Flag Day Wedding

Yesterday was Flag day and also my parents' wedding anniversary.  I look at the pictures of their wedding and it looks like any other wedding on any other day back in the forties.  Just imagine what a wedding would be like today.  I styled the bride, the maid of honor and the bridesmaids as you can see. 
I can picture all the tables too.  There would be lots of red and blue candles and a centerpiece which would include toiletpaper and paper towel tubes painted in bold red and silver and blue stripes with wicks to look like firecrackers.  The gift for each guest would be an American flag cookie.
Themed weddings are the big thing now.  If my mom had only known she could have started a trend. As it was, I think they only picked flag day because it fell on a Saturday that year.
I've been watching too much Four Weddings on TLC!

Flag Day Wedding by angel-mom featuring a sterling silver bracelet

Giambattista Valli one shoulder gown / Matthew Williamson ruffle wedding dress / J.Crew pleated a line dress / Badgley Mischka strap high heels / Betsey Johnson vintage bridal shoes / White gold earrings / Loree Rodkin feather bracelet, $3,105 / Lord & Taylor sterling silver bracelet / Pearl diamond earrings, $360 / Wallis hair fascinator / wedding bouquet, bridesmaids bouquet, paper bridesmaids bouquet,... / Red Silk Rose Nosegay - Bridal Wedding Bouquet

Postcards of a Vacation

We went to Myrtle Beach last week and just got home last night.  It was a really fun trip.
Here are some things that happened to me.
On the second day, I lost all our cash, around 175 dollars.
On the third day, I got stung by 2 wasps at the same time.
On the fifth day, I found all our cash.  It was in my secret hiding place, better known as my wallet.
The good news about the wasp stings is I wasn't allergic.  Boy, those sure hurt like the dickens.  I only got stung because under the table I was sitting at, the wasps had built a nest and I had the misfortune of sitting right under it.  They were just protecting their home.  We would have never known except a little five year old boy saw it under the table later on.
I also found my money when we were visiting a winery.  It was the best winery ever and I was feeling awesome.  I even had on an awesome shirt!  I was so happy about that money I could have danced all over the winery.  I did contain myself but when we left, the owner marked my box of wine "Team Awesome."  Now isn't that awesome??
On the last day, I didn't want to go....sort of.  We really relaxed and did just what we wanted and there was no schedule.  I think I need my schedule.  I even think I like having a schedule.
Vacation is important.  You have to go and relax totally at some time or other.  Even if you can't leave home, you should take a vacation which I understand is now called a staycation.
Here is what to do:
Sleep as long as you want.
Take a walk every day.
Eat whatever you want.
Have a happy hour.
Go out to dinner or order in.  No cooking allowed.
Go to bed whenever you want.
Repeat for at least five days.
Oh, yes, one more thing---Be awesome!

R&R

After writing so many inane blog entries I am taking a break.  I'll be back on July 14th!

Look, Ma, No Hands

SO Burger King has come up with quite a concept.  They are presenting the first hands free burger--so you can multitask.  Just think I could be typing this and chowing down on a burger.
What I can't figure out is what happens when the burger is eaten down to the container?  Do you throw the rest away?  Do you turn the burger a different way and keep eating?  Sooner or later you are going to have to hold it if you ask me.
It got me thinking about other hands free devices.

If you go to a wine tasting event you might see this handy little gadget.  The hands free wine glass holder.  Now I don't know a bout you but when I walk, well, I kinda bounce.  If you are a man, you might not have that problem but you might.  Even if you don't have that problem everyone moves around when they walk.  With my luck I'd be wearing the wine, not just the wine glass.

Now here is the ultimate of hands free devices.  A cell phone that you put in your ear lobe.  Why didn't I think of that?  I always wondered what those big wholes in the younger generation's ears were for and now I know!

The Good, the Bad and the Rich and Famous

The man with no name.  Actually, the man with no lines.  Well, hardly any. 
Our first exposure to Clint Eastwood was when he made what they call spaghetti westerns.  That just means a western movie made in Italy.
They featured lots of shooting, lots of bad guys, some strange camera angles and one good guy who would clean up the whole mess, whatever it was.
Clint got to be Dirty Harry after that.  Those movies featured lots of shooting, lots of bad guys, better camera work and one good guy who would clean up the whole mess, whatever it was.  Dirty Harry also got to say, "Go ahead, punk, Make my day."  One of my favorite lines of all time.
Then Clint did a bunch of real dumb movies where he starred with his current girlfriend at the time.  They were so dumb that in one I think he socked an orangutan.  Or maybe the orangutan slugged him.  I don't remember and frankly, don't really care.  Either way, you get the idea.  DUMB!
Then, Clint started doing movies that were really good.  He was really good in them.  He still had the same scowl and he was the good guy but the guy could act.
Then, Clint became a director and man, was he good at it.  So good he got an Academy Award for directing.  Actors loved working with him.  He even smiled and once I saw him chuckle.
Clint turned 83 this week. I could hardly believe he was that old. I still see him as the guy at the top of this page.  Clint still has the scowl and he doesn't say much but he smiles a lot more. 
A guy who started out as an Italian cowboy turned into one of Hollywood's most famous and admired men.  Way to go, Mr. Eastwood and happy happy birthday.

Camp Out

This would be my DH's idea of heaven.  Camping in the great outdoors in our own little camper.

This is my idea of camping.  They have room service.

 

DH would love it if I would cook for us on the open fire.  He likes camp food,even canned potatoes.

This is my idea of an open fire meal.  Stone oven baked pizza with plenty of wine to wash it down!  Hey, there's a fire in those ovens.

This is how DH imagines us, all cuddled up in our one man tent and sharing a pillow by the light of an old lantern.

 

I imagine us like this.  Notice the suitcases and he is in a suit and I am in a dress.  The suitcases mean we'll be staying awhile and the clothes tell me we're going out to dinner(hopefully for that gourmet pizza and wine).

The bottom line is some of us our campers and some of us order room service. Although I've yet to meet anyone who would turn down room service!

I've Got a Hunch

I've been icing my shoulder three times a day.  It really helps my injury.  I just can't look in the mirror.
Why, you ask?
Well, I am the Hunch Shoulder of Kittery Lane.  Just imagine Quasimoto's hunch moved from his back to his right shoulder.  That's me.

Or imagine a linebacker without one of his shoulder pads.  Get the picture?

Or imagine Joan Crawford with only one shoulder pad.

That would  be me.  It's enough to make you laugh until you cry.  Last night DH and I got hysterical over it.  I tried to act insulted but then got a glimpse of myself in the mirror and off I went in gales of laughter.

It's good to laugh at yourself.  You shouldn't take yourself so seriously all the time.  Everyone has troubles and ills and things they don't like about themselves.  The smart ones take it all in stride.