Moving Announcement

Sorry, I haven't been blogging for awhile.  I also haven't checking out ur blogs yet but tonight I did some of urs.  I had been busy and feeling moody since the death of my S F uncle.
I am announcing I am moving out this weekend.  Surprise, huh?  Soon, my computer will be disconnecting for awhile until it's back on when I move into a new house with a swimming pool.  Yep, I am going to live in a large suite of my parents' house in the same city where I am living now.  It will be on the first floor of 2 story.  I can't believe I am moving out so soon.  I am going to miss my place very much.  I have been living in an apt for almost 7 yrs.  Wow, that's a long time.  Some of boxes are full packed and sitting on the daybed.  I was very, very busy all day but I got a help by 3 people this afternoon.  Thank God, they gave me a relief.  Whew!  Packing the stuff is driving me crazy.  Ahhhhhhh!  Mom's trust friend, Joan, is taking care of my valuables like my bank accounts, cameras, CDs. etc.  She's protecting them until I move into a new place.  U know what I mean. 

Anyways, I will let u know when my computer is ready to be a connection to an internet.  After I settled down, I will probably send u some digital photos of new house and will do more blogs.

See ya soon.

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 3rd of Part 3

On an early Wednesday morning after his death, Uncle Richard made me crying while in bed few hours before I received news about Richard’s death in an e-mail from one of my Dad’s relatives.  I can’t sleep thru the night.  An itch bothered me all night.  I figured something tells me.  I knew he’s going to die.  I was depressed little bit.  I asked Uncle Richard to tell Uncle Joe and Uncle Bob I said “Hello” for me.  I was trying to control and stop crying all day until I ate an ice cream cone that afternoon.  It works for me.  It did stop me from crying.  Thank God.  I felt better afterwards.  I am about getting over the death of my uncle.

I can feel the presence of Uncle Richard few times since he died.  On Friday morning, July 18^th, I was still in bed, not really awake.  I felt 3 long puffs of cool air on my right cheek.  I was thinking about Uncle Richard again.  He made me smiling.  And on Saturday afternoon, while napping, I felt someone sitting on the bed beside my feet.  It could be the spirit of Uncle Richard.

I can image Uncle Richard walks on the beach in his Boy Scout uniform as a young boy and dips one of his toes into the shore of Daytona Beach as the sun is about rising in the warm morning.  I guess he can be enjoying the view of the beach and sunrise.  Did he?  Possible.  He’s probably having daydreaming as he stares at the sunrise.

Goodbye, Uncle Richard.  I miss you very much.  I love you very much.

R. I. P.

See a slideshow below:

 

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 2nd of Part 3

On Thanksgiving week 1996, Mom, Joe, Dee, Joe’s old girlfriend, and Todd, my then boyfriend, and I went on a trip to Stinson Beach.  Richard and Joan (see the photo on the right) invited us there for a holiday dinner at the home of famous musician named Jerry Garica.  Uncle Richard rented there.  It has a tennis court, Jacuzzi, and a swimming pool and a guest house.  Wow!  We had a delicious dinner.  We had a wonderful time all afternoon.

I just learned Richard was a celebrity for a short time as a young Boy Scout in 1945.  I didn’t know that.  My Dad didn’t mentioning it to me until Uncle Richard told me about it.  There was a picture of Richard in the newspaper.  In that newspaper, it shows a picture of Richard helping an old lady who was about fainting during the funeral of FDR.  Richard was living in Washington, D.C. with his family at that time while his mother was living in Florida with my Dad as a young boy.  Wow, that’s interesting.  Few times, I can’t find a picture of Richard at the funeral of FDR online.  It was difficult.  I can’t pay it.  I believe it was in late April 1945.  Recently, I found out where the picture of Richard is located when I asked for.  I was told in an email that the location of his picture is at the site of FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.  Cool.  One day when I go back to Washington, D.C. on my vacation, I will visit the building of FDR Memorial and find the picture so I can take a digital photo of it.  Someone will send that picture to me when he or she did take a great picture there later so I will put that picture in my blog in the future.

Richard was born and grew up in Washington, D.C.  He was a baseball player as a young boy.  And a Boy Scout.  Richard was graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C.  He was an editor at The Washington Daily News, The Evening Star, and Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine during his journalism career of four decades.  In 1965, Richard moved his family to San Francisco when he was promoted to become a bureau chief for the magazine until his retirement in the early 2000s.  Richard has children and stepchildren.

Richard enjoyed his hobbies.  His hobbies are tennis, snorkeling, ping pong, and travel.

Richard spent on so many vacations over the years since his retirement.  He went to Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Florida, Death Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Africa, and Nevada.  He had been to China during his editing career before.

About 3 months ago, I sent an e-mail of slideshow to Richard and Jack about a 100^th anniversary of my high school, Seabreeze.  I am so glad that Uncle Richard had a chance to look up a slideshow of high school class reunion on time.  Thank God!

I have received nice gifts in the mail from Uncle Richard and his wife, Joan, few times.  A beautiful Hawaiian sundress (see the photo on the right.  Taken at a Mexican restaurant on July 1, 2003) and a real shell necklace that he bought in Hawaii for me on his vacation with Joan in 2003.  He sent a mail package of them to me when he returned home.  I love that sundress very much.  I wore that sundress again on Friday July 18^th in honor of Richard. A coffee mug and a book (see the photo below) as a Christmas gift 2003 from Muir Woods where he currently worked a part-time job.

 

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 1st of Part 3

This is Uncle Richard waving and smiling during his trip to New Mexico April 2008.

I lost my wonderful uncle.  I can’t believe my S.F. uncle, Richard, passed away on Tuesday night, July 15^th, at 6:30 pm California time.  He was my Dad’s brother.  Richard died of pneumonia.  He was in a hospital and had been sick for a month.  I just found out about him a week before his death when I received an unexpected e-mail from one of Dad’s relatives.  Oh, I am going to miss him very much.  I will never forget Richard.  The last e-mail I received from Richard was 2 months ago.  He was discussing the sunburn on his trips 3 months ago and the work at Muir Wood on the weekend of Memorial Day.  Also, the last time I saw him in a person was on Thanksgiving week 1996 outside San Francisco.

I’ve decided to blog the story of Uncle Richard recently since he died because I am here to reminisce and tribute his life.  Here it is:

When I was 13 yrs old while living in California with my family, Dad introduced me to meet relatives on his side in San Francisco on one weekend in March 1982.  I first met Uncle Jack, his then wife, Christina, and their daughter, Kelly, at their home.  Kelly was about my age at that time.  And then later on that afternoon, I met Uncle Richard when he came over to visit us.  Uncle Richard made me laughing.  He looked healthy back then.  The color of his hair was about started to develop a silver.  About 2 months later, May 1982, I attended to a wedding of Richard’s daughter, Jeanne, with my parents. Jeanne was about to marry Jamie, a computer whiz.  An outdoor wedding took a place at Mt. Tamalpais State Park, north of San Francisco, but the weather turned out cold and foggy.  I dressed up pretty that I wore for Easter.  I recall witnessing Uncle Richard walked down the aisle with Jeanne in her mother’s wedding gown on a ground of the hill.  Richard looked so good in his black tux.  LOL!  After the wedding ceremony, we went to a reception in Sausalito at the bay.  So many wedding guests were flocked there and had a good time.  They danced for hours. Wow!  The band was loud.  I was sitting in the lightweight wheelchair.  Richard danced a lot but I hadn’t noticed in him much.  He chatted with wedding guests a lot.

I saw Uncle Richard again in Washington, D.C. in the late summer of 1989.  We were there for our family reunion on the Labor Day weekend.  I was a new student at a college at that time and was just graduated from Seabreeze High School 2 months earlier.  I just found out Uncle Richard is remarried to Joan, his 2^nd wife, on Father’s Day in that same year.  Uncle Richard and his 2 other brothers, Jack and Joe, were staying at the same

major hotel with their family.  My Dad, brothers Joe and David, and I were staying there, too.  Bob, Richard’s other brother, lived at his home in Bethesda, Maryland.  Bob was not visiting at our hotel to chat us because he had an Alzheimer’s disease.  We were having a social in the lobby of our hotel one night (see the photo on the right, L to R:  Richard, Jack, Dad, and Joe).  We ate snacks and drank and chatted.  We had a family reunion dinner at another place the next night.  On Sunday, the family reunion was having a huge picnic at the park outside Washington, D.C.  I can’t remember seeing Uncle Richard doing something at the park.  I guess he chatted and played all day.

Both Bob and Joe are deceased now.  Bob passed away in about either 1991 or 1992.  Joe died of heart attack in December 1994.

 

 

News About The Death of My Uncle. Harp Therapy. Wal-Mart.

I am back on this blog.  Sorry, I hadn't been in a mood for a week.

Last Tues night, July 15th, 6:30 pm California time, my S F uncle, Richard, passed away.  That's one of reasons why I wasn't in a mood.  I can't believe Richard died.  An early Wednesday morning after he died, Richard made me crying while in bed few hours before I received unexpected news about Richard's death in an e-mail from one of my Dad's relatives.  I knew he's going to die.  I had gut feelings little bit.  I tried to control and stop crying all day until I ate an ice cream cone that afternoon.  It works for me.  It did stop me from crying.  Anyways, I am still working on a tribute to my uncle for the future blog.  I am not finishing it yet but I will let u know soon.

This is a picture of Uncle Richard that was taken at a family reunion picnic in Washington, D.C. on July 22, 2006.


I went to see Melody for my harp therapy last Friday morning.  I was late for an appt with Melody cuz Joe, my brother, kept typing a letter to someone longer in my computer.  He was focused and thinking on it seriously.  I was waiting for him to finish it so he have to leave my apt right away.  He did.  When I arrived at Melody's house in Daytona Beach, I informed her about the death of my S F uncle.  She felt sorry for me.  Then we were doing a therapy.  I had a terrible headache after the therapy is finished.  Mom and Melody think I don't eat much.


Afterwards, I went to Wal-Mart but I had to eat my lunch first at McDonald's there.  I was so hungry.  I hadn't eaten my breakfast much.  I ate yogurt and later drank a coffee few hours before I left my place that morning.  I was so concerning about me if I am going to faint, could that be?  I was in a hurry to order my favorite lunch there immediately.  McChicken sandwich, small package of french fries and medium Spirite.  Finally, it so relieved me when the food went into my stomach comfortably.  Ahhh, feels good.  After lunch, I continued to do shopping.  I was waiting in the cart for either Dad or Mom to pick me up outside when I finished shopping.  Unexpectedly, it turned out Joe brought his truck to pick me up.  Joe helped putting grocery bags in his truck for me.  Joe dropped them off at my apt while I was waiting in the truck.  Then Joe is going to drop me off at the library where Mom was waiting for us.

At the library, I had to do renewing the book and borrowed some DVD movies.  Joe also wanted me to rent his movie tapes from there.  And then I went home at last.

That's it for now.

Harp Therapy. A Lunch At Love, A Health Food Store.

I had a harp therapy at Melody's house in Daytona Beach this late morning.  Melody and I were discussing my hopeless about Todd.  She said he's nothing to help me.  He's also worthless.  Yeah, she's right.  I guess Todd already knows what my problem with him is cuz I told him about my feelings in an e-mail to him few times but I can't give u some private details about between us.  Anyways, I had a feeling that come out of my head like a flow.  During a harp therapy, I had thoughts about Todd but I did not tell Melody some of those details afterwards.  Her music was wonderful.  Wow, my brain acted funny right after the therapy.

After a harp therapy with Melody, Mom and I went to Love, a health food store in Ormond Beach, for our lunch.  I bought Mom a lunch.  Mom and I ate lunch together at the table outside.  We ate spinch wraps with some carrots, a package of healthy chips, and a soda but I kind of disliked it cuz that soda has a sugar free.  It tastes like a funny little bit.  I would like rather having a regular sugar of soda.  Next time, I will get a different one.  Anyways, my lunch was delicious.  So was Mom's.  I enjoyed eating it.  Yummy!  And then we left there for going to do a shopping at Bealls'.

Shopping at Wal-Mart and Bealls.

I just got home from a shopping at Bealls in Ormond Beach near I-95 highway about before 4 pm today.  I had a fun.  I bought new some clothes that fit me well.  Including a new, white bikini.  I haven't buying some pairs of jeans yet but I will soon.  I've discovered some pants and carpi don't fitting me.  My own size is not right.  Too big.  I can't believe it when I tried them on in the fitting room at Bealls this afternoon.  I thought it should be 6 but I guess it will be either 2 or 4 but Bealls don't have those sizes.  Shoppers already bought size 2 or 4, and they are gone!  I can't find them anywhere.  I am disappointed but I am okay.  I feel I am skinny due to a fast weight loss last year by an illness.  When I finished shopping this afternoon, I noticed there's an unexpected rain outside the big shop.  Like about between 80% and 100% chance of rain.  I didn't know that.  I felt the outside is breezy while I waited for Mom to come over in her car.  We did not get wet but almost and were lucky.  Thank God.  Mom had a smart plan.  She moved her car onto the large ramp of sidewalk and parked it so I won't get a wet under the ceiling and Mom had to put my wheelchair back into the trunk of her car.  I was in a hurry.  The rain almost made me a wet by the wind.  Mom dropped me off at my place.


Last Wednesday I went to Wal-Mart.  I stopped by McDonald's for ordering my breakfast, Burrito and a small cup of coffee.  And then I continued to do shopping.  I developed digital photos at the computer in the photo department.  I didn't counting them when those came out.  I thought I had them but when I came home that late morning, I've discovered some of them are missing.  I was suprised.  Oh, shoot!  I thought the computer works but it's screwed up counting the number of developed pics I ordered.  I touched all of the pictures I wanted to order on the screen of computer.  I had to fix one of pictures cuz I have no head in that picture that was taken on the football field at Seabreeze on April 26th.  I did it successfully.  The next time I will go back to get some of my developed photos showing up.  I can't believe some of my pictures are missing!  Anyways, I bought a new beach towel and an item.  And more food.  I went home when I finished shopping.

I am seeing the rain already stopped thru a window of my living room.  The sun comes out but a partly cloudy this time.  And windy.

That's it for now.

July 4th Party In St. Augustine

I had a blast last Friday.  I enjoyed the holiday all day.  I felt better when I got out of my apt.  Here is my blog:

I woke up that early morning and realized it's a 4th of July.  I said, "Happy Birthday, America!"  Few hours before my friends showed up at my door, I ate small breakfast.  My breakfast was a yogurt and later on coffee.  I felt yogurt comforting my belly gently.  Yogurt works, u know.  The reason I ate a small breakfast is that I would be eating alot of food at our friends' house.  The hubby of one of my deaf friends, Chuck, came over to pick me up on time, almost 10:30 am.  I had everything packed ready to go.  I turned off the computer immediately and closed the blind on windows.  When my hearing/interpreter friend, Nova, came over and asked to use my water as she's carried few empty bottles.  I replied yes.  I allowed her to use it whatever.  I didn't know how sick Nova was.  I didn't figure it out until 10 minutes later when I found out about Nova.  Chuck, Amy, and Billy who has a mental retardation and is deaf since birth, were riding in Chuck's new gold Ford truck.  I went into Nova's car.  My stuff and wheelchair are in Chuck's truck but the cake I bought recently in Nova's car.  When I got into Nova's car, she told me how sick she was.  Her breakfast was fine but Nova vomitted afterwards.  She didn't understand why.  Poor Nova.  About 10-15 minutes later into driving on the road, north U.S. 1, Nova announced she's feeling better.  Hmm, I am surprised.  Her recovery from illness is sped up fast.  Wow!  I guess I gave her a magic healing.  LOL!  But I don't know.  As Nova was driving into the city of Palm Coast, we talked and listened to the music.  We were discussed this city, Palm Coast.  It's growing step by step slowly.  We saw forest surrounding the city.  There is a new, long sidewalk and few, new wooden bridges.  No developed houses in sight yet but those will in the future Nova believes.  Otherwise, we stopped by at our deaf friend's house in Bunnell.  Chuck and Amy in truck followed Nova's car as we were arrived at a deaf friend's apt.  She lives in an apt alone but with a cat.  Her name is Mary.  Mary brought her stuff and was sat inside the back of Chuck's truck.  And then we went ahead traveling straight and following Chuck's truck.  As I was looking at Chuck's new Ford truck, I was concerned about my wheelchair cuz it might get hot from the sun.  I can see my wheelchair is upright.  It supposed to be covered up.  We were not thinking about covering it up but our minds forgot about it cuz we were so busy with other things for 4th of July party. 

We arrived at our deaf friends' house in St. Augustine.  St. Augustine is 50 miles north of my hometown and the oldest city in the world, 443 years old.  The house of our deaf friends is closer to the bridge.  After my wheelchair unloaded from the truck, I checked it out to make sure if it's not hot.  No, it's not really hot.  Thank God.  I guess the wind made it a cool off as if the truck was still driving on the road.  We greeted and hugged our deaf friends, Ray and Jan, both deaf married couple who own the yellow house with a swimming pool again.

We brought our food there.  Ray and Chuck started grilling hot dogs outside.  Ray and Jan pulled out big metal bowls from their refrigerator in the garage to put them on the counter in their kitchen immediately.  Those bowls are macaroni salad and potato salad.  I ate a macaroni salad.  Yummy!  I was soooo hungry while waited for a hot dog.  Nova and Mary went to Wal-Mart to get food.  They didn't bring anything there before coming to a deaf couple's house.  When the hot dog arrived, it tastes like a honey and very delicious.  Wow!  I felt good when I ate it.  Nova and Mary returned later.  They bought food from Wal-Mart: Sodas, chips, dips and corns.  After I finished eating it, I went to swim in the pool outside with my old bubble.  Ray and Chuck carried me into the swimming pool.  I swam myself and played small balls with friends.  Afterwards, Nova, Mary, and I were chatted as I was sitting in the pool.  Then I've decided I need to get out of the pool.  Chuck helped me out.  I needed to dry up from the sun first.  Billy changed his bathing suit into his clothes right away when he went back inside.  Then I returned inside the house and ate snacks.  I met another friend named Diane and her friend, the boy named Dale whom Diane babysat when he was little.  She's nice.  While I was at the table, I noticed Billy napping in the chair outside.  LOL!  I guess he's so tired after all.  When Billy was in the swimming pool, he played and went wild like a little boy.  He was excited.

All of us were chatted at the dining table.  We were discussed the new TV reality show on ABC Thursday nights, "Hopkins", TV sets, and business patents.  Hopkins is the name of famous hospital after a philanthropist, Johns Hopkins, in Bailtmore, Maryland.  That hospital is where I had taken tests as a baby girl and 40 miles west of my birth place.  Doctors diagnosed me a congential rubella symdrome there.  Mary watched that show.  Me too.  Wow, that famous hospital is so big when it comes to air on.  It has 6 parts documentary through out July.  Amy told me Billy wanting to go home.  He always complains.  Oh, we found out Billy is planned to watch a baseball game on TV at 8 pm.  And then Ray asked us how many hamburgers we want to eat.  I repiled one is enough and I wanted a cheese within it.  I almost ate it but I felt I am about full cuz I ate snacks between meals that afternoon so I didn't want it.

Afterwards, I went into the jacuzzi outside before the sky was about getting dark.  I swam little bit with my bubble on.  I wanted to swim again cuz the temperature outside might be dropping little bit and I would feel cold.  And several minutes later, I wanted out right away.  Burrr, I felt cold when I got out.  I covered up with beach towels and waited for warm up by sun.  When I felt the warm relaxing me, I took towels off and then went back inside the house.  When I returned in there, I had to change my bathing suit into my summer outfit.

After I changed in the bathroom, I planned wanting to eat a slice of cake.  That cake is so good.  And minutes later I went outside again.  Heard fireworks in the backyard with a pair of my hearing aids on.  I didn't wear hearing aids all afternoon until that evening when I went into a change.  I felt a quiet without hearing any kinds of noise.  I saw some of them in the air.  And then I went back inside again.  Later, some of us watched fireworks on TV that night.  Beautiful fireworks.  Ate snacks again.  It's time for us go home.  We left the deaf couple's house after 10 pm.  I rode in a gold truck with Chuck, Amy, and Billy.  Nova is taking Mary back home in Bunnell.  On the way back to home, I saw some fireworks elsewhere.  I returned home after 11 pm.

I will post slideshow about this party tomorrow.  I promise.

A Last Minute Plan For Tomorrow's Celebration

Dad came in to pick me up early this mid-morning.  He dropped me off at Publix, a supermarket.  At Publix, I bought 2 tall bottled waters, a raspberry swirl with buttercup cake, a package of 12 7up cans with a flavor, lemon, and 2 lids of Sip n Seal for my 4th of July picnic at deaf friends' house tomorrow.  For home, cheese and bologna meat, more maple syrup, and a new black Publix shop bag.  I had a fun.  And then I went home.

This afternoon, I had to do a last minute plan e-mail to my deaf friend, Amy, who will pick me up tomorrow late morning.  I told her what I bought at Publix today and asked some questions.  Amy e-mailed back to me later on to answer my questions.  Okay, no problems.

I have been busy packing many things into my beach bag this late afternoon so I won't have to waste my time in the morning.  Many things in my beach bag are mat, few hats, 2 bottles of sunscreen lotions, beach towel, binocular, my old bubble, my digital camera, and a small bag of batteries.  I will do few things to add in the morning.  Wow, so many things!  And I changed my purse again.

That's it for now.  Good night.

Shopping.

I didn't do blogging yesterday cuz I wasn't feeling well again but today, I feel great.

Last Monday afternoon, I went shopping on the beachside, just south of my high school and restuarants.  It's at Bealls Outlet in Daytona Beach, where tourists shop and it is having a discount sale.  I chose 3 pairs of earrings I like very much and to match my clothes.  I really need new pairs of earrings cuz the others on the desk in my bedroom are getting old.  I don't wear them much but I've worn them for a long time so it's time to give them away.  There are so many items on the rack in Ladies' lingeries when I went over there.  Those are so mixed up!  I was looking for the right size of items since I lost weight fast last year.  I was focusing to pick the right ones I would like to try on seriously.  I think JCPenney is the best cuz lingeries department in it is very organized.  I would be rather going to the mall instead.  And then I went to the fitting room to try 2 items on but I discovered one of them don't fitting me right so I decided the other is the best.  Mom wanted to go immediately cuz she had an appt with someone at the house in Port Orange that Mom was going to check out.  Mom did have on time.  I waited in the car while Mom was inside the big house with an unknown man.  Afterwards, Mom dropped me off at Wal-Mart that early evening.  The sky was not ready to become a night yet.  And then Mom left.  Before she's driving off, I instructed her to do not forget my plastic bag of new items I bought from Bealls Outlet.

At Wal-Mart, I shopped for food and non-food items.  I needed to buy another journal book and a new, small pink package of coupons cuz my old purple one is worn out.  Another package of more light bulbs.  I searched for a folded-up hammock everywhere in another department but I can't find it.  I wanted to know how much price the hammock is first.  I was disappointed but I am okay.  I needed to bring it to the park at beach in case.  After I finished shopping there, I went to McDonald's to get my supper in the back of Wal-Mart.  I ordered a cheeseburger, a small package of french fries, and drink, strawberry milkshake.  I wanted to carry a plastic bag of those supper on the go.  And then I went home.

My God, I haven't been to the mall in a long time.  The last time I went there was in Christmas 2006.  I really wanted to go back there so badly.  The reason I didn't go back there is I have to pay bills and food that come first.  It's hard on me.

Daytona 500 International Speedway (DIS), a site of car race, is underway to get ready for big event this holiday weekend.  Traffic on International Speedway Blvd (ISB) will going to be bad and crowded.  Car race tourists will park their trailer or camper next to the speedway in full.  Many tourists keep coming back on on the same road, ISB, cuz it's a popular.

Tomorrow, I am going to Publix, a supermarket, for buying a cake and some drinks for 4th of July picnic at deaf couple's house in St. Augustine.