This is what I have learned so far, over and over and over:
1. Some substances being sold to pour on your cereal or in your coffee can disgust you so much that you rush to a coffee shop and put three sugars and two creams in your coffee.
2. Absolutely put down the spoon between bites even if you are reading the exciting part of the mystery novel.
3. Chewing each bite 26 times prepares food for your stomach and can make you late for work.
4. After a certain age, losing a lot of weight can make your skin hang like a monk’s bathrobe.
5. After you reach a weight your doctor likes, you still MUST view your rear when trying on pants.
6. It is not nice to punish your kids by making them drink the stuff mentioned in #1.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Psychic SHOPPING AT SEARS
Two small gift certificates and a big, big sale. Got a great top, still had money left on certificates. Got a skirt, to checkstand. Turned around, found another one of the skirt I really wanted. That one fit. Back to checkstand, skirt was on big sale, also. A great outfit and only $11 out of pocket. I've also had bargains there in the past on leather belts and leather watch band, and a leather bag!!
Monday, June 13, 2011
SIZE DISCRIMINATION, OR IT'S NO FUN BEING SHORT
When the woman in the upstairs flat was in her bedroom tv phase (we're talking Drum Line and Full Metal Jacket at 11pm on school nights) I took to the popular village coffee shop to get out of here. So did everybody else in town.
When it's filled to the rafters, the overflow crowd lands in the Famous One (you know the one) across the street. I met some nice people there, like The Working Screenwriter. And I got some gift certificates and met the manager.
Then my spine got out of control, and the grey plastic chairs there were exactl.y the perfect size for my short legs and unhappy back. Perfect for reading in front of the window with coffee. Okay, yes, I ate the scones; we're talking chairs here.
Then suddenly they renovate. My beloved chairs are making someone happy in an alley somewhere. The renovator apparently went to the same sale as the local library for the rock-hard Pappa Bear wooden chairs. (Have you ever seen Edith Ann in her giant rocker from Laugh-in days? That's me in Starbucks with my short legs sticking out in front of me.) The grim monastery chairs are even too heavy for me to move.
I persuaded myself that I may be only one of three short people whose feet don't reach the floor. Instead, I'm noticing there are plenty of us.
Then last week I met a taller woman whose feet do touch the floor, and she also hates the chairs.
So I hurled an e-mail to customer service, who didn't seem to read it, but gave me some coupons for coffee I can drink standing up.
The question here is, would I only embarrass myself if I brought my own chair? Or would some stand up and cheer? Think I'll write to the big boss coffee man and get his opinion.
When it's filled to the rafters, the overflow crowd lands in the Famous One (you know the one) across the street. I met some nice people there, like The Working Screenwriter. And I got some gift certificates and met the manager.
Then my spine got out of control, and the grey plastic chairs there were exactl.y the perfect size for my short legs and unhappy back. Perfect for reading in front of the window with coffee. Okay, yes, I ate the scones; we're talking chairs here.
Then suddenly they renovate. My beloved chairs are making someone happy in an alley somewhere. The renovator apparently went to the same sale as the local library for the rock-hard Pappa Bear wooden chairs. (Have you ever seen Edith Ann in her giant rocker from Laugh-in days? That's me in Starbucks with my short legs sticking out in front of me.) The grim monastery chairs are even too heavy for me to move.
I persuaded myself that I may be only one of three short people whose feet don't reach the floor. Instead, I'm noticing there are plenty of us.
Then last week I met a taller woman whose feet do touch the floor, and she also hates the chairs.
So I hurled an e-mail to customer service, who didn't seem to read it, but gave me some coupons for coffee I can drink standing up.
The question here is, would I only embarrass myself if I brought my own chair? Or would some stand up and cheer? Think I'll write to the big boss coffee man and get his opinion.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Good for John Frieda
When the sprayer stopped working on my daily standby Frizz-ease leave-in conditioner, I had to go to work looking like...well, picture Raggedy Ann with her little cloth thumb in the electric socket. The online help wasn't making me feel better, so this morning I called the 800 crew.
I got an actual grown woman who seemed to want to help! She asked for a lot of numbers off the bottle, and quickly promised me a coupon for a replacement.
She said it will take 8 to 10 days for the coupon to get here, so til then, the looks of this hair will at least provide fun for the local grooming police. But the bottom line is, John's customer service is SO far above the other companies I've called in years.
I got an actual grown woman who seemed to want to help! She asked for a lot of numbers off the bottle, and quickly promised me a coupon for a replacement.
She said it will take 8 to 10 days for the coupon to get here, so til then, the looks of this hair will at least provide fun for the local grooming police. But the bottom line is, John's customer service is SO far above the other companies I've called in years.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
NO more preaching to the choir, no more lousy statistics
Cc: Bulletin@aarp.orgDear Mr. Rand:
In your [april] Where We Stand, I read that AARP backed the ACA 2010. The rest of the article was enumerating problems and proposed problems and the AARP stand on the problems.
We need to know exactly, precisely what AARP is doing now and what AARP will do next week.
Please replace the Kaiser chart as soon as possible with a clear picture that shows the current situation of those who will be damaged and in some cases will die with the proposed cuts in Medicare. The Kaiser chart gives a MISLEADING, rosy picture for Congress to point to in justifying their plans.
The median is only the middle number in any set of statistics. The mode is the number that occurs most often. $30,000 is probably nowhere near the mode of retirees' financial assets. NOT EVEN CLOSE! Those of us who were damaged in a divorce, lost a spouse, or never married often have NO home equity, so $60,000 only represents a number between us and those with huge home equity. In other words NO HOME EQUITY is the modal situation as far as I can find out. ZERO is probably our typical home equity, not $60,000.
Please clarify with specifics.
In your [april] Where We Stand, I read that AARP backed the ACA 2010. The rest of the article was enumerating problems and proposed problems and the AARP stand on the problems.
We need to know exactly, precisely what AARP is doing now and what AARP will do next week.
Please replace the Kaiser chart as soon as possible with a clear picture that shows the current situation of those who will be damaged and in some cases will die with the proposed cuts in Medicare. The Kaiser chart gives a MISLEADING, rosy picture for Congress to point to in justifying their plans.
The median is only the middle number in any set of statistics. The mode is the number that occurs most often. $30,000 is probably nowhere near the mode of retirees' financial assets. NOT EVEN CLOSE! Those of us who were damaged in a divorce, lost a spouse, or never married often have NO home equity, so $60,000 only represents a number between us and those with huge home equity. In other words NO HOME EQUITY is the modal situation as far as I can find out. ZERO is probably our typical home equity, not $60,000.
Please clarify with specifics.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dear Senator: Now About MY money
There are Social Security recipients in California, as you know.
I cannot help being angry when I hear Social Security lumped under "entitlements." This is OUR money. We paid it in whether we wanted to or not. We voted for people in good faith, and some of them "borrowed" it without our permission. It has not been repaid. If we borrow without permission, or do not repay what we borrow, we are in serious trouble.
Medicare is not a gift. It comes out of the Social Security I am STILL paying into. And my Prescription coverage is deducted before I see the money. Then from the check I receive, I pay almost two hundred dollars more for a supplement, without which I could not afford the hospital, the retina repair specialist, or even my personal physician.
This money is NOT the property of any political party to keep in part to make up for budget foolishness in other areas, or for whatever was financed with what they "borrowed."
My friends and I are still working. The Social Security we already get does not sustain us in frugal living, and so we work. Please do not allow anyone to take away more of our money, OUR MONEY, and leave us out on an ice floe to die.
Sincerely,
Margaret Fleming
I cannot help being angry when I hear Social Security lumped under "entitlements." This is OUR money. We paid it in whether we wanted to or not. We voted for people in good faith, and some of them "borrowed" it without our permission. It has not been repaid. If we borrow without permission, or do not repay what we borrow, we are in serious trouble.
Medicare is not a gift. It comes out of the Social Security I am STILL paying into. And my Prescription coverage is deducted before I see the money. Then from the check I receive, I pay almost two hundred dollars more for a supplement, without which I could not afford the hospital, the retina repair specialist, or even my personal physician.
This money is NOT the property of any political party to keep in part to make up for budget foolishness in other areas, or for whatever was financed with what they "borrowed."
My friends and I are still working. The Social Security we already get does not sustain us in frugal living, and so we work. Please do not allow anyone to take away more of our money, OUR MONEY, and leave us out on an ice floe to die.
Sincerely,
Margaret Fleming
HELLO WORLD - Lady Antebellum
I may need to establish a new award. This song by Lady Antebellum is blood pressure medicine for me--nothing better the radio could play when I'm on my way to work or on the way home thru evening traffic. Confession: the video brought tears to my eyes--something I never thought a music video could do!
So, yeah, I'm a fan now.
So, yeah, I'm a fan now.
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