Little Known Illnesses

AFROPHOBIA: Fear of the return of the 70's hair styles.

DEJA FLU: The feeling that one has had this cold before.

HYPOCOINDRIA: Fear of not having the correct change.

HAIRPIECE SWIMPLEX: Rash caused by wearing a toupee in a pool.

CELESTIAL SEASONINGS AFFECTIVE DISORDER: Herbal Tea Addiction.

VISACARDITIS: The heart stopping sensation brought on by exceeding your credit limit.

OREOPOROSIS: Disorder causd by too many cookies, and not enough milk.

SONSTROKE: An attack during the reading of a will.

ROSWELL-BABY SYNDROME: Irrational fear that one's infant might be a Mermaid.

Kool96.5 the 14th. Valentine's Day Renewing Vows

Well, We entered and won a contest to have our vows renewed on the 14th. FEB. The local Radio station is kool965fm.ca.

It will take place live on the Air waves starting at 9am our time. Which will be at 1pm in the UK. We will be with another 95 couples (96.5). Get it! I suppose a Divorced person will be the other .5. One couple will also win a 2nd Honeymoon to Las Vegas ( or Lost Wages) Nev.

Both of us entered the contest unknow to each other. As we never have done anything for the 14th. before, as for me everyday is Valentine's Day. Same thing for Christmas. We have recycled the same Christmas Card to each other for almost 20 years now. Always add a different saying to the card to time capsule the year past. We both must be incurable romantics at heart.

After the horrible week I had being in court with "Buddy Boy". ( if you haven't seen what I am talking about go back to Dec. Blog and fast forward.)

It would be cool for the Mermaid to be here with us but as the North Atlantic is very stormy and lots of Iceberg's. It is not safe to swim over at this time of year. Also the Sealing Fleet will be off shore soon. Mermaids maybe mistaken for something else.

Although it would be an interesting opportunity to meet lonely single Fishermen, Merms.........

More and More of the Past Disappears

To Blog or not to Blog? That is a good question. Is it more noble to be rude on someone else's space or to retire to that dusty corner in the attic, where all the the family archives go.

It's like that Christmas cake you get and not eat ,so you pass it on to someone else. And a few years later it magically appears back in your keeping.

When you get older and it comes to us all. You start to think about your mortality and what will happen when it's your turn to go. This happen's after you lose your parents or close friend's and you inadvertently open a box or old tin full of family photos that you having no clue as to who they are or where they were taken.

It's sad each generation that passes, we lose so much. Not just in the lack of really skilled craftsman. Eg. The Cathedrals, there are no skilled people who would take several generations or centuries to build something; it is totally unheard of today. Its the reason these beautiful buildings exist today. Not some knock-up that last for 20 or so years. We are so busy, that everything has to be done now or yesterday.

I remember vaguely trying to be interested in the stories both my Mother and my Grandmother told me about the photo's and their lives. Instead I day dreamed of going out playing with my friends or watching the Telly. So now that I am much older, the family oral tradition's are getting to be very important to me. As many of you have reasoned out by now that I am the Mermaid's sire.

So if my blog turns out to be boring and full of ante dotes, it's because I do not want these stories to be lost forever when its my time to go. With MM over in the UK and me here in Nova Scotia, it feels good to blog to each other. I kind, of get the feeling of how she is doing and know when to call and when not too. I miss her writing, if things haven't changed for a few days as then I start to worry whether she is OK.

Now if only someone could help me figure out how to post the picture from my desktop to the blog. I keep getting post URL , try and get nothing. I can get the photo in the text of the post but want it up on the comments page. The master must become the student.

So if any of you have the time to teach this old dog some tricks of the information age. MM and I worked at it for a long time to no avail. Perhaps I need to change something in the tools section?

Help and Thank you