YOUNG MEN, KIDS AND FIRE! CHURCH AT THE MONTANA MARATHON, ROCKIN' MORNING, 6,000 RUNNERS FROM ALL 50 STATES, MINUS 1 . . . COOLEST MARATHON LOGO, WOULD PICK UP STRASH FOR A VOLUNTEER'S SHIRT--BRIGHT RED, BRIGHT YELLOW OR GOLD LETTERS, A MOOSE IN THE GRASS, WITH RUNNING SHOES HANGING ON ITS RACK! I BLOGGED ABOUT THE EVENT, DOES THAT COUNT? MEDALIONS THAT EVERY RUNNER GOT, AWESOME TOO--HUGE ELK IN A WOODED SETTING, MOLDED INTO SILVER, HANGING ON A RIBBON! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO RUN A MARATHON, AND THOUGHT, JUST FOR A SECOND ABOUT TRAINING FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT DECIDED, MY VERY FIT, RUNNER DAUGHTER, WHO WRITES FOR UTAH ADVENTURES MAGAZINE, OUGHT TO GET OFF THE MOUNTAIN TRAILS, AND ONTO THE STREETS, AND WIN ME A MEDALION FOR NEXT YEAR! LOL! THE BEAUTY OF KIDS, SO COOL! THE MISSOULA INDEPENDENT, I USED LAST WEEK TO WRITE ABOUT "ENCOUNTERS OF THE WORST KIND" IS STILL SITTING AT THE COMPUTER I USED, SO I CAN EITHER FIGURE THAT NOBODY IS USING THE COMPUTER BUT ME, AND THE CLEANING STAFF EXPECTS ME TO CLEAN UP AFTER MYSELF, OR GOD IS TELLILNG ME TO REMEMBER THE WATER LIST OF RIVER SAFETY MEASURES TO TAKE, THAT WERE IN THE MISSOULIAN NEWSPAPER YESTERDAY . . . HOWEVER, I LEFT MY GLASSES AT THE AQUATIC CENTER, AND HAD TO TORTURE THE SAME LIFEGUARDS, WHO RECOVERED THE POKE-A-DOT, SWIM SUIT, THAT I LEFT, THE WEEKEND BEFORE--SO I CAN'T TELL IF, I REMEMBER THE LIST IN THE FIRST PLACE, IF I EVEN READ THE LIST RIGHT, WITHOUT MY DOLLAR READING GLASSES, BUT I WILL TRY, TONS OF KIDS, FLOATING THE RIVER, SWIMMING THE RIVER, FISHING THE RIVER, AND I AM SURE BOATING THE LAKES . . . SO, JUST INCASE, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LIST, THERE IS A LIST OF SAFETY MEASURES, JUST WHERE I SAW THE MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFFS, SEARCH & RESCUE TEAMS, LOADING AND UNLOADING BOATS, RAFTS, AND WATER EQUIPMENT! GOOD REMINDER FOR PARENTS . . . I HAVE HEARD, AND GOD KNOWS I COULDN'T DEAL WITH BURYING A CHILD OR HAVING ONE PREDECEASE ME IN DEATH! SO PAY ATTENTION! JUST A FEW COMMENTS ON THE LASTEST AND GREATEST OUT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITOL OF THE WORLD, WASHINGTON, D.C., ON U.S. CONGRESSMAN, RYAN ZINKE'S, CO-SPONSOR OF THE, FOREST RECLAIMATION ACT OF 2015 . . . IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT STUMP TOWN OR RATHER, WHITEFISH, MONTANA, YOU WILL SEE WHAT WE ARE RECLAIMING THE RIGHT TO DO . . . STRIP THE FORESTS OF TIMBER, WITHOUT THOSE FUCKING ATTORNEYS AND CONSCIOUS OBJECTORS, OR ENVIRONMENTALISTS, WE WANT MORE SCIENTISTS, IN THE FORESTS, THAN LAWYERS . . . TAKE A DRIVE OUT TO LIBBY, TROY, ESPECIALLY, WHEN THERE IS STILL SNOW ON THE GROUND, EARLY SPRING, TO SEE THE PATCHWORK OF SHIT, THE SCIENTIFIC METHODE OF TRIMMING THE FOREST LOOKS LIKE

Gotta Love Those Horny Young Men!

Over the weekend, I was walking back from the Current Swimming Pool, dripping wet, and flushed with the afternoon refreshing swim, and as I was crossing from some street, after crossing the bridge, and waiting on Broadway in Missoula, a young skateboarder, about 19 or 20 came up to the light behind me, as did an older man on a bike, who tried to stop the ensuing but inevitable conversation that was about to take place, with the bikers seeing it coming before, I heard the words out of this hot to trot young man's mouth.  As we waited for the light, the younger man, I guess was checking out my ass, and made a comment, like you are a beautiful woman.  I promptly thanked him and thought, if he only knew that I am 60 years old, he might regret saying those words, but I appreciated them, and the man behind me, said, to the younger man, leave her alone . . . and the younger man, as youth do, basically, through his actions and later words, said, basically, fuck off old man, I will do what I want.  So, he came up, threw his hands in the air . . . skateboard was hooked on his backpack, and he smiled and said, the facts are the facts mam', but you have a very nice ass, what can I say!  LOL!  Again I smiled and thanked him . . . I think the older man, went the other way, LOL!  

Little does the older man know, that in my 20's I might have been offended by that comment, in my 40's, I may have thought it to be sexist or some "exist" remark, but coming back from trying to work that same ass off in the swimming pool doing water aerobics, I take that as a high compliment, and it encourages me to keep up the good work, at the swimming pool, that I have been doing 6 days a week . . . so thanks to hot young men, who are not afraid to compliment an old lady like me, who is still cute for all the wear and tear this body has been through!  It was nice to hear that from a white guy, some man other than a black man, and generally, they don't want me to lose one precious inch off this hot ass!  LOL!  That is why I dig the hell out of them, they love the curves, the full figured woman, and they don't like the lollipop girls, with heads bigger than their straight bodies!  LOL!  A woman is a woman . . . if you can handle the swearing, which obviously you can, or would would not be reading this blog, get a DVD of comedian, Kitt Williams, fucking hilarious.  Get the one, about, black men, not understanding white men . . . so funny, especially about women and the white man's drinking habits, getting all shit faced!  LOL!  You see when you mix up the races, life becomes so much funnier, seeing your own race through another races eyes!  LOL!

COOL KIDS, COOL GRANDBABY . . . 2 YEAR OLD "Y" TELLING ME THANKS FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY PRESENTS I DIDN'T SEND HER, AND WALKING AROUND THE ROOM POINTING OUT WHAT, PROBABLY THE OTHER GRANDMA SENT!  THANKING ME FOR THEM!  LOL!

One of the really awesome things about kids, is you raised them, and so they tend to have, your value system, if you are lucky like I am.  After ditching my cell phone in Grand Junction, leaving it at Walmart, open 24 hours, making the cops, think I was stealing shampoo, for 24 hours a day and night, and giving a black dude, my computer, sending the NSA, cyber spies, down the road to California, while I put my hoodie on and headed back up through UTAH, and back to Montana, my adopted home state, and calling my beautiful oldest daughter, Greta, who is up with the Hot Shot Firefighter, taking out flames of the fires in Oregon, finally reaching her by Sandra's cell phone, to get a hold of Chris, because I can't remember his number, logged in my cell phone, that the cops, eventually found ditched on one of the isles at Wally's World, after I chided the GJPD, for not finding it in the bushes, an isle, and later, they took me up on the challenge of using their high tech spy and tracking equipment to find my cell phone--not me, the day, I ditched out of Grand Junction Function!  LOL!

Greta, must have been out in the field without service, but later, I got her on the phone, and after a month of not talking to my kids, I called Gret and said, Hey, what are you up to?  In her cute, but sarcastic tone of voice, she said, No, mom, the better question is where are you?  LOL!  I told her I am in Missoula, and wanted her to know if she wanted me to start looking for a house to rent, since, law school, will be starting up here at the U of M, in about a month, and she reminded me that her and Dallas, decided to get a second deferment for a year, even with a scholarship . . . oh, good, I have one more year to get my shit together, before, hopefully, all my kids, seek, political, legal, and religious asylum from Utah, and end up, in the last best place, and that isn't saying much these days, but in Montana . . . Greta has a vision of our family, doing the Hispanic thing, all living in the same house and working together to get her through law school, and talking fiscally too savvy Chris, into giving up his miserly ways, and take out college loans, or work at Starbucks for four years, while they pay for his college, because he refuses to go into debt for his schooling, and he was always the none traditionalist in the family anyway, learned to swim in the bathtub at home, scored in the 11th grade math level, in first grade, could do the most complicated algebra problems without a calculator, basically Good Will Hunting, and is getting a first class current affairs education, working for a national computer firm, who previews 300 newspapers, newsletters and magazines a day, for movie stars, politicians, and companies . . . but, he is missing that classical education, general ed, and other amenities that college life gives, plus he can grow his beautiful blonde, waving, thick, surfer hair back, and skateboard around town!  LOL!  One of the few moms, that loves long hair on both of my boys, but hey, I was the one Mormon girl, with her dad a bishop, who was attracted to one of the two long haired, hippie boys, who attended church after years of inactivity, with two of the bishop's daughters, marrying to two bums, as my dad would say it!  LOL!  I finally got a hold of Chris' number, after calling leaving messages on Elliot's phone, who has had the same number since he was 18, and calling Greta . . . now I could wish baby, "Y", Chris would kill me if I used her real name, so cute, so sweet, a granddaughter after her grandma's likings, Chris and Kat, call her a princess, but me and "Y" know, she is a cowgirl at heart and she is already kicking up shit, and giving the two perfectionists a run for their money, just like grandma thinks she should!  LOL!

MOM, KEEP YOUR MONEY, JUST SAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AND THAT IS IT!  I LOVE MY KIDS . . . THEY KNOW I AM NOT GOOD AT THIS PRESENT THING!  WADDA YOU EXPECT WITH A BIRTHDAY, DECEMBER 17TH!  IN A FAMILY OF 10!

With a birthday, a week before Christmas, in a family, who executed anyone who dared say there was not a Santa Claus, and with 7 other kids to buy presents for, my birthday was always an after thought, and a sideline to the Christmas furor; however, even though, I never had a birthday party, which I never felt cheated for being denied one . . . the flip side of that, is that I made it barely though my kids younger birthdays, doing what I had to do, but not much more, and by the next generation, well, I guess you get the point.  It is not that I love them any less, or love my in-laws . . . well, but I am just not that great on sending cards, and getting presents off in time and generally, I don't have money, but that is not excuse, because I was not better when I did have money . . . I think my kids get this.  Chris told me to stop spending all my money the second I get it, and live a bit better the rest of the month.  I am kind of like the country of Greece, I would rather live one week the way I like, going out so new restaurants, and attending functions around town, than live in austere life, boring me, the whole damn month . . . better one week of heaven, and three of hell, than all four of hell, is the way I look at it!  I am right there with you Greece . . . I read a book called Soul Mates once, and they said, if you have a particular connection with a time or place, you probably lived a previous life, back in history some time . . . I love the Greek City States, the foundation and model for the United States, love Plato, Greek philosopher, who wrote the essay on The Republic, setting a ton and mood, on law abiding citizens, legislative bodies, law making, law adherence, and parent's responsibilities, which I very much adopted in training my kids!  I am sure that I was in love with some Greek philosopher king, who ruled in the courts and chambers of Ancient Greece!  You can pull you economy back, go out to eat . . . basically, eat, work and be merry!  My personal philosophy!  LOL!  I never get paid for my work, but like Aristotle said . . . in the essay on Virtue . . . you can never judge a man/woman, happy or sad until the day they die!  99 out of 100 days, I am very happy!

When I called Chris, always the voice of cheap and reason . . . and told him, I would jump on a bus, come down to Utah, we could celebrate "Y"s and his birthdays, both in July, and maybe me and him, could hit Elliot's concert at Kirby Court, on July 18th, seeing El's new band and music creation, The DITCH and the DELTA!  Mom, that takes too much money, you need to stay put, get your life together, and stop just running all over the country . . . I hate it when he talks like that because I know he is right, but can he convince the cops?  It is their fault for chasing me, making my 99 happy days hell, and making me, on the one day in the cycle, worse, making me miss family, friends, and my house, cabin, truck, furniture, art, piano, law practice and just a few of the things that they have taken over the years, to PUNISH ME!  Chris was voted to be the most likely to be an attorney . . . hell he was born an attorney!  LOL!  He is always giving me logical, sound advice, that totally makes sence!  LOL!  Now whether the cops will heed it or not is another thing!  LOL!  

There was this black mom, a former office administrator of 40 years, who was staying at the Poverello Palace Shelter, and Cherry told me the reason she was in the shelter, was because, she came to visit her perfectionist son, who works at the hospital, and he doesn't drink, and she still does, and she threw her beer can in his spotless garbage basket, and he freaked out at her.  She said, he may be able to boss his two younger sisters around, but I AM HIS MAMA!  I laughed and said, I understand, I have a son, just like that.  Cherry disappeared after a day or so, and we had a friendship thing and mother thing going, but she showed up again, and I asked her where she went . . . she said, she tried staying with her son again, and she decided, it was more peaceful staying at the homeless shelter!  LOL!  Eventually, she ended up in the hospital, her son works at, with high blood pressure, and the doctor told her that the Poverello lifestyle was not agreeing with her system, so after battling her son, for a week, he came and got her, and she made it clear to him that she was his MAMA, he was not her DAD!  LOL!  Loved it, and could relate, but I do appreciate Chris understanding the fiscal and financial circumstances I am forced to live under, with the feds taking everything away from me, stopping any type of gainful employment and interfering with any apartment deals . . . PUNISH HER, PUNISH HER, PUNISH HER . . . for stopping our unchecked dicks, averous greed, want of unlimited pussy through Mo polygamy, the recruiting tool, and stealing anything from law degrees, cases, blogs, to kids and grandchildren, to punish me for stopping a one world order, under the British crown, with an American President for the World, Mitt Fuck Romney!  Screammmmmmmm!  Believe me it was well worth the sacrifices and the cost!

BABY "Y" IS JUST LEARNING TO TALK, BUT I COULD CLEARLY UNDERSTAND, THANK YOU GRANDMA!  KISS!  LOVE WITHOUT PRESENTS IN OUR FAMILY, AT TIMES!

Baby cutie girl, had not problem getting on the phone and jabbering up a storm with Me, grandma, telling me all kinds of stuff, that I didn't understand, but had full pleasure in hearing her cute little voice, getting more and more words under her belt, like rockets . . . she saw the fireworks and called them rockets, now every night she wants to look outside, expecting the rockets!  LOL!  Well, the Star Spangled Banner song, has rockets red glare in the lyrics, maybe she heard that on the 4th and picked it up from the song . . . bound to be a smartie, just like all her cousins, before her, smart parents!  "Y" talked on the phone, and then she took off, running around the room, showing me everything she got from either her parents or her grandparents in Bulgaria, and believe me, I am not jealous of the other set of grandparents, I am grateful that they are much better at this grandparent thing than I am!  LOL!  Love Kat's parents, even though I can't speak any Bulgarian, and they can't speak much American . . . this is shared proud grandparent language or the language of love!  

 We live half a world away, but we both know the joy of great kids and beautiful grand kids!  Presents are nice, but they can never replace a loving and caring parent and grandparent.  Chris and Kat have a lot of love for each other, have been put through hell, and came out with class, dignity, and style, and while being robbed of Kat's child from another marriage, through the Mormon Mafia, Donny will always be part of this Secrist clan, and Chris has tied and a heart for him that go beyond what most dad's have for their own sons . . . Kat used to always say, that if Donny had to chose, between her and Chris, he would choose Chris, so loving, so cool, stood by Kat's side, and mine, while fighting and winning a lawsuit for Donny, and the courts still refusing to give up the child, who not only was in Kat's custody, but won the case . . . so proud of her too!  Stand up people, with nothing but class!

Basically, Chris told me, in his own way, we know you love us, you don't need to spend the money to come to Utah to see us, don't need to send a present, when I asked him again for his address, because that went away in my contact list in the phone I left in Grand Junction . . . he said, Mom, just wish us Happy Birthday, and that is good enough . . . thanks my sweet, sweet son, love you, and family!

ANYONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE KIDS, IS FUCKING INSANE, SO COOL, SO SWEET, SO LOVING, SO UNDERSTANDING!  SOB!

Sorry, crying, so grateful, so blessed, so wonderful . . . the rest of the title, will have to wait until tomorrow . . . totally bless in what really matters, and for that, I love and thank God!  Just keep my kids and grand kids, safe and protected, that is all I ask!  

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!