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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 10:35 p.m.

I always said to others, "I am here for a good time, not a long time." Well, it used to be a good time but now it just seems like a long time, yet not all that great. In fact, I have been trying for the past couple of weeks to make the long time a good time and I seem to be succeeding but it sure needs certain controls. My status as a pre-diabetic occurred on the Thursday during my monthly visit to the doctor. By the following Tuesday, the do...

Thursday, January 19th, 2012, whatever hour it is....

Well, I just wrote this great blog about grocery carts, hit some key on the keyboard and lost it all while I was finishing so, that's it for tonoght. Just remember that 24,000 children get injured in the USA alone each year in grocery cart accidents. So, don't drive yours on the road !!! Have a great evening or what's left of it.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 9:15 p.m.

My sister turned 39 again yesterday, That's the 26th time. To remember this milestone she and her husband are sitting on a China Airlines jet at this very minute on their way to Thailand and Laos. I cannot get it through my head how big this world is when they slill have to sit on the plane for another eighteen hours of travel going east from the Netherlands to get there. At least, that is the direction they took I think and they will b...

Tesday, January 17th, 2012, 9:10 p.m.

Fifty-five years ago this summer my parents and the four of us children packed up into our old 1951 Ford and towed a 1930s era camping tent trailer of sorts to Old Orchard Beach. It was a trip to remember, one that I did again, although very briefly about 7 or 8 years ago on a return trip from moving a fellow to a small town in New Hampshire. As I was only a very short distance from Boston, I thought I would head that way on my return trip for ...

Monday, January 16th, 2012, 9:00 p.m.

Reality versus fantasy, now there's an interesting situation. Reality, in my mind anyway, is what the situation really is. Fantasy is what we wish it could be. What prompted these thoughts is a show on Netflix called Saving Grace which I have been watching for quite a while now. I really look forward to it to see what sort of new twists they can add to it to make it different and not the same old story that seems to carry on in other TV sho...

Sunday, January 15th, 2012, 8:00 a.m.

I have been up for hours now and before I got to this Blog I did a bunch of things around the apartment, plus I re-editied my Home Page as I had been wanting to do. My only problem with editing is that it generally means I add stuff,  correct stuff and seldom take more away. It is a bad habit I got into with my book writing. My editor sent me back the last book she edited for my final review and rather than double check her work, I got off...

Saturday, January 14, 2012,  2:20 a.m.

This is my 28th blog. Sort of like the numbers on a calendar page for the month of February except for leap years....and after two hip replacements I now have given up leaping! 

I guess I am treating these pages as a way to get my thoughts, reactions, family history and a variety of other things down on paper without actually having any paper. Now I am really starting to show my age in this modern technological world. I often wonder...

Friday, January 13th, 2012,  1:35 a.m.

Hey, I just realized it is Friday the thirteenth....maybe this is a day to stay home if you are superstituous.

From cradle to grave....

There is something to be said about euthanasia when the prospects of a good life ahead have come to an end. My sister’s mother-in-law went that way in the Netherlands when she was told she was dying from cancer and there would be no recovery. She picked her granddaughter’s birthday as ...

Thursday, January 12th, 2012, 12:10 a.m.

I was thinking about nicknames today. A result of a conversation I had with my own daughter some time ago. She is pregnant with her first and without a name for the child, and not knowing if it is a girl or a boy, I started or she started referring to it as the bump. So, that is the nickname I have started to use for it. BUMP!

January 11th, 2012, 12:30 A.M.

So there you have it, today's blog did not appear. That was the way today was. I wanted to try something to see if I could write a blog in Word and 'copy and paste' it here. So, I finally tried it and it did not work. Instead of redoing it, I am going to bed as it is well past midnight and I am not going to start again. I might mess around with it tomorrow but my brain is tired. Besides it wasn't a very good blog anyway and yhou probably have ...