a movie and chinese food for dinner

     WEDNESDAY 12/25/19 9:21 AM--now I'm here in G-burg...Dianne and I are going to the movies and then we're having an early Chinese Dinner...I hope to be back in Rockville by about 6 PM...coming back up here tomorrow  is not my idea...I'm taking Butterscotch and the Paisley Bag back to M&L's...I wanna go from Rockville to the OTWC load-in, come back have dinner then go back to play the open mic...
10:46 AM--I seem to be quite a bit busier here in G-burg than I am in Rockville...not liking that...There is stuff I can watch in Rockville if I'm up to it...
3:45 PM--so I saw LITTLE WOMEN and liked it ok...getting ready to go across the street and have Chinese food (lemon chicken) for Dinner...could be back in Rockville by 5:30...Gonna go to the MVA on Monday, the 30th, although that's cutting it super duper close...
        I'm kinda busy right now; I'll think about you-know-who once I get back to Rockville...the car is loaded up for the gig tomorrow...I'm gonna unload the car rather than leave the stuff in it...it will be pretty dammed cold overnight...
7:15PM-If I don’t perk up soon, I will be in bed by 10 o’clock…and awake again by 3AM, more or less...gonna try to stay up until Midnight if at all possible...
 Well i’ve made it to 10 o’clock, maybe I can go another hour or so...
THURSDAY 12/26/19 9 AM-I made it all the way to midnight and I didn’t wake up until about 7 o’clock…that’s a surprise...I think that whatever practicing I’m going to do today will be after I get back from the load in… Just like any other day, I don’t have the energy yet, and I probably won’t have any till mid afternoon…
       But, of course, it’s not just any other day, is it? Somewhere, assuming she still alive, a certain woman that I knew a long long LONG time ago (and just might have been in love with) is turning 66 today...I can’t EVEN imagine what she would look like today…And naturally, I wonder if she’s ever thought of me even once in the past 45+ years... I consider the possibility that I might end up with Alzheimer’s disease, but my memories of her are strong... Actually a lot of my younger memories are strong, so maybe Alzheimer’s is not something I need to worry about...
    I remember losing a lot of sleep thinking about her in those days... going to Normandy lanes on route 40 – I don’t really remember the bowling, but I’m absolutely certain that’s why we went there…I’ll never forget going to the Howard County fair – I don’t think we went more than once, but I remember it...her actual “boyfriend” was stalking us most of the time that we were there…Debbie ducked into the ladies room, which left me alone with Rick... talk about awkward…
      And of course there was the trip to Nags Head NC in the summer of 1970(?) with me and my parents… I really hope to find some photos from that trip, I’ve already found a couple, but she’s not in them... I think the last time I saw her was when Mark Lysher and I drove all the way over to her parents house from Mark’s house  to see her... it was a 30 minute ride if not more… she was washing what I think might have been her car – the way *I* remember the visit, she was not alone...
       I kept the many letters she wrote to me from Frostburg State College for the longest time before finally throwing them away... and of course now I wished I had saved at least some of them...I used to have a framed portrait of her dressed  to go to her senior High prom…she wore a short (but not too short IMO) white dress and white shoes… I kept THAT for the longest time before getting rid of it...
      In the early 80s I ran into her best friend Sharon in the supermarket…She married one of Debbie’s cousins-David Abbott to be specific... he and I and his brother Vestal were reunited… they actually came out to see me at a gig with the Last Chance Band; and I think that was the last time I saw them...and I wonder if THEY have ever once thought of about me since then…
     I was reunited with a guy I knew in high school; He came out to see me play, but I haven’t seen him since…I don’t let political differences affect my relationships...but apparently a lot of people do… I never hear directly from Bill Grimes, even though he and I are on Facebook... and I never ever hear from Larry Mueller and (I think) he has a Facebook account but I don’t think he uses it…Kind of like Dianne-she still has her account but never uses it…