Happy Last Day of May

Fidal (Grace), 17 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 173 BE - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 about 7:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time 

The last day of May 

Seven months left in the year 

Two desk drawers cleaned out 

It's the last day of May 2016, I have three desk drawers to clean out before the end of the  year. I plan to have them all cleaned and straightened out before the end of June because I have several boxes in my bedroom that I have to organize and clean out before December 31, 2016. 

I'm looking forward to see what I find in the other drawers. In the last drawer I cleaned out I found my Grandmother's clothes brush and a ring with a red stone in it. I suppose I should take the ring to the pawn shop to see if it is a ruby. I doubt the stone in the ring is a ruby, but the ring itself might be gold. I'll hve to consider taking it to the pawn shop sometime in June. 

Welcome to the Last Sunday in May 2016

Jamal (Beauty), 15 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 173 BE - Sunday, May 29, 2016 about 8:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time 

Last Sunday in May 

And it's a beautiful day 

I'm writing the blues away 

Welcome to the last Sunday in May 2016. Here in Las Vegas under bright sunny skies I am dealing with the Sunday morning blues. I am attempting to write them away. It would be easier if I knew why I was feeling this way.  

There could be several reasons I am feeling this way. I most obvious reason is that it is the end of May. Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer and the only thing I have planned for summer is to remain home. I am planning to read several books, write some stories, and poem. I also plan to listen to the neighbors dogs barking for no obvious reason.  

Figuring out why the dog is barking could be a good plot for a stories. Now I have to figure out whether it is a mystery or horror story. I am attempting to get out of my box and write genre I normally don' t use. I read mysteries, horror, fantasy, and science fiction, but I usually write science fiction and fantasy. 

Writing the blues away seems to be working. I am in a better mood, but that could be the coffee. I just finished my first cup of coffee. I will post this so that I can get on with something else. I want to write a Memorial Day poem, but I have not  decided on a subject. 

Sunday Speculations on My Coming Week

Jamal (Beauty), 7 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 173 BE - Sunday, May 22, 2016 about 4:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

I have a full week of planned of cleaning out desk drawers. My computer desk has five drawers which I decided to clean out last week. I cleaned out  one drawer. That was a difficult job because I had to figure out what was keeping the drawer from opening. I finally managed to get the item out and discovered it was an empty plastic CD holder. 

When I finished cleaning out the drawer I found numerous poem and story beginnings, which I kept and put back in the drawer to work on at leisure. I will work on them, as soon as I get the other four drawers cleaned out. I'll start on one of the drawers, the largest of the four, on Monday. Think I will begin cleaning it out in the afternoon after I finish writing and doing some surveys. 

I did some surveys today. The surveys I completed were rather long, so I am going to limit myself to one or two survey websites a day. The total surveys well be no more than six and  no less than three. That way I will at least ear a little money or a few points while I am cleaning out my desk drawers. After I finish the desk drawers, I have to start on some boxes in my bedroom. 

Thankful Thursday: Gratitude on a May afternoon

Istijlal (Majesty), 4 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 173 BE - Thursday, May 19, 2016 about 7:32 PM PDT 

I am thankful for the wind this afternoon because it makes the day cooler and gives me ideas for poems. 

I am thankful for the long days because it means there is more daylight time. 

I am thankful for cold bottles of water because it help keeps me cooler on warm days. 

I am thankful that I found some more of my mother's poems to put with here collection. 

I am thankful for program with a spell and grammar checker because it helps me find the minor errors in a document. 

I am thankful that I could afford to pay for my prescription today. 

I am thankful that my checking account is not overdrawn today. 

I am thankful for the coffee I had before breakfast this morning. 

I am thankful that I could afford to pay the electric bill this month. 

I am thankful that I could afford to pay my internet provider this month. 

A Tuesday Afternoon in May

Fidal (Grace), 2 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 173 BE - Tuesday, May 17, 2016 about 4:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

It's a beautiful day in Las Vegas. This afternoon the sun is shining. There is no wind blowing right now. There  was a wind this morning. When I went out to check the mailbox it  was chilly. I didn't put on a jacket or a sweater because I wasn't going very far. I suppose I could have used a sweater, but by the time I decided I needed one I was halfway to the mailbox. 

A windy morning 

A little bit chilly but 

Nice all the same. 

Yesterday I cleaned out one of my desk drawers. I threw some stuff away, but I kept the poem and story starts I found. I will begin working on some of them later today. The poem's shouldn't be too difficult to deal with. I'm not sure about the story starts because I'm not sure what I intended to do with them originally. Maybe I will use them as beginnings for some of the 44 short stories I'm writing this year. 

Sunday Speculations on Technology and Phobias

Jamal (Beauty), 19 Jamál (Beauty), 173 BE - Sunday, May 15, 2016 about 8:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time 

If I were superstitious then Friday's incident with technical difficulties would make me make me afraid of Friday the  Thirteenth. Despite the problems I had Friday everything seems to be working well today. I am not superstitious about things like that. I do not know what caused the problem on Friday, but it appears cleared up  today. 

I have to admit that technology could make a person prone to phobias. I am not saying a person does not have something to fear from technology especially if you have liquid around a computer. A leak in the roof above a computer could cause problems as well. However, none of these warrant unreasonable fear and that is what a phobia is. 

I really do not need to acquire any more phobias. I finally managed to deal with arachnophobia and I can now kill a spider in my house without screaming. I can also deal with mice without jumping up on a chair and screaming, but I am not sure I can say the something about rats. Of course, we do not have any rats in the apartments I live in. We do have mice, but no rats. 

This Isn't Funny Friday

Istiqlal (Independence), 17 Jamál (Beauty), 173 BE - Friday, May 13, 2016 about 3:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time

This isn't funny Friday! I attempted to open a document I had on the cloud, but it won't let me edit it in the browser. This means I either have to print off a copy and retype it or see if it will let me copy and past to a file on writing.com. I then attempted to open a new document on the same cloud without success. I have a newsletter to get out this weekend, which I was going to put on the cloud, but since the word documents are being difficult I will compose it and save it on writing.com.

This is a busy weekend, what with the newsletter and offline work I have to do. On Monday I will print the documents I have saved on the cloud and then clean delete all the documents. Of course, by Monday everything will probably be working the way it before today, which means I won't have a problem until Friday the Thirteenth rolls around again next year.

Tuesday Afternoon Thoughts

Fidal (Grace), 14 Jamál (Beauty), 173 BE - Tuesday, May 10, 2016 about 2:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

It's Tuesday afternoon of the second week in May 2016. The year seems to be flying past with one day barely ending before another begins. I'm sitting in front of my computer composing this blog entry while somewhere in my neighborhood a dog is barking. I'm not getting up to see why the dog is barking because by the time I got out the front door the dog would no longer be barking. 

The day seems to  pass slowly but the week is swift in its passing. It seems like just yesterday it was the beginning of the week, but now we are almost half over. As I pause to contemplate the passage of time while eating a grape  I wonder where the past four months have gone. I'm not sure that I've accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish by this time. I still have several months to go before celebrating another year, so I have a little time to accomplish the things I want. 

I know if I push myself I can get a few goals accomplished before the end of 2016. I have to push myself harder then I've been doing. I also have to look at my 2016 goals again. I think the last time I looked at them was in January. I remember one of them, which is the one I will accomplish by the end of May. I'll have to look at the rest to remind myself of what they are. 

Happy Mothers' Day 2016

Jamal (Beauty), 12 Jamál (Beauty), 173 BE - Sunday, May 8, 2016  about 10:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

Happy Mothers' Day 

May all your memories be 

Tear producing joy 

This morning I'm thinking about the daughter I gave up for adoption, my mother, and grandmothers, which causes be to be a bit melancholy. I say melancholy because I'm not really depressed, but a bit sad. Since I know why I'm sad I suppose that melancholy is an overstatement. According to the dictionary melancholy refers to sadness without an obvious cause. Since I know why I'm sad then I probably just plain sad and not melancholy. 

Remember Mama 

Her love for scarlet roses 

Chocolate candy 

I miss Mama, especially on holidays we always celebrated together. Mothers' Day was always one of those days. I remember Mama always liked prime rib with baked potatoes, so we would go out for prime rib whenever we got a chance and the money. Mama liked to have the creamed horseradish with her piece of beef while I preferred raw horseradish. I still prefer my horseradish raw, but sometimes I'll get the other type because it reminds me of Mama. 

Remember Grandma 

She enjoyed baking cookies 

For her grandchildren 

Morning Rituals

Istijlal (Majesty), 9 Jamál (Beauty), 173 BE - Thursday, May 5, 2016 about 5:44 AM Pacific Daylight T ime 

Morning always seems to come so early. It wakes up slow and stretching wondering what the day will bring. Each morning brings specific rituals that help the morning and myself wake up to face  the unknown possibilities of the day. Some morning rituals are about the same for everyone, so there is no need to go into those. Other rituals are different for each person waking up. 

My morning rituals consist of taking my thyroid medication before I even get out of bed, or in my case up off the recliner. I recite the morning prayer by heart, turn on the light, put on the coffee, and change from my nightclothes into my day clothes. Sometimes I change into my day clothes before I turn on the light or begin brewing the coffee. 

Morning rituals are comforting and give some stability to the day.  Stability is necessary to keep a person on track and moving forward undepressed. However, I think one should change the ritual are periodically and shake things up. That's why I waited until after I begin this entry to go into the kitchen to pour myself a cup of coffee. Usually I get my coffee before I begin composing poetry or blog entries.  

On my way back to the computer from the kitchen, I stopped to look out my front window. I wanted to see what the neighbor's dog was barking at. I still don't know why she was barking this early in the morning because she usually doesn't back at anything until later in the morning. There was one car parked across the street this morning. 

Most of the neighbors move their cars into the alleys behind the apartment buildings on Thursday because this is the day the street sweeper is supposed to clean Sunrise Avenue. We have to move the cars in back of the buildings because they give tickets to those cars still parked in front when the street cleaner drives past. I can tell you from experience that a parking ticket for that is $20.00.