Tell Me Why

I follow a woman on Facebook who used to write spoilers for the soap operas.  She was very accurate and I enjoyed reading her column.
Then a terrible thing happened.  She developed cancer for the second time.  It is some unusual and rare cancer that is always fatal.  She has hung in there with support from her partner and her former soap audience and her wonderful Oncologist.
She had an epiphany of faith and had a positive outlook.
Today she posted that her supposedly "psychic" friend left a voice mail telling her that she had seen this poor woman's death and usually the person who she sees dying has only a couple of weeks to a couple of months until they pass over......oh, and she hopes she didn't ruin their night.
HOLY SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is some friend, isn't it??  I would like to get a hold of this woman and give her holy hell.  I wonder what she was thinking.  Did she think she was giving this woman comfort?  Was she giving her time to get her affairs in order?  Was she giving her time to reach out to all those she cares about to say goodbye? 
Or was she just a mean bitch?
You probably can guess what I think.

Lemons or Lemonade?

I am removing wall paper border from one of the bedrooms upstairs.  I am moving my office to the other bedroom which does not have border...thank goodness.
If you are a young family considering putting up border or wall paper let me tell you my story.
There are two layers to my border.  There is the vinyl which is the decorative part and there is the backing that is glued on the wall like.......well, glue.
First you have to pull off the vinyl.  Now here is the lemonade/lemon part.  Sometimes it comes down in a nice long strip from top to bottom and all the way across for about 2 or 3 feet.   Sounds not so bad right?  Well that is the lemonade part.  Sometimes you pull and get a tiny little scrap that sticks under your fingernail or it's skinny, skinny and most of the border remains on the wall.
So, if you are thinking of doing a border, DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After all that you still have to remove the glued on part called the backing.  You have to get it really wet and then remove it with a plastic scraper.  Again, sometimes it's easy peasy and sometimes, not so much.
I've been at it for an hour and I am more sweaty that when I work out and walk at the mall.  My new haircut is pretty much ruined and I know I can never make it look like the stylist did.  I'm dying of thirst, but I had to write this first.
So again, wallpaper border is pretty

but DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mirror, Mirror

I got my hair cut and colored  today.  I had a new idea for how I wanted my hair to look so it took a little more time and a little more money. I was fine with it.
So while my stylist was putting the goo on the side of my head, she really plastered my hair down and when I looked in the mirror, my dad was looking back at me.
No, not a ghostly apparition.  It was ME!!!!!!!!!
All the time I was growing up, people would tell me how much I looked like my dad.  I never saw it.  I know we had a lot of similarities but after all, I was a girl and he was not.  So I never thought it was that startling of a resemblance.
Today, all that changed.  I do look just like my dad.  I'm so proud that I do!  However, I won't be doing that looking in the mirror thing at the salon during hair dying time any time soon!

Replacement Heads

No kidding.  That's a Groupon that was offered to me.  They must have read my blog from the eye doctor.  Well, guess what? They weren't offering me a replacement head for me, it was a replacement head for something else.... just scroll down a little.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're for acne and stuff.  I guess it is some kind of electronic brush. 
Anyway, I did see some replacement heads today.
The car in front of me on the way to the grocery store had 4 mannequin heads on her back shelf by the window.  Well, it tickled my funny bone, I'll tell you.  Why on earth would someone have those? I have no idea.  There was even a skeleton head!
So today was replacement head day for me!

Who's Sorry Now?

Yesterday, I went to get new glasses.  I really need them since I've been having headaches every evening.  I know it is from eye strain.
I went to a very unfriendly eye doctor and after my short exam, I got my prescription and headed over to pick out some frames.
I found a few I liked real well and sat down with an employee to try them on.  She took pictures of me in them so I could see how I looked.  That was very unsatisfying so stupid me asked for a mirror. I wanted to see how they looked when I was animated and not just a flat picture.
I WILL NEVER do that again.
I think I look pretty good for my age and I take pretty good care of myself but when I looked in that magnifying mirror I thought I would drop dead of shock.  First of all, my hair looked like a haystack.  If that wasn't bad enough every single wrinkle stood out like a sore thumb.  I even saw brown age spots I had never seen before. OMG!!! I was mortified.
I picked out glasses anyway and I thought they looked cool so I bought them.  Even if I'm old and I have scraggly hair, I still want to look cool.  Know what I mean?

Make Me Laugh

It isn't hard to make me laugh.  Really.  I even have an example.  When walking at the mall, my WP and I saw a sign outside the Chinese restaurant that said "Free Pe."  Well, we could not stop laughing.  Who wants free pe?  We wondered what on earth that could possibly mean which sent us into more gales of laughter.
Later in the month, I was walking the mall with DH and we saw another sign outside the same restaurant and it said 1/2 price "a peti" and it dawned on me what the first sign had said. OMG, they had free appetizers the day we saw the sign.  Some joker just erased the letters off the whiteboard so  it said free pe.  Laughed myself silly that day too.
DH didn't get it but he is used to me so he didn't take me to the psychiatrist or anything.
I had a really good laugh yesterday too. Now I can't think of it for the life of me.  If I ever do you'll be the first to know.

I love a good laugh.  I have a bit of a weird sense of humor but I love it when I get a good one during my day.  I especially love it when it comes first thing in the morning because it makes the rest  of the day wonderful.  If I feel low I can just remember the funny thing and I feel better.
Today was one of those days thanks to Aaron Eckhart.  I know, not known for being funny necessarily and the best part was he didn't mean to be funny at all.  He is promoting his new movie, I, Frankenstein and this is what he said, He's just trying to be accepted into society and then they showed a clip and here's what he looked like.

Frankie, honey, if you want to fit in to society, I suggest you lose those weapon things you are carrying!

I'm still laughing.