Good afternoon and evening to some,

Missing the missing. A certain cheery English gal. Of course I am a missing most days. I do read often.

Loving how the elections came out Angela. Certainly could use all for the states. The mother of all Migraines it seems for you. You amaze me how you keep going with them. I am thinking you have suffered so long at some point you made a descision. At any rate you are on my top ten list of "female heroes " . Guess my male heroes are only my husband and sons.

Kim I have you close to my heart still yet. Like Serenity I lost two and it was months with the grief. I remember when you got the pair. Hugging you tight.

Cindi have they set a date for your hand surgery? Know it will be awhile before you can get back on. Hope you are getting answers for the swallowing /allergies.

Serenity my arm/arms hurt for a week. I received my flu vaccination and Pneumonia on same day. This was my choice. Omg did it ever flare my fibro and I would roll on one side there would be pain then roll to other and there was pain. First two days were worst. Like you no bruising or redness. Watch on BP med change. That can be tricky. Least it has been for me..

Finally real fall here. Cool temps and a promise of rain for the weekend. I would like to write more but I have a PT appointment at 2:30.

Many hugs
hippy

So lovely to seen you chime in HIppy. Always a pleasure when you do stop in and I know how you always read up and take such care to comment on those that post most often.

Those that don't post as often, musk and cherry comes to mind first, always a pleasure to see them stop in.

It warms my heart that I"m an inspiration for stamina for my disease (you calling me a hero). It helps me knowing that it is worth my efforts. Thank you, hun.

My art room is all cleared out and looking great so no I' m drugged up and painting. I also spent some hours working on my novel.

Now that I have time I"ll share something with you. A few weekends ago, a friend of mine that I sometimes dance with, Fred, had stopped me on my way out. He asked me if I was coming back the next night and I said that I was going downtown and he said "sin city?" I said yes and he said he would love to go. Now, Sin City is really just a bunch of adults dressing up sexy (mandatory) and dancing and drinking. They play up on it having a dungeon and it being kinky etc, but really, nothing goes on. It's just creative clothes and most people don't go because they are afraid its like a sex club but it isn't. I wear corsettes and there is nothing about me that is hanging out. Even my parents think it is cute.

So Fred shyly said that he would like to go so I said lets sit down and I'll tell you about it. Next thing you know, we have the following saturday set up for me taking him downtown to go shopping in a sexy store and so we went. We had an awesome day and when I went there, some friends happened to be there which made it even better. Let me back up about Fred. I've had a crush on Fred all year but kept a distance from him because of his ex girlfriend who is crazy and I can't stand and still lays claim to him. Fred is a 6'2" tall Iranian who is real sweet and on a one occassion I"ve asked him to walk me to my car when a drunk guy was acting weird to me.

So, we went shopping together and he was a real gentleman and we got him something that will get him into the club but wasn't too revealing and was his creative style, then we went for lunch, sitting on couches in the sun for hours and talked and talked and laughed and, well, he is learning to write so we talked about that and art and relationship and him coming to Canada when he was a child and.......my crush grew.

He asked me to come dancing that night and I changed my other plans and did and this time he hung around me more and when I went to say goodbye he walked me to the car and for a moment there, a silent awkward moment.......well, nothing happened, we hugged, like we had been doing all day, and went our ways. We even found a diamond ring on the club floor on the way out and both of us said 'we have to turn this in' and did so immediately.

He did ask me a few times to give him a sample of my writing so I'm going to do that next time I see him, but, ugh. No one has ever been interested in my stuff.. I keep thinking about him and I want it to stop. He's younger. He's real handsome. He's real kind.

Fred and I have the same outgoing happy kind energy and we would make an awesome special friendship, but.....I'm waiting for the boot to drop. The something that says its a deal breaker you know. Something that makes it impossible.

Anyways, One day at a time and see what transpires because there is not a damn thing I can do about it. The party is Halloween so I"m at the least seeing him again then. I'll be dressing sexy, but so will 100 other women so I'm not counting on that to get his attention.

Hugs to you all.

Fred sounds like someone to get to know on a higher level. I hope that happens. On your writing he might be a good critique after you get to know him better. The dancing and "sin city" just fun times. Diamond ring is like a wowsa. My first thought is, please let it find it's way to it's rightful owner. You two did the honorable thing.

I made it to PT. Somehow from car to house I managed to transport a red wasp on my tee shirt. This time of year these evil creatures are real lethargic. Good thing because without thinking I just brushed it off and then reacted by screaming. After throughly searching my bedroom with super duty flashlight, an hour so later the mean old thing was found in my bathroom on my toothbrush. At least I can sleep tonight. Toothbrush trashed.

Sweetest wishes to all
hippy