Rabbit Trails

So, my favorite thrift store had a bag sale. Anything you can get in a grocery bag, AND tie it, was $2.  I got this skirt.  Stuffing it in the bag, got it all wrinkled, so I ironed it.  I usually wash things before I wear them, because of cooties, but thought this would be OK. I looked at the tag, to find out how to wash it.... and this is what I found. I thought wow.  This coming from a Lithuanian?  I assumed Lithuania was a horrible place to live, but Google told me it's in the top 20 *best* places to live in the world. I'd replace the word happy, with thankful.        January socks.  I hardly ever wear socks, but when I do, they are going to be fun ones.  Our jungle like weather, which we have for most months, doesn't call for lots of sock wearing.  I don't know if I'm sad or glad. It gets in the 50's and I think I'm froze solid.     January sky.  I'm always ...

  We went out to eat with Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Theresa a month or so ago. Since they asked US, they had to choose the place. Should be easy, right? You're hungry.  You have $$.  Go eat. Not so. We went to a place where we could look out the window into the parking lot.  A guy and his wife drove up in a truck and never got out. It was apparent that they were NOT getting along. Dinner and a show, right? They were there for quite a while, obviously arguing. Us four decided that one of them didn't want to eat at Riverpoint. They eventually left. Fine, we'll go home and eat a bowl of cereal.   Well, we do eat out as often as we can. No, we don't eat out every night. It's fun, and sometimes cheaper than going to Dillard's. Except sometimes, it's hard to pick where you want to end up.     I figure, with all the resources and energy put into just choosing a place to eat.... we could put a fence up around Tex...



      Here is *Pearls of Wisdom* from a book I just bought:   "The best way to clean a house,  is to keep it clean by a daily attention to small things,  and never allow it to get into such a state of  dirtiness and disorder as to require great and periodical cleanings,  which turn comfort out of doors."    I do the Mount Vernon cleaning method, ONE room at a time, Jane A. method, go from one end of the house to the other end. I also do hurricane season cleaning.... I will go through the house and tidy up everything I can, before June, that way when a hurricane blows it away, I will know what I lost. And sometimes you will find me on the couch, eating ice cream. The Blue Bell method.   

  Sometimes, listening to somebody's dream, is worse than a badly written, badly played, fiction movie. Somebody else's dream is worse than fiction.   The details are ridiculous, and you know it came from their unsettled head. But they just keep on and on. And keep adding things. We have to care. We've been *chosen* to listen to it.    We've all *told* our dreams to somebody before. Not dreams of living in the mountains and having a Dodge Charger in our favorite color.... but night dreams. We've all bored somebody to tears with our details.....   You know you've done it. If there is a dream hanging in your mind when you wake up, you gotta tell it.     I'll make this as short as I can.      I woke up wide awake as a hoot-owl  this morning around 2:00 a.m.. I sang songs, made out a Saturday *to-do* list, tried to remember how many cups of coffee I had, ...

Kimberly, I was reading something this morning and came across a fact you might want to know.   Photic Sneeze Reflex is a trait characterized by involuntary sneezing after an individual is exposed to bright light after adapting to the dark. This trait is believed to be inherited, but identification of the specific genes involved has not been made yet. Photic sneeze reflex occurs in about 10 percent of people. The photic sneeze reflex (also known as photoptarmosis, colloquially known as "sun sneezing") is a condition of uncontrollable sneezing in response to numerous stimuli, such as looking at bright lights or periocular (surrounding the eyeball) injection. The condition affects 18–35% of the population, but its exact mechanism of action is not well understood. So now, we know the term.  This is what you have.  The book I read it in says this is inherited.  Let's try not to lay blame on anybody here.  It could be lots of people you go...

  I got these *helps* from a website......... If you have to go to 27 sites about cleaning your house up, search for ideas to help you,  learn and study ways to clear out your STUFF, watch three seasons of Hoarders, talk about it for 3 years...... YOUR HEART PROBABLY ISN'T IN IT.  We all know when we're ready to do this. Until then, just enjoy life, and remember, clutter is relative. Don't let somebody else's minimalistic lifestyle, ruin yours. Have we used this item in the last year? Used it?  In the past year? Are you kidding?  I haven't even SEEN most of my stuff  for 7 years. Do I love this item?  I had a high school history teacher that said you can't LOVE things.  My best friend kept saying she loved graham crackers, and he got so mad he could hardly talk.  He said you could only love people.  She never gave up.  Actually, with the people that were in her life, I can understand why she loved gra...

I'll start the year off with a Snoopy post. I've loved Snoopy and Charlie Brown since I can remember. My dad used to say to me, "You can do it Charlie Brown."    Snoopy seems to be silent, but say so much.    Snoopy is always ready to just be cool, to take a nap, to eat cookies, and if necessary, fight with the neighbor cat.    Snoopy loves naps, and he loves to smooch.    He can be bummed out, but never as bummed out as Charlie Brown. We're a lot like Snoopy, or he's a lot like us..... we just don't have speech bubbles. Probably a good thing.    Little things make Snoopy happy. Like a letter in the mail. Which reminds me, I ought to look for some Snoopy stationery.    Snoopy helps you try to tell somebody just how you feel. I used to have a miniature deck of Snoopy cards. It was a picture of Snoopy, blue background, white snowflakes. I wish I still had ...