Hehe.
1. I'm not a Sagittarean. I'm just getting an early start on the brooding, and if I told you my REAL star sign...if you're into that sort of thing, you'd understand my "mopishness" **G**.
2. "Cranky old maid" and "West Coast" aren't choices. I can't stop the first (the aging part, and the old maid part IS a choice to spare men the grief of having me as a WIFE), and I've lived on the West Coast for 30 years, so I take it as my PERSONAL responsibility to act as resistance to some of the outrageous nonsense out here.
3. Not lamenting. I'm BROODING. There's a difference. LOL! (And believe me, I'll hang onto the "fresh" thing for as long as I can, from your and my mouths to God's ear.)
4. Right...if I go on with the cigs, my growth will be stunted. Give 'em up, and I'm a food addict. I've even switched to DIET Coke. That's almost like giving up a full-strength cup of coffee for me.
5. Sheboygan might be the pits, as far as you're concerned...but I rather miss the ol' U.P. of Michigan. Seems so quiet and nice there. And there CAN'T be more lefties there than in California!
6. Yes, I've heard of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. I'm not THAT old, damn it.
7. You know...a married woman doesn't ALWAYS desire beauty sleep at nights above everything else, but I don't want to go Dr. Ruth on you and have you think of me as anything else but the curmudgeon everyone has come to know and love as Merc on this board. **WRY smile!**
So don't worry unduly about my brooding, dear boy. It's all part of my so-called "charm".
My regards to your long-suffering wife. **G**
...and we were doing so good; up to *that* point. ~sigh~
Questions & more questions abound...the UP & your connection thereof, 30 years in purgatory, brooding v.s. brooding, a Dr.Ruth impersonation from a single gal?
...& just what does lie behind a wry LAWoman's smile?
All gone for naught forevermore, I'm afraid; since it's already midmorning.
Now I know what it must've been like to actually be a replicant.