Author: rugby843

I am a widow since 2013 and live by myself in a small apartment. I use a wheelchair to get around, but I wouldn't consider myself disabled. I'm 11 years away from having bladder cancer resulting in a urostomy and I'm doing well. This cancer was a result of having radiation in 1995 because of uterine cancer. So have faith in yourself, a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. My first try at blogging was an attempt to help other people with my condition. I am a mother of three married children, and a grandmother to eight gorgeous kids, featuring them often here, and a great grandmother to two as of today, 6/7/25! I enjoy exploring my feelings and like to try the challenges. I like humor, music, movies, games, and some sports. I absolutely appreciate your reading and commenting on my blog. I am happy to read all of your blogs and learn more about you. Please comment however you like, ask whatever, and I'll answer honestly. Thanks for reading! Cheryl

What Day is it Anyway?

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

Ever had one of those Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Days? That’s me in the photo complete with my red hair.

I’m looking at one today. Checking my bank account finding out I think I’ve been hacked. I went into my app for the bank and my internet service was out. I was very upset so showered and fixed coffee. As I poured milk into the steaming pitcher from the half gallon container, half spilled on my socks and the open fridge. As I was cleaning this up the coffee receptacle filled completely using all the steam so I had cold milk in my latte. I went to put it in microwave to warm and hit the shelf with the full cup and spilled all down the cupboard and floor.

I had deleted my regular email app and reset it because I was getting over 100 messages of junk and some extremely gross, mixed in with my regular mail and nothing worked to stop it. Now I have new settings but have to redo my contacts.

I’m now going to have lunch and reset my brain and hope that works—something has to🤪

https://rugby843.blog

Vision

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
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Your sight was twenty twenty

I didn’t see us so clearly

I thought my vision perfect

Then you left, and I was merely

A shell, a husk, unwanted cover

Discarded, as a piece of trash

It could not have hurt me more

If you had struck me with a lash

I wished, I wished, but now I see, so perfectly

You and I were but that wish,

Reality—I failed to see.

https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/reenas-xploration-challenge-260/

dVerse Poets

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
  • Write a poem include at least two of the song titles listed below within the body of the poem.
  • Post the poem to your blog AND add the exact URL for your poem to Mr. Linky below.
  • REMEMBER to either TAG dVerse in your post, or include a link at the end of your poem that leads readers back to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com). 

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A Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
A Long December (Counting Crows)
A Winter’s Tale (Queen — and also The Moody Blues)
Cold Weather Blues (Muddy Waters)
Footprints in the Snow (Bill Monroe)
If We Make It Through December (Merle Haggard)
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (Billie Holiday)
Let It Go (Idina Menzel)
Love Like Winter (AFI)
My Love Is Winter (The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania)
Roses from Snow (Emmylou Harris)
The Hounds of Winter (Sting)
Trapped Under Ice (Metallica)
When It’s Cold, I’d Like to Die (Moby)
Winter Things (Ariana Grande)
White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)

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If we make it through December

The hounds of winter barking

I’ve got my love to keep me warm

When carolers are larking

Making small footprints in the snow

In the gray, a hazy shade of winter

Roses from snow dot their cheeks, so cold

I won’t let it go, all the winter things

Lights, trees, and chiming bells that ring

My love is winter, no cold weather blues

A long December is what I will choose.

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http://dversepoets.com/2022/12/06/come-sing-with-me/