....day off.....

yesterday.......I took a day off...........from life.......and by life I don't mean from breathing or doing laundry or grocery shopping........

Today I'm back full force......Abby cheers for boys' basketball afterschool....Jackson is a player buddy for Special Olympics basketball tonight.......I have great memories of basketball....sitting on the bleacher footrest with the seat as a desk......running around under the bleachers during games......the smell of popcorn......my dad won a free throw contest during one of my brother's games in high school.....I swear to pinochle that he shot the ball underhand....started the ball at his knees and twirled it to the basket.... old school.....the guys in my class started to give me grief.....until he didn't miss a basket ...and won.....I think the prize was a backboard and hoop.........not sure.....it was cool though.....before the contest, he had me show him how to shoot from the chest......it didn't work...he was 95% accurate with old style.......memories are such a special thing.....don't forget to keep making them .....

I like to think I have memories from age 3.....in reality, there is video footage from my Uncle Bill and photos from my grandma......she had the old polaroid that you have to wait two minutes before you peeled the film......good thing she thought I was photogenic......there might have been no photos of child number 4 otherwise........anywho....my memories are of going to the Rose Parade in Pasadena when I was 3......my cousin Billy caught a stuffed Pooh Bear and gave it to me..well, Aunt Mary made him give it to me....I don't think he loved the idea.... I still have it somewhere.....my Uncle Andy bought me a periscope so that I could see....even on my dad's shoulders it was hard to be short at that parade......that periscope was a cardboard box with mirrors angled on the ends.....but it worked.....

yep..I'll be the lady that rambles in the nursing home........and probably the one who bites annoying people......