#@!***@#*

Well, I'll be darned.  How about that?  All these years I spent thinking I was a shameless broad for having such a potty mouth and it has only meant I am honest and trustworthy.
Maybe  that means that Honest Abe Lincoln and George "I cannot tell a lie" Washington dropped a few "F"bombs in their day.  Now that makes me smile.
I really do swear a lot.  I never mean to and I don't like to use the Lord's name in vain but, other than that, I have no problem with swear words.
I am not exactly sure I know all the swear words there are to know but I know some in other languages like "Merde!" in France.
Don't you wonder who decided that a word was a bad word?  Think about the F bomb.  Why is that so bad?--only because we all agree it is.  I saw The Heat recently and Melissa McCarthy dropped the F bomb so many times that you stopped hearing it.  And boy, was she honest!
I had to laugh when a friend said they have to invent a new word for the F bomb because it is getting to be so common it doesn't have the same effect it did when we were young.
So the next time you want to be honest, just swear.  Trust me, it'll be fine, dammit.

Bastille Day and Something Else

Happy Bastille Day!!  Viva LaFrance and Ooh La La! 
I know Bastille day has something to do with the French Revolution but to be honest I'm not exactly sure what happened.  Something about peasants storming the Bastille which was a big prison.
This revolution ended up giving us champagne and brie cheese so personally, I salute this day!
The real reason for this post is that it is my 34th wedding anniversary.  We got married by a judge in a little city hall and had our reception at TGIFridays and I ate peel and eat shrimp.  I was nervous and excited and late.  DH was nervous and on time.
The judge jingled the change in his pocket the entire time and our former brother in law laughed about it all through the ceremony.  Someone(not saying who) went out of the restaurant to cry.  I will spare you further details of that.
Here we are all these years later and we are going to work in the yard and go drink wine later.  We did celebrate a little yesterday too and found a new winery we can't wait to take our friends to.
DH, it's been a roller coaster ride but I wouldn't trade it for anything.  Not even champagne and brie.

That's a Deep Subject

A young friend asked me the other evening, "Sue, what do you think our purpose is here on Earth?"  Well, wowza!  Nobody ever asked me that before.  My first instinct was to say, Geez, how would I know?  But I reconsidered because I know this young friend admires me and apparently, she thinks I know stuff.  So I gave it my best consideration.
Here is what I told her.
I think we are here to have fun.
I think we are here to love our families.
We should learn from our mistakes and try to better ourselves.
We need to take care of ourselves and others.
We need to learn as much as we can during the time we are given here.
I didn't even have to think about it much.  It just came out-- one thing after the other.  Who knew??

Listeria Hysteria

Up until yesterday, I was blissfully unaware of listeria.  I read about it on Facebook and learned all about it from Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital.  They post facts for parents that they should be aware of.
Listeria is a bacteria that lives on produce and meat.  You need to scrub your produce and if your meat leaks in the fridge it needs to be cleaned up.  Why anyone would not clean up meat juice immediately is beyond me but whatever.
I didn't even finish reading before I shot out of my seat and ran to the kitchen, grabbed rags, hot water, soap and for good measure, disinfectant wipes and got to work scrubbing out the whole fridge.
I mean I never heard of this before.  I could have had a listeria convention in there.  It took me about forty five minutes but after I was done, believe me, there isn't a bacteria in there!
I found it ironic that something I never even heard of had the potential to make us sick.  There are probably lots of other things I'm unaware of and will hear about some day. 
In the meantime, I hope I don't kill us!

Uplifting

See Sally and Jane?  They are friends.  I heard Jane tell someone on TV a few years back that they had a pact to never, never have plastic surgery and to grow old gracefully--you know, kind of like Katherine Hepburn.

I was so proud of them.  SO proud that they were not going to bend to the Hollywood standard and just be themselves.  Now she never said no Botox mind you but I can live with that.

So imagine my shock and dismay when I saw an ad for the new television show on Oprah's network about stars and their plastic surgery and who regrets it and there was Jane happily saying she had an eyelift or eye bags removed.  I don't remember because I was in total shock.  I was so disappointed.

So far Sally has remained mum as far as I know.  I hope she didn't do it too....but to be honest I think she probably did.

We are so positive that young is better.  Old age is a crime and an inconvenience at least .  It should be totally obliterated.  What we fail to realize is that the baby boomers are all heading to old age faster than a speeding bullet and they are the ones who have disposable cash.  Hopefully, they don't all feel compelled to have plastic surgery.

A family friend of ours had a facelift when she was in her seventies.  No kidding.  She looked rather ridiculous as her face was a smooth and pink as a baby's bottom but the rest of her was still seventy something.  I don't think she thought about people looking at all of her, just her face.

Luckily for Jane Fonda et al, they usually are only photographed all dolled up and mostly just their faces.  So I guess you can suspend your disbelief and just think you look young under those circumstances.  But when those fancy gowns come off, don't you worry, baby boomers, they look just like us.

Gone Girl

This book was the last thing I expected.  I spent the early part of the book flipping back and forth that Nick, the husband, killed Amy, the wife.  I would be sure of it and then something would be written and I'd think oh, no he didn't. Something else would come along and I'd be sure he did it.
I'm not going to talk much about the story because there are so many surprises along the way, I wouldn't want to spoil them for you.
The prose was captivating and the characters were well written.  I kind of hoped all along that Nick would be innocent because in spite of his flaws he was likable. Amy I was not so crazy about as she led us a merry dance throughout the book. Slowly, both the main characters revealed themselves to the reader.
There was extreme behavior that felt totally wrong but yet it was right for the story.  I felt really sorry for anyone who got caught up in this total mess.
I heard that Reese Witherspoon wants to do the movie version so the whole time I was hearing her voice when Amy spoke and imagining her in different scenes.  For me, that was a little distracting.
I couldn't put this book down because I always wanted to know what happened next.  The ending sent a shiver down my spine.
If you're looking for a good read, I suggest you pick up Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Today

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