I'm so late with a post today, and honestly, I don't have much to say about anything. It's important to me to fulfill my promise to myself and write here every day this month, however, so here we go.
*Haircut! Susie called me back this morning and booked me in at 3:15 today. The drive was actually pleasant with no traffic. I saw a brand new herd of cows in a field where I had never seen any before. This time I dropped 20 bucks at Susie's. She gave me an eyebrow wax, too.
*There's a house two blocks away from mine that decorated for Halloween in late August. They draped spider webs across their bushes, hung bats on their doors and windows, and set out both carved and painted pumpkins. Other houses started fairly early, too. By the time October came around, I started getting disoriented. Had I missed Halloween? Why was it taking so long? Last week, they started decorating for Christmas. Along with their Halloween decor. So amid the bats and webs and rotten/rotting pumpkins are a shiny Santa and Christmas tree on shepherd hooks and some garland. It's like a Holiday Yard Sale.
*I'm going to the grocery store tomorrow morning. I can either drive to the slightly nicer store about 10 miles away, or I can zip over to the okay store across town. The nicer store has better produce and I know and like the cashiers. The okay store is closer and I know the floor people. It also has a better closeouts selection. It's a decision I make on the road, totally dependent upon how I feel at that precise moment. (Do I feel like slumming, or do I feel like hobnobbing with the hoity toity?)
That's a glimpse into my world for now. (It's way past time for cat cuddling, and Piper just let me know by forcing his enormous body between me and my laptop. He almost made me lose this entire post by kicking his back paws at my keyboard to shove it out of the way. Priorities!)
Love the feeling of a new haircut!
ReplyDeleteThere are a pair of houses in my neighborhood who are operating in different months. One is still all decked out for Halloween, the other is full of Christmas decor. A little disorienting, but I do love it when people decorate!
I vote for the store with better produce.
Suzanne--My hair takes a few days to settle in after a haircut. Right now, the right side is happy, but the left side is annoyed. I'm used to this, and I will ride it out.
DeleteI'm okay with outdoor seasonal decor, but I am not okay with how long people leave it up past the holiday. Huge pet peeve of mine.
Grocery Store Roulette--still not sure.
A haircut AND a new field of cows AND an eyebrow wax? What a red letter day!
ReplyDeleteI have a pumpkin out front that I bought as more 'Autumnal decor' than 'Halloween decor', but you know who is eating it. (You know who is George Bush the squirrel. Jackass.)
J--It really was a Big Day For Nance. All I needed was a dog head hanging out of a car, and it would have been Nirvana.
DeleteGive GeorgeBush a break. How could he resist? If you tossed out a few shelly peanuts each morning, I bet he'd leave your pumpkin alone. But that's a slippery slope, isn't it? Around here, pumpkins on the porch attract raccoons and the odd possum and groundhog, too. I still cannot believe the wildlife we get, and we live in the suburbs.
I love the idea of just getting in the car and making a spot decision about where to go!
ReplyDeleteBack when I drove a gas vehicle and filled the tank, the meter would tell me I could travel 435 miles... and although all I would be doing was taking kids to school and grocery shopping and going to work myself, it felt exciting for a moment. My electric vehicle keeps me on a much shorter tether and I worry so much that I'll run out of juice, it's just not the same.
maya--I drive a plug-in Prius, and I can get either place and back on a charge. True, it is a hybrid, but both places are well within the limit of my battery life.
DeleteListen to Piper! I was once working on a blog post and my cat came along and managed to step on the mouse and publish it--it wasn't done! He got my attention, for sure.
ReplyDeleteccr--Piper is an enormous orange cat, and he is bonded like super glue to me. The moment I sit down anywhere at any time, he claims my lap. After dinner, I change into jammies and hit the couch, and he lies on top of me. Last night, I disrupted the routine because I had to write a post. He was furious.
DeleteI never thought cats would be the de facto Boss Of Me. How stupid I was.
You are a step ahead of me. Still no haircut here and I don't even have anything scheduled, which means I'll be lucky to get in by Christmas. What is with these neighbors? Combining the two sets of decorations? Laziness personified, I guess. I'm laughing at your grocery store dilemma. I can't believe you decided while driving.
ReplyDeleteErnie--Will you resort to Drastic Measures, then? Do you have a Backup Salon? Will you wear a headband or stick it behind your ears or use a shit ton of product or what? Because I had reached my Point Of No Return, let me tell you.
DeleteI have several--many!--people in my neighborhood who are lazy and awful about holiday decorations outside. One house just took down their Christmas door wreath in August. I mean, come ON! How hard is it? As a result, I've come to detest outdoor seasonal decor. All of it.
This morning I'm headed out for a relatively big shop. I'm ambivalent about it, at best. (I shudder to think of your shopping trips!) I still haven't decided which store, so I'll definitely be making the decision as I drive. I'm spontaneous about so few things, so this is fun for me.
I'm getting my hair cut today. No instruction other than to clean up the back, so who knows what will happen!
ReplyDeleteI sometimes leave my office on my lunch hour with no idea where I'm going or what I will do. Lunchtime Roulette! It's pretty liberating (except for the part where I have to return in an hour).
Bug--Lunch AND Haircut Roulette. You are quite the gambler.
DeleteI don't like the idea of decorating for Halloween and Christmas simultaneously. I barely like the idea of decorating so that'd be to me cognitive dissonance writ large. I'd go to the better grocery, you're retired now, live it up.
ReplyDeleteAlly--I'm starting to truly dislike outdoor seasonal decor of any kind because people generally leave it up far too long or allow it to get tacky and tattered. It stops looking festive and starts looking trashy and tired.
DeleteI almost always go to the nicer store unless I fritter away too much time in the morning and don't get a good start to my day. (Can you imagine that happening?)
$20 for a haircut and an eyebrow wax!! I MUST find a deal like this. Now that I'm gainfully employed, I'm going to get an eyebrow wax at my next hair appointment. I had cut it out when I wasn't bringing any money in, but BRING IT ON NOW.
ReplyDeleteThere's a house in my neighborhood that never takes down its decorations. Last spring there were deflated Santa inflatables right next to Easter eggs. It sort of became a game for me. There are currently no decorations in front of this house, but I can't wait to see what happens in the next six months.
NGS--And that included a nice tip. It's incredible. And with my Prius hybrid, I used almost no gas. So worth it.
DeleteThat house would stress me out unbearably. I get unreasonably annoyed bordering on angry at people like that. It's like when I hear someone pronounce the word Bruschetta as brooSHetta instead of BrooSKetta. Automatic Fight Response.
I need to settle down.
I used to go home after an eyebrow wax and admire myself in a mirror. Now my eyebrows are so white that I have to colour them to have any. I recall my mother-in-law wielding an eyebrow pencil and saying that she refused to go anywhere without eyebrows. ... Yeah.
ReplyDeleteWe have three choices of food emporium. Local and Very Very Pricey, chain, not good choice but great butcher and chain, choice if the shelves get stocked. Sigh. All the same distance, two very difficult to leave because of traffic on the road out.
It took me two days to get my last post polished up enough to put up. And here you are, daily, with every word in place. Or should I say 'waxed'?
Hugs!
Mary--I wonder if my eyebrows will get white or grey. My mother is 93 and still has dark eyebrows. My dad passed at 74 and still had quite a bit of dark hair. I'm still largely darkhaired at 64. How about I don't worry about it? After all, there IS eyebrow pencil, as you say.
DeleteWe have lots of choices for food stores, but I don't want to pay for cache/branding. I also don't want to go and get cheapo stuff. My store is the best of both worlds. A few people keep pushing Aldi at me, but I'm not ready to throw all caution to the wind and try all new brands of stuff.
Your last post was like a white paper whereas my posts are just me chatting away. That's the big difference, dear friend. Do I still fret and labour over them like the perfectionist I am? Yes, and it's ridiculous. But I'm not reading and researching like you are. XO
Joanna and I would put up Halloween decorations at her house, and then we'd take down most of them, but we'd leave the lights up and then add the Christmas lights as well. Orange goes well with red and green, right? (I can feel you rolling your eyes)
ReplyDeleteMikey--You and Joanna were such partners in crime. If the orange lights weren't little pumpkins, I can handle that. Heck, I probably wouldn't even notice it. (But yes, I did roll my eyes, only at the fact that you took everything else down, so why not the lights while you were at it?)
DeletePeople with the confusing yard decorations need to get their shit together. Please and thank you.
ReplyDeleteI understand your quandary with the grocery store. For me, I'd choose the better produce since that seems to be where I sink lots of dough.
YAY for Susie coming through!!
BB Suz--I ended up going to the closer store this time since I didn't need much in the way of produce or meat, and I got a frightfully late start in the morning. Luckily, the produce looked very good.
DeleteWe've had a few nice days here, and I just know people are going to start putting out Christmas decorations. Heaven knows how long I'm going to have to look at them.