Posted by Temmie on July 18, 2003, at 18:46:13
In reply to You made me laugh » Temmie, posted by fallsfall on July 18, 2003, at 17:38:05
Dear Mercury, Fallsfall, and anyone else tuning in ....
So much for laughter around the supper hour. Mercury, you are sooooo right, and echo things I’ve heard from others (“Get out there and shake your groove things while you’ve still got something worth shaking.”). Problem is: I’m lazy! Perhaps I can parlay this angst into the necessary fuel to get up and get moving. I don’t want to sound overly preoccupied with my appearance, but sometimes people look at me and then ... just sort of catch their breath or gasp. It’s weird. I asked Paul about it. Was it a spiritual thing? You know, a response to my spirit, or ??? He said something along the lines of “Honey, you’ve just got that thang.” Hmmmm. Let’s see if I can get that thang going too – or at least put it to use in a way that’s going to serve me.
Sadly, now that we’ve become almost-sort-of-kinda-might-be friends, it’s hard to be honest – and the truth is, I’ve encouraged Paul shamelessly. Good grief. He is such a sweet lover, and being – essentially – somewhat shy – I haven’t been able to imagine being in anyone else’s arms .... Love is sweet. Love is too darn sweet. So we’ll see. If I might – (and this is just a horrible thing to say), but if I might be brazen – brazen, but not hateful – I almost wish he’d get some jail time.
That would settle things down.
That would buy me some think time.
That said, I think I’ll just try and hang out here, instead. Instead of loving him, missing him, calling him (and telling him how much I’m loving and missing him), maybe I can just ... cut it off. Or start cutting things off here. Here and now.
On the subject of – well – insanity in the family, Fallsfall – my dad is a retired engineering professor, and is frequently heard to ramble, “The Good Lord created the entire universe and everything beyond in just seven days, but it’s my job to fix things. I’m an engineer ... that’s my job ...,” and another favorite, “anything can be improved upon.” I did not know about the “left” and “right” of cakes ... (!) ... nor have I experienced detailed lessons on the anatomy of a chicken – but dictionaries, encyclopedias, and those little – you know – fact manuals – almanacs – they’re all about the house. When my son turned 18, I asked friends, family and teachers to write a page of “wit, wisdom or whimsy” to assemble in a book for him. You know, along the lines of “Life’s Little Instruction Book,” or Heaven forbid, things you always wished your mother had always told you about life .... My dad started mid-May, and his work is still in progress (although Jared’s birthday was the 7th). Grandpa’s essay now tops 126 pages and quotes (I’ve written this elsewhere) references to/from the Bible, “The Three Musketeers” (it took a bit of digging to remember the author Alexandre Dumas), Benjamin Franklin (a separate essay in itself) ... and on and on and on .... Yesterday he wanted to know the date of when Armstrong landed on the moon. The week before, he wanted to know the precise definition of the Japanese expression, “ah so” (a colloquialism, meaning, “you don’t say.”) There is also verse and discussion related to the magnitude of certain stars, the surface tension on a drop of water, the number of cubic yards of water in the seven seas, and various matters related to logarithms I don’t understand. Nor did I understand much of the rest of it for that matter. That’s just touching the surface .... I guess I should be grateful it’s kept him busy, although I’m sure this project is largely responsible for his current manic episode.
You’re right, though, it was just, plain thoughtless of me to have parked where I did. :-) We now have my mom’s older model Tempo in the parking part of the drive, while my car is alongside my dad’s in the garage.
Lately, thank God, he seems to have calmed down a bit .... Let’s just hope it lasts.
Back to the subject of men, women, love, sex, and romance (who can resist such an enticing topic?), I figure if Demi can go for a 25-year old, I might start looking in the 35-and-up range. Come to think of it, I’d better hustle over to the fitness center (anything to keep me away from the phone) and start cruising.
Thank you friends,
Temmie
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