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OK, so why are some of us so good at sending cards to their friends and family for all those special occasions in our lives and the rest of just suck at it? Who knows, but I can tell you this I am one of the ones that suck at it. It’s not that I don’t want to, it is just that I suck at it. Oh yea I go out and buy the cards and have all these good intentions but somehow the time slips by and first thing you know the one who sucks at sending cards has once again not sent the card that she spent all this time picking out. Now I bet your thinking, well if she don’t send all those cards out what dose she do with them? Well I will tell you, I save them so I can send them out next year. Next year comes and I can’t find that special card I saved for that special friend so, yea you guess, I go buy another card and start the vicious circle all over again! Now I tell you this why you are thinking, right? Well you see I have this very special friend that I grew up with (she know who I am talking about) and yes you guessed it she is a sender, birthday a card, Easter a card, Christmas a card and so on. Now don’t get me wrong, I would be so sad not to receive them but I wonder why can’t we all be senders? I am sure my friend would love to get a card from me now and then but then she knows me, she knows I love her and think about her but the most important thing is she knows I am not a sender. So friend keep those cards and letters coming in!! Just think if I ever become a sender, think of those vintage cards my friends and family will receive!!!!!!

Not having any more!!!! So I just had a birthday the end of March, I am not telling you how old I am. Oh I could tell you but then I would have to kill you because like I said before I am done with them, birthdays that is. Ever notice when you were young birthdays were fun and you couldn’t wait till it was your birthday. Well let me tell you those days have long passed, I don’t want to think about them, don’t want to talk about them and for sure don’t want to have anymore. Oh, I am not saying I didn’t have fun on my birthday, I did, spent it in Vegas with my friends and family. Anybody that know my family knows we had a blast, drank to much, ate  way to much food and lost way to much money but I didn’t get my tattoo. I always said that when I turned ____ I was going to get one. Chickened out and got a toe ring instead Anyways maybe next year when my birthday dose not come  I will, but for now I love my toe ring.

Tonight I want to write about brothers, if you are lucky enough to have one ,then  you will understand why I feel sorry for those that don’t. When it comes to brothers I feel that I must have been standing first in line when they where passing them out! Now I know that you are thinking ” sure Sharlet and why do you think you are so special” well because I have four of them and they are all great. Now I didn’t always think that because nothing can get on your nerves faster than a brother except maybe four of them. When I think back  on growing up with them I have to smile, there is my brother Kevin who had and still has the curliest hair and oh how he hated it, he would spend all this time in the bathroom trying to straighten it he would wet it and plaster it to his head getting ready for school. We all knew what was going to happen, while we were eating breakfast, his hair would start drying out and the curls would start popping up like springs. We would laugh , he would get mad and the next day we would do it all again. He still has all those curls but I think he has given up trying to get them to go straight, or have you Kevin? Then there is Guy, good looking and smart, the only one of us to go to collage. God Mom was proud of him! He still is good looking and smart and we are all proud of him. Then there is Raymond my gentle giant, tall and strong but as gentle as a lamb. He has been sick and I pray for him every day, we all do.   What can I say about Bud, except that that boy got me in more trouble but then if you listen to him it was the other way around. I write this tonight I think because I have a birthday in a few days and sad to say I am the oldest of us ten, when I was younger it was ok being the oldest but now it is just not as much fun as it use to be. I love all my brothers but I need to thank Bud for all the time he spends with me and all the work he dose for me and sometimes I don’t even have to ask him.  Sometimes we forget to tell the people we love how much we appreciate the things they do for us. So Bud Thanks and to all my brothers and sisters just in case your don’t know it I love you all.

I am hooked! Yes it is sad to say but the computer game demon has got a big hold on me. I never thought I was the addictive type but I think I was wrong. Well now if I must be honest with everybody and myself, there might have been some small indicators every now and then. Like for instance when I learned I had some small talent as an artist and bought every type of art supply I could lay my hands on or when I fell in love with jewelry making, I now own every kind of bead made and every thing it takes to make any kind of jewelry. Oh no, had no idea I had an addictive personalty even when I realized I owned more Rubber Stamps than most Stamp Stores have and lets not forget the card making supplies!  Still, I was blind to the additive monster, until the Computer Game Bug bit me! WOW, am I hooked in a bad way, it all started with Book Worm. Love that game played it all the time and even had a very nice high score but then my sister discovered it, now I won’t say there is a revel thing but needless to say after she reached the sicking score of 10 million why bother, so as you may guess I no longer have this thing for Book Worm. Then I found Cradle Of Rome wow was I hooked, I was so hooked the I told every friend I have in this small little place I live about it and guess what they are all playing it but alas I have finished it so I have moved on to hidden object games but maybe there is hope for me after all. You see I had a chance to go to Vegas tonight and said no and nothing is more addictive than gambling. Oh well got to go and play on my computer. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and no matter what happens playing my computer game I won’t lose a cent.

WOW, am I pooped, I have decided that the holidays are for the young at heart and also the young period! Now I know it is late to be putting your decorations away but my husband loved the holidays and we would put  all that stuff out in November and he didn’t want it to be taken down until sometime in the summer, no I exaggerate but he would make me leave it up till February, so I still can’t seem to get it put away any sooner.  Now I don’t want to blame this entirely on my late husband, I think it might have something to do with my age. Why not, I blame everything else on old age, now I am not saying how old I am but like they say I am not only ” Over The Hill” but I am down in the valley and started up the other side. Believe me if I could have left them up till next Christmas I would have but I live in a very small town and they have already started talking about me and my decorations and besides my brother and his wife are flying in on Saturday and the next thing I know they would be talking about me and my decoration in Michigan. So every thing is boxed up and waiting to be taken down to the garage and that is another story, oh well maybe I’ll hire somebody to do it. You know it is a good thing all the other holidays don’t call for all these decorations because they would be a lot less celebrating in my house! Hope your holidays were great.

Why is it that if you were teenager in the 50’s and listened to the music of that era you can’t get it out of your blood?  It’s like as soon as you hear Doo Wop or Rock & Roll you are 16 again, in 1955 when Elvis came gyrating on the Rock & Roll scene I was 14, Rock & Roll would never be the same and neither would I, I was sure that someday I would meet him and we would live happily ever after.  Didn’t happen, but I survived like every other teenager who had the same dreams. Like everyone who was a teenager during that time when you hear almost any song from that time you can remember those special times when you knew that this guy was the love of your life and you would always be together or just as likely you knew you could not make it though one more day because your heart was broken and life would never be the same and of course if you had that special someone you had your very own song. Funny I wonder how many songs reminds you of some boy or girl whom you thought was the one, I know I have a few and when I hear them I smile and wonder how that person is and if they ever think of me and that makes me happy but when I hear Sea Of Love I am sad. Sea Of Love was my husband and my song. His birthday is coming up which is always a hard time for me. So when I hear it I feel sad and then I play some of the great songs that we had so much fun listing to. Right now I am listing to Maybellene and we are Drag Racing with some car down Woodward Ave. and I feel great! Oh about you?

Long Live Rock & Roll

OUR FIRST DATE

So my test worked and I am back in business. So let me tell you how much I don’t like days like today! It’s pay bills day, now I don’t know about you but this is not a fun day! Why you might ask or maybe not but I am going to tell you anyway. See the thing is that I keep paying these bills but they just keep sending them back and I pay them again and so starts the vicious circle again. Payday comes I run and pay the bills, spend the rest of the day being a crump . Now the good thing about today is I know that tomorrow is going to better, no bills but no money either (vicious circle) . You see tomorrow is Thursday ( I know this because I get paid on a Wednesday) and I work at our local Library. So you see that makes me happy I get to play with the kids and read to them and find books for people and all that good stuff and that makes me happy but what really makes me happy is no bills ah but alas no money either but there is always next payday to look forward to. Right? So hows your day going?

This is a test, in case of an emergency you would be ask to turn to any other Blog that was working. You may or may not know that this Blog has not been active in a very long time and most likely you don’t care but just in case you do care and have missed me, I thank you. The Blog has had to have some work done on it and so I am now hoping that it is working again. So as I said this is a test, one of many I have done in the last few months. Where are they now, the tests I am talking about, why they are out there in cyber space somewhere along with all the other witty things that I written that some how got lost in space along with the test. So if this test works and my son (the computer genius) has assured me it will, I am back in Blog mode. So here goes……..test…….!

So I have decided that being old Sucks but then when I weigh my options I say to my self ” Self, it could be worse you could be young and still have all these aches and pains.” You might wonder what brought all this in sight on, well I will tell you, Yesterday I woke up ( which in and of it’s self is a good thing) and decided I was going to clean my closet. Now I have talked about this ( to my self of course) for I don’t know how long, now there use to be a time when I would think to myself tomorrow I am going to clean my closet and I would get up and clean my closet. Now at my age I say to my self, ” Self, tomorrow I am going to clean my closet” and I really do intend to do so and have intended to do so for now what seems to be reaching the decade mark! I know, I know that is a really long time but when you get to these wonderful “Golden Years” you tend to think more about doing things than really doing things. I use to wonder why when you would visit older people there would be stack of news papers and books and TV trays by their chairs with every thing handy but now I don’t wonder anymore. Now I know, it takes you twenty minutes to walk to the garbage to throw away all that junk mail and papers, remember Tim Conway I use to laugh at him when he did his old man thing but it’s not funny anymore cause I am that old person. Anyways I digress, yesterday I cleaned my closet and today I can’t get out of bed, oh well there is always time to get up tomorrow or to think about getting up. Cleaned any closets lately?

Yes, I am still alive and kicking and yes I am bad for not updating my Blog, but gee whiz the harder I try to catch up the further behind I get. So give a girl a brake already! Now that’s out of the way on to the Blog! So can you believe that March is almost over and the big day is creeping up on us, I am talking about TAX DAY!!! Lord have mercy I swear I just mailed them thing a few weeks ago. Is it me or is the time just flying by, remember when you were a kid and were waiting for Christmas and Santa. Holy cow it took for ever and now, well there is just not enough time to do every thing you should and pretty soon summer will be here and gone and we can start waiting for Santa again and I know he was just here last month. Go figure! I am going to be celebrating a birthday on Friday and no I am not going to tell you how old I am or how fast I got that old. My oldest Grandchild is looking at collages and man I haven’t the foggiest idea how she got that old when only yesterday her Mother was playing with dolls, you see in my mind I still feel eighteen but my body says who do you think you are kidding. Yes I know, old age is not an excuse for being one step behind everybody else but it is a good reason for forgetting to update my Blog!!! Till next time.