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My daddy has cancer. 😒 Please send healing love energy and prayers for his healing and highest good. Thank you all in advance.
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🎶 🎶 🎶 Good morning, good morning folks! 🎶 🎶 🎶 Yes, I feel like singing. But not right now because I also feel like I need to find a pile of pillows and dive right in. I am tired as all get out and some body parts are achy too. There is lots of good news to share but it will have to wait for a subsequent post. What I'll leave you wonderful people with is this: I have a new suitor. He's someone I grew up with and I've had a crush on him for as long as I can remember but I kept it a secret. (Who wants to ruin a good friendship with romance? Not me.) And yes it happened at the beach. Totally unexpected and totally cool. We've been friends for years without even a hint of romance, previously sharing more of a sibling-type relationship. However, the time we spent together at the beach allowed us to see each other differently. He's smitten. 💕 Me too. 💕 He lives in my hometown but he's retired so we're gonna see how we can work it out....
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An interesting perspective on this eclipse occurring during Mercury retrograde: Uh Oh: What Happens When a Solar Eclipse Occurs During Mercury Retrograde? Another point of view: What Does It Mean When An Eclipse Happens During Mercury Retrograde? Big Changes Are Afoot
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Happy Monday everyone. I'm sure you're all hanging on the edge of your seats waiting to hear about my weekend, yes? 😁😆😋 And I'll spill it but not right now. Right now, I'm all tied up in emotional knots. I think it's this eclipse in Mercury retrograde. I don't plan to actively watch the eclipse. By that I mean I don't have the glasses, I'm not going outside, and I'm not going to look up. My views on this are more akin to what some Native American tribes believe: this is a sacred act between God and nature and not my business to witness. What I am doing is sitting in my living room watching my window. As of this writing, it's 2:32 p.m. in my location. From around 11:30 a.m., it has gotten darker in tiny increments. But I can still see the sun shining onto the side of my porch. To say it looks eerie is an understatement. I went out around 2, to get my dirty laundry from the car. The air was different. It felt pink and lightw...
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Happy Sunday folks. A sista is as tired as every dog that ever walked on the blacktop on a sunny August afternoon anywhere in South Carolina. I had a most excellent weekend at the beach (Myrtle, where it was hotter than blazes) and I am thankful. My current status: exhausted. I'm nodding y'all. More later...
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Howdy folks and Happy Thursday! 😊 I hope everyone reading is doing well. I sure am. 😀 Despite the monotony of performing mundane chores like laundry, vacuuming, and washing dishes, Wednesday was an intriguing day chez Bliss. My down time was spent talking and texting with a man I dated briefly when I was in my late teens. Let's call him the Astronaut. Brief though our acquaintance was, I was absolutely besotted with the Astronaut. And so he has always had a home in my heart and my thoughts. About 50 percent of our conversation was him expressing his awe at our virtual reunion. We also talked about a face-to-face reunion, to likely take place in a few weeks, when I go visit my dad. Ole pack rat that I am, I knew I still had pictures of one never-forgotten weekend we spent together back in 1986. After I scanned in the photos, I uploaded them, then texted them to him. Although I've seen the photos many times over the intervening years, it had been a long time...
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Happy Tuesday folks. I hope everyone is feeling swell today. I'm good emotionally and psychologically. Physically I'm feeling a bit sluggish. But I'm trying to get it in gear so I can be ready for my early evening date. Which will now be a late afternoon date, as I was given the option by my potential suitor. We're also switching to Tex-Mex. Partly because I've had two dates at the Cajun spot in the past two years (one of them was my first date with the Hunk) but mostly because I'm just not that a big fan of that restaurant or Cajun food. For folks who like gumbo and such, it's probably somewhere to frequent. But I don't eat gumbo so once a year at that place is good enough for me. Any way folks, Google maps is saying I need to leave home by 3:20 to arrive at my location on time. It's almost 2 p.m. and y'all know I'm a tidsoptimist of the best kind. Not because I like being late but because the clock is not my friend. 😁 Also ...
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Update on upcoming dates: - Tuesday evening: dinner at a local Cajun restaurant. 🍤 🍥 🍖🍴 - Thursday tea and... at a coffee shop many miles away. 🍰 🍵 🍪 🍩 That is all.
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Happy Monday folks. It's a warm sunny day in my neck of the woods. There is lots to do today but I've been relaxing. Again. For the past several hours I've been craving a succulent pork chop with mashed potatoes and a huge green salad. 😋 It's not likely I'll get that meal so I'm thinking about dinner at my favorite local Mexican restaurant. Something I forgot to share with y'all the other day: I dreamed I was in a shop trying on wedding dresses. I found one I liked and was allowed to take it home to try it on for my mom. When I tried it on for my mom, I looked in the mirror and the dress had become a different dress. It was a shade of aqua green, covered in sequins of the same color, form-fitting, knee-length, with cap sleeves that stopped a few inches below the shoulders. Hmmmm... Green is on my list of least favorite colors however I don't mind a particular shade with more of a blue hue. But it was supposed to be my wedding dres...
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Despite the extreme ugliness that has gripped America since number 45 began his presidential run, despite the horror that was Charlottesville, VA recently, some of us colored folk know that all white people are not stark raving lunatic racists. But we need y'all to stand up and step up en masse! Please and thank you.
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So I've decided to accept a date for a late dinner 🍝 and dessert 🍧 at a 24-hour diner down in the big city. 😋 I've been inside for the past several days and I feel like being social for a few hours. 😁 We've been e-mailing, texting, and talking for a couple of days. It's probably time to meet and see what the face-to-face chemistry is like. 😀 Time to get it in gear! More later y'all. 👋
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Happy Sunday folks and blessed be! I hope everyone is somewhere safe and happy, physically and mentally. It's been a very relaxing day chez Bliss. I've been eating and drinking with abandon: a half cup of strawberries, two fried eggs and a cup of cinnamon applesauce -- organic cinnamon... Lots of talking and texting with one of my sistas as well as a few would-be paramours. I also got a call from the ex-husband and I'm happy to say he's still with us. (Side note: I still plan to call him later this week. Something was definitely off about that call last night.) Surprisingly, I've gotten several (four - 4) offers for same-day dates today. I say "surprisingly" because if I recall correctly, Sunday is usually pretty slow on the dating site. To them I say: thank you for your interest however we won't be meeting if we have nothing in common. But I've been noticing a trend lately. It seems that men in the 50-and-over demographic -- in ...
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Good, good, good evening everyone. 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 It's been an interesting day chez Bliss. Mostly relaxing and quiet but there was a bit of excitement. Several hours of my day were spent talking to a few guys I met on one of the online dating sites I'm registered with. The conversations were... interesting. Maybe I should no longer be amazed at the (relative) immaturity of men in the 50-and-over demographic but I am . 😞 Don't misunderstand me folks. There is nothing wrong with being youthful. Childish, on the other hand, is a total turn off. 👎🏽 Sadly, the two are often mistaken for being interchangeable. 😞 In other news, I received a strange phone call from one of my ex-husbands today. He said he was in town for an event. Cool. I thought he was gonna say he wanted to hang out or meet for dinner. He didn't so I asked him if he wanted to meet. He said he wouldn't be able to. I asked him several questions about his visit and his answers were odd...
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Happy Saturday folks. It's a dreary day chez Bliss. Inside, my home looks like a small tornado touched down and the clean up has yet to begin. Outside, the skies are white, white, white. It rained earlier and the cloud cover remains intact. No worries because although I've been thinking about making a plantain chips run, I probably won't go out today. I stayed in last night because I was tired. The guy who asked me to hang out texted me a shirtless photos a few hours after I told him I wasn't coming out. Funny and enticing but if you've seen one pic of sexy super-tight chocolate abs, you've seen 'em all, yes? 😯😬😜 If he'd sent me a picture of chicken nachos or lemon pepper wings, I might have been able to energize myself enough to meet him for dinner. 😁 I'm feeling sluggish right now. Probably too much glucose in my system because I ate a peach for breakfast. Should have eaten almonds with it. Nothing much on the telly except cooki...
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Good morning and Happy Friday y'all! It's another day of emotional overload for me. It's definitely a confluence of several things: my feelings about what happened between the Hunk and I, the current Mercury retrograde, whatever hormonal phase I'm in right now due to my menstrual cycle and peri-menopause... When I woke up, I felt fine. I've had a busy day talking to friends, doing laundry, washing dishes, fixing and eating lunch. It's only been in the past hour or two that I've begun to feel like I don't want to see or talk to anyone. I went out to sweep my porch about 20 minutes ago and a hummingbird flew up to me, inches from my face. It looked at me, fluttered it's wings at hyper-speed for a few seconds, then flew back the way it had come. Shocked and delighted, I immediately thought of the Hunk and burst into tears. 😟 One of the evenings we sat intertwined on his front steps, we observed and talked about all the hummingbirds flitting a...
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Howdy folks. A sista is tired. I went out for groceries today. It was a three-store adventure. First was my local grocery store, where I intended to get one item (plantain chips). Like I was really gonna get outta there with one item... 😜 There were several items on sale that I absolutely needed and $30 later, I was heading for the parking lot and my second stop. At Aldi (second stop) I picked up two of my favorite and most necessary items: a seeded watermelon and almond butter. Another $30 spent. At Target, my third and final stop, I found what I'd been craving: organic peaches. I also treated myself to my favorite flavor of Kevita. After grabbing a few staples (eggs, grapes, apples...), I sashayed over to self-checkout. Another $22 shucked from my wallet and I was outta there. During my shopping spree, I saw several things that reminded me of the Hunk. My mind drifted to thoughts of our time together and the aftermath (which would be now until...). Maybe it...
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Good morning folks. A few minutes ago I saw a video that I'm sharing here. It's covers a topic that is sadly often taboo in the African-American community. I hope it helps someone. DMC from Run DMC on Mental Health and why it's good to talk . Amen.
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Hello everyone. Just a quick update: First, thank you to everyone for the prayers, positive energy, healing thoughts, and all things wonderful sent my way. I appreciate you all and send virtual rainbows 🌈, sparkles ✨✨✨, and lots of love 💕💕💕 in exchange. An update on my dad: I talked to him today. He was in good spirits and his voice was strong but he was very forgetful. I know cognitive issues can be common post-stroke so I'm not overly worried but it is disquieting. It's another reminder that daddy's health is definitely declining. My prayer for him is that he's at peace with his life and remembers that he is loved by many. Amen. My grandma is healing quite well and has already resumed many of her favorite grandmotherly activities. 😁 Baby Bliss and I took in a movie earlier this evening. We saw "The Dark Tower". Not as bad as some of the critics (both paid and those of the backseat driver variety) made it sound. Yes, there were seven (o...