Midlife Musings

Reflections on life from 40-something

Self Portrait Sunday 6/22/2008

June22


I can’t believe I didn’t post here all week. I have some major stuff going on, and I’m just not that into blogging. I’ll be back, you can count on that :) Meanwhile, here’s what I look like today.

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Self Portrait Sunday 6/15/2008

June15

The vacation apparently continues. My modem went out on Wednesday, and my internet provider “shipped out a new one overnight” that evening. Still haven’t seen that sucker as I type this Saturday morning. However, I have a new cable provider as of Friday, along with cable TV.

However, now it is time to camp! Here’s a photo I took a few days ago, modeling a sweater I am knitting.

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Hmm, it occurs to me that most of what you see here are my outstanding features. Oops. I had forgotten about that.

Saturday evening update:
Here is one my daughter took yesterday while we were eating smores.

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My husband had just handed me a hot marshmallow, when the baby spilled ice cold drink in my lap. There wasn’t much I could do about either one, since my other hand was holding the bug spray. They enjoyed laughing at me while my leg twitched, though.

That smarts

June10

Today I met two strangers in an air conditoned travel trailer. I handed one of them some paper and proved that I am who I claim to be. Then I went with the other one into a small cold room and took off a good portion of my clothes. This second one took my frozen boobs and placed them on a tray, one at a time. Then she squeezed and pressed them until they were flat and quite squished. And she took a picture. She did this four times. I managed to not pee on myself, but it was touch and go there for a while. I still can’t figure out why she was rubbing my hair, though.

Unofficial and Unannounced Vakay

June9

Yep, that’s exactly what I did. I just didn’t post. I did stay busy, though. I finished washing all the walls in my bedroom, and today, I went through and re-organized my closet and dresser. It feels so good to be able to reach everything, and it will make getting dressed so much easier! Here’s what the closet looks like now, or at least the part I can get a picture of:

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Also, I am admitting publicly that this is not even half my shoes. Just to be clear. In fact, I have a funny shoe story to relate. Sunday before last, we had a youth outing for out church youth group. I wore my red heels (you saw them: one red, one black). The other leader of the youth said something about wanting some new car. He called it by name, of course, but umm, I don’t remember which one he said, only that it was a spendy kind. I just looked at him and told him I wanted new shoes. Well, he looked at my feet and said he had wondered why I wore those shoes, and I had to explain to him that I meant new shoes IN ADDITION to the ones I was wearing, not as a REPLACEMENT for them. ROFL!

I do love me some shoes! And so does at least one of my daughters. Who has my same shoe size. I may have to invest in self inking stamps here directly to keep her off my mess. Really, how often can a woman be forced to say “Remove thine foot from mine shoon” without getting a little bit hostile? Yeah, way less than I have had to say it over my red and pink ho-heels, that’s for sure!

But I guess I have digressed pretty far from the closet thing, haven’t I? Do you think I should head over to Vista Print and order some custom business cards? They could have that picture up there, and CLOSET ORGANIZER in capital letters.

Oh no way! I just popped over for giggles, and they now offer websites and magnets and other based on cards you have ordered in the past. Wicked cool! That is slick!

Walls!

June3

Mine are dirty. Like, a lot dirty, everywhere but the kitchen. So, guess what I did today? Yep. washed some of them. It was so. much. fun.

Ok, I am lying like a rug. It was not fun at all, but the ones I washed look 300% better. Guess that means I have to keep going, huh?

And then I put some Trace Adkins cds in my queue at yourmusic.com. Because what could be more inspiring than that, when you have to do a job like wall washing?

Manic Monday 6/02/2008

June2


You have accomplished a difficult task and hear someone else taking the credit. How do you deal with the situation?

If you had to marry someone that you presently know unromantically, and spend the rest of your life as their spouse, who would you choose?

If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now?

Well, that would depend on how I was thinking. Or not thinking. Because if I was thinking, then I would just wait it out, because that kind of thing tends to correct itself, and besides, you can’t do something “difficult” without someone else knowing, and that’s generally how it gets corrected. If I were not thinking, then I’d probably say something, and then it just wouldn’t work out as well.

I am declining to answer that one, based on the fact that such speculation is inherently disrespectful to my husband, since I’m married and all.

Sure. I’d spend more time traveling and more time with my family. Guess that means I should do that NOW, huh?

Self Portrait Sunday June 1, 2008

June1

I got a new do!
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I'm Cass. I am a full-time mom to eight great children, a Christian and a blogger. I'm also a knitter, a reader and a movie watcher. And a collector of eclectic oddities.

For the first time in 18 and a half years, I have my own little corner again. Somewhere along the way, I seem to have lost myself, and now that I realize I'm missing, I'm on the look out for me. You maybe don't know what that means, but then again, maybe you do. Regardless, this is where I'll be when I'm not being a mother or a knitter. This is where I'll be just me. And if no one ever reads it, that's ok. I'll know it's here.


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