Hot and Ready

And not just the pizzas Kesha brought in this morning for the seniors.

Engrossed in my own self this morning, I nearly forgot to head down to the Community Room, check to see if Kesha was here this Pizza Tuesday.

She was just hauling pizzas out of her car as I arrived. Said she did come last Tuesday, but late. So, it was after I’d left, returned to my unit.

As Kesha was going back/forth to her car to bring pizzas in, residents began to line up at the counter in front of the pizzas.

Kesha asked that no one take a pizza until she’d brought them all in and had the sign-in sheet ready.

I stuck around to make sure the residents didn’t disrespect Kesha by doing what Kesha had been warned by Talker and Baker they would do …… run all over her, do what the heck they wanted.

I observed one male resident, at the front of the line, opening up boxes, looking to see what type was in what box.

Not good and not sanitary, but if others in the line, that were going to eat those pizzas, didn’t object, yell "HEY!!", then I wasn’t going to get involved.

Fortunately, Kesha walked in with another load of pizzas, caught the resident in the act, and read him the riot act.

Good for her, Kesha is not going to take any shit, thought I.

In fact, Kesha did not only read the resident the riot act, she told everyone to calm down, sit down until she got everything together and returned to distribute pizzas.

No one sat down.

Lu, sitting near me by the entry door, yelled out, "You guys don’t listen. She told you to sit down, so sit down".

Whereupon, Lurch, standing in line at the opposite side of the room yelled back, "You do the same thing. So don’t tell us what to do".

That started a back and forth between Lu and Lurch, during which everyone finally sat down, Lurch yelling at Lu from his now seated position.

I was laughing my ass off, visions of the South Park episode where the old people at the senior center got into a fight running through my mind. It was on the tip of my tongue to yell what Cartmill had yelled …… "OLD PEOPLE FIGHT!" but I managed to rein that in and instead say, "I thought you two were friends".

"We are friends", said Lurch, "But don’t be telling us we don’t listen when I’ve seen her doing the exact same thing".

The two were still at it when a new resident walked up to the entry door. Just as I saw the person about to enter, I said, "Okay you guys. Company’s coming. Don’t let them see you acting like this", and it ended.

Kesha soon walked in, distributing pizzas began so, with my work of looking out for my homie Kesha done, I headed back to my unit, still laughing.

Over the weekend, I’d received word a Spiritual Practitioner I’d trained with (last one that I’d trained with still living) was celebrating her birthday ……… HER 106th BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Back in 2019, I blogged this Practitioner …… retired, living in Hawaii, had celebrated HER 100th BIRTHDAY!!!

One Hundred was a goal she’d set for herself.

I’d said that, even though this Practitioner looked to be in good condition for her age, that living to 100 would not be something I’d want for myself, that my goal was to be gone by age 35.

Evidently, the Universe had other plans, as I’m now 46 years over my target.

She's now living in Lagua Hills, California, and looks pretty good for being a century and six ……

However, living that long scares the crap out of me.

I’m hoping that, as a former student of hers, connected at a spiritual level, that whatever she has that’s giving her such a long life is not contagious, doesn't infect or affect me, cause this former student of hers to reach 100 and over.

This is she at a meditation retreat I attended in 2009.

This is she celebrating her 106th BIRTHDAY this past weekend.

I know how one of my readers likes to kid around (and you know who you are, LOL), so just to be clear, she’s not the blonde, she’s pictured lower left.