~OLD SMOLD~

I was listening to Brooke Benton..What a voice.. I love his songs.. You know.. -- because your 60,70, 80..do you HAVE to be OLD ? I had a dear friend tell me "Lois, I'm 70 years OLD",can't you be 70 years YOUNG? I refuse to get old... I'm sorry..I get SO mad when someone refers to anyone over 50 as OLD. I beg to differ. NO NUMBER is OLD.. not if you don't let it be...Its HOW you feel. you can feel bad physically, but no matter WHAT number you are age wise, well that doesn't mean anything... I tell myself and every one, how do I know they didn't lie on my birth certificate? well? HEY.. I feel like someone is playing a real joke on me here..well.. something is seeing how much ribbing I'll take..keeps poking at me..well..how do I know that number that says when I was supposedly born TRUE??? :-) well that's MY story anyway... I REFUSE TO GET OLD...and if someone , anyone has a problem with that..well..all I can say is its YOUR problem lol..I like me..and I aint OLD..I NEVER will be.. NOPE..nahhh..not me..My body may age but me? noooo THAT day will never come..These invisible feet will keep right on dancing to the MUSIC...so OK..ummm who wants to dance with me? :-D ... Go to JD Crooners on the net.. listen to some of the wonderful oldies there...Some great songs. I go there all the time and listen to everything there ..there is a song for every mood that could possibly enter your mind...some thing to cry with you or make your feet just do a happy dance- whether you have feet or not.. :-) But anyway- who made the rule that a certain number you reach you have to be considered old? That's like saying because those of us living in a chair- we are called DISABLED..Ummm EXCUSE ME??? no.. I am NOT DISABLED.. I am STILL VERY ABLE.. Im just shorter now.. thats all.. My legs just shrunk on me and I have to see things from a different angle..well..LOWER..and Thats ok..well..its very nice if you sit if you converse with someone in a chair..thats just courtesy..Consider the crink in the neck for the person in the chair looking up, so I DO hope you would do that.. But I am NOT disabled OR O-L-D. I wont be Im sorry and If that is how you see me..then clean your glasses ok hon? lol...:-) I KNOW, and thats who's opinion really matters isn't it? I, me, myself, KNOW .. I am NOT OLD or DISABLED..and I am GORGEOUS ...so..NOW ---that THAT record is straight... YOU KNOW TOO :-D now, we ALL AGREE on that YES??? lol... Raelynn was here today and we are all squeaky clean. She is so nice, and does good work. My apartment looks really nice. I got so tired before she left I had to lay down. I fell asleep last night about 6:30, woke at 11 pm and stayed up until 6 am then back to bed till 10am...I was tired by noon..I had NO choice but to lay it down and went instantly asleep, I didn't even hear Raelynn leave, the phone rang at 4:30 a little while ago and woke me. By the time I scooted into my chair and to the phone, it was in the dining room, who ever called had hung up..If you call .... Please let it ring more than 4 times ok? Sometimes takes me a while to move..There is nothing worse than hurrying to get into a chair trying to hurry so you can answer the phone.. ok? lol..Well, I hate to miss a phone call..and today is usually the day my friend in Australia phones.. and what a sweet dear man he is.. Hes so nice..and to hear his wonderful accent..I thoroughly enjoy his calls... He lives in a hostel? like a nursing home except he has a private room which is so nice.. Here I think they deliberately have 2 to a room just so they can have 2 people in them that are NOT suited to be together.. Thats what they did to me.. I Had to share a room with another patient..If the other bed in my room came empty,, They would always put someone there even if there were 4 others open..And Usually the person they put in with me was someone that required total care or was bed bound, and had to be tended to all during the night. It was how they did me there. They had NO regard for my feelings at all..They wanted me out of that nursing home as badly as I wanted to go..but I wasn't capable of taking full care of myself..and I had NO where to go.. I got called into meetings ..hmmm 3 times I can think of where they asked me, " perhaps you would be more comfortable at another facility, more people your own age or food you would like better". That is what they would tell me...They hated the fact that as I did improve mentally I SAW what went on there and how so many residents', as we were called, were mistreated and I told.. ANY ONE that would listen..Usually I would go to a family member and tell them..Watch your mom or dad- things arent right here... 2 'residents' I know were taken out of there by their familys and moved and I think probably just in time...It was NOT a good place and I cant go back there.. I tried once, I got a ride, was taken out of the van, pushed thru the first doors and I could NOT go past the 2nd set into the facility..I KNEW what was past those doors and I just could NOT go thru them..I had to catch the driver, so he didn't leave and come back in the scheduled 2 hrs.I had to leave. THATS the effect that place has on me. I get almost sick thinking that I would ever possibly have to go back there. If I got alot worse, and couldnt live alone, I would have NO choice but to be sent back to that place, where I KNOW I would surely die..and within a short time I bet...its a horrible place.. Since I didn't eat all day, I am a bit hungry, I don't know what I want..I am just plain lazy today..No, just so tired.. I guess I go in spurts of energy and then just go go go and wear myself OUT, and then it takes then a couple days to get my energy built back up...Tomorrow will be a better day..so..kitchen, here I come...food search time...Hope your dinner was good.. and your supper good and in a few minutes I'll be good too...So until tomorrow..Nitey Nite.... :-) Y'all have a good one now y'hear? Luv ya, and thanks.. Always, Lois **** May God Bless you today, I'm so honored to call you friend, I pray the Lord will keep you safe, Until I write again...