Gloomy Day

I hate gloomy days.  Today is one of them.   I don't want to get up.  I have no energy.  I drag myself to the gym.  I drag myself on my walk.  I drag myself to the grocery store.
I hate my lunch.  I hate what I have planned for dinner. I hate my hair.  I hate what I'm wearing.
With all this hate going on, it's not hard to be an Eeyore.  And I only have one other thing to say...thanks for noticing me.

The Challenge

DD and DH hiked the Grand Canyon.  No kidding.  I am so proud of them.  They didn't have to be helicoptered out of there or anything.  They are tired and sore and it was really, really hard but they did it!!!
What did I do?  Well, I stayed home.  I spent some time alone and spent some time with family and friends.  I ate a lot of burgers(easy to fix) and made as little dishes as possible. I exercised and walked.  The time went really fast for me, I'll bet it flew for them.
They will be home later today and I am happy to say I'll be happy to see them.  Hope they'll be happy to see me too!

Girls' Night

So last night two of my girlfriends and I headed out to the wineries to have some fun.  There were three of us. My friend K is in her forties, WP is in her fifties and I am the senior one at Sixty something.  We have a lot in common.
First, we all like wine.
We all were fat in 2000 but not now.
We all have good men in our lives.
We all think the same stuff is funny.
We never run out of stuff to talk about.
We were so wild last night we closed down two wineries!  One closed at 8 pm and the second one at 10pm.  How wild are we???????
I know, we think it's funny too.

The Dashboard

 My blog has a dashboard.  It looks kinda like this one but not exactly.  This pictue will do for my purposes.
See the graph line?  How it makes peaks and valleys?  Peaks are good.  Valleys not so much.  I like seeing peaks.  It makes me feel proud of my work when I see them.
I have noticed though that I have been looking at my Dashboard way too much.  I mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much.  Like an obsession.
If I get a peak I am all excited but a valley makes me feel as low as ......well, a valley.
I wish tons of people would read my blogs but I can't force them to, now can I?
So I have made a rule.  No dashboard until the end of the day  like 5 pm EST.
What do you mean that's not the end of the day??

The Cowardly Lion AKA Me

If you don't know it, I write a second blog on Mondays and Thursdays called Read Around Sue.  I am pretty proud of it.  I research and do my job.  I review young adult books and recommend kids' books.  I have increased my readership and it is pretty exciting.
So I got this great idea to have some guest bloggers.  I asked a friend of my DD's who is a librarian and I wanted to ask the local librarians if they would like to write something.
I had no trouble asking the friend but I have been putting off asking the librarians for almost a month.  I would start to get up and then I would sit back down.  I'd get all the way up to do it and end up roaming the stacks instead.
So today I was determined to ask.  Well, I did. I said good morning all friendly like and pitch my blog to them.  One seems a little interested and the other one looks like she wants to crack up.  I felt a little weird but I carried on.  One of them asked me what my favorite kids' books were and I told her Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  It was sort of true but not precisely.  I love too many to pick. So I think my voice was shaking because I felt put on the spot. Then they asked me for the site and I said let me get you my card(which is really just a strip of paper but I was that nervous.)  I walked over to the table I was sitting at and they were no where to be found!  So I had to slink back and tell them.  And guess what?  I started out giving them the address for this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So I had to start again. By the time I was done, I was a sweating ball of nerves and fear and apprehension.
I'm thinking being such a cowardly lion wasn't so bad after all.  Courage is over rated!

Emmy Gowns--Hits and Misses

Well, I may as well start with the hits first.  I thought there were a lot of almost hits and almost misses so I just concentrated on my favorites.
Tina Fey looked gorgeous.  Her dress fit her flawlessly and it was a beautiful shade of blue. I loved ,loved, loved it!

Then there was a surprise for me.  Zooey Deschamel  got all dressed up ala Audrey Hepburn and she looked wonderful.  No little cotton dress for her at this show.

Kerry Washington looked lovely in a blush dress with lots of flower embellishment.  It looked a little bridal to me but she pulled it off.

 

In spite of myself, I found I liked the dress that Julianna Maurgulies wore.  It was different and it moved when she walked on stage and it looked really lovely.  I am not a big fan of the hair though so just ignore that.

Now when you miss, it's by a mile.  I could not believe Julianne Hough wore a sparkly,sheer dress over her bathing suit. It looked goofy in photos. I don't know how it looked in person.

Oh, Claire Danes.  You are supposed to wear a dress that isn't the same exact color as your complexion.  Plus get a bra and push those puppies up there.  I like her haircut though.

Now Julie Bowen erred on the side of embellishment.  Beautiful dress if it wasn't for the flounce and the bow thingys and all the tucks around your waist and the flounce is diagonal.  Calm down next year and wear the same color as it really suited you.

These are just my opinions.  I can't wait for ET tonight to see what they say.

 

Lip Lock

I have really thin lips. An old boyfriend used to say I looked like a Muppet because I didn't have any lips.  Don't worry--dumped him. Now that I am older, they are so thin that sometimes they look blue.  I just try to remember to wear lipstick.
Lips are a funny thing.  A lot of women want nice,big,juicy lips. I guess I wouldn't mind having my lips puffed up a bit but every lip job I've seen is just ridiculous and the woman looks more like a duck than a sexy woman.
When I was in college, a girl I knew used to say her lips got numb when she drank 3.2 beer(look it up, young'uns).  I never believed her.
On Saturday, the family took DD to a bourbon bar for her birthday.  I had the best tasting drink ever.  I don't remember what all was in there but bourbon, almond liqueur and gingerale were. I had two. And guess what?  My lips were numb on the way home!  Honest and truly.  It was a really weird experience.
If we hadn't been in the car, I would have made DH kiss me to see if I even felt it.
I might make myself some scary lips for Halloween.  I've already seen tiger stripe and leopard lip covers.  I guess you just glue them on.  Yikes.  That is weird.