BANJO'S BOUDOIR PHOTO

 VEGAN

Jorge took Maeve to a fancy vegan restaurant for her birthday.  This was one of the courses they served:

I was relieved to see that - as a loyal meat eater I am intimidated with the concept of serving vegan meals.  Not anymore!

 I CAN'T WAIT TO TRAVEL WITH MAEVE

I was looking for a new piece of carry-on luggage, and after some internet searching I decided to just buy the same one I bought for Maeve a while back - she loved it and it was the result of extensive research on my part.  I was also looking for a duffel bag to use as my personal carry-on that would work with the suitcase.  Pretty pleased  . . . .

Maeve commented that she liked the combo - I told her I would be happy to buy her one as well.  Maeve nervously joked that it would be funny if we could also wear the same track suit.  

CONSIDER IT DONE!

we're gonna look so cool.

 OVERCOMPENSATING    

When you spend your husband's birthday travelling to Long Island to celebrate a friend's birthday - perhaps you buy the biggest birthday card you can find to make yourself feel better.

 WEEKEND PLANNING

 I was watching one of those murder mystery shows last night - Dateline, etal, and is so often the case, the now deceased person had warned someone in their life "if something ever happens to me, the police need to investigate X person. . ."

It occurred to me that if someone has slighted you in some way and you want to make their life unpleasant for a while, you could always put it out there, no matter how unfounded, that THEY are that X person.

 SOMETIMES, just sometimes . . . . .

I think Smudge is plotting my demise

 

Things I Should Be-Am-Am Not-Whatever Embarrassed By:

• I like bologna sandwiches on white bread with French’s yellow mustard
• I still haven’t figured out how to recycle properly
• I look down on people who use busses for transportation
• I like the songs Pina Colada and Mandy
• I barely (only if pressed) know how to work the TV remote
• I will watch the movie “Overboard” with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell every time it is on TV – which is a lot

I know there are many many more, but this is it for now.

 

I was watching our Governor Maura Healey’s State of the Commonwealth address the other night.  As you might expect, there were lots of applause throughout her address, some more vigorous than others.  As they always do, there was an interpreter doing sign language.  How is it that I have never noticed the sign language for applause? 

(click on image for video)

I am loving this on so many levels – and the intensity of the sign language changes based upon the intensity of the applause.  I am going to use this myself from now on whenever I, or someone else says or does something worthy of applause.

 

 I promised myself I would write on this blog every week.  I don't happen to have anything clever in mind so thought I would share this pic from yesterday morning - beautiful!

 MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN    

To wrap up the last of my New Year/Old Me posts, I have, below, the fruits of my labor from New Year's Day.  While Tom was removing every single remnant of Christmas from our home, I was cleaning out our pantry.  

Some people consider the image below "porn" thus the warning . . .

Extremely satisfying.

JAN 1

As I continue to usher in 2024 like a WINNA', Tom and I chose to have lunch here:

It's going to be a good year . . . .

 2024

Jan 1 

I saw an old colleague post the following on FB today:

Enter 2024…

"we all have an opportunity to rewind(for a moment), recall and reflect and THEN it’s all up for the taking!!! Remake, rethink, reload, redo, reuse, recycle, release, renew, recreate, reshape, reinvent, reform, reinvigorate, revise, relearn, respond, reimagine, rejoice and re-xxxxxxx.

Add your RE in the comments so we all can reunite in our dreams for 2024!"

In the interest of respecting the privacy of the initial poster and the responders i am not sharing a screenshot, but here is an example of some of the responses:

• Reinvent kindness, compassion and love. For all.
• Realize Global warming is real
• Going to reimagine, reload and release in 2024
• RE-store humanity & Love, kindness
• Reflect, renew and rejoice 

You get the drift . . . all had various New Year inspirational comments to go with their RE word.

COULD YOU IMAGINE IF . . . . .

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking "could you imagine if I did X offensive thing", or "could you imagine if I made X inappropriate comment". And I just picture other people's head exploding with (rightful) indignity.

So it comes as a shock to no one that knows me that I had the idea of typing RETARD

I look forward to my final resting place in hell.