4-11-09...OLD GOLD WEDDING BANDI have a wide gold wedding band on that was given to me by my Mama just before she died. She told me to put it on right there in front of her. I didn't want to because I thought it looked like I thought she was dying and I didn't want to think about that. But she insisted so I did and it has not been off of my finger since. I am the 5th generation to wear it. I don't have a daughter so I will give it to my brother one day. Norman has two sons and no daughter. It will be given to his first son and eventually to his daughter. She will be the 7th generation to wear it. It is still thick and in good shape. Things were made of better quality then. Below is what Mama wrote in Dec of 2000 before she got to sick to do it. It tells the story of this amazing ring. WOW!!!
4-11-09...MAMAS HIDDEN TREASURESIt was a hard time when Mama died as is expected. We were losing our best friend. The lady who gave birth to us and raised us up. Fed us from her own body, kept us clean and warm.
When Norman and I went to clean out Mamas apartment we found so many things to keep in memory of her. One was a casset tape that Mama had recorded. She sang to us, played her harmonica, (she called it a french harp) read things, and just talked. We never knew this existed. We found poems she had written, little journal like books she had recorded things in, and in general just a treasure trove of things that came from my Mamas heart.
I think the most precious thing was a letter she had written to god shown below. As you can see by the date she wrote this in 1952. I was eight and Norman had just turned four. Another thing we had never seen before.
All these things are very precious to us now. On the cassett we have her voice and playing and singing. On the letter to God we have her words in her own handwriting. WOW!!!!
4-10-09...CHANGESI don't like change. That is probably an understatement. I detest change, I fight change. My Daddy used to say, “If it aint broke don't fix it”. Now how much more simple can that be stated? Why in the heck do people work so hard to make things more difficult? Just get it done and go on to the next thing.
One example it all these ads on TV and in newspapers, NEW AND INPROVED. Improved? Heck no they aint improved! I'd love to have a 6oz. Bottle of coke the way they used to make it before they new and improved it and changed the recipe. If I had one I'd get me a big ol' Baby Ruth candy bar. Yummy. Then I'd get me a Popsicle, one of those big two stick banana Popsicles and let it run down my arm as it melts, then lick it off my arm. YEP! I'd also like to go in a store and find what I want right where it was yesterday. Now why in the heck would you move the paper products over there by the towels and sheets Makes no sense to me. One of the employees, who usually remains hidden from view, heard me exclaim one day after I'd walked around for what seemed like forever trying to find printer paper, Well this makes me so mad, This store don't even have paper anymore”. Well she came out of nowhere and guided me right to the paper over by the towels. I didn't even ask why it was there but it is back where it was now so others must have complained or they just came to their senses (which I doubt.) I did say I was sorry to the clerk but she looked at me like I had two heads or something. Guess people don't know what I'm sorry means anymore.
Then when I got home I had to call and order some medicine. Now you know that you just don't get to talk to a real live human any more. Shoot fire no, thats a thing of the past. I had their responses down pat. Knew which number to punch on the phone for my answers, had memorized all of it to save me a lot of aggravation. It was almost easy to me now. Well they answered and said, “Thanks for calling your on line Pharmacy please be aware that our menu has changed and pay close attention.” Well Good Grief, I had my finger ready to do the walking right on through this transaction and I got flustered trying to keep up with, “Sorry, we did not recognize your response. Please go back to the main menu and try again”. “When you hear the sound push the pound key, Please try again.” GRRRRR!!!!! I hung up and placed the call again. Listened to all that crap again and punched in numbers again. Then, “If you are having trouble please hang up and call,” Then a long string of numbers came over the line that I tried desperately to write down. Right in the middle of all that my phone started beeping in my ear telling me I had a call waiting. I couldn't catch any of the numbers after that. I checked to see who was calling me and it was the gosh dang on line pharmacy that I had on the other line trying to understand. Of course it was another recorded message saying. “We are sorry but our on line pharmacy is experiencing problems right now, if you need your meds' dial*** Well that's when I hung up again and fought the urge to throw the phone across the room and proceed to pull all my kinky hair out!!! If I need my meds'? Well of course I need my meds'. Why in the world would I be calling if I didn't need my cotton pickin' meds. Durn educated fools anyway. My insurance company changed too for the worse when they decided this was the best way to get my medicine. Best for who?? Why in the heck can't I just walk in Wal Mart and hand them my prescription like any sane person would do?
This world is crazy I tell you. Change, change, change. All those educated fools are just getting too big for their britches to my way of thinking. They don't know anything about real people because they are not real. They've got so much knowledge in their swelled heads that their brains have got squeezed outta there. Yep. I got the whole thinf figured out. So why don't they listen? I done told you, their brains are all pinched up in their over sized heads that it forgot how to function in the real world. Yep! That's the way I see it.
