Hello Darklings,
Oh we were having another heat wave, with most of August
being overcast and chilly for the summer why is it before Labor Day, we get a
real blast of Summer??
I can only take the dogs out early in the morning and early
evening, when it gets like this, and
even then just around the block, I do not trust drivers driving at twilight,
but then isn’t twilight when Vampires come out to play, and early dawn when
they go to sleep?
Well I have been busy, my doctor has been having me do all
kinds of tests, blood, urine, and just recently a bone density test, well
considering that I’ve worked indoors most of my life and avoid sunlight, I have
to take vitamin D to compensate, but ever since Coralline broke her ankle, even
I have been cautious.
And to add insult to my body, the doctor wants me to have a
G.I. exam which means having a camera go up the nether regions where no one
wants to go, again! It seems they
didn’t complete it the last time because I showed discomfort while under a
light anesthesia ---- DISCOMFORT!!??? When
I was told that I said “YOU give me that camera and I’ll show YOU
DISCOMFORT!!”
But they said once done it doesn’t have to be done for 10
years, (maybe) sometimes I think my
doctor is a sadist, and I’m no masochist.
I like a little bondage but only with black furry mink
handcuffs. (at least in my younger days)
and I prefer to do the tying up, now
that I’m thinking about it I did do that some years ago with one of my college
boyfriends, I tied him up with his silk ties, and you know what they say “You
can’t break old school ties.” Sorry
very bad pun.
Even with the heat wave I’ve been feeling a bit Gothic of
late, I haven’t had a chance to purchase the latest installment of American
Horror Story “Roanoke”. But Doyle
happily fulfilled my Gothic morbid craving by purchasing the three seasons of
Pennydreadful, Oh I had forgotten how
wonderful Timothy Dalton’s voice could be, he could recite a grocery list and
seduce me.
“Pennydreadful” is a most unusual series not PG13 more R
rated, it deals with evil, and re-discovering redemption after giving in to one’s
darkest desires, focusing on the female
lead, but some don’t quite make it, and some do, and bringing in a number of
the classic “monsters”, Frankenstein’s’
creature,(which was sensitively played), Dr. Frankenstein himself, Dorian Grey,
Dracula, Dr. Jekyll, a werewolf, a monster hunter, in a way you sort of wanted
it to continue after the end but then it would have gone in a different
direction, which was not the authors or producers idea or concept. In the end a very dark and Gothic morality
play----at least in my opinion.
During my “Pennydreadful” fest, a local church was having its
annual 3 day rummage sale, and I love rummage.
I managed to snare 4 Victorian
plant stands, and then had fun looking through the china and glass ware
finding a few Victorian style pieces, including soup bowls although modern,
were in the “Rose Chinze” pattern, perfect for soup on a cold winter’s night.
As I purchased, Doyle dutifully took them to
the car, then I went book hunting there.
It’s amazing what people no longer want that are treasures for
others, there were a few Earl Stanly
Gardner “Perry Mason” mysteries, and a couple of books in the ‘Sookie
Stackhouse’ series that I think “True Blood” is based on, plus a few others of
interest.
But then I began to feel a little haunted, because I had
wandered over to the children’s toy area, sometimes I get lucky and find
complete board games for children and adults to play and there it was! In a
metal frame that was falling apart, a coming attractions movie poster of the
James Bond movie “License to Kill” with Timothy Dalton (much younger of course)
looking dark, dangerous and deadly. Well
for $2.00 I HAD to buy it.
Doyle gave me
a ‘raised eyebrow’ but carried it good-naturedly to the car, the poster was in fine
condition so I’ll re-frame it, and hang it, in the down stairs bedroom, that I
use for guests or when one is too ill to climb stairs.
I had fun with my newly found treasures, the plant stands
just need a little clean-up and a fresh coat of paint, the soup bowls washed
and ready to be put to use, the books put into their proper spaces in my
reading library, and when I’m done with them they will go to the Library book
sale, perfect to re-purpose.
I am already seeing signs of Halloween here and there, a few
new magazines, which I purchased, Halloween candy on the high shelves at
Safeway, but I do have to ask, why is it that the first store to carry
Halloween decorations is called ‘Michaels’ ?
(if some of you don’t get the Halloween pun, it’s your own fault)
I had gone into Michaels to get a replacement jewelry fixing
for a necklace that broke and something prompted me to wander around and there
they were---- all kinds of ghoulish, morbid things.
It’s a good thing that the credit card that I
use to buy Halloween items was all paid off, now I didn’t buy everything, I was
picky, there were crystal balls with a skull floating in the middle, bottles of
weird contents, and a wonderful large glass dispenser with a skull on it
perfect for strawberry lemonade. And Halloween
tree ornaments of skulls, witches hats, pumpkins and little bats, and tiny
skeletons, and a perfect witch topper
for the tree.
Yes Darklings I have a
black (but fake) tree, to put out for Halloween, it’s just too bad that it will be on a
Tuesday this year but I can have at least 2 maybe 3 parties for the
season.
I mean is it too early to start decoration for Halloween in
September? Why Not!
Then Doyle surprised me the other evening, he had been on
the “house computer” in the Library, which is my computer, but he told me that
it was for personal use and didn’t want to use his in his office since that was
for work. I just rolled my eyes on that
remark.
Then he comes up to me as I’m
reading one of my Perry Mason mysteries, with Belladonna and Wiener Dog curled
up next to me (making it difficult to shift around) and he announced “I bought a
copy of ‘Jane Eyre’.” I looked at him
and said “Why buy a copy? I have that
book in our Library.”
He went on to say “Not the book, the BBC program from 1983,
with Timothy Dalton as Mr. Rochester.” I looked at him dumbfounded.
I had always
thought that was the best ‘Jane Eyre’ and that Dalton’s impassioned and
obsessive Rochester was the best of all of them.
Doyle looked at me and then said “You’re
Welcome.” Finally my mouth sputtered to
working as I quickly got up (which the dogs were not happy) and rained kisses
all over Doyles’ face. And I love
seeing that Humphrey Bogart smile on his face as he said to me (once I came up
for air) “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.”
Yes, Darklings, Halloween treats do come early in my home.
Later Darklings
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