Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

Remember when I fixed my noisy toilet? I was so pleased with myself for having jiggled the toilet into submission. Sadly, it began making noise again last week. I had to wait until Gary was out of the house before I could get my hands into the tank and begin jiggling again. I was poking…

The science experiment with the Pricey Lancome Cream continues. Here’s the opera bathroom update at four weeks in. I suspect it’s the angle of the light in the opera bathroom that makes half the wattle look smaller. (Treated wattle is on the right side of the photo.) (This pose makes me look like I am…

I have a short update on the Lancome Cream cage match science experiment outlined at the end of this post here. Briefly, the right side of my neck has benefited from application of the supposedly magical RIDICULOUSLY Pricey Lancome Skin Cream for the last four weeks, while the left half has been left to wither.…

My recent memory concerns have made me miss the Typepad feature where one can skip from post to post in chronological order. So that’s out there now. You have to click the title of a post to get to individual post mode, and then the links to the next and previous posts are above the…

I was tooling along in the Mini when I got a warning that I only had 5 miles of fuel left. It caught me completely by surprise. Home was 17 miles away, and the nearest charging station was 4 miles away. Which was great. Until I took a wrong turn and got the “Insufficient charge”…

Confabulation, per Wikipedia: a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage. It’s called “honest lying” because the memory is there — it just shouldn’t be. It troubles me for two reasons. Gary has been showing…

I have assembled every bit of paperwork I need for this Manhattan project settlement. I just have to decide if I want to file via US registered mail or by the on-line portal. I think most people are choosing the course that will get them the quickest cash turnaround, but I don’t think I need…

For years I deliberately didn’t give a thought to my appearance, and now that I’m aging I’m straightening my teeth and playing with fake eyelashes and losing weight. Because, as I say, I can’t be plain and then be old on top of it. That exceeds my acceptable level of hideousness. (Youthful acceptable level of…

It’s been four years of wigs now, and really, the wigs are working out for me. Granted, it gets a bit dull during the week, same hair every day no matter the weather, but on the weekends I make a point of exercising the wigs that have been sitting idle. The neighbors see me gardening…

Well, tonight is the last night my teeth will spend in the aligners. It was just a four-month process and they feel like all-new teeth. I mean, cosmetically they’re still too close to the ivory edge of the paint sample card. And my front teeth are still shorter than my canines (just like Mom’s). But…