Wednesday, June 16, 2010

At Last... a Change...

So... finally I was given a chance to change the look of my blog. It now looks like 'home'... after all, I am surrounded by books... too bad they had no pics of my pig collection or the Buddah and frogs on top of my monitor, but perhaps someday I shall discover how to add them. In the meantime, the books will have to do. Here I sit, playing on the computer once more instead of getting my apt put into PERFECT shape for the HUD inspection. I shall undoubtedly be told to pack up and get out, but I'll call my lawyer nephew, Tom, who was an Asst.State's Atty to 'get me off.' Ye gods... does anyone know an old lady who doesn't have too much STUFF... an idiot in my building got 3 different sets of 'inspectors' to come to see my apt... all three asked me why someone had called and gave me a pass... two of them asked me how long I had lived her... when I told them 13 years, one said, "Well, for goodness sake... you are amazing, my mother has only lived in her place for about six years, and hers is twice as full of stuff as yours."

Enough of complaining... I am an optimist and cheerful, so I guess the best I can say is , so what! I do have to clean off my desk, as I need to find the nail clipper to do Sylvia's nails. She caught me with a sharp nail twice using me as a 'ladder' to get up on the back of my chair. Oh, face it... I need to find all sorts of things and get rid of all sorts of things that cover the desk. Happily my dear Elvira found my last ream of paper, so I again have paper for the printer. I will be able to put my latest work on good paper. The Poetry Group will be reading in Yerba Buena Gardens on June 29th, so I have to have everything typed for for that. Mel and I are doing a sort of 'comic turn.' I am glad as I think the old one they have been doing for years is a bit tired. He and I always do well together and enjoy playing off each other. Old George called me tonight and he agrees with the Pell scholars at UC that I should write and do an act in a compedy club. I would kinda like to do something for the Fringe Festival... if I could get in... but I do need people to work with. Colin and Pat would be great. I'd better start working on it now, while I can still stand up and move... getting worse and worse on my feet. That Tuesday for our reading is getting close, but I am good to go when the time comes...

Whitney and Mike are together again... where they should be. I do hope they don't ever take separate jobs again. I am going to have to get a photo of the two of them and put them on the blog along with Mark and family... actually, a new photo of Mark and family should be put on, as that is a very old one. My darling little kidlets are growing up. Pretty soon they will have blogs. They grow too fast and are up to 9, 7 and almost 4, but look much older. I am so lucky in my family... I had great parents, two great children, and now a wonderful daughter-in-law and three gorgeous and bright little grandchildren.

Now I shall end and listen to Craig Ferguson, the mad Scot!