November 13

After an incident in my earlier years, I may have been 9 or 10, where my mother had my younger bother and I each sing a song to some company she had there, I for sure knew I could not sing. She had brother Gary sing first. She and the company praised his ability where as after my attempt she and they made fun of my lack of the ability.

It is one of those memories that I wish would go along with some of the other forgotten ones but I've been unable to wrench it out of there no matter what. One would think that even a third degree burn could heal in 57 years.

Anyway, I discovered last night that I might be able to sing after all. Glenda was watching that Country Music award thing and as I walked by I remarked how terrible the singer was in my opinion, and she responded that the lady was a very good singer but not too good with that song. When we talked about how poorly Hank Jr. sang in Jeff City at the Palin thing she told me that he only needed some music to accompany him..............

By jingle jangle, if only I can just find the right song and add some music to it I may be able to sing after all! Not knowing, 57 years wasted! I might could have been a star!

Glenda is going to play bridge at the Bear Creek inn or something like that in Osage Beach today. That will put Tomi, Mikey and I here without a to do list and no one to boss us for almost five hours. I don't think that'll be too bad at all!

Just what I need to catch up with my on-line newspaper reading and think about maybe making a birthday card or two. I'm starting to get a little burned out on the cards. I want them to be a bit humorous and each an original but they've been turning out mostly dumb and all along the same line with only a few variations. In this case, if I can't do what I want I can quit! It is also one of those things too, that no one will notice anyway.
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The only thing experience teaches you is what you can’t do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired. -Elaine May