Friday, November 10, 2006
"The Flirtation"
Jay in the little yellow Corvair Today I start a new chapter and will tell stories about the guy who has been the true and steady love of my life, since I first saw him standing in my kitchen, ready to take me on my first "car date." This is the story of how Jay and Carole met, 38 years ago. It all started out with this cute yellow car. I kept seeing it after school while I was walking to my Grandma’s with my friend, Suzan. Suzan lived on the same street just a few blocks up from my Grandmother....
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Friday, November 3, 2006
OCD? Who, ME?
My sister in Boston thought she knew which one of my meds caused this “compulsive” buying spree. She guessed it correctly. Mirapex. I have tried to cut it out, but the rigidity it helps prevent comes on with a vengeance. i.e., my body hurts too badly without it. Jay was in one of his "It's hopeless" moods. Larry King had a panel of ‘new aged, spiritual, positive thinking, your thoughts shape who you are’ - kind of people;. I thought they were outstanding but he got up and said they're full of...
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Monday, October 23, 2006
In sickness and in health. . .
In sickness and in health... No one falls in love by choice, it is by CHANCE. No one stays in love by chance, it is by WORK. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by CHOICE! My husband was really sick last night. I've never in all our years since 1968 seen him this sick. I helped him the best I could but I had some sort of episode of my own. I had some excruciating pain on my left side right under my breast that intensified and in time subsided, but felt like it was mildly squeezed after...
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Book On Mike Is Closed
Book On Mike Is Closed Cross my heart, I am closing the book on Mike. I had posted earlier this week that my PayPal account suddenly kept popping into my head. I used it last year when I borrowed some money from Mike, and it has had no activity since January, when I was paid for an online story. Why would this account suddenly keep popping into my head? THEN I started getting fake PayPal email notices, which from previous encounters, I knew were fraudulent. When I got one that said my password...
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I am up late again, because of going to bed early and being ignored. He may have been a little upset with me for writing too much in my Namaste blog. "That's not the reason..." he started to protest. I had told more about a disagreement he had with our future son-in-law. I just did a majorly big edit and cut out much of it. I got the idea when he really didn't read the last page and tossed it on the table without a comment. That was it. He liked his supper and said so, but he isn't into 'Lost'...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Today I am getting another “lyric-message” from the universe. And to make it weird, I kept getting nudges to check on my Pay Pal account. To be sure I went there, I got a phony Pay Pal email! While I investigated my account, I discovered another email account for Mike. Hmm, I wonder if he’s blocked that one? I wrote the following to an old friend in Florida. True confession time (I really do know how to drag out a Lifetime story!) I got up at 4:15 a.m. and came in to read some information online...
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Friday, October 13, 2006
My Typical Day
My Answer To What I DO All Day (Actually this is what happens IF I sit down!) My husband has been known to ask, "What DO you do every day?" How many homemakers have heard THAT? Let me tell you, whatever it is that I do, keeps me busy and I never end a day where I feel that I did nothing of worth. Never am I bored! Never! There is always something to do. What we called multi-tasking in our 30s and 40s is, by your 50's on up, described as what happens because we can't concentrate, can't remember,...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Got Romance?
You would think that after knowing someone since 1968, married throughout the best years of our lives, we could say that we had a special song. I was asked tonight what song did the two of us share exclusively? Gee, do we have an “our song,” I wondered? If we did, would I be scratching my head? I don’t think so. That leads me to an even deeper question. How did someone as sentimental as me, fall for a guy as un-sentimental as my husband, Jay? He has always been funny, passionate, and faithful to...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
Jay and I have weathered so many things in our marriage -- too many to list here. Suffice it to say, things that have done other couples in, we have survived. There was a song that came on during a commercial tonight that I "sang" along with, the first four lines of it anyway. I choked up and had a little sniffle. Jay looked at me strangely, as if to say, "How do you know that song?" I explained that I had played it on the piano at my high school friend's wedding reception that was about 35...
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Monday, October 9, 2006
I Was Just Starting to Have Fun!
I Was Just Starting to Have Fun! I Was Just Starting to Have Fun! We've been married now for what, almost 30 years and dated nine years before that? We used to have a lot of sex, very spontaneously, any time of day. I always considered it one of the perks of being married. Our sexual urgings were a perfect match until the last 3-4 years. I've been expressing some frustration, turning my memories to the not so distant past when my body was considered desirable and touchable and edible! I was not...
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