The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, & The Travel

The Good – my daughter and son-in-law are moving into their very first home as homeowners! Good bye rent! Congratulations!

The Bad - It is my husband’s weekend off and poor Moose (the elderly dog of the elderly woman we work for) has decided that this is the day he is going call it quits. He is done and his poor old body has decided it is not going to let him get up. So my husband has to go help the guy that is working this weekend to help pick Moose up, take him to the vet, and have him put to sleep. Maybe it is more sad than bad.

The Ugly - When our dogs found out that poor Moose was leaving for good, they decided it was a great idea to roll their grief away in some mud. Thanks ladies.

The Travel – My sister is travelling home and her son & new daughter-in-law are travelling too. But they are going much farther than my sister. My sister – 8 hours on the road. Her kids – 8 months on the road. Safe travels everyone.

Thought for the day: That is A LOT of things happening in one day.

A Bed is a Bed

I was given a magazine today by a friend. For those young individuals out there, consider a magazine an old school reading app made out of paper. In this magazine it showed a picture of a bed. Pretty, simple, and perfect.

However, it also included an 8 step, picture tutorial, about how to recreate the look of the bed. 

Now, it was a bed, with a bottom sheet, a top sheet, a blanket, pillows, and a fancy blanket folded and draped at the end of the bed. Didn’t seem overly hard to me to recreate. But they had EIGHT helpful steps.

So my thought for today is:

“If I cannot make a bed look similar to a picture in a magazine simply by using my ‘common sense street smarts’ that were garnered while growing up actually making a bed; and I have to resort to following multiple instructions that a paper old school app is giving me on how to do it – I don’t need that bed. And neither does anyone else.”

It is a bed. Who am I trying to impress in my own home with my bed making skills?

And as a total sidebar - who perpetuated the thought that 10,000 pillows on a bed was pretty and a good idea?! Pillow manufacturers - that is who. Not real people who sleep in their beds.

Just sayin'...

New Style

It occurred to me as I thinking about how this blog is always on my mind, but I never seem to post anymore. The reason I do not post as often as I think I will, might be that I am busy - always busy - and the thinking, and planning, and writing, and trying to be funny, and revising just seemed to become another chore rather than a fun outlet to express my thoughts.


But I want to express something. Even if it just for me. Something I can look back on in later years and think, "Oh yes! That is how I was feeling on Thursday, September 28, 2017." Notice the selfishness of how "I" was feeling. Like no one else matters. Even though they do.


That should sway me somehow not to focus solely on myself, but I am sticking to my self-serving plan for now.


This is what I plan to do. Each day (lets see how long I actually make that commitment) I am going to try to post a word or a short sentence to explain my day. Short, sweet, and to the point, but maybe understandable by anyone else who reads this.


Feel free to post how your day is/was as a comment too!


Today:


Life has not turned out like I thought it was going to be. Not even close.


See you tomorrow!