Tuesday, April 21st.
Still, there is a wee penguin waddle from a still sore foot....
Still, there are pinky red blotches which ITCH like crazy.
Yet gone are the huge iguana pumps populating my skin with active poison Ivy.
I am improving in the right direction AND I am glad I am hidden off in SOLOland, so that I am the only privileged voyeur of my iguana body and penguin waddle!
A highlight? Another CYBER PARTAY with the “Birthday Girl Group”.
I primped and preened. When translated, it means I showered and shampooed.
I was clean and suitable for Socializing. I had to laugh at myself, as being clean has no bearing on
Virtual visiting!.
Then, I found it amusing that I donned a wrinkled shirt without the ‘said’ bra as the poison Ivy has taken up nesting on the undersides of my boobs!That poison ivy is like a creeping vine, growing up and around my body.
Clean and wrinkled! I laughed at myself because I had it all backwards. My partay-Ing girlfriends couldn’t see my “CLEANliness” and they could absolutely could see my “wrinkli-ness’
Maker’s Mark Bourbon gone, I created a vodka, lemonade with Lime. No ice. And, I found a box of “Misty” cigarettes. At this part-ay, I could be really bad and smoke and drink and socialize from my backyard.
Zoom. And Capo Carla. A potent combination! And voila!!!!!!!
Gio Gio, Beth, Carla, Laura, Ally and Chris all lit up our SCREEN, looking like “THE BRADY BUNCH” or “HOLLYWOOD SQUARES”! It was a delight.
The BESTEST part of this cyber visit was the dynamic of being able to talk to everyone at one sitting. When we meet, we have a long table for us, allowing us to socialize only with the gals seated on either side or in front. IN real LIFE, even though we are ‘together’, the social banter is more limited to where one sits. VIRTUAL socializing is more ‘fluid’ for being inclusive of everyone together. That part was kinda cool.
Most of us are all sextagenarians and have known each other since all of our kids went to the same elementary school- Out of Door Academy on little Siesta Key. Most were all moms who were active with the school’s fund-raising. It’s a beauteous thing to have maintained that comeraderie. We’ve been parents watching all of our kids grow up, making everyone’s kids my own, too.
What did we chatter about? Yikes. It was curious to hear what folks were doing - from the mundane of organizing home, to having a spouse become a ‘color specializing beautician’, to buying a car on line! How colorful all of us are! It is a kaleidoscope of coping skills.
Zoom Zoom Zoom. Hope that there are more Capo Carla Birthday Girl Partay times in our future.
The sun is shining and signifies that It is a good day to be alive.
Warmth and smiles,
Judy Veale
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