Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Snuggling Is Our New Sex
I never thought I'd feel this way, but I'm finding that snuggling with my husband has become as satisfying emotionally as our sexual relationship. I try very hard not to get bogged down blogging at 10:00 and write into the night like I used to do. I've been pretty good at going to bed with him. Tonight, I broke my rule though. At 9:00 I got started writing and planned on joining him. When he came by at 11:00 and announced he was going to bed, I said I'd be right there. But, it was an hour later...
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Monday, January 21, 2008
The Grinch Stayed Away (finale)
Jay' s mother, Joan, had called to see if it would be all right if she could come over Christmas Eve day before it got dark or before the snow started in again. It had snowed about 6" the night before. The highways were cleaned off but the side streets EVERYwhere were still terrible. Jay would never have left me the car to run to Kansas City that day. Besides, now I had one of my only guests coming early. I was glad I hadn't been influenced to get mad about the whole incident. Nick insisted that...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Pt. 4 Bob Disagreed
When I got back to the bike shop, I told them I'd made a mistake. I'd called my son when I'd left and related what he had said to me. They were very understanding. They'd already priced it out and had a tag hanging on it, that they ripped off before I could see what they were asking. The owner said he was glad I had come back for it and had half-hoped I would. Yeah, and I just fell off the Turnip Truck yesterday. I gave them a check, which was for $160.00 and asked them if they would hold it...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
pt.3 I Coulda Been the Grinch
They practically salivated over the bike I brought for a trade-in. It was in perfect condition and they offered me $150, saying it was worth a lot more, explaining that they were just a small business, and selling used bikes was harder than selling new ones. I wrote them a check for the remainder and made plans to pick it up on Christmas Eve, when Jay was working all day and they were open until 6:00. On the way home, the thought occurred to me that I should call our son, Nick, and tell him I'd...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Grinch Ch 2
Because I take some Parkinson’s medications that can cause me to become suddenly sleepy, without warning, I don’t drive to Kansas City alone much anymore, especially to shop by myself, and by the time I remembered I was going to buy Jay a bike, it was the week before Xmas. It had also been a very snowy month, making my solo driving days a non-issue, in the city, that is. I still drive around town, however, and I drove to the local bike store downtown, doubting very much that I’d find a Pee Wee...
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The Grinch Stayed Away
Chapter One Christmas could have been a disaster, for me, that is. It started when I suddenly remembered, less than a week before Christmas, that I was going to buy my husband, Jay, a "Pee Wee Herman bike" as my big gift to him! How does one forget a major gift? Dementia? Jay had talked of again owning an old-fashioned bike similar to the kind we had ridden around Sanibel Island while on vacation -– the bikes with big seats, a bell, and regular handlebars. It reminded us of the kind of bike they...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Paris- je t’aime
I love so many people, it's hard to keep track of them all. I mostly get love in return and sometimes more. My little animals drive my husband crazy, because they are sometimes naughty. They come to sleep with me and my husband through the night. I don't know if they surround us because they sense I have Parkinson's and need their love or if they are there to absorb some of our love. When I snuggle close to my husband's sleeping form, I kiss him where ever I find him; his chest, his arm, his...
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Of Shirts, Sheets and Phallic Bottles
My husband, sent to the downstairs in search of sheets, brought back an armload of his shirts, and asked sleepily, "Is this what you wanted?" Granted, he was sleepy. Granted, he was a man. Granted, he can't tell the difference between his shirts at one end of the downstairs sofa, waiting to be ironed, and the sheets folded up at the opposite end of the sofa, that he had slept on for years. Granted, he would rather have slept on the bed with just the bedspread, because he's too sleepy and/or lazy...
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Monday, December 10, 2007
A Christmas "Rush"
I'm feeling that special spark for my husband again. It's like that rush you get at Christmas when the day of giving, loving, and surrounding yourself with family, music, food and as many comforts as you can think of, finally arrives! As in a marriage, that rush gets a little weaker with each year that goes by. I still remember the thrill of waiting for Santa. It was like a childhood orgasmic moment, for lack of a better comparison. I know I won't ever have the other love completely erased from...
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
"I Will Always Love You"
"I Will Always Love You" Have you ever had the experience of a song that brings you to tears, or puts a smile on your face? I’m sure you might name several tunes that do just that. One song in particular had tears streaming down my face recently and I can’t seem to shake its effects. The first of the post-dinner entertainers aboard our 200-passenger, luxury cruise liner yacht, was a middle-aged singer paying tribute to “Divas” throughout the years. It’s a brave soul who will sing those Diva...
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