Monday, November 3, 2014

Rant

I see the blue sky above me and sun shining bright. 
I hear the fountain running water dripping with music in the background and the sirens in the distance storming off to some incidental accident. 
I see the leaves falling a sure sign Fall is on it's way. 
I feel the sun beating on the back of my neck while the breeze tries to cool me off. It's the perfect weather and I wonder if I'm lame for not wanting to go anywhere. Sit here alone with the sound of water letting the music take my thoughts away. This introvert can only handle so much before needing a break. 
I see the apples on the neighbors apple tree and I want to pick one. I see the cucumbers overgrown and there's more to pick already.  My garden is plentiful if only I could cook myself I'd use so much more. 
I hear the sounds of the power lines or at least I think that's what that high pitched constant zingggggg is. I hear the neighbors talking because our houses are so close together I think we could put two cups together connected by a string and play old school telephone... Think it would work? I'm lucky they're so great!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Something Underground at Dicks Opera House

What does Halloween look like around here?

Really, I do it for the kids... 

Grace Potter the Goddess

Grace Potter at Red Rocks Sept 20th! I think she has moved to the top of my list for female artist after seeing. Amazing talent and great performer. It was the best way to end Summer! 

Alabama at Red Rocks Sept 14th

Kerry Pastine and The Crimescene!!

Kerry and Paul...

Monday, September 1, 2014

Taste of Colorado with Ryan Chrys and The Roughcuts

The Larson Brothers, Seth and Josh, coming to help a brother out. 

Winehouse Tribute Band

Perfect way to kick off Labor Day Weekend... 
Miss Toddy Walters as Amy Winehouse! 

Ryan Chrys and The Roughcuts and the Larson Brothers

This doesn't cover the fun or the people there but it was the BEST way to end Summer at The Establishment!! 



Thursday, June 5, 2014

Fab Four

The best three for a whole lotta' fun. 
And you have to love the photo bomb!

First Red Rocks Concert John Prine and Emmylou Harris

What a night with friends... 

Preshow fun: 
The deer loved Conal too! (Witchita Run!)


Emmylou opened...


John Prine, great story teller with song...





All in a little time...

Had fun at Hells Bells with Adrian... What a sport! 

Got a little Tempa time!!

Went to Denver Day of Rock to see a few bands like Tracksuit Wedding...


Got more Ryan Chrys...


At Cash 45+1!


Ryan was killed by this guy...




Wednesday, April 23, 2014

I'm Kickin' You



--You can call me up and take a chance 
Cuz you know I'm still up for the dance. 
You deny my words but still feel the same
If you only heard yourself when you say my name

You talk the talk but can you walk the walk
If I change my mind and I gotta go
Honey were through
I'm kicking you.

I can go a day and never look away
Cuz you know it don't matter what people say
I can take a minute or an hour or two
Cuz baby you know that I loved you
But that's it
Honey we're through
I'm kickin you

I might be addicted but at least I'm not a tease
Cuz honey I could have you begging on your knees
But that's it
Honey we're through
I'm kickin you. 

Angel 2

Angel, I tried talking to you in my sleep last night
I thought you said everything would be alright 

Now I'm looking around and can't think straight
There was no worry no warning I can't guess that this was fate

Don't you know
Now Angel, what I said and what I did shouldn't come into play
It seems no matter how hard I try shit just happens anyway

The One



--I'm missing the one 
that I used to kiss 
But until my mind changes 
I'm no good to her like this

Thinking of our days together
How we used to laugh
Makes me miss the old times
Forgetting about the aftermath

I'm missing the one
That used to hold me tight
My guidance through the dark
My comfort through the night

There was nothing funny
About letting her go
My sunshine and my sorrow
Something she'll only know

I'm missing the one
Who made me feel brand new 
I don't know what I did
Now I know not what to do. 

I'm missing the one 
I'm missing the one
I'm missing the one
I'm missing her now

"Tidbits"

       I'm cleaning out my closets
Getting new thoughts in my head
There's enough clutter in here
In all the words you said 
----

Such a picture perfect painting 
Like post it's on the wall
----


Driving down the road making up some story in my head
Because the reality of it all I'd rather be somewhere else instead. 

The highways don't seem so fast considering how long relationships last
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Clearing the cell off...

Smiling freely surrounded by love on a road to happiness no forks to choose from walking along free from burdens free from cares sinking into a cloud of something I never knew that's oh so new and so free and so happy. 
Walking along I've passed you. I've looked. I've seen. I found somewhere no fork in the road could lead me.  
Walking along I've grabbed your hand   I've  taken you to where we can understand this love we've made. 

Free from chains free to love free to choose free from burdens from the past and all the rest can kiss my ass because this love frees me from my own boundaries setting my heart free from this box I've locked it in. 

I touched you. I thought maybe. I kissed you. I knew

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

And Breathe....

                         It's been a week now since my Grandpa died. I worry about my Gram and what she'll do now, she's already taking midday naps, slowing herself down. She's expressed already that she won't have anything to do even though it seems like she's keeping pretty busy for now. She's talking about selling everything on auction now. It all gets me thinking about my own life and my wishes....
   
     I've already discussed giving my house to Susan and Lisa, they've been there like no other friends. Susan is a great BD (best buddy,) to have. The rest of everything in my house pretty much has  a home already outside of here... the paintings go to the bands, I figure they'll like them most. Coles Whalen and Kim Ohara did great by giving me their painting that was given to them.... they knew it would be well kept.  I love my art.

                        Times change and I found out how much tonight when Ali invited everyone to her mom's for her birthday.... As much as I dislike it I get it. We've grown apart and I couldn't have tried harder to be her friend but she couldn't handle it, can't handle it. She can barely be next to me. I'm civil to her and that's it. If I go to a show it's for the others in the van. I only went to the last show because of the people who told md to go... to be with friends and it was pretty good music. A year... I shouldn't let stuff get to me when it comes to Ali, I was merely a stop in the bumpy road she was traveling. Acceptance.

I'm not sure what I've been feeling lately, it's a mixture of emotions with my life. It's coming up on 20 years in a chair next year. It amazes me I've lasted this long... and I'm still a wee bit sane! I'm grateful for some really good aides I've had in my life. At first 5 years seemed like a hard goal to reach, llikke if I made it that long it was good enough. Good enough for who? Me and shouldn't it be that really that's all that matters?

      I've this crush on someone everyone seems to have a crush on... and she seems to like femme women and that's something I'm not. I guess you can't judge me by my clothing bercause what I'd like to be wearing I often can't. I do love my tight shirts in the Summer, shows off my muscle and I'm getting alot of it from working out. I also finally got my lap steel guiktar and thhe splints we made to play it. My friend who wadd going to teach me I featrvwants way too much money... aYoutube baby, it's free and I can go at my own pace. Susan is the only one 3ho'll sit down for free with me, that's a friend. There's not much of anything she can teach me.

I really want this remodel started like yesterday, then it's all about the fung shuia (sp?) of the pkace. I still need to decide on colors or a color.. Red or purple are moving me, a shade of one or theother. Lots to decide upon completion.
I want to get planning some Summer fun! If only to have the money for SUG to play here again. We'll see... it's one way to end the Summer or with somme Dear Marsha! Good ties to be had... soon.





Sunday, March 2, 2014

One of my favorites by Amanda Capper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRnQCeDlSU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

release...

each day i think i'm better than i was before, a better person. i know being paralyzed has helped me on insight others may never get and see things some may not. i may not feel as much physically but i feel that much more emotionally. i wonder if that's the case for everyone disabled... i bet not. maybe the gemini/cancer in me enhances things. my feelings are effected too easily and what i do with them at times isn't good....
     ....so i come here tonight instead and write, a much healthier choice. i can't control people and i try too hard to make things happen when really if people want them to happen they will. i feel like retreating again but i know i can't retreat anymore than i have. i should just hunker down and stay in the rest of winter... hermit... introvert... no friends to go do anything with. it seems all my friends are married or coupled off so i go out alone if i go anywhere... nobody calls me to go do anything even though i'm fully capable and have proven i can get out and stay out later... i thought that would make a difference at one point and now i see that it doesn't. the only time i ever met anyone out was when shit was going on with ali... then it mattered.
                    ..........i wanted to get out this feeling i have inside... selfish or not i want it out in the open.... it's hard being the one who gets everyone together but then not be included if the get together isn't planned by you. it hurts and sends a message of who's important to "you" on a regular basis.... even i have forgotten to invite people but i try to be more conscience of it now... even when i'm out and didn't do the inviting. i just feel i have to get it off my chest with one person in particular and it'll burn a bridge probably but if we were really friends we'll see each other again. i guess i need to be done with a few parts of my life and readjust... i need to readjust my life and way of thinking again.
.....this is the me i don't like, the me i need to fix.... there's always something to fix or better or grow from... that's it, there's always room for growth because we are ever changing as the times change... our views open up... hearts become more open... those who close their hearts become bitter lonely people... that is not me... i might feel lonely sometimes but not all the time... i can't see incorporating anyone into my life because i'm too independent and stuck in my ways... let alone i smoke and stay up till 2 am.

and now that the butterflies have all settled and my nerves are less rattled i'll go watch a movie or something that's not going to provoke too much thought.....
                                         ....goodnight.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Weekend plus...

It was a nice weekend filled with plenty of relaxing, friend time, creative time, music making  time... I put myself out there and well, if at first you don't succeed... go to the straight bar, I get more numbers and more attention. I wasn't so much concerned for me as trying to find my friend a match... it wasn't happening. Come to find out we have a crush on the same person, no surprise really, everyone has a crush on her.

I don't feel there's much more I can do to put myself out there... Go out, I'm on a dating website, and everyone knows I'm single... come on Universe! I think I  just need to go out alone because most assume I'm with whoever is accompanying me. I don't know how I can be intimidating by myself... I just exude independence and strength.

I finally have the contract to remodel and just need to sign it and get it back... then hopefully they can start asap. I'll really be lost and locked in 2 rooms when they start tearing down walls. I'm excited.

My mom came over today without any notice and just walks in.... I want her to do that while I'm having sex sometime just to prove a point to knock or ring a damn doorbell. I love her coming over but she makes me want to call 911 every time. She doesn't even announce herself, it's nerve racking.

Ali has been going out of town every weekend which has helped me in a way I'm not wondering what she's doing or if I'll run into her. She never calls me up to go out even though we go to the same music. I guess it's her choice really, I'm the one who text her and take the initiative to get together... no more. I am not wasting my energy on people who A. don't deserve it and B. don't deserve it. Lunch with other people is more fun.

I pd another credit card off, it feels good. Now I'd like to pay another one off but I'm afraid of the longer month. Why does 3 days throw the finances off so much? I'll find a way to do it... then pay another one in April. I'm hoping to start the first party in May but with construction I don't know. I'll pray and send it out there to be done... maybe one thing can go my way. Getting things done and out of debt feels good.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Day...

The day was good... though I didn't wake up on time that's becoming normal. I figure I want to sleep till 7 if I'm awake till 3! My eyes look like a raccoons. If I could sleep till I couldn't anymore but I have to wake up and take medication. It seems I can never quite do as I would like... in a way this handicap controls me. I wish I could go away one weekend with my friends. The ones I consider "close," don't think of me that way it seems... or just not anymore.

It was odd at lunch today... I saw no attraction towards Ali, in fact it felt like lunch was so superficial. Angie is our glue. We sat there, with a 3rd, and an hour after she got there she was ready to go. It felt like we were there for a while but  then I had gone to the same place the day before and what felt like a short time 2 hours had passed... and we could've talked more. You just click with some... maybe all Ali and I had in common was music and an attraction? It felt good to be "over it."

Now... I mentioned something about being the only single one and a friend, much younger, invited me to go to Charlie's... and she's not a dancer. I love to dance however so we'll see. She'll find someone before I do, she's a little cutie. I've been trying but really, it's not happening. The person  I thought was a bit interesting is just a game player so I won't go there. Summer's coming soon enough so I'll want to be single... or so I tell myself.

I'm not oblivious to know I also have to want it and get out there. I don't know if I even remember how to date... yeah, been  a while. I'm used to the old "meet up here," or "go grab lunch/coffee," which I'm not sure is a date? Feedback?

There's a comment section... How do you ask someone out? What do you do  on a date? #help too bad hashtags  don't work here!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Plenty full of empty...

i wanted you, then i knew you, i saw through you
you cut me down, then shut me out
you showed me what loving you was about

i called out for help but no one answered my cry
i didn't give a reason i just popped on by
the plenty full of empty
in the dried tears i cry

i couldn't let it out, i couldn't tell a soul
you wouldn't set me free then just let go
you forced my lips sealed but my mind was so full....

i'm plenty full of empty
in the dried tears i cry...

Reno/Loveeday

RENO DIVORCE





BRENT LOVEDAY AND TH DIRTY  DOLLARS