mom's birthday

Today is my mother's birthday, or it would be if she was still alive. If my mother, whose name was Geraldine, was alive, today she would be 86 years old. I can say with some assurance that she is probably glad that she's not still around and that age. My mother was a longtime advocate of the Die Young, Leave a Pretty Corpse thing and even at 64, which is how old she was when she died (suddenly, at home, of massive heart failure), she was pretty unhappy with her looks. One of the last things we spoke of before her demise was her plan to both go on a cruise and have a face lift, although not in that order. My thinking is that if she had had the face lift and had gone on the cruise, she would have found herself another husband. He would have been Number 4. My mother was very good at attracting men, although less good at keeping husbands. Happy Birthday, Geraldine, wherever you are. 

where's the summer going?

it's been nearly a month since i've last blogged and so much has happened. our cat died, we got a new cat (and Jesus is his name), we've had a bathroom gutted, we've installed a wood stove, our son has come home from norway where he lived for six months and we bought him a new car. we also have been dealing/coping/trying to get through my mother in  law's cancer which is back again and painful. can't go there just now. 

i've been working away on my book that is due to the publisher in mid august. it's all about sex, sex, sex, what else? oh yes, flirtation. courtship tips. ever since my son has come home and we're watching reality shows together like one on peer pressure where a young woman who is a career waitress at Hooters decides she'll earn more money if she gets her boobs done. and it's true. she does. $300 a month more, woo hoo. that represents a car payment or 3 weeks worth of gas. the economy is so scary now and yet we live like we're made of money. that's so bedford, LOL