
#1090000
Hi y'all ๐Ÿ‘‹ on this Sunday afternoon ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜€.

Thanks to everyone that was awesome and supportive to me this week!
Both for the past and present. I've asked some if it's cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž I mention some things they've said that have encouraged me and also showed how human we all are here.
We miss lost loved ones and try to encourage each other when things like bad health and other things are for us to deal with. And we keep writing or trying to!
I'm going to try and post every day this week! This past week was a doozy! We did laundry on Monday and by Thursday all heck broke loose! I had my alarm set for 6 AM but was woke up at five AM. It was the care car people and the driver wanted to get us at 7 instead of 8 Am.
Had appointment at 9 and meds to take. Said 7:30 was the earliest could leave. Long story short, I had conversations with a couple more people and robo calls to confirm each ride in the middle of getting ready!

Sis got her second eye injection ( this time in the good eye) a lady who was waiting for the bathroom told us she's been getting the shots for a year and her sight got better!
This was a blessing to hear indeed!

So I was going to get a keyboard ๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽถ but it turned out that it wasn't a good one. It was cheap!
On the flip side I found a good guitar ( acoustic) and it's on sale. Because we sent back Alexa there's credit on Amazon! I was able to take 35 bucks in gift cards from my mist play points and it paid for most of the order!
The guitar sounds good, sis had me look it up on YouTube and it's nice quality! Comes with a case,strings picks!

Very excited ๐Ÿ˜Š it's coming on Wed!
In the future may make a video! I'm hopefully getting better, even if slowly and optimistic ๐Ÿ™!

Thanks for being part of my family here โค๏ธ. I found some folks in my proofing of the Blogging Bliss newsletter today and saved their blogs to follow!

I hope you all have a great week!
D
May 18, 2025 at 5:10pm
May 18, 2025 at 5:10pm
#1089584
Hi y'all on this Sunday afternoon ๐Ÿ˜.

Kudos ๐ŸŽ‰ to y'all that hang in there with me ๐Ÿ˜‰ and let me know your still there โ˜บ๏ธ! Yup it means a lot to have good conversations and connections with folks, when others even family aren't so close!
I'm very blessed to have a core of family in touch.
Love is thicker than blood many times. You can be closer to some and not even be related!


So tomorrow will trade my prescription for a good one! Can't believe Dr forgot to write โœ๏ธ four times a day.which in Latin is Q.I.D. !
I took medical terminology to become a Nurse!

Besides all that nonsense, today is a day of remembrance for me.

My then 18 years old little brother Jeffrey was killed 42 years ago today. I some ways it feels like an eternity ago, but in my photogenic mind it also seems like yesterday.

Certain moments are like little videos in my mind, snippets of the spring ๐ŸŒฑ of 1982.

I had moved up to Oregon the year before to get my babies and myself out of San Francisco and the abusive relationship I wanted out from.

My step sister had made the move with her future hubby. It was a big change from city life to the rural mountains life in southern Oregon!

I remember my 2 year old daughter falling into the mud and she was wearing light blue shirt and pants. Now covered in brown muck! I was about to get her changed but my sis said " Why? Why put on more clean clothes? She's going to keep playing and they all get dirty anyway!

It took me a minute to get her point! I was so used to making sure my kids were clean and looked nice to ride the bus to the store or wherever we were going.


As I looked around the kids were all ages and having the time of their life! Yeah wearing mud but laughing and it was warm outside.


It was harder for me to adjust to the fact, not everyone had indoor plumbing! They were living in a tiny trailer and when I asked " where's the bathroom?"
She handed me a coffee can! I thought she was joking but she pointed her fingers to the outside bushes and I got the point!

In time I got a small apartment in the town of Myrtle Creek. We had a backyard and I was starting a garden, which was exciting to think we could grow our own tomatoes and such.

That April I got a phone call about my mother. My aunt said " Your mother jumped off the roof again".
I said " is she alright?
( I had nursed her around 1972,as a teenager and she did recover for the most part...)
My Aunt sounded annoyed ( like I should have known what she was saying) " No she's dead and you have to get her buried"

Later my uncle S would explain I needed to take a Greyhound to New York and I was next of kin, to be able and get her a Free Jewish Burial.

Besides being in shock I thought it odd, the Free Jewish Burial thing. She taught me more about Jesus and what little she knew about the Catholic Church, from a long-lost friend named Jenny. I never met her but as a child, she took me to a beautiful Catholic Church on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. It was always empty when we went.
I loved the red glass votive candles and the big Jesus hanging on the cross.
She would pray for him to help her and sometimes said " He's my brother"


So I did go to NY and it was a mess me going to an Orthodox Jewish burial! I had been to a non religious Jewish funeral for my grandma but nothing prepared me for that.
The worst part was having the Rabbi yell at me for trying to say goodbye to my mom.
I wasn't supposed to look at her grave but did and he snapped " Are you going to watch as we put dirt on her grave?!" ๐Ÿชฆ Like it was the worst thing I could do.

I ran off towards the back to hide and cry.
My brother Jeffrey came over and put his arms around me and said" it's ok Diane, you didn't do nothing wrong,he should shut up!"

My other brother said " not to worry".


Flash forward to when I got back home to Oregon a few days later.

I had a dream about Jeffrey. That I was walking through an alley and going to his funeral.
Mrs Fox who was a friend from the Seventh Day Adventist Church told me" Not to worry about the dream. It was because I had just lost my mother."

My mom passed April 10th .
May 18 was a sunny day and a Tuesday ( later I would write โœ๏ธ that in a song).
We were out in the budding garden and they were playing with Gardner snakes ( little harmless one's)

The phone rang and I went inside to answer.
A friend from Brooklyn said "Diane please sit down "
Her voice was weeping and I knew it was something very bad.
"What's wrong Sherry?" I
Asked.

She told me " D I know how much you love your brother Jeffrey and he loved you. He's dead . It happened last night,he was killed on the Belt Parkway by the Verrazano bridge.


I can't believe I lived through all that.
I didn't expect to write about it here but,in my mind I always expected to write โœ๏ธ about my real life.

In the last year I decided not to because someone said no one would care.
I also had to deal with my lousy health issues lol ๐Ÿ˜†.

I'm still hopeful to write more. I will see how it goes from this post. I know some will be blown away but I hope people will get something positive out of it.
Somehow I always kept my faith. Even if it changed from Jewish to Catholic and back and forth! Or Buddhist prayers ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ“ฟ! Or good majick for healing and prosperity for us and others.
Oops I have to feed the kitty's, don't know how long I've been writing.
It helped ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ˜โค๏ธ๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ“ฟ๐Ÿ•Ž๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿชฆ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ˜ธ๐Ÿ˜ป๐Ÿค—
May 15, 2025 at 8:08pm
May 15, 2025 at 8:08pm
#1089398
Well, hi y'all! It's been a busy time here. Sometimes you get so much going on, you need time to process it!

When you don't, your doing and moving and then get too tired to share anything ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜”!


You take notes ๐ŸŽถ in your book and next thing you know,3 days passed and you want to write โœ๏ธ about what happened today not yesterday.


I haven't been writing much online except to say hey to folks and thanks!

I had a few curve balls come my way ( which took a lot of time that could have been spent on writing my blog or an email to a friend.
I had my monthly appointment for pain management and the doctor didn't write down any directions.

The pharmacy called me and said I had to bring the prescription back to him and get a another one.

I saw him Tuesday and today got it, but can't get to the Dr office until next Monday.
I have to give 2 days notice to request a ride.

I'm thankful because it would be around $40 bucks to take Uber.
A penny saved is a penny earned!


I'm looking into getting a 61 keyboard ๐ŸŽน!
It's going to be awhile before I can get a guitar replacement!


I'm super happy about having a way to make music ๐ŸŽถ again!!


I miss a lot of people here and hoping things will even out and will be spending more time here and on writing projects ๐Ÿ˜‰!

Hugs ๐Ÿค—
Speak soon!
May 7, 2025 at 4:25pm
May 7, 2025 at 4:25pm
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Hi ๐Ÿ‘‹ y'all ๐Ÿค !
The thunder โ›ˆ๏ธ storms blew in after midnight and as peaceful as falling rain can be,loud thunder โšก can be annoying when it keeps waking ya up ๐Ÿ˜น!

Got to sleep in till 7:30 past 2 days so yay for that! Usually Our " rooster" ๐Ÿ“ kitty Maxy starts meowing very loud ๐Ÿ“ข between 6:22 AM and 7! Feed the kitty's and have coffee โ˜• start the day!
We did laundry on Monday and finally got it put away.

So was not impressed with Alexa ๐Ÿ˜• on Amazon echo dot... I was hoping it would make things easier if it could replace the remote pretty much. Talk ๐Ÿฆœ and go!

Nope didn't happen and she's in the box waiting for a box and label to get returned.
It took time to hook up Amazon, Samsung TV Alexa app ( pretty much useless...)
In the end over the past two weeks,it was more a pain in the butt than helpful.
It couldn't go from the home screen to Roku most of the time. Could not open-play- TV shows except a couple times.

The trouble started one night, trying to get her to "Alexa open Dark Winds on Roku. ( It's also AMC+ through Roku!)

Instead Alexa told me about" The Dark Wind is a novel by Tony Hillerman in a set of books by him. I put it in your cart do you want to buy it now?"

I yelled NO ALEXA ๐Ÿ˜ ! DON'T BUY THE BOOK!

She responded "ok"

I looked at Cheryl and said " ๐Ÿ˜’ WTF???
She did WHAT,?.

Sure enough I looked at my Amazon cart and the novel was there from Alexa 2 minutes ago.

( Today on a news ticker saw a child had ordered 70,000 lollipops for 4 grand on Amazon...)

Back in 2020 I was staying with my dear friend Mabs in Washington State. She had Alexa but used it to turn on the lights,play a song and other helpful things but it didn't try to sell her anything...
In the past 2 weeks, when asking for the daily horoscope ( sometimes she says it but most times -)
Either she don't remember being asked for Sagittarius or offers to sell us a subscription to a daily horoscope.

It got super out of hand, she would play music that we didn't ask for and wanted us to order the album.

So I did some digging this morning and found out, after 2014 and later in 2022 she was being programmed to sell us stuff. I even found out that if you don't have Amazon prime, you will pay $19.99 a month for her service. Whoa can you believe that?

People had posted those problems and more , trying to figure out how to reprogram her.

I tried to teach her new skills but the app was dumb! I couldn't get her to open a show, but could get her to tell me what movies were playing in our area.

So it's like she can't remember anything we say, but she remembers to sell us crap! Or play music that sucks, that I never asked for or heard!
Instead of helping my sister with low vision, she's not doing much but aggravating us!

Who needs that?!

So beware of Alexa cause she can be dangerous... I kid you not ๐Ÿšซ.

I'm doing ok except for the number the weather is causing my spine. From ok to a sledgehammer ๐Ÿ”จ!
Does anyone remember that song?


On a serious note,has anyone watched The TV show Dark Winds? It's an excellent show and is true to the different Native American cultures. I learned so much from it already. Some unbelievably awful,how Native woman in the 1970s were led to give birth in hospitals, rather than home birthing, because they made a law, giving permission to sterilize woman. Without their knowledge or consent.

It's a mystery show with a strong cast and compelling storylines.

It's filming it's fourth season after just ending it's third.

It took 30 years for it to become a TV show!!! Thanks to George RR Martin and Robert Redford and others who saw the Merit in this huge project. Bless em all!

So the Thunder is starting again and almost feed the kitty's dinner ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ!
Have a safe blessed week y'all ๐Ÿ’Ÿ ๐Ÿ™!โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ธ๐Ÿ˜ผ๐Ÿฑ

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