2 be Bliss, as I dance along the road to Nirvana...

Good evening folks. I hope everyone is somewhere safe and healthy. I'm happy to report that Baby Bliss and I have mended our fences and are once again living blissfully. Hallelujah. 💕 As for the Hunk and I, we are currently enjoying a convivial visit at his home, in a location that shall forever remain undisclosed. Stay tuned folks. Good night everyone.

Good evening folks. It is with much regret that I inform you all that Baby Bliss and I are on the outs. I don't know what bug plopped in her soup but it must have been a big one. She seemed to think that I should have cut short an important phone call to talk to her, which I have done in the past. But in recent months, I have decided that I will no longer do so because there have been too many times to count where my child has either ignored my call(s), cut our conversations short because of Friend A/B/C (or her boyfriend or his family or friends), or she ignores my texts until she sees fit to respond. Cool. I am her mother and I love her more than I have ever loved anyone else in my life. However if she makes it obvious that I am not a priority for her, then I will no longer go into panicked mama mode any time she decides she's gonna grace me with a few minutes of her time when I'm engaged in other pursuits. She is an adult and free to live her life any way she...

Happy, happy Wednesday y'all! I hope everyone is healthy and safe today. My day began early. Very early. My eyes opened around 6:30 a.m. 👀 I tried to return to sleep but it didn't happen. Ahhh well... There were some urgent items on my to-do list so I began my day around 8. By 9:30 I was ready to run errands. The weather was lovely (sunny, slightly breezy, barely warm) so I decided to walk. When I arrived at the post office, the weather had begun to heat up and it was very warm inside the post office. Not stifling but I knew it would be if they didn't get the air cranked up soon. Next I stopped at the local market for plantain chips. I left with the chips, kale, mac and cheese (already cooked), a sweet potato, Meyer lemons, 💕 sweet almond oil, arnica, and my favorite body oil ( Vanilla Musk by Kuumba Made ). Definitely more than I intended to buy but I need to eat and drink today and tomorrow, my arnica stash needed replenishing, and the previous vial I...

p.s. Tomorrow's date is cancelled. With all of today's excitement, I didn't realize I hadn't heard from that guy today. But just as I closed my laptop to lay down, I got a text from him asking if I was still awake. Dude... Bad start to any type of relationship. Or as my momma would say, "You done let somebody else beat your time." As you were fella. 😝💤💤💤

Good evening everyone. I hope you've all enjoyed a pleasant and productive day. It's been an interesting one chez Bliss. 😏 After my last post, I zonked out pretty quickly. Well folks, I just happened to be rolling over an hour later when the screen on my phone lit up and the phone rang. It was the Hunk, full of vim and vigor, excitedly rambling on about something he and I had discussed earlier in the evening. My heart was racing as I listened, not sure if I was awake or dreaming. As he paused for my response, I gathered my thoughts and told him how the phone had scared me and I needed to get up to find my lavender essential oil. He apologized and said he called was because I'd told him I was a night owl, he was up and at 'em, and he thought I would be too. He offered to let me return to my slumber but I declined and decided he needed to talk to me until I was able to wind down. Which he happily agreed to do. 😐😀😶 After we'd talked for about...

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a safe and stress-free weekend. Now let's get right to it, shall we? Tales from the dating world: 🌸 The ex-paramour and I are done. There was no card game and there won't be any for me (with him) in the future. I've decided to let sleeping 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 lie with that situation.  😄😁😂 🌸 I have a date scheduled for Wednesday afternoon with a gentleman I met online yesterday. He's very tall, articulate, retired military, self-employed, interesting. However, from our conversations, I don't think I'm really his type but I know he thinks I am. I'll meet him for a late lunch and perhaps he'll become a client, a friend, or a resource. 🌸 As for the guy I had the date with Saturday -- let's call him The Hunk -- we have plans to spend  the 4th of July holiday together. I'll head his way mid-morning on Friday, which gives me three days to vet him. The invite is actually for a five-day/four-nig...

Miracle of miracles, I arrived on time and before my date arrived. What are the odds?  😂 The date went well. Dinner and a stroll at the mall. He offered several times to buy me things and like the well-bred lady I am, I declined. He was very handsome, much better looking than his photo. Beautifully smooth chocolate skin, a gorgeous smile, friendly eyes, an open face. He's exactly my height, muscular build, and yes, there is a second date planned. I'm home and he's making the hour plus drive back to his home. It would have been nice to extend the date but a sista has other things to attend to. The most recent ex-paramour and I have decided we can still socialize together so we're gonna go play cards with some friends. Should be fun. I like playing cards. Ciao for now folks!

Happy Saturday folks! I'm counting down to time to get ready for my 4 p.m. date. It's now 2 p.m. and time to get in gear so I'm not late, as is often the case. From the discussions I've had with the date (several hours over the past 12 hours), I know he's always on time and usually early. A little about him: retired from both military and federal government, divorced, no children, no pets, non-smoker, light drinker, home owner, northern transplant. We seem to have many common interests, the most promising being our love of music and the way we handle our finances. And yes, I did get my mani-pedi this morning. The salon I visited first was booked so I went to the one Baby Bliss favors. They fit me in and the results are quite nice. But I did re-polish my fingernails when I got home because the color I picked in the salon wasn't quite sparkly enough when I got outside. What is life without a little shimmer and shine? 😁 🌟 🌟 🌟 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎉 🎉 🎉 ...

And just like that  ✨ ✨ ✨ I have a dinner date scheduled for tomorrow, early evening. If I get to bed early enough -- say midnight or 1 a.m. instead of 3 or 4 a.m. -- I can get up early and get a mani-pedi before my date. This season's "it color" for nail polish is rose gold, a color I happen to be fond of. It's also a color I have in my shrinking stash. Now that Baby Bliss is no longer my nail technician, I'll have to head out to the salon. There are two less than a mile from me and they both charge the same for what I want so it's a toss up. The salon my daughter likes is closest but I've never used their services. They have a specific technique that makes the polish last longer and Baby Bliss likes that technique because she likes as much time as possible between visits. I like as much time as possible between visits too, at least a year. That's usually my in-between time for nail salon visits, preferring to have my mani-pedis done at ho...

Happy Friday folks! I come to you all with a clean slate, so to speak. It's a few days after my birthday and I am also once again newly single. The paramour and I are done. Not by mutual agreement (he disagreed) but it had to be done. At this stage of my life, I require a partner whose life is aligned with mine in Things of Importance. Although the paramour and I had a really good time together, it was The Other Things that snuffed the candle. One was his schedule. While he did make time for me, he was often busy with projects that left him unavailable to me in a way that made me uncomfortable. On the flip side, the more time we spent together, the more I realized how our lives did not mesh well. For example, I have no debt and don't wish to acquire any at this age. He has what I consider a lot of debt and it seemed to be no big deal to him.  👀 Another thing is that I keep any documentation that I feel I might need to produce for any government authority, for ...

Good afternoon everyone. I hope each of you is doing well. As for me, I'm still struggling with periodic episodes of overwhelming hormonal surges. Earlier today in Target, it hit me that I'm about to celebrate another birthday without Mr. Bliss. I felt very sad and began to cry. Wouldn't you know it, I had no tissue in my purse. (Which further upset me because I try to remember to always have a packet of tissue in my purse. It's an awful feeling to need tissue and not have it when out in public and it's a feeling I do not like.) I found a chair in the furniture section and sat. My next thought was to call one of my aunts. She was at grandma's yesterday and I thought she would be there today. She wasn't. After I talked to grandma (who I did not say anything to about my situation because she's been ill for a few days and I didn't want to add any stress to her life), I felt better. A few minutes later, in the check-out line, I felt fine. I...

I know it's been a while. Life has been busy. My dad's failing health, the paramour, my "female" issues, Baby Bliss living her own life and intersecting it with mine when it suits her... It's all a big mish-mash of Life. I'm hanging in here as best I can but some days I am overwhelmed. Monday was one of those days. I was home most of the day, tired and re-thinking my life as I'm likely to do at such times. I reached a lot of different conclusions but acted on nothing because I'm learning that acting out when in crisis mode is the absolute wrong thing to do. So here I am, blogging at 2 a.m. when I am so so so tired... I guess part of it is that I wanted to reach out to you all, my cyberfriends because I know that even if I can't see any of you or talk to any of you, you're all there for me in some way. Send positive energy, write me a poem, send me a rainbow or a unicorn. As always, thank you all in advance. Love, K.