Thanks

WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 3 Number 28
Thanks

Well, it is a chilly Thanksgiving Morning. Actually, I have not gone outside. Hell, I haven’t even gotten out of bed, but it seems cold outside. The bed is soooooo toasty and comfy. Got The Parade on the tube, blankets all wrapped around me and I even have company in the bed. Yes, the dog and the two cats are sharing in my Turkeyday laziness. What? Did you really think it was a woman in bed with me? No sexy, fun time here - just us fuzzy beasts enjoying the Macy’s tradition.

I am going to keep this short as I do need to get up and dressed pretty soon.

I just want everyone to have a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope that you all enjoy your family and friends.

There is one thing I would like to remind everyone to remember. Life is very uncertain and ever-changing, so be sure that you cherish the moments that you have with the people that really matter. The ones who really care for and love you and for whom you feel the same; the ones who turn to you and to whom you turn; the ones who have always been there when you needed or wanted – those are the people who really matter. Hold them close, whether in person or in your heart, because the reality of life is that in the blink of an eye they can be gone.

Someone said “life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” I disagree slightly. While the “moments that take our breath away” are great and memorable, I believe that the best parts of life are the comfortable, happy times that are spent with the people we care about. It may be just a smile over a cup of coffee, a look and a kiss before drifting off to sleep, a story at bedtime, a hug when you need it, a raunchy joke at an inappropriate time or just sitting and talking. These are the moments that are truly our lives - and while they may not “take our breath away,” they are comfortable and warm and they matter most. They are moments when you are just breathing.

Today, I am thankful for those times in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Until Next Time,

Wayne

Housekeeping

WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 3 Number 27
Housekeeping

The other day I was finishing up all kinds of chores. It had been a long list with a lot of other life things mixed in. Needless to say – I was tie-yurd. The last thing that needed to been done take The Boy’s clothes out of the dryer, fold them and put them away. Thank God! It had been such a long, hard week and I just wanted to be done.

As I was taking his garments from the dryer, I kept noticing strange gunk on his clothes. The first couple of shirts to come out with the crud on them raised no real alarms – he is a 12 year-old boy after all. Then more. And then more. What the hell? Finally, I just pulled all of his stuff out into a basket and… OH NO! I stared into my dryer. I then blinked my unbelieving eyes trying to make the horror go away. It stayed.

The inside of my dryer was black and gummy! When I say “gummy,” I mean it. The entire dryer drum and interior back was coated with GUM! The Boy had left two, brand-new packs of gum in the pocket of a pair of his jeans and the dryer super-heated it and spread it like frosting all over the interior.

I tried a sponge to slow or no avail. Crap! I only know of one thing to cure this. I went to the garage and got the WD-40. I took off the dryer door and proceeded to coat the gum with the wonder spray. Miracle or not, WD-40 still took a long time and a lot of scrubbing. I would be done – then see some more gum. Then I would be done again – then see some more. Finally, I got all the gum out, but I was then left with a dryer (and subsequent lint) that was coated with a petroleum product. Can you spell fire?

I pulled out the unit so I could take off the back and clean out any WD-40 soaked lint. Mom had been telling me for some time that I should clean out the back of the dryer due to some possibility of fire or something. When I pulled off the back, I then understood what she was talking about. It was so full of lint I could have made a king-sized quilt.

Finally, two hours after the initial gum discovery, I was done. All gum, WD-40 residue, and lint was cleaned out of the dryer. It is actually a good thing this happened. If the gum had not been in there I may have never gotten around to taking off the back of the dryer and we could have been a statistic in the “dryer caused house fire category.”

It is kind of like life I guess. You attempt to solve an immediate, very visible problem and you end up discovering that there was a giant blanket of lint clogging up the works and creating a fire hazard all along. Hmmm.

Until Next Time,

Wayne

PS Yesterday I was rearranging my room to move something in there – something that would benefit me. I had giant bookcases to empty and move. I had to try the bed in every position to see if I could make the new piece fit. I had to make nightstands. I had to rewire cable. Finally, after a long time (10 hours), it all came together.

I guess that is like life too.

The One?

WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 3 Number 26
The One?

It is very strange to me how a story about a king, that is an allegory (someone said that was the best literary term for it) about learning and becoming a better man during the course of one’s life, can lead to a comment-debate about me and women (or lack thereof). (See Wayne’s Words Volume 3 Number 25 – King & comments)

You all have seen through me! Alas, I drink from the well of bachelorhood – once again.

I will clear things up. Historically women have not stayed. Hence, I AM alone. I DO NOT have anyone.

Debate settled.

-Wayne

I said that in the middle of the comments to blatantly let everyone know my “status.”

I know why, in almost every case, I have been left. After the subsequent depression, I take that information and try to learn from it. Sometimes I misinterpret and end up going overboard one way or another in my next relationship. Nonetheless, I do try to learn from all of my experiences in life.

I have come to the conclusion that I should totally be myself. Scars, wounds, insecurities, flaws and all. The “one” will love me, not just in spite of those things, but also (partly) because of them. I also know she is out there (I am a hopeful romantic). She is somewhere.

God, cupid, the cosmos, magnetics, moon wobble, harmonic convergence, or whatever the force that brings two people together is called, will eventually bring us into each other’s lives - or maybe not. You aren’t just going to one day be in Albertson’s and simultaneously reach for the same avocado as someone and realize that she is the one. But then again, you actually might just one day be in Albertson’s and simultaneously reach for the same avocado as someone and realize that she IS the one. It is very hard to meet your soul mate, but when it happens it is actually very easy.

I don’t know when it will happen or even if, but I like to hope that it will. Maybe it already has and I did not recognize it or she did not recognize it. Maybe I am just a short time thing for women. Maybe I am just a launch pad husband/boyfriend for women to end up in a better place. Maybe I just have not taken the right road on my journey yet. Maybe… I don’t know.

What I do know is that I have had happy times in my life with women. Unfortunately when those times end it hurts me very deeply. I am told it is because I love with ALL of myself. (Keep your sexual snickers to yourselves!) I have been told that I give my entire being to my love and I wear my heart on my sleeve (generally) and that is why the end of a relationship is always hard on me.

I like being in love and I believe in giving all of myself to my lover. Ergo, I will not change that aspect of the way I love. I do have to realize that when and if I have another woman in my life that if it ends – it will indeed hurt like a sonovab(*&#. I guess that is the way it goes for me.

For now I will keep my eyes and my heart open for “the” one.

Until Next Time,

Wayne

PS I was going to do something much lighter, but you kids started this train of thought with your comments. Plus, all of the Halloween stuff is on Facebook. ;)