13: The Vampire Diary
1. I think I’ve got a little vampire in me because I really like to kiss Joe on the neck, right on the carotid artery, the place where you check for a pulse when you’re giving CPR.
2. When Joe and I first got together in 1987 I had a hard time saying “I love you” for the first time because the phrase is so overused and it almost seemed trite in comparison to how I was feeling. I was finally able to express myself by saying, I am so loving you.
3. For a long time I was hesitant to get married again, so we had yearly commitment ceremonies that we called “United Untied.”
4. Before we got married I remember noticing that the word “die” was right in word married and that being “married” was in the past tense. So I turned it around by realizing that in getting married we do “die” to a part of our old selves and I decided that we were not going to get married so much as we were “marrying.”
5. After my brothers Jim and Dan died one of the things I missed most was kissing them on their necks to feel the warmth of their life force and their animation once again.
6. V is my very favorite letter. It’s vibrant and vibrates like the V in live, vital, and victorious.
7. It’s time to plant garlic.
8. My pink ponytail diary with the lock broke off is the only physical thing (besides photographs) I still have from my childhood. It was started when I was 10 ½ and the first entry, which was written in pencil on January 1, says: ‘Dear Diary, Today is Sunday. I went to church and then went to the store. Nothing good happened because it was raining like mad and I didn’t get to see Richard’ (the boy I had a crush on at the time).
9. A Floydian Prayer: Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of tie-dye and tofu I shall fear no evil for though I am in Floyd, I am not of Floyd. Thy art is with me, Thy grants & Thy tax subsidies comfort me. Mine is the kingdom & glory of slackers & Hatcher Burgers. I will two-step & high lonesome in green pastures. I will seek the stills next to spring waters & getteth me a table at Oddfellas without reservations. Shirley, or one of my ex-wives will haunt me all the days of my life & I will dwell in the Hotel Floyd forever. ~ More humor from Floyd satirist Tom Ryan HERE.
10. Is Floyd really haunted? What do you think?
11. Shinning a light on a dark past? According to the Huffington Post, Obama has okayed installing the solar panels that Carter put up on the White House and Reagan took down.
12. Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ~ Kitty O’Neill Collins
13. I really enjoyed THIS psychedelic light show at the Sun Hall last Saturday during the Donna the Buffalo show. Keep your eye on the guy’s white sweatshirt in the clip. It’s like a slide show screen the show is being projected on to.
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October 7th, 2010 4:20 am
as usual a great read, colleen! omg, how much fun i have had reading my old diary and revisiting my silly younger self! i have several things from my childhood including my last baby doll and her clothes (she is life sized and still beautiful!), a large and medium sized raggedy ann, 2 more dolls, a couple of board games, a few books, and a couple of teddy bears. treasures.
October 7th, 2010 7:11 am
I totally get how you felt about saying the words I love you. Here is the last stanza of my poem titled Nothing More.
The words I love you have no meaning
When they are just words
Nothing more
Happy T13!
October 7th, 2010 7:50 am
Remember the song by “Extreme”……it says it all,
“saying I love you”
#12 is for sure!! xo
October 7th, 2010 9:39 am
6 and 12 agree wholeheartedly
October 7th, 2010 10:09 am
The letter V is also my favorite letter. I love how it means 5 and how sharp it sounds at the beginning of its pronunciation and then how it turns into a soft “eeee” sound at the end.
In tandem with # 8, after my Dad passed away, I threw away all of my old journals. I also threw away all of my old clothes. I wish I hadn’t done that, but I guess everything only served to remind me of my life with him still in it.
October 7th, 2010 12:39 pm
Number six…you missed the word “vivacious!” I occasionally page through some of my old journals. So interesting to see what I was doing or thinking at the time…
October 7th, 2010 1:57 pm
All areas are haunted. How can they not be? So many people have passed through, so much energy and change … surely something is left there, some part of a person, when strong emotions have run rampant.
October 7th, 2010 4:40 pm
As your reader said…a great read. You have an wonderful imagination and I must say the prayer is perfect. I will get there some day. I will walk up behind you and say ‘Howdy, Colleen.”
October 7th, 2010 4:51 pm
Sadly, I don’t think I’m as interesting in person as I am on paper! I’ll be watching for you, Tabor!
October 7th, 2010 5:51 pm
The picture does look a little spooky! I like “V” for vines… like wisteria and crossvine and passion flower.
October 7th, 2010 8:00 pm
What the heck do you mean??? “not interesting in person”????? You are so and more so!!!
I was thinking when I was ready to tell Nelson I loved him……but wanted something original and had meaning. I told him “I am falling………