Feeling The Joy!

Another day finding out what I don’t know.

May 28, 2025, another meeting with my interweb guru. I think www stands for what, why, WTF…

We have been meeting at a wonderful, shared office space in Akron. I have treated every meeting like a business meeting, so you can see here how I attired myself. It was cold and drizzly, so we went with an overcoat. Wish I could spin a grand tale, by alas, I cannot. When I do this, I go all in. Without getting too intimate here, I treat these days like a genetic woman, with all that goes with that (as near as I can emulate).

Our meeting went well, I learned so much and you can see some of the results of a little refresh of the site here. I wanted to update the look, bring recent events into play. My goal here is to build on our community. I would like to think that is what makes us special in the world of blogs by our sisters.

Wednesdays are all day Happy Hour at a great place between our homestead and Akron, so I stopped along the way home for a single Old Fashioned (as opposed to what would have been a few in days past). I was watching our Guardians get a win vs. the Dodgers while enjoying my cocktail. There was one single person at the bar with me (it was not even 4:00PM yet). As I left, he commented that I seemed to be a baseball fan. I joked a bit and wished him a wonderful evening. What struck me was that he treated me like anyone else. As always, that is the way it should be, but as we know, it isn’t always. So, when that happens, time and again, I recognize it and am thankful for it. Frankly, even being who I am, if I saw a sister in the wild, I would not say a word to her more out of a respect for privacy than anything else.

It is sooo good to be a girl! It is a privilege.

Recently I have been torn by the push and pull. This is 100% because I have a tremendous amount of time on my hands of late. That is a function of what I do and how I earn revenue these days and frankly a laziness (wrong word, but I cannot seem to find the right one) I have found from my significant reduction in alcohol consumption vs. allowing myself to mellow with a THC cocktail almost daily. The physical transformation has been remarkable to me. My blood pressure is WAY down and the aches don’t ache as much. We’ll just also say that my body is processing things much differently and in a much healthier fashion. [PLEASE note: your results may vary.] I am allowing myself to relax much, much more. One example, I spend far, far less time online, which pleases me greatly, and sleeping much more.

I do eat more (yeah, I know…), but I am much thinner (beach time again?). Yes, I am spending more Kandi time, and you can absolutely see the joy. But I remain torn by the core of who I am and who I have been forced to be because of my past mistakes, the provider in me. That provider has his truck in the shop as this was written, which means a current need to generate additional funds. Now, I know I have done this time and again over the past decade plus. I have been self-employed for over 20 years now. But it still pushes me, and Kandi pulls me.

A Great Hang

May 31, 2025, I got together with my friend Jennifer and her friends, and I invited Sherry to join us. Of course, there is no photographic evidence of it, but what else is new? I was out the door about noon, back home just short of midnight. I stopped at the art museum to see how our float for the upcoming Parade The Circle is progressing. Then I basically went about killing three hours, first at the art museum, then I had a cocktail and poked around the mall. Penney’s had a bunch of things on $5 clearance, so I picked up four sweaters, like I need them. But they were so cheap.

It was a chilly day, so I went with the oversized sweater we mentioned in a recent post. I was pleased with my look this day!

We then all gathered at Jen’s. We ate, had a drink and then went to two different bars. All in all, a great time with great friends!