Song of the day! Sing it Stevie!!

Holy smokes! For anyone who missed it, Snoop Dogg was on The Real today. LOL

memorialize

When you memorialize something, you honor it or do something so it will be remembered. If you want to remember a summer trip taken with friends, you could make a photo album full of the pictures you took to memorialize it.

The word memorialize often is used in relation to someone or something that has passed away or even to a group of connected individuals who have perished. You might see a monument, for example, that memorializes victims of an earthquake, meaning pays tribute to them. You can also memorialize someone in a speech, meaning you tell about the person's life and describe how he or she has affected others.

***My psychiatrist told me today that I am memorializing the individual this blog is about. I add positive attributes to this individual, in my mind, that may not be based in reality. He is not necessarily the perfect man for me. He has shown that time and time again, through his Facebook posts. Yes, he is a doctor. Yes, he surfs. Yes, he may look like the type of guy I am most attracted to, but he is not all that I make him to be, and he is not "perfect for me." 

He was too immature in college for a relationship. He never even pursued a real friendship with me. He never wanted to get married right after college and start having children. He never wanted to marry me, at least. That does not align with what I wanted or my core values. 

He traveled, he partied, and studied, while I was busy getting married and having children. While in medical school, he dated much younger, college girls. He got serious late in life and eventually became a doctor. He was subsequently snagged by one of those much younger, sorority girls. 

He is 44 years old and may never have children. I think he is a 44 year old child himself, so maybe that is the best thing for him, to not have children. I guess, I needed to be talked to rationally, by my psychiatrist, today to stop romanticizing and memorializing a man who is not perfect for me or better than any other man I have met. He is just some guy from college.

Scared of you!! I have no idea why this man was granted parole. He is a danger to society! Does anyone fear for his ex-girlfriend's life, besides me?


http://www.cbs8.com/story/38979237/hollywood-actor-convicted-of-attempted-murder-granted-parole

I needed this today! Remember the Munsters? #Hermanswisdom 

He is paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr. :)

I have my head in the clouds again...

How do clouds defy gravity?

Just like tiny dust particles that float on the air, seemingly defying gravity as they dance in the light, these clouds hang suspended in the sky — for a time. ... Eventually, the droplets in the clouds are heavy enough to be pulled down by gravity— and that's rain!

 Courtesy of the Cloud Appreciation Society! A dog raises his paw up over Pag, Croazia

CLOUD HAIKU BY CINDY MARTEK-MEDINA

Cindy Medina from Las Cruces, NM has sent two whimsical haiku poems for us to enjoy. We’ve paired these with a photograph submitted by Fiorella Lacono.

Billows of softness:
Storm cloud’s pillowy features
at odds with cacti.

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Quartet of planets
seem a row of lighthouses
for drifting cloud ships.

(Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars)

© Cindi Bartek-Medina

Why I don't Facebook-stalk anymore...

Facebook had a very negative impact on me in 2014, when I was unmedicated. Facebook can still drive me batty, so I took it upon myself to block anyone, who I hate, that is on Facebook. If they are my enemy or they just bug the hell out of me, I blocked them. I have very sensitive wounds lingering from college, (over 20 years later) so I felt that it was in the best interest of my mental health to stay away from these people on Facebook. I do not want to remember them, friend them, or compare their lives to mine.

The other day my good friend told me that she watches Game of Thrones with her husband. Since my husband also watches/loves Game of Thrones, she suggested I watch it with him. Groan! I flashed back to 2014, when I was Facebook stalking this guy from college and his ANNOYING wife. She posted that he gave her a surfboard that said "KHALEESI" on it. So lame! I have no idea who the hell Khaleesi is. I don't watch Game of Thrones. I am not a geek! I just never saw the connection between these two women. He must have been humoring her. And by the way, anyone riding a surfboard that says Khaleesi on it should be laughed out of the water! LOL