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wasted days and wasted nights you re to blame for making me blue home reading lists reviews wasted days and wasted nights you re to blame for making me blue feeds posts comments too wintery march 19 2025 by corina this has been a very l o n g winter it seems like the weather turned in september to the point where i had to have my space heaters running every day all day and the rain like non stop except for about a week this whole time spring i have been waiting for it and waiting and waiting usually the first sign that it s really going to be spring within a few days is the emergence of crocuses i have them planted in my yard i ve been watching not every day because it s too cold and wet to go outdoors every day and i don t have the right view from my window but i ve kept an eye out for them yesterday i spotted what i thought was trash in my yard a few pieces of white paper crumbled up i went to pick them up but wait it wasn t trash it wasn t paper what was it my crocuses laying flat on the ground and falling apart they hadn t been there the day before why on the ground because it s too wet their poor stems were water logged and couldn t hold up the heavy with rain petals now that s sad and the weather guy says we re in for at least ten more days of cold wet weather where s my spring from a dryer year posted in life tagged pnw rain spring weather leave a comment wordless wednesday 3 19 23 march 19 2025 by corina posted in life tagged wordlesswednesday leave a comment wordless wednesday 2 12 25 february 12 2025 by corina posted in life tagged wordless wednesday leave a comment driving two february 11 2025 by corina what keeps me from driving these days well there are a few things first there aren t enough finances to take many trips even trips three hours away to visit the other grandkids it s gas and car maintenance and lodging and incidentals no money no trips then there s the issue of my car being old and not in the best condition anymore it s a 2010 so it s a fifteen year old car poorly maintained because of finances i don t always have the best tires or the best brakes and up until about ten months ago the battery was so bad that i never knew if it was going to start or not that kept me from going any place where i would have to shut off the engine for fear it wouldn t start again two years ago while watching the vancouver grandkids while daughter 1 was out of the country i had a series of unfortunate car issues that left me very wary of driving any place without warning the car refused to start when i went to pick up my grandson at his school for a doctor s appointment it was fine it had been fine then when we came out of the school office it wouldn t start it wouldn t let me lock it there was absolutely no power to it even aaa couldn t start it it had to be towed because i had no money it was towed to my daughter s house so we could figure it all out later i ended up needing to drive my daughter s car in the interim the very first morning there was a flat tire i inflated it and we used the car for a couple of days including a trip to another town where my daughter had booked a weekend at a hotel the kids like it was sort of a consolation for them having to stay at home while she went out of the country the car was fine then that monday the battery was dead another call to aaa later while the kids were at school i drove the half hour home to check mail an pick up some things i needed for the next week until they returned on the way home while crossing the bridge between oregon and washington i the car started to make noise i couldn t figure out what it was then it hit me it was one of the tires and i figured it was the rear passenger side that had been flat the week before i had no choice but to keep going as there is no shoulder or pull out area on the bridge i slowed down as much as it was safe to do so my daughter s exit is just about two miles past the bridge i wanted to make it off of the freeway so i proceeded slowly and carefully until there was a jolt and i saw my tire fly out and in front of the car and across four freeway lanes when aaa came i wanted them to tow the car i was shaking and crying it had been one of the scariest experiences in a long time but the tow driver just put the spare on for me so i could drive to my daughter s after that i was done i let the kids go to school on the bus and come back on the bus i went nowhere when my daughter returned her boyfriend got my car started and i went home and stayed there for a couple of weeks without leaving the house posted in life tagged car woes driving leave a comment driving one february 11 2025 by corina i m old that s old news i used to do so many things that have been left far behind with all the years behind me some of it i don t miss but some i do and some of it has brought side effects along with the things left behind me i used to love driving i would welcome the opportunity to drive whenever possible a one thousand mile trip no problem fifteen hundred miles i d jump in the car i loved it driving with my kids driving alone i loved it all now i think twice then again before driving the twenty five miles from my house to my daughter s even shorter trips make me think twice about going out and the timing of any excursion be it long or short sometimes i don t leave the house for weeks at a time two weeks three weeks then there is the weather i won t drive in the rain if i can help it and because i live in the very rainy pacific northwest that limits me quite a bit and snow i won t l drive in snow we get some of that each winter fog nope not doing that either it all keeps me from doing so much no traveling no visiting friends or family i don t even drive across town to experience some of the things i loved to see it has been nine years since i drove the thirty six miles to see multnomah falls and it has been about ten years since i have been to the rose garden which is only sixteen miles away from me i m at home all the time or at my daughter s house with the grandkids that s fine but i miss the little trips and even the long ones my daughter used to take me places with her and the kids but now that she is a family with the three kids and her boyfriend i m left behind because the car fits only the five of them we have in the past taken two cars with me driving my car with one or two of the kids keeping me company and following behind my daughter s car but we haven t done that in a long time i think the last time was a weekend trip to the beach about eight years ago that was a bit further about ninety five miles from home this adds to depression which i am no stranger to it adds to the isolation that so many senior citizens experience yes i m old i m adjusting to the changes but i miss so much that i can no longer do posted in life tagged depression driving getting old isolation 4 comments confidential february 6 2025 by corina a book i read the other day glamorous notions by megan chance it is set mostly in the hollywood area and the fashion of the late 40s the main character mentioned confidential and photoplay two hollywood gossip magazines popular during the novel s time period and into the 70s and 80s i was taken back to my childhood with memories of my mom she read both those magazines i remember her buying them if there was enough money after getting groceries she read a lot but during my childhood it was magazines that she read confidential photoplay true confessions and true story are the ones that she bought i remember sneaking an issue of true story when i was in middle school i took it into the bathroom and read a story with the shower running so no one would discover that i was reading the story i read was definitely not appropriate for a tween i finished the story jumped into the shower then when i came out i quickly placed the magazine back to where i had taken it from i never tried to read one of her magazines after that posted in life tagged hollywood magazines of the past memoir 1 comment wordless wednesday 1 29 25 january 29 2025 by corina posted in life tagged pnw wordlesswednesday leave a comment santa barbara 2 january 26 2025 by corina part 1 she got off the bus with her things and he followed her did they get married right away we don t really know they have implied that they did some say they didn t get married then and some say they never got married that was back in 1948 and one had to figure that they probably would not have been allowed to marry without parental permission at least she wouldn t because she was only 16 they didn t have permission and they weren t going to give their names to anyone in case her parents were looking for her they didn t know anyone in the area that could post as their parents in fact they didn t know anyone anywhere near there for many years she spoke about santa barbara with much affection it described it as a beautiful place with spanish style buildings and trees and the ocean every time i traveled to it through santa barbara i would think about my mom and about how much she loved it there and always wanted to go back yeah they were my parents and he had sort of been right because they ended up with 7 children just about enough for a bus posted in life tagged family_stories santa barbara leave a comment wordless wednesday 1 22 25 january 22 2025 by corina posted in life tagged wordlesswednesday around town photo leave a comment they say january 21 2025 by corina once upon a time isn t that how stories are supposed to start that s what they say but wait who is they and why should i listen to them then the same they also say that your opening sentence your very first sentence has to grab your reader and not let them put the story away until it s finished i actually agree that the writer has to grab the reader s attention right off that s how you get them to read your story and not drop it for another however that s usually a really tough thing to do it s something that doesn t usually happen in the first draft or even after an edit or two the other day i was listening to an article or maybe it was a podcast i do that a lot these days listen to articles read to me through a text to speech app because my vision is failing and my eyes hurt so much i was listening to something about people turning family stories into novels i ve always wanted to do that i just struggle with where to start at the beginning whose beginning mine my parents i used to write a lot of memoir pieces but i haven t written anything in a long time it used to be that i was reluctant to tell some of the stories because there was always someone that got upset about how they are portrayed or with which facts we re presented with most everyone gone from my family now i imagine it should be easier i m now the oldest in my family my parents are gone four of my six siblings are gone many of the stories have now died with them and many more will die with me unless i tell them 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