Life

There are days when you know, you have a ton of stuff to do, but you can't motivated yourself, and all you do is write, write, write. Like me, I should be cleaning my house, doing laundry, gardening, and calling friends but no, I'd rather be here in the computer, and in the Internet connecting with the world.

While connecting with the world via yahoo, I learned about the Mr. Tobias, quitting his job as the Administrator for the US Agency in International development. Most Filipinos are familiar with "USAID." I remember when I was in Manila, I was going out with a Civil Engineer who worked at the DPH and he use to show projects funded by USAID. And I don't don't if there are still projects in the Philippines being funded by this agency. Anyway, this guy's fault is he was involved with an Escort Services." Poor guy, it's another one of those. salacious and malicious happening.  Every time, we turn the page in yahoo, there's something. Anyway what's next.

It's still beautiful her in Palm Bach County, not hot yet, but wait till July comes, it'll be like a steaming oven. But for now, it's paradise. Even though we know,there be many more hurricane, hopefully, none will pass over my house - always everybody's prayer-not in my own backyard.  So now, we are debating which one to spend money for, the pool or hurricane shutter. We never have hurricane shutter but the last hurricane, a branch scudded to our window and shattered it to pieces. Luckily, we were home. We, the three of us, held with force against the wall a piece of plywood until the fury of the wind passed. It was scary, at this slice of time, ti was like Armageddon.

One reason, I think,when we are not motivated is when all we do is think, and think, of someone dear to us. In my case, a dear friend is in Europe, and I find myself missing him, and thinking of him all the time. Which is crazy. My dear friend Marilyn, a retired Psychiatrist in her 70's is in love with a man, and when I see her eyes and her facial expression of love like that of a teenager, I think, "is this what I'm going to look forward to." If it is , not bad ha!

Comments

[bill]

Hi Jocelyn,
Visiting your blog from the boondocks. I tried posting a comment here before but for some reason, it didn't work. I'm glad it now works :-) Didn't realize that you have serious weather problems there like hurricanes. Here, it's all about the flood and the typhoons which I'm kind of worried about when June/July arrives. So I like these summer months in Manila but not too much because it's just too hot.

Thanks for visiting my blog and for also mentioning it here :-)

[Jocelyn noe]

Oh yes, we live with hurricanes during hurricane season which starts June to Novemeber. Three years ago, we had three hurricanes, back to back. Causes biliions of damages, then two years ago, one hurricane just brush by us but it damaged other places - heard of Katrina deluging New Orleans? So hurricanes like typpoons in Mnaila is everybody's worry here. We all learned to live by it though. Some people relocated to other places, to get away from it, but for me, there's always hurricanes no matter where you go. Only, they come in different forms. Always enjoy reading your blog! Shalom
Jocelyn
Jocelyn