August 23, 2010
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The Daily News
1 It's MONDEEEEEEEEE!
2 The coolest thing about today's DN is that for the first time ever, it is coming to you from my almost finished backyard, which went from a science project to the Forest of Arden in a little more than a month!3 I'm out in my garden, complete with crickets, flowers, a sweet fountain, and the Beach Boys goin' on my iPod!
4 Two months of major overhaul, but now my yard is absolutely incredible!
5 Ah, who cares?
6 Well, to me it is awesomeness! A LOTTA design, labor, and sweat beyond belief, but I built it for my daughter Caitlin. She's having a party for her upcoming wedding, so we will have Casa Vicky's, and lots of family over for an upcoming engagement party.
7 Meanwhile, my daughter Nicole has spent the last four days preparing for her first day teaching as a professional. This morning we took a picture of her going out the door for her first day. Miss Harrington. Good luck sweetie! This portion of today's DN was written this morning.
8 Life just moves on, and on, and on, and sometimes gets better and better.
9 Not quite done yet with the garden. I have a flashlight in my mouth, for example, as we speak, because there's no direct lighting on the patio. All lighting is indirect, in the garden proper. So yeah, this is being written with a flashlight in my mouth. It is also being written this morning, so if you get confused, well don't.
10 And no, I'm not bluffing, haha! It tastes awful, but I had to go outside, listen to the crickets and the fountain, and write this stuff. Flashlights shouldn't be put in the mouth. But it worked so beautifully! Ah, fun stuff.
11 In My Room plays as I pound this stuff out.
12 In My Room will always remind me of Jenny and I singing it at all sorts of things, the most important of which is our wonderful friendship.13 Great weekend, I swear to you.
14 For one thing, I don't have cancer.
15 I swear to you.
16 Okay,okay, I can't lay something like that on you, but a few months ago, I had this lump, won't tellya where.
17 I had it figured for some garden bug that bit me, or maybe even a bedbug.
18 I just kept working on the Forest of Arden. Deadlines, you know?
19 Plus I don't trust doctors, with all due respect.
20 More on that later, but last Wednesday, the lump started to grow, almost at an alarming rate.
21 I still didn't trip, but I certainly worried, because each day it grew larger and larger.
22 Saturday night Helene and I were enjoying our anniversary, so we finished working on the yard. The lump was ridiculous, but I didn't want to alarm her. We went out to the yard for a beautiful dinner I made for her.
23 We had SUCH a wonderful night! I made a gourmet meal, and set it up at the bistro table in the yard. Put music on, poured some expensive wine, and everything was workin'.
24 The only thing lacking was light. I lit the area around the patio, but not the patio proper. That's why last night I had the flashlight and all.
25 I decided that candles would make it all work, so I went back inside to get a candle.
26 I saw this awesome candle on top of a bookshelf that was up high. It sat on a triple candle holder that had some cool mountain bears on it.
27 It was out of reach, so I tiptoed, and flicked it with my finger.
28 The candle suddenly flew at me, and hit me right on that lump.
29 Brace yourself.
30 It hit it direct on, and it burst the lump, exploding all the stuff that was in there.
31 It was as big as a golf ball, but it burst, and everything suddenly drained!
32 I told you to brace yourself.
33 But seriously? It flattened out within seconds, and I pointed to whatever Heaven might be, and thanked life for a new lease. I thought it was cancer, and worried that it was cancer.
34 Spider bite.
35 And NOT a black widow!
37 I instantly loved God, Joe-the-Bear, and even Mars, whose month this totally is.
38 Whatever bit me didn't succeed in the assassination attempt.
39 I'm convinced that spider didn't act alone. I'm convinced that their was a second poisoner on the mulchy knoll.
40 Quite a scare, peoples.
41 Anyway, I'm now outside, listening to crickets, looking at Mars in wonder, and enjoying writing my first outside DN! I put some Neosporin over the wound, and a tight Band-Aid. As I said, I don't like going to see doctors. Nature cured me with a candle.
42 Whew.
43 The Beach Boys' Good Timin' just came up on the iPod. Sweet song. All about life, and about how the world keeps turning, and how we're all learning.
44 Good, good timin'.
45 Unknown song, but so sweet and philosophical, all about life, and love, and living.46 It faded, and all I had left was the sounds of the crickets, and the fountain, and of course, the very sweet Kokomo.
47 And now I write this with that sweet song rocking my world, as it always did, and I'll get to why some other time.
48 Right now, I'm thanking everybody who saw me in the past five days, for reminding me of how much we must embrace life, and live it, and love it.
49 You know who you are.
50 Love you all.
51 So much love.
52 It's MONDEEEEEEEEE!
53 Fly low.
54 Live life.
55 Love life.
56 Good luck, Coley, on your very first day.
57 Longest DN ever? Maybe...
58 I love you all, everything. It's great to be alive.
59 Peace.
~H~
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