All Hail THE QUEEN!!!

Meet Sasha:

"Hello, Daaahlings!  Gaze upon my beauty and weep.  Yes, I know you are weeping for I AM that beautiful. Yes, Yes, your tears they are beautiful because I am beautiful.  Dahling are you still crying? I command you to stop, your tears... they are disturbing my beauty!"

 

"Really, Dahlings, my life is not easy. The constant grooming, lounging on my throne, dealing with my subjects....ordering around the slaves.  Honestly, it can all be rather tiring."

"It's a hard life, but somebody has to do it...and that somebody is me.  QUEEN SASHA, that's right dahlings, you may now bow. Yes, Yes, bow before your QUEEN!

"Puurrrruuurrrrrr!!!!!  Did you see that!  Did you not see how I did that just now this very second!  Am I not brilliant? Here Dahling, let me show you another!"

"ROWRRR!! Cheeky, no? Yes! Ha ha, oh Dahlings my brilliance is dazzling!!  It takes my breath away in giddy little puffs of glee! Does it not do the same to you? Do not answer! Because I already know it does.

"Oh, hello dahling....your QUEEN is busy at the moment you will have to come back later.   Also, you are invading my royal space!"  "HaHA, INVADING is CORRECT!!  Operation KittyKat T.A.R.A 59 is in EFFECT,  ME-OW! Hostile takeover beginning in 5,4,3,2,1, NOW.  ME-OW!

 

 

"Hostile takeover!!  You can't hostile takeover me!  I'm THE QUEEN!!"  "Says, who fluffy cakes? I say there's a new boss in town, ME-OW!!!  "Who are you calling 'fluffy cakes', shaggy fur. And why do you keep yelling ME-OW.....you are giving your QUEEN a headache....really dahling, go scratch a post or something." "I don't have shaggy fur you dingy gray! And ME-OW is my KittyKat Warrior Yodel Yell of Power and MIGHT!!!"  "*GASP* I am NOT a dingy gray, I am a ROYAL Russian Blue!!" "AHAhahahahhahahah, the Commander recruited you from the same barracks that I came from.  You are a street rat just like me."  "The SLAVES purchased me for a very HIGH price so they could have someone of ROYAL BLOOD to wait on.  You have thrown your glove madame. I will suffer no more insults."  "ME-OW!!"

Tune in next time for The Battle For The Throne!! Who will be victorious? Who's dignity will still be in tact?  Who will be QUEEN?

South Florida Retirement Living!

Here is the letter that I promised to post.  Just to set the stage a bit, the condo Gloria lived in is part of a larger community of condos. It is situated on 2 huge blocks of nothing but different retirement condo communities and all of them are loosely affiliated with each other and share bus services, a community theater, and other large amenities.   Each condominium community has it's own smaller private amenities such as pools and tennis courts.  The newer condos are huge groupings of high rise buildings. The older communities have 2-3 story buildings on spacious property that is lushly landscaped. 

My Life in a Condominium

           Condominium living has its advantages.  The landscape is lovely.  The clubhouse has programs and activities on a daily basis; some good some just fair, but a place to get together with others for a few hours.

           How are people accepted? If you have a car and are willing to take people around, you're in!!  If you're submissive and allow yourself to be pushed around, you're in!!  If you are assertive and express your own opinion, you're out!!

          People here are so self-absorbed, no one really cares if you're sick or alone.  Gossips and scandal are rampant, whether it's the truth or a figment of someone's imagination.  Next in line is jealousy.  Acquire a male companion and you will be dissected emotionally and figuratively.  The word bragging should be in italics.  Everyone had the perfect husband who had the most perfect and lucrative job.  All grandchildren are geniuses and very talented.  You hear this from the majority of the people and so often that it becomes ad nauseum.  Then the discussion reverts to themselves.  They constantly speak about their own illnesses and discomforts (include this in ad nauseum).

          Conversation?  What's that?  They do not discuss current events, books, news items, plays or an interesting occurrence.  If you get tired of listening to this constant drivel and want to steer the conversation to a different topic, forget it!  Before you get the first sentence out you are interrupted with their own stories and do not let you go on with your story.

         How about speaking to a giggler?  They laugh at everything.  These are the shallow and mindless ones.

         Do people think their lives are over because they are retired? Nonsense!  you can continue to have an open mind and learn until the end.  People here are hedonistic.  All they are interested in are fun and games.  So what am I doing here?  No one warned me in advance what I was getting myself into, so I signed, sealed and got myself incarcerated in this jungle, and here I must remain until judgment day.

                                                                                    by Mollie Stein

I think there is something so very poignant in the fact that feeling like an outsider or feeling alone crosses all age groups. Also, I really like this woman.  I think she has (had) style.....probably because it sounds like things I would say or write in a fit of pique. 

Home At Last!

David and I are home at last! We had a very productive trip down to Florida.  We finished gathering up everything we needed from the condo and now we can call in a junk service to haul everything else away.  Our first trip down we packed up all the furniture we wanted and all the knick-knacks.  This trip we went carefully through the house to make sure we hadn't missed anything.  We were really glad we glad we took the extra trip because we found some really cool stuff!  We found Gloria's United States Naturalization Certificate making her a US citizen.  We found all of her passports and David's passport from when he was a baby.  It's was so cute with his little baby picture in it. We found David's grandmother's death certificate which says she was a nurse, we didn't know that!  We found a photo album with old photos of Gloria and her sister and brother when they were children in Jamaica. I think one of my favorite things that we found was a letter that was written to Gloria by another member of her condominium that is expressing her extreme displeasure of living in a retirement community.   It is very descriptive and colorful and I like it because I am sure it's part truth and part perception.  But mostly I like it because its the only letter we found and it's very worn and looks like Gloria read it many times.  I could be wrong but I think she identified with the sentiments in the letter, so when I read the letter I feel like maybe I am also getting a glimpse into the way she might have felt also. When I get the box of stuff that we shipped back I will type the letter out and post it.  It's an interesting perspective on living in a retirement community.  

Getting Organized

My Christmas present from David was delivered last week.  I was very excited.  I have been wanting a jewelry armoire for quite some time. This was my jewelry before:

And this is after:

 

That's a whole lot better! Now I can actually get to my jewelry without stuff falling out on the floor.  Plus I have found stuff I forgot I even had.   Thanks Honey!

It's so hard to concentrate when.....

Meet Tara.

See how resolutely she gazes into the distance as she stands guard over me as I work on my blog. There are other cats afoot and she must keep my laptop safe from those foul detractors.  For they would ravage my work with such crimes as "Lay On The Laptop" and "Bat the Pointer."  Oh the HUMANITY of it all!!! Such determination fills her soft fluffy chest. But wait...what is this....

 

 It is...hehe *gulp* rather interesting for Tara.  It's...so pretty. "What is that, What is that?" she is starting to feverishly ask herself.

"Oh, and what is this down here? There are THINGS down here, pretty pretty things.  Shiny things that sparkle in my eyes like moonlight in the cold of WINTER!"

"I HAVE TO TOUCH IT!! Ahahahahahhaah I touched it.  I'm touching it! Oooh, now the light is gone!  Oooh, now the light is back!  Oooh, now the light is gone!  Oooh, now the light is BACK!

"NO! I must stay strong!  Those two gray demons are closing in.  I can FEEL it.  They are plotting right this second.  Who knows what nefarious deeds they have concocted!"

..............................

"Abandon post, Abandon post.  We have a new target, repeat we have a new target.  The gray's have launched a remote attack.  It appears to be small, white, and it's approaching fast. YES!!!"

New Book

I'm starting a brand new author today.  He comes recommended by one of my favorite authors Patrick Rothfuss.  Anyone who is interested, I will let you know how it goes. The best part is that the series is already finished!!!  Those are always the best finds.

Let them eat cake!!

David and I had a very nice time yesterday looking at a subdivision that we are considering.  The the house that we like is almost done.  They have stopped construction and left it at a certain point so that a buyer can come in and make all the choices on how to finish it.  David and I really like that because a lot of times we like the way a builder has finished a house up to a point.  Then there is always a, "I really like it BUT I wish they had finished the floors in a different color," or "I love the wood finish but I don't like how they used brick instead of stone for the fireplaces."  Yeah, yeah, I guess David and I are a little bit picky but we really want our next house to be the house we stay in for a long time. 

After checking out the houses we went to Frys in the last hope of finding the elusive Limited Edition Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 Elite bundle.  We bought one for the family for Christmas and in RRODed after 5 days  (red ring of death..........it broke).  So devastating!!!  Luckily we were able to return it.  NOT so luckily every limited edition xbox 360 has been sold at every store everywhere.  Now we are back to no xbox.  Of course we could just get a regular Elite, but what fun would that be? 

I needed comfort food after finding all that out so we headed to Cracker Barrel where after having some yummy homey pot roast (cause we all know I'm not going to make some)  I order some chocolate cake.  I ate half there and brought the other half home.  When I went to go eat it after church what did I find?  An empty container.  I thought about being mad, but then I remembered my childhood and how it didn't matter where Mom and Dad hid stuff.  I had , like, a built in sweets radar.  So I let it slide in memory of all the many orange slices I have pilfered over the years!  Let them eat cake!!

January 1, 2010

My sister has been so excited about blogging together and I have to admit I am warming up to the idea.  I was warming up to the idea so much, that last night I totally drove past my neighborhood because I was thinking about what I was going to write about. In my defense it was a little (little) bit foggy.  Her blog kinda intimidates me though.  She has all these great goals and ideas for the year.  I haven't even thought of any goals for 2010.  To be honest the past few months mostly I have been thinking: I just have to make it until January and then it will be a whole new sparkly clean year!!  Of course, it is now January and I am thinking "I just have to make it to Monday and then the kids will be back in school."  Well, I'm supposed to be putting up pictures, so here are some of my Christmas decorations and then I also decorated my Mother's tree this year. Unfortunately the pictures of my decoration are of them only half decorated as I lost all the data of the full decorated pictures, but what can you do....