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The Sunday Salon: Most Horrible Party Photo EVER

Sunday Salon

Last week I attended a retirement party for a very close friend. Great party, but man…such horrible photos of me. After viewing them, there must have been about five horrid ones and one where I looked somewhat human. Just to prove that I can laugh at myself, I will share one of those horrid photos with you.

Most Horrible Photo

What exactly am I thinking about here? GAH! So horrible. Enough to give me a complex. I felt a little bit better when the market clerk “carded” me yesterday. I get carded sometimes by young men, who don’t know any better, but this was a forty-something woman who carded me. That made me feel a little bit better but just a little bit.

Today, I am making pasta sauce and not much else. Maybe some reading. I just finished The Language of Flowers and for whatever reason, I don’t feel like launching into a new book. But a little warning sound is going off in my head because usually, if I do not begin another book right away, I hit a rut. We’ll see how that plays out.

Hope you are all done with your shopping and that your Sunday and a nice and easy one.

List Love: Christmas

The other day, The Hub told me that he bought me something. Something that was unsolicited by me. This has only happened a handful of times and the results (in most cases) were hilarious. I’m sure they weren’t supposed to be and I can count a couple of instances where I pitched a Christmas meal into the trash because of the frustration over said gift or the quippy response that came with it. So when he said he bought me something, I paused and said, “Hmmmm.”

The next day… he said he bought it from a traveling salesman.

Double, “Hmmmm.”

Remember that I Love Lucy episode where the guy came to the door selling all that Handy Dandy stuff? I cannot help but think of that episode. What WILL I end up with? The thing is, my needs are few and my wants are simple. I am not a hard person to buy for. I enjoy simple things, meaningful items and gadgets. So just for fun, I am listing stuff here that I wouldn’t mind getting.

  • A Nook Simple Touch ( I have a Kindle, which I love but I do not love Amazon)
  • The new Michael Bublé Christmas CD  (Michael Bublé Christmas)
  • A new Tourmaline hair dryer. Mine is dying and bad hair makes me unhappy.
  • Dreamer PJ’s from Victoria’s Secret. I spend so much time in PJ’s, might as well have another set.
  • A big, giant vat of my fave lotion.
  • Some new bookmarks.
  • A really nice pair of scissors. My kids take mine and cut bacon (yep!) with them and other damaging materials like glue tubes and Popsicle sticks.
  • This very cool calendar.
  • This awesome lens for my camera.
  • A Spotify upgrade to Premium so I can take my music with me.
  • Some sparkly hair clips.
  • A copy of A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
  • Any of these movies on DVD: The Family Stone (so great!), It’s a Wonderful Life (lost my copy), Serendipity (John Cusack…sigh)

See? Not so bad, right? Of course, material items aside, good health is always a welcome gift but I don’t believe door-to-door salesmen have figured out a way to sell it.

So, what do you think The Hub got me? Knives? A blender? Tupperware? He doesn’t read my blog so you can have fun with it.