Friday...

Friday night... nothing much to do but hang around... think I might...

:) Been a very long time since I heard that old song. Seems like nothing "conjures up" or brings the spirit [which ever one you're looking for] like music does. I'm half tempted to trot over there to my phonograph... dust off that vinyl LP and see if I can give 'er a spin. Sad thing is, last time I tried the turntable, it had a bit of a drag to it... shoulda been more diligent in switching over my collection to cassettes and now I guess I'd be looking at - what mp3 twinges?

Where the heck does the time go??? I was happy to finally focus in and get some stuff accomplished here today. Always feel so much better going into a weekend if the household has been swept and zoned and given a bit of polish - if possible. Hard, sometimes when EVERYTHING depends on you... then again, if you need something, why HEY!, it's in the last spot you had it... thats a benefit I dearly love. Stuff staying put. Seems like there were problems with that in years past when I was co-habitating with family, friends, roommates. Certain items just travel around a household of their own volition I think... like scissors, finger nail clippers, tweezers, your favorite writing pen... the remote controls for like everything... etc... there was a space in time when I would find my good water/drinking glasses outside folks! But, well ~ those were the "party" years... and my claim here is: "I DID NOT know it was a bad thing to invite people home - to your house, after the bar closed down..." My family just weren't big partiers... so I had figure a bunch of this stuff out on my own. Lame. I know but that's my story & I'm stickin' to that one!

I've been approached a couple of times here, lately, people wondering if I was gonna get a roommate - or if I would entertain the thought. .. .. and I can't help but entertain "certain-thoughts" sometimes, people... but I'm hedging on the roomie thing just now. I've had some dang good ones in the past (Alekx ~ for instance) and then some not so good... (you know who you are! Run up da bills and then runout on the rent... most likely with that Tommy Bolin LP I've been missing!!! Damn you! <- teasing. Actually think I "lost" that at the end of an art class I was supplying the tunes to once upon a time ago...) It might help with my COLE <-(Cost of living expenses) but there's always trade offs... gotta start shutting the bathroom door EVERYtime... can't just saunter around in the nude whenever you wanna... never know if "someone else" is gonna use up the ingredient you bought special - just for the pot luck dish you was fixin' on making and then not tell you about it until the situation's gone "critical"... !? Hate that.

Love my Peace & Quite. Hard to give up solitude when you've gotten REALLY comfortable in it. I realize some never do... there's people 'out there' that feel like they have to have someone ~ or they will surely DIE. I guess those folks wouldn't have any idea of what I'm talking about or feeling. .. ... it's not isolation that I'm talking about, I think isolation is a bad, bad deal. . . it's sweet solitude... I've heard a saying one time that basically said that "it is in solitude that we are least alone"... ok. You think that's screwed up. I heard you LOL. FINE! Be that way... but I must confess I understood that to be a truth. And, now, as I'm writing this... I'm wondering if one can achieve "solitude" with two? Hummm. Got something to think about over my weekend... along with principals of good stewardship...(giving a talk to some young women next Wednesday) and the gifts of the spirit which will be the Sunday School lesson coming up. Hope everyone is poised to have a wonderful week's end!!!! Love to all who pass this way & cheerios2U!