Almost There!

I leave for my trip in just 3 more days! I'm almost there....but so is the hurricane, as shown on the diagram here! The stupid thing better NOT impact my flight, my trip, or being able to enjoy the beach and swim, esp. since that's what I'm going for! That would just be MY "luck" though, wouldn't it? At least if I die there I'm already in my Happy Place and my ashes can just be scattered along the beach. I don't care if all the beach chairs are taken,either, as I'm just as happy just laying my towel on the sand.  I'm almost done packing,too, just a few last-minute things left to toss in. My mother asked if there were sharks in the water there and I said sometimes and she looked shocked but I've swam there many times before( and in Hawaii as well where they have also been) and haven't come across any(they might think I'm a  fat juicy sealion with my black bathingsuit) and the closest I've seen were a barracuda and a stingray in Cuba which swam right by me and were so close I could reach out and touch them(which,of course, I never did) and I also got stung by a jellyfish in Curacao. The 28 YR old's boss is going to Portugal on his vacation in 1-2 weeks and I've been to Lisbon over 12 years ago and I remember they really love roosters there and the rooster motif is everywhere and on everything and they also had these life-size painted cow statues in the airport but I don't know if they're still there.

I also took these close-up photos of my sunflowers and you can notice the patterns are different. It's like a work of art.. There's another fall fair here locally and they have such "exciting" things like arm wrestling( oooh!) it doesn't take much to excite people around here it's so boring,ha,ha, and I guess my mother must be doing ok in her new LTC home because she hasn't called frantically begging us to break her out, and we'll go visit her tomorrow, and she said she never wants to see the 28 YR old ever again after his comment about Wouldn't euthanasia be cheaper?(than the 2K a month for her home) but he just meant she's costing so much $$  and now we're struggling even more than we did before, and the 16 YR old finally got signed up for badminton; at first he tried and it was all full and he was on a waiting list but then they realized my hubby volunteers there and his company sponsers them so they decided to "bump" him up to the top of the list so now he's been registered ok.Ahhhh, isn't "priviledge" just wonderful?😁

There's also this annoying radio commercial that literally comes on every 2 minutes or so and it just drives me crazy and I hate it; to me it's like Chinese Water Torture, and they said on the news that the main "concern" kids had going back to school was "Global Warming" and "Climate Change". Yeah....."riiiight". My ass!  They'd be most worried about if their friends would be in their class, or if the bullies would be, or if they'd get that mean teacher, and if they'd have a partner for gym class or a lab partner for science class, or have someone to eat lunch with or to play with at recess, or if they'll have trouble with their locker combination lock( I remember I had to practice it all summer before Jr. High), etc. Bob Barker also died and left some 70 million $ to animal  charities as well and as much as I love my dog I think it's a stupid waste to donate $$$ to animal causes when there's so many people  in need and it would go to much better use to the food banks, the homeless shelters, etc. That's where I donate to. They also advertised on the radio to donate cat food to the animal shelter and it made me scoff; who gives a shit about some stupid cats? Let them starve; give the $$$$ to the food bank to help people instead!

Buddy was also panting(and it wasn't hot) last night and "heaving" and looked like he had trouble breathing and was all agitated  and really worried me and I held him close and reassured him I was there and I loved him and it eventually passed but it was scary. he's my everything; my entire world and the only thing that keeps me going and my reason to hold on and to keep living. If he's gone nothing matters anymore.I also read a blog where they have cows and they artificially inseminate them with bull semen and I thought to myself that's just sad; the unfortunate cows and bulls don't get to enjoy themselves; it's all just so....technical. Why not just let them have fun the natural way?

Sometimes you just need to smoke some weed, listen to Reggae, and take care of ya business.