Joys And Sorrows

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu May 15, 2025 5:18 am

Annoyance: I ended up oversleeping today which means I ended up screwing up the rhythm I usually use on the days that I don't have work and I only managed to get it back at the very end BEFORE I go to bed. >_<

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat May 17, 2025 9:40 am

Karen, my brother's wife and widow, came down for a visit with her golden retriever, Parker. We took a couple of extended woodsy walks and hit Lago's Ice Cream before seeing her off. She's doing pretty well, and the skipperkees adore Parker, one of those big, goofy lug sort of dogs.

May's apparently decided to be May after all ... instead of November.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat May 17, 2025 12:27 pm

Sorrow: One of my younger elementary-school aged cousins is having a birthday party and I like going to those because I can interact with relatives that are my age however I am unable to do it today as I have work.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed May 21, 2025 12:51 pm

Just can't get going today. Learned of another high school classmate who shucked off this mortal load last week. Chatted with a couple of other classmates about him and life in general later this morning - seeeerious downers!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed May 21, 2025 8:07 pm

Sorrow: We have a Nor'Easter coming in at some point tonight into tomorrow which is going to bring a lot of rain and make it miserable out. It feels more like October than May right now.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sun May 25, 2025 7:07 pm

Yardwork. Yuk.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon May 26, 2025 5:30 am

Joy: I only have to work for 4 hours today!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue May 27, 2025 3:53 pm

Seeing the missus off to Tennessee this evening. She's going to visit her brother and his wife, both of whom are wrestling with various serious-but-under-control-so-far medical afflictions. We decided it might be best that I stayed home, given that these might be an occasion for some very serious family conversations that an outsider might inhibit.

And then there's flying today in the United States..... Sigh....

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 2:21 am

Sorrow: my bad foot has decided that it is going to flare up massively today. Walking causes immense pain; I now have to leave for work.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 3:44 am

Joy: We managed to move the broken washing machine that wouldn't stop refilling and draining by spinning out today on the curb which is something I was VERY much dreading.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 3:37 pm

The missus flies home from Tennessee this evening - air controllers, landing conditions, myopic pilots, weather conditions, and some of those passengers from the home of "Deee-Ranged" permitting.

Anyone remember an airline called Trans-World Airlines? TWA? The military used TWA a lot. They weren't very good. We used to say "TWA - Try Walking Alternatives."

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:20 pm

Joy no. 1: Birthday is in 7 days!
Joy no 2. my friend is going to upgrade my computer for my birthday! it's going to be a much better computer than the current one

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:34 am

Sorrow: I think I'm turning stupid since I keep forgetting different things, including the different words and grammar that I forgot while trying to think.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:35 am

IsraeliDisneyFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:20 pm Joy no. 1: Birthday is in 7 days!
Joy no 2. my friend is going to upgrade my computer for my birthday! it's going to be a much better computer than the current one

Can't wait to wish you aHappy Birthday, Is !!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jun 06, 2025 12:32 pm

Joy: It is starting to feel more and more like summer now as we move into June!

Sorrow: That means its very humid and sticky and my mother doesn't want me to put in my air conditioner yet.

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Sun Jun 08, 2025 6:00 pm

Sorrow: Still sick with all manner of illness and I don't know if I could go out of my way to do that longhand of Tum's just in time for a meaningful date. But at least I'm trying to keep it in mind.

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:01 pm

sometimes I just want to leave Israel

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:40 pm

I rather live in Japan than living in Israel if I'm being completely honest

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:40 pm

We lived in the Republic of Korea for about fifteen months when I was stationed in Seoul (Our son, Paul, is adopted), but I never got to see much of Japan. Only several short business visits, and those to the Joint US-Japanese Air Base. Had some great views of Mount Fuji from there.

I hope you get to visit the those countries some day, Is. Travel's good for you.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:38 pm

Joy: For another week it looks like I am nearly done with work as I have just one more day!

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:39 pm

I think when I have the chance, I want to escape Israel and start a new life in Japan away from that dangerous country

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:40 pm

I hope that you will get the chance sooner than you think in that case. Because then you might finally become a lot more happier than you had ever thought possible!

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Sun Jun 15, 2025 8:40 pm

Fear: I feel like I just experienced something like a WWII Blitskrieg

HiraokaNettoMichio · Post by **HiraokaNettoMichio** » Thu Jun 19, 2025 12:51 pm

Rapture: I am starting to get well after some time being sick. And hydrating through any means is a must in this day and age.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:13 pm

Joy: My air conditioner works well and it not only cools down my room but takes out the humidity so it is easier for me to sleep at night which helps because I need a good night's sleep!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:30 am

Joy: last evening, we had special guests. Around 8:30 or so, the missus happened to look out the sliding glass dors of our little porch and - surprize.
There, in the little patch of yard sandwiched between the neighbor's fence, the side of the garage, and the porch, a whitetail doe was grazing with her fawn. They couldn't have been more than fifteen feet from us. The little one was having a big time, jumping around in the tall grass and other foliages (we have a "natural yard"; no suburban grass carpets for us).

Three years ago, we had a doe who came regular to be in the open yard on the other side of the house. She was rather brazen about it, although she came in the darkening hours and left as the sun came up. She birthed a fawn her second year. Then, last year, we did not see her at all. (Don't know what became of her little one - the casualty rate for fawns is pretty high.)

Was this her? Was she back? Dunno. But she kept a wary eye on us as the fawn moved to the side of the house and she followed her wayward child. Then kiddoe decided he wanted to nurse, right in the middle of suburbia. Talk about flashbacks. I remembered back in the fifth grade coming out very early in the morning and seeing a doe nursing twins. must been 1955, 56.

She finished her maternal duties, walked around slowly for about ten minutes like she was thinking of buying the place, and sampled the leaves on the neighbor's lilacs. Then she turned and started to walk briskly into the neighbor's grassy front yard (about 9:00), not running though, and the fawn trailing close on her hooves. Suddenly, they started to trot and then sprint and they were gone.

Enchanting.

CunningFox · Post by **CunningFox** » Fri Jun 20, 2025 5:55 pm

Lovely story, Weston.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:12 am

Joy: It was associate recognition day at work today and the managers brought in food from a restaurant that caters for all of us to enjoy and I had a massive plate of chicken parmesan which I love eating!

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:13 am

Excitement: I finished off the story I was writing yesterday and I have ideas for my next story. I'm gonna let it stew over the weekend while a plot develops in my storytelling lobe and get started on it on Monday.

IsraeliDisneyFan · Post by **IsraeliDisneyFan** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:44 am

Sorrow: perhaps I don't deserve to be with dogs...

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:22 am

IsraeliDisneyFan wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:44 am Sorrow: perhaps I don't deserve to be with dogs...

EVERYONE deserves dogs, Is! Unless, of course, you're cruel to them, have allergies, or prefer some other critters.

Be safe, okay.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:46 pm

Joy: The son of a family we know from another Church was hospitalized last week and they had to put him in a come. Well, it worked. He's got a long rehab ahead of him but he's conscious and out of ICU today.

Sorrow: The wife of a close colleague of mine was also in the hospital last month. He died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 62. Her health has never been the best, and she was hospitalized for dehydration. The doctors then discovered she had kidney problems, liver complications and needed serious heart surgery - bypass or multiple stents, her choice. She chose the stents. She was in recovery for three weeks and all seemed to have settled down. Ten days after Margaret was released, she was shopping with a friend down in Lumberton, NC. Friend stopped to pop into a store while Margaret opted to wait in the car. Alone in the car, everything just shut down and she died. She also was in her early sixties.

In the midst of life ...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jun 25, 2025 2:59 am

Joy: This massive heatwave that ended up making everything unbearable as well as sticky and hard to get comfortable is going to be coming to an end soon and the temperature will finally cool down a tiny bit!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:37 am

Yeah, it seems to be tamping down this morning.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:06 pm

Rainy days and Saturdays, good day for naps and crossword puzzles.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jun 29, 2025 12:16 am

Sorrow: I think I am starting to get hit by allergies now since my nose is running and kind of stuffed and my eyes also have been giving me problems.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:18 am

Happy - or a "happier" - Fourth of July.

Website · Post by **Hlaoroo** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:20 am

Joy: Finished my short story for Rick's upcoming Hayven Celestia anthology! 7899 words!

Now to get stuck into editing!

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:38 am

Well hey maybe I'll read it. I haven't read the first one, but I'm getting to it.

GingaDensetsuAleu · Post by **GingaDensetsuAleu** » Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:56 am

Sorrow: I slipped while using a knife and sliced off one of my fingertips, so that kinda hurt. Now I have a big bundle of bandages on it and it's making it difficult to type.