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Hmmm…I could have sworn that I posted here yesterday. Feeling a might Twilight Zone-ish.  There is no evidence however that I ever traversed these pages. So it goes.

Had a chat with a friend yesterday and we were talking about memory  loss. Or trying to., lol. Menopause brings it’s own dish of memory problems, but honestly, I believe that we just start getting tired of having to remember every freaking little thing. It’s almost as if the brain starts filtering out all the non-essential facts, just to give us a rest.  I know that I have a limited amount of random access memory here, and I really do try to do the best with what I’ve got. Sometimes I just plain forget things, and sometimes I misunderstand what’s been said to me (for one reason or another).  At any rate, since I have commenced to living my life so that my happiness is not contingent on what anyone else does or does not do, it doesn’t matter if I thought someone was coming and they don’t show.  I rarely forget if I’m supposed to be somewhere, but I forget if people are coming here, or not coming here. And it’s okay…I spent a good part of yesterday getting the house cleaned and with such ambition!! (Because I was expecting someone at 11…someone who had [apparently] already told me they weren’t      coming).  Sigh…I just felt alternately silly and pleased…since I got a lot done. This morning someone else is coming at 11, and the house is clean and I’m sitting here on my butt. lol

I am doing NaNoWriMo again this year. I am already behind in the word count, but not by much.  Last year my computer crashed right around this time. This year, I am keeping my writing on a jump drive as well.  I didn’t lose the stuff from last year, I just couldn’t get at it.  SO, wish me well, pray for me to have the discipline to do this, and I am off and running. I got a love letter from the Nanowrimo people this morning, and they told me that everything was going to be alright if I could just get through week 2. lol The tentative name of the novel is Webster’s Last Stand.  We’ll see how long that lasts, lol.

Cooler here this morning. Yesterday was a stunning day of almost 70 degrees and another explosion of those damned ladybugs nearly took over the house. I spent way too much time hoovering the little bastards off the walls and windows. It is a beautifully clear and sunny 47 degrees though…I am going out to sweep the front porch and clean up the rocking chairs area so that I can bring out some pumpkins and stuff to dress it up for fall.  Last night I went to a sponsees house for some f2f time and his darling mother gave me a beautiful wreath she made for me. It’s all dahlias and mums of a dark crimson color, with cattails and greenery. I just hung it on the wall.

I am blessed. Friday night and Saturday I am going to babysit for one of my sponslings who has to work a weird split shift at the restraunt and her 8 year old is coming to spend the time with me.  She also has a 16 year old who has dropped out of school, but he has to work that whole day on Saturday. It will be fun…I don’t get little girls to play with often enough. lol  She’s a sweetheart, and it will be fun. I hope. lol

Alrighty then…off into the day. Gonna make some quickie chicken and rice soup and a salad for lunch, with apples and walnuts in the salad. Hopefully there’ll be enough left over for supper too.

Namaste.