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

Good morning and Happy Tuesday y'all. 🙋🏾‍♀️ I hope everyone is somewhere safe and feeling good. The day dawned sunny and cool in our neighborhood. I awoke with a start, hearing a strange beeping noise that I thought was the transmitter for daddy's defibrillator. 🙍🏽‍♀️ Never mind that I know   the transmitter is not a monitor. The beeping scared me. In the six years I've lived here, I've never heard that noise before and it seemed to be coming from daddy's room. I jumped up and ran in. He was already up. When I asked him about the noise, he said he didn't hear it. Okay... 🤷🏽‍♀️ On a brighter note, I slept until that noise startled me (a little after 8). I'm usually up and at 'em by 7:30 latest. Gotta tidy up the living room and get daddy's breakfast going. I like to be done with his morning routine (glucose check, breakfast, nebulizer, and morning meds) by 9. No later than 9:30. It just makes the day flow easier. Our sche...

Good evening and Happy Monday folks. I hope everyone is in good spirits and somewhere safe. Other than being tired, I'm doing well. 🙆🏽‍♀️ Daddy is is well as he can possibly be with all the health obstacles he's experiencing. Last week we had a scare in the wee hours that necessitated an overnight hospital stay. Afib, they said. He was put in observation, had his medications changed, then discharged back to home. I was already tired but that hospital stay really knocked things out of wack. Daddy had awakened me that morning around 3. The paramedics and EMTs came and we were at hospital by 4. I had only just gone to sleep at 1 a.m. With getting checked into the E.R., waiting for a room, getting to the "room", and daddy getting his vitals checked and blood taken every 15-30 minutes (so it seemed), I was only able to get in a few winks and nods until I came home that night around 9 p.m. My plan was to sleep a few hours then head back to the hospital ar...

Good evening fine folks. Are you all somewhere safe and happy? I hope so. Earlier today, I saw this:  Pastor: When White Folks Say Obama Was an “Embarrassment”, Here’s What You Say . Which made me think about this: post 707 . Are we there yet? How do they sleep at night, those who are in a position to get rid of the menace but do nothing? Do they care? Are they human? Or merely humanoid? I've been reading a piece of fiction that falls in line with something I've been thinking for a while: climate change might annihilate us all faster than the fear, hatred, and ignorance that pits man against man. How sad it is some days, to be a member of a species that prides itself on being the most intelligent while being unable to transcend something as trivial as skin color should be when it comes to treating others fairly. 😞

Hello and happy Monday y'all. Here in the US of A, we're honoring our retired military members with a day called Veteran's Day. It's the day we use to thank our former service men and women for their service to us. The appreciation takes many forms. Sometimes we say it verbally or in writing. The federal government gives employees the day off. Other businesses do as well. Restaurants give free and/or discounted food and drink. Some of them do this for the spouses of veterans as well. Some extend these offers to the widows/widowers of veterans as well. I am the widow of a veteran but I won't be heading out for any free or discounted food or drinks today. I'm not feeling particularly festive. 😔 To all veterans, my sincerest "thank you" for your service. I will never forget even as I pray for the day all militaries need only be groups used for peaceful assistance around the world. To Mr. Bliss, my darling, my love -- thank you for your servi...

How-do y'all and Happy Happy Friday! 🎉🎉🎉 I hope everyone is content and safe. It's alternately overcast and raining here. Not the type of weather I look forward to but it's a day that all is well so I'm thankful. 🙏🏽 Daddy and I started our day early. A trip to the powder room for me at 5:30 a.m. was unavoidable. I tried to be quiet because I didn't want to wake daddy. He went to bed at 10 last night but was up at 12:30 a.m., saying he saw my light. (The telly and laptop.) Which meant he couldn't have been sleeping. (I'm starting to believe he's not getting much sleep at night because when we're home during the day, he sleeps a lot. I realized the other night that one of his medications causes him to use the bathroom frequently during the night.) I laid back down but couldn't get back to sleep right away. Before I knew it, daddy was up. I checked the time. It was 7:10 a.m. Although I was tired, I got up to begin my day. I set...

Good day y'all. I hope everyone is somewhere safe and feeling content. I'm trying to relax and wondering how long it will be before I nod off. Yesterday wore me out somehow. Daddy had a doc appointment and we ran a few errands but we weren't out all day. Maybe it was the heavy bags I dragged in and the number of times I was up and down the steps to do so. Daddy has more appointments next week and I have a service appointment for the vehicle. I like to get our grocery shopping done when we're out but I'm not sure if that will work next week. We'll see. So folks, there is the matter of finishing post 864 . It ended here: In more personal news, Daddy and I went out for dinner. We found a new (to me) local spot that has  huge  bowls. And we continue here: Bowls are trending now. I'm not sure why because they've been around for a while. I remember the first time we went to Qdoba. (Mr. Bliss was still alive so it was more than six years ago.) ...

Happy late-night y'all. It's Tuesday evening here. For those of you interested in and familiar with American politics, mid-term elections results are almost in all over America. The House is projected to become majority blue (Democrat) and the Senate retains its red (Republican) hold. I hope this brings some semblance of common sense back to our political process. As it stands, our country seems to have become a joke around the world. 🌸 🌸 🌸 In more personal news, Daddy and I went out for dinner. We found a new local spot that has huge bowls. 

Hello and Happy Happy Sunday y'all! Daddy and I have had an eventful weekend. Friday night, we stayed up late to watch " Deja Vu ". I had seen the movie several times but daddy saw it for the first time. It's one of my favorite thrillers and daddy liked it too. I remember my first time seeing it. Not the date i saw it but my reaction to it. I'd been seeing previews and hearing about the movie but I resisted seeing it because I assumed I knew what it was about and I thought it would be boring. The same way I'd done with LOTR. Silly me. 🤪 I thought it was just some kinda regular ole Denzel romantic thriller. To my surprise and delight, it was much more complex than that. Just another lesson in not rushing to judgment. Which is totally different from following one's intuition. 😌 🌸 🌸 🌸 Although we were up late Friday night, when we got up Saturday morning, daddy and I decided to head to the mountains. Previously we'd said we would go...