The End of AnotherMonth

The good thing about the end of the month is that tomorrow you get to start over. Start saving money, or exercising, or eating correctly. The bad thing about the end of the month is that it's the end of that month that you started doing all those things 30 days ago.

I should be hanging from a charm bracelet now, if I had stuck to that diet/exercise program that I was supposed to REALLY get started on in January. But here it is, the 5th end of the month, and I am still nowhere close to my goal.

But I started again today. Maybe by starting on the last day of the month, those cosmic forces will get all confused and I will find success. Of course, it will also help if I stick to my diet, force my butt out the door to exercise, and do what I know I need to do.

So long May - June, here I come!

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Things that make today great: Memorial Day and all those who serve or have served our country; boiled shrimp for dinner; starting again; Hoarders TV show marathon

Ahhhh, Home Again

Back in Nashville to my own home and wireless internet. Home to Maggie the Cat and stuff to do. Home to my own bed and sleeping in tomorrow.

And, back to a longer blog post tomorrow!

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Things that make today great: Family reunion lunch with Scribners, Morgans, Gillises, Lewises, and assorted other new friends; road trip home with Lindley, Sam, Lynnette, and Steve; peach-ish soft serve in Russellville

Thank Goodness For McDonalds

So, I'm at McDonald's with a large order of fries, trying to catch up on the Internet (random neighbor's wireless didn't work tonight). As a result, I thought I'd give you the Top Ten Things That You Learn When You Stay Somewhere With No Internet Connection:

1. There are 732 facebook updates, and you have to scroll though until you find where you last left off, because somebody's update could have been REALLY important - but then you find that none of them were because if they had been, CERTAINLY somebody would have called you.

2. You find that all your emails in the last 24 hours are as worthless as they usually are - you still don't need the viagra or to send money to that dude in Nigeria.

3. You do read your email and facebook updates a lot quicker, because a large order of fries only lasts so long, and since this McDonald's got held up last week, you don't particularly want to hang around too long.

4. Maybe that iphone or blackberry isn't as hard to master as you thought - and cell service seems to be available at places with no internet service.

5. Maybe 10 things is too much to learn - it's for sure too much to write about when they're mopping the floors and glaring at you at McDonald's!!

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Things that make today great: picnic dinner with GDizzle, Ann, Lynn, Judy, Lindley, Sam, Lynnette, and Steve; mall-ing with Lynnette and Lindley

Just The Basics

In Columbus, Mississippi, visiting family. Am posting on the slimmest of signals from unknown neighbor. Hope this posts. Will visit McDonalds tomorrow for better signal. Until then ...

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Things that make today great: road trip to Mississippi with Lindley, Lynnette, Sam, and Steve

Fashion Fail

I realize I am an old fogey. I own up to this fact. However, there are some things that I simply do not get - and I don't think I ever shall. Today's "thing" is the phenomenon known as "saggy pants."

A few years ago when I was teaching middle school, the saggy baggy pants was the thing. The boys loved to wear them and the teachers hated them. In between crucial lesson points, we also had to say, "And pull your pants up, please." Explicit wording in dress codes did not help - mainly because the words we wanted to use were prohibited by the school board.

Fast forward to today - as I was driving home, I passed two young gentlemen walking along on the sidewalk. One in particular was talking on his phone. I can only suppose it was such an important call that he could not talk and keep his britches from falling down. As a result, his pants were hugging the bottom of his cheeks - butt cheeks, that is. And he had on red plaid boxer shorts, which I really didn't need or want to see.

My main question about this fashion is this - exactly who thinks this style is cool? Who really wants to see all that? Not only do the pants look ridiculous, but the walk that must be performed while trying to keep the pants at the desired location on one's hips looks ridiculous. And if I wanted to see a young man's under-drawers, then just wear the under-drawers.

Many moons ago, when I had hips worth mentioning, I wore hip-huggers. This was a style of jeans that sat on one's hips and looked cool. They accentuated one's hips - not the bottom of one's butt cheeks. If we wanted to emphasize our butt cheeks, then we just wore tighter hip huggers.

Maybe the answer if for all us old fogeys to adapt this saggy pants. Maybe parading our old butts around would thwart the coolness factor. Certainly a gander at my granny panties should cause a second thought!

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Things that make today great: Cabinet chat with Barry and Christian; kitchen talk with Molly; airport pickups for Sam and Steve; visit with Sarah and Lindley and Lindley's new back lawn; chatting with cleaners lady