Speaking My Mind

Friday, August 22, 2014

Confucius says...

...Life is...
No one said any of this would be easy, nope, not anyone...
Sure there are days when things go just how you/I planned,WHAT?
Not really, even the best laid plans of man, or in my case woman can be said to have perfection in their adjective descriptiveness of their end result, no............really they don't!
Imagination is quite imaginative, hmm, redundancy at its finest...

And so my terrible day ends with what I wrote all gone!

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Artificial is IN!!!!

It is the new do all, to take over from the almost did right, who knows?

Oh, you didn't know?
Sure it is.

Many might think that I have lost my mind, but I reiterate, NO! These pictures just look similar to ones posted previously for this project, but these must be examined closely since to the untrained eye they might appear to be the same as I posted previously, but they are NOT!

Look at the texture of this item does it look natural or for that matter as if it came from a plant substance, now check the weft and warp (and yes that school I went to in, NYC LIM, had us take textile courses too), can you see any? No? I didn't think so. And do you know why that is? Because it isn't there, ha!

Its predecessor was all natural and had weft and warp all through its wazoo but that didn't keep that all cotton, canvas material still could not hold its own sadly, oh no! I suppose it was being used for something beneath its true capabilities to adorn a swimming pool as a sailcloth something that it was never ever meant to do before or to do at all, huh? For it was a mere painter's drop cloth, but nothing is wrong with that, really!

Let me put it to you this way... it fought its battle of the wind and lost badly! Not too much damage was incurred and its ability to move on to more suitable positions, such as outdoor draperies with natural rope tie-backs, is still in its cards as a possibility, or any one my many ideas of what shall be yet to be done with this slight tears in a canvas of many incarnations, and as yet to be realized. The damage is too small to be obvious, but enough to tell that the job was not for its too gentle sensibilities!

So we gave the job to another at the same bargain price but slightly larger/longer/leaner 12' X16', but with a reputation that proceeded him just by his loud packaging with all one might want or need to know, but not TMI!

Only time will tell the truth...

Many artificial things are new again, such as poly anything and hair coloring and... well you all know other people who have all sorts of artificial body parts... get your mind out of the gutter, I was referring to artificial hips and knees and oh okay boobies and noses too!
It's amazing to me that at this age of maturity that all I have artificial is not-a-thing... oh you thought I was going to mention my hair color, and I say why?
It is my naturally, in my heart of hearts, truest to me color that is only enhanced by artificial means, that's all.... but there is nothing wrong with anyone else using artificial enhancement for anything, so why talk about it, really! Shame on all of us! KIDDING! You all are free to judge the world, since nothing I say has any right to tell anyone else what they should do ever...

On that sillier than I had to be note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Confession is good for the soul?

Today I was able, yes physically and emotionally able to leave our cheerful and happy, but gotta get out of there after too many days confined in it, home!
And I ended up showing my face and the rest of myself cheerfully to the hospital PT rehab, a free delivery of me by Hubby to continue my physical therapy and today I was with PT Paula for my continuing dizziness resolution treatment.
So now I am once again, dare I say, a DIZZY BLOND, officially!

Ha, life can be sweet or bitter and who hasn't had both.
I have for sure, and today I had another taste of both.

The bitter part:
Doing what my PT Paula tells me to do I am still finding I am not so sure on my feet, as symbolized in my wooziness while holding onto the parallel bars, it felt like rough waves on the ocean and I reacted like a drunken sailor as I had been told to put weight on each leg separately.
Also, my double vision appeared when told to look at the one 'X' placed on the floor for me to pinpoint locations; it was a head turner literally. The "X" factor exercise as I have decided to name this, for lack of any other moniker being as exacting in descriptiveness... the Xs are placed throughout the facility and the game/torturous exercise/exorcist is to keep your eyes on each one as you turn your body (get the exorcist connection?Or is that con-neck-tion?)
Any-who, the room is vast, I would think about one thousand square feet, about the same as our tiny lovable home. And although you do not travel to each "X" your eyes do, and it is not too difficult to understand the pictures from that iconic film of Alfred Hitchcock's,"VERTIGO", circa 1958, yep those same sensations...No wonder that is why I was diagnosed with that, hmm?
For more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29

The sweet part: was getting out again into the world, and tomorrow back into the pool. Yes, it is safe for me to go back into the water as long as I douse my hair with shower water first to prevent a greening effect, and not in an ecological good way either!
Best to keep my head out of the chlorine, if possible.

So happy that we kept a chlorinated pool instead of changing it into a saltwater one; too many very warm saltwater ones are having serious bacteria problems, of the flesh eating variety through cuts or any broken skin, scary! More info:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/02/florida-bacteria-oysters/2909585/
Fresh water has gotten a reputation when too warm too of having those brain eating amoebas through your orifices, nose and private areas, horrible! More info:http://news.discovery.com/human/health/brain-eating-amoeba-110818.htm
And here in Florida, as in so much of the country, it has been extremely warm, for even summer here.
Chlorinated pools might have its naysayers, but at least it destroys most horror monsters, undesirables from entering your body!

To think I was starting to think that a saltwater pool would be so nice with no chemicals, whew, thank goodness this time since to switch over was not at all cost effective for us!
It turned out to be one of those things that sounded too good to be true... and it was.

It's so nice to have this time together.
And talking to you this way is so beneficial for sharing, and I truly hope that as I continue to learn things daily and share some of that with you and you share with me as well online on FB or through my Googling things you already know and so this is a two way continuing street that is so affable, and I just wanted to say thanks!

On that note please realize I meant what I said sincerely, now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS my confession was telling all about HAIR COLOR GATE to PT Paula!

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

BEIGE, glorious BEIGE!

Never has a natural been so very sage and cage-y! Oh glorious beige, my new best phrase. And oh how I love that you traipse so lithely as you jaunt through the world with nary an observer with being almost incognito that's practically unnoticed as so well as a being a neutral that goes with nearly everything!

( 5-7 minutes of shampooing twice, and 5-7 minutes of using the conditioner once, a subtle calming of the banana yellow, but needing more...)

Oh my you shy and understated but perfectly fine glorious beige without yelling too loud that you exist. You co-exist well with all you frame and me by name and that is mostly, since you are now the indiscriminate host to my favorite toast of being host on any coast, huh?

(Back for more after another client v. pro consultation, only five minutes is all it took of two ounces of each! To rock my world back on track! The pro-line is whom settled the actual result, and it was a woman by the name of Jonice there at: 1-800-221-4900. As you can see the products are all Clairol too! It was just getting the right info and right person to disseminate it all that was the issue in the end...WOW what a ringer I went through.)

The joy of being much more tame and claiming no fame, yep as classy as a lassie can remain inane, preventing becoming too vain... I know it's insane but being lame is my current refrain without any shame!

Actually the lighting is not showing the color correctly, believe me when I say it has become GLORIOUS BEIGE! And as we all know beige has always been the rage!

On that note of now knowing I may finally leave my domain, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, August 18, 2014

Hair of the dog!

Normally what one might do to fix a situation is do what so many feel is counterintuitive. When one has a hangover from drinking too much the night before that next morning they are given an alcoholic beverage to cure the hangover and that is not acceptable by all. This is usually done the morning after binge drinking... not that I would know anything about that.

Color on hair, looks innocent enough and like it is doing what it should be doing, but HA!

Above is the test inch squared of hair that I divided in several sections; Hubby snipped it off the back of my head, hopefully not noticeable.

And so my analogy is true to form with that above concept and by all means should have worked... since CLAIROL told me to do it!
Yes, their reasoning was that I did not leave it on long enough at only forty-five minutes and thus I got ORANGE hair for my troubles. Their solution was to purchase the product again, which you can see that I did, actually Hubby did, and this time leave it on for ninety plus minutes and or as long as two hours! (I did that!)

Most, by now, must be thinking what are they/me crazy for listening to them, besides wouldn't your hair fall out?
Yes and no, since with all the extra wasted time that I got for my additional troubles was this YELLOW HAIR!

So I called these people back who has their company of Clairol as their employer that has been around for like a gazillion years or there about and I felt that talking to them once again that I would ask if they could solve this worsening problem? Oh wait, YELLOW IS NOT AS BRIGHT AS ORANGE; what?????
Their polite answer to me on this my second call was I suppose now you will have to leave it alone for the next FOUR WEEKS before you put anymore chemicals on it? WHAT!!!!?????? I felt like buzzing their very WRONG ANSWER! BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ that does feel a bit better...
Instead, I said no that is not the correct answer; I cannot go out looking like this, and blah, blah, blah, blah.... I am currently in physical therapy and I have MS, blah, blah, blah and this is VERY STRESSFUL, blah, blah, blah etc.!
Yes, I do play the illness card whenever it will fit the bill, and anyway what I had said was absolutely true!
So Delano, I swear that is his name, like honored President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had me hold while he checked with his superiors, the gods of color and clarity I suspect, since he knew neither, in my opinion.
And when he came back on the phone he then gave me a formula that I should use once I acquired the miraculous cure to this mess and this is what he told me, you need 06 Medium Cool Blond in Natural Instincts and once you have it in your possession you should use it this way: in a bowl add, 1 ounce of color, 1 ounce of developer and 1 ounce of shampoo and mix them all together then apply on damp hair and check every five minutes by rinsing a section to see if the color is right, and the longest that I should do this is up to 20 minutes, but the desired color may be achieved in as short as ten minutes.
And now that sounded like a decent plan! Who knew...

...Except... after calling all three CVS stores in county and three Walgreen's and two Walmarts, one Target, no one had it!
I called Clairol back in the midst of my search for any other possibilities and they said that 05 of the Natural Instincts would also be acceptable, and you know what?
That too was nowhere to be found!
Talk about WILD GOOSE CHASES!

I was getting very annoyed, oh let's face it, angry!
But I remembered what that nice gal at Target had said, about trying Sally's or Cosomof. I called Sally's first and it was just as well.
They own Cosomof and they're just for professionals in the business and would not have been able to help me, but Sally's was.
More exact Sara the woman who worked there.
She suggested and Hubby should go there to pick up a fine compromise; Shimmer lights shampoo and its separate conditioner.
That when used for a certain amount of minutes, starting with anywhere from 5-7 minutes due to my very banana yellow locks... it should make it calm down to the ash blond that all this was for and all that I was after.
It is true this is a daily procedure, but I am a wash my hair daily type of gal anyway, and it is a shampoo and conditioner!
The best part is when all is said and done, in around four weeks time I will be able to use another tamer color to become more permanent!
I had the nerve to call back Clairol for the fourth time today and let them know that they should know what they are talking about and that I had called a professional company that were able to give me a solution that I could live with...

Clairol has a wonderful reputation in so many ways, but not everyone knows everything, and these people knew very little and constantly put me on hold to find out, which is commendable, but when you are a trouble shooting hair color hotline as I thought they were it left me with an enormous wonderment of what were they thinking? PS their offices are in Jacksonville Florida, I thought originally they were in NYC, but as that smart Sara said with so many companies splitting up parcels these days who knows who owns what anymore, really? All in all I am very disappointed and when I called back and told them how I felt they offered a refund, which I accepted with my two purchases of their product at nearly twenty-five bucks not to mention the gas for Hubby going here and there... and aggravation and all... But I did tell her that is very nice that they are doing that, but they should also try to fix their problem and find out better ways to help people...that would work!

By the way, they were the ones who told me which stores carried their Natural Instincts product to call and that is why I do believe they should know better than they seemed to... that's all.

I haven't tried the Shimmer lights yet too tired physically and emotionally exhausted... Hubby did all the running and I did all the calling.... although, he did help on some calls, but not so much, not his topic of expertise, ya know?

*Clairol is an old and respected company, being, if for no other reason than for their longevity, and my Mom who used their hair color products most of her life would have been shocked to have heard of all this baloney that I went through with them today!
Perhaps they should have people better trained with more knowledgeable in their field as colorists.

This whole thing also reminded me of a beautiful woman who worked as a demo salesperson for me in one of the five Sam's clubs that I trained people for, back in the early 1990's, she had been a Clairol box head-shot model and she maintained her beauty and sweetness throughout her life, she was eighty-eight when I hired her and an ex-New Yorker and as nice as they come and sold our products with vim and vigor, one of my best sales people ever, sadly I forgot her name, shame on me... oh wait, VIRGINIA, yep that was her name!

Any-who, on that little more pleasant note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Karma!

I need professional help... sure you have all been saying that for years, hmm?
Okay, sometimes I am a wee bit too impatient and it does get me into all sorts of trouble, but this....?

It has been a long time for this gal to have done something this stupid!
Well, maybe not that long...
But it is at least thirty or more years since I had a hair color that was not in Vogue unless your idea of being, 'with it' is avant garde. Let's see when I was sixteen I did have blue hair by mistake of trying hard to prevent brassiness with silver drops making it too blue!
Then at around thirty something I had dark avocado green by another coloring fluke but this time (At this rate my next experience should be in another forty years... I'm good; pretty sure I won't be around for that one!)

Fast forward thirty years later... I HAVE ORANGE! And in my case ORANGE IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!!!!!! It's just 'orange' that rhymes with nothing! Oh alright, the NEW BROWN, but not for long, I hope!

Don't laugh, oh alright go on ahead... but it's my head!
In an effort to speed up the coloring process of making me once again a blond I tried the quicky method..., now get your minds out of the gutter and back here where I need them, HELP!
I used a product that has the stamp of approval from many women for many years' worth... a Clairol one... but this one type of theirs I had never ever tried before....

And all it promised was to take me

from dark to light; pretty darn impressive, hmm?
But I ask any of you, does my hair color above appear to resemble any of those colors below it? NO! I hear you! Not really, but I bet you said no too? SURE YOU DID! For you are NOT color blind although at this moment I wish that I was, I know I just got my eyesight back and all...not so funny when I put it like that!

Any-who, what would you do in this case?
I can't hear you and so I will tell you what I did...
It being Sunday and all I first foolishly called the number on the box, 1-800-Clairol, logical right?
They are not opened on SUNDAY!
Next I called the places who sell hair color that are open today, but sadly they amounted to grocery stores and drugstores with no professional hair colorists there, and not allowed to recommend a fix.
Although, a couple suggested contacting two pro shops, Sally's and Cosmof also for people in the business and of course they too were closed....
Now some of you who are shaking your heads profusely thinking why the heck I didn't go to a professional salon to have this done?
Well, I have a problem with their sinks to wash my hair, due to cervical stenosis I cannot have my head tilted back like that it could hurt me severely or cause a stroke since I had a TIA.
I even go into my haircut appointments with a clean wet shampooed head...
So now I am on hold.
Until tomorrow, I hope only...
I will be postponing my PT that was scheduled for tomorrow.
We have the phone company coming between 8-5 tomorrow anyway since we have been experiencing static on our house line.

Oh I won't be answering the door if they come, Hubby will and if he has to make a color run for a cure (wish everything can be cured so easily, put this into perspective, although, when I look in the mirror I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really!)... to my Carrot Top, and so sorry Carrot Top, on you it looks right... but not me, believe me!

On that note of why me?
This is so silly and ridiculous at the same time... but it does serve me right... and oh by the way if you try to stop by to get a closer look I am not answering the door at all!

Allow me to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, you hear!

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Ta Da!

The grander, well maybe mostly large, sorta pretty big for us anyway, very much there, that's it.... GRAND FINALE of this yes, why not, particular project!

The object of this minute display to some is it is not only a barrier for me against the too much joyous sunshine that is not only good for us, but harmful too!
And between the rain and the now shade it can, when needed, keep the temperature of the pool from not becoming too hot!

And to all of you who do not know what the actual height is of each of those corners, well the two on the right side attached to the 2X4s, ten feet long, are up eight feet high, two feet of the ten foot boards are underground and the boards are also screwed into the fence's 4X4s, which are underground three feet deep. The cleats on the 2X4s are to lower that side in the advent of severe wind or weather at a moments notice.

The hook eyes on the other two sides are through thick boards as well, the one on the overhang side of our lanai is also part of our roof system, although they are at just seven foot four inches high on that side allowing for rain to run off.
The entire concept from start to finish cost less than $50 and the idea was from so many of the magazines I read online of sailcloth for outdoor use for shade.
We are fortunate to have so many items in the home, as the white exterior paint, which is used a lot and hook-eyes so those items did not have to be purchased and Hubby made the cleats from scrap wood!

Moving on...

This afternoon we took a break, Hubby more than me needing one, I only did laundry a couple of loads, but he fought getting the lawn mowed before the threat of afternoon showers made good on their promise?

So we just so happen to have the movie Captain Phillips in the house and that is what we did, after my afternoon nap we watched that. "Captain Phillips is a 2013 American drama thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi. The film is inspired by the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean led by Abduwali Muse." Thanks to:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_%28film%29
It was quite suspenseful and I do think we both enjoyed this two hour and fourteen minute flick that went by faster than you might think.
Sign me on for anything staring Tom Hanks anyway.
In conclusion if you haven't seen it yet, try to.

On that note of whatever floats your boat, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!