Puffy's List

• Go to http://procreo.jp/labo/flower_garden.swf and move your cursor over the monitor to see some flowers much lovelier than those in my garden right now. But we do have buds popping up all over the place. We just planted some iceberg roses. They become lush, full bushes of beautiful fragrant roses. Sigh.
• We saw Dennis Prager, well-known, but horribly right-wing radio talk show host, speak on Saturday night. It was a fund-raiser and thankfully, he didn't mention politics. His topic was, "Happiness is a Serious Problem." Three things from the speech stand out in my mind. 1- "We are as happy as we decide to be. "2- "The only happy people I know are those I don't know well." This is sort of a "grass is always greener" statement, meaning we all have problems but we only share them with the people we know well. The ones we don't know well have problems, too, but we just don't know about them.
• We went to a Taste of the Town fund raiser. Hmmm, it seems like much of my money goes to fund raisers. About 50 local restaurants had booths and we pigged out, grazing from booth to booth. Yummy! I wore stretch jeans.
• Speaking of jeans, I got a couple of new pair of terrific, fit-me-perfectly-and-make-me-look-thin jeans. I wore a pair on Mother's Day. We took my mother-in-law to Marie Callender's restaurant for a buffet brunch. Mother's Day is normally a horrendous day to go out to eat, with hour-long waits. After a 5-minute wait, we were seated. Whee! I scooted over the seat on the booth and ripped my brand new fit-me-perfectly-and-make-me-look-thin jeans on a nail sticking out from seat. It was just a little hole and I'm getting it repaired. However, the manager gave me his card and told me to buy another pair and send him the bill. He asked what brand they were. I said, "Don't worry, they're not $100 jeans." OMG, when I looked for another pair, I saw $185 jeans. Whoa, not my kind of jeans. He got off easy; the ones I bought were on sale.
• Do any of you wash your knit gloves? I was getting out some gloves for my planned vacation at the end of the month (more about that in my next blog entry) and decided to wash them. I washed 2 pair, my only 2 pair. OMG, the water was black! I've never washed gloves before. Being from California and rarely wearing them, I had never thought about washing them. Of course, they were filthy. I wash my hands, don't I? (Don't answer that)
• I want Jordin to win American Idol. I want Apolo or Joey to win Dancing with the Stars. I can't decide. As long as we're on reality shows, I wanted the Beauty Queens to win TAR and I wanted Yau to win Survivor.
• I got a new pair of eyeglasses and I can't see. Everything is blurry. I waited 5 days to see if I could get used to them. I'm going back to the eye doctor today for advice. Why are eyeglasses so expensive?