So, got a lot coming up here personally. Lots of plans so…
I’ve written Friday’s flash and scheduled it. I will get Monday’s done to wrap up August soon.
M’s birthday is Friday (yep one day after CP’s but M is quite a bit older ha ha). We are getting a new dishwasher Saturday. Home Depot is delivering and installing. It’s been literally years since we’ve had one so that’s kind of cool. Sunday we are going out for dinner to celebrate M’s birthday.
I hope to get Sept 01, 03 and 06 flashes done in there somewhere.
I’ll be gone over Labor Day weekend. I will be home and have the day off September 07th. Then that weekend after, the 11th I’ll be helping my sister with some of Mom’s things again. She wants to put wood floors in her house so there’s a lot of work to do to get it ready. It’s now been just over 3 months since she passed away. Time sure does fly.
Anyway, happy 41st birthday to Chris Pine.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
August 26, 2021 at 4:11 am
I’d forgotten M was an august birthday too! I’m a bad friend. Happy birthday to himself!
And to Chris, of course 😉
Enjoy the time away. It’ll be nice for you!
And yay for a dishwasher! That’s exciting!
As always, looking forward to the flashes. Always.
Take care of yourself as you clean out moms things. Be well, love. ❤️
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August 26, 2021 at 7:25 am
As J suggests above there will be wine.
We’ve already gotten rid of a lot but you know 94 years, you accumulate a lot.
Thank you!
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August 26, 2021 at 7:35 am
I can’t even imagine. In 68 years you accumulate a lot. And I’ve tossed and tossed trash and given away and given away and then tossed because nobody wants it and it won’t fit in the car for the trip to a town with a Goodwill. And a lot of memory stuff that would never mean anything to anyone else but me because it triggers the memories of the person who gave it to me or of the event around it. And stuff I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the reason nobody wants it even for free. Plus – just lazy, Or just too much pain to deal with it. Or too much pain to even get up a step ladder to carry it up to put on some high shelf out of the way – Christmas stuff. I’ve started trying to look at my stuff the way my family would some day. And that gives me the answer quick.
I have so many love/respect notes/cards/letters from former students and I save a few thinking my son will see them when I die and think they’re cute and he’ll think even more highly of me.
The 2 weeks ago he had a talk with me that – well, I no longer could kid myself that they’d make any difference. And they go in the trash now.
Hard month. And that’s not even touching all the horrors of the other family member that will never be solved and nobody will ever pay for it.
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August 26, 2021 at 8:03 am
Yeah I hear you, our end years, and let’s face it, anyone over 50 is definitely working toward their end years, should be better than they often are. I’ve found a lot of strange things my mother kept and not sure what they meant to her as she never ever talked about it. She had a brother who died at 25 obviously many years ago. He was one of two brothers older than her. She had his old driver’s license in amongst her things. She had never talked about him, we didn’t know what he had meant to her, we only knew she told us she had a brother that died. But to keep that? Who knows. I have many things no one will care about when I go too. I can only imagine they will just pick up the piles of my stuff and toss it right into the garbage and I don’t even blame them. Ah well
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August 26, 2021 at 8:13 am
Toss them is all anyone can do. I have tons of old b/w pics from the very early days of people having cameras and taking pics. And not one of them has a name on them. I have no idea who any of them are? What can I do but toss them? Im not paying ancestry.com to post them there in the slight chance someone would see and recognize them. That’s really impossible. And as famous as ancestry.com is – they are fraught with mistakes. I searched for Zach’s dad, and half what I saw was just plain out wrong – and obviously wrong, from Zach’s own words in interviews.
It’s only our own life. Nobody else’s. And when we’re done here, we’re actually really done.
I mean, look at our historic figures, their names we all know. And now they’re all “cancelled” and disgraced.
Who even wants anyone else to look into our backgrounds and know every dam thing we ever did wrong? I thought that’s what God was for – mercy, grace, and forgiveness. There certainly is none of that in THIS life on THIS planet.
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August 26, 2021 at 8:27 am
Ancestry.com is quite unreliable as they just let anyone add anything to anyone’s life without vetting any of it. Some dude posted all kinds of wrong information about my dad that’s just not true but there’s nothing we can do about it so we just ignore it.
We are all a product of our time, unfortunately. Ah well. Nothing I have matters to anyone but me. And when I am gone, it won’t matter to me.
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August 26, 2021 at 8:16 am
If I lived in a paid for house, I’d want my family to just toss match in and walk away. They’ve already told me I have nothing they want to keep. Which has been one of the biggest shocks of my life, as much of it was their beloved grandparents’ stuff.
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August 26, 2021 at 8:28 am
Unfortunately I think that’s the reality of people these days. All they think about it is that it’s just more “stuff” they have to find a place for, they have no sentimental attachment to anything at all. Sad but true. I know many folks younger than me who think like that
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August 26, 2021 at 7:00 am
That’s a LOT. And a lot of work. And a lot of emotional work. Take it with wine?
Happy BD to M.
CP keeps ignoring my BD cards, the bum.
Wonder what he’s up to now that that D&D has wrapped? Well, I hope he’s being happy, Mr, $11.6 million dollar man! LOL
Have a nice time off work. I look forward to those new Academy’s!
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August 26, 2021 at 7:24 am
They say money can’t buy you happiness but 11.6 million would go along way to it for me!
Just thing when he made the first ST he was still in his 20s
Time marches on for all of us!
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August 26, 2021 at 7:38 am
That money can’t buy happiness is pure BS. Of course it can. If we choose to create situations that make us miserable, that happens, money or not, though money might help us create them.
But absolutely lack of money creates misery and unhappiness, and if that’s true, OF COURSE MONEY CAN BUY HAPPINESS if we let it.
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August 26, 2021 at 7:59 am
I couldn’t agree more, it most certainly can
are there rich people who are miserable? Of course. But one of the things that they are not miserable about is how they are going to afford to pay for things. So yep, it most certainly can
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August 26, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Happy Birthday M! 🎉🎊🎂🥳 Enjoy the celebration!!!
Happy Birthday Chris, but it’s seems my invitation to his birthday party got lost in the mail (once again) sigh!!! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Hope you enjoy your time away. It’s good for the soul!
Good luck going through old stuff!
Hugs to you and to Ashton ^ with getting rid of old stuff. I feel I need to just house swap and do someone else’s house as they do mine.
My Dad passed in November 2018. He lived downstairs in my Mother-Daughter raised ranch house. All his stuff is basically still here. It looks like he could move back in…. Except for all those Rubbermaid boxes and plastic bags, from my three kids all over on top of his stuff and all over my house. In early Spring, I enrolled in an online decluttering course that was free. It was poorly timed because it was just when my girls came back from college. Needless to say, I got really nothing done. I hold onto things for the “memories“, when the clutter keeps us from creating new ones! Too embarrassed to let most folk in!!! My twins started a big argument about that the other day. Even when I said I agreed with them, it didn’t go smoothly… to say the least! 💔😢
I’m determined to make inroads into the clutter during the Fall (after they return to college this weekend)!!! 🙏🙏
Looking forward to reading anything you share with us! 💕
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August 26, 2021 at 3:01 pm
It’s not easy to turn a person’s life into just things, but it happens to most of us I think.
My dad had a stroke the day before TG 1991. That Christmas I gave him a terry cloth bathroom. He was still in the hospital at Christmas because the stroke left him paralyzed on his left side. I’m not sure he ever even wore that robe I gave him, yet when he died the very next July on Mom’s birthday 1992 one of the things I kept was that robe. I wore it for years after until I finally threw it out as it was threadbare at that point. But somehow it gave me a weird comfort to have it. I think our generation is much more sentimental and nostalgic than the ones that came after us.
thank you!
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August 26, 2021 at 5:53 pm
Happy birthday to M. I hope y’all have a lovely time celebrating.
Can we all just have several million? Just to be comfortable. I don’t need mansion or expensive cars. Just debt taken care of and a modest roof over my head 🙂 oh to dream
Grammy wants to narrate stuff into a computer. She doesn’t have a patience to write or type it down. I gotta try and set it up for her someday soon. She’s the oldest of the family now, amongst her siblings and cousins. Lots of family history will go with her sadly.
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August 26, 2021 at 7:42 pm
Yeah this is sad that it will all go away with her reminds me of the movie Coco 😦
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