Five Things

I was thinking, yes, I know a dangerous activity, about how many things I do the same Every Day.  And what would be left after I eliminated all the usual stuff, you know, like;  getting dressed, going to the bathroom, eating, sleeping, etc.

And then I wondered if I could come up with Five Things that I do every day, like that Top Five on Facebook.

1:  Knitting, of course

2: Reading, always before I sleep at night, I must read to unwind.

3: Making, Baking or Cooking Something in the kitchen.

4: Giving and Getting Hugs from DH.

5:  Petting & Feeding the kitties Tuna for Cats from Trader Joe’s every morning upon waking.

Middle Age Is Creeping Up On Me.

My good friend, Vi, who is in her 80′s likes to say, “Old age is creeping up on me” so I’ve borrowed that phrase from her.  Ever since I hit my 40′s things have changed.

I mean, first, I had to get bi-focals in my glasses.  Then I developed “tennis elbow” from all that excessive right handed use.  We won’t even discuss the more frequent trips to the bathroom.  Or the creakiness I am starting to feel upon rising.  No, we won’t go there.

I realized middle age was creeping up on me most profoundly the other day when I had to put on my glasses in order to see the hooks on my bra well enough to manipulate them.  I realized this when I started squinting at the labels on bottles.

My gosh, I sound like my Grandma H !  She used to say that the print on things was surely getting smaller!  And to think I didn’t believe her!

Grandma H, I apologize.  Sincerely.  I knew not what I was thinking.  And I admire you more and more each and every day!

Taking Chance

Go See This Movie!  And don’t forget the tissues.

Kevin Bacon once again proves his Awesomeness and the whole story is very touching.

Forecast: Spring with a chance of rain

This is a typical March here in Oregon.

Just when you’ve slogged through the longest short month of February.

Just when you think it might ease up a little with all the rain and gray skies.

Just when you have “Spring Forward” and have changed all the clocks in the house.

Just when you see the dogwood trees and the crocus begin to bloom.

Just when you begin to hope, that you’ll see a little sunshine…just then…it looks like this.

Oh, and did I mention that it snowed this weekend?  and rained, and hailed.  A virtual cornucopia of spring.

Roadside Work

Yet another driving rant…why is the simple act of going somewhere fraught with so many obstacles and frustrations?

I am driving to my sisters (to paint, what else?) and it is less the ten miles and two main roads away, shouldn’t be difficult, right?  huh!

For some reason the people that schedule the road work crews forgot to coordinate their jobs, so everything winds up being done at once and a body can’t drive anywhere without being stuck behind one of those people holding up that sign.

First I am stopped on my main road, which by the way, has only one way in and out of, so there is no way to cleverly drive around it even if you know the neighborhood.  Sigh.

All summer long there has been a crew Parked on the corner that I normally take to get on my second main road, so I take a clever little detour around it, because their is a way, if you know the back roads.

But wait!  there is another work crew!  Just as I turn to take my clever detour!  Isn’t there rules?  There oughta be rules about this!  No work crews allowed on the detour roads!

Who schedules this things?  Seriously, because I want to talk to them about a little coordination around here.

road rant

Don’t you just hate it when a car pulls out in front of you–all sudden like–and then you glance in your rear view mirror and see no cars back there for, like, a mile???
I do, and it doesn’t matter what kind of car you are driving, what speed you are going, what time of day or night it is…they just pull out in front of ya’ and make you slam on your brakes…when they could’ve just waited, like, two more seconds and pulled in safely behind you.

Jeff blames it and occurrences like these on “the aliens”. His theory is that they either come down to earth and wreak havoc on traffic, or they send out some type of “rays” that render people stupid. Either way, he takes comfort in blaming aliens. Which is more fun then blaming stupid people.

is it hot enough for ya ??

YES, it is.

Yesterday our indoor/outdoor temp gauge told me it had reached a grand 108.3 degrees outside and 107.4 inside.

chris said he worked in 106 degrees at one point in the afternoon.

so far we have experienced two brown-outs here in the neighborhood.  the first one fried the computer, the second one, the “new” computer held its own.

the thing about this heat is it leaves you about as good as shape as a piece of limp, wilty lettuce—not good for much.

the cats keep plooping down on the hard floor surfaces to try for some coolness.

Yesterday, Cali cat let me stroke her belly with some cold water.  It was apparent she liked it, for she didn’t move, growl, or bat me away with her paws.  Dexter kitten has a habit of jumping into the bathtub.  It must be cooler on the surface of the tub, because the bathroom itself sure isn’t.