Laugh. A lot. Genuinely.

I rushed to the beauty parlor where my parents had already arrived to get my grandmother. She was running about 30 minutes late so everything worked out ok.

When I told her what happened with my car she got a twinkle in her eye and asked since I don’t know how to take care of a car do I know how to take care of a man?

I started laughing and said I guess not…I don’t have one to take care of my car for me. Everyone within ear shot started laughing with us! :)

last weekend we stopped by the Huckleberry Festival where he had intended to sell his photographs. He was talking to people he knew and I was watching the huckleberry bake-off judging. A gentleman struck up a conversation and soon he, his wife & I were talking about a chili cook-off they are having in September!

I was so excited! I judged chili cook-offs in Texas with my deceased husband closing each year with the championships in Terlingua. It was so much fun.

I gave them my card and really didn’t expect to hear anything more from them.

This morning I got an e-mail from the Chili Mistress of the cook-off asking if I’d like to join them as a guest judge. That made my morning!

Have to admit I enjoy new adventures! :)

I have run out of tears…never thought I’d say such a thing. I am a really emotionally charged person! However, I am choosing to laugh instead of cry about the twists and turns life throws my way. Save the rest of my tears for the times I will need them…in the meantime I’ll just remember to not sweat the small stuff…which most of life consists of small stuff. :)

called me in a panic Saturday night. He had been going to a festival to sell his photographs this weekend and his car stopped running. This festival was about 150 miles further into the wilderness.

He left his car with all of his gear parked on the side of the road and it took him 8 hours to hitchhike home. I told him to get a pre-paid cell phone and someone would have come to get him! He just poo pooed that suggestion. Guess some people like taking the hard way in life.

Anyway, we get going early yesterday to get his car….had to stop to buy a portable battery charger and for 2 1/2 hours I had to listen to him tell me his plan to get the car home.
Some of which included towing his car with mine without him even asking me.

I nodded politely and told him all of this was unneccessary because his car would start and we’d get it home just fine. I knew in my heart that is what would happen. He looked at me like I was crazy.

Lo and behold…we gave the battery a jump and the car started right up and didn’t have a problem all the way home.
I didn’t say I told you so because I really had a lovely day. I saw some beautiful country that I hadn’t seen.

We stopped at the festival he was supposed to show at and I met some really nice people. The people who run the Libby History Museum asked me to judge chili in September.

We got home safe and sound. He made dinner as a thank-you.

When I was leaving he said that this scenario never crossed his mind. He ended the evening saying I have a magic about me that things usually turn out well.

Must have been why he called me for this adventure instead of one of his other friends. LOL

works as a bartender at the favorite watering hole here in the wilderness. I really try to avoid any connection but once in a while on Friday their Happy Hour is where everyone goes.

Tonight my ex was talking to my “Sooner – OU” arch rival that I adore! Being from Texas we have a happy banter…

I digress…my ex asks me lots of questions about what is happening in my life…which is a boring open book…so what the hey? Had a couple of interviews…yada…yada…

Then he looks at me and says…new shoes? OMG!!! Who would notice that you bought new running shoes?!!!

I was married most of my life, raised 2 sons and no one would have noticed that detail! That was the funniest thing that has happened to me this week!

OMG! How lame has my life become that running shoes even get a mention? LOL!!!

over to play cards and have dinner. We were talking about my financial plight. My deceased husband was 13 years older than me and as long as I don’t remarry I will be entitled to his social security benefits.

My mother looked at me and said “Hurry up and turn 62 so you can have his benefits and be safe.”

As soon as she said it we both started to laugh so hard tears came to our eyes.

Afterall we can only age one day at a time. I’m aging as fast as I can! ;)

I misplaced my cell phone so I dialed the number and listened for it to ring in my house. After the 2nd ring a guy answered. So my 1st reaction was to say “sorry wrong number!” and I hung up.

2 seconds later my phone rings and the same guy says that the person who owns this cell phone left it at Borders Book Store yesterday. Imagine my embarassment when I said “oh that was me.”

Truly a senior moment. If I didn’t laugh at myself I’d probably be very, very worried about my thought processes. :)

is on TV tonight…many things that make me smile are reminding me of my deceased husband today. He passed away on August 5th so today has been very emotional.

But I had so many little reminders of him today, like our favorite movie together, our 1st date, Romancing the Stone…then I was watching a silly reality Tv show Holiday on Soapnet and one of the dates was a guy rented a restuarant dining room for the girl. He was a Pices.

That remined me of my husband who did that for me on our 2nd date! It was awesome! We had the whole dining room with a fireplace and our own waiter…he truly was a romantic…he was a Pices. Which of course triggered so many wonderful memories of him. That made me laugh out loud!

I have been very blessed with true love in my life. As I am writing this I am crying…tears of lose or tears of joy? Either way I have lived a richer life having been his wife.

My landlord and his lovely bride stopped by today. He wanted her to see the house. It seems they have plans to one day move back into it…not anytime soon. Also should anything happen to him he wants her to have it.

I knew that was his plan! On his way out he noticed a doorknob on the coat closet was broken so he went directly to the hardware store and got the replacement part and fixed it.

I was visiting with his wife and offered them some lemonade. As he was leaving again he noticed the wheel on my barbecue grill needed a bolt to hold it on…off he’s gone again to get the part to fix it for me.

Have to say he truly is one of a kind! :)

I read about the evacuation of a Bank of America branch in Fort Worth yesterday in the Star Telegram. People were taken to the hospital by ambulance. The officials thought it may be carbon monoxide poisoning.

This is serious stuff. We lost a bright young man here in the wilderness to carbon monoxide poisoning last winter. So it is not something I find humorous.

However, todays Star Telegram reports it wasn’t carbon monoxide at all it was mass hysteria caused by a reaction to someone’s perfume!

Now that I find hilarious!!! :)