Posted 12:28 PM by Bonnie

Princess LingLing the brave or incredibly stupid! LingLing is our little Balinese cat who weighs all of about 5 pounds. She has recently taken up a game that could be very dangerous for the little devil. I have two places I sit in the living room. One is a wingback chair and the other the love seat. Well, when I sit my glass of water on the table by the wingback chair and come back to sit, I find LingLing has taken up post and looks at me like she's daring me to move her. I say that's okay, I'll sit on the loveseat. So, as I am sitting she jumps from the chair to the loveseat and plops herself just where I am about to sit. Now, I am still over 200 pounds! So she is just lucky I have good reflexes and stop before squashing her. The game doesn't end there, though! Oh no! As I move to the chair she moves back to the chair... okay, now we have to determine who is boss... so I quickly sit on the loveseat and let her have the chair. There I showed her!!

Posted 11:45 AM by Bonnie

Mr. Fuzz - he's the boss! Two four cats, Mr. Fuzz and The Bug like to go outside. We live in an apt. complex, and thank goodness they don't go far and are easy to get back inside. I have, however, been concerned because there are other animals around here - dogs in particular. Today, Mr. Fuzz and The Bug were outside and I was taking out the trash when a midsize dog came up and trapped Mr. Fuzz under a chair - Bug went up a tree. The dog barked and put his face under the chair as if to bite Mr. Fuzz and I was ready to jump to the rescue, but no need! Mr. Fuzz stood up, arched his back, puffed up his hair to double his size and lashed out across that dogs face so fast that poor dog didn't know what hit him. He ran and Mr. Fuzz chased him, with the dog howling all the way, until Mr. Fuzz felt he had done his job. He sauntered back home and sat on the couch outside as if to say, "I'm the boss here!"

Posted 7:30 AM by Bonnie

And God Created? I had a great dream in which I was writing a new book on the bible and I am just hoping I can get it here as good as it was in the dream. My preface: We all know now that book was written by homophobic mysgonists, but since homosexuals and powerful women have existed from the beginning of time it is my humble opinion that life on earth began much differently. It is my humble opinion that men feared the intellect and power of women and wrote books to make them believe their god had made them the ruler of women, when in fact this god created woman to be his equal. And also this god created the unions of all types.

In the beginning god created man and woman, and man and man, and woman and woman. Each were placed in separate gardens of eden and given a simple command to see which set would be most faithful to the wishes of their god. They were each told there was a tree that held the fruit of knowledge and if eaten they would have all the wisdom and knowledge of the world.

The man and woman relationship was not going well, as man feared if the woman realized she was his equal she would not do his bidding. He tried to humble her and enslave her, so woman decided to attend a college that was male only to prove her intellectual equality to man (or in this case to eat from the tree of knowledge). When the man realized what the woman was about to do he grabbed the opportunity from her and ate the entire fruit of knowledge himself until he choked on it. But even just the small piece of the fruit the woman got was enough to let her realize she was this mans equal and not his underling.

In the garden of man and man there was no such problem as each knew they were equal to the other and they spent their days keeping the garden neat and clean and making nutrious meals for each other. Even they could not resist using the fruit of knowledge in their meals and each gained in strength and wisdom and knowledge each time they partook of the dishes made with this fruit..

In the garden of woman and woman there was no arguing over who would get the fruit of knowledge as each wanted the other to enjoy the fruits of their labor and they divided the fruit and shared the knowledge. The women spent their days learning and their nights loving.

When god looked down and saw what had happened he banned all from their gardens of Eden, but deamed each relationship good and decided to not eliminate any of the partnerships created, but to give them all equal reign over the earth.

(That's as far as I got when I woke up, but it was so powerful in my dream I had to write it and maybe, just maybe I am meant to research and write this book or at least an article to whet the appetite).

Posted 8:14 PM by Bonnie

Our Gay Cats: And no I don't mean happy cats, although I have to say our cats are probably among the happiest cats around. But, yes, we do have to gay cats. Sir Percival and The Bug are in love. They eat together, they snuggle together and even groom each other. Now, before Percy arrived I think The Bug was pretty straight, but I couldn't swear to it. I blame one of my scrabble buddies Helen for this situation. I wanted to name Percival something manly since he is such a big fluffy cat, but she thought Percival was perfect for a Persian and my husband agreed. Percival became Percy and Percy thought... hmmmm.... with a name like that I must be gay and next thing we new it was Percy and The Bug. I wonder if we should let them get married?

Posted 12:18 PM by Bonnie

Only in Sumter, SC: My husband, Keith, had an appt. Monday, April 10 to have the holter monitor back on and then a follow up visit this friday, with the cardiologist to discuss the results. When we got up Monday he said he was going to call because no one had called to remind us of the appt. I figured it was because Friday, when they would have called was Good Friday. But he called and the receptionist told him, oh, that appointment had been cancelled, but he had an appt. for Friday also. He told her the appt for Friday made no sense if he didn't come in Monday to have the holter monitor put on and asked why it had been cancelled. She had no idea, so he told her to check with the doctor and find out what was going on. Well, today, I get home and find a message on the machine from the receptionist stating in a very beligerent voice that he needed to have the holter monitor on before he saw the doctor Friday so he HAD TO COME IN WEDNESDAY AT 11:15. Not, we're sorry we screwed up and cancelled the appt. you had made that fit in with your day off and we're sorry to inconvenience you now while we try to correct our error... nope! a command performance. As my husband said, if this wasn't necessary he would call and cancel, but he does have to have it done, so he will go Wed. Only in Sumter would someone have the audacity to act like that after they totally screwed up! Ya gotta love the south!

Posted 12:12 PM by Bonnie

Happy Belated Easter! I hope everyone had as much fun as we did! What a great weekend! Sunday we had Easter dinner at our place, with two of the other professors from Morris. Cynthia May (she may or may not) the biology prof and Anne (known as Dr. O) the other math teacher. So many different beliefs and such interesting people and conversation. Anne, is Orthodox and she had been to mass in Columbia, from midnight to 4 a.m. and after their service they have the blessing of the food. They have fasted so some length of time and all bring baskets to share and they also have special blessed bread they can share with unOrthodox people, so she brought us each some of the food and especially the bread. Cynthia, made the cutest rabbit carrot cake. She had a mother rabbit with two babies nursing on her and a father rabbit cake.

Monday, Cynthia came back to borrow a movie she wanted to use in one of her classes and I had a roast on, so invited her to stay. While the roast was cooking and she was hunting for video she put all the tapes in Keith's office in alphabetical order! Something I have attempted but gave up on. We all enjoyed the roast with left overs from Sunday and finished off the carrot cake! All in all it was one of the nicest Easter's I've had since arriving here. The others have been fun, but for some reason this one was so relaxing and enjoyable.

So, as I said.... I hope everyone else got to enjoy the weekend as much as we did.

Posted 2:51 PM by Bonnie

Janis Ian turned 53 yesterday and for some reason it really made me realize how much of my life is past. I remember when her son AT SEVENTEEN hit the charts and what an impact it had on me, my music, and the music world itself. Happy Birthday Janis and here's to all of us who related to you and your song......


AT SEVENTEEN
(Janis Ian)

I LEARNED THE TRUTH AT SEVENTEEN
THAT LOVE WAS MEANT FOR BEAUTY QUEENS
AND HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WITH CLEAR SKINNED SMILES
WHO MARRIED YOUNG AND THEN RETIRED
THE VALENTINES I NEVER KNEW
THE FRIDAY NIGHT CHARADES OF YOUTH
WERE SPENT ON ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL
AT SEVENTEEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH

AND THOSE OF US WITH RAVAGED FACES
LACKING IN THE SOCIAL GRACES
DESPERATELY REMAINED AT HOME
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
WHO CALLED TO SAY - COME DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMURED VAGUE OBSCENITIES
IT ISN'T ALL IT SEEMS AT SEVENTEEN

A BROWN EYED GIRL IN HAND ME DOWNS
WHOSE NAME I NEVER COULD PRONOUNCE
SAID - PITY PLEASE THE ONES WHO SERVE
THEY ONLY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE
THE RICH RELATIONED HOMETOWN QUEEN
MARRIES INTO WHAT SHE NEEDS
WITH A GUARANTEE OF COMPANY
AND HAVEN FOR THE ELDERLY

SO REMEMBER THOSE WHO WIN THE GAME
LOSE THE LOVE THEY SOUGHT TO GAIN
IN DEBENTURES OF QUALITY AND DUBIOUS INTEGRITY
THEIR SMALL-TOWN EYES WILL GAPE AT YOU
IN DULL SURPRISE WHEN PAYMENT DUE
EXCEEDS ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AT SEVENTEEN

(INSTRUMENTAL)

TO THOSE OF US WHO KNEW THE PAIN
OF VALENTINES THAT NEVER CAME
AND THOSE WHOSE NAMES WERE NEVER CALLED
WHEN CHOOSING SIDES FOR BASKETBALL
IT WAS LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
THE WORLD WAS YOUNGER THAN TODAY
WHEN DREAMS WERE ALL THEY GAVE FOR FREE
TO UGLY DUCKLING GIRLS LIKE ME

WE ALL PLAY THE GAME, AND WHEN WE DARE
WE CHEAT OURSELVES AT SOLITAIRE
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
REPENTING OTHER LIVES UNKNOWN
THAT CALL AND SAY - COME ON, DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMUR VAGUE OBSCENITIES
AT UGLY GIRLS LIKE ME, AT SEVENTEEN

Posted 12:13 PM by Bonnie

Had a great time in Greenville, SC this weekend and will post some pictures as soon as I get them scanned and saved to a page. This was TOPS SRD (State Recgonition Day) and 2 of our members had reached their goal of KOPS status in 2003 and we among those honored at the ceremonies. We crowned our chapter Queen among other events. The theme was Shake Rattle and Roll and I will post some fun pics including me with Elvis. This was just a practice run to figure out how to post pics, in my actual missive, which I have never attempted before.