Good Monday

Today is Monday. It is a good Monday though.

Did you know that the great Lewis and Clark Expedition began on this day in 1804? Wow, I sure would have loved to be pushing my paddle in that boat!

In 1914 on this day, the Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota. So from canoe to smoky stinky bus, 100 years to learn how to better pollute the earth in the name of convenience!

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart got married on this date in 1945. And proceeded to have two children, Stephen and Leslie.

On this day in 1959, one of my favorites Gypsy opened at Broadway Theater in NYC for 702 audiences. Can't get a much more intertaining story line than a child star turned burlesque dancer and what a name - Gypsy Rose Lee!

I could keep going but I think I'm going to conclude today's post with a positive quote from the writer of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. “Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” Robert Fulghum

Sometimes simple is best. Good Monday to everyone and many many more!!!

Handy Horoscopes

Today's Virgo horoscope says: Starting too many projects at one time is disempowering because you never get to feel like you're winning at any of them.

Pretty funny.

Good Virgo

Bad Virgo

Here are two pictures a found that pretty well describe Virgo's on both ends of the spectrum!

                

 

Lost in La La Land

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I have such good intentions but the minute I get inside the house I’m paralyzed and can’t complete one thing. In the car I imagined myself organizing all the winter clothes into separate boxes, labeling them, and then stacking neatly in the closet.

Guess what? Our bedroom now looks like a tornado went through it. This is exactly why I try not to take on too much. But because I had this image in my head that I would organize those clothes, I did not even get the vacuuming done nor the dishes washed. I don’t know how to fix this brain malfunction.

I hate that the one thing my husband regards above all else is a neat home. With tasks that are accomplished daily. I’m just not capable of this. I am defective. My brain flittered about so much today that it made me nauseous.

I was doing wonderfully well until I took on the fabric of my life. Cotton! Time just isn’t on my side and neither is my scrambled up brain. Sometimes I wonder how I ever get anything done. How I ever stay positive and persevere through this muddle, I just don’t know.

I’m keeping busy reading and doing my crosswords. Still looking for my dog Roscoe. Always trying to promote our office and my husband’s construction business. I need some brain relief. Mines just too overworked right now.

For all the people who can multi task, I applaud you! I also curse you! It’s just not fair. Of course, if I know anything I know that life is NEVER fair.  I guess one day I may learn to do the next right thing and that’s it! Even if it is throwing my to-do list in the garbage.

 

I Wanna Join the Circus

Alright, I just finished reading Water for Elephants which is unusual for me since I had already seen the movie first. But I think both were totally totally awesome.

And that brings me to the subject at hand. I felt such yearning when they talked about Marlena riding on Rosie the elephant, playing out their game for the audience. Both performers shinning bright in pink sequins. 

The danger of running across the top of the train at night, hiding out from the goons who would come to "redlight" you (throw you off the train). The clowns, the bearded lady, the animals, the nutso ring master. With all those characters why you'd never be alone. You'd just never have a dull moment. 

Yes I think I would have loved running off to be a star in the greatest show on earth!!! I think I would have fit right in

Un-Pinterest

Ok it has to be true to some extent, we are all products of our environments. Still the things that I really care to do and have interest in aren't usually "all the rage". As we speak half the women my age are on Pinterest, looking at things to buy or getting ideas on things they can make with their own bare hands. 

Do I think that in itself is a problem? No. But I want to craft something in my own way, in my own time. I have never and will never be satisfied with following a trend. I always remember this quote when I find myself leaning too far into the abyss of materialism and popularity -- You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. – John Mason. I believe that 100%. 

So about me: I am not a very good Susie Homemaker. I have no interest in decorating a house most of the time. I'm a willy nilly. If I run into something cool and unique to hang on the wall or go on the mantle, I will pick it up. But making plans to paint Forest Moss or Navajo Red in my living room and coordinating the fabrics and lamps and yada yada...ridiculous. I don't care about that stuff. It feels superficial to me. Not that I knock you if you are this way, hey you aren't hurting anyone.

But as for me, I'm an original and that means I must constantly stay true to my creation. Be that which I was meant to be, not a phony. Not a follower. A live-r and love-r of life!

*Disclaimer: I know women (you know who you are) that love Pinterest and I am not meaning any disrespect by this post. To each his own and after all this is just my opinion : )

PB Sandwiches are the Best!

I love peanut butter sandwiches. On wheat. Protein and carb. Such yummy goodness. So fast and easy. Yes I sure do love a pb sandwich!

*Will write later. After I eat a pb sandwich : )

Top Ten Tivo's

I hate commercials so I love love love me some Tivo. What are your top ten? Here are mine:

Tosh.O

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

48 Hours: Hard Evidence

Mystery Files

Shameless

Frozen Planet

Channel 4 News at 6

New Girl

American Pickers

Rick Steves' Europe

*I recently deleted House Hunters International from the recordings. It's time to move on.

**These titles are not in any particular order and subject to change : )