Pumpkins are all the way synonymous with October and November… but mostly October. It’s not October without a big ole orange orb-like thing sitting on your front stoop! It’s also not October unless I’ve watched the cute cartoon, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown… totes brings me back to the days of childrenhood. So, I was especially excited when in Sam’s Club they had this little pumpkin display! LINUS and SNOOPY and PUMPKINS, Oh My!
We decided against buying our pumpkins from the store… it’s not the same as hanging out at a farmer’s stand pumpkin place and picking your poison. So, we usually go down the street to this fun little self-serve shindig. This year apparently Madre had to be in the mood to pumpkinize. It took several weeks for her mood to hit, but it finally hit this last weekend… women these days.
I had the idea of sitting out on the stoop next to the pumpkins in scarecrow gear since I have nothing better to do. I think I’d make a dagnabbed awesome scarecrow… I scare myself nearly every morning when I look in the mirror… I say nearly because there are some days I forget to put on my glasses.
Green watermelon-like pumpkins exist… it ain’t a myth, people!
Corbin and Kayla even showed me their prize pumpkins… nearly as big as they are!
Question of the Day: Do you do fall decorations (i.e., pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks, etc.)? Have you done it this year?
I was riding my bicycle, Rumpita tonight… and I was a bit ornery because I’m having major allergies right now with the congestion and the watery eyeballs and the headaches, etc., and so I was probably scowling whilst I was riding along, especially since I was riding up a particularly steep hill. I usually blame my scowling on having to wear such a hideous thing on my brainium… kind of like a bonnet for a hippopotamus… you can see why I scowl.
So, anyway… I was scowling and pedaling up this hill and all of a sudden I hear someone yell… SMILE!!! Who the crimeny pants is yelling such obscenities in the middle of the street… have you SEEN my hell-met! Up ahead, there was an older dude standing on his lawn… just standing there heckling the bikers, I suppose! So, I bit and told him it’d be easier to smile if I had a motor on my bike… and he proceeded to tell me how much he hates riding his bike up this hill… and how he sometimes gets off of it and pushes it up. This whole conversation happened whilst I was still pedaling along… and I was smiling… smiling because some nice man took a few seconds out of his day to commiserate with me about my hills and hell-mets.
And you know what… he was right… smiling made all the difference during my hill conundrum. Thank you, heckling stranger for the pick-me-up!
Question of the day: What did you smile about this week?
*** NOTE: I will be taking Monday off from blogging for Memorial Day. Y’all have a fabulous weekend with family and friends… remember those who have passed and make some memories with those who are still here.
Today’s song choice is one of my ultimate favorite songs of all time… it just makes me happy. Listening to the lyrics, there were a few (or 50) different directions I could take this post, so I decided to narrow it down to 2 (be grateful… an hour ago I had it narrowed down to 49-1/2… you are welcome). On to disjointed thoughts number one and two!
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve gone out in public and had remarks about my appearance… finger pointing… snickering… immature boys doing cat calls… losers rolling down their car window just to yell something real clever like at me when I’m walking (it’s a dagnabbed good thing I wore red mittens during the winter… hi Ker-Lissa… I gave a nice hearty wave to those hormone balls and they had no idea how many finger(s) I was holding up with them mittens on!) Oh, the list is endless for what some of these mature folks will stoop to feel better about themselves. I’ve always let it bother me… sticks and stones do break bones and words DO hurt… especially when your self confidence level is in the crapper anyway.
Let the monsters see you smile, Let them see you smiling.
I’m learning to smile through it… they don’t deserve to have any sort of a hold over me… that’s for danged sure. I know that I’m improving myself… I know how far I’ve come and how hard I’ve worked to get to this point. In the end, I have a leg up on them… I am making myself a better person and they are stuck down in their pit of self esteem-less misery trying desparately to grasp at anything to help them get out of it. I should be the one feeling sorry for them… not the other way around.
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Stand where you are. We let all these moments pass us by.
Oscar the Grouch reporting for duty! This stupid weather… it’s too dagnabbed cold and grey and my plantar fasciitis is flaring up and I swear I just cut off my little toe in a sidewalk crack incident and I want to move into my own house and I want to retire from working and sail the 7 seas (not really), and I hate spinach and germs and dogs and people who sneeze without covering their mouths and… WOW!!! Slap a sticker on my forehead and call me Sponge Bob Cranky Pantyhose. If I complained anymore, they’d have to duct tape my mouth shut and lock me in the dumpster.
I’m too dagnabbed busy complaining about what isn’t to see what is! I just need to stand still, shut the heck up (that’s a FEAT for me… a FEAT!), and savor all the little moments of life… a beautiful sunset (uhhh…what’s a sunrise?)… the fact that I am finding walking hills MUCH easier than I did last year at this time… there was a blue sky for part of the day today… I ate some most delicious grape tomatoes… my Easter lily is blooming and making me happy… What seems like a normal day-to-day occurence is a miracle really. Perspective makes all the difference. Overall, Life is Beautiful… even when some of it is ugly!
Life Is Beautiful by Vega 4 (This didn’t happen intentionally, but when I was looking on YouTube for a video of this song, I came across this one… a video made to one of my favorite songs about my all-time favorite TV family… the Taylors from Friday Night Lights! It was meant to be!)
Life is beautiful We love until we die
When you run into my arms, We steal a perfect moment. Let the monsters see you smile, Let them see you smiling.
Do I hold you too tightly? When will the hurt kick in?
Life is beautiful, but it’s complicated. We barely make it. We don’t need to understand, There are miracles, miracles.
Yeah, life is beautiful. Our hearts, they beat and break.
When you run away from harm, Will you run back into my arms, Like you did when you were young? Will you come back to me?
I will hold you tightly When the hurting kicks in.
Life is beautiful, but it’s complicated, we barely make it. We don’t need to understand, There are miracles, miracles.
Stand where you are. We let all these moments pass us by.
It’s amazing where I’m standing, There’s a lot that we can give. This is ours just for a moment. There’s a lot that we can give.
Meanwhile, I had to laugh like a hooligan when after my post yesterday about fast food, I stepped outside today and this was right outside my door... who drove by and planted it? Fess up... Im on to you!
Question of the Day: What did you smile about today?
