Too much Stuff?

What is it with a Tee Shirt??? WHY can't I throw them AWAY?? I have too many clothes, like most people in this US of A, but I DO donate regularly to AMVETS...They give them back to people who need them...They don't SELL them to people who NEED them...So! guess you get THAT picture, huh? I go through my clothes, mostly Tee-shirts and I put them in the Amvets pile and then I take them back and then I put them back! Jeez! I practically have to take one of my vertigo pills before I do it...HOW can you be emotionally attached to TEE shirts? Well, THAT, my friends, was ONE thing I did not explore in my years of therapy!

I have a "Mickey Mouse" shirt from 1971, before Disney World was even built. We toured a little trailer on a lot in Orlando to see a "Diorama" of the future world that was to come. Too bad a guy wasn't sitting there selling stock in the company. Even a 16 year old would have done that! But I bought a tee shirt instead! I wore it SO much to school that my DECA teacher, Mr Crawford, who I had an incredible crush on, used to call ME "Mickey" I Loved being called Mickey, especially by him...Awwwww, the memories, the butterflies ,the....huh? well anyway, guess you can figure out my emotional attachment to that tee shirt and YEP! still got it! Hey, it's an antique now! I have a few 'other' Mickey Mouse Tee shirts and to part with any of them is not easy...

I went to Boston a few years back and have a red shirt with navy letters and it says ...BOSTON. What else would it say? The fabric is soft and I just LOVED Boston!...I have a red shirt from Clear Lake Iowa that is "swirled" into a Coca Cola like shape. The fabric is rough, ...but I LOVED Clear Lake. My sister had a duck shack there! and as any of you who were "raised right" know...Clear Lake is where Buddy Holly went down in a plane, so it would almost be disrespectful to the dead to get rid of it, huh?

I have several ST Patricks Day shirts! And I LOVE St Paddy's Day! We are all about celebrating it in my family and we have MANY extended IRISH family members who celebrate with us in our little hometown parade. Even the NYPD bagpipers show up for that one! Aye, but there are only TWO kinds of people,ya know...those who are Irish and those who wish they were! And speaking of the fabulous NYPD, I have a few "911" tee shirts that will hang in my closet eternally...enough said.

I have some silly Halloween and Christmas Tee Shirts, I "guess" I could give some of them up...but no way am I getting rid of my classic Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation tee shirt! Oh and I'm keeping Ralphie, from A Christmas Story too! Two of my favorite Christmas movies of all time...I really should go through my collection of DVDs and get rid of some of them too, but talk about "attached" I have some of the best romantic comedies and Christmas movies of all time in my collection! Oh MAN! Here I go again!...hmm, the CD collection should be cleaned out too. Crap!

I guess some things will always be favorites, and painfully hard to part with, because they define WHO you really are in the end, don't they?

I'm forever yours...faithfully

DNA : Awesome Genetics!

Did you ever just love somebody that you hardly even really knew? Maybe you only met once or twice in a lifetime but then a little thing called Facebook comes along and Voila! You get to know some one's daily thoughts and feelings as they are actually feeling it I have sooo many subjects to write about that I have to keep notes of my titles, but when I write, it just comes to me. It is a gift, I think, because I am not so smart and quick and brilliant... but some of my writings are! I read some poems and can't believe that I wrote them! I want to publish, but don't know how, hence the blog or as I like to say "The Lazy Man's Way To Journalism" Maybe I'll be discovered and some "suit" will want me to write a daily or weekly column, cause I totally would! OR put all this stuff together and write a book? There is a book in me...there is a book in everyone, I believe...Sometimes we have to "ghost write" for people we love or people we hold dear to our hearts...

 In the olden days, there was a thing called "penpals" Get ready, kids, cause I will explain: You picked a pen pal who lived far enough away that you could not easily visit and you could not call them either because it would be "long-distance" and that was so expensive that we actually feared the telephone somewhat! I had a BFF, and she used to go to South Carolina each summer so we would write letters with a pen and paper and put a stamp on it and mail it! WHEW! It would take days to get to her and then she would write back when she could and use a pen and paper and put a stamp on it and then, Yep! you guessed it! A whole week passed before I got her reply to my great letter, which at that point I had forgotten what I even wrote in the first place! Remember, it was the olden days: NO Copies! No place to "store" the letters NO Proof of your witty repartee' unless you used something called carbon paper, but again, it was expensive. So all those letters are Dust In The Wind, along with the friendship? I hope not... She is not a facebooker and she disappeared about 5 years ago. I DO give her credit for igniting this writer within and since she was a writer too-I kept a few of her most humorous ones. She was indeed a friend for "reason" Back to the future! I mean present...I now know my cousin, who I might have never known and I get choked up when I think about her...She is a constant in my life now, because of FB.

How I wish my own sister up north was here ( in Facebook Land) too! I have been gifted by God with more than one BFF and could write (and have written ) pages and pages about them. Some with an actual pen and paper! I found some the other day in a notebook of mine that started because I almost had a near brush with death...That is another whole blog! So, my cousin is caring...she speaks to me everyday and she is encouraging...she asks me "where the hell is the blog" She just did and so here I am, baby! Back to the Blog! She prays and asks for prayer's! and I am a "prayer" I can get the job done when it comes to that and she knows it! She is, next to my daughter, they have the same blood...the greatest sports fan of all! She is faithful and loyal to all the Chicago teams. Heck, for some reason, maybe it was Saturday Night Live or "Brian's Song" but I have always kinda liked "The Bears!" myself. She is funny! witty! again! the same blood! She is like glue...Galaxy Glue, Galaxy Glue, what would we do without Galaxy Glue? Life would go to pieces without Galaxy Glue...she will know what I am talking about every time! We are kindred. Genetics and DNA: Awesome! There is a code that links us together. She keeps the families, North and South ,together! Bet she didn't even know how special she really is, but she knows now! Why? Cause she is my faithful follower and she will read this before anyone else ever will and I love her for it. I hope her whole real, first family (you know, the one that has "skin" on them) knows what an important part she plays in this game of life! It's kinda like putting a puzzle together...If you didn't have that one crucial piece, you couldn't complete the whole picture! You "complete" us...all of us! So,this one's for you, Vori, my BFF cousin, the very puzzle piece that put our whole family together! Job well done, or "Well done, You" as the British would say!

To know,know, know you is to love, love, love you...