It has started..

Another year gone..just like that. Why is it when we are young we want to be always older? And now that I am older I just want to be smarter? 

And to start my new year, I had the severe case of forget fullness. Started Monday with my phone at home.  When it was time to go home I couldn’t find my car keys.  I searched through my entire purse, emptying contents on the desk, only to discover that I left them in the ignition. Thankfully I forgot to lock my car doors. Stopping at the Mall to buy something, reach into my purse to grab my wallet, it isn’t there. It is at work on my desk because I had to look for my keys there remember? So home I go, talking to myself on how dumb I am. And since my drivers license is in my wallet which is at work, over sudden I get paranoid and notice every cop that is out there. So I turn into a granny driver, below speed limit, turn signals, looking constantly around me, praying please let me get home. 

Next day drive to work to get wallet, again paranoid driving. Once I have the wallet, okay put the pedal to the metal and look out. Forget safety. Later the day, trip to the mall again.  Out on the road just before the highway, I think did I turn my stove off? Alrighty, not sure about that, so let’s turn around and go back and check. 

Forgot to pump my gas at the Gas station yesterday – again. But at least I remembered this time before I pulled out of the gas station and not at the second light as before. Today at the store, I had a shopping cart. The key word is had, I lost or left it somewhere between the fresh produce and the baked beans aisle and didn’t notice till I got all the way back to the eggs. 

So here is to getting older and forget fullness, I just wish it would hit me at the right time, like  when I say something totally off the wall and I can deny it, because I don’t remember. 

Have you noticed?

I have a bad habit. When ever I go to a public place I like to people watch. And with that I also noticed that people have lowered their own expectations on the way they present themselves out in public. And it has been on the decline for a few years now, and I attribute it to the economic downfall, the expectations that are set for them, their financial back ground or they just choose to present themselves in a bad way.

I am not saying that people should look like a million bucks when ever they go out. But a decent pair of pants or a shirt that covers your mid rift will do. I don’t want to chastise people in this blog post that barely make it, so don’t get me wrong. I sometimes run out in a pair of sweats because I don’t feel like putting on a pair of jeans to grab some milk at the corner gas station. I don’t look like a million bucks myself, and have clothes fit for a queen. But I do try to look decent when I head out to the Mall or any public place for a extended period of time.

The same goes for the way we treat our surroundings. Just the other day I was leaving the store, heading to the car when I found a dirty diaper laying in the parking spot next to me. Come on now. Was that really necessary? Or how about the empty apple sauce container, or fast food wrapper that makes its way on the ground and just lays there. Do people not care? Have we lost that much respect for ourselves and our surroundings to just not care anymore?

Remember after 9/11 how everybody had a changed attitude and people treated each other with kindness and respect? Well we are back to pre- 9/11 were rudeness ruled. Or I should say the ” I don’t care ” ” It’s all about me” attitude. I was waiting in the check out lane at the store the other day, and the couple in front of me, had some issues with the correct price on a box of cereal. So it took a little bit for the price check to be done, I just waited and hummed to myself, but the Lady behind me was going into a spasm with her tongue and eyes and sighs, because she was getting irritated with the wait.

So come on people, let’s get back to the basics of showing compassion, courtesy and respect, not just to yourself but to others and your surroundings around you. We are what we make of it, and right now it is not a pretty picture.

Out of the mouths of kids

Saturday I had to make a quick run to our local Party Store, were you can buy decorations and invites for Birthday’s, Weddings, well you guys get the picture. I was unsuccessful in finding a invitation template online suiting my need so I had to look for them at a store.

Anyway after I found them I proceeded to the check out and as I was waiting in line, a Dad behind me had found the novelty items and picked up a pair of goofy looking glasses. Silver with wings on the side, the kind you expect Elton John to wear, just a little smaller. He asked his Son if they made him look like a alien. His Son could not have been much older then 8 years old turned around and said ” you look like a idiot” and continued to bug his mother.
Okay, needless to say I had to turn around, bite my lips, look straight ahead in fear of busting out laughing. But I had to turn back around, as the Dad looked at me, and I just let loose. He started laughing and goes, well I asked. And I replied, that was your first mistake and continued to laugh through the check out and out the door. It made my day. The moral of the story, don’t ever ask your young kid for an opinion in public unless you are ready to be humiliated by your own child.

People watching..

Yes I do it.  And no not in a creepy way. But I tend to do that a lot. Be it in the check out line at the Store, in a crowd, at work , or as a spectator at a sports event.

I watch people and think to myself what that person is thinking off at that particular time. Where he or she lives, what kind of personality they might have or what kind of family life and so on.

Then you also have those  thoughts like, why would they dress like that or why would they wear those ugly shoes with that, what possessed them to get a hair do like that, the kind of questions only a woman would concern herself with. I don’t think guys stand in line wondering about the guy in front them, on what size of toolbelt he has at home. Does he have the one that carries everything including the lunch box or just 3 tools, hammer, screwdriver and pliers? Or if he is a Packers or Cowboys fan? Or that he definately needs some new sneakers.

At work during lunch in the lunch room I watch my co-workers on how they set up their Lunches a certain way, or arrange things to their liking. Are they like this at home too? Do they have a certain routine they follow when they sit down to eat? Why do some talk to themselves when they perform a task?

But with all that people watching I also learn about them. I remember things about my friends their likes and their dislikes without asking, remembering just in the way they react. I learn certain things about my co-workers that I probably would never know if I would not watch them sometimes do certain things.

Now does this apply also to random people you watch in a crowd? Probably not. But it is still fun to just guess. I am just wondering if people out there have done the same to me. Good luck on trying to figure me out, I have not figured myself out yet.

Surprised and proud!

Earlier this evening, once I got home, I picked up my Daughter to go Grocery shopping, because it is her notion that i don’t ever buy anything to eat for her.  Refer to a earlier post about this subject and you will know.

So we went through the Grocery Store, and I let her do the shopping, in a way. I made sure that she picked up things that she would eat but also not go overboard of picking one of each.

After we went through the check-out and left the store, she stopped in her track, and gave money ( and I mean her own) to the Bell ringer for the Salvation army. I was just in awe, after I saw that.

Now we are talking about a teenage girl who will keep her own money and ask me for money to go to the movies with and spends my money whenever she gets a chance.

So I just thought I would let you all know, that I am very proud of Daughter of making such a nice gesture on her own, and that maybe she does listen when I tell her, that there are a lot of people out there that have a lot less then us and she should be grateful for the things she does have.