That's enough fruit for now - Thank you! - Lemons Pt. II

 

 

I TRIED THROWING THEM BACK

AND......

TRIED SQUEEZING THEM OUT

AND.......

WENT FOR THE OLD TRIED AND TRUE

AND........

 

GETTING DESPERATE, TRIED MAKING LEMON BARS

AND......

EVEN WENT FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF IT ALL

AND TRIED TALK THERAPY

 

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BUT IN THE END I FIGURED OUT A FEW THINGS:

1. I don't throw lemons (or any objects) very well

2. Squeezing lemons with winter dry cracked hands really stings

3. Lemonade is much easier made with the mix

4. I don't know how to make lemon bars - but they look good

5. Lemons don't really talk - but they are great listeners

AND FINALLY....

6. Life has one really unhealthy obsession with citrus fruit

that just cannot be fixed or changed - it is what it is!

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Time for sharing

Don't you hate it when:

you are up all night because of a thunderstorm,  

and your cats are walking all over

your face because they are nervous

and when you do finally get up in the morning,

you find a pile of cat vomit on the hallway floor,

which you promptly clean up.

Then you go strip all the bedding off your old mattress,

in preparation for the new mattress being delivered,

only to find that while you were quickly take your morning pills, 

that the cat went & vomited on the now old stripped mattress.

Which you promptly clean up again.

 

Then you see that the humidifier is extremely low

so you take off the top compartment to fill it up,

and when going to place it back on the base, spill half of the water

everywhere because you apparently did not tighten 

the opening valve well enough.

Which you promptly clean up.

And just to get this off my chest because

in all honesty, THIS is probably why I am

not handling this morning's stuff a bit better........

Could SOMEONE - ANYONE, please explain to me

why - oh why the furniture companies / dept. stores out there

think that the ONLY people in the entire freakin' universe

that might actually want a glider rocker chair / ottoman combo

are pregnant women or new moms?

I ask this because hubby and I have been building 

a small room upstairs for me, as, up until this point,

I did not have a place of my own- which I found I really needed.

In any case,  I wanted to make it a room where I could read,

crochet, write, talk in private, just be alone or relax.

As a result, I knew that I would be needing seating.

A recliner chair was too big/cumbersome for that space,

and all the other decorative chairs I saw just didn't seem right.

Then I thought of a rocking chair, which made me think how nice

having a matching ottoman would be with the rocker.

......so that is how I came to the glider/rocker ottoman idea.

Making a long story shorter....a few hours on the internet later

I came to the following conclusions:

If you are looking for a glider/rocker ottoman set that is

 not a piece of crap, looks decent, and yet

is still somewhat affordable

(which is code for cheap after paying for transmission)

 expect the following things:

A.Doing a google search for glider/rocker ottoman combo

or some combination thereof will most often direct you to

a massive number or baby/parenting/child sites - BEWARE

B. Most of the good affordable sets will be found in the 

"BABY" furniture section of the top leading dept. stores

C. Sometimes even if they are not in the "BABY" section

of the store, they come with great Manufacturer names

Such as  "StorkC.raft" ,  "Baby Rel.ax" or "StarB.right"

Hey.....Dept. stores & furniture companies....thanks for 

that unexpected infertile childless punch in the gut.

It's always the unexpected ones that hurt the most!

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Now I know that since last post's overtone was one of

turning the negatives around, and I just bitched

up a good little storm above - I will share this:

The spasticat is just fine - she just ingested a bit of the

  building materials from the room upstairs (dust, bits of paper, etc)

The old mattress is leaving today a bit more stained mind you -

and the new one arrives - woohoo!

Once new mattress arrives,  I will be able to take a nap

and catch up on the lost sleep from last night

The humidifier works still and all objects around it 

are fine despite being a bit damp.

and lastly..................

I was able to pick out a glider/rocker & ottoman set 

DESPITE the fact it had the word "BABY" on it.

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PROGRESS MAYBE?

Fragile definitely!

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MOOD REPORT: