Mikiesboy

This is a bit of a head spinner ... at least for me, today. Cuz right now life isn't easy.. breathing isn't

yes .. me too. It can mean making some hard choices about what is good for you.

Something lots of us struggle with ... but in this world, in this only single life we have ... make time to show love for yourself. You cannot be good for others without loving you first.

Happy Tuesday.. i think.. yes, it's tuesday

i hear you ... we're in different imperfect countries.. but reading and hearing about what's happening in the usa right now.. well, it makes me sad. i just don't understand the fear and hatred we hear of. Not that we dont have some of it here but it seems different in a way. We have a lot to work through as well. xoxo

Happy 4th of July

The world is filled with many kinds of families, isn't it? This story is very old .. you've been digging into my historical works! It's among the first stories i'd ever written. It kind of makes me cringe but history is there to remind and teach us, so i leave the old things up untouched or changed for that reason. Thanks for reading this and for your kind comments. tim

The first 3 ... are they though? Maybe i'm just bad at making choices, which is why Michael makes most of mine. He's pretty good at it.

Thanks rick .. just at home today.. it may rain from the looks of it.. making a quiche atm. You have a great day too!

Thanks chris! Just a regular day here... likely fireworks tonight

This one seems to say the same thing as yesterday

it was wonderful today ... really did not feel well the on Sunday. All the windows are open here but it's harder to cool down the apartment than a house it seems. July can stay away...lol Thank you, it was really nice to go out. Peter (nephew) and Jess (the boyfriend) have been together going on two years now. They don't live together but they are talking about it. Peter wants to soon but Jess wants to pay off student loans before doing that. We'll see what they decide. Just nice to see how good they are together and how happy. Hope you are doing well, Reader .. xxoo

People are the worst. We offer a really good chat bot, but rather than use it, people rather wait to chat with us and ask if we are human. I swear, chimps use tools more effectively. Sigh.

Hope you all are well. It's mercifully cool today and tonight. We went out for dinner with our nephew Peter and his boyfriend. We had a nice time along with mussels, fish and shrimp ... we stuffed down lots of good food. This is the second dinner we've gone out for since lockdown started. Wow, hard to believe. It was nice though.

Lovely .. sweet and genuine. And syllables don't matter ... I really like this as it stands.

Happy whatever day it is...

it is ... for some of us lucky so and so's!!

That's how i feel about our new Federal government requirement that we formally report each and every complaint we get. We then have to follow up over the next 14 days and try to resolve the complaint and close it before its automatically sent on to the next level. On chat it takes nearly an hour to fill out the form, write back and forth to the customer etc ... i get it but lots of people are waiting while we do this ... it's crazy. But it is not my circus ...

Happy Saturday (Sunday for me) i've been watching some LGBT+ films recently. One i'd put off for a while, until Prime poked me in the ribs and said "This one is leaving soon!" So, i watched Milk yesterday. It wasn't easy to watch. But during Pride month, it was a good thing. i don't know a lot (enough) about our history, the fight to get to where we are now. Pride should remind us, as Remembrance Day does for our war dead, ... lest we forget those who fought, walked, wrote, marched, protested and died for Gay Rights. The film was good and spurred me to read more about Harvey Milk. I also watched, A Single Man. It was well written and acted. A Gay man suddenly left behind when his partner is killed in an accident while away from home. Told by his partner's family, the service was for family only. He cannot see a future and plans his suicide. It's a Tom Ford film, starring Colin Firth, based on the Christopher Isherwood book, A Single Man. Not yesterday, but recently, I also watched, Uncle Frank. Paul Bettany stars in this film about a man who takes a road trip back home with his niece, when his father dies. His long time partner is left home, but ends up joining the pair anyway. It's a coming-out story, a story of love, fear, understanding and acceptance. It's sort of been done before, but this was well done and both funny and sweet. i enjoyed it. Well, i hadn't planned to write film reviews today. But there you are.

Someone said, "I just want you to be happy, tim." He's a sweet man. A friend. i thought about what he said. Happy. What is that? I'm not unhappy all of the time. Sometimes i am. Suppose everyone is. Most of the time i am aware of the hollowness in my chest. It sits next to my heart and i wonder about the ache and emptiness there. It feels like a hole or entrance to the past. i fight to find and to shut that door, but it never truly closes. I don't believe in happiness. There are moments of laughter, or a good day or night. But a day never passes where i don't think of the life i lived and cannot leave behind me. How do i just forget the first 20 something years of my life? Didn't it make me who i am now? What would i be without it? Chop it off, like a rotten limb? Just put the past behind you. So far, no one has been able to show me how that magic trick is done. Ain't gonna happen. Deal with it. There seems to be a need or drive to 'be happy'. To live a happy life, to find happiness. Is it a state of mind? Can we learn it? Maybe some have. i never will, but i'm not sad all the time. i'm not unhappy. i laugh with my Husband. He's a very funny guy. i like talking to my friends, and family. i love to laugh. Mostly, i'm content. For me, looking at where i came from, and where i got to ... That's enough.

There are many things to be free of ... all of them help us breathe.

Hope everyone is doing okay. I was away sick for a bit, but i'm back. Missed a couple of days work but went back today. Our first visit to the office will happen sometime in the next month, the boss said today. Kinda freaky thinking about seeing other people after so long, but i think it will be nice. i hope everyone is hanging in there. We are supposed to get a few days of hot weather coming up, so we'll get ready for that by eating lots of salads and lighter things. I may bake a spinach pie early one morning, along with a crustless quiche. That'll be good for a few days along with salad and fruit. You all keep on hanging in.

Hope you all have a nice Friday!