My Conclusions About Men

Yes, they truly are from mars!!!

Since I don't go to bars anymore.....since my church has NO single, active, decent-aged men......and since my apartment building has none of the above...............

What is a woman to do??....Where do you go???

During the past two or three years I have seen a few men....they weren't easy to find, let me tell ya' !!!.......and one found me, my Ex.... These experiences have only served to verify the conclusions I had already drawn from the past.......men are, basically, sneaky....sly....devious....manipulating.....and yes, liars!!!

Sorry ladies, if you don't agree....and my apologies to my sons.....I know there are exceptions.........I just haven't found one yet!!!

The other difficulty is age. I am a reasonably healthy, active woman, and I don't THINK I am ugly. But I need to meet a man YOUNGER than me in order for him to be able to enjoy life with me (everyone my own age is in a wheelchair, uses a walker, shuffles, or don't walk at all). I need someone to keep up with me!! .......But then, what younger man wants an older woman??!!........It just becomes a vicious circle!!!......So, I'm stuck!!

You know what I did???........ I checked out Match.com.......Yes! I did!!

You know what the conclusion there is??......men are sneaky...sly...devious...manipulating...and yes, liars!!......Oh, sorry, did I repeat myself???!!!!

Here is another conclusion from Match: Most men, on average, aren't much taller than I am!......I always wanted to meet someone tall like my brothers.....hasn't happened, yet! Mostly their average height is between 5'6" and 5'10".

Two other things that struck me as weird:

When you tell Match for profiles of men within 50 miles of your hometown....they send them from California, all the way to Florida!!!!....What good does that do them or me??!!

And there is the other weird thing; Florida......Widowed men and women retire to Florida....it is a MECCA for single men and women....Yet, most of the men on Match looking to meet someone, are from FLORIDA!!!! Why don't they look in their own backyard??! If I lived in Florida I wouldn't even think of Match......maybe I should move?!

I want someone to run around with, and who is CAPABLE of enjoying life....what am I to do??! (tears going on here!)

Shirls :(

Subject To Other's Whims! Really??!!

Here I am enjoying my PC, not bothering anyone......I have a good time with myself......when the downstairs innercom BLARS out!!!After picking myself up off the floor.....it scared the bejeeses out of me!!!.....I asked who it was.

I got yelled at!!! "Time for choir practice!!"I looked back at the button like, 'what the....'?!

Did I sign a life-n-death contract or something?..NO...Did I have to be there 'cause we have an 'event' coming up?...NO....Did I plan on being there?....NO...Did I want to slap someones silly face off?...YES!!!...Do I have to tell someone my comings and goings?....NO....Am I grown?....YES!!

I didn't say a word, just took my finger off the button. That's the equivelant of hanging up on someone. It felt goooooood!

Hey...I just got out of the shower; just finished coloring my hair; My hair and I are still wet; I'm not dressed?! I'm not going anywhere!!!

I Came back over here...got comfy in this chair, again, and went to my favorite place----cyberspace!!!Oh, if you come by to visit we can heft a cuppa...or something...together.

But, right now I guess I'd better go do something with myself.

Talk later, Shirl:)

Missing You

My eyes weep;
My heart looks back;
My soul grieves;
My every thought flies back to you!
Your voice laughs;
Your humor shines;
Your words excite;
Your teasing caused my heart to sing!
Our jokes, risque;
Our stories, hot;
Our thoughts shared;
Our times together were too few!
Now it's gone;
Now all is lost;
Now missing you;
Now what will tomorrow bring?

Dining Out

I love to eat out!!No cooking! No cleaning up afterward!Being waited on!!I love it!!

I went to a place the other day called Cheddar's. Do any of you have one? The food was delicious and reasonably priced.....but it is usually the decor which turns me on...or off...when dining out.Cheddar's turned me on!It has HUGE ceramic pots, of all shapes, all over the place...lushly planted! But in the middle of the room was what really got me!!In the middle, like a room-divider, was the LARGEST aquarium I have ever seen!! You could walk all the way around it, and after I had eaten I was over there cruising back and forth and all around!!It was beautifully planted and decorated. And the water was so clean and crystal clear! (Some places, their aquariums are kind of murky and look uncared for!! )There was a large variety of fish, in all shapes and sizes...from large palm-sized ones in bright yellows and blues....to tiny little things you almost miss seeing!.....some playing in the greenery....some hiding in rock-caves.....some cruising the bottom gravel.Any man who takes me out and wants to make points, needs to take me to an enjoyable place like that!....and of course be enjoyable company and can make me laugh......or take me to a Blues Club!!Well, enough of that I guess.....see ya later!! Shirls

The Wanderer Returns

I feel like a wanderer who has been gone a long time!!During my absent time I was seeing an ex-husband from 54 years ago!! (That didn't last long this time either!)......I have been quilting, growing houseplants, doing some traveling, and meeting friends from my Garden Helper forum......and of course playing on my computer.

The title photo is of me out in Washington, where I visited friends and family. Met friends from my forum on Cedar Hill. This is a magical place, full of Gnomes, Fairies, and Unicorns and many wonderful gardens.

I flew there, but then took a train across the state to visit family. I had never been on a train before and LOVED it. I hope to take more trips by train.....hopefully overnighters, so I can sleep in a Pullman. The dinning was nice! The food was good, and the prices were no higher than eating out in a restaurant. I thought it would be higher priced.
Then I flew back home to Ohio.

I flew to Virginia at Christmas time last year to another sons, which was a great reunion, as we had not seen each other in years. Got to meet my daughter-in-law, and three more grandchildren!! That was a wonderful time, and in a wonderful little VA town.

I have been to a Church Camp just recently, where I had a lot of fun, in a beautiful setting, with wonderful weather. For talent night I read a poem I wrote, which caused me to pick up a writing assignment about the camp for the church paper, and, asked to write a poem for next years camp!!

The camp had been damaged (and since repaired), as well as damage in Cincinnati, from the edge of Hurricane Ike!!!! Lots of destruction and power outage!!.......But, the Salvation Army sent one of their 'on site disaster trucks' to the apartment building where I live, and kept us fed.....and lots of COFFEE!!!

Well, this pretty much catches me up with my blogging. I'll see if I can't come up with more, now that I am settled down again.

Next time....see ya'

Strange Thought Processes

Let's just sit out here and watch the world go by for awhile. Are you a people watcher?....I am!...I check out their clothes, how they treat people....especially their children; their gestures and expressions.I really have strange thought processes sometimes!Look at that couple walking down the sidewalk. Her hands are waving all over the place....you know she is talking ninty miles an hour!!!He's walking along with his hands shoved in his pockets, eyes roving off in the distance...his whole attitude says 'boring'! I watch people a lot and have come to realize I'm seeing the same things, over and over...gestures, body language, facial expressions; even laughs and giggles. All seem to be universally the same, used to express something, or as a reaction to something.BUT...the really weird thing is....we all, each one of us, feel that each expression or reaction we use is unique to ourself.I know I sometimes catch myself wondering how many thousands of people have made the same gesture I just made, in response to the same thing??I've thought things which I have felt were really 'deep' and 'profound', and then wondered if anyone else ever thought that before. Then later on, I hear it from someone else, or read it in a book or article. I gotta tell ya....it's very deflating to ones ego!!We all use the same facial expressions to show sorrow, joy, tiredness, anger, and on and on. It's no wonder we can have little gremlin faces to use to indicate these feelings! They're universally the same.Have you ever noticed this while watching people? Or even thought about it before? Check it out sometime.Yet...these same universal reactions...in various combinations, help define our individual personality! And help make us recognizable as who we are. Authors use these in books to help define a character.It's all really weird to me....but then, maybe I'm weird! It makes me realize the truth to a passage in the Bible which simply says, "There is nothing new under the sun".Well, I hope I haven't bored you too much, or that you haven't found me too strange!!Hope you'll come around again, and I promise I won't be this odd too often....I hope See ya later, Shirls

Driving In Pennsylvania

I recently took a trip, by bus, to Hershey PA. While driving through the countryside, as the scenery changed, I couldn't help but notice the differences, contrasted with the Ohio I had left behind.

My mind was capturing many images, which I was afraid I would forget. So out came my notebook and I started jotting down words, which would remind me later, about things I was seeing. Those single words started coming together so well that a poem was practically writing itself!!! So, I turned it all into a poem which I will let you read, if you wish.

Pennsylvania Countryside

The hills swept by, rolling and green;

Tall, skeletal trees spiking through the canopy.

Stone, layered and tilted, spilling sideways

With edges rough; colors gray, brown and creamy.

Burned out trees; their limbs artfully twisted,

Clawing for the sky through lush growth below.

A hawk, wings spread, floating quietly aloft,

Fierce, golden eyes from early morning's light aglow.

White and black trees, with leafless stems,

Dancing and twisting through forests green.

Protruding stones, chipped with gargoyle faces;

Others layered, sharp, with a watery-wet sheen.

A dusty road meandering off to nowhere;

The greens of the woods spiking across the horizon;

An Amish farm with rows laid out so clean.

The sun's glory, over all, has risen.

I guess one of the most intriguing places to me was Intercourse PA !!!! I can't begin to imagine who would come up with that name! Or why!! Even the church group I was with laughed and snickered! All of my friends on the GardenersHelper forum who know me well will be proud of me!! I spoke nary a word!!! Can you believe it??!! Me, who would normaly be saying all kinds of raunchy things??!!! I even amazed myself!!:)

I did love browsing in and out of all the crafty shops. I needed Loz the Shopping Queen with me though! I didn't seem to care about looking for bargains and all. There was so much I left behind that I wanted!:) And, I found the horses pulling differently designed carriages very charming....but the town did stink! Piles of '----' here and there does make for a rank smell !! I guess they don't know about 'pooper-scoupers' :) :).

I went through HersheyPark Chocolate Factory! It didn't look at all like the movie :) :) ! I also refrained from buying bags and bags of chocolate!!! Three bars only, so there!!

I really would have liked to bring home some chunks of that Pennsylvania rock which had fallen by the roadside from those colorful seams of stone!!! But, there was no way to stop and accumulate 'art'.

So, that was some of my adventure, going to Hershey PA.!