And how was the flight home?

taken with iPhone

Save me from corny lines.

On the plane ride home. Dorky dude across the isle to his fellow passenger:
Dork: Wow you have nice teeth.
Her: Oh thank you.
Me: Bubble thought, "He just didn't use that line, did he?!"
Dork: Is it your toothpaste or have you whitened your teeth?
Me: Bubble thought, " Dork, it's like asking if her girls are real. It's NONE of your business"
Her: Oh it's um probably my toothpaste.

An hour later into the flight as I was editing photos on my laptop:
Dork to me: Excuse me
Me: Um yes?
Dork: Did you take those pictures yourself? Or you download them?
Me: I took them.
Dork, quite loudly: Are you sure you didn't download them?
Me: Bubble thought, "Seriously..are you hard of hearing or slow to comprehend?"
Me: Yes, I'm quite sure.
Dork two minutes later: Excuse me!
Me: Sigh.
Me: Yes?
Dork: Have you taken classes to be able to do this?
Me: No, self taught.
Dork: You MUST of taken classes.
Me: Bubble thought, "And here sits the village idiot. "
Me: No. I. Didn't. Take. Classes.
I closed down my editing software and slapped a movie on the desktop, shoving ear buds in my ears.
10 minutes later I shut the movie down, the audio out of sync with the actors's mouths. ( yeah, I downloaded it for free )
I took out my e-reader.
Dork: Excuse me!!
Me: Bubble thought, " Okay, just SHOOT me now"
Me: Yeah..?
Dork: What' the name of that actor in the movie?
Me: Daniel Craig.
Dork: Yeah.. that's it. HA HA HA . What's the name of that movie?
Me: Cowboys and Aliens.
Dork: Is it a good movie?
Me: I don't KNOW, I only watched it for 10 minutes.
Dork: What's the title again? Cowboys and Indians??
Me: Yeah.. yeah,that's it. Cowboys and Indians.
Dork: THANK YOU. ( Am I deaf, why the hell is he talking so loud???) Are you going
to work on  your pictures again?? Wow you must of taken classes for it.
Me: Bubble Thought, "You truly are a fuckwit, aren't you. "
Me: Not any time during the rest of this flight, no.
Dork: How do you get the background so fuzzy?
Me: I have a special button on my camera.  :-/  Excuse me, I am going to read now.

For Today

For Today

Outside my window...

I see darkness. The sun is rising after me these days, lazy thing. 

I am thinking...

of this blog. How uninspired I have been with it lately. How I have to remember why I started it in the first place. For me.

I am thankful for...
waking up and realizing it was just a dream. Sometimes. Sometimes, I'd like to stay on that tropical island I own or keep my superpowers or keep talking to the wolves. ( Hey, it's my dream world, I'll do what I wanna. )

From the Kitchen...

I've been chained to the stove cooking up a storm. Apparently when one leaves for a week the masses suffer home cooking withdrawals. ( <--- I have NO idea how long I've been misspelling that word. ) 

I am wearing...
clothes. Seriously, this question gets long in the tooth sometimes. Many I should write what I'd like to be wearing..? Like clothes two sizes smaller. Yeah, there ya go.  

I am creating...

I am not creating. I HAVE created. A 2012 calendar with my photographs of 2011. My family will bloody well hang up their calendars  up wether they want to or not. Pffhhtt ;-) 

I am going...

out for supper tonight. Out for coffee Friday AM. And out for breakfast Saturday AM. Then I'm holing back up, that's a boatload of socializing.. for me. 

I am reading...

the start of the end. It's a story line I've been following for 10 years now. Like a series finale, this story will come to a close after this 3rd installment. It has been an emotional run for these three characters but exciting to be getting the answers after all this time. 

I am hoping...

to get out and find that elusive curling iron I've been searching for. My hair makes more sense with a little bit of effort. That'll be a first on my end. What's next? Flippin make up? 

I am hearing...

the furnace going. I'm going to have to remember to buy tub fulls of moisturizer. The heating dries me out like a pond in the Sahara Desert. Poo.

Around the house...

I hear nothing. I see nothing. I speak the truth when I say ' Peace and quiet, baby!'  

One of my favorite things...

is going back 'home' to be someone's daughter and sister again. To have zero responsibility for a bloody short week if only for a little while. Coming back home, trying to jump back to everything..not so much. Takes me a week of chasing my own tail  to get into the flow again. 

A few plans for the week...

meeting awesome friends, catching up with their lives. Waiting for Halloween to be flippin' done and over with. Yup, you caught on.. I don't like it. 

Here is a picture for thought I am sharing...

(pardon the fuzziness) 

OCD much? My sister's can labels must all face forward. I messed with her after this picture.  

Wordless Wednesday- BOO!

Vincent Price meets..

The Simpsons

Nature's strutting her stuff

Mother Nature's pimpin' the colour wheel.

Wordless Wednesday-The Mighty Maple Leaf

Strong to the end

Wordless Wednesday- Autumn's last stand

(taken with iPhone

click to enlarge)

The giants of Fall

Nature's ribbons

The last of rays of a warm sun

Pretty puff balls

Musings of This, That and Other Things

I started back at the gym. Every summer I take two months off but this year I cut it down to one. And I'm thanking the powers that be I did.
My trainer changed up her usual, she is now taking great pleasure in metabolic training. I'm not kidding when I say pleasure.
It hurts.
50 minutes of metabolic training. Kettle bells, squats, burpees, mountain climbers..you name it, she's all over it.
And damned if I don't love it... after it's done, with a mug of frothy cappuccino in my hands, far away from the gym. ha ha

I went shopping the other day, or rather attempted it. Mistake. 
Bad one. 
What the hell was I thinking? 
I went during prime time, smack in the middle of  'that time of the month'. 
Hello?? Who does that? Dumbass me apparently. Brilliant. Not.
I was traumatized. 
I consoled myself, I bought a remote switch for my camera, took it to a restaurant and admired it over a glass of Pinot Grigio. Both went a long way to sooth my ruffled feathers.
Screw the shopping.


I'm working on 3 months trying to get my nails back into shape after a seven month stint of gel nails. It really sucks to have to baby one's nails after having gels, those things take abuse like nobody's business. But the damage to the nail bed isn't worth it. I was directed towards an awesome new treatment by an equally awesome childhood friend. 
Now I shellac. Do you?
Wanna? 


iSad.
The world lost a good one this month. R.I.P. Steve Jobs.  Thank you for your genius, for changing the world. Your trade mark black turtleneck and jeans will be missed.  
Safe journey, my friend.


Went to Shaw cable to return hardware with eldest daughter a few days ago. 
Dude says to a customer service representative, "The Chinese are making cell phones that pop popcorn and render children brain dead." 
"Beware of those microwave aliens", replied my daughter without missing a beat. 
I lost it and I have a hearty laugh.
She's been working retail for wayyy to long and we probably deserved that dirty look.
But it was worth it. ;-) 


A city with a population of almost a million can be a small place after all. 
Hubby and his friend were talking about.. well whatever it is boys talk about on their lunch breaks. Friend mentioned he went to Cook County over the weekend. A country bar well known for it's um... cougars. Hubby mentioned I had celebrated a birthday there a few years back with one of my ex-friends named Brandi. ( my daughters and other close friends were there too, I had a chance to observe. Not only cougars but aggressive ones at that!) 
" Brandi?", Buddy says, " A short blonde by any chance?" 
Hubby laughed,nodding his head. 
Yup.. definitely her. 
Rawwrrr.


What about you, my bloggy friends, what are your musings of the day?

Green my world

Wordless Wednesday- Kristy's Rose

My youngest daughter's showing aptitude with the camera. 

Here is the proof. :-) 

Kristy's Rose