At the grocery store today, I was standing in line to get some lunch meat and the deli employee gave me a compliment...or was it?
Employee: That's a great color you're wearing (I was wearing a light blue sweater and jacket). It seems really popular right now...
My thoughts: 1. WOW! I debated even wearing this because it's a Spring color, not a fall one. 2. Could it be?? Did I get lucky and pick the color of the season? Is this really the color that all of the runway models are wearing?
Employee: ...It seems really popular right now. You know, Mountain Dew just came out with a new flavor that is that exact same color.
Me: Thanks
My thoughts: I guess...
hehe...this pseudo compliment kind of made my day! (as did the Indian food, Lynn)
Weird colored Mountain Dew is very strange to me. I think I have tried that blue kind and it's terrible. They also have "Code Red" which is just silly and doesn't taste good. In fact, regular crazy green Mountain Dew is pretty yuck as well. I bet your shirt topped all of those drinks!
I'm not that in tune with the color of clothes & the season. And I've never liked Mountain Dew, but blue Mountain Dew is all kinds of wrong. "Thanks" was about all you could say...lol :-)
At the grocery store today, I was standing in line to get some lunch meat and the deli employee gave me a compliment...or was it?
Employee: That's a great color you're wearing (I was wearing a light blue sweater and jacket). It seems really popular right now...
My thoughts: 1. WOW! I debated even wearing this because it's a Spring color, not a fall one. 2. Could it be?? Did I get lucky and pick the color of the season? Is this really the color that all of the runway models are wearing?
Employee: ...It seems really popular right now. You know, Mountain Dew just came out with a new flavor that is that exact same color.
Me: Thanks
My thoughts: I guess...
hehe...this pseudo compliment kind of made my day! (as did the Indian food, Mom.
My Dad's widow, Ann, passed away this morning. It's only been 10 months since my Dad died. Ann has been in the hospital with lung and kidney failures, and I just found out this morning that she only lasted a few hours after they took her off the ventilator.
Please pray for her family. Her two sons, Josh and Corey, are around my age and they have had to experience the loss of their father, step-father, and now mother at their young ages.
Thanks for sharing. I said a prayer for them. How difficult. You are way too kind to me. I'd love to chat with you more. I admire you and your thoughtful heart. :)
Thanksgiving cannot get here any faster. School is going well right now, but I'm beginning to get a little burned out, and I'm ready for a break. This has been a rollercoaster ride of a semester, complete with weekly emotional highs and lows and triumphs and disappointments. Poor Dan. I love teaching, but it's extremely difficult when trying to balance weekly Ulysses readings and that 100-page thesis looming in the not-so-distant future. I don't know how scholars balance current scholarship and teaching at universities. Nonetheless, my wonderful Mother-in-law treated me to lunch and a little shopping yesterday. That certainly helped with the mid-week blues:) Now, Dan and I just need to find time to hang our new bedroom curtains.
On a happier note, Kay Shurtleff, my pretend mom, will be bringing the lessons for our annual ladies' retreat this weekend! I'm SO excited! I hope we get a good turn-out. Ladies, you won't want to miss these lessons!
...and now for something completely different: Today, I made my first batch of chicken stock. I took chicken bones from a chicken that I roasted last week, and I made a stockpot worth of chicken stock that I can freeze for soups or recipes during the winter. It look a few hours on simmer, but it came out beautifully (and cost nearly nothing)! Take that Swanson! Plus, I was able to fill up an ice-tray worth for recipes that call for small amounts. I felt very Martha Stewart-like today.
mm...nothin like good ol chicken-sicles huh dan?? :) im glad you had some lunch and shopping with your mil...as a stay at home mom of 3 under 4 i know that helps me some too!! Oh i soo wish I could go to the retreat...cant this year..I did last year...hopefully next time.
Chicken stock! I'm so PROUD! Dan always did have a hankerin' for chicken-sicles, BTW. :) I enjoyed our time together at least as much, if not more than, you did. ...and now for something completely different: I learned on Jeopardy! today that "sanguine" can either mean "bloody" (knew that one already) or "cheerfully optimistic" (didn't know that one)! Now we will see if I'm an old dog or not depending on whether I quickly forget that or actually hang onto my new knowledge!
Thank you! I love photographing flowers. I kind of ended up taking pictures of flowers when I was supposed to take pictures of sports and people when I took a photojournalism class. :)
If they are an inch too long, it means you hung the rods one inch too low. You need to measure up from the carpeting to the top of the curtain to determine where to put the rod, not by where the top of the window frame is.
I just sit in the blind w/ Todd. I've shot a rifle before but it's been a long time (use to target shoot w/ my dad when I was growing up in West Texas). I surprised my boys a year or so ago when we were shooting some cans in the country. (They didn't think I would hit anything.) The older I get the more I enjoy the outdoors!
I'm not a mother or anything, so I could be eating my words in the future, but I have to vent. I was sitting in Barnes and Noble Cafe today grading papers and this is what I saw:
A woman and her 3 year-old child walk up to the Cafe cashier. Keep in mind that it is 11 a.m.
Mother: Come on. You can have a pretzel or a bagel. Which one will it be?
Child: I want a cupcake.
Mother: No, it's either a pretzel or a bagel.
Child: NO! Cupcake. Cupcake. I want that!
Mother to cashier: I'll have one cupcake.
[insert look of horror on my face]
They sit down next to me and a lady close by says, "Wow! That's a big cupcake for such a little boy."
The mother actually said this: "Yes. But he never lets me have any, not even a bite." (Keep in mind, this is a THREE YEAR-OLD)
I almost said something. Who is the parent? Critics are right when they call this generation the "Me" Generation.
I agree with you...wow, when a mother can't even tell her own three year old "no", there's gonna be even huger problems when that child gets older. Sad.
wow!! I would have taken my child out and given him a spanking for that! Trust me...I'm living the life with a 3 yr old right now and you should NEVER give in. People amaze me with how they let their children run them.
I've resold clothes at consignment stores and did pretty well. I've also used craigslist to sell things...and ebay:) Then I just use the money I make and buy gifts on sale! It's worked out so well:)
^^^Dito. :) Sometimes your emotions do over power you, but I have been told by older & wiser women to never let the child win in the battle of the wills. :)
We are such a nation of well behaved parents. (Cupcake before lunch?) And just think of all the frosting on a 3-year-old's fingers around all those new books. :(
The midnight madness pie is like chocolate pie, but the chocolate fillings is more like a cheese cake. It is awesome. Love you guys. Hope to see you all soon. We have a new Chinese restaurant and it is very popular right now. We plan to go this Sunday.
Oh I am sure we will!! Thank you!! Hey I want to have y'all over for dinner one night, when we get back! I'll have y'all and a few other people over, just so we can start to really get to know y'all better! Talk to you soon Lord willing
Wow! Believe it or not, I had a mom and small child come into my store a week or so ago and the opposite happened! The child wanted a fruit cup and the mom kept pressing, "Don't you want a donut? Or a cookie?" Get real, mom!"
