Covid-19

My first Pandemic. 

I am old enough to have experienced a lot in my life.

• The Cold war.
• VietNam war
• Assassinated President
• I have lived through all kinds of killer flu's.
• Killer bees
• The Great Northeast Black Out
• Many End of the world predictions
• Cancer causing food (not cranberry sauce!)
• HIV.
• Hurricane Katrina
• Oil spill

Now the Covid-19.

It is scary, schools closed, restictions on just about everything else. 

Toilet paper is hard to find, some foods. People are panic buying. 

My first scare, although being young at the time I did not realize how scared I should have been, was Polio.

Polio infected kids in the early 1900's. In the summer kids would get sick and some  had to go into the hospital. A neighbor 3 houses down, had polio in her leg. She wore a brace and the polio leg was skinny. She had to buy 2 pairs of shoes because her good leg/foot was a size 6 but the polio foot was a 4. 

My father in law had polio in his arm. He said he spent a year in the hospital. 

Some kids had to live in an iron lung. How terrible to live your whole life in that.

So in the 1950s there was another bad outbreak of polio.  I was lucky, a vaccine came out. Dr.Salk discovered it and became a hero.

I remember  we had to line up in the hall at school and put a sugar cube in our mouth that had medicine on it. We had to stand there in front of the nurse when we did it and show her our opened mouth, that it was all gone.

That was...1957-59...or both. I think we had to have it done a few times.

With this New virus, at least children are not the main subject of attack. It's the old people with chest problems that need to be careful.  

So we need to stay calm and carry on with common sense and in a few months it should be mostly gone. *fingers crossed*          

The flu

It's been about 13 years since I last had the flu. I was in NY.  I went to the doctor because I had an UTI and found out I had the flu. 

Liam had the flu and we all had tamiflu but I caught the flu. I week later I went to the doctor because I thought I was getting an UTI, but it was a bladder infection.

It is 9 days later. I stopped my cough pills and the mucinex I was taking with it. I just felt it was not working and I felt awful, so was just taking my bladder pills. I still feel crappy, and I think its the pills but I won't stop taking them. I don't want the infection to come back.

So, another thing about getting older. It takes you A LOT longer to get better if you are sick or if you pull a muscle etc.  That is hard to get used to. 

Although I am feeling much better, I am tired and use up my energy pretty fast.  I can only do a little work round the house and I am done. I need to rest and a nap is always around the corner. Very frustrating. 

The first time I had the flu I caught if from my daughter in the late 70s or early 80s. 
I didn't think a person could feel so sick! 

Anyway, I am getting better...just not fast enough for me. 

Star Trek

The  post about favorite movies  got me thinking about, this TV show.

Star Trek aired on Sept. 8th, 1966, when I was 15 years old.

I just LOVED it!  I wished I lived in the future where I could travel to distant places on a star ship! 

They had amazing technologies.  They could just scan the body to find out what was wrong with it. They would give medication with some kind of air shot.  They could communicate using these little hand held things AND beam up and down from the ship! 

Except for the last thing, we have all these technologies now. 

I will tell you what impressed me the most when I watched this show. 
People would walk towards a door....and.....it would...open by itself! and close after you went through it!! 

Your thinking...really? Everything they showed and this impressed you? Yep.

Just think what it was like back in the 60s and earlier and later going into and out of a store. Especially a grocery store.  You carry out your grocery bags (brown paper bags, no plastic back then) and with your arms full, try to open and close the door.  
Or you have your shopping cart, you have to open and shut the door  wheeling that thing.  You get lucky sometimes if someone is coming in or out the same time that will hold the door for you. 

It was many years later, when I was walking up a door, that opened for me, that it dawned on me....the future is here!  

Movies I like

For some odd reason I have been thinking about an old Christmas movie the last few weeks.  I did get to see it last holiday season and it was the first time in years.  So here are a few of my favorites in no particular order.

The movie I was just talking about is, The Bishop's Wife.  I always feel warm and fuzzy after watching this movie.  It has Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Nevin, what a cast!   It is a holiday favorite along with A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, made the year I was born.   I have to put in A Christmas Story, Although this movie is set in a time even before I was born, it brings up a lot of memories of the past.  You either love or hate this movie, my sister Barbara hated it.

I saw this movie in the movie Theater in 1963, I was 12. My mother and sister Peggy took me.  Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor.  I guess I have always found ancient civilizations interesting. This movie was wonderful to see on the big screen!  It was awesome, all the colors and the music and enormous sets! I may have seen it again when it came on TV.

Another favorite is Men in Black, a fun, weird movie.  There were sequels but the first is always the best.

Star Wars, talk about expanding your mind! The movie was funny and thrilling, it opened up your brain to all kinds of possibilities! I've watched a few sequels after this one but the first was the best.


I do like a good scary movie. Many Stephen King Movies. I have always liked his books better than his movies, here are a few I did like. The Shining goes to the top of the list. Carrie, Christine, Cujo, Pet Cematary  I also like his,  Shawshank Redemption and Misery 

Goodfellas, hands down, one of the best movies ever made.  I've watched it many times along with this movie,  The Godfather, excellent. 

This is an oldie that my mother loved, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It reminds me of the Bronx. Another warm fuzzy movie. 

So, I see I can go on and and on. I didn't realize how many movies I liked and I can still add more. 

Emptier nest

So, the granddaughter, the only granddaughter, had the nerve to up and marry and move out.  Her older brother moved out, but that was for college and then he got an apt.  near the school with his girlfriend. He kinda snuck into his new life style. 

The first day she was gone, I was pretty upset.  I would glance out across the street to find an empty spot where her car would be.  Not hearing her bedroom door open and close.  sigh

But I am fine today.  I don't like change, so I need a period of time to adjust to it, thankgoodness I usually don't need a lot of time.
I am excited for her and she is excited to be on her new adventure with the person she loves. 

We have Liam home and I hope he does not want to flee the nest for sometime.  I can't have too many changes close together.  :)  

I don't have newer pictures of them on my laptop, yet.  

Moving away...

 

So, the Granddaughter that had the nerve to get married and go to the next state west of us,  is now moving 4 states away east of us.  She is now in a different time zone than us. sigh

This would have been a very rough day but we like her wife and we know they are very happy together and will take care of each other.  So instead, this was just a rough day.  It is not easy when the birds leave the nest.  

Yesterday wasn't easy, but today is better. I know we will all relax once they are in their new apartment today.  I hope their apartment and jobs are all they hoped for. 

It's a great new adventure for both of them. 

...and Tater. 

xoxox

Lucky 7

Today I am 69.  It is hard to believe.  I am now older than my dad.  He died 3 weeks before his 69th.

I never  thought I would live this long. I think a lot of people say stuff like that because when they are young, they can't picture themselves old.....

Do I have any words of wisdom at this ripe old age?  Not really.

Listen to your heart and your head. Follow your INTUITION. It will not lie to you.  That's it. 💗

What I learned as an old lady.

I don't care what I look like as long as my hair is short. 
After spending most of my life with long hair, I used to see old women with really short hair and I would think...don't they care what they look like? They have a man haircut! Geez!  

The answer is no, they don't care and they don't care what you think. Comfort and ease is NO.1 when you get older. 

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I used to think..you get older you stop tweezing your eyebrows? Don't you care what you look like??
Again, the answer is no. 
And tweezing the gray/white hairs HURTS. I don't know why it HURTS, but it does. Do they have deeper roots or something? I have no clue but I am not as diligent about tweezing  as I used to because it hurts. 
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I don't care what the shoes look like as long as they are comfortable, that goes for shirts, pants and anything else that goes on the body.
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At this age, I am sick of all the bullshit. I don't watch much news. If I have it on, I will shut the volume off till a story comes on I want to hear about.

I am happy staying home, doing my little routine around the house, wearing my comfy clothes, playing with stuff in my room, watching tv and/or all snuggly  in bed with a movie. 

I can do this thanks to my daughter and son-in-law.  I am lucky. 

When I was wild...😂

P.S. A bit of advice my mother gave me. Grow old with dignity. 

You know, don't be one of those women who dress like a 20/30 year old. Lots of make-up will not make you look younger. Oh yeah no one can tell your hair is dyed and you don't have even one little strand of gray/white in your head.

It is another phase of your life.  Learn from it.