My 2nd Blogoversary

Oh my gosh has it really been 2 years!!!!!!!

Well - lemme tell you, it has been!!! And what a couple years it's been. There was that broken ankle of August 12, 2006. There was when we quit smoking pot. There was when we stopped drinking alcohol.

I have dragged a whiney-blanket around this blog many times regarding my darling daughter Amanda. I think The Carpenter's song: "We Go On Hurting Each Other" was written for her and me. Yes.... we had another brawl. I'm so thankful neither of us resorts to fists, because we'd both end up in jail for assault. She pissed me off, I pissed her off, she thought I'd damage her house, I stalked her to her boyfriends house and had a second go-around in the middle of the street. She threatened me, I threatened her... Today is a bad day following a really bad night, following a crying jag on Chris's shoulder this morning. He- by the way - agrees with Amanda that I was out of line. I agree, but it wasn't all my fault.

I have also dragged the whiney-blanket around this blog regarding my darling Christopher. No body in this world knows me as well as him... no body puts up with me, or ever would as he does. Of course we are two halves of the whole. He complete's me... Seven years we've been in this relationship together. Many, Many Many times I was leaving, many many many times he was leaving, but still we're together. I hope and pray that we get 75 years together to figure out what we're doing. I thought I could figure out a way to have a surprise wedding...get his best friend Jeremy to come from Colorado, get everything set up, and have him tux'd and smiling for what would be for him someone elses's wedding. Sadly, that isn't going to work because we have to sign the marriage certificate. Silly laws.

I have dragged the whiney-blanket around about losing my parents, my brother and his bitch wife, my dead brother. Lost clients, lost friends, a blog friend I insulted (and I miss her too), lost my mind somewhere along the line....

Yet through it all has been Pistols, Claudia, Grammie, Ron, Several interesting other bloggers that have made me laugh and cry (thanks Kat and Bert for so many laughs). Thanks all for the support and the wisdom and the reason to laugh and look back, and look forward. I sure do appreciate the friends I've made and those that I have come to care so much about!!! Love and smooches, and happy 2nd Blogoversary to me!!!!!

A life lived in shelter

The other day Chris and I were watching an older Danny Glover movie - one particular scene a young man saves a choking man in a restaurant by cutting open the man's throat and inserting a sterile straw. Which got me thinking....

Have I ever saved a person's life? Have I ever walked up on a burning building-- heard screaming -- run into the nearest door -- grabbed the old woman (and her cat) and rushed them to safety JUST as the building is collapsing? Have I ever been the first to come up on a car accident? Have I pulled someone from water? Have I driven someone I found laying in a heap of bicycle and flat tire and cracked helmet to the emergency room?

Has any time in my 45 years on this planet been to anyone's benefit but my own?

To all those questions above... the answer is.... nope.

I've never been involved in anything dangerous, brutal, bloody, violent, or a near-miss situation. I've never driven over an animal or hit a person with my car. Never been shot, never shot anyone, never witnessed a shooting. Never been a victim of any violent crimes, never witnessed and certainly never participated in acts of violence against anyone else. I've never delivered a baby in a car on the side of the highway. Not witnessed a robbery. Not seen or participated in any riots or demonstrations.

To all those situations I haven't ever been involved in, there is only one thing I can say

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!