april 1 2011

well today is april fools day  seems i just dont have time to do a lot of posting. it has been a bad month of march for us charlie has been quite ill with a broncial virus  he is on bedrest till monday the 4th of april he seems to feel no on ecares but there are a lot of us who do.  things just are happening like he wished they would.  he was hoping to be hospital ized but that did not happen  its hell when you are feeling so bad. yesterday he went to the emergency room at noon and our 6 month old pup got out without us noticing her and when we came home the house was empty.  we posted a dog alert on facebook and unbelieveably a lady called who had our ozzie and brought her back   we were truly blessed. 
charlies mom is in a nursing home recovering from a stroke so what we so dofor easter is undecided as usually it is at our house with his f amily.
school is an issue for charlie as he has missed a week already and will hopefully return on 4 5 but will have a lot of work to catch up on.  

well today is the second day of spring semester for charlie.  i am off work today tomorrow and thursday so the days seem long and quiet howver the final outcome will be worth all the effort both of us are doing.  i watched the oprah show today and it was quite sad as it was about a couple whose three children died in a horrible traffic accident.   It brought back memories of my sister who died at the age of 20 in an accident.  The couple had a very difficult time dealing with their grief but the out come was that they conceived and had a set  of t riplets two girls and a boy the exact same as they lost in the accident   miracle miracle

december 2010

It has been almost 3 months since Ihave had a chance to post time just seems to fly and here we are at the end of 2010.  I guess the most news is   the fall semester for Charlie is over and we got the three Christmas dolls done for the customers who wanted them for Christmas. 

Charlie made the deans list again which for me is no surprise as he is a perfectionist when it comes to his classes and school.  He participated in a class project runway show but did not place but he created a beautiful gown which you can see on his blog My Journey with Judy.blogspot.com.  Christmas has come and gone and we had a great time with the neighbors and Charlies family. 

I guess I have to confess to calling his brother and telling him we were tired of them just coming down eating and leaving.  So this year his mom and dad came at 11am and stayed till after five and for the first time you could not keep his mother quiet.  She talked incessantly and his  brother and his girlfriend, Paula came down later in the day.  We exchanged a few presents with his family but kept ours for christmas day.  Charlie got me a beautiful bracelet which I love and some dvds and a cd.  Christmas night we played scrabble with the neighbors and we will be spending New Years Eve there also, but it will not be late for me as I have to be at work at 5 a,m   Some ungodly hour to wipe ass, as Iwork in a nursing home.

I wish all who have been reading a happy and healthy new year. Chzrlie will be in school full time for the spring semester so basically our time together will be the weekends but you have to sacrifice something to obtain a greater plan for the future.

As I enter 2011 I am reminded so much of my mother who has been gone for 20 years.  I miss her but luckily I have a video tape of her last christmas and can still hear her voice whenever I want.  you make a new
family with friends and with Charlie.  He is the love of my life, my partner , the other half of me and I hope we continue to have a long time to share.  I remember so many Christmases of long ago with my previous partner and i truly wish i had them back to spend more time with my mother than was allowed in the previous relationship.  However time moves forward and you cannot regret the past just make the future a better place to be.
well I think I will close for now and until the next time peace love and joy

birthday 10 1 10

well it is the start of my 69th year.  where has the time all gone.  you turn around and everything you know has changed.  my parents are gone father died in 1969 my mother in 1990.  all of my brothers and sisters are gone except for donald who i do not talk to for reasons known to him and Butch who last heard of was in texas but probably will hear nothing more of him as the only phone number for me is our business phone.  although you only heard from Butch when he wanted something. i guess the circle of life is half a circle now and no one knows when the circle will be complete and their will be no one left.
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The greatest joy of my life is my partner Charlie.  I have loved  him since the first day i saw him.  He came to meet me and when i  opened the door there he stood in shorts. t shirt and ball cap looking ever so cute.
WE hit if off quite well and now its has been an enduring committment to ea ch other.  I often think of the times i drove to Cleveland to see him.  That was a rare and crazy thing.     I remember getting totally lost one time and his landlord wanted to know which direction the sun was.  I was in a desolate area and could have cared less where the hell the sun was. 

this the start of my 69th year i have to check to see about putting charlie on the deed to the house but first
have to make sure it will not interfere with his medicaid etc.  Will probably have our lawyer in Orrville check it out for me.  I must  protect him if something should happen to me.

well charlie is in school and doing quite well.  it will be a proud moment for me when he walks down the aisle for his diploma from Kent State.  He wants this so badly.  His family doesnt show much interest in what he is doing but thats just the way it is.  Thanksgiving is coming and i am sure they will be here for dinner which will be late afternoon as i work at the nursing home thanksgiving day.  No indication as to when i will leave that job probably not for a while unless something else presents itself.

what are my g oals for my 69th year.  I guess to grow old gracefully, develop the dolls business for a while longer, help charlie thru school keep him focused on what is important and look forward to celebrating the big 70 next october.  Not bad for an old man.

Thanks to all who sent birthday wishes hold onto them till next year maybe  i will have a big party

1955 was the first year of high school i remember having to walk to the old grade school to get the bus for transportation to high school.  occasionally i would walk which was about 4 miles and a long trek up the driveway to the school   i will have to find my yearbooks to see how many students actuially were in our classes  i dont think that many  maybe a 60 to 90  would really have to check the yearbooks to be susre.
i remember some of the teachers that taught us.  There was mary fletcher the latin teacher and shee also delivered eggs from her farm to my mothers house.  She also held a Roman banquet for every latin class she taught including the roasted pig and every one would dress in toga's etc for the event.  There was Sara Lawrence our typing and shorthand teacher,  yes i took those classes.  Never played sportsor anything and hated gym class.  we made a few new friends at high school since we graduated from catholic grade school and were interegrated with the public school kids who also started high school that year  well thats enough for now will have to look for the yearbooks and publish some photos from that time    till then  stay well

high school

well my next step was going to be about my high school days.  i will start with this past weekend in the newspaper was the obituary of dennis mobley one of our classmates from the class of 1959 at Northwest High School.  A very short obituary it was listing no survivors just calling hours.  I remember Dennis from prom and how he drove me and my prom date home as i did not have a car or drive then.  Fifty one years has passed since then and i never attended any of the reunions as I always felt that after 20 years and more what do you have in common anymore.  Dennis i never saw after graduation, he died on his farm whereever that was located.  I guess you can live  your whole life and when you die someone who knew you may read about your death but life will go on like it never happened.  I did not attend the calling hours for Dennis for that very reason that i have never seen or had contact with him in 50 years so should you show up at his funeral.  Hardly i guess though it is rather scary that someone your age that you knew is now no longer here.
 Is that perhaps a fear of your on death, maybe so. Although i believe there were other deaths from our class at and early age like Miguel Guzman and Jim Finefrock whose mother-in-law is now at Chapel Hill Community nursing home where i work part time so i guess the world becomes a small place after all.  I only
realized in the past few weeks that Jim's wife was connected to our class of 1959.  Well i will write more of our high school days another night. probably find a few pictures to post of graduation and prom i am sure I have them in the same box that i just found the most recent photos that i posted.  hope all of you who are reading this are enjoying

Graduation St. Phillips and James

Well here are the pictures.  My eight grade graduation from SS Philip & James Canal Fulton, Ohio with our parish priest Father Maurer who was our pastor for 36 years.  Also shown are pictures of various May Queen crownings held at the church every year.  Seems so long ago. Graduation from grade school was 1955. calculated to be 55 years ago.   Well this is the 68th year soon to change to 69 on October 1.  Scary thats one year from 70.  I guess my next entry will be about the high school years at Northwest as my family could not afford to send us to Catholic high school.  hope you enjoy the photos