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

Good Monday to you fine folks. I hope everyone has been well since we last met here. I've been many things since then: overjoyed, frazzled, peaceful, optimistic, disheartened, overwhelmed, and more. Sometimes all in the same day. Literally. The emotional life of a peri-menopausal woman is rich with feeling . And so much has happened since my last post. - Daddy has been home, back to the hospital, back to rehab, and back home again. He's had good days and some not-so-good days. As of our last phone call he sounded really well, like his pre-stroke self. But that was a week ago. We're having communication issues, me and daddy. His cell phone seems to have gone missing so I can't reach him on that number. No one answers the house phone when I call so I can't talk to him that way. I can talk to him when he's in hospital or rehab or when his wife calls me from her cell phone. The last time she did, she put us on speaker. Her reason: the earpiece wasn...

Happy Sunday folks. It's a quiet and relaxing day here chez Bliss and I'm thankful. I was perusing some of my old blog posts and I came across this one: 435. My name is not Oprah . It's a list of what my favorite things were when I wrote the post. Many years have gone by since I made the list and today I feel like updating it. So here it is: My glass teapot. I still have it, I still love it, and I use it often. Tazo's "Passion" tea is still on my list. I drink it several times a week, usually cold from the fridge.  My favorite dusting powder these days is an oldie but goodie, Jean Nate Silkening Body Powder. It smells like heaven and lives up to its description, as it really does make your skin feel silky. I don't wear it often because I wear a lot of black and the powder is white. I still have one of those semi-sexy "maternity" dresses and it's still my go-to dress for many occasions. 👗 Plantain chips have supplanted swee...

I'm making something for the wedding.

Good evening and Happy Tuesday y'all. After all the sad, shocking, and emotionally draining news that I've been bombarded with over the past several days, I have some good news to share: I'm planning a wedding.  💒 I won't say at this moment whose wedding it will be but some of you reading this may guess correctly. 😁 More later folks.

Happy Monday folks. Hopefully your weekend was restful... peaceful... tranquil. Mine was fun. Saturday I had a full day of laughter and frolic with a friend whom I absolutely love. She's my mom's age but more like an older sister to me. We have a great time whenever we hang out. She and I hit a yard sale, visited her family, ate, shopped, and more on Saturday. By the time we returned home, we were both beat. On Sunday I slept in and had a thoroughly relaxing day. Now for some less than inspirational news: daddy returned to hospital last week (which is what I didn't want to talk about). He's scheduled to head home late this afternoon. His wife is also in hospital which is the cause for (seemingly) catastrophic concern on her part. When she called to tell me where she was, she also asked me to assist her with something that I can't help her with. Not because I can not. It's because I will not. It would require me to place myself in possible ph...