Hail to the Prince!

 

Prince George

 

While the world, well, some of us anyway,

eagerly anticipated the newest royal birth

(I was sure it would be a girl)

and then the name game

I was remembering the last two princes' births

 

I don't really remember William's, though I do remember his parents' wedding

But I vividly remember the announcement of the name of his sibling, Harry.

I thought to myself, "What a stupid name for a prince, or a baby in general, Harry."

 

I didn't realize at the time that it was a form of Henry. 

And even now, I question the judgement of the name, given the notoriety of King Henry VIII.

But now, 29 years later, who could think of Prince Harry as anything other than a Harry?

 

In this world of monikers such as Hopper, Apple, Kyd, Maddox, Blue and Fuchsia

(Google celeb's baby names!)

We could be assured that he would at least have a traditional name.

 

I was really hoping that it would not be Edward,

As King Edwards, historically, did not do well.

King Edward III died in battle

King Edward IV died as a fairly young man of some illness

King Edward V was one of the two lost princes in the tower, at 13 years of age he and his brother Richard having gone into the Tower of London and never were seen again,

their fate unknown to this day.

And King Edward VIII abdicating the throne for love, though that's probably not a bad trade-off, though it did wreak havoc.

 

So, we have a Georgie, named after his great, great grandfather no doubt.

Whether he will one day be King remains to be seen

in the greater scheme of things

whether he will be happy, that's all that any parent could wish for.

 

Prince William



 

Prince Harry

 

Say what????

 

I don't necessarily think that I am what used to be called "prudish"

but when I go to the doctor to get a refill of my prescriptions

and it is a doctor I have never seen before filling in at a walk in clinic

I don't really expect one of the first things for him to ask me

after seeing what meds I take

 is

"how is your sex life and your libido?"

"ummmm,,,,fine" I say hesitatingly

He advises me that

"you know vibration can help with that."

 

I'm wondering if he was thinking the same thing I was thinking

or if he had something else in mind entirely.

 

Whatever happened to a little bit of discretion???

 

Maybe I should have asked if he had any free samples.

 

 

 

Dear Blog....I've missed you.

 

What is a blog?  That is the question.

 

I've missed blogging

but it was starting to take up so much time when I had so many other things to do.

Lately I've been thinking of it a lot

and how I can fit it back into my life.

I am most certainly not a social butterfly but rather a homebody almost to the extreme

but even at home, I am always busy with some chore, craft or pleasure.

 

Spending a couple hours of blogging needed to be cut down on the priority list.

 

But I want to do this for me

Not that I haven't enjoyed the folks I used to follow, both reading their blogs and receiving their comments on my blog.

 

For now though, I'm going to tippie toe back into blog world, through the back door

and just slip inside.

 

This time I am blogging for me and will have to use some self discipline

Something I sorely lack.

I'm not going to spend time wandering around other blogs,

which is not to say I don't want to,

but that I have to keep my priorities.

 

My blog is for me.

My memories, thoughts, feelings, experiences.

It's meant to be a record of who I was, am and will be.

Something to have printed and leave as a legacy, something to look back on

 

Something for me.

 

I'm leaving the comment box open

But I don't expect many if any comments

Because I know I'm being selfish here.

 

But this time its for me.

 

With love, from me. 

This is absolutely amazing!!!!! check it out!!

 

This painting is truly remarkable. Even more amazing though, is that the canvas has been computerized. When you click on the link below, a much bigger version of the computerized painting appears.

Run your cursor over the people. The program tells you who they are - every single one of them. BUT (click on a person) and you obtain the individual’s life history.

This is fascinating... Can keep you busy for hours!

 

http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

Look ma, its melting!

 

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough

 

- Earl Wilson

The Gift

I am not a holiday-celebrating type of person

though I do love the two boxes of chocolates and the potted pink kalanchoe plant

it would not bother me any if we did not celebrate any holidays

I don't like days when you are expected to do something just because its a holiday.

That is why I didn't write a Valentine's day post

when it seems every other blogger in Blogland did.

 

However......

 

Last night I was watching Big Bang Theory

and a situation came up that made me appreciate the day.

 

Amy's gift to Sheldon was to stay in, order pizza

and watch one of his "Star Trek Wars movies"

Because she was his girlfriend and she wanted to give him

the gift that would please him the most.

 

Sheldon's gift to Amy was to give her a copy of his

personnel record of the university where he works

and tell her to look at the

"person to contact in case of emergency" field

where he had entered her name.

 

They were both thrilled beyond words

and such simplicity

made a little bit of gushy mushy inside me smile.

Bazinga

 



That's my story and I'm sticking to it

 

 

despite my best intentions,

I have let blogging fall by the wayside again, for the past few weeks

 

the reasons are identifyable

understandable

and not entirly unforgiveable

 

and after all, it is my blog

and ultimately, though I love to share with others's blogs

and truly appreciate and look forward to comments

I am doing this for me

we are all doing this for us I suspect

 

do you ever write a post that you especially like

and don't really want to cover up with a new one?

that's how I feel about my last one

I have read it over and over to myself

and love the pics of my boy when he was small

 

so that was my original reason for not updating

 

but, blogging is like a good friend who is a long ways away

it takes time, energy and true willingness to keep the friendship up

and so, I am writing again, rambling again

to keep it up

 

I printed a book of my first few years of blogging

and it is a journal of sorts

my thoughts, feelings, remembrances and experiences

together with images I felt appropriate

and shared and commented upon by others

 

It's a legacy

my children may read it someday

and laugh or cry over the parts of inner me,

things they didn't know about

 

so, am I blogging for me or for them?

I guess both

then I think, that's kind of, what's the word I'm looking for,

egotisctical in a way

 

to think that my kids would be interested in those parts of me

to think that anyone would be interested in inconspicuous little me

100 years from now, nobody alive now will remember who I was

I may hang on an ancestorial wall

part of a family tree

 

And I may even look down from above

and say....that was me.