Age, my Friends

Is a big, besotted bitch. Truly. She loves making us look like fools. And nothing makes us feel elderly like really stupid mistakes, right?

Arriving fully five minutes ahead of my appointment, I found the dental office closed and locked. A quick call revealed that my appointment was for MARCH 17!

So I came home and pigged out on ice cream. It IS Fat Tuesday, after all!

There was another really stupid thing I did yesterday that is beyond the reach of what few brain cells are left.

Pictures of Mike working on the plumbing…


Being at one with the pipes.

*Silly man pretending to sleep.

Yes, plumbing makes me doze right off as well…

*I wouldn’t say he’s silly if he wasn’t such a sweetheart.

In the Dark

The power goes out and every little thing turns to bollocks. Stupid things, just because it’s dark and the quest for light is an overpowering need. Also, coffee.


Using a flashlight I took a candle out of the pantry and lit it; a beeswax. I’ve gotten a lot of hours from already, which is why it’s my go-to. It’s sitting on the counter while I pop back under the counter into what I think of as my ‘light cubby’.

And bent over like that, my hair caught on fire.

If you’ve not experienced this bit of lunacy… thank goodness. It’s a mess. A big mess.

Ash was everywhere; my clothes, the floor, counter, sink… oh, along with burnt globs of hair.

The smell is such that I’d have preferred a skunk invade my underwear drawer for a week!

Though waking my husband was not on my to-do list a shower was a definite must. As I pulled off my clothes and ponytail thingy more burnt hair and ash… should have done that in the kitchen. (After all, it was dark.)

No, you don’t get pictures. And tomorrow, I’ll hopefully get it repaired or shaved off.

EDIT

Simply adding that six weeks ago my hair was chopped off short. It was much too long, so… impelled by the mythical ‘wild hair’ I gave my husband a pair of shears and told him to cut it off.

And he did.

Now? Bet he thinks I’ve got a hair vendetta.

No, haven’t looked at it yet.

Bag

My Mom’s wee bag from the 40s or 50’s – not sure which. She danced on Lawrence Welk once and I can’t help but wonder if she purchased the purse for that reason. It was a very big deal, back then.


Just think… every little pearl bead was hand stitched on. That must have been labor intensive.

Should have taken a picture of the interior; it’s pristine.

Never been to an event which would have merited a clutch of this beauty. Which is a damn shame.

The Sky

Yesterday, Mike’s birthday.

Okay, I’ve obviously watched too much t.v. Can’t stop looking at the picture.

What I see: clearly, the world is about to end because there’s a mushroom cloud to the north. So, a lion is lifting a bear (really!) to a beautiful fountain to get… what? I get stuck there. Elixir of life? Grape soda??

Hmm…

SICK of IT

Okay, I’m old. Goodness knows it’s shoved in my face on a near consistent basis. Like a survey that lumps everyone 65 and over into one group: the last one. As if all of the 65 and overs are irrelevant to companies/marketing firms.

And this email from LabCorp made me want to press charges:

It’s fine, thanks.

Are you kidding me?? We get enough geezer mail from “Long Term Care” facilities and funeral homes, fer cripe’s sake!

In other news, I’m sick of the dadgum bamboo! Here we are again, trimming it into a mushroom…

Looks like I need to power clean the pavers again. There’s no rest for the OLD! Take that, LabCorp!!!

Mike’s Hobby

My husband Mike can’t stop working. His brain, anyway. A well known problem solver among his peers, the man’s mind works problems in his sleep. We’re completely different, of course. My dreams are frothy, happy things. A problem in my dream world becomes a nightmare.

He’s a genius, of course, and can do anything. Fix anything. So when the man wants to do something besides work… it’s a really good thing!

Enter woodworking. (I know; it’s work too.) He’s just getting started but instead of simply buying the tools guess what he’s doing…?? Making them, of course. And making stands for them to sit on and twirl around on…. yeah, genius.

When he saw me bookmarking risers in my Amazon list he proclaimed his intent to make one and I said ‘ok’ but had reservations. Silly me.

This is a shot of the riser he made me for the new bathroom.


Isn’t it sweet?

There have been other hobbies (that he tries to turn into work) but I hope he sticks with this one. After all, we have another bathroom to renovate.

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