September 15, 2004

• I’m still alive and kicking!

  
  

  

  
  

  I know it’s been a really long time since anyone has heard from me.  To sum up, which will take a lot less time than going into detail, since I last posted…..

  
  

  I spent a week in Wisconsin, 4 days in Iowa, 2 weeks helping Allie move North.  A week in New Orleans and two weeks helping Barry get ready to leave for Germany.  Since he left last Wednesday, I have done pretty much nothing except pack and try to clear out the house for my departure.  I have 17 days left before I leave the house.  In that time I have to get this house ready to be empty for the next three years.  It’s not that we won’t ever come back to visit in that time, we will.  When we do come back though it won’t be to burst water pipes or critters that have taken up residence.  At least I hope that’s not what we come back to find.  The hardest part is going through the accumulation of the last 17 years and deciding what to pack for storage, what to put in the yard sale and what to send over to Germany.   Whew!    If you don’t hear from me for another month or so it is not because I don’t want to write, it’s one of two things….I’m in Germany with no Internet access or I’m trying to be a good little girl and need to work, work, work.  Or it could be both.

  
  

  In other news a skunk has taken up nightly residence on my front porch.  I called animal control and they brought out a live trap.  I got all six of the neighbors cats into the house last night so they wouldn’t get caught instead of little pepe le pew.

  
  

                                                                

  
  

  You know what it’s like trying to sleep in a house with six cats that have never slept a night inside in their entire lives.  Bang, crash, slam, meowr, meowr, meowr.  In the morning NO skunk in the trap.  I don’t know if all the noise in the house scared him off or if he’s to smart to get caught.  Either way I’ll try again tonight.

  
  

  In stupid news…My passport got delayed for renewal because….ta da.  I didn’t sign the application!   sheesh!  It would have been here over a week ago if it hadn’t been for that little snafu.  What a maroon.

  
  

  In romantic news……  Before Barry left we drove up to see our girls and fairly new son-in-law so he could say farewell.  On the way up I was looking for a decent radio station and Barry told me there was a country song he had heard several times while on the road.  He didn’t know the name of the song and didn’t know who sang it but it reminded him of me every time he heard it.  So naturally I wanted to hear it and found a country station to listen to.  For two days we listened to country music instead of our usual classic rock and never heard  this song.  We got back home and one day while headed to the store I flipped to our local country station and we caught the tail end of it.  When Allison came down to visit that weekend I told her what lyrics I could remember and she did a lyric search and found it.  I was blown away that not only does my beloved know how I feel about him, but to find out how he feels about me.  Sappy as it is we cannot be happy or content without each other.   So for your erudition here are the lyrics.

  
  

  She Thinks She Needs Me: Andy Griggs.

  
  

  She thinks I walk on water;
  She thinks I hung the moon.
  She tells me every mornin’,
  “They just don’t make men like you.”

  
  

  She thinks I’ve got it together;
  She swears I’m as tough as nails.
  But I don’t have the heart to tell her,
  That she don’t know me that well.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  She don’t know how much I need her;
  She don’t know I’d fall apart,
  Without her kiss, without her touch,
  Without her faithful lovin’ arms.
  She don’t know that it’s all about her;
  She don’t know I can’t live without her.
  She’s my world, she’s my everything,
  And she thinks she needs me.

  
  

  Sometimes, she cries on my shoulder,
  When she’s lyin’ next to me.
  But she don’t know that when I hold her,
  That she’s really holdin’ me, holdin’ me.

  
  

  
  

  She don’t know how much I need her;
  She don’t know I’d fall apart,
  Without her kiss, without her touch,
  Without her faithful lovin’ arms.
  She don’t know that it’s all about her;
  She don’t know I can’t live without her.
  She’s my world, she’s my everything,
  And she thinks she needs me.

  
  
  
  

  Yeah, now the funny thing is,
  She thinks she’s the lucky one.

  
  

  
  

  She don’t know how much I need her;
  She don’t know I’d fall apart,
  Without her kiss, without her touch,
  Without her faithful lovin’ arms.
  She don’t know that it’s all about her;
  She don’t know I can’t live without her.
  She’s my world, she’s my everything,
  And she thinks she needs me.

  
  

  She thinks I walk on water;
  She thinks I hung the moon.

  
  

   

  
  

  Written by Sonny Lemaire, Clay Mills and Shane Minor.
  (©  API Country Music / E Ticket Music / Emi Blackwood Music Inc / Shane Minor
  Music / Songs Of Nashville Dreamworks.)
  Single release, © 2004, RCA.
  

  
  

  I couldn’t believe that my unsentimental, unromantic husband chose that song. 

  
  

  Well this is it for now.  I need to mow the yard and start packing again.  I’ll try not to let so much time go by before my next post.  Have a happy humpday!!

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