Another night for Pink Floydigasms.

Moving right along…I’m having an addition built on to my house.

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Every now and again I have to take stock of where I’m wasting my time and take steps to fix that. It’s not easy but I’m always a better person after.

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My hero.

This is THE reason I eat (semi) right, exercise hard and work like a maniac…so I can live like this man (who I personally know and just adore) when I get to be an old lady…

“People said I was crazy, I was too old,” said the 79-year-old as he put the finishing touches on his wooden boat. “I don’t like to lose.”

Almost every day for the past 18 months, Dorr has been on the docks at Beacon Marine Basin, building his own motorboat, all 24 feet long and 8 feet wide of it. His hands are weathered, his heart is full, and he is ready to launch the boat Saturday.

“I built every [expletive] bit of it,” he said. “Some days, I wish to Christ I never started.”

“It’s more than what I bargained for,” he added. “I’m happy I built it, but I would never do it again.”

The boat is named Dog Star, another name for Sirius, the brightest star and a useful navigation tool. There is a 150-horsepower engine and the bow has a Ram’s head from an old Dodge truck that died 15 years ago.

Dorr started with blueprints from a boat designer in Maine, but he grew frustrated with the design and stopped using the plans after two months.

“I like things rugged,” he said, banging on the boat to demonstrate its strength.

He could have been explaining himself.

“There’s no toilet,” he said. “Just a 5-gallon bucket.”

Dorr wears ratty jeans, work boots, and a green flannel shirt, a pack of Marlboro mediums in his front pocket. He has a stern handshake, crusty hands, and curses like, well, a sailor.

Yep…he’s one of those men who thinks nothing of scratching his privates in full view of the world around him. He swears like I do, drinks beer, laughs at himself and appreciates life. He doesn’t need fancy fittings around him to feel complete or to enjoy life. The 5 gallon shit bucket is just as efficient and probably more so than any flushing toilet…esp on the high seas!

The perception of “Old age” is a chosen lifestyle- to him and to people like me. I know too many people his age who get excited about going out once a month to play…golf. Or who moap about dwelling upon their every ill and ache.

Screw that shit.

The Double-A is my hero because he has shown me that one can do anything they want- his life long dream is about to become his reality and if he can do it, ANYONE can. How cool is that, to live on a boat and traverse the eastern coast, at age 80?? I will be doing similar things when I hit that number.
Guaranteed.

Sunday afternoon Pink Floyd: The mystical and (some say) forlorn Marooned from the Division Bell.
I don’t call it forlorn so much as I call it Just. Pink. Floyd.

Another one of my favorites- we won’t discuss the kind of dancing that’s done to this song.

Money chat. Yes. That’s right…I recently used this service to see if it could help me figure out where I stand, overall, with my finances. I got 68 page report which is quite comprehensive considering how damn frugal and tight I am with my cash. I refuse to hire a financial planner simply cause I can’t afford that. The $98.00 it cost me to do this was a bargain. And I know exactly where I stand with my money- I used this software to see if my ideas were anywhere near correct compared to other ideas. I’m doing a lot better than a big percentage of most people, which surprises me when I consider my lifestyle. Then again my lifestyle now is exactly why things look good down the road.

Anyway…

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In an email group I belong to we were discussing Sex Education Programs and I wandered off topic a little…in the effort to show where (I think) parents responsibility should be with regards to talking with their kids about these subjects. I think very differently on these things and I have ticked off a lot of people with my thoughts. However, I stand by my positions because of where I’ve been and my experiences. Most people haven’t stood in my shoes so I realize how hard it is to understand where I’m coming from.

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This HAS to be one of my all time favorite Pink Floyd songs.

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The other day I found all those photos of bedrooms, and I spend a good portion of writing that post getting ill over some of those ugly ass room designs.

So here I am again at work on a slow Sunday morning and we’re prowling the webs for fun stuff…and somehow we ended up back at that Decorating site. This time the object of our affection (NOT!!) is the LIVING ROOM. I’ve never had a LIVING and FAMILY room, What the fuck is that about anyway? Living rooms are made to be LIVED IN, not shown off as some museum display. Living rooms and family rooms should be ONE and the SAME. But hey..I guess I have a life or something.

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I had today off from work and was able to spend some time with the two most important guys in my life. They both mean so much to me and I can’t decide which one I love more- they’re so damn hawt the choice is very difficult.

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