Monthly Archives:October 2010

Tis the season . . for spooks and goblins . . . and all that stuff.
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And . . . the Circleville (Ohio) Pumpkin Show. My mom used to take me and my sister to this every fall. I miss the sights and sounds and smells of Ohio fall weather. This is how I remember it.
Circleville Pumpkin Show

and, just for fun – I’ll dust off my spooky poem – appropriately read out loud with your best spooky witch-like voice:
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Ghosties and Goblins swarm to my door
Quoth the Gramma – just ask for more

candy and sweets are yours tonight
come closer, dearies I will not bite

your fingers or even your tiny nose
as you come to my house – what? no ribbons or bows?

you’re made up as clowns and telly-tubbies too
come closer, dearies I’ve a message for you

that says to each who knocks on my door
thus says the Gramma Come on in for more

more candies and iced cakes and treats for you?
no, dearie, no – I’ve got much more in here for you

I’ll fatten you up until you are ready to burst
you’ll be like a pudding or maybe bratwurst

and then, my dearie you’ll look again at me
and no little old granny will you then see

when you’ve fattened and can no longer run
I’ll ROAST YOU AND TOAST YOU until you are done . . .

and then the toe-meat from your chubby little pins
will melt in my mouth as grease runs down my chin

No more will you wish for candies and cakes
When I’ve had my way with you for goodness’ sake.

What? Why do you run from me in such haste
I was only kidding – don’t even want a taste . . .

Ah well, looky here now what do I see?
More Ghosties and Goblins coming to visit with me.

(c) barbara waters
10-09-01

You

Come to me at eventide
When I’m ‘twixt sweet
Dreams and deep sleep

I relax into your
Presence and find rest
In your gentle caress

I reach to find your
Embrace – watch as you
Smile your crooked smile

You are familiar somehow
I feel a secret knowing
Of your being – of your self

I sigh because I know you
Not your name – but the
Innermost, secret YOU

When I awake you are still near
Your presence an unbidden
But always welcome joy

And then I wander quickly
Through my day so
I can come again to dream of

You
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This is my entry for this week’s Velvet Verbosity’s prompt “Unbidden”.I encourage you to check into the weekly prompts, dust off your pens or keyboards, and enter.

Local hospital held a Pamper Me Pink party a week ago – I “conned” my youngest daughter, friend from work, and another young friend into joining me as my bosom buddies.
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We were given numbers when we came in – mine was my age! Yay – 60. Daughter was 59 and friend was 68.

We were then duly registered (aka put into the billing system) and handed off to volunteers who took us to the imaging section of the hospital. So much pink! Even the CEO grabbed a pink cowboy hat and perched it on his head. Love it.

We were given Pamper Me Pink t-shirts or scarves. Daughter and friends got shirts – Volunteer, Ruth made sure I got a scarf.

Why, yes I can have fun with anything. lol. By the way, the shirt I’m wearing is the one I hand embroidered with names of lost loved ones and survivors of breast cancer. I wore it several years ago when I took part in the Pony Express Tour for Breast Cancer, a motorcycle tour around the US with funds raised going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. It was an honor to wear the names of my sisters, among them my Aunt Mickey who died of breast cancer in 1972. I need to embroider my cousin Marsha’s name – she passed away a few years ago – and my friend R’s name as she is a survivor.

We enjoyed munchies:

There was a chocolate fountain with fruit and other stuff too. I had fruit and skipped the chocolate, cookies and cake. Jenn had bananas.

warm wax treatments for our hands:

There were chair massages, bone density tests, prizes, goodies, and – oh, yes . . . mammograms!

The good reports are coming in – repeat in a year. We had four of us together this year – next year I hope older daughter will be able to join us and that our group grows even more. The hospital might just have to make this a TWO night event. 🙂

There were at leat 50 women who took advantage of this fun night this year. The mammogram machine was smokin! Okay, not really, but they usually see maybe 8 women in a given day – to have 50 in a 3 hour period is unusual.

So, tell me . . . when was the last time YOU did a breast self exam – or a mammogram? Male readers . . . when is the last time YOU checked YOUR breasts? And, when is the last time you did a self testicular exam? I urge you all to take care of yourselves.

“Take a deep breath. Hold it.”

Noisy clicks and clacks, clunks and whirs are muffled only slightly by the earphones perched on my head. I count to myself – 1001, 1002, 1003 and onward until I finally hear, “Breathe normally.”

I lie buried within a giant magnet – a yearly occurrence as follow-up to surgery a few years ago. Each time they place me onto the table and hook me up to the IV I focus thankfully on the healing that took place in my body when the surgeon excised the cancer.

It’s a thankful woman who lies there holding her breath.

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This week’s 100 Word challenge from Velvet Verbosity is “WITHIN”

Had a bit of a meltdown Friday – well, I didn’t have the meltdown. My laptop did. I use it a lot – apparently the hard drive decided I had overworked it.

Not quite the blue screen of death, but I began getting red x messages telling me “can not find hard drive.” WHAT? I know it’s there. Where is it and why is it hiding???

Of course, hubby’s first thought was I might have picked up a virus . . . again . . . or that the old one I got awhile back had a little worm attached and my computer guru had not found it.

So, we called said guru and took the laptop in Saturday morning when he opened. He thought he could get it back to me same day, but when his closing time rolled around and I had not heard I resigned myself to waiting patiently . . . yeah, hahahaha.

First thing Monday morning I had to take hubbymoose back to the wound clinic. (side note: the original sore had healed and he was released from their care last week – unfortunately, he developed a new and bigger blister in a different place so we are going back on a weekly basis.) We drove by the guru’s shop, but he wasn’t open yet.

Took our time – went to the post office – dawdled around – then went back to pick up puter. Hard drive was all that was wrong, so I have a shiny, new one, bigger, better, faster. Yay! And my files were saved, too. Yay again! Thanks, Soldotna Computer!

I have to reload some software, but that is a minor thing. I’m going to check out some backup websites to protect future files. 🙂

Have a great day, everyone.