Of course we hope she’s okay.
But it would be wasteful not to learn a lesson from her mishap.
Your life becomes what you focus on. You know how sometimes you have to refresh your email in order to get a new one coming in?
Well, I pressed refresh yesterday and it was wonderful. I have projects and stressors and this and that whirling about me in a way that has consumed me for a while.
Then the most wonderful thing happened. (Stick with me because this one is a reach … but it was so real)
I had an issue with two of my toilets. I had already had issues with another one twice. So me and The Flush King (and, yes, that’s the name of the company) discussed both my options and their frequent visits. One toilet was actually rocking.
Next thing I know I have five guys in my house replacing all four of them. They were here all day. I crocheted and watched a documentary on The Periodic Table then one on the Mona Lisa.
They were nice and they appreciated my sense of humor. Made my day.
I dealt with a problem I could solve, got my head out of the computer, had some company all day. Since Zora had to stay outside she and I played a lot of fetch.
I always feel like if I am not solving or working I am goofing off. That goofing off is what most folk call living. I need to remember that.
A dumb thing to call a great day but you take the #joy you get. I also put up a bird feeder with a camera inside that connects to my phone while they were here. Now when a bird feeds I get an alert on my phone and I can watch it!
Corny chicks are easily pleased. I’m lucky to be one.
#emotionalintelligence #emotion
Have a good day. Keep your head up.
Of course I hope he’s okay and my caption was just a joke. I don’t know where he’s been or what physical issue he may have had that helped load him on the baggage carousel, but he was helped by all and he thanked everybody.
Baggage carousels and I have a fraught relationship. At Logan Airport in 1978 I watched my ripped luggage deposit my clothing item by item the belt. All I could do is scoop them up as they rolled by.
Once a mother I lived in fear of son6 of 6 jumping on it for a ride. He’d look at it then looked at me trying to figure out if I could snag him before he got his ride. He did this kind of thing a lot in a number of venues. Most of my gray hair has his name on it.
Have a good day. Help the hapless. I am often among them. 🤣
For those who sought a more appealing presentation to that particular comment.
My #hair is crazy. Picture’s dark. Had on my husband’s old tee shirt.
I am also surrounded by family. Sons 5 and 6 bookending me and my sister in law! She was here for one hour, looked at me and said “You have too many doors open” She was not talking about the house. She was talking about my head.
Ain’t nothing like having a woman your age who gets you and ain’t afraid to tell exactly what she sees.
#family #familyiseverything
I haven’t been that sure about anything in a while.
And remember #feelings are fleeting but felonies are forever.
I’m talking A but feeling very Z this morning.
I need to run through some sprinklers.
Have a good day! Shoutout @oddlywholesome
I have been floating in a weird kind of wordlessness of late.
I probably need to get on the treadmill or something to shake some cobwebs loose.
Shoutout @angelhernandezyya
#Funny for no reason.
#Hilarious just because.
Shoutout @shitpostsonlyig @entertaimnent
First shoutout @anita_vg
Well done!
I always went a little crazy starting around 71/2 months. Listen to me! I always… like I have 20 kids.
Gave birth to just the two but those last months especially with are always like the 25th mile of a marathon. The finish line is right there and oh so far away at the same time.
With Son6 of 6 I was 5’1” and 105 pounds when I got pregnant. He was over 8 pounds. I gained 60.
One day I had on a back outfit with white side panels. BigE looked at me and said “Shamu”
I just realized how dated that reference was. Shamu was a famous whale back in the day.
Ain’t gonna lie. We had words.
#momlife
Enjoy your day!
I swear Eric’s ghost spends all day looking for appliances to break. I think he’s proving to me I can handle things. A second air conditioner has joined the washer dryer, four toilets, the other air conditioner,the sliding glass door, the busted hot water heater (along with the corner of the garage it took out) broken bed, ceiling leak, irrigation issues and the internet all of whom have been replaced or repaired in the last 14 months.
The refrigerator has a red light on and won’t make ice. Bitch is just staring at me falling apart in slow motion, enjoying itself as it inches me, yet again, back to the appliance store.
I swear those people do everything but dance when they see me.
Of course I know the cascading appliance issue is probably due to the fact the house was built in 2014 and all the appliances are the same age. They tend to sync up as they fall apart.
It’s built in obsolescence if you ask me. I have an electric pencil sharpener from the mid 1950’s that works beautifully still.
And yea I know it’s a much simpler machine.
The more a thing can do the easier it breaks.
I’m not sure how I got here from them trying to throw her in a pool. I have been quite obsessed with nuance and context lately. My point may be that there are usually a number of reasons any one thing happens. Some you see some you weren’t privy to.
Before one becomes full throated in anger at something one sees on line you have to go past the posts and the goggle searches and pick up a book or two. Everything looks simple if you don’t understand it well.
I’m reading a couple of books on the Dunning-Krueger effect. I think it’s part of the reason I don’t leave the house much anymore.
Relevant #Tolerism:
When you get a dollar’s worth of opinion out of ten cents of information you have borrowed 90 cents of Probably Wrong that bears incredible interest.
Welp, I am going to leave it to you and get ready for the repair guy.
Shoutout @memezar
Happy Sunday!
First, of course we hope she’s okay. We know one thing for certain. Her mouth was still working.
#Marriage in its twilight. I got a small piece of that. It’s a whole new level of oneness. As you fall apart you sync your disabilities with their abilities and vice versa.
You get done together what you can no longer do alone.
#stayup #lovehard. Keep your foot on the brakes. Shoutout @old_school_hondas
#fail #fall and #phones
Shoutout @skrivaenbok
Choose the right one.
Of late I have been infusing joy into the mundane. The mundane by definition is readily available. Why not use that which would otherwise bore or annoy you to entertain yourself.
#joytrolling as a way of life.
Happy Sunday!
Shoutout @mindong_dance
She was uncomfortable with the whole operation to begin with. But you have to respect people who face a #fear and persevere.
I have persevered a great deal in the past year and a half. Right now though I’m like my girl here, something I have tentatively pursued flew round and now pursues me.
I went from feeling horrible to feeling nothing at all.
I’m gonna have to come out of my shirt though because I am very very stuck. Can’t do anything new because I’m afraid to rock the boat I just steered through a storm.
Now I bobbing in the middle of the Pacific trying to find the energy to pick and a shore, no less actually swim there.
#feelings #emotions #peace
Shoutout @allfails @krosepowell @lolvibes
#wardrobe #wardrobemalfunction
I’ve done three things in the last four days that had me questioning my own sanity. Yesterday, Son6 of 6 said, “Maybe you should take some of that focus supplement stuff for old people.”
#momlife.
Had he been a little closer to me I would have popped him on the back of the head but I’m old and was across the room. Deeper still, he had a point.
The other day, I had a mishap of such tremendous proportions I still can’t adequately explain the knot on my head even though I experienced the entire debacle.
I haven’t left the house in a few days… I’m thinking about 4. I actually used instacart twice yesterday.
Had a dude come to throw out all my boxes from things I ordered. Half the garage was full. These are all signs of some level of disfunction I need to address.
I’m telling you so I can be held accountable.
Have a good day. #StayUp 😂
This is how I usually mess up. I concentrate on what I believe my problem is so hard I never really step back to look at the whole picture. Sometimes the problem is way across the street and I’m still on the other side beefing with a curb about some imagined difficulty it didn’t even cause.
Of course dude here had a whole other issue. Ego.
Ego is #emotion on steroids. It’s how you FEEL about how others FEEL about you.
If you don’t call it what it is you can’t adjust for what it does.
Happy #Wednesday
I am in a whole new phase of #widowhood I did not know existed. My sister in law and I were joking about him the other day. We fell out laughing then we both got quiet. Then we quickly changed the subject.
The joy of Having Had is trying to overtake the horror of Having Lost and I can’t figure out if I’m simply not there yet or I feel guilty about being close to it.
My money is on a little bit of both with side of some other #emotion I’m feeling but not, yet aware of mixed in.
Not for nothing I feel the need to say that in order to drop bars and get views people make definitive overarching conclusive statements that make them sound sharp but really, at the end of the day, they’ve just cut out the nuance and the context, inappropriately categorized the people or things about which they speak and then they’re selling it to you wrapped up in rhyme. It sounds good. It might even feed a feeling you have but don’t let that confuse you into believing it. Just because fact A feels right doesn’t mean it is. People often look for information that supports their opinion. I try to prove all the stuff I think wrong before I adopt it as a belief or support therefore. That allows you out of the echo chambers of beliefs algorithms create for you. Just saying.
Ohhhhh … somebody’s cranky. 😯
Love y’all.
Shoutout @sharkwerks
Sometimes there’s nothing you can do, you just have to take the full ride. You can panic and make it worse or you can, as my lady here did, just relax into the slide.
It is my sincerest wish that it sends her into something soft. Drops her off delicately somewhere she can deal with.
I wish that for us all.
Why?
An easy question to ask but a tough one to answer correctly.
Sometimes The Why is simply above your pay grade. Seeing how she lost HER bottle there was nothing for her to be happy about it. But what caught my attention was the look on her face. Something she’s not that familiar with took something that was very important to her and THEN when it gets taken the people who gave it to her laughed.
Why?
Sometimes a whole lot of different people will supply you with a Why steeped in their own perspective with a side of limited knowledge eaten at a table of the like minded who count repetition of a belief as a good substitute for real knowledge. And don’t hit them with something new they don’t know. They’ll punch it with their passion before they’ll listen to a word.
Why?
Sometimes the Why is all about which side you approach it from. Monkey thought process: “They brought food into my crib and gave it to the person least able to defend it.”
Why?
Beware folk with nice studio set ups and strong opinions. The Why for them blurs because context and nuance almost always gets pummeled in a fight with views and the money associated therewith.
Views and money make strong and wrong a formidable adversary of complicated and correct.
#emotionalintelligence
Relevant #Tolerism
I do not claim to possess the #truth but I do chase after it like it stole my car.
I haven’t left the house in four days. #instacart is a recluse’s best friend and a penurious woman’s irritation. Being both, I have to manage them so I can maintain some modicum of balance.
#Friends and #family
The people that stick with you when you can’t stand on your own.
Though, less than picturesque, this scene is quite heartwarming.
Everybody did the right thing.
Now, that level of inebriation can be somewhat problematic but they put guard rails around their fun.
They had what I presume is his wife – by the very wifey statements like “What have you done to him” “Don’t bring that in the car” then a seasoned wifely welp he’s already done it attitude when she sees the death grip my dude had on his sandwich.
Then she said “I have got it on camera and i’ll@show you in the morning.”
His boys did right by him too. They weren’t much better off than he was but after throwing him on the car they finally got him in it.
His apology was cute too.
Happy Friday. This week was a bitch on wheels with a BBL. Just rolled right up on me all fast and disproportionate.
Enjoy your weekend. I intend to. Flying in reinforcements in the form of a sister-in-law with few hang ups and no filter. We have a ball!
Shoutout @drunkpeopledoingthings
Despite the mishap he did all the right things.
He was working out. Always a good idea (says the woman who hasn’t stepped on a treadmill for a month.)
Then things went a little left or shall I say a bit too far up.
But he was cool throughout.
Then as things so often go the forces that be throw a little insult on top of the injury.
The beautiful part is his response.
Things happen.
You gotta learn to roll with it. I mean what’s getting upset going to do for you?
Not only that, get some use out of it. He got a laugh and an amusing post from it.
Relevant #Tolerism:
Strip out the linings of your problems; there might be some small gems sewn inside.
#emotionalintelligence
Have a great day! #Stayup.
Shoutout @allfails
