So my story begins 56 year’s ago in a Place called Lowell Ma.this is where I learned to fight,drink ,dream,love,lie and so much more, it is a place I couldn’t wait to get out of,but would return to every year… a place called home.
But first a little about me I am 56 and female and I currently no longer live in Ma.I am funny and I am sarcastic that my friends is in my DNA.I am also a red headed Irish(wo)man so were sassy. I love to laugh and I love to make other’s laugh as well and no one laugh’s more at me then I do so feel free lol (more to come but right now it is 4:03 am and need to get up in a couple hours but I will be back so please join me let me entertain you.come laugh with me, come cry with me, and come say how the hell!!
So today is 1/18/2019 and I am way over tired but life goes on so all this week i have been canning getting things put up so I dont have to actually cook or go food shopping unless it is for thing’s i can not can like coffee,eggs.milk etc. i have some pasta sauce to put up today so that will hold us over till later in the summer.Like i said i am tired today when I did get up i stepped on the dogs head….let me tell you about this goofy dog she is 3 years old and she is a westie but I swear i have the forest gump of dogs she pushed her sleeping mat all the way over to my bed then she goes to sleep but she does it in the middle of the night so it is dark well when i get up and put my feet down yup sure as the day is long i step on her head,then she has the nerve to look at me like Hey I was sleeping here……she also got a bath today so of course once she is out of the bath and fluffed she gets to running to the livingroom to shake the human off well she can’t stop so kablam right into the couch I know I am going to hell but it is to funny and I can not help but to laugh.
So let me tell you a little about lowell…Lowell was a big boot mill city there were shoe factories, and cookie factories, plastic factories and stocking factories and as a young teen i worked in them all except the cookie factory that one my dad worked in it was also a time where if for any reason you lost your job you could walk to the next factory and more times then not start right then but alway’s a job on every corner….speaking of “on every corner”yup you guessed it a dunkin donut’s. There is even a sandwich named after Lowell it is called a boot mill it is a english muffin, on this english muffin you put fried eggs,bacon,fried potatoes. cheese and lot’s of butter it was also a heart attack waiting to happen but it was delish. We also still have alot of those little trailer looking diners and a rotary and it wasn’t till years later that I wondered why in the hell they put one of them there to start with since people can’t drive in a straight line never mind adding circles not the brightest Idea of all but then again…….
so today being Sunday I thought I would also fill you in on a nick name i have had for years it’s lucy yes as in Ethel and Lucy all my friends were Ethel and I was Lucy always getting myself into some kind of jam, trouble or a mess Lord only knows how I have survived this long….see I dont process somethings like other people do my brain doesn’t work like that it kinda processes on a different level so sometimes it amazes me that I have walked this planet for so long and somethings are just beyond what my head can wrap around…here is a example I was working as a telemarkter a few years back and we had to wear headset’s but they were very padded and not very comfortable but as long as you are on the sales floor you had to wear them so i bought some “cookies” everyone was wearing them cause they padded your ears but didn’t interfere with your phone calls well one night it was slow and i was talking to one of the girls on the other side of my cubicle and she mentioned my earmuffs looks really soft and comfy i said they were and i was handing he my headset as the supervisor was coming threw he stopped and said Pat now what are you doing?( I was usually doing something even if it was wrong) i said nothing I am letting her feel my muffs well he started to laugh and i am standing there with this dumb founded look on my face like as to say what.then the second sup come’s by thinking there was a problem and he asks whats going on so I tell him i am letting her feel my muffs he starts to laugh and says put your headset on and sit down all in between fits of laughter with him and the other sup i said man you got some issues i sat don and got back to work well it was maybe a hour after i got home from work and was telling someone about it that they got to laughing and i said what is it with everyone tonight? she actually had to explain it to me cause i didn’t process it, so see always something even trivial but looking back on it is funny now but then i was mortified after having her explain it to me.
I have got really good kids I have 3, a daughter and 2 son’s all employed,1 raising a family and one I think is raising a zoo they have all kinds of animals lol (all 4 legged kind)but life wasn’t alway’s easy when your raising kids you have to worry about the little white lies we tell them and when things don’t go as planned how to explain without being a liar,I have always been truthful with my kids except for the little white lies like Santa clause and the tooth fairy but there is another little white lie I would tell my kids when things went wrong and didn’t want them to worry when the power got cut off I would tell them were on a adventure and I would teach them to play upwords or other board games by candle light or read to them at bedtime also by candle light they didn’t know the difference at least at that young age but i did have my older son come to me a few years back now that he is a father and a husband and say thank you for all the little white lie’s I understand now.Those are the most memorable moments in a mom’s life i guess when they finally get it.
Had the weirdest dream this afternoon I drempt my bother had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself and when i saw him he said come on I have to go see a guy at his house i said ok he said by the way i commited suicide the other day i said no you attempted it and remind me to kick your ass later(as we were getting on a horse) so we get to this guys house and its big and has servants ect. and we get split up cause my brother is trying to rob this guy so i get stuck in a hiding spot for which seems like hours and no idea where he is i have 2 cell phone but he never calls them the horse is being held hostage and I am stuck in a room hiding behind a chair and hoping no one can see me. finally someone spots me but she does take pity on me and helps me she gets the horse out of lockup and sneaks me out of the house to go but now i am lost because I know nothing of the town were in and no was of knowing how to get back and no help from my brother and since you can not ride a horse on the main roads i haven’t a clue well with a little help i finally get back to town and now i am so mad i go looking for my brother i find him and his wife in a hotel and i knock on the door and of course it is the wrong door so i finally find the right room his grand daughter lets me in and i am yelling at him you think this is funny? you left me stranded in a town i know nothing about you left me in jail and he said i knew i wouldn’t be able to help so i left you there to fend for your self what else could i do? i said yeah a lot of people wanted to help me fend for myself i was yelling and hitting him and woke myself up just really weirs since he is 70ish and can barely walk as it is never mind riding a horse just really strange
So today it is finally nice enough to venture outside and do some yard work really wanting to put a deck out since i burn leaves and yard waste anyway might as well be comfortable about it but was thinking it will be a good place to sit and play cards or hang out and have a few drinks by the bon fire. Started to rake and burn leaves today and it has been productive that’s for sure till i ran my battery dead since I listen to the cell phone that has a amazing play list i load it up in the car and send it threw the speakers but of course forgot to go back and let the car run so i killed the battery good thing the guy who lives in the wearhouse next to me was able to get me jump started.
Speaking of the guy next door his name is Nick and all i know of this guy other then he lives in a wearhouse that once housed equipment he was married 30 years and he and his ex wife are still friends his son came to visit today his son is 23 or 24 they seem to have a good relentionship his ex wife came along as well I know he has about 20 bags of trash that need empyting and he lives with rats that seem to live in the other half of the building also looks like he is gonna be here awhile since he just got a stove from a friend of his and that is what he has been using for heat.I brought him a dinner plate last night to introduce myself to him since he has been my neighbor for the past month and he seems to stay hidden but I figure he may need a hot home cooked meal by now so i brought him some ribs,baked beans and coleslaw I think he enjoyed it.
It is 5 in the evening and its still light out and I am tuck sitting out here at the fire pit since I have been burning leaves since this morning but not going to douse it with water and not going to go in till it burns down some more but i have my music and my laptop it is also relaxing sitting outside for a change since it has been so cold and some days wet you have no real choice but stay in the house so it is nice to be out. I am glad the nicer weather is finally getting here which means more outside activities,I got the leaves raked into a pile and this is what i have been burning all day also got some of the uneven ground leveled out so I can do a patio type sitting area,also got my planting containers ready well at least almost ready for planting when it is time I am hoping this year will be better then the last two years, the last two springs we were drowned with rain it washed all my planting away I was so disapointed but I am hoping this year will be better. This year I have decided to do something different for planting,I am going to use a plastic swimming pool instead of the smaller single containers I am thinking I can plant more, and the water will drain better in that then in the small ones since they fill so fast with water and don’t drain as fast this way the water will soak in and drain faster. (note to self get tiki torches for the sitting area)
Not sure what is going on with me here lately the past few days all I want to do is sleep, I get up stay up a hour or so then sleep about 4 hours get up and repeat for 2 days now I don’t like feeling this way because I dont know what’s wrong. went tot he neruo today he thinks i have a pinched ulner nerve he is going to get some tests run to see if that is what it is he does not believe I had a stroke and he doesn’t want me carring that label around with me if I did not have a stroke so time will tell
My life revisited 