As most of my friends and family know I generally do not see color. That's as far as the color of one's skin. It's just not a big deal with me. You see my mama always told me it wasn't what the outside looked like that counts in a person, it's the INSIDE. A package can look beautiful yet be filled with rotten apples. So I have never understood what the big hoopla was all about. I understand the struggles. Hell I grew up during those turbulent times. I remember them quite well thank you. What I never understood was really very simple you know.....Why? But that is a very long and difficult question for us all to answer isn't it? It brings out more than we care to admit to one another. It's in the past, we say. We can't change it, we say. Are you sure? I say...... Something to think about.
My kids bought me a tanning bed certificate a while back as a birthday present. As it is I haven't had a chance to use it. However, I have been thinking lately I need a bit of color on my cheeks! And my legs.....looks like my arms could use some too......I guess my summer color is starting to fade. lol The Winter White has arrived in my wardrobe! I am now 51 soon to be 52. I look in the mirror every morning searching for those wrinkles and gray hair that elude me. I have a few lines around my eyes as if from squinting to read something. But other than that no real wrinkles. I see very little gray, maybe some at my temple when I pull back my hair. I want to take naps now, maybe that's why I'm not graying like my friends are. I once read if you eat a lot of nuts that will keep you from graying too. Well folks, I sure have eaten my fair share of nuts so that must be it! I don't bruise and I tan very easily. So imagine my surprise when I looked down the other morning and my hands were WHITE. Uh.....yeah.....my arms are tanned and my hands are WHITE........FREAKY...... At first I thought the gloves I slept in had somehow drained all the blood out of my hands so I commenced to slapping my hands against my leg and rubbing them.......to no avail of course.......then I came into the house and ran cold water over them........they turned GRAY.....and then BLUE.......FREAKY FREAKY......... So I patted them dry.......Now I have white hands and tanned arms.........and you can even see where the glove ended......Yay! It seems one of the side affects of my meds for my hands is loss of skin pigmentation.
My friend Little Bird says I can always learn the moonwalk and grab my crotch while singing Thriller. Can you see that at Grandma's? Uh.....Not happening! So get it out of my head now! Thank you! Hmmmmm I could always wear gloves but then I would look like a fat Debutant so next please! Oh well maybe I'll get lucky and it's only temporary! Hey! I could just tell everyone I'm wearing invisible gloves! Something to think about! I wonder if now would be a good time to use that tanning certificate the kids gave me for my birthday......
Thoughts
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Smiles, Giant Ghosts and Triple Christmas Day!
My goodness what a spell this has been! So happy to report my hands are almost healed! Yes Yes Yes I am one happy person right now! Can you say SMILE!??? lol Well my face my crack from all this smiling I am doing right now! Let's all pray they stay healed! Thanks everyone for all your prayers. The power of prayer really does work and my hands prove that!
Thanksgiving is a week away and I for one can hardly wait to set down and munch on some well deserved turkey! In our family, Thanksgiving is when we get together with my daughter Me-Me and her husband's family. It is a way to blend both families together and not put any demands on either one of our children. Of course it may all change as the other children get married but that is in the future and right now we will concentrate on the here and now!
We got our new roof and now they are clearing out the extra land we have attached to our lot. Believe me when I say I had no idea my property was this large! Neither did we know we had such a drop off on one side of it. Looks like when they finish this weekend we may have a pond at the bottom, now wouldn't that be nice?
Along with scaling down our household to a more manageable size, we have decided to do away with all our outdoor seasonal decorations. We have tons of blow ups and thousands of lights. We are thinking of have a decorations only yard sale next weekend. I wonder if there is anyone out there who would be interested in an over friendly Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Giant Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? Really? Well what about a Giant Purple Spider? Hmmmmm How about (rummages in a box and pulls out) this! A giant Santa and a mini Santa for the porch? Well they will be here along with all the others including my white reindeer.....Y'all Come! Uh...no I don't have a giant turkey....sorry....
Speaking of Christmas and other holidays.......we are really looking forward to this year as it will be a double Christmas for us, maybe even a triple one! You see our son will not be here for Christmas Day so we will be celebrating Christmas with him and his girlfriend on a different day. Our Wayfaring Son recently asked me what he should do and here is our conversation!
Son: Mom, Her family has all this traditional stuff where they go to her grandma's on Christmas Eve and then everyone comes over on Christmas Morning and opens presents and eats this big meal.....
Me: Well what do you want to do son?
Son: I don't know what to do Mom, you tell me.
Me: Well son, I tell you what, you make her happy. You make her family happy and spend all the holidays you want with her and her family now. BUT if and when you two decide to settle down and have children, Well all of you better come to my house for EVERY holiday. Do I make myself clear? Oh and be sure to tell her and her family....
Son: Yes Ma'am!
Me: (I just walked away with a smile on my face because you see I don't mind not one bit not seeing my kids on Christmas Day or any holiday for that matter but when I start getting grand babies it will be a different story indeed!)
As for the "other Christmas Days" well we all will be celebrating the 25th of course and then when Max comes home from Afghanistan it will be another Christmas all over again. I promised him I wouldn't take the tree down til he came home. Hurry home son we miss you! xoxo
Well I guess that's it for me and mine my dears! So if I don't talk to any of you before Turkey day, Have a good gobble gobble! Oh and Betty, I am so looking forward to seeing you and yours real soon! Love to all!
Thanksgiving is a week away and I for one can hardly wait to set down and munch on some well deserved turkey! In our family, Thanksgiving is when we get together with my daughter Me-Me and her husband's family. It is a way to blend both families together and not put any demands on either one of our children. Of course it may all change as the other children get married but that is in the future and right now we will concentrate on the here and now!
We got our new roof and now they are clearing out the extra land we have attached to our lot. Believe me when I say I had no idea my property was this large! Neither did we know we had such a drop off on one side of it. Looks like when they finish this weekend we may have a pond at the bottom, now wouldn't that be nice?
Along with scaling down our household to a more manageable size, we have decided to do away with all our outdoor seasonal decorations. We have tons of blow ups and thousands of lights. We are thinking of have a decorations only yard sale next weekend. I wonder if there is anyone out there who would be interested in an over friendly Casper the Friendly Ghost and a Giant Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? Really? Well what about a Giant Purple Spider? Hmmmmm How about (rummages in a box and pulls out) this! A giant Santa and a mini Santa for the porch? Well they will be here along with all the others including my white reindeer.....Y'all Come! Uh...no I don't have a giant turkey....sorry....
Speaking of Christmas and other holidays.......we are really looking forward to this year as it will be a double Christmas for us, maybe even a triple one! You see our son will not be here for Christmas Day so we will be celebrating Christmas with him and his girlfriend on a different day. Our Wayfaring Son recently asked me what he should do and here is our conversation!
Son: Mom, Her family has all this traditional stuff where they go to her grandma's on Christmas Eve and then everyone comes over on Christmas Morning and opens presents and eats this big meal.....
Me: Well what do you want to do son?
Son: I don't know what to do Mom, you tell me.
Me: Well son, I tell you what, you make her happy. You make her family happy and spend all the holidays you want with her and her family now. BUT if and when you two decide to settle down and have children, Well all of you better come to my house for EVERY holiday. Do I make myself clear? Oh and be sure to tell her and her family....
Son: Yes Ma'am!
Me: (I just walked away with a smile on my face because you see I don't mind not one bit not seeing my kids on Christmas Day or any holiday for that matter but when I start getting grand babies it will be a different story indeed!)
As for the "other Christmas Days" well we all will be celebrating the 25th of course and then when Max comes home from Afghanistan it will be another Christmas all over again. I promised him I wouldn't take the tree down til he came home. Hurry home son we miss you! xoxo
Well I guess that's it for me and mine my dears! So if I don't talk to any of you before Turkey day, Have a good gobble gobble! Oh and Betty, I am so looking forward to seeing you and yours real soon! Love to all!
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