Tuesday Thoughts About...

...continued aging! I know, I know, nobody wants to think about it. But that's the problem. There's so much to think about! 

When I was out walking, I noticed this:

Our neighborhood is 40 years old. Most of the front walks never had handrails. More and more people are adding them, but this is ridiculous!

Most people are doing nicer ones in keeping with the neighborhood.

This is our front steps. I am very careful when I'm going up or down--which is every morning when I walk. But this one is our next door neighbors house.

They are new and just moved in about 2 months ago. Recently, I invited Francesca over for a glass of wine. After awhile, she invited me to her house to meet her aunt--about my age. I ended up having another glass of wine there. It was near 6 p.m. when I announced I had to get home because I only had about 10 minutes to get in my pajamas! This was after 3 hours and 4 glasses of wine. When I was leaving, I told Francesca that I needed to take her arm as I started my "free-handed" walk down her long flight. 

I'm very careful and not afraid to ask for help!

Which leads me to "footwear!" If you are unsteady in your shoes, get rid of them!!! It's not worth a fall! Here's the story:

Friday night was poker night. We were at Jack & Connie's. Before I arrived, Connie actually fell into the couch by tripping in her sandals. Everybody was laughing as they told me. I started in on my lecture about being safe! Connie said, "But they're so cute!" 

She just laughed. It wasn't 15 minutes later that she stumbled and nearly fell again! I told her that "That's it! We're not taking you with us unless you change your shoes!" Or something like that. I could just see her falling on concrete downtown on our way to dinner! 

I know all about falling. But, the truth is, Connie is falling the most! She doesn't need to be tempting fate!

I recently gave up a really cute pair of shoes when I discovered that they were "slippy" when it was raining. I'm taking no chances!

At our age, you have to go for stability and safety! No shoes are cute enough to risk winding up in a cast---which is the least cutest footwear of all!!

Be safe out there ladies! Whether it's handrails or footwear--every thing can be treacherous these days!

Me on Monday

June by the Numbers

Books Read—12

5 star books:

Ask Not

Big Dumb Eyes

Criminal Conversations

Bits & Pieces

Podcasts—9 

Lunch Out—5

Dinner Out:—2

Bridge--5--I'm thrilled to be playing regularly again!

Documentaries/Movies/Series  

Hulu:

*****Paradise (2 episode)

Max

*****The Price of Glee (3 episodes)—I was a superfan—Gleek!

*****The Dark Side of Kids TV (5 episodes)

*****Spacey Unmasked (2 episodes)

*****Pee Wee Herman (3 episodes)

***A Body in the Snow (5 episodes)

****The Fall of Diddy (5 episodes)

***My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hartigay

Netflix :

*****NIckelback

***Nate Bergatze

Prime:

****Anne & Mary: a tale of two sisters

****The Fergie Story: Paradise Lost

***The Duchess of Windsor: the woman who stole a king’s heart

****Cursed Bloodlines (13 episode)

*****Ethel Kennedy

*****Forgotten Ellis Island

*****Bertie & Elizabeth

*****The Better Sister (2 episodes)

*****The Judd Family (4 episode)

*****Queen Victoria: Secrets of a Queen

*****Princess Alice: Mother-in-law to the Queen

*Medieval Mysteries

*****My Foolish Heart—my favorite movie of all time!

*****The Levy’s of Monticello

*****The Last Band on Stage (Chicago)

****G 20

***The Bondsman (2 episodes)

*****We Were Liars (4 episodes)

Peacock

Law and Order Organized Crime—1 episodes

Scrapbook Pages Completed: 0—zip-zilch!

Trips & Events:

Paris w/three girls and the sons-in-law!

Sisters weekend—7 of us!

The Barnsley Resort & Spa

Boozy Bingo

Scrapbook Saturday

I don't have much to share this week as I haven't gotten much scrapbooking done for the past few weeks. But, I was excited to cut this Eiffel Tower with my Cricut to act as the "A" in my Paris title. But, it took me 9 cuts to get it right!

So here's how it works. You find the image you want to use and add it to the mat. Then you size it to whatever size you want. Now you are ready to cut. So, I did. 

I decided that I wanted the silver on top. I kept messing up and cutting the black part--which is supposed to be the shadow--too small. 

Finally 45 minutes later, I finally got it right! I might still figure out a way to use the other cuts. I do love my electronics, but they can be so frustrating. It's not the electronics--they know what they are doing. It's me! As they say, "user error." And I seem to have a lot of those!!

Speaking of "flub ups"--I made one on this June monthly recap. The photo on the flip up on the upper left is upside down. I didn't realize that until I noticed it in the picture. I've fixed it now, but it wasn't exactly easy. There was more to it than just pulling it up and turning it around. I had already taped everything together, so the tap ripped part of the picture. That meant I had to cut a bit off and re-tape it. 

See what I mean about how frustrating scrapbooking can be? Makes you wonder why I keep doing it. Sometimes, I don't know myself!

I am really enjoying doing a monthly recap, but I have to admit, it's challenging to get all of the information I want in such a much smaller format! The book is a 6x8. Still it's a lot of fun.

Friday Funnies

Five Things Thursday

Let's talk BOOKS!!

Words of Wisdom Wednesday

This pretty much "nails it!" I'm happy to have grown up in a large family!

Monday Mystery

We've had this plant for a very long time. I have never liked it. It had about 3 or 4 of the tall leaves for years. I've really always hated it. I thought Butch liked it since he brings it in every year. Neither of us have any idea where it came from. I always thought he must have bought it because to me, it's a "guys" kind of thing. Definitely not my vibe. But he says he didn't buy it. So there's that mystery--where the heck did it come from? And then, the next mystery. What the heck is it??

So last year, I decided to figure out what it is. Using my plant identification app, I

found that it was a bird of paradise. This year, I decided to fertilize it. Suddenly, it's going gang busters. Butch thought it was something other than a bird of paradise. I tried my identifier app again. This time, it says it's a banana plant. That makes more sense to Butch. I don't know why. 

Anyway, I guess we'll see what happens and then decide. Here's a bird of paradise picture from the web:

And here is the banana plant:

I guess the only way we'll know for sure is if it every produces a bloom or bananas!

It's a mystery for sure! I'm still leaning towards bird of paradise. We'll see. 

I'll keep you posted!