Go here. Fill in the empty block with words. Make your words meaningful, if you so choose. And when you hit your 100th word, you’ll get your very own cute kitten photo!
[Hey! I didn’t say this was something valuable to do, I just said that it was fun. And if you’re not the one cooking dinner, what else have you got to do?]
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
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#5 – The U.S. government does not pay my salary. Taken one step further this means that: U.S. taxpayers do not pay me to do nothing. I do nothing for free.
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#4 – I choose my friends wisely. I don’t associate with insincere, deceitful, conniving corporations lobbyists dweebs. I am able to find friends who are truthful, straightforward and clear about what matters the most in this life.
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#3 – I do not define myself by group affiliation. I am a free spirit in suburbia. This means that I do my own thing in a world known for its ordinariness. I am not a slave to fitting in with others– and hiding behind any group’s rhetoric.
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#2 – I think for myself and do not need external validation to motivate me to keep going. This means that I do not hold a press conference every time I burp, sneeze or fart. In fact, I do not hold press conferences at all because I know that people do not care about how things are going for me– they care about what I can do for them.
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#1 – I get things done. Yep, it’s a fact. I see a problem… I understand how the problem came to be… I define the problem… and then [this is crucial] I SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I finish things before I take a vacation. I do not whine about how difficult it is to do things. I just git r done. Like the grown-up that I am.
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… Can you say the same things, oh ye members of the 112th U.S. Congress?
I was shopping in the Lands’ End section of Sears last week. Working in the section were two friendly woman who helped me find sizes and colors. They were great.
Because of their help I found lots to buy– which meant that it took them a long time to take the shoplifter tags off my clothes, to fold the clothes, to swipe the price tags, to subtract the sale discounts, to re-calculate the total, and then to put the clothes into the shopping bags.
Naturally we got talking while all this was going on.
We agreed that Lands’ End 100% cotton tops– of all sorts– are just about the best thing ever. I mentioned that most of my Lands’ End tops are for daily wear, but that I also buy a few larger ones to use a tops with flannel jammie bottoms. I find that the turtlenecks, in particular, are very cozy in bed at night in the winter.
Well, both women began to laugh– and out came a story.
Earlier that day a customer had said the same thing that I did… and then she had gone on to explain in-depth why she liked to wear these tops to bed. Apparently, she liked the Lands’ End 100% cotton tops because that meant when she got up in the morning she didn’t have to get dressed.
Instead, she just put on a large sweatshirt over her sleeping ensemble, added shoes and a coat– then went out the door on her daily errands to places like the grocery, drug store, post office. In fact they told me, she said that winter was her favorite time of year because she could wear the same clothes for 24 hours straight!
Eww.
People tell me lots of stuff, and usually I kind of have an inkling of where the story is going, but this one caught me unawares. I started laughing wondering if these women thought I might be doing the same thing! I couldn’t talk fast enough to assure them that I don’t wear the same Lands’ End 100% cotton shirt around the clock.
Nope, not me. I, at least, keep my Lands’ End 100% cotton shirts divided between daytime wear– and nighttime wear. ‘Cuz I’m classy like that.
[Hello FTC! Long time no see. As usual I want to assure you that I didn’t receive any monetary consideration for writing about something that I just happen to like. So you need not concern yourself with me and my sweet little bloggy. Okie dokie, then?]
Over the course of this last week the colors have changed around here.
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There are a few last shots of color here and there. God bless red roses. I try to memorize the color so that during the bleak months I can remember it– and keep my spirit alive. Do you do this too?
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This is what is left of our Happy Returns Daylilies. I love these plants. In the summer their lemony yellow flowers make me smile. And now they remind me to have faith in the process. Bright colors will return again. Yes?
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The water on the glass-top green-rimmed table is doing a great job of revealing the bleakness of the woods beyond. I love reflections. What is real and what is imagined?
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And then there is the woods back of the house. The leaves on the trees are all down now. I like how easy it is to see the grayish brown trunks of the trees. Very visual and organic. There are no straight lines in nature, eh?
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 