Giving Good Head
By zigzagbuddha
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
United States
August 29, 2009 2:30pm CST
When I was living in San Francisco I used to walk by this Chinese Laundry that had an absolutely ENORMOUS Angel Wing Begonia sitting in the big bay window... it was in a huge pot on the floor and the branches went all the way up to the ceiling. It had big, fat clusters of pink flowers draping down everywhere all over it. I went in to admire it up close and personal one day and the owners gave me a cutting!
I rooted it and it grew into a good sized plant before my gypsy lifestyle put an end to it. I lamented the loss of that plant for years. Then one day, when I was working as a plant lady, I was watering plants in a hair salon and they had a small Angel Wing Begonia in their window! I begged a clipping off them and started all over.
I almost lost the plant when we were camping in the winter and snow came, but I managed to nurse it back to health. It has been quite a few years now, but I finally have a huge Angel Wing Begonia of my own! It’s no where near the size of the one in the Chinese laundry but it nevertheless makes my heart soar every time I look at it!
I LOVE success! No matter how small or large, it is intoxicating! People might say “Don’t let it go to your head”, but I say “OH YEAH… LET IT GO TO YOUR HEAD! IT FEELS FANTASTIC!”
Got any heady success stories to tell? No success is too small to thrill over or too large to take full credit for! 
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5 responses
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
29 Aug 09
Hey ziggy! What a great story! I think that if you can get
what you want and make it work the by all means go for it!
I am so glad that you were finally able to get that beautiful
plant to grow the way you wanted it to! Up until now the only
plant that I have been able to grow (inside my apartment)
was my bamboo plants! But, a neighbor of mine asked me to
plant sit two years ago! He had this beautiful little plant
with just one leaf and a twisted stem! I took and have had
it with me ever since! It now has 10 huge leaves but somehow
the pretty little twisted stem untwisted! I don't have any
idea what kind of plant it is but I am so happy that it grew
for me! He wasn't able to get it to grow at all and when he
saw it he couldn't believe how big it was except the first
thing he noticed was the stem being untwisted! Never mind that
it had grown a foot taller and had 10 huge leaves!
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
30 Aug 09
Hmmm... do you have a digital camera? If so you could take a picture of the plant and I might be able to tell you what it is called, if you're interested in knowing it that is, hehehehe.
I once had a friend give me a plant to take care of while she was out of town. My bunny rabbit that I let run around the room ate it down to a nub! I was SOOO stressed out about having to tell my friend what happened, but then when she came back she never even asked about that plant!
I didn't learn my lesson with that experience either because a few years later I let another bunny that I had somehow acquired out on the front porch to get some fresh air and exercise, not even registering the fact that the lovely, HIGHLY AROMATIC pot plants that my boyfriend was growing were all sitting out there enjoying the sunshine too. That friggin' bunny munched them ALL down to nubs and disappeared into the woods beside the house.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
30 Aug 09
I wish I did have a camera! I would really love to know what
kind of plant this is! I love the bunny stories! Those bunnies
must have had some story to tell too! I would have loved to
see them after they finished eating those plants! They must
have some case of the munchies!
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@psycospaz (320)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I can't think of a success off the top of my head (LOL) But yours is so awesome. I love my plants and my garden, and I know how it feels to nurse a dying plant back to full health.
Great discussion!
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
30 Aug 09
Fortunately all my cats are pretty nonchalant about new additions to the family. The neighbor's cat had started coming in through their cat door and helping himself to snacks of their food and they pretty much yawned and looked the other way. It's a good thing they are like that too because I am like a stray magnet, hehehehe.
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
30 Aug 09
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... I know THAT feeling! I have a cat whose name is Montezuma. He is the color of a lion and his paws are just about as big as a lion's paws, he is very solidly built with a very macho attitude - in fact he likes to 'run with the big dogs' and drives my dog crazy wanting to hang out with him all the time. He does not like to be picked up, petted, or even touched for that matter, although he does like to be patted vigorously on the butt, and the day he let me pick him up and flip him over and cradle him in my arms like a baby is a day I won't quickly forget... it was such a triumph!
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@mohinimandokhot (184)
• India
30 Aug 09
Sucess sure is intoxicating and invigorating. Some days back I enrolled in Mylot thereafter I became a member of an online teacher's website on the internet. Both were very difficult processes, however I did it and I am on cloud nine. It feels good interacting with nice people like You!!
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
30 Aug 09
Hahahahaha... and you are off to a very good start too I'd say! Thank you for the compliment - and the same back to you!
Cloud nine is a marvelous address to have - 'please send all communication to mohinimandokhot, cloud nine.com' hehehehe. Have fun!
