This morning, while walking in my backyard, I noticed this colorful object. I thought it was one of Oreo's rubber toys. But I was sure I never got him a caterpillar.
I touch it with a leaf and...IT MOVED!!!!
I have never seen such a big caterpillar!!!! Look: it's bright green with those black spots looking like eyes....
It's approx. 7" long and 1.5" thick.
Today some of you may still be mourning and crying over past events that you have experienced in your own life. Have ever been so close to achieving a dream, yet the closer you get to that dream; it seems to get farther and farther away? Or have you ever been really close to achieving a dream and you watch it disappear right before your eyes? Have you ever had high expectations in someone, but your heart was broken because they fail to meet your expectations? Have you ever had so much hope in a love one or your child, yet they become an alcoholic or a drug addict? It seems like you cannot keep them out of the streets or out of jail no matter what you do. Have you ever lost someone who you loved dearly and they were your biggest inspiration in life? It doesn’t matter if it was by natural causes or by tragedy; the reality that they died and they will no longer be a presence in your life. Sometimes it almost seems painful enough to make you stop pursuing your goals in life and stop living. Are you working on a job where it used to be a joy to clock in, but now your dread every moment you clock into work? It seems like you can barely get along with your boss; and your co-workers are always starting something. You are looking for a change, but it seems like this is the best thing going. Do you have a sinful habit that you come to the awareness of that it is hurting your family, but you cannot stop it no matter how hard you try? And the fact you cannot stop it is taking all of your joy and happiness away.
In Psalms 30 it is these situations that we go through that David calls our night. Are you going through one of those dark nights of life?
I want you to know that you may have been weeping all night long but you are a minute before joy. Don’t worry if at this minute you are sad and depressed. Don’t worry if at this minute you are sick and tired of you situation. God wants you to know that you are a minute before joy. His favor will last for a lifetime.
[Last time for intruding upon your Group. Sorry for all this]
When you talk to mum again, tell her how much I appreciated being invited to that little ceremony at the cemetary after Uncle Bob passed away. I had actually been debating whether to go or not, but was leaning more towards "Yes" because I didn't know when I would see all my relatives together again (on my mum's side, of course). I thought it would be rather nice to see you all, and I wouldn't be trapped inside someone's house...I could walk around the cemetary, talk with people, see how much everyone has changed since I left and then came back from California. So, I was waiting for mum to tell me when it was to be held. Next thing I knew, it was OVER....and so was the celebration of his life at Carole's house. I wasn't invited.
Go ahead, tell them. You've read all my other personal postings. NOT MEANT FOR YOUR EYES, OF COURSE. And you may not think so, but by not telling me who you are and that you're reading my Blog, you are for all purposes LYING to me. What a great bunch of relatives and friends of the family that are out there. I'm just LOVING how you have all snuck into my personal, private world and SPY. Guess what? Believe this or not....and it may come as quite a shock to you....BUT MY LIFE IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW!!!! And then to talk about it?!? And I just know that not one single person is going to 'fess up, are you? Ooohhh....I hear that little gossip network again. Hard at work....did you just read what she just wrote?
If you don't even invite me to the cemetary, why the HECK would I want you reading about my personal life????? And so far, not even ONE person has agreed with what you all have done. This is not a newsletter that I send out to my relatives and friends.......this is my Blog that I (meaning of *I* = ME), and only *I* get to choose who gets to read. I had no problems with strangers reading it, but I most certainly do when it's people I know and they are all "whisper, whisper"....we won't talk to her, we won't let her know we are here. We'll just violate her privacy, and spread the news. Who knew the internet could be so much fun. Hey, you are all a spy network now! Good for you!
Again, thanks for the invite to the cemetary. Thumbs up. Great idea!
I'm getting off the computer now. You've completely ruined something that was special to me. Thank you kindly.
[Sorry for intruding again, but I don't know where these people are located...so I have to send the message out to them through all of my Groups. Thanks, guys]
Okay, I don't know who these people are that know my parents as well as know that I have a Blog and Username. How, or more especially, WHY would they hunt me down on the internet like a rabid dog? And then not even letting me know that they are reading my posts? They HID from me while checking everything out about me. How did they know my Username??? How did they even know I had a Blog?? I certainly didn't tell anyone other than my kids, a couple of friends in the US, and my mum (who still doesn't understand it...she thinks blogging is the same as Messenger. I'm not even going to bother to explain to her).
Anyways, I just checked my regular email, and there was a message from her. A new message from mum, part of which says: " I thought BLOGGING would be the same as when I used to have MESSENGER. I only had 3 or 4 people who could get on it and I thought you'd be able to do the same with BLOGGING. I guess anyone can get on because I've heard from more than one person. They thought I should know. It seems terrible that you went through that on Saturday morning and your family didn't know."
For starters, it didn't happen on Saturday. And what REALLY bothers me is that "more than one person" has been in touch with her about this. What the HECK?!? Why would they possibly think that she should know? I can understand if I had ended up in the hospital, but this is ridiculous.
So.....it's not just one person reading my Blog and "ratting me out", so to speak. And my dad thinks it's unethical to tell me their names. Gosh darn it!!! Both the gossipers and my parents are wrecking my little world here on the internet.
I'm going to have to go Private. I hate that. If I delete you and you are totally innocent, I really have to apologize. I don't know what I'm looking for. And when you go Private, does anyone know if your postings will still end up on the internet...outside of the Blogging company? I've found a ton of things that I've written posted on the internet when I googled my Username. What's the point of going private if it's still going to get on the internet? I guess if that happens, I'll have to change my Username and go someplace else. But I enjoy this little Blogging site simply because it's not one of the BIG ones.
I'll try going Private later on.....and then check to see if it gets onto the internet.
Unethical to tell me their names?? That's not right. That's simply protecting them. THEY violated my space. I do NOT want to share my life with these people who know my parents....and who probably are my relatives!! I don't have a problem with them reading everything else, but not the PERSONAL postings. Gosh.....I'm just really irritated now. YOU HEAR ME?? I'M REALLY ANNOYED WITH YOUR BEHAVIOR!!!! SINCE YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE HERE, THAN I CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT YOU WERE PRACTICALLY SPYING ON ME! I THINK YOUR WAY OF FOLLOWING SOMEONE'S LIFE IS EXTREMELY UNETHICAL.......HIDING FROM ME!! WHAT TYPE OF RELATIVE OR FRIEND DOES THAT??
I've had enough of this. I'll go private eventually, and if I find some postings on the internet while in the Privacy Mode, then a lot will be changing. Sorry, guys. Some people don't know when to keep their mouths zipped. This was MY affair, and it was MY decision to make as to who I would tell.
I don't know when I'll change over, but you'll know when you go to my homepage. If you've been made an innocent victim because of these "well-meaning" people, then I will look into it further. I can't stand that my parents don't see MY side of it.
Or maybe I'll just stay the way I am....knowing I'm being WATCHED (which really gets my blood boiling!!!!!!!)...but just posting the way I used to. Nothing personal anymore. I don't know. Does anyone know if going Private keeps the posts off the internet??
I can just see their little gossiping circle. One phones another with my Username, then another phones around and comments on the half-nude woman I posted (for shame!), and another calls the others to listen to one of my songs, and then they ALL phone mum and dad about my little adventure. Oh, I'm sure they've called different times. But hey....photos do wonders to liven up a story!
Really, the month is almost over? Where the heck has the summer gone? I long for the good 'ol days as a child when I counted the minutes until summer vacation and summer really felt like summer. When the last school bell rung and you ran into the schoolyard Labor day seemed like it was eons away. You awoke at the crack of dawn every morning with the whole world opened to you and you didn't return home until after the street lights turned on, and for a kid who grew up in the north that was very late.
I wish I could understand the space time continuum and why as an adult a year goes by in the blink of eye. But today with the help of L.A. Parks I am going to recapture that feeling. A concert in the park. I'll let you know how young I feel in the morning.
[Since I don't know if you actually are a member of my neighborhood, I'm sending this message out to all the Groups I belong to. You are around here somewhere.....and you NEED to read this!]
TO THE TORMENTING, UGLY GOSSIPER:
I don't know who you are, but you had absolutely no right whatsoever to send those photos and postings to my PARENTS (who are in their 70's, and my mum JUST lost her brother!!!!).
This is a safe site. We have Usernames. We don't tell who we really are unless we become friendly in private. This was the most unethical way to respond to someone's postings! Why didn't you just private message me in the Blog mailbox? You don't sneak around behind my back and tell something like that incident (photos and all!!!!!!!!!!) to MY aging parents! Who do you think you are? My guardian angel?? My dad has high blood pressure, my mum is having tests done. Years ago, mum had a very slight heart attack when my sister was in a car accident and they were told that she probably wouldn't make it through the night. Now these people are in their SEVENTIES!!!!!
These are MY parents. This is MY safe place to come to and usually just post stupid stuff, but sometimes I open up and write about personal events. YOU HAD NO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was NOT your place to jump in and get in touch with MY parents.
WHO ARE YOU??????????
If you like my Blog, I can change the settings so that you can read everything EXCEPT personal postings. If you don't send me a message through the Blog mail, I will have to make this a PRIVATE Blog.....meaning that the only ones who see it are the ones I invite. I don't like doing that. And I absolutely HATE that my privacy was invaded in such a *stab-in-the-back* manner!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I write is NOT for people to tattle to my parents. If I had wanted them to know....I WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO TELL THEM!!!!!!! Were you looking for a thrill by showing them? Are you one of those gossipy jerks who just HAS to get involved......in something that has NOTHING to do with you?? Like I said, if I wanted to tell my elderly parents what had happened.....maybe I would have once that event was long past and a part of ancient history.....because by THAT time, they wouldn't be so upset.
YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER JERK AND I WANT YOU OFF MY BLOG!!!!! WHY would ANYONE show an elderly couple who love me those photos?????? YOU have NO ethics! Guess I should have taken photos when I lived with my husband....boy....look at these, mum. Look how pretty my husband made me look today. But I've barely told them anything, and you darn well had better NOT be relating anything I've said about HIM to my parents!!!!!!!!!
I'll give you a day to respond to this. I won't answer you back. I will just change the settings so that you can see the funny, the amusing, the nice photos, watch the videos. I mean.....that's why you joined my Blog, RIGHT?? Not to get a thrill out of the few postings I've made that were completely OFF LIMITS to a busy-body like yourself! Take your little spying eyes and tattling mouth and GET OUT OF HERE. And if I don't hear from you in a day, my Blog goes Private. I don't want to do that because it means that new people who cross through my Blog, decide to check it out, and find that they like it (except for the past few months, where I haven't been doing much of anything funny because of DEATH and now this incident)....well, they can't see anything and join my neighborhood OR just check out my Blog from time to time....because it will be in Private setting. That takes away the whole purpose of my posting at all.....to entertain people. And I'm mad as [bleep] at YOU for interfering where you had NO right.....regardless of what happened to me. You are NOT my parents' own little personal spy!!!!
So send me a message or I go Private, which defeats the whole purpose of my Blog in the first place!!!!!!! Can you tell that I'm MAD at you??? You have NO common sense to have done what you did...nada, nil, none. It was an extremely selfish and unethical motive to send ANYTHING to my parents.....my gosh, especially those photos!!!!!! THEY ARE ELDERLY!!!! And if my dad strokes out or something happens to my mum, it rests on YOUR head!!!! I am 43-years old. I don't need a babysitter who wants to live vicariously through MY life. GET AWAY FROM ME.
1. Send me a private Blog message with name and Username
2. I will change the settings so you can still see everything that is non-personal (because that is the reason you look at my Blog, correct? It couldn't possibly be that you're NOSEY!!!!!!!!!
3. If I don't hear from you in one day, then I HAVE to go Private. It also means I have to dump a lot of people from my neighborhood, who are perfectly innocent, but I don't know who the "spy" is. In fact, you may not even be in my neighborhood....you might just watch my Blog. That means I'd be deleting people who are so undeserving of that. But, at least by being Private, I can entertain my own neighborhood and even talk about personal issues. Jeepers....did you send those photos to my parents where I was wearing the slinky red outfit with the high black boots?? You are NOT my internet moniter!!!!!!!
4. ONE DAY. Then things will have to change because of YOU. Thanks for violating my private space and showing parts of my Blog to my parents!!! I can't believe anyone would do such a thing!!!! What, exactly, were you hoping to achieve?? WHAT?????? Do you think those photos really, truly made my parents feel good? Are you out of your mind?? I wouldn't even show them to my parents.....and who the heck are YOU to do it???????? Stop hiding, and tell me who you are.
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So much to say.
But really not that much.
Ben J., Lillian G., Emily Jo, and I went to the beach on Monday and it was so nice!
WHY did we wait all this time to go to the beach until the day before Lillian left NYC? Jeez.
My back's all red, but it's not too painful. Just slightly uncomfortable. And I feel like I have bugs crawling all over me.
About 4-5 years ago I used to dread going to sleep because I'd toss and turn and think too much. And so I just couldn't sleep. But then I got over that.
Well, not anymore. It's back. And I can't stand it.
Maybe it's because I don't get really drunk by myself before bed anymore.
(Getting really drunk before bed makes you want to go to bed.)
More stuff happened this weekend, but I'll tell you tomorrow or something.
xo
c
P.S.
I was shown this video when I woke up this morning:
It's cute and you'll like it.
Especially if you like zombies.
You can enjoy this even if you're deaf.
We kinda have a thing for Skulls & Heart and found the ultimate skully bead site.
Check them out. Orphic Skull.
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