Why I Need a Fake ID

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This month I turn 53. And since any day on this side of the dirt is a good day, for anyone over 50, I think there are some perks that we need to have brought back that we enjoyed in our late teen years. Like FAKE ID’s. If you are in this awesome demographic, you are probably getting that proverbial question again when you shop at the local grocery store, the mall and for me, slumming at GOODWILL:  Would you like the Senior discount???? At first, I was offended when I was asked this question. Being the insecure girl that I am, I started looking into cheap plastic surgery options and expensive face creams. But then I thought, Hey wait a minute, I need a fake ID, and I bet I could make a quick buck selling these babies! And Wednesday is a very special day in our world now.  … Continue reading →

Happy House, Happy Life

I grew up and now live in what my sisters and cousins call a “Happy House”. And by Happy House I don’t mean everything was/is always perfect and wonderful. I live in a riot of color. And for that, I thank my mother. My mom is a firm believer in the old ‘surround yourself with beautiful things’ way of life and she instilled that love of ‘happy’ decorating on me and my sisters as well. It’s hard to be down in bright open colorful homes and she knows that. Let me get this out of the way first-we did not grow up wealthy in the financial sense of things. But Mom sure can make her home feel like it is richly loved and I try to bring that happy feel in my home too. I remember our house in New Jersey was a tired traditional when mom and dad bought … Continue reading →

Hot Flash Friday – The Mermaid’s Poppin’ Tags

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I am a true lover of the treasure hunt. And by that I mean garage sale’n, flea market hopping, antique market snooping, estate sale searchin’, eBay’n and Craigslist stalking steals and deals. Especially of the vintage genre – old doors, windows, china, pottery, furniture, and a never-ending love of vintage handbags and jewelry. So today I found a box in the basement of an estate sale full of these cute mermaid ornaments. Oh, and an octopus. With PEARLS!!! I mean, who doesn’t need an octopus with pearls ornament???? I often  wonder who the people are that open their homes to us hoarders collectors and what their situation is.  Are they downsizing? Is someone getting a divorce?  Are they (ack!!!!) dead? Did she catch him with the new  cleaning lady, Lola? Is this place haunted? I watch entirely too much AMC… These estate sale companies even … Continue reading →

How the Prom is Like a Trip to Disney

Oh, you think that when they are teenagers that your Disney Days are over. Just wait until Prom season heats up. Then you’ll think that those Disney trips were pretty freekin’ easy. It’s part Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, Animal Kingdom, and the Aerosmith Rockin’ Roller Coaster all rolled in to one day. Or month. Let me explain. First we have the Promposal.  This is when said boy does elaborate asking gesture either at school, at your home, on the internet, or in the case of a friend of mine, gazzillions of post-it-notes covering her daughter’s car in the school parking lot that say Prom? (poor guys are under so much pressure these days). Promposals are taking on a life of their own. Remember how you surprised your spawn with the “Guess where we are going?” question? Yep, that’s the Disprosal. Same reaction, different event. Next, we take our girl to … Continue reading →

Happy Ideas for a Rainy Sunday

I have a new favorite on-line company – Minted! For those of you who know me well, I am addicted to great cards and accessories from different card and paper companies. I am such a paper snob. After all, I am Southern… Even my wedding invitation were ENGRAVED. Yes, you could hold that baby up to the light. That sucker was engraved. And so were my thank you notes, by the way. Ahem. But that is soooo old-fashioned. So it’s been a while that I have been excited about any new companies out there and I have not found many that turn me on. Oh I use a nice company for my photography, but the general public can’t use them, and they are okay, just not OMG I Need these cards NOW! kind of paper. So I have found Minted. (Go ahead click on the link, you will be in … Continue reading →

Wordless Wednesday – Bug Porn

When the weather starts to warm and the plants start blooming all of us start feelin a little frisky. BC was in the backyard and we have a ginormous white jasmine on our fence and he called me to come and take a look at all the aphids that were feasting on the leaves. It was covered. Then I started worrying about dousing it with some chemicals when he said,” Look at all the ladybugs!” I know ladybugs love aphids so there they were , munching like crazy. These two decided to have a little ‘afternoon delight’ and I had to invade their privacy and take a porn shot! This was taken with my iPhone in HDR as I didn’t have time to get my macro and big girl camera. I was afraid that if I left and came back they’d be done and havin a cigarette… … Continue reading →

Did YOU Carry a John?

I have never seen something as simple as a handbag that can make a woman of a certain age stop, do a double take, and say, “Is THAT what I think it is??” And I reply, “No, it’s LIKE what you think it is, a close copy, but unfortunately, not the real thing…” And then I get the same comments over and over with such enthusiasm: “I BEGGED my parents for one in high school!” “All the girls had them, I had to baby sit for a year to afford one…” “These bring back such memories!” “And I carried it with my Aigner shoes, and had on my Villager dress, I was quite the 1970′s fashion statement…” What am I talking about? A John Romain handbag of course.  In my other life, I am an organized hoarder – read antique and collectibles dealer – and have a booth at a … Continue reading →

Spring Break 2013 – Teens, Ponies, Clucks and Memories

I spent the last week with a friend and our teens on a spring break trip to Florida. Ocala, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville in 5 days and over 1000 miles on her car. Togetherness in a small Ford sedan, a cheap hotel that I booked under the guise of 4 Travelocity stars (I don’t know who these reviewers are, but they must carry firearms on trips…)  bunking in on the 92-year-old mother in law (no probs-she’s hard of hearing) and a GPS programmed to every Starbucks along the way. And that amount of time together in a car can bring out some very funny stories about our kids and ourselves that we all had tons of laughs over-including our rendition of the song “Ho Hey” in chicken. Embed Youtube by Dennis Funny the things that you remember. My girlfriend talked about the time she went to a birthday party when … Continue reading →

Hot Flash Friday-The Menopause Zombie

(This is an updated version of this post from last summer-one of my most popular…scary, huh?) On my bucket list is to be a zombie extra on The Walking Dead.  Seriously. They film it here in the south Atlanta area and I wanna get my head chopped off by Michonne or speared by Darryl.  When you wish upon a star…… AMC had a Walking Dead marathon last week-in preparation for it’s season 3 finale last Sunday night.. I watched the whole thing including the Talking Dead special. I am obsessed with this show. And that is really head injured considering I am not in their target demographics and I hate : -Scary Movies -Blood, guts, guns, spurting brains and internal organs, bulging eyes -Depressing plot lines -Apocalyptic plot lines -Moaning and screaming unless it’s porn -Bows, arrows, buildings on fire, blowing up stuff -Bugs and decapitation–unless you decapitate the bug, … Continue reading →

Hot Flash Friday-The Miracle Edition

Spring break is here. Yeeeeehaaaw. And you know what THAT means? BATHING SUIT SEASON! I have been waiting since last year for this to arrive. Yes, I am so excited I can hardly stand it. Cough. I can NOT wait to parade my middle-aged muffin over to the local mall and try on one item of death-defying lycra apparatus after another. So, before I do that I will be getting a spray tan. Because tan fat is waaaay better looking than pasty white fat. As I pass by those oh so teeny push up bikinis I remember the days of laying in the sun in my 20′s, dousing myself with baby oil mixed with iodine and using that silver car reflector thing as a face tanner. Little did I know that was a one way ticket to skin cancer in my 40s. Oh, and wrinkles. So me and my tan … Continue reading →