or whatever... yeah, and time, time, time still tells us a story (thank you harry) and many other stories of a life have come and gone (to maintain my own sanity, for one thing), but the cleverness is still the most attractive attribute (occasionally even adorable, which is sometimes just as attractive) of all for me because it mixes the other attributes that are most attractive to me which include intelligence, openness, sense of humor, depth, rational thought, sensitivity, empathy, adaptability, agility, versatility, resilience, self-awareness, fearlessness, creativity, consistency, curiosity, cuteness, and of course the all important assorted sundries)... just in case anybody had any references to such a personality, my number is on the right... as for me, you can describe my personality as somewhere between pinky and the brain with a great deal of wacko warner and bugs bunny tossed in, but i am quite flexible, or something like that... life is ephemeral, after all...
meanwhile, besides the loneliness and dreams, the day begins well... and when happiness woke up he came out ready to go out so we took a walk/jog (he no longer jogs more than maybe thirty feet and rarely runs more than ten and i don't push) at his pace and did his thing and we came back in and he drank water and panted happily and is resting now... jackson woke and went back to bed... and i checked the weather reports... we stocked up on water just in case the huge storm shuts down services, but i doubt this one will as it is still a tropical storm and appears to be headed north-northwest as opposed to toward us...
so another beautiful (mixture of sun and clouds) morning surrounds us (though it's gonna be a bit too warm to keep the door open much today as it's already above 80 degrees), fresh air as fresh as it gets at this location on this planet is a good thing... and all the time or just for a moment, i hope you find some ways to enjoy your day...
Sunday, August 26, 2012
oh, the cleverness
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i popped on over to check on you and Isaac and am hoping all is okay where you are tonight :)
today was quiet :)
j
All is well, Isaac is just a little rain here so far and probably won't be much more which is sad for New Orleans but good for the mid-west...
some days i am happily glued to the words and laptop and uploading and some days i forget the laptop exists (more the former than the latter, thankfully, cuz i would miss the words a lot and feel sad at the potential sharing missed)...
some days i stop in on facebook for a few minutes and not here, some days i just pop in here... the almost best days is when i spend an hour or two everywhere and babble seriously and irreverently and...
the best days are when i find feedback :)
thank you... hope you are finding more smiles than frowns today and sharing your positivity somwhere, somehow, every day :)
i know what you mean about feedback. it's connection, it's something important no matter what form it takes or where it happens. gosh, what is it really for us all to care about each other, to give a word or two of kindness and encouragement. to stop and read and look and listen and just consider where someone is at. to help someone feel they matter.
kindness.
i think i'm in a mood.
i think i'll have a cookie before i go to sleep, preferably one with chocolate chips.
anyway, i'm glad for you but hope Isaac doesn't cause problems for anyone, no matter where they live .
hug
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j
:)
yes it matters, it feels good... and yet, there have been times in this life when i have found myself in places in my head where i truly believe i have nothing to say worth anything and just stay in my head...
and there have been times in this life where i felt like nobody cared, not even me, so the reaching out just didn't happen for a while...
and there have been times in this life where sensitivity to silence was so acute that the silence (non-response) felt like rejection and hurt and i feared the silence so much i would not reach out...
and i mean this feeling i remember goes way beyond comments online or even blogging online and into daily life... from not texting or using the phone to not going outside (i am at risk there now that i am not working... a few days go by sometimes and i realize i have not left the house or talked to anybody - but luckily i have a cool roommate who is my best friend who is here most days... all this to say i have been on both ends of the silence and i've finally come to realize that i firmly believe i am sadder when i am not reaching out from my own silence than i am when i am reaching out into silence...
that's the revelation that brings me to continue the blogging as much as possible (laughingly too much sometimes, aye?) to make sure i maintain the habit (and sometimes it is just habit when i have no words or am too down on myself or about life or even when i am too busy) of putting at least a few words out in public and semi-public online place...
ironically, it is so much easier when i have less time to write and be on the internet cuz i am active in life offline, probably cuz i have more to write about (simple mundane details sometimes, but more than i got up and went to the kitchen and made something to eat and ate and... which is how some days go)...
the bottom line, for me, is that the sharing (even just a word) is better than the silence...
and even without sharing, the reading is better than not letting any news from the outside from people who care (i care, i care, remember i care - me to you message in the middle of all this babble - i care) reach our brains....
hey, see what you inspired (hope you are smiling with me and laughing at me with me :)
hope everyone who ever reads this is too :)
cookie... i have restrained from cookies and chocolate (choco-chips are still my fav) and most snacks and sweets and stuff a lot in recent months cuz i was so inactive and this body metabolism is slowing and it always did put on fat-weight fast even in younger years... and my biggest issue was always that i don't stop at one, or one box even... the good news is i am exercising more now and hopefully will continue increasing so i can indulge my sweet teeth more... even though my logical brain suggests that caffeine is not healthy and too much sugar and chocolate is not either, i do feel physically and mentally in a better place when i consume a some...
did i mention yesterday that i felt babble brewing? :)
what i dislike (hate) about Isaac - the weather channel and news media scare-tactics boths directly and subtly... the choice of graphics - using images of Katrina and talking about the worst storms in history over and over is numbing, but that is the way of the news media... the psychological damage to the collective psyche is worse than any single event...
Isaac seems to be have passed around here without any impact... i expect normal august afternoon thunderstorms this week much worse than anything Isaac brought us... it'll be a more powerful storm for the mid-gulf coast and hopefully people there will be ok...
hug :)
thanks for stopping by and sharing ...
take care of you :)
lessee...
i'll start with cookies...
it's awesome to hear you are taking care with your diet and your body in such important ways. my cookie reference was more metaphorical than literal as this body of mine really only allows mostly healthy food and my weight is a struggle, but in the opposite way as i am so considerably underweight which isn't a problem anyone wants to hear about because they think it must be like heaven.
little do they know.
i think it's a really interesting insight that you feel happier when you reach out into the silence than you do when you are not reaching out from your own silence. I was thinking about this very thing last night but i'm without conclusions on it yet :)
Anyway, i hope happiness is doing better.
hugs are good... even virtual ones :)
hug...
a cookie, one choc-full-of-chocolate chip cookie now and then, even one a day like a vitamin... that has to be ok or what's the point of life? :)
i hope one day to be able to easily stop at one and i'll keep some in the house again lol :)
hug more... wish there was a way to help you through your body challenges... i care and will listen/read if sharing helps you... i remember when you had your serenity blog and other blogs :)
definitely don't want to be underweight, i know the body issues that can bring... hope your kidneys are not effected... personally, i just have this 20 pound belly that needs to come off and maybe this month now that i am exercising more regularly again i will motivate myself to put the right balance together to do that...
and yes, after all the trials and errors of writing privately, publicly, personally, generally, and all the in-betweens, i definitely feel much better when i release whatever is in my head into words and feel even better when i put the words somewhere out on the web cuz that tells me i am doing my best to share and sharing almost always feels better than not sharing... i have compartmentalized themes and feelings into many dozens of different blogs from meaningless complaints (where i vent) to love songs/dreams to upbeats and downbeats and one-liners and babble and some closed-private blogs where an old friend and i communicate privately... it's what works for me...
happiness still has some blood in his urine... spotting has been going on for a month or so... he was on antibiotics but they didn't seem to help... i am wondering if they actually had the reverse effects as some stones (oxylate) are actually made worse by antibiotics because the antibiotics kill the intestinal bacteria that eat oxylates and maintain a balance so stones don't form... the vets know that if they are oxylate stones the answer is expensive surgery so they give the antibiotics hoping they are sturvite stones which antibiotics and diet get rid of and they are oxylates then the dog either needs emergency or scheduled surgery...
win-win for the vets... win-lose-lose for the dog and dog owner... they could do more tests, but vet medical care is not much better than human medical care and i won't start ranting now...
i am happy to hear from you again... hope you still have some good days and today is one of them... hug :)
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