Hair of the Hair

I think I have pretty well established on this blog that I am not a woman that primps a lot. I shave my legs only when they will be exposed to sunlight by wearing shorts. I wear minimum makeup most of the time when I leave the house, and don’t bother with it if I am staying home for the day. I wear my grey hairs with pride. I earned every single one of them, besides I used to dye my hair and it is more effort than I care to make these days. I have one dressy outfit. I own one pair of good black pants for summer, one good pair of black pants for winter, and a few skirts. I have one pair of sneakers, three pair of sandals, and two pairs of slip on shoes. All of which are at least two years old. My standard dress for work is a pair of jeans, and a nice top.

I do shower and wash my hair daily. I always try to look neat and tidy when I leave the house. One thing about looking neat and tidy is always looking for stray eyebrows and facial hair. I check the mirror each morning and night for those stray hairs.

It is due to this stray hair diligence that made it so shocking when I woke up this morning to find a crazy wild eyebrow about two inches long sticking right out of the lower part of my eyebrow close to the top of my eyelid that I KNOW was not there last night. Of course the tweezers came out and I plucked that sucker out. WOW, I do believe that thing was wrapped throughout my nasal passages and around my optic nerve. As soon as I plucked it my eyes teared up and my eyesight was blurry. My nose started running from both nostrils. My cheeks hurt as did the roof of my mouth, and I developed a tic in my right eye. It was several minutes before I could recover. What the heck?

How did one hair cause all that to happen? It wasn’t even one of those nasty white eyebrow hairs that are about an inch in diameter. Well, no matter what I will stay on stray hair patrol. However, the next time I see one of those nasty wild hairs I might have a shot of tequila close by so that I can say it was the shot that caused all the side effects and not a stupid hair. It will be a Hair of the Hair.

I Really Know Nothing About Fashion These Days

Today was quite an eye opener for me fashion wise.

My oldest boy wanted to go to Guitar Center for some sound effects thingy for his guitar. As I took the off ramp from 75 onto the access road there was a woman standing on the shoulder having a flat tired fixed by a man that must have been the driver of the car behind her. She was dressed in a bikini bottom, a pink and white striped t-shirt, and stilettos. She was not young, and she was not exactly thin, not real obese, but certainly could have found another outfit to flatter her figure.

I found it very strange at the time. I was wondering why she was driving around in bikini bottoms. It does not seem to be the most comfortable outfit to drive around in, but what do I know, I don’t own a bikini bottom. As the night as gone on and this sight keeps coming back to me, I have to wonder if maybe she was having trouble getting someone to stop and help her and decided that if she changed into her bathing suit bottom she would have better luck getting a man to stop. I don’t know. I do know she has more guts than I do, and that I would never be able to stand on stilettos on the side of the road, or in the middle of a perfectly level floor.

The other very odd (to me) fashion sight I saw today was in the parking lot of “Guitar Center.” As I was sitting in the car with the youngest waiting on the oldest a woman and her son walked across the parking lot in front of my van. She was an attractive woman, probably in her early 40’s, not extremely thin, but had a very nice shape, and was obviously well maintained by the look of her hair, skin, etc. She had on a nice black top over white shorts, in fact her son was in a black shirt and white shorts too. The big difference was that her white shorts had a design on the back. I could not tell the exact shape of the center of the design, either a bright red heart or a circle surrounded by a circle of green leaves. However, the design was in a very strange place. It was exactly in the lower center of her rear. It made me want a bow and arrow. I really do not know why someone would want to wear shorts that draw attention to that particular spot on their rear end.

I really know nothing about fashion these days except that if bikini bottoms, and big red circles on my rear are it, then I will continue to be unfashionable.

I Think it is a Sign

My brother, who hates earthquakes, arrived in the driveway of the friend he is staying with in L.A. just as the first earthquake in 10 years hit. Seems like a sign to me.

There was also the fact that when he stopped to sleep for a couple of hours in the rest stop on the way there and then got out of the car there was a large snake next to his foot.

If he had paid attention to the first sign, he could have spared L.A. an earthquake.

Nightmares Continue

The nightmares just continue, leaving me exhausted when the alarm goes off each morning.

Last night I spent the whole night planning the memorial service for a man in our church congregation. I was the only one available to make all the plans and prepare the church for the service. I was moving chairs, tables, calling everyone with the arrangements, and then seating everyone when they arrived.

A couple of nights before that I was in a horrible nightmare that involved being in this very dangerous situation with my friends, but I was the only one that understood we were in danger. They kept laughing at me as I asked them to leave the building and get in my car so I could take them to safety. It was one of those nightmares that even when I would wake up and go back to sleep I would end up right where I left off in the nightmare. After several tries of getting some sleep I ended up just turning on the light and reading until the alarm went off in the morning.

The only way I have been getting any sleep is by trying to take an hour nap in the afternoon. That seems to work and it certainly has not kept me from falling asleep at night because I am usually asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.

I sure hope I can break this nightmare cycle soon.

Very Alone Now.

I said "goodbye" to my brother Sunday afternoon. He left for California. I knew he would leave once my mother either got better and was able to come home, or until she died. I just did not know how hard his leaving would be on me.

I feel very alone now. It is not like I saw much of my brother, even when he only lived 30 minutes away due to Dallas traffic. He has never really helped me with any of my burdens. In fact we have gone for years without ever seeing each other, but no matter what he is my only family. Yes, I have an uncle/aunts/cousins, but we have been away from each other for so many years that we are not really close, we just keep in touch.

Even my oldest realized that once his Uncle left it was just the three of us because he came in and said so, which just made me cry.

I do not want to be alone, and yet I am even though I have two wonderful boys and lots of friends.

It is a hard concept to express in writing, but not in my heart.

Government Coupons for DTV Converter Box

I followed the directions given on the television ad and received my two coupons for a DTV Converter Box, or my "Analog Pass-Through DTV Converter Box" as listed on the box. The coupons were for $40.00 each. The converter boxes are $59.99. They seemed to be that price at all the stores, although I did not check Wal-Mart since I do not shop there. My friend said they had to pay $59.99.

I have not opened the boxes yet, but I have to wonder by looking at the picture on the box if the real price of this item is not $19.99 and the coupons were given out just so the government could say to people calling to complain that they had covered 2/3rds of the cost.

Of course the real "cost" of the box is probably 15 cents.

All I really know is that come February, 2009 all two televisions in the house should still work.

woot!

I love to look at the t-shirt of the day on woot!

My son has bought a couple and they really are nice t-shirts.

Some of the designs are really interesting.

Here is the link: http://www.woot.com/