Daily Pondering.

 

Simple Things.

Look! Yesterday I got my first sunflowers of the summer! Yahoo! It really is the simple things that make me the happiest.

I also saw that fat raccoon last night out on the back porch when I put Beja out to pee before bed and the dance studio across the street has their day camp again and tomorrow it's going up to an ungodly 36C with the humidex of 45C so likely too hot to even go outside and this morning as I was waking up I heard Stairway To Heaven  on the radio again. I just love that song and it always reminds me of Jr. High and highschool dances; they always played that song at the very end for the Last Dance. Yesterday the next door neighbours were also having a BBQ and both Beja and I were jealous and he kept sniffing his snoot up in the air savouring the aroma but it mostly just reminded me of how our Ottawa house smelled like after our fire 30 years ago. 

The youngest also starts his 3rd tax accounting course again soon and my friend F( from grade 6) who is an accountant is retiring and he's just 60. He's a year older than me even though we were in the same grade as he was held back a year and not because he's stupid because he's not; he's very smart, but because when he moved here he couldn't speak English(he's Chinese) so they held him back a year. I can also still remember him being teased by the other kids because he wore his older sibling's hand-me-downs that were too small and he always wore pants that were too short and they'd taunt him, "Floods!" "Flood's over!" but just look at him now, he showed them,so successful, him and his wife have Rolex watches and he buys his wife & daughter designer Gucci  and Chanel clothes and purses and when his kids went into university he bought them a new Mercerdes and BMW,  and he even supports his wife's entire family in the Phillipines,etc. so now he can laugh all the way to the bank and the bullies are likely in prison now or dead from an overdose...

I also decided to give Beja the surname of Dyson because he sucks everything off the carpet and floor like a vacuum cleaner,ha,ha, and now not only do I still have the baaaad abdomenal pain and cramps but also pain on my right side in the middle as well, and some people think I'm a bitch because I'm an assertive woman who says it like it is, sticks up for myself, speaks out, and doesn't take any shit, and it's sad now,too, to see kids in summer aren't the same as when I was a kid; they don't go swimming anymore, or go to the park, or ride their bikes & skateboards or just hang out with friends; they just text & play games on their phones.  Racial slurs have also changed; it used to be paki  and chink  and it's now jeet.It's also sad to realize when my hubby and I met we both had 2 living parents(and for several years afterwards as well) but now we're both orphans and I really miss the 70s and 80s and wish I could go back.

You ever catch yourself smiling at an old memory, then immediately feel sad because you know that version of life isn't coming back.-Detach

 

Today's Thought

 

Envee.

This is my friend S(from grade 8)'s new Bulldog puppy she named Envee. It's also weird about Beja how he won't let me cut his nails but he does let me touch, kiss, and play with his paws, and he lets me clean his eyes and ears but I can't cut his nails. The other night when I put him out for his bedtime pee I also saw fireflies and bats and my hubby has been working alot of nights and overtime so he's been really tired and yesterday he fell asleep laying on top of me on the couch and he was on Beja's spot and he got really mad! HA! He was also all dressed & ready and headed to the car yesterday morning to play pickleball....and he was paged for work and had to come right back and it lasted longer than an hour so he missed it.He's going to try again today.

Yesterday I also saw a feather out on the back porch carpet( shown here next to James Bong) and some people say it means a dead loved one has stopped by and I'd like to think it was my mother on her birthday yesterday. I'm also listening to the new Rolling Stones album I like( naturally) except for just one song that sounds "twangy" and my hubby did 2 big farts on Beja yesterday as well  and it really upset him,too,so I "thumped" him upside the head, and I read somewhere that Eddie Van Halen said he "had a low IQ" and as he graduated highschool "all the rich kids" were discussing which university to go to and he was just hoping he could get somewhere with his guitar because that was his only skill.....well, he obviously didn't have to worry. The 31 YR old's former boss( who he has a lawsuit against for ripping him off) offered him a 5K settlement even though he owes him 40K in back-pay so he told him to f*ck-off.

I also had this spicy Indian chatpata aloo kathi roll so if I get baaad indigestion at least I'll know why and I still have the baaaad abdomenal pain and now also baaaad cramps with it as well(it never ends) and I checked Google aboutRandolph Mantooth( shown below so you can see for yourself what a hunk he was) and it said he WAS married; twice, in fact,so that's 2 very lucky women!!They're also making a movie about Homer's epic The Odyssey  and I remember being forced to read it in high school and it was just one of the most boring books ever(along with The Iliad and Wuthering Heights) even though I really enjoyed other Classics, even trying to get thru the condensed Coles Notes was torture enough and I still remember saying to my history teacher in protest, "Who even cares about some dumb old Greek story anyway?" and it turned out he was Greek and he got really mad!

Oooops!

Someone online also accused me of being a redneck, except for the fact that I DON'T smoke, drink, gamble, have never been to the Legion, hate sports, have never been arrested, in jail or have a police record, and hate NASCAR,  wrestling,country music, darts, pool, bowling, monster trucks,don't live in public housing or a trailer not on welfare, don't go to bars or strip clubs or casinos or play the lottery or  BINGO, don't sleep around, etc....the total opposite of a redneck, but this also comes from a troll that also always insults me as well(I don't even know why they follow me if all they do is insult and troll me) and maybe I should just block them?

I also like this dress, and I miss:

Buddy

swimming

my old Toronto house

Tang, Hi-C, Kool-Aid, Tab

being thin

Christmas

Summers with my friend D

being happy

my old life

the Old Me

Being me

How to believe you have worth when the world has always proved you don't.-Void Cast

 

Mighty Memes.

 I was originally going to do this tomorrow but it takes me an hour and I didn't want to be too late in the morning. I want to get outside before it gets too hot.

Oh ok maybe I'm just unlovable.-Faye

Every day I wake up and am excluded from everything in the entire world.-Vivi

Except for the coffee.

I never expected the future to be this horrible when I was a child.-Big Tee

Also: the flip-flop. Can be airborne as well. 😂

We got one when our oldest was born.

#1 asshole.

Asshole King.

Why cant things ever just go right for me?-Star

I always ruin everything even though I don't mean to.-Catlover1739