I don’t have a whole lot to post about today, but mostly I wanted to remind you that I won’t be posting at all tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the dreaded Tuesday. The Terrifying Ten-hour-shift Tuesday!!

Anyway. This will probably be a brief post today. Because it’s a big day!

Yes, I’ll soon be heading out for my big adventure– backroads I’ve never driven on! A mall I’ve never been to! It’s a sunny day!! And I’m going to an actual MOVIE and I’ll be seeing THIS:

The other day, when the furnace guy was here and I was dusting all sorts of things I hadn’t dusted in a long time because now I have these new glasses and I can actually SEE again–

Anyway, I was dusting off a rack of videos — old movies I loved so much when I first saw them that I didn’t have the heart to throw out the videos, even though you can now stream all these movies online — to me, it’s just not the same. (And I always have a working VCR in the house, too). (I haven’t completely mastered the fine art of living in the past, but I’m getting really close…)

Well, there are several Keanu movies in that rack. Movies I loved and have seen many times, but which I no longer remember even the plots to at all! But it was startling to look at the video boxes and see the dates on them, you know? 1980s, early 90s. WTF??

It is so hard for me to grasp that Keanu is 60 years old now. However, I am still really glad that I’m going to see this new film of his in the theater. I almost never get to an actual movie theater anymore. And for most of my life, I lived within walking distance to at least one movie theater, if not several.

(And I also come from a movie theater family — my grandpa ran the local movie house in Mayfield Heights, in Cleveland. And then he built a drive-in movie theater in Alliance, Ohio, that my dad inherited and we went there a lot during the summers when I was a little girl.)

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Okay!

Today is sort of a bittersweet day since it would have been Tom Petty’s 75th birthday. Frankly, I cannot imagine Tom Petty being 75 so maybe it’s a good thing that he died a couple weeks before his 67th birthday… he can stay frozen in time now.

I mean, I know it’s not a good thing for his family and friends that he died, but I’m just speaking in terms of the mythology of it all.

And, you know, I almost never post photos of famous people’s kids or grandkids (Keith being a glaring exception, of course), but the other day, on Instagram, I saw a current photo of Tom Petty’s granddaughter, Everly. I think she was maybe 3 years old when he died (?), so now she’s maybe 10 or 11 but, WOW, is she pretty!! And I know that somewhere, he is loving the heck out of her and watching her grow up!! That made my whole spirit smile.

Okay. Here’s a selection of Tom Petty photos from over the years, the last one being taken just a few days before he died.

Um….. Excuse me!!!! Hold the phone!! Stop the presses!! WOW!!!!

I just got a text from the Agency that my Terrifying Ten-hour-Shift for Tomorrow is CANCELLED!!!!!

Yippee ki yi yay, gang!!

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Okay, if you love animals and want to help the Goats of Anarchy, a private animal rescue farm in New Jersey, please visit their website!

They are desperately seeking one-time or recurring donations:

“…For a variety of reasons, this year has been in the top two of our most challenging years in the history of GOA. I have watched as our safety net has dwindled, and I am nervous about the future of GOA if things don’t get better. Don’t worry, I promise I will never give up. I’ve lost sleep, lost hair, and lost many hours worrying about our future, but I know our supporters are with us and together we can get through these challenging times…..”

Visit their website, or DONATE here. They rescue goats, primarily, but also rescue other abandoned or abused animals in need.

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I suppose I better scoot, gang. I need to finish up the laundry and head out for my big adventure!

And then, around 6PM, the local handyman is coming back over to install a new Venetian blind in my downstairs bathroom — the old one was completely chewed up, compliments of the CATS!!

Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!

It looks like I will probably be posting tomorrow now, too.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!

According to his wife, Dana, this was the final of his own songs that Tom listened to on the day he died. His hip had been completely fractured that day and he was bedridden. So Dana and Tom were hanging out, listening to his old music.

Tom wrote this song for a girl back in Florida, that he’d had a huge crush on when he was 14. (Dana said that Tom was trying to find that girl on Facebook that day he died.)

“The Best of Everything,” 1985, from the album Southern Accents. Enjoy, gang.

“The Best Of Everything”

She probably works in a restaurant
That’s what her mama did
But I don’t know if she ever really could’ve put up with it
Or maybe she sings in a nightclub
‘Cause sometimes she used to sing
But I don’t know if it ever amounted to anything
So listen honey

Wherever you are tonight
I wish you the best of everything, in the world
And honey I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for

Yeah and it’s over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
And the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don’t ever seem to last
And man, we never had the real thing
But sometimes we used to kiss
Back then we didn’t understand
What we were caught up in
So listen honey

Wherever you are tonight
I wish you the best of everything, in the world
And honey I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for, yeah baby
Wherever you are tonight
I wish you the best of everything, in the world
And honey I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for

c – 1985 Tom Petty