tricks played by my mind

One of the tricks my mind plays has to do with music.

No, I'm not referring to the songs I wake up with on occasion, songs I haven't heard for years that my mental jukebox has cued up to ease me into the day.

I rather like that trick!

There's another that's music-related, going back to my years of listening to albums in their entirety, knowing the words of each song by heart.

In fact, I know some of those songs still, and am quite certain I've heard them on the radio or on the TV!

However, the fact remains that many of those songs never had airplay outside of my mental jukebox.

The only way I get to hear them now is to sing them at karaoke or to get lucky and find they have a life on youTube or some other internet site. 

(smile!)

I'm not talking about the trick with gift cards, neither. 

That's the one where I kinda sorta 'believe' the person who gave the card to me is with me when I use it.

Then again, if I'm thinking of them being there at the restaurant with me, or even take a photo of the meal and text it to them, isn't that akin to having their presence right there?

How does that differ from thinking of a deceased loved one and feeling their presence in the air beside me?

Molecules are escaping from our bodies every minute -

couldn't the sensed presence be from molecules escaped from them that have traveled in the air and are being sensed by me, molecules with some trace tag of them?

Ah, I be but theorizing, yet again, with no proof that such things are not simply flights of fancy on my part!

(smile!)

None of those are the trick at hand, though.

While in Orlando this past week, I repeatedly told Miyah and Chloe about being there at the Volcano Pool with their cousins, Alyssa and Leila, when the twins were about their age.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.

That never happened.

I had memories of past vacations all jumbled up.

In my defense, the two trips to Florida were a year apart, both pre-pandemic.

I was, indeed, with the twins in Orlando and we did, indeed, have lots of fun in the DRI resort's pools. 

However, that earlier vacation occurred in early October 2018, which means the two girls were not yet 4 years old. 

In addition, that vacation was at the Liki Tiki, a quieter place off the beaten path and much better for families with small children, as I'd discovered and noted on my 2015 Florida Adventure.

The last time I was at Cypress Pointe Resort was the following year, which makes it almost exactly six years ago.

Like this trip, that one had been to celebrate my birthday.

Unlike this one, that had been just me, partying solo.

So, how had I confused those trips with this one?

Patience, dearie, I'm getting to that.

For the twins' fifth birthday, I reserved a week for them at Cypress Pointe Resort.

I didn't go, as I was busy getting my house ready for them to move in with me.

However, Michael sent me photos of Alyssa and Leila having a wonderful time and, as I had been with them a scant year earlier at a similar DRI resort, I just naturally imagined myself right there.

Incredible how the mind works!

(smile!)

Now, I'm off to see Alan Rickman in 1999's "Dogma", out for its 25-year anniversary.

Yes, I had to pay AMC to see it, but it'll be worth it to see him in action again. 

(smile!)