2010-06-19T09:33:00.000-05:00

Daily Thoughts- No. 1: June 19, 2010

I am a babyboomer. Yes – I am and I hate to admit it more than anything. To look in the mirror and see hair that is graying, wrinkles and crows feet that are forming just kills me. I always said to my kids that I was afraid one day I would wake up and look in the mirror and this little ole lady would look back out at me and scare the crap out of me! Well.. “one day” has arrived and I hate it with a passion. SO, I'm gonna try to write my thoughts down, keep up with myself, if I can, and hopefully come up with something someone would like to read, if not now, then later.You know how you always hear these fortune tellers or whatever they call themselves these days say that they can tell you or help you find out about past lives that you have lived? Well, honey – I don't want to know about past lives. I have enough trouble keeping up with the ones I've lived in this one!I've been married twice, lived for a number of years with number 3, and now, at this ripe old babyboomer age, I find myself single and alone, empty nest and all.

For the first time, really, in my entire life, I am responsible for no one but myself. I don't answer to anyone but myself (I'm not including God in that statement – I will answer to him one day, if not every day of my life, for past transgressions and as I have always said, “He probably ran out of chalk for my blackboard a long time ago”. I need to work on that – ya think?). I don't have to feed anyone (well myself of course, and my 3 dogs, 2 cats and a parakeet) but no more walking in the door and instead of hearing “hey babe, how was your day?, you look great, love you” ... it was “what's for dinner, wake me up when it's ready and no I don't want leftovers!”. What the hell is that all about anyway. Here was a grown man, home for sometimes an hour or more before me, asleep in his chair when I get home, still in his work clothes usually, bombarding me the minute I walk into the door! Oh my GOD I do not miss that.. no sir, I do not!

So, here is to the new me. HA! ____________________________________________________________________

Daily Thoughts- No 2: June 19, 2010

Baby it is hot outside. It's hot in here too. I refuse to run my air conditioner all day every day. Damn thing never shuts off. I had higher light bills last summer where I live now than I ever did the entire 30+ years I lived on the Gulf Coast. Now, something is wrong with that picture. So in order to hopefully save a little money (keep in mind, I don't have any to save anyway) I only turn the unit on when the thermostat hits 86 inside (I might cheat a little if I've been outside, or working inside and get over heated, but not very often) and even then I don't leave it on for more than an hour, hour and a half at the most. I might do that a couple of times a day. Night time I use fans on me and the dogs and so far we've done ok. I have a window unit in the upstairs bedroom to try to keep it from getting too hot up there and melt all the makeup I never use. (smile). That all being said, you can imagine how much I need to be doing around here to keep the house clean but – it's too damn hot! And I hate to clean house almost as much as I hate to shop or sleep. What a huge waste of time. Getting the picture- I am my parents – yep I am; I don't listen to anything I don't want to hear and even tho I need to throw something away and I know it, I don't do it and in fact, add to the stack instead. Yep, guilty as sin!
Daddy I will never tell you to clean up your mess again, ever. If I do, tell me to shut up! Life's too short to have to do something you don't want to do!
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Daily Thoughts- No 3: June 19, 2010

I love my pets, I really do. HOWEVER – they have fleas.. and I guess by now, so do I??? OMG! Anyway, I bathe them every couple of days or so and pick the damn things off – doesn't help them much but makes me feel a whole lot better – after all I am doing something, right? I put flea powder down on my rugs and carpet. They roll in it so you would think it would take care of some the fleas. It probably does, but then they go outside and bring them back in, so the cycle never ends. My yard guy “says” he put stuff down to kill bugs and fleas – I'm still waiting for it to work - if he really did it. I did buy some stuff you hook up to the water hose and spray your yard with. I haven't done it yet – it's supposed to rain (yesterday, today, someday) so why spray it if it's gonna rain.. then I'll just have to do it again. I also got spray for inside the house but I have to be coordinated and do them both on the same day. Me? Coordinated? Ain't gonna happen. My daughter said I need to use the bug bombs – I hate those things and besides what do I do with the bird? And the dogs for that matter – I can't really take them anywhere because.. ta da da.. the air conditioner in my car isn't working!!! HOORAY for me.

Another opportunity for something – haven't figure out what yet – I'm working on it, I'm working on it.

A BABYBOOMER WITH ATTITUDE