*doing a thinking pose...

What shall I talk about today? Hmm?

Well, first off, we had a very windy weekend, and you heard about the dating game in the parking lot between my van and a saucy, sporty red car.

And the weather was very windy...all weekend.

Yesterday was sorta pleasant but I pretty much holed up in my room....napped, all that.

THEN...it snowed.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it snowed! I probably got between 3-5 inches of snow. This morning, I woke up and thought, HUH?

Had to use my itty bitty ice scraper to get the snow off. Was that heavy snow?! Yes...the wet, thick, packed hard kind of snow.

Not too bad...and got to work just fine.

Today was just another day but tiring, I suppose.

A friend is expecting a new grandbaby sometime tonight/tomorrow and I'm excited for her. Then my sister, sister number 4...is still pregnant.

Her comment about that:

Stinker Baby Update

He's super low

He refuses to vacate his present domicile

He's making me miserable

Awww. I'm sure by this weekend the baby will decide to join us. But who knows.

Oooohkay...I guess I'll break out my PJ's, crawl in bed and watch Dancing with the Stars....

The Vehicles' Dating Game...

It's another blustery, windy....yeah............whoooooshy....day.

My daughter and her very BFFinthewholewideworld had gone outside.

My husband went out for a walk and to pick up pizza....deep dish Chicago style (yummmmm)....

I heard something so I thought, okay maybe husband is back.

Nope.

Then I glanced outside.

Took a double-take look.

A saucy, sporty red car is all snuggled up with our beat-up van.

Heart in my throat....I grab my coat, shoes and ran down the stairs....

and out the door, across the street to the parking lot....

The saucy, sporty, red car is too close for comfort...in my honest opinion.

Hm.

I looked around, tried the door of the car...locked. Darn.

Ran back in the house, with shaky hands, I called the wonderful Police Department of Tecumseh (they rock!)....

Non-emergency, but I'd like to coax this car to stay away from the van....please?

What? Oh, nobody's in either car/van...nobody's hurt, nobody's around and I'm staring out my window. Can you send someone out please?

ThankyouverymuchIappreciateitandhaveagoodevening!

So I go back out, relax and study the incident. And try to bury myself deeper into my coat---the wind is really bitin' us tonight...

My husband has returned with the Chicago deep dish pizza (yummmy)...I wave him over, and he asked me what I did. "WHAT you mean what did I do??? Helloooo? Is that MY car???" *scoff*

He just shakes his head, laughs, and I told him to go inside and I'll deal with the police.

Officer shows up...very pleasant, and very nice man. He chuckled when I told him, "it really shows you how strong the winds are today....OR...perhaps the car got lonely...and wanted to cuddle up with my van?"

Apparently that sporty car's parking brake wasn't put on. So, I do the "report ritual dance" and give the officer all the information I have on my vehicle.

Then that was it. I trudged back across the street into my home---thankful to be out of the wind....

Few more minutes later, the owner of the car shows up....that driver's turn to do the "report ritual dance" to the officer and carefully pulls the car away from the van.

Verrrrrrrrrrrry carrrrrrrrrefullllllllllllly.

And the officer made the driver make sure the parking brake is on. And firmly in place.

The van's now all aloooooooooooone...and standing strong.

Awww.

*don't worry...no vehicles, humans or animals have been harmed in this "vehicle dating game*

How to Flash?

Okay, really, I'm not really teaching anyone something...um....*eyes shifting* ...naughty.

But really, today was so WINDY! whooosh! wheee!

I stopped at CVS in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area (kind of like the borderline between those 2 cities...to pick up a chair on sale for my husband.

As I was struggling to push the shopping cart with the big box in front of me...a whirlydevil of a whirlwind? tornado? mini-tornado? Ummmm...whatever.

It whoosed! up my blouse and caused my shirt to lift up midway. Woo! Really, I didn't "flash" anything but my belly button....(thank goodness!).

Thankfully nobody was around to see that. I was behind the box behind the cart and pushing towards my car....and I'm not sure if anyone in the busy street saw me---they're probably struggling to stay straight driving in the wind!

So...if you don't want to have an embarrassing moment like I had this afternoon, make sure your clothes are tucked in safely in windy conditions like this. Yeah.

On another note, someone left a comment on yesterday's posting about me being inspired by Team Hoyt. And my own personal thoughts about people with disabilities.

I have been exposed to everyone with all types of disabilities and never gave it another thought. Once at work, the department I worked for was very vocal about having this man with cerebal palsy work with us. "We don't want to be babysitting him when he needs something...." whine, whine whine. I just stood up and left that meeting. I was just sick of them.

Finally one co-worker realized that what they were saying in the meeting room was not just targeting that poor man, but targeting me as well.

They all swallowed some humble pie after that....they all fell in love with that man.

Anyway, also, to respond to the comment, about her mother's blindness...I know how that is. When my mother was blinded by her brain tumor, I really did not have any issues about that. However, my mom had a great sense of humor. Her dad, my Grandpa John, is practically deaf and refused to wear a hearing aid. There's me, who's partly deaf. Then my mom, blinded by her cancer. "So there's 2 deaf and one blind...."

I did have ONE issue when prior to my mother's passing, I put in a request to take some time off to spend time with my mom for her remaining days....the person I made request with didn't think I really needed to do that. But I told this person...."I don't care what you believe in, but I am going to take the time off to be with my mother..." and it was the best decision I made.

Another example can be with someone who is totally different from you---I was standing next to someone in line at this cute little cafe inside my library and this woman was wearing her burka and she ordered some fancy coffee....I was looking at her from the corner of my eye...wondering..."how the heck is she gonna drink that? Does she lift that thing...exposing her mouth? Or take a straw and slide it under that flap? I can only see her eyes and her fingers!" I didn't stick around to find out...(should I have done that?)....

Anyway......well...I guess my mind is jumping all over the place today---and getting my belly cooled off with the WIND today.