It has been gorgeous these past few days! 80+ degree temps makes me just want Florida even more. It's made me really happy if not just a bit TOO tired. The heat saps strength out of me even if we are keeping the house really cool. I've been active outside, but need serious napping time to recover. Must be the MS I figure.

I stopped by Yahoo yesterday, and was appalled by the vileness of the room. The SSDD goes on and on. I don't talk in there much anymore, I don't feel the need to be negative and hateful to anyone who disagrees with me. There's a few people I really like, and have known for a long while, I'd like to see get away from it. But as we all know, old habits are hard to break.

Speaking of habits. Happy birthday. You know who you are. I know who you were.

With that, my quiet life leaves little to blog. So I'm off to enjoy the rest of my evening.

Dreams

Last night I had to wake up Spence after hearing him having a bad dream. He was kind of kicking around in bed, and muttering "uh" a lot. I softly told him to join me in my dream where we were having breakfast at Maggie Mae's on the back porch watching dolphins jump in the bay. Spence quickly went back to sleep and seemed calm. This left me to go back to my dream of which I just mentioned.

Now if you are still in the "un awake" mode, like Spence was, it can be pretty easy to slip back into dreamland. But for me, I had to use one of my bookmarked dream starters to get me back to where I wanted to be.

I don't know how else to explain it, but it works for me to use favorite dreams as a starting off point to jump into another dream I want to have. I can't always remember ALL of my favorite dreams, or tell you right now what they are, but I can more easily access them as I'm drifting off to sleep and use them to my advantage.

Has this changed my life into a more fantastic one where wealth and prosperity are at my fingertips? Hell no. I just think it's cool.

Since most of my favorite dreams are more like scattered bits and pieces to my awakened mind, I really try not to bother to remember them fully at that time. That's just a way to let me know that somewhere in my brain, that dream is filed.

So, when I want to sleep, I relax my brain, let the flurry of worry run out, and then tap into a part of a favorite dream that can get things moving. I'm not looking to access a specific dream, just one that comes to mind out of my mental favorites. I don't try to recreate the full dream, I add to it and work myself over to a dream I wish to dream for that night.

So far, that works out pretty well. I do get a nicer night's sleep, and feel more relaxed the next day.

I'll keep tabs on this process, and blog about it some more later.

Finding Friends

I am just so doggone happy that I found my long lost buddy Mindy that I cannot stop doing the Happy Dance!

It feels so good to regain a friendship with someone whom I had given up for lost! Bless you Google!

AND....it's getting closer to our six day Florida vacation!! Whooo Hoo, Matt, Jane and Bill, here we come!!!!

Lego Jesus and Happy Easter

Gotta love it!! Jesus was made by parishioners of a Swedish church using over thirty thousand Legos. It took over eighteen months to complete.

Vacation thoughts

As March closes, my mind is drawn to May when we will once again venture to Florida to visit friends and Walt Disney World! I'm glad Spencer will get in free for his birthday. I still had to cough up $79 to get my butt past the turnstiles. Oh well. That's the price you pay for visiting The Evil Rodent Empire.

We will be spending the night at Port Orleans Riverside. This is one of the Disney Resorts that is having a Spring special on rooms. I believe this resort used to be known as Dixie Landings. It's got the flavor of New Orleans and the bayou. Looks good to us!

We really loved Coronado Springs when we stayed there for 4/3 in September. The beds were very comfortable and the room was much larger than what we had in the All Star resort a few years back. I'm hoping Port Orleans is similar in room size and bed comfort. It's important to have a nice bed!

After Disney, we will return to the Gulf coast to visit Jane and Bill. They live very close to where Stephen King winters! I took the opportunity to drop Mr. King a letter a few weeks ago and hope he has not left for Maine yet. But I'm sure he'll return by April when his Red Sox begin playing.

And, a trip to Florida is NEVER complete unless we pay a visit with The Mattman!!!! I wonder if he's still bartending at Don Caesar's? I guess we will find out soon enough!

This week, Spencer should be receiving his CD by Gryphon. I know he's been wanting to hear this album again. His copy is on vinyl and we don't own a record player! So we had to wait for the CD. And now, we found it!!! I'm eager to hear it as well. I do like the song Lament from this particular album (Red Queen to Gryphon Three).

Well, goodbye March!

Interesting Times

The times, they are a changing. And indeed they are at a rapid pace! I have never seen so many foreclosed homes in all my life. The unemployment rate in our area climbs higher each passing day as companies close one by one. Job fairs are overrun by the desperate and some are even turned away. And yet, I wish I could disagree with the latest findings of a Gallup survey (in cooperation with America's Health Insurance Plans and Healthway) that claims the happiest people in America live mainly "out West".

Initially my buckeye feelings were hurt deeply in reading the results of this survey because Ohio ranked as one of the lowest on the list. I almost began to reconsider my own personal happiness!

Should I be so unhappy that my my average cost of living is much lower than those who live "out West"? My rent is lower than most house payments in the West! I shop at Save-A-Lot and take personal glee in the vast savings. Even our gasoline is often lower than the national average on most days. Dollar type stores are aplenty in this part of the country.

Ohio has many things that I'm sure those "out West" would envy. We have drive thrus for our beer, wine and snacking needs. We also still have drive in theaters. We can visit restaurants with car hops. (Sans the roller skates, of course.)

We call our sodas "pop". We call soft serve ice cream "custard". We drive on highways. And we know not to park our cars on the devil strip.

Ohio is home to past presidents, the Wright brothers, John Glenn, and many, many more.

For those who say Ohio is not a land of happy people, are clearly not talking to the right ones.

I love Ohio. And I'm happy!

Happy Valentine's Day

For my Darling husband

You leave me love notes each and every day.

You let me cry on your shoulder when I am sad.

You  make my coffee the way I like.

You laugh at my weird humor.

You love me for who I am

I adore you Spencer.

You are my heart,

And my soul.