NEW WEEK

Let us see if the month of March is going to end with a bang.

This is Holy Week....

Lord, I hope I do not get nailed to a cross on Friday.....

THE DAY AFTER

The big day has come and gone.  It will be another year before I can beg for gifts again...

Truth be told, I always seem to do well on birthdays.  People like me.  Fancy that...

I got cards, the old fashion kind, and loads of the internet kind.

I got some gift cards, some cash, and some real neat stuff.

Like two lamps for my new apartment.  A crystal gravy bowl, for the smart candle-lighted suppers I will have.  I got a Ronald Reagan Presidential Match Book.  Books and assorted collectables.

I also got baked goods.  The real good kind, fresh from the bakery in the early morning of my birthday.

I was taken out to supper.  Nice meal with a lovely glass of wine and most excellent company to enjoy the meal with.

All in all, I can hardly wait until next year....

JOHN WATERS ON TURNING 67

“You know, I understand wanting gay marriage. I would never vote for somebody that was against gay marriage. I purposely have no desire to imitate a rather corny tradition of heterosexuals, to me. I would owe three alimonies.” 

“I don’t fit in with gay people either. I’m gaily incorrect. I kinda want gay people to be outlaws again. I don’t wanna get married but I certainly believe that people have the right to be married. I never fit in. There’s too many rules in the gay world too. So if I ever talk about my homosexuality, which I certainly do, I don’t do it in a very gaily correct way. I think people should hang around with gay, straight, everybody, completely mixed. Many of my friends are straight. It’s just as much fun to me. I don’t wanna hang around with everyone that’s exactly like me. I went to a wedding in Chicago between a straight man and a straight woman but they had a gay commitment ceremony, a bad one on purpose — like a bad separatist female folk singer and bad gay music, and it was really good. The relatives were confused.” 

“Well, you can’t avoid Christmas. You have to embrace it, either for the right reasons or the wrong reasons. Or you can reject it, but you have to think of a funny way to reject it. You have to use humor to get through Christmas, because it’s a trying time financially and emotionally…Whatever hand you’re dealt from your family, Christmas is the time when it’s hardest to make it work. But you’ve gotta try.” 

“I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, and The Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.” 

MY HEART IS FULL

I HAVE BEEN HAPPY EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY, MY HEART IS FULL, FOR I KNOW I HAVE BEEN LOVED.

Truth be told, there were times when I felt unloved.  That has not been the case of late.  Birthdays have a way of showing you how many lives you have touched and how you have been touched in return.

I like me.  More important, I know that people like me.  How lovely it is to know that there be some who go all gooey over you...

If life is a banquet, I am guilty of eating too much...

TIME FLIES

The handsome man in the snap above is the old geezer when he was 39 years old.  That be the chap with brown hair, the other was my companion, who has been dead these past 27 years.

I have been very fortunate in life.  I have known real love and I have enjoyed many wondrous adventures.  I have no reason to believe that the adventures are still coming my way.

I look very happy in the snap.  Truth be told I am quite happy now.  Life is working out well.  I have no real complaints.

I have taken on some challenges of late.  Challenges that will keep me active and might make some positive changes in the lives of people around me.

My relationship with Hawaii has always been a good one.  However oft I left, I have always returned.  This is where John's ashes are and there is no other place that has such ALOHA.  My fortunes have gone up and down but I have always wanted to end my days in Hawaii.  Recent changes have made it likely that I will.  I am pleased about that.

I have never had large number of friends.  I consider myself lucky that I have friends of long standing that love me just the way I am.

There are some who want to get over on me.  That is not going to happen.  I am content with my circle of friends and have no desire to be the most popular person in Waikiki.

Today is Prince Kuhio Day, a holiday in Hawaii.  Seems altogether fitting that the big parade is scheduled for Saturday.  How lovely that they will be having a parade on my birthday...

I AM 'LOVED'

I awoke this morning to find that someone who 'loved' me gifted me with human excrement.  It had been carried in a bag and smeared on the doormat and door.

I knew it was human excrement.  Very personal gift...

I have been down this road before.  However crude it was to do this, I had been gifted before and was not shocked, just disgusted.

I am trying to right many wrongs at the property I live.  Doing the 'right' thing is not always appreciated or easily accomplished.

The snap is not my door, it was too rude to show.  Water and a brush cleaned up the mess.

Windows have been broken and now the excrement.  What next?  A  plague of cockroaches?

I NEED TO SMILE MORE

Sometimes the 'pose' is not a happy one.  One has to get ready and before one knows it, 'snap' and out comes a gloom look.  I was so concerned about looking at the camera...

I try to get in a good walk each morning.  Makes me feel so alive.

In 4 days I will be celebrating me birthday and I am looking forward to it with undiluted pleasure.  Who knew I would live this long?

What a lot of life has gone by.

OLD GEEZER RETURNS

It has been a spell since I last posted.  My dears, the old geezer has been very busy.  So busy that there is a back log of stories to tell.  I will have to sort through them and see if you like them...

I am in the best of health.  Hawaii suits me and the return to the islands has been a blessing much needed for my sore spirit.  I am walking more than ever and enjoying it.  No worries about taking a spill on ice here.

A long time friend has serious medical problems.  So serious that he may well not leave the hospital.  That is a long story and I will have to return to it when I collect my thoughts.

I have been working on getting my new apartment sorted out.  Loads of repairs and fixing up to do.  It is located in the heart of Waikiki and when done will be the perfect place to entertain my many friends.

I went to Mass today and thanked the Lord for my good fortune and continued good health.

I also want to remind one and all that my birthday is March 28,  just in case you missed the many hints placed in the past.  I adore presents...

I promise that you will be told much in the coming days.  One thing is sure, I lead a colourful life.  But then you knew that already.