On Many Subjects

  I have been on hold with my mortgage company for the past half hour. I made a payment that went to the wrong account. I am so happy I checked to make certain the money went to the correct place. Just an annoyance. That is all. Still holding while the lady checks to see if the money can be moved to the correct account. Seriously? OK. 45 minutes of my life has just sped by while I tried to get something fixed that should not have had to be fixed in the first place. And the lady I was talking to spoke English, but she probably needs to update her library card. Sometimes what she said made no sense, at all. But that isn’t what I wanted to write about today. The end of the year is approaching and I am looking forward to next year. Even with continued Covid-19 scares and variants, I think 2022 will be very nice. You see, I just retired and am no longer working anywhere. What a fabulous feeling! I have a large house and have accumulated two room roommates who pay me enough in rent to mean t

 I saw this on another person's blog and decided to post it after spending about five minutes of my precious time answering the questions. So, if any of these situations happen to me, I will already have a name picked out.  1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (your pet's name and a street you lived on) Tippy College (that's kinda cool)  2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (your grandmother/grandfather first name and your favorite candy) Eleanor Mars (bar) (Also kinda cool)  3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name) K-Pop (Coolness, again)  4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) No way it is Pink Panther!  5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name, your favorite city) Carol Sarasota 6. TERRORIST NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your grandmother's maiden name spelled backwards) Lorac Semaj (Not very terrifying)  7. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, favorite alcoholic drink) The