FULL MOON IN MY EIGHTH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES

                                  MY GURU SAYS:  DON'T TRY TO CONTROL FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND IT WILL ALL WORK OUT.  I DODGED THE BULLET OF GOING ON A BAHAMAS CRUISE AT A BARGAIN PRICE ON MONDAY.  MAYBE THE REQUEST WILL RESURFACE.  IT WILL BE 81 HERE SO I DON'T KNOW HOW IT COULD BE BETTER IN THE BAHAMAS.  IF WE GO IT IS ME WHO PAYS.  ALTHOUGH BILL HAS FUNDS.
                                   YESTERDAY I HEARD TIM MCGRAW SING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE AND I HEADED TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST.  I HAD BEEN HERE ALMOST A MONTH AND HADN'T VISITED THIS ENCHANTED COUNTY PARK.  IT WAS GETTING NEAR SUNSET.  THE PARK CLOSES AT 5.  THE SHADOWS IN THE HAMMOCKI WALKS WERE BEAUTIFUL AS EVENING APPROACHED.  I MET A NATURALIST WHO HAD JUST SEEN A BOBCAT WALK BY THE VISITOR CENTER.  A SCARLET KING SNAKE HAD SHED ITS SKIN RIGHT BY HIS FOOT AS HE SAT INA CHAIR OUTSIDE AND WAS CRAWLING INTO A NARROW HOLE.  HE WANTED ME TO SEE IT.  HE PHOTOGRAPHED IT WITH HIS PHONE.  MY PHONE'S MEMORY IS FULL.  
                               AFTER THE SNAKE HAD SLITHERED INTO ITS HOLE, I WALKED AROUND THE COQUINA ROCK GARDEN.  THE HOLES IN THE ROCKS WERE MADE 21,000 YEARS AGO AND ARE STILL GETTING NEW HOLES FROM THE CARBONIC ACID IN THE SHELL AND SANDSTONE ROCKS.    I TOOK A SHADY WALK ALONG THE BOARDWALK IN THE SAW PALMETTO PINE  HAMMOCK AND SAW GIGANTIC SPIDE RAND WEB ON MY WAY TO THE REMAINS OF THE ADDISON CANAL.  THE CANAL WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTRUY TO BRING WATER TO THE ORANGE GROVES.  IT WAS NEVER SUCCESSFUL AND LATER ABANDONNED.
                                 BUT THE 8TH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES ENTERED THE PICTURE WHEN MY HUSBAND CALLED TO SEE IF I WANTED TO TAKE A CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS ON THE CARNIVAL SENSATION ON MONDAY OUT OF NEARBY PORT CANAVERAL.  TIM MCgRAW'S SONG SAYS JUST DO IT AND TREAT EVERY DAY LIKE IT'S THE DAY YOU ARE DYING.  MY MOTHER-IN-LAW WENT ON APLANE TO THE BAHAMAS WHEN SHE WAS DYING OF LUNG CANCER AT AGE 75.  SHE DIED ON A PRIVATE PLANE ON THE WAY BACK.  SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE AIRPORT IN FT.  PIERCE.  I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WAS GOING FOR A TREATMENT OR WHAT.  SHE WENT WITH A FRIEND THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF AGAIN.
                            I LIVE LIKE I AM DYING ALL THE TIME.  WHEN I DRIVE I FEEL FAINT AND CAN BARELY CONTINUE.  USUALLY FOOD,WATER AND FRESH AIR HELPS.  LACK OF SLEEP SEEMS TO TRIGGER IT.  THEY NEVER TELL ME I HAVE NARCOLEPSY OR A SLEEP DISORDER.  IT'S ALWAYS A MYSTERY AFTER A ZILLION TESTS.  ALTHOUGH FINALLY I QUALIFIED AS HYPOGLYCEMIA BUT HTAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE AFTER THE GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST.

FULL MOON IN 8TH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES

                              SOMETIMES I CAN'T DRIVE FAR.   SO I RARELY GO TO THE ENCHANTED GARDEN.  BUT I'D HAD LOTS OF SLEEP,THE AIR WAS FRESH AND I'D EATEN MY BRISKET LEFTOVERS FROM SONNY'S PIT BBQ,SO I DROVE THE FIVE MILES TO THE FOREST.   EVEN IF YOU MIGHT DIE , YOU'VE GOT LIVE HARD OR DIE TRYING. 

EXPECT MIRACLES

                        I'VE FOUND A FRENCH SPEAKING AM RADIO STATION IN MIMS.  THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.  THE BAD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF STATIC.  BUT STILL IT'S AMAZING SINCE MIMS IS THE MOBILE HOME CAPITAL OF BREVARD COUNTY AND HAS SOME OF THE  POOREST PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS WORKED IN THE NOW DEFUNCT INDIAN RIVER ORANGE GROVES.  THEY BOMBED A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS' HOME ON CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE 1950'S KILLING HIM  AND HIS WIFE.  THE CHILDREN SURVIVED.  HE WAS A TEACHER AT THE LOCAL SEGREGATED BLACK SCHOOL IN TITUSVILLE.
                 BREVARD COUNTY IS A POPULAR WINTER HOME FOR CANADIANS, SO MAYBE THAT'S WHY THERE'S A FRENCH STATION IN MIMS.  IT'S ALL  IN THE NICK OF TIME.   I HAVE A MASTERS DEGREE IN FRENCH FROM 1970 BUT I'M STARTING TO FORGET EVERYTHING.  SO THIS STATION PROVIDES A REFRESHER.  I HAVE A HOUSE AT THE MIMS EXIT MAYBE IT WORKS BETTER THERE.  I'LL HAVE TO TEST IT.  MAYBE I'LL MOVE BACK THERE WHEN MY TENANTS' LEASE IS UP IN MARCH.  MY REALTOR SAYS DON'T SELL NOW , WAIT FOR PRICES TO COME BACK UP.  THIS SOUTH TITUSVILLE TOWNHOUSE IS DOWN $100,000 SINCE JANUARY 2008.  THE ECONOMY CRASHED IN SEPTEMBER 2008 AND THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER LAYED OFF 6,000 + WORKERS IN 2010 AT THE END OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.  THIS TOWN HOUSE WENT DOWN $40,000 IN TAXABLE VALUE (MARKET VALUE) ACCORDING TO THE TAX APPRAISER THIS YEAR.  NOW I ONLY PAY $1500 A YEAR.  SO WHO KNOWS?
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RUDE

                    I TRIED TO TELL MY SELF-CONSUMED HUSBAND ABOUT MY VISIT TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE I FELT FAINT WHILE DRIVING YESTERDAY.  HE CUT ME OFF. SO WE WENT TO SONNY'S BBQ TO EAT CHOLESTEROL LADEN FOOD TO BENEFIT THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS.  HE WATCHED THE NEWS WHILE WE ATE.  I DID  ALL THE TALKING.  HE WALKED SO SLOWLY OUT OF THE RESTAURANT THAT HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 100.  HE HAS PLANTAR FASCITUS.  I HAD IT IN JULY AND NEVER EVER WALKED THAT SLOWLY.  BY THE WAY MY NEW DOCTOR THINKS I HAVE THE GOUT.  DOESN'T EVERYONE?

                       ANYWAY I HAVE TO GO FOR BLOOD TESTS.  THE DOCTOR HAD NO ANSWERS AS TO WHY I FEEL FAINT.  SHE WASN'T REAL CONCERNED.  SO I GUESS I'LL KEEP DRIVING.  IT'S HYPOGLYCEMIA.  BUT SHE SAYS THE BLOOD TEST THAT DETERMINES IT ISN'T VERY ACCURATE BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S BLOOD HAS HIGHS AND LOWS WHEN FASTING AND THEN DRINKING SYRUP.
                      SO IT'S THE SAME OLD,SAME OLD.  NO DIET, NO MEDICINE AND NO FIRM DIAGNOSIS.  MY BLOOD  PRESSURE WAS EXCELLENT.  I DID GET AN ACTONEL PRESCRIPTION FOR MY PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED OSTEOPOROSIS.  THE NEW DOCTOR HAD EXCELLENT RECORD KEEPING AND COULD FIND ALL MY MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS DOCTORS.
                          EATING PROTEIN IS THE ANSWER.  WELL SONNY'S PIT BBQ IS PROTEIN CENTRAL.  SO I'M ON THE ROAD  TO RECOVERY.  I GUESS THIS IS DOCTOR SHOPPING BUT I END UP WITH NO PRESCRIPTIONS EXCEPT GOOD OLD ACTONEL.
                           I SEE A NEW HOUSE ON FRIDAY THAT UNFORTUNATELY IS FRAME  AND AS IS.  I WARNED MR. RUDE I'M NOT STAYING.  IF I COULD DRIVE I'D GO FURTHER.  IT'S KIND OF RIDICULOUS BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE TWO HOUSES THAT I CAN'T SELL. 

Remain Neutral

                               My horoscope says to remain neutral.  Being a Libran I can see both sides.  I'll be pressured but I mist wait for a decision from within.  That's a good thing because I still feel whoozey from my mal de mer from yesterday plus I waited 21/2 hours to eat today after I woke up at 7 a.m..  I could barely talk on the phone when I called the plumber to fix the leak in our kitchen sink drain.   I asked my husband to call yesterday when I called to tell him I felt faint driving over the bridge.  I had to stick my head out the window because the car was stuffy(full of car fumes,hot,confined) as I drove slowly over the bridge to nowhere(actually the Canaveral National Seashore, the Wild Life Reserve, the Black Point 7 Mile Drive and not to forget the reason all this land has been preserved  for a buffer zone for the Kennedy Space Center).   I put my top down on my Miata when I got to the other side.  i had awoke at 5 or 6a.m. and I guess wasn't sufficiently fueled for this journey after a small turkey sandwich and a banana nut muffin. 
                         My husband didn't offer any help and berated me five hours later when I finally made it home after taking the long way to avoid the bridge.  He was furious that I didn't have food in the car. It was in the other car.  It was an impromptu visit to the National Seashore.  I thought the muffin I had just eaten would be enough.  But my car was hot, I'd  walked in the noonday sun briefly around the town and new Pritchard House shadey garden plus I'd been to the bank and Fox Lake Park in my car and had arisen early.  So the vapors hit.  They say I should go to the hospital when it happens.  That was impossible.  I was over the river and through the bridge.
                             Hours later after chocolate milk,ice cream, trail mix and a stretch in fresh air, I was fine. i guess I could go now to the hospital, I feel whoozey this morning even after chicken parmesan, a banana and low calorie yogurt.  My blood test last year said I have Hypoglycemia.  The endocrinologist doubted the GP's diagnosis .  He wants me to have a blood test when I have an attack.  I told him that was ridiculous because I always eat to recover and be able to drive.  So we'll see.  I've already worn a 24 hour monitor for the neurologist and had an MRI,ekg,encephlogram and some ridiculous test including balance at the neurolgist that was straight out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  Also I went to the cardiologist whose office lost most of my records when they moved to another location.  Any way I tried.  The GP is very good but her receptionist is unintelligible because of some Jamaican accent.  She told me that I needed Actonel because my backbone is fragile according to an osteoporiasis test that I had at the hosptial.  I could barely understand her.  She told me I needed medicine and then stated the side effects which sounded worse than the osteoporosis.  When I told the Hispanic physician that he receptionist was unintelligible, she told me to ask her to repeat it.  The neurologist who was Cuban had an assistant who also was barely intelligible.  It was like Desi Arnez giving you a brain test and treating you like Lucy.  
                Anyway they all make Dr. Conrad Murray who was  just convicted of manslaughter for mistreating Michael Jackson with the wrong medicine and procedures and causing his death look like a rocket scientist.  Well that's all folks.  Time to go.  My husband is up at 10 a.m. and taking his insulin shot in his stomach.  He goes to a zillion doctors and receives 10 different prescriptions for his heart and diabetes.  i receive nothing except Actonel for the osteoporiasis and am going unconscious as I drive around  town.  I never drive on the highway.  So that's the saga news.  PS;  My husband is totally unsympathetic and put all the onus on me for not having enough food in my car in case I have an attack.  HMMMM!  I'll move on t another doctor.  luckily in Florida, there are a zillion.   in Cape Cod, you can't see a GP etc.

Your average physician

                      Babbbalu  as Desi would say!  By the way my husband was unsympathetic when I had a mastectomy and begrudged driving me home from the hospital.  He told me to take a bus!

VAN GOGH VENGEANCE

                         I FEEL FAINT SOMETIMES WHEN I'M DRIVING LIKE I'M GOING TO GO UNCONSCIOUS.  THE DOCTOR SAYS IT'S HYPOGLYCEMIA.  SURE ENOUGH AFTER COFFEE AND A BANANA NUT MUFFIN, I STATED TO FEEL UNSTEADY IN MY HOT CAR WHEN I WAS DRIVING OVER THE BRIDGE.  I MADE IT OVER AND THEN I CALLED MY HUSBAND.  HE ACTED LIKE HE COULDN'T CARE LESS.  HE OFFERED NO HELP.  I DIDN'T BEG BECAUSE I HOPED I'D SNAP OUT OF IT IF I PUT MY CONVERTIBLE TOP DOWN.  GOING OVER THE BRIDGE I FELT LIKE THERE WAS NO OXYGEN IN THE CAR WITH THE TOP UP.  ALL MY HUSBAND DID WAS COMPLAIN THAT HE CAN'T FIND THE PICTURE OF A MENTALLY ILL VINCENT HOLDING AN ABSINTHE BOTTLE OUT OF THE MASTER BEDROOM.
                     OVER THE BRIDGE I WAS AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN.   SO I FORGED ON TO THE VISITOR CENTER FOR SOME COLD WATER AND TO SE E AN ALLIGATOR AND BABIES.  WITH THE WIND IN MY HAIR I FELT FINE PLUS I ATE AND DRANK EVERYTHING I HAD IN THE CAR MAINLY THE FRENCH FRIED ONIONS THAT I HAD IN THE TRUNK FOR THE THANKSGIVING  GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE.  THAT SEEMED TO SUSTAIN ME SO I HEADED 6 MILES TO THE OCEAN TO TOUCH THE COOL WATER. 
                    I WAS FINE.  STILL I AVOIDED THE BRIDGE OVER THE INDIAN RIVER AND TOOK THE LONG WAY HOME VIA OAK HILL AND US 1.  EVENTUALLY I FELT SLIGHTLY WHOOZY AND STOPPED FOR SODA AND DURKEES FRENCH FRIED ONIONS.  I WAS SHAKEY BUT OK.  I HEADED UP US 1 TOWARDS MIMS.  I COULD BARELY MAKE IT TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE AT THE NORTH STAR TRAILER PARK.  I BOUGHT AND CONSUMED CHOCOLATE MILK, AN ICE CREAM BAR AND SOME TRAIL MIX PLUS GO OUT OF THE HOT CONVERTIBLE AND STRETCHED MY LEGS.  MY LEFT LEG WAS STIFF.  THEN I WAS FINE AGAIN AND TOOK CARPENTER HOME INSTEAD OF BUSY US 1.  WHEN I GOT  I WAS PERFECTLY FINE. 
                     I TOLD MY  HUSBAND HE SHOULD HAVE OFFERED HELP THAT  I COULD BARELY MAKE IT HOME FROM THE CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE.  HE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS MISSING VAN GOGH PAINTING.  SO I REITERATED.  HE SAID NEXT TIME HE WOULD OFFER HELP.  I ALSO SHOULD HAVE CALLED HIM AGAIN.  ANYWAY I SURVIVED. 

INDIAN RIVER TITUSVILLE,FL

                     I'LL GET MY AC FIXED, GO TO THE DOCTOR AND BUY TRAIL MIX FOR THE CAR.  SO WWVD?  WHAT WOULD VINCENT DO?

WWOD

WWOD

ROCKETS RED GLARE-TITUSVILLE,FL

                                 I READ OPRAH'S MAGAZINE WHILE I WAS ON LINE AT WALMART.  IT SAID:  GET OUT OF WALMART.  NOT!  IT SAID DETERMINE YOUR FAVORITE THINGS AND MAKE TIME TO DO THEM.  SO I BOUGHT SOME 97CENT FLOWERS.  THAT'S WHAT I HAD GONE TO WALMART FOR.  BUT I DECIDED 99CENTS WAS TOO HIGH.  THE FLOWERS ARE 88CENTS AT THE WALMART ON CAPE COD.  SO THAT WAS STEP ONE.
                                TODAY I DID STEP TWO AFTER I PAID $185 TO GET THE REFRIGERATOR REPAIRED.  I MISSED THE TRIP TO ORLANDO AND TAMPA WITH MY HUSBAND.  IT'S ALL FOR THE BEST BECAUSE HE COULDN'T STAY IN TAMPA.  HE HAD TO RUSH BACK TO ORLANDO.  SO I DODGED THAGT BULLET.
                                ALL LAST YEAR I NEVER MADE IT TO THE TITUSVILLE LIBRARY.  I WENT THERE TODAY.  IT'S VERY RELAXING.  I DISCOVERED A NEW FLORIDIA AUTHOR DORSEY.  HE USED TO WRITE FOR THE TAMPA TRIBUNE.  SO I'LL GET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON FLORIDA BESIDES CARL HIASSEN AND RANDY WAYNE WHITE.  SO I DIDN'T GET TO TAMPA TODAY BUT I DISCOVERED A TAMP A AUTHOR.  I USE D TO LIVE ON THE GULF UNTIL 2005, SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE  WHAT GOES ON THERE.
                                      NEXT I HEADED FOR MY FAVORITE COFFEEE SHOP AND BAKERY IN TITUSVILLE.  IT WAS ONE O'CLOCK TO ALL THE MORNING GLORY MUFFINS WERE GONE.  SO I HAD AN ORANGE CRAISIN ONE.  WHEN WERE CRAISINS INVENTED AND BY WHOM?  I READ A GIGANTIC COFFE TABLE PICTURE BOOK ABOUT THE NATIOANL PARKS.   I WAS AT HALEAKALA IN HAWAII THIS SUMMER.  THE USTAIRS ROOM AT EH SUNSHINE BAKERY IN TITUSVILLE IS GREAT.  IT HAS MURALS OF FLORIDA BIRDS AND LANDSCAPES BY AL RAO,   LOTS OF LEATHER ARM CHAIRS AND DARK WOOD COFFEE TABLES.  THE WINDOWS GIVE VIEWS OF THE RESTORED EARLY 20TH CENTURY BUILDINGS IN TITUSVILLE PLUS PALM TREES AND GREENERY. 
                                            NEXT I HEADED OVER THE BRIDGE TO THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE VISITOR CENTER .  I TOOK A WALK ON THEIR BOARDWALK THROUGH A SAWTOOTH PALMEEETTO GROVE(HAMMOCK) AND VISITED THE ART GALLERY INSIDE.  THEN I DROVE 6 MILES TO THE CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE TO SEE THE UNSPOILED 24 MILE SAND DUNED BEACH.  YOU PASS THE LAUNCH PADS OF THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN THE DISTANCE.  THE PARK AND WILDLIFE REFUGE WERE SET ASIDE IN THE 1960'S AS A BUFFER ZONE FOR THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER DURING HTE APOOLO MOON LAUNCHES.  I SAW THE SEA AND SOME SURFERS AND THEN HEADED HOME TO MY HOME ON THE SIXTH HOLE OF THE LA CITA GOLF COURSE. 
                                           SO THAT'S MY OPRAH DAY.  OH I WENT TO A GARAGE SALE AND MAY BUY A MAHOGANY CHINA CLOSET,TABLE,JAPANESE LAMP,DESK AND SETTEE.  I MISSED BUYING THE STAINLESS STEEL SIDE BY SIDE REFRIGERATOR FOR $250.  IT SOLD.EARLY.
                                            THIS EVENING WE'LL SEE WHO WINS THE WORLD SERIES.- THE TEXAS RANGERS WHO HAVE NEVER WON AND THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WHO HAVE WON SEVERAL TIMES.  THE RANGERS WHO USED TO BE THE SENATORS BEFORE THEY MOVED TO TEXAS 40 YEARS AGO, LET THE CARDINALS CATHCH UP IN THE NINTH INNING AND WIN IN THE 11TH.
                                                 THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON THEM TONIGHT.  THE GAME DIDN'T GET OVER UNTIL 12:30 AM.  WHAT WOULD OPRAH DO = WWOD.  SHE NEVER MARRIED OR HAD CHILDREN.  SHE HAD A MISCARRIAGE WHEN SHE WAS 14.  SHE HAD AN INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH HER UNCLE OR SOME RELATIVE.  SHE AND HER DIVORCED FRIEND GAYLE TRAVEL TOGETHER.  OPRAH HAS A TALL GOODLOOKING BOYFRIEND STEDMAN.  OPRAH IS FAT EVEN THOUGH SHE'S LOST WEIGHT  A ZILLION TIMES.  SHE WON AN ACASDEMY AWARD AND NOW HER OWN TELEVISION NETWORK. 

INDIAN RIVER-TITUSVILLE

                                   SO THIS IS FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW WAS ENOUGH.  PS I PUT UP A SIGN TELLING THE GOLFERS AND MAINTENANCE  CREW TO STOP PARKING BY OUR BACK DOOR.  WE DON'T PARK BY THEIRS.

VAN GOGH

                        A VIBRANT BRIGHT LIGHT OF ORANGE AND YELLOW NOW FLASHES IN MY DULL BLAND,BEIGE LIVINGROOM.  IT'SA COPY I PAINTED OF VINCENT VAN GOGH'S STARRY NIGHT FROM THE MOMA BROCHURE.  I ALSO DID A FALL FOLIAGE PAINTING OF THE CASCADES IN WASHINGTON.  THAT WAS ORIGINAL.  MY VAN GOGH IS A FAKE BUT FUN. 
                           SO COLOR BRIGHTENS AS WINTER APPROACHES.  WE ARE HEADING SOUTH WHERE PALM TREES SWAY AND FLOWERS BLOOM ALL YEAR.  THAT'S WHAT GAUGIN DID AFTER VAN GOGH BIT OFF HIS OWN EAR.  GAUGIN HEADED FOR TAHITI.  WE ARE OFF TO FLORIDA WHERE REDNECKS RULE AND ALLIGATORS CRAWL.