Sometimes I just need to spit out what is in my head--like old gum that is no longer "juicy", I no longer want it.
I'm good at my job. I fill orders in a timely manner with creativity. Today, I had to re-do an order that was unsatisfactory according to the recipient. So I made a new arrangement to be sent to Mrs. Lieutenant Colonel something, only I didn't completely read the order. So instead of noticing that it was just as pictured in the FTD book with a $10 upgrade, I made it just as pictured. So I had to re-do the re-do. Doo-doo!
Not every McDonald's knows how to properly dip a chocolate dipped cone.
Real Simple magazine, which I have enjoyed for years as one of only a very few magazines I subscribe to, has far too many advertisements. That's not real simple. It's real commercial and real annoying. So now it's real cancelled.
Throwing out a plant is not an easy thing to do. Throwing out a dead
plant is easy. But throwing out a live plant that is scraggly or needy or just in the way is difficult. It's a live thing. You put it in the trash and you aren't guaranteed it's going to find a happier life in the landfill (like your old dog who went to live with a family on a farm where he has lots of room to run and kids to play with.) Throwing out a plant takes either guts or lack of compassion. Maybe I'm over dramatizing this...but it's ALIVE!
"Thanks for doing the laundry Honey!" (Thought bubble:When you shove in sixteen tons, whaddaya get? Wrinkled clothes! No matter how long they are in the dryer or how quickly after the warning buzzer you fold them, they will be wrinkled!)--That stays a thought bubble because I like the help with my laundry, even if it means extra ironing.
I wonder if Dairy Queen does a fair job dipping their cones...
Other people's lives sound so interesting compared to mine sometimes. Interesting in a good way, interesting in a bad way, but interesting just the same. To see what I mean, check out the Jury Duty entries for the following blog: Jury Duty
I take for granted that when I tell someone "You need to take a shower" (not that I say that to many people), they know that includes washing your body and your hair. Taking a shower is not standing under running water in a tub for an extended period of time with an occasional bout of roughhousing. It means getting clean. People do know this, right?
My sister sent me an email informing me of a number of uses for dryer sheets. I kept the email, but I've only tried one tip: Eliminating static cling by rubbing a dryer sheet on your socks and/or pantlegs. I got a white film on my pantlegs. I don't know if I eliminated any static cling because I promptly eliminated the black film covered pants from my ensemble. So do I try the other tips? I don't know. I never had a good relationship with dryer sheets in the first place, and now this last experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so to speak.
When you put up a tent in your yard to air or dry it out, every child and dog in the neighborhood thinks he/she has to go inside. Often neighbors come by to check it out. Why? When you hang out your clothes to dry, people don't stop by and try them on. What is it about ripstop fabric and a zipper that lures people? Yet if you invite others to camp with you, in a tent, you often hear "No, we don't do tents." Oh really? When you think I'm not looking you do.
So I was thinking about the "juicy gum" thing I said at the beginning. That's gross. It's flavored saliva. I have a low tolerance for saliva. My sister used to be a Dental Assistant, and I just could not understand how she could deal with all of the spit--other people's spit! When I brush my teeth, I can't even spit out the foam, I have to get a mouthful of water before I can spit. It's stringy and ---ugh. I can't go on--change of subject...
I've always been a night owl. I've never really given the "Early to bed, early to rise" thing a chance until recently. I've been trying to get to bed at or around 10:00, but the early to rise thing isn't working for me. I naturally wake up earlier, but then I look at the clock and groan that I'm awake "so early." Somehow I lose sight of the early bird thing when it's actually early morning. Maybe it's just learning to be a morning person. But then, is that really what I wanted to be when I grew up--a morning person?
This is starting to sound like a stand-up comic routine--what's up with that???
3 comments:
About the shower thing--I don't know. My boy can spend 20 minutes in the shower,and when I bang on the door and tell him it's time to get out, he says, but I haven't washed yet!
I am one of the heartless that can throw away a live, but scraggly, plant. I do have qualms, but still go through with it. Recently, our friend William confessed that he had "rescued" three plants from my trash and had nursed them back to health. Now I have to re-think my criteria. And live with myself.
Can I just say, this TOTALLY made my day! I haven't checked your blogs for awhile because my life has been full of major random chaos. I feel like I am constantly jumping from one subject to another either in my head or in life. So it was so reassuring to see your blog as the same. I have 12 books from the library in 4 different categories. Somehow amoungst my busy life I somehow think I can take on all 4 of these new projects/ideas/etc because they are somehow related to making my life easier. But really, is my life easier just because I have 30 meals in my freezer and know how to cook with a dutch oven and paper piece and organize? You would think it is, but right now, it is all cool ideas that came to me all at once that will maybe happen someday. In the meantime, I continue on my routine and renew the books so I can "dive" into them much deeper later! As for the plant, I moved my to the guest room where I seldom go, and let it die in a cozy room in peace then threw it away. Much easier.
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