Inspiration | A Thankfully Imperfect Woman

Sep 11

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My Dog Tried to Wear My Underwear

And here we go again…

My crazy life.

This morning I was following my normal routine…shower, dry off, start getting dressed…and that’s when it happened.

{sigh}

Seriously, who else would have this happen to them?

OK…picture this…

I’m out of the shower…dried off…sitting on our chair in the bathroom and about to put my underwear on…one leg in…………………………………………….and Motzy decided to join me.

Literally. Read more

Sep 9

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No Glasses, Before Coffee

Here I am. Baring my soul, or rather my head.

Do you see these bangs? (Or lack thereof.)

This.

This, is what happens when one is frustrated with how long their bangs have gotten…and doesn’t wear their glasses while cutting said bangs…and hasn’t had their morning coffee yet.

Hrmph.

Notice how I took the picture with my head tilted down? Yeah, I couldn’t get myself to look straight at the camera – they look really, REALLY short then.

And in an effort of full disclosure…I waited a week to take the picture. I just couldn’t do it any earlier…I had to let them grow at least a teeny bit anyway.

{sigh}

I hope you get a good laugh out of this one.

Heed my advice: Coffee, Glasses, then Scissors.

Patty O

Sep 7

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I was just sharing a comment and advice for a fellow Sjogren-ite and I remembered one of my best…or worst brain fog moments. There’s brain fog and then there’s brain damage. Sometimes I swear I can hear Bill Cosby saying…”Brain Damage!!!” In fact, I’ve used that comment for each of my girls at one moment in their teenage-dom.

As I’ve gotten a little older, I’ve experienced the normal…can’t remember names, addresses, phone numbers…or the mixing your children’s names up, spewing every other name and the dog’s name before you get to the correct one: “Sam, Alex, Motzy…GABI!”

But now there’s the moments of not being able to get the words out correctly. It’s the speaking of words like: clockwork and saying wock-clork. Hrmph. At least with a blog I can catch them before it goes into print.

– You know the saying ‘If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at’? –

I laugh…a lot.

And so does my family.

And I’m so happy I can provide such good entertainment…

The best moment of all with outright – tears running down the cheeks, side-splitting, I can’t breathe anymore, belly laughter came months ago when we were going to watch a movie. I yelled (not whispered mind you) into the kitchen – “Let’s have POPCORN”! Or at least I meant to yell that.

What came out was “Let’s have COP PORN!!!”

Huh…

{insert head thunk}

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

Yes, this is my adventure.

Welcome to it!

🙂

Patty O

ps. Have I written about this already? Hrmph…darn memory!

Aug 18

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What Should I Write About?

OUR WEEKEND

There were flowers and puppies, children, friends and husband.

Chocolate, wine and Chocolate Moose Cake…

There was napping and cleaning (in that order).

Gardening, trimming, and weeding.

Movies, neighbors, chrome chairs, pizza. Read more

Aug 15

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My House is a Zoooooo!!!

Between this crazy, lovable puppy who seems to think he needs to go to the front of the house to go potty (when we need to go out the back door)…and two rather emotional babies…and cross country practice started for Gabi…and Tim, of course, is back at work with the beginning of the Fall sports.

My poor dear friends came into all this craziness Monday!

Lori stopped for a quick visit and while she was here, Susan came. Poor Lori…we were sitting here visiting, having a little lunch and all of a sudden I scream “AAAAAAHHHH SUSAN IS HERE!!!” I was supposed to be picking Susan up sometime in the afternoon so I didn’t expect to see her and my friend Dea walking up on our deck! Poor Lori…the look on her face was priceless! I’m usually a pretty calm person…randomly screaming is not my M.O. And I hadn’t told many that Susan was coming because it was an on again/off again trip so I wasn’t sure it was going to happen! The last time I’d seen her was 3 years ago, so of course I was very excited to see her again.

Susan is from Colorado but lived here before the move. She was also an owner of Secret Sisters. Susan is one of those creative, little (petite), artsy-fartsy, sweet (but don’t cross her), lovable dear friends that even if you don’t see each other for 3 years, you start right up where you left off. If you hadn’t guessed I love this little lady!

That was all on Monday.

Tuesday included just one baby…some shopping and lunch out for Susan and I…two eye appts for me…a really quick dinner…and—–Susan and I scored last-minute tickets to a concert which included: The Candles, Cory Chisel, Adriel Denae, and special guest Norah Jones! It was FANTASTIC!

Wednesday brought a rather fast trip to Duluth (after a breakfast out with Susan and a quick trip to the Crapola bakery). Gabi and I accomplished more in TJ Maxx than most ever could in one hour…school shopping now done! 2 pairs of jeans, 3 pairs of yoga pants, 2 pair of running capris, 2 pair of shoes (and 2 flavored coffees for me) and done. Gabi had to try on about 20 pants before settling on these.

A funny thing happened in the dressing room…Gabi had some skinny jeans to try on. Have you seen those commercials where the lady jumps into the skinny jeans? Yeah…that wasn’t happening. Have I told you how big her feet are lately? She’s now a size 9/10. Those skinny little ankles just were NOT going over those big honkin’ feet!

A dr’s appt. for me and a stop at Target for a few last-minute school supplies and we were back home. Home to find Miss Samantha back from camp! Yippeeeeee! After a month away volunteering at the Young Life Camp – Castaway, it was so good to see her again!

Today, Thursday, was finally a little less eventful (except my forgetting a pt appt…oops!). Sam and I had a nice little lunch out and then Gabi joined us for a little bumming around some of the local stores. Tonight we’re enjoying movie night after some fantastic pizza…it’s so good to have Sam back home. And she loves little Motzy. Of course – why wouldn’t she?

I have high hopes for tomorrow…maybe we’ll get to just relax at home. Until 4 of us friends get together tomorrow evening for dinner…commence laughter!

It’s nice to be back online. I hope your week has been less crazy than mine! Crazy happy, crazy blessed.

Talk more soon…

Patty O

ps…thank you Pinterest for the photo.