What is my generation going to look like?
How will I be able to spot my group?
We were coming of age during the Vietnam War, the beetles, free love, bare feet and all that jazz? They call us the baby boomers.
How will we look when we take the place of the current "dinosaur" generation that use to be distinguished by blue hair and beauty pallor permanents and dressing in the same color as their husbands, driving big boat Cadillac and smoking and looking a little wrinkly and bent over.
That last generation was easy to spot when we moved to Florida nearly 20 years ago. Now they are fading away. Now they mostly walk in walkers or look so fragile they need help to get about.
My generation is about to replace them and we will be the last of our breed and proudly carry the title of the generation before us now, off the streets.
What are we going to look like? How will we make our mark?
Today, I had my first sighting of how my generation will dress. I knew instantly they were one of me....hahaha.
The sighting was at office depot. A woman, maybe my age but physically looking much older...hahaha.......No joke, wearing a beige fishnet tee shirt with a nude bra underneath. Her hair was a little longer than a G-I Jane, naturally curly and naturally grey.
She was one of us boomers. I sensed it. Inside I was saying to myself, "YES"!
I stepped to the side waiting for my husband to check out and I saw another of the new "dinosaur" generation. She was Tall, maybe my age but way too tan wearing short shorts a nice blouse and a gold hat with a big brim, that sat on her head with the brim parallel to the floor, perfectly posistioned. She looked chi and yet making a statement like the other woman, my gut heard the words:
"I am who I am. Like it or lump it! I'm alive."
Yeah! Good for us!
Us boomers are not getting older we are still the words off a coffee mug:
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the
bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Yes we are the new DINOSAURS. I can't wait for my next reason to get out of the house and spot some more.....hahaha...Of course I will be dressing up too! Ha!
Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Did you ever get an
Ah-ha
You know, that kind of feeling that jolts you AWAKE and you say to yourself
Well I got an Ah-ha last night watching that cable program Clean House where people who live up to their nose in clutter, ask the Clean House Team (a group of interior decorators and an organizer and a yard sale guy) to help them de-clutter and then
have a yard sale and in 2 an 1/2 days the inside of the house is painted, has new furniture and is totally organized and livable a real wow!
Well the part that got me last night was when the yard sale guy (and he is such a doll) said to the lady of the house, while they were standing in the living room that is crammed floor to ceiling with stuff. (nice interesting stuff but way too much
and it was all over the place...hahaha)
"You know why you bought all this stuff?
You know why. It was to make you happy. Right?"
That line shook me to my core.
Right then and there, I woke up about the clutter I collect and I thought:
When I shop, I know my brain gets high. I get high from shopping. I can feel the rush.
I don't need to spend money on junk that I trip over to get happy.
I have other ways to excite my brain.
This was big. A big Ah-ha....Hummmmm.... I'm ready...In about two weeks, I'm going to have my last (hahaha) garage sale, followed by next day pick up from Salvation Army....Good-by junk. Oh if it could just be good bye junk FOREVER!..hahahaha
Ah-ha
You know, that kind of feeling that jolts you AWAKE and you say to yourself
Well I got an Ah-ha last night watching that cable program Clean House where people who live up to their nose in clutter, ask the Clean House Team (a group of interior decorators and an organizer and a yard sale guy) to help them de-clutter and then
have a yard sale and in 2 an 1/2 days the inside of the house is painted, has new furniture and is totally organized and livable a real wow!
Well the part that got me last night was when the yard sale guy (and he is such a doll) said to the lady of the house, while they were standing in the living room that is crammed floor to ceiling with stuff. (nice interesting stuff but way too much
and it was all over the place...hahaha)
"You know why you bought all this stuff?
You know why. It was to make you happy. Right?"
That line shook me to my core.
Right then and there, I woke up about the clutter I collect and I thought:
When I shop, I know my brain gets high. I get high from shopping. I can feel the rush.
I don't need to spend money on junk that I trip over to get happy.
I have other ways to excite my brain.
This was big. A big Ah-ha....Hummmmm.... I'm ready...In about two weeks, I'm going to have my last (hahaha) garage sale, followed by next day pick up from Salvation Army....Good-by junk. Oh if it could just be good bye junk FOREVER!..hahahaha
Monday, March 20, 2006
Broccoli, basil, parsley, tomatoes, strawberries, peppers and rosemary, welcome to my garden!
My hands are filthy dirty with mud up under my nails.
I was just in my garden planting strawberries and the last of four tomato plants!
My little garden is looking gooooooooood!
This is a brand new experience for me (growing vegetables and fruit, down on my hands and knees, messing with nature) and already I have learned a few things that don't work.
For instance:
When you plant something from a little seed and use one of those plastic domes, be very careful about the amount of water you pour on and be very careful that you use a light weight potting soil.
I tried the dome and I lost all but one plant out of 72 little plants, each one the space one egg would take up in an egg crate.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......That hurt!
Now I am experimenting with peat moss, Epsom salts and up-graded potting soil.
I bought a terra-cotta pot for my strawberry plants. That was fun stuffing the
little plants in the holes on the side.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I did it right. Strawberries are annuals!
Tomorrow, I will plant the collard greens and then, I'm done with digging, for now!
My hands are filthy dirty with mud up under my nails.
I was just in my garden planting strawberries and the last of four tomato plants!
My little garden is looking gooooooooood!
This is a brand new experience for me (growing vegetables and fruit, down on my hands and knees, messing with nature) and already I have learned a few things that don't work.
For instance:
When you plant something from a little seed and use one of those plastic domes, be very careful about the amount of water you pour on and be very careful that you use a light weight potting soil.
I tried the dome and I lost all but one plant out of 72 little plants, each one the space one egg would take up in an egg crate.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......That hurt!
Now I am experimenting with peat moss, Epsom salts and up-graded potting soil.
I bought a terra-cotta pot for my strawberry plants. That was fun stuffing the
little plants in the holes on the side.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I did it right. Strawberries are annuals!
Tomorrow, I will plant the collard greens and then, I'm done with digging, for now!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Stomach flu hit me on Monday and here it is Thursday and I'm thinking the symptoms have finally run their course.
I am so grateful that I have a husband who was able to pitch in and pick up the slack around here with teaching classes and dishes and food shopping etc.
He makes me feel like a movie star who's got a butler to wait on me hand and foot.
The only problem was that he went to work and I was left home alone shaking and doing the whole stomach flu thing.
He was so kind to give me his ear while I whined about fever, thowing up, head aches and feeling like I was going to die. I was so embarrased because I left him four messages at work yesterday in a whiney voice sounding so pathetic. I couldn't seem to control the urge to call back and leave another whiney message.
Hard to believe that I just spent four days with icky symptoms and not sleeping and just plain laying around and doing nothing.
I think this illness has passed.
I really feel for anyone out there who is down for the count.
This is as close as I've felt to wanting to die in a decade.
The head-pounding almost like a migraine hit me hard. I just don't do well fasting and
that's what I did since Monday, sips of water and gingerale.
Yesterday I finally ate some white rice, applesauce and the insides of a baked potato
ahhhhhhhhhhhh......
This past week my temperature went up and down and just when I thought I was going to be fine, pow, it hit me again kinda a like the eye of a hurricane and then the other side chrashes through.
I'm going to take the rest today off and rejoice that the pain and suffering is over. I'm weak and my rear end hurts from laying around and I don't want to really do anything but the good news is, it's all up from here.
I am so grateful that I have a husband who was able to pitch in and pick up the slack around here with teaching classes and dishes and food shopping etc.
He makes me feel like a movie star who's got a butler to wait on me hand and foot.
The only problem was that he went to work and I was left home alone shaking and doing the whole stomach flu thing.
He was so kind to give me his ear while I whined about fever, thowing up, head aches and feeling like I was going to die. I was so embarrased because I left him four messages at work yesterday in a whiney voice sounding so pathetic. I couldn't seem to control the urge to call back and leave another whiney message.
Hard to believe that I just spent four days with icky symptoms and not sleeping and just plain laying around and doing nothing.
I think this illness has passed.
I really feel for anyone out there who is down for the count.
This is as close as I've felt to wanting to die in a decade.
The head-pounding almost like a migraine hit me hard. I just don't do well fasting and
that's what I did since Monday, sips of water and gingerale.
Yesterday I finally ate some white rice, applesauce and the insides of a baked potato
ahhhhhhhhhhhh......
This past week my temperature went up and down and just when I thought I was going to be fine, pow, it hit me again kinda a like the eye of a hurricane and then the other side chrashes through.
I'm going to take the rest today off and rejoice that the pain and suffering is over. I'm weak and my rear end hurts from laying around and I don't want to really do anything but the good news is, it's all up from here.
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