Have you ever been doing something and think "I know what I want to write about in my next entry" only to sit down at the computer and go "what was I going to write about?" That has been happening to me a lot lately. So for now I will just do an entry on odds and ends.
I am going to visit my Aunt Betty tomorrow. She lives out of town -- as some of you may know -- and she had surgery this past Monday. Going into surgery they thought she had a cancerous place on her lung. After getting in there they found a mass but it wasn't cancer, but it was starting to get an infection. Because I get my information 2 and 3 hand I don't know how much of the lung they had to take out. Driving down tomorrow and hopefully she will be out of ICU and doing great. She is in her mid 70's? I think. Yeah, before you ask, she smoked up until sometime withing the past 12 months.
If you ever watched the Andy Griffith show you will know that Mayberry had a town drunk named Otis. I don't know if there is an Otis in my town (guess the police could tell you), but we (at least the part of town I live in) have several well known homeless people. These are not the ones you will see on the corner begging for food. Nope, but I am sure they get plenty of hand outs. There is this little black lady that is around in the summer and she is always pushing a pink bicycle. She never rides it, always pushing it. I don't think she could ride it as she has bags full of stuff hanging off the handlebars. Years ago someone stole her bike so the local bike store gave her another one just like it. Recently I heard that her name is E and that she has an apartment here in town, and maybe even has money. If it is true then I am guessing she has some kind of mental illness. She is always dressed in black, well every now and then you will she here with a dress pulled over all that black, and she appears to talk to herself at times.
When I was in my early teens there was this man that I really didn't think a lot about, and yeah I probably laughed at him some being the idiot that teenagers can be at times. He was this really tall, skinny (I mean toothpicks for leggs skinny), and he wore a really short dress and hair that you knew was a wig. The first cross dresser I think I ever saw. I never really gave him much thought. But as I grew older I wondered about him. If he dressed like that much he had to have gotten beaten up a lot. Might not in New York or California, but here probably. Knowing what I know now I feel sorry for him. Not because he was "different" but because of the type of life he must have had here in this community beind different.
Take care every one.
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Well Kathy whatever it was you sat down to write this was a really good entry.
Hope your Aunt Betty is ok.
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Hi Kathy~
Love the graphic! I do that a lot, forget what I was going to write about, or not be able to put it into words to make it sound the way I'm thinking it.
We had this homeless person in our town, that was dirty from head to toe-black smudges on face, everything-he would carry this big black sack over his shoulder, Santa Claus style. He spent his days picking up cans and putting them in that sack. He smoked, and drank something terrible. Word is, he was a millionaire, but worried about people taking his money so he dressed and acted like this. Wonder whatever happened to him?? We don't see him around anymore.
Jan
HAHAHAAH, I HAVE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES, IT CAN BE VERY FRUSTRATING. I WRITE FOR OUR WOMEN'S CHURCH PAPER AND I CAN COME UP WITH A GREAT TOPIC ONE MINUTE, THEN LOSE IT THE NEXT. OR I CAN'T THINK OF WHAT I WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE TOPIC..........MAKE SENSE??? WHO KNOWS..............STORMIE
that is the cutest graphic. YEs I have had the blank entry syndrom. So I keep MS open and keep adding and saving my entry so I just copy and paste it in LOL I cant seen to do it unless I work it that way. Yes I feel so sorry for hte homeless and yet many of them seem to be drunk so often. Its like I am afraid to give them cash or they use it for that so I try if Ican get to them to give them food . Lori
I have those days too, I might be having that today. Anyway, I actually enjoy reading the odds and ends, I call mine free floating, just letting things come out.
Hope you have a nice evening,
Love, Penny
Kathy -- Mrs. Linklater here -- sure send a picture of your kitten. Great idea!! Email it to jevanslink. Mrs. L P.S. -- Enjoyed reading your journal. My older daughter's nickname is "E".
Ya know...I live in a small town, but I dont think I've ever seen a homeless person here. I'm sure there are some, but I just havent seen them. We do have people who live in shacks, with no electricity and such. Surprisingly they live close to me. Sort of makes you wonder sometimes, how people end up that way.
-Connie
Just popping in to catch up. I hope your visit with your Aunt today goes well and she is doing better. :-) ---Robbie
I have started to keep a pad of paper by the computer to jot those ideas down when they come for journal entries, because with the ptsd issues my memory is terrible now. I know exactly what you are talking about!!
When I see homeless people I always think of the phrase, "there but for the grace of God go I"....... I will do whatever I can to help, but it never seems like enough.
I hope that you have a wonderful day today. judi :):):)
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