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I was a big reader.Loved reading more than anything .Holed up in my room reading and fantasizing about having great adventures .
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June 17 Keep On Truckingas if ...I ever intended to stop ??!
 That was one of those 70's sayings I use to laugh about over the years.
Yesterday I was bent over in the front yard pulling huge weeds out of the flower bed , and realized how just a few months earlier bending over was
a) initially impossible b) painful beyond any recollection of pain I had ever had even childbirth seemed like a walk in the park comparatively
c)just 3 months ago still needed an opiate to bend over comfortably.
And now I'm just bending over with rarely a hitch, smooth and pain free.
It's the straightening up that's really the trick again.
 Here I am sitting on the curb at physical therapy waiting for my Eddie to pick me up sitting in the bright Spring Kentucky sun .
Getting up from this position is always filled with grunts and other cartoon -like sounds coupled with ungraceful moments including arm flailing sometimes ...
I just keep on trucking , because that 's what it takes to make it baby. May 15 MusingsLife keeps moving forward, with scarce a chance to look back too much.
I am trying to live life forward and not backward, does that make sense ?
The biggest change is that my daughter moved away about an hour away from me with her beau to a larger city nearby .
I do miss my daily life with her , and I must say ,we have been lucky to have gotten to spend a lot of time together over the years.
This is a normal turn of events with children leaving the nest.Her departure was just delayed by several years.
We've had our share of life drama over the past 7 years , and have become a little worse for the wear.
Still we both held up to what has been tossed at us as well as we could.
We've had some help along the way with those hard lessons.
I sometimes see flashes of life that I have experienced , and wonder how I got through them, or I remember great times that seemed to have ended way too soon.
It's all made me who I am today, and I can live with that .
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 a caricature my daughter made of me as a fairy when she came by and visited me earlier this week.
April 23 Sweet SunThe sweet Spring sun caressed my skin and warmed my aching bones this afternoon while the lilac scent hung on the breeze and drifted my way as I sat on the stoop waiting for the kids to come home.
I so yearned for healing rays on those cold ,gray days in rehab right after my accident in November and then with Winter dragging
     on mercilessly while recuperating at home .
That frigid ice storm that had it's grip on Kentucky making it feel more like my time in Massachusetts didn't help , and more recently Spring weather taunted us here and there and suddenly *poof * everything went back down to 40 or 50 F again.
My circulation isn't what it should be yet and so my body really wavers between way too cold and then too hot with blankets on.
It sounds like a few days of warmer weather are beckoning us over the next weekend and hopefully a trend I can easily follow of more weather to come.
Life is hectic these days with Eddie's kids activities and schedule , friends visiting, and my daughter moving an hour away closer to her work now.
This will be the first time she's ever been that far away from me.It's going to be strange. In my family, having a military background , we were not always close to my parents geographically depending on the assignment.
My parents are still in Texas , the last time I saw them was when they came down after my accident.It was good to see them , I know that they were pretty scared for me.
I am still going to physical therapy twice a week and getting stronger, but still not up to snuff yet.
Most days I am tired at the end of the evening , but look forward to another day , because I was allowed more after Nov. 16 , 2008.
Every moment now has a special flavor, appreciation and wonder at what is and can still be .
    My daughter in the pink, then our friends, Sharon , Juanita, Doug and Susanne plus my Eddie pictured above . April 05 Gone Way Too SoonZel Cat died last Wednesday.
He was suddenly quite ill , and we got him in to see the vet as soon as we could , but he was already very bad off.
It seems the poor little guy had a fatal corona virus called FIP , and we had to make a quick decision to help him to the rainbow bridge.
He wasn't even a year old.
Tears still come every time I think of the choice we had to make.
He didn't need to suffer anymore, and this was the kindest thing I think we could do for Steff's fur baby.
He was a cuddlesome fellow that I didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with , between my busy schedule ,being laid up in the hospital and my subsequent lack of mobility up until the second week of February .
This was Steff's first cat, the one she always wanted.
He was her baby.
We've had so many changes over the last year ,a very mixed bag to say the least .
On a beautiful sunny spring day like today , I think about all the hard times we've all endured, the joy we've felt , and then the who -knows- what- lies- ahead truth of living in this world .
I know she adored him, and that while he was around , he had a nice kitty life.
We'll miss you , Zel .
    
March 26 Back When Michael Looked ,ah, Pretty Much Normal...and dancing songs held (cough)*great advice* to live by.
 Off the Wall ( Michael Jackson)
When the world is on your shoulder
Gotta straighten up your act and boogie down If you cant hang with the feeling Then there aint no room for you this part of town cause were the party people night and day Livin crazy thats the only way Chorus So tonight gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf And just enjoy yourself Groove, let the madness in the music get to you Life aint so bad at all If you live it off the wall Life aint so bad at all (live life off the wall) Live your life off the wall (live it off the wall) 2nd verse You can shout out all you want to cause there aint no sin in folks all getting loud If you take the chance and do it Then there aint no one whos gonna put you down cause were the party people night and day Livin crazy thats the only way Chorus So tonight gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf And just enjoy yourself Cmon and groove, and let the madness in the music get to you Life aint so bad at all If you live it off the wall Life aint so bad at all (live life off the wall) Live your life off the wall (live it off the wall) Bridge Do what you want to do There aint no rules its up to you (aint no rules its all up to you) Its time to come alive And party on right through the night (all right) 3rd verse Gotta hide your inhibitions Gotta let that fool loose deep inside your soul Want to see an exhibition Better do it now before you get too old cause were the party people night and day Livin crazy thats the only way Chorus So tonight gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf and just enjoy yourself Cmon and groove (yeah) let the madness in the music get to you Life aint so bad at all if you live it off the wall Life aint so bad at all (live life off the wall) Live your life off the wall (live it off the wall) Today this song came on the radio and I started to sing along and sway a bit ...
Hey--when I was 15 years old, no problem was too large that I couldn't boogie it away ,because the funk wouldn't leave me alone ( that lyric ,er ,sage sentiment was expressed by the Brothers Johnson in the song "Stomp") .
Yeah I was into disco. I've mentioned that here before.
I'm standing firm to it, so castigate me all you want.
If it makes me wiggle ,I'm not gonna deny the power it unleashes in me.
Not saying that I can't still feel a groove , but yanno, it doesn't quite make everything alright anymore.
Thirty years ago ...life was indeed simpler .
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