When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad

Yup, it’s a whole new day, and I’m quoting The Sound of Music. Hum along if you’d like!

The right side of my hand looks disgusting. It is the sort of hand which roams the halls at night in a dark, dank, dusty mansion, a mansion in a black and white Vincent Price movie. The hand looks for its next victim. It will find a woman who will scream and, like all women from fifties science fiction movies, her hand will be in front of her mouth, her body contorted in fear.

The day looks beautiful with a bright sun and a tiny breeze, but it is going to get hotter. I turned off my AC when I went to breakfast, but when I got back, the house was already4° hotter than when I had left. I went around shutting windows and turned on the AC again. I have become a lover of creature comforts.

This morning I went up Route 28 to Hyannis to go to Staples. I needed a couple of things, including a new mouse pad. The one I found is just perfect. It looks like a magic carpet. It will take me, through my computer, anywhere and everywhere. I can travel through time and space. I am Sinbad and Aladdin soaring through the clouds.

I was an imaginative little kid who planned all sorts of adventures and all kinds of what ifs. My books were the gateways. I went to the old west with Zorro and to Treasure Island with Long John. I always saw myself as the good guy, the hero who arrives in the nick of time to save the day. That I was a girl made no never-mind. I gave it no thought. I was just the hero.

We all spoke pirate and cowboy. We’d throw around words like me hearties and varmint and threaten the plank or, even worst, a hanging. We, the good guys, hid behind rocks for protection as we shot at the bank robbers who never won. They were, after all, the bad guys. Pirates were adventurers who roamed the high seas looking for treasure. We got to have sword fights if we could find strong enough sticks.

I do a what if I win the lottery, but I never buy a ticket. It’s just fun to imagine.