TIME GOES BY..................2020, PASSING INTO THE SUNSET.........

There's much to be learned from being in a pandemic as we are in at present.  It's now been 10 month's and as each day passes, another lesson is learned.

I have found that, each time our Governor speaks about any type of closure in our state, a run on toilet paper takes place. For what reason, I just can't figure out. Toilet paper seems to have worked it's way into the life restrictions we have.  As a matter of fact, just recently a neighbor or ours a few houses away, put his house up for sale.  Don't know exactly what the problem was but they just were unable to even get a bid on it for 10 days. Perhaps potential buyers just thought the price a little steep and that the seller just wouldn't agree to a lower bid.  The realtor tried everything she could think of, to drive people to the house. Finally the day after the governor made an announcement closing in restaurant dinning and after the storm of the toilet paper isles, she decided to try one out of the super bowl playbook of home sales. She picked a dry night and (TP'd)  toilet papered the house with about 10 rolls of paper, thinking the potential buyers would think that the seller would be so disheartened that they would accept an under market bid.  Low and behold, the very next day, they received their first bid and it was for $2000 OVER the asking price, the potential buyers stipulated that the toilet paper was to be included in the sale and they could take immediate possession of the house in its present condition. (WHILE THE PAPER WAS STILL DRY) Chalk up another use for toilet paper.......................................

YEAR OF 2020

This year of 2020, has been overall, a heartbreaking year,  for the most part.  It started out as a normal year with Margot and I visiting our favorite city, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for a glorious 2 weeks during spring break.  Returning home to a place just getting into the Coronavirus pandemic.  At first, it wasn't much more than a spread of the flu.  Margot wiped down the serving tray and the seats armrests on the plane which was not a startling thing, for she has that habit on every airline, with the exception of SAS, of course that's very understandable since she is a Swede. 

ANNUAL DOCTORS WELLNESS VISIT

I recently had my annual wellness examination. The fun part of the examination is when the nurse that brings you into the office ask you to draw a clock and give you a time to set on it for the past 4 years the time was 10 minutes past 11:00 the clock is simply a way of saying I can draw. The second question consists of naming 12 animals within one minute very easy thing to do I guess thirdly your ass to repeat five words that the nurse gives you at the beginning of the conversation the humorous part of this whole thing is that it's the same five words that it was last year and it's the same five words that Margot had two weeks before in her wellness exam. Naturally I aced all three of these questions and now it was time to see the doctor the doctor simply sits at the computer reads all of the blood tests that I've had from previous years compared to what they were this year and we'd sit there and discuss different options on how to do things the one big thing in the mind of the doctor was the amount of exercise that I was getting. He feels that the amount of exercise that I should be participating in per day is at least one hour of movement, I must admit that I don't get one hour of consecutive movement per day but I do live in a house with three floors and walking up and down two flights of stairs gives me the amount of exercise I feel is necessary. A very strongly suggested that I get at least one hour  per day on treadmill which I told him I would  definitely  do.

 

A FATHERS WISH;

A man spoke to each of his 3 sons when he sent them to college. "I feel it's my duty to provide you with the best possible education, and you do not owe me anything for that. However, I want you to appreciate it.  As a gesture of appreciation, please each put $1,000 into my coffin when I die. And so it happened. His sons became a doctor, a lawyer and a financial planner, each successful financially. When their father died and they saw him in the coffin they remembered his wish. First, the doctor stacked 10 crisp $ 100 bills onto the chest of the deceased.  Next the financial planner placed $1,000 there in 20 crisp $50 bills. Finally, it was the heartbroken lawyer's turn.  He slowly reached into his pocket and removed his checkbook, wrote a check for $3,000 , put it into his father's coffin and took the $2,000 cash.  The lawyer is now in Congress.  Probably in your district.

Now, in all honesty, when I first read this from a friend,  I laughed myself sick,  The second time I read it, I giggled and began to think and compare this story to any congressman I may know.   Thirdly, I began to name these congress people to myself. Guess what I found, taking into consideration, the present administration. ??????   

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME,  AND WISHES  GO FROM THE RIZZO CLAN TO ALL MY FRIENDS, AROUND THE WORLD.

A "zoom"  photo

(Lisa, Vito, Margot and Tim,    Scott and Jessica,   Traci Cormick and Bryson.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS....................................................BONAPPETIT

A MUST WATCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/lBHf9QqO-BE

See you Next week.

Vito

THE PAST IS BECOMING..................THE FUTURE!!!!

Blogging is something that I do to occupy my time and also to allow people to see what's happening in my life. I know that the posts have a long time in between them and I really have no excuse for that. 

We're now 8+ months into this new life of living with a pandemic and I must say, each day brings something new into life, although nothing that I am particularly interested in. Besides the usual things we all hear on TV and read about in our daily newspapers, I have discovered that:

1- It is possible to go a whole week wearing the same undergarments, whether or not you have taken a shower.............

2. It is possible to wear the same outer garments for a whole month regardless of how many times you have walked out of the house to   "just look around".

3. and it is possible to go to the local grocery store having completed #1 and 2 as noted above since you have to stay at least 6' away from others. 

In the past I would have never known any of these facts, simply because I would never think of them.  Now, I have all the time in the world to experiment with these new ideas.

Technically, covid 19 has brought the world closer to me. I spend more time on the phone then usual. I have renewed friendships AROUND the world that I have missed since retirement in 1994. I have found it so easy to once again speak with old, and I do mean old,  high school classmates.......but in talking with them it brings back memories of how beautiful a person each and everyone of them were then and how they have remained that way..................... I have been able to reach across the globe to friends from Scandinavian Airlines, where I spent 40 years of my life,  and reminisce about days gone by, even to the extent of seeing them eye to eye with new technics of skype, zoom and facetime .  In some ways, What a wonderful life,................in other ways, so disturbing.

COVID PANDEMIC;

This Covid pandemic has, in many ways, brought back memories of the past. Nothing else to do, really,  then to try and keep yourself busy doing things that you enjoy................and...............always keep a pure sense of humor even if it means laughing at stupid things. For myself, I have started to download about 4000 photo prints into my computer to put them on thumb drive sticks. I have been able to eliminate about 200 so far that just don't meet expectations of being............an ideal photo. Takes up a lot of time and certainly brings back a ton of memories. Just can't think of reasons, why, I would have taken "that" particular picture in the first place....I'm now in the process of trying to edit some of them, just to be able to bring some life into them, that along is hysterical. 

I have also found, that my phone bill is quite high, simply for the reason that I have the urge to talk to some very old................or to be politically correct ...............equally old friends from around the world. If for no reason, to find out if they are still alive, or mentally capable of being able to remember, things of the past.. Those are the happiest of moments for me for it has opened up a life, that  has been temporally forgotten. We can sit on the phone for hours, just thinking back at "better times." There are many times, Margot, will find me talking to friends at far away as Australia, just to say Hello. It even gives me the opportunity to regain what little Swedish I know, even though I have that same opportunity to speak it 24/7 with Margot.............but she tends to correct me like my high school teachers use to do..............and I did not really appreciate being corrected so much by them. It seems they simply had it out for me............personally.  

WHAT WILL THE NEW YEAR BRING

Hopefully, we will be able to once again do some of the things that we are so used to doing. I do suspect that wearing a mask might be around for some time,  who really knows. One main thing I have learned from all of this though, is to simply accept what must be done to protect yourself. Continue to wash your hands...................very often, and wear your mask when appropriate and keep some distance, which is very hard for me, being Italian................I'm a hugger.........at heart.

I found this little  you tube presentation and thought you might like to see what happens when different parts of your body want to be something else.  You may have to copy and paste it into your browser.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LR2qZ0A8vic?rel=0

Stay safe my friends.

Vito