A target of opportunity – I should have learned

September of 2006

LOOKS LIKE RAIN

We took some clothes the kids had outgrown to the Salvation Army truck at the Rural King parking lot area today and the two men working at the truck helped us unload our TWO loads. To load the clothes, we opened a window upstairs and threw out garbage bags filled with them. Then we transferred the pile on the driveway to the trunk and backseat. Getting the bags out the window was a little harder than anticipated because the windows crank out . . . and the ones in the room we used pivot at the center. We only had a few inches to ease the bags out, but we suffered no bag casualties.

Summer came in while Alison and I were bombing the driveway and promptly took over that job. After I went down to start putting stuff in the car – and Summer was left upstairs – I became a target of opportunity and was hit by a pair of shorts. Ah, life as a grandmother.

Spam on your face?

Hyatt Hotels have an ad in the New Yorker, promoting their spa-like offerings. It is a cartoon panel ad showing a woman at the airport with bath care bottles that won’t fit in a plastic bag and discovering, to her delight, that her Hyatt Room provides them. The ad is merging spa with amenities to create the word Spamenities, which is in a script font  in a cartoon panel.

I’m so very sorry, ad people, but what I saw was Spam; it leaped out at me. I did not realize it was an ad at first, I thought it was a real cartoon, poking fun at various skincare products.  Now I see that I  had erred, but I am now thinking, “Well, gee, I’ve seen articles about 29 uses for WD-40 and 65 uses for baking soda” . . . and you get the idea.

I have a yellow hat that says SPAM and a tee-shirt as well, courtesy of LZP, but I think having SPAM on my face is a little iffy – a little too far on the trendy curve for me.

I couldn’t sleep

It is about 3 in the morning and after falling asleep reading fairly early in the evening, I  awoke at 1:30 to discover I could not get back to sleep. so I got up and cleaned the kitchen, not thoroughly, but to a greater degree than it had been. My hands now smell like cleansers, not exactly a perfume, but better than they did before. I guess they are “kitchen clean” hands as opposed to “scented soap” hands.

I like the smell of clean hands; I always have. I remember when I was a little girl and being tucked in bed, my father’s hands were always freshly scrubbed ans smelled so comforting. Shane’s paws smell a little different, but that’s okay, I’m a big girl now.

I’m going back to bed – not going to stay up and have an incredibly early start to the day. We’ll just call this practice for true Monday.