Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Birthday 2015

Had a fantastic 69th!  Our land lady hosted a wonderful dinner at the Millennium Hotel.  We ordered and everything was happy happy then all of sudden the fire alarms began barring.  (This a beautiful Hotel and it has many rooms and suites.)

Over the many years we have experienced these fire alarms at the Millennium!  We stand up and begin our exit along with the other dinners as well as chefs, table attendants and staff.  Gail, Karen Baughn's sister said:  "Im not believing this and she picked up her plate of food, her glass of wine and carried it outside of the Hotel!!!

The fire brigade arrived in all it's thrilling colors and fan fare...  hoses laid out everywhere, people rushing in and out.  We are laughing and enjoying the entire drama only to discover the end result was someone had left a coffee maker on in a room and it had began to give off smoke!  WTH!  I say then purchase coffee makers like we do at home that shut off automatically.  UGH!

We all strolled back to our table and enjoyed a delicious dinner.  Scrumptious steaks, gorgeous vegetable, delicious wines and for dessert:  our neighbor Claire is a wonderful cake maker.  Yep, she baked a decadent chocolate cake!  After the cake I did sit at the grand piano and played two melodies.   The Bach Prelude Number 1 from the WTC and of all things MISTY filtered through my mind.  It was a great night and a complete surprise!

Today has been cold but beautiful skies.  I have struggled getting my printer, computer stuff all working in sync...  the guy that usually fixes me never called back after I left numerous messages.  I went on line did a Google and found a great guy THE COMPUTER PROFESSOR.  He arrived before 2:00 PM and has me up and running except for the I CLOUD SITUATION...  because of Dave I am writing this blog!  Yep, he figured out the two different addresses I had used logging in to my blog.  OMG life is so difficult and confusing.

I am writing the book.  It is painful.  It is difficult.  It is not what I had thought it would be.  I have to write the first draft then my editor, angel will check things out and make some drastic changes.  This may take into next year to complete.  I could never ever had attempted this even three years ago.  I only want the truth because the truth is by far more intense than fiction.  Probably most fiction is based on true stories?

The years of writing this blog will help me to remember when and where.  How and WHY?  I simply wish I did not have arthritis, CPOD, and a few other diseases that aging ignites within one's DNA!
I thank my lucky stars for this blesses time to chill and breath at sea level.