Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I Make Mistakes So You Don't Have To


My blogger writing form is a different color. This scares me in that The Tearful Dishwasher just lost his entire blog. What if it happened to me?
Oh. Who knows? The world would probably go on just fine.

All right. Advice for the day:
Do not eat a ton of sauerkraut at supper. You will find yourself drinking half a quart of juice and then half a gallon of water.

More advice:
If you eat a ton of sauerkraut and a bunch of broccoli, it is advisable to be alone in the ensuing hours after partaking of such gaseous foods.
I was. Thank god.

Even more advice:
If you do crunches, do them right. Otherwise you may hurt your upper back. Or perhaps it wasn't the crunches. Perhaps it was the weights. Anyway, let me now give you wisdom:
Between thirst, gaseosity and upper back pain, sleep can be interrupted frequently.

I feel like a whiny, colicky baby. I am wearing a most-likely dead old round short man's Levi's. The color makes me happy. There is no spandex in these jeans, thus they feel like a garment and not a girdle. They come up to what would be my waist if I had a waist and I am so short-waisted that this is approximately two and a half inches below where my bra would end if I was wearing a bra.
I have finally achieved complete and utter fashion FAILURE! As if the overalls hadn't been bad enough!

So what! No one is here to see me.

No. I do not know when Mr. Moon is coming home. He made my oyster stew in Tennessee. The one I told him I liked. With onions and celery and nutmeg in it. It was a huge success.
I wrote him and said, "Now that you know about nutmeg, please don't leave me."
He wrote back and said, "If I leave, I will give you thirty minutes to pack and come with me."

This is an old joke of ours. But it's a good one. He hasn't shot a buck yet. But I have a feeling he'll be home pretty soon. Whatever that means.

Owen is coming this afternoon. When I saw him yesterday we went out for lunch and then to a fabric store. He was a bit cranky.


He kept saying, "NO WAY!" I hope he is not saying that today. It makes him sound like a bratty teenager. I keep expecting Whatever to come out of his mouth. When that happens I have a plan- I will no longer change his diaper.
You're old enough to say whatever, you are old enough to use the potty, Mister Big Shot!
And then I'm going to teach him how to make me a martini.

Well, I guess I have dispensed enough wisdom and advice for one morning. I have plenty more, believe me, but we'll save it for another time. I need to go throw the rest of that sauerkraut to the chickens. I filled up their water thing last night so they should be okay. I don't even think chickens fart so there's that.
If they do, Lloyd might explode today.
That would be sad. And right after they built that new fence, too.

Yours truly...Ms. Moon














20 comments:

  1. I LOVE the old joke between you and Mr. Moon. What a sweet marriage you two have created and sustained.

    Hope Owen is in a great mood today. If not...

    Whatever!

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  2. o you crack me up...maybe you need to invest in a thumbdrive and back up your blog...it takes 4 seconds...you can buy a thumb drive just about anywhere today...you do it in settings on your dash board...you plug in the drive, into the USB port, open it, then download your blog and choose the USB option...hope that helps...you can also just download it on your hard drive...

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  3. I love your blog. You are so honest and that makes you a beautiful person, even if you make mistakes sometimes.

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  4. You stole my blue! By accident?? You can back up your blog, but I'm not 100% sure how. Root around in the settings and see what you can see.

    I am alarmed by your dead short round man's jeans. Hmm!

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  5. Whatever! JK

    Personally, I love fashion failure and suppose it is a fashion in its own right. I have no problem with wearing dead people's clothes--why should they go to waste. They paid the big bucks and I reap the benefits of their castaways. Anyway, I believe overalls are a fine thing, especially when worn with cashmere.

    Today is a good day.

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  6. I was just thinking about if you took a picture of owen riding that horse. You did! If you have a chance I would love if you emailed pics of Owen riding all manner of horses, pigs ect... I want to get copies made. I love you!

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  7. Hi ms moon, are you on facebook, if yes, please join this group, http://www.facebook.com/groups/162288832984/
    and please be sure to wear your best overalls, probably your oldest ones, right ?:) and do it so everybody can see why overalls is the best thing to wear fo people who love simple life, to have fun and joy and enjoying getting into the dirt, and many overalls folks I have met, are wearing their fathers or even grandfathers overalls, so be proud of wearing an old mans jeans, or even better some overalls from somebody and patch them etc, ! overall greetings from you overall brother ! niels

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  8. Lulumarie- He can change his OWN diaper if he's going to be all Mr. Grown-Up!
    (He probably could.)

    jean- I actually have a few around. Mmmmm....

    Darrah- Sometimes? Gawd, I make mistakes every day of my life.
    I love you, sugar.

    Jo- Hey! You're the one who told me to buy new clothes!
    That isn't what you meant?

    Rubye Jack- My favorite way to wear overalls AND cashmere. And no, dead people do not need their clothing!

    lily- I can do that! Love you, baby.

    Niels- What a great site! And thank you for inviting me. I really try not to "do" facebook very much at all, though. Plus, my love of overalls is pretty informal.

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  9. If your blog is important, better make a backup. I write my blog with an application called MacJournal. I write on my computer and then upload to the actual blog. But I do have backups from the year 2000, that's when I started blogging...
    Have a look at macjournal, if nothing else make a backup via the blogspot interface via export... So you have at least your text files.
    With macjournal, you can download your whole blog, images and text, and have one or two copies on your computer and to be totally sure on an external HD too.
    So sad to read that Dishwasher lost his blog...

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  10. Hehe, you're cracking me up Mama. I sure love you so much.

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  11. I don't eat sauerkraut but do love chili. Same result. Best to be alone for sure.

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  12. when you write about owen, i can really hear him saying all those things. it's adorable.

    i love the martini plan.

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  13. OMG. Farting chickens. Wouldn't that be ridiculous?
    And just for the record, I love overalls. I wore them for about four years straight. One of those years I was in a body cast and they fit over it.
    I've even worn them in L.A.--when I was younger. One day I had on my old comfy favorite pair with a pretty flowered blouse, and I took myself out to a neighborhood place for coffee. An old man waiting in line for a table, turned and looked me up and down, then said, "I see you got all dressed up."

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  14. Hee! I want a picture of you in those jeans.

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  15. It's been years since I had all-denim jeans and I miss them. The newer stretchy ones kind of slither around on their own tangents and it's most unsatisfactory. My old jeans were like a second skin. So comfortable.

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  16. Photocat- I will check it out. Thank-you.

    HoneyLuna- I love YOU SO MUCH!
    And you always make my heart light and make me laugh. Always, darling.

    Syd- Uh-huh. True.

    Angella- Boy has to start earning his keep at some point.

    Denise- Did you say, "Thank you for noticing?"

    Lora- As Owen would say, "NO WAY!"

    A- You know that the Koch Brothers (evil, evil men) own Spandex, right?

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  17. DTG- YOU ARE NOT DEAD! Shut up.
    I love you...Mama

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  18. Us short-waisted women everywhere applaud you --

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  19. Yeah Mr. Owen does look like he has some major attitude in that picture. Get him those pull-up diapers and I'm sure he could take care of it himself without a problem.

    I once found a really nice sweatshirt at the thrift store. It was soft, warm and somewhat familiar. I put it back on the rack when I saw it still had the name-tag of the (dead)man (a person I had taken care of) sewed on the inside of the collar.

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