Sunday evening musings, or any day

smectite

Bought this new deodorant last week.

It's really good.

Wow, that sounds great. Do your armpits now smell like a fruit salad? I've always wanted mine to smell like strawberries.

Well they don't seem to have strawberry, but there's other interesting scents.

https://shop.schmidts.com/collections/deodorant

Actually it doesn't smell like anything after you put it on. It's been over a hundred degrees every day around here, and I've been outside in it quite a bit.

It's been impressive with it's stink protection.

Who the hell sets their auto lock on their phone for 30 seconds?

That's just plain nuts.

So this afternoon I was out running errands, so I logged into Grubhub to make a few bucks.

My last delivery was to an address that just gave a street number, so I assumed it was a house.
When I get there, it's one of these huge apartment complexes. I'm looking at a building number, and it says "25", so yeah, big.

I call the person and ask where her apartment is.

She seems surprised and said "I'm at..." and says the street address again.

Yes, but what building?

"Well, you'll see my car. I had an accident and the trunk is bashed in."

Um. Can you tell me the building an apartment #?

She sighs and says. It's building 5, apt xxx.

It's all the way in the back at the end of a winding road. When I got back there she had come outside. When I got out and gave her the food she pointed and said "See, there's my car". It was about 50 yards further down the road.

WTF is wrong with people?

Anyway, I made more than $60 in about 2 hours.

Sounds like local oilfield directions, which often say something like "turn left at the blue roof house and then make a right where that brown cow was standing yesterday".

Why is it that online you can find any type of porn, about 5 trillion animal videos, any number of conspiracy theories, etc. but you can find a gray belted cardigan sweater?

Im into chicken porn, mostly thighs and legs

I just now made some chicken and dumplings for flaco here.

No porn was involved. Although I did have to brush my flour off my chest.

I don't think I've ever taken time to count them up. Good on you! This calls for a celebration...although I ain't sure what the appropriate menu or venue is for this kind of celebration.

I did notice zulily and target have belted cardigans...not that I have a great desire to wear them.



Every now and then I get the urge to say and then scream, "life sucks!'. Then I sigh and get on with things.

Yep, what else is there to do?


I was actually driving by a Target yesterday and went in, and they had exactly One belted cardigan, which was really boxy and clunky.
I'd looked online for (alogether) a few hours. A half hour here and there.

There are literally dozens and dozens of really decent/good/attractive looking cardigans out there online and in the store. The problem is that this season belts are not what the powers that be in the fashion industry deemed appropriate. Ok fine. So if you have any sort of breasts at all, the sweater can hang off from that promontory. That makes you look like your body is shapped like a lego figure. Let's not even start with if you hips are more than 1 inch wider than your waist.


Or, since I actually move around in real life, an unbelted item will sooner rather than later just heave themself off my breasts, leaving the girls to look out on the world with a theater curtain opened on either side.


I actually did find one on, of all places, the Macys website. I'm having it shipped to the store, a couple of miles from me, so the shipping is free. Also, if I don't like it, I can just return it there. I can take it out of the package right there and try it on.

It was an $80 item on sale, and with their added 20% promo, I got it for $38.

I'm not particularly fond of the anorexic model that is used to portray what the item is "supposed" to look like, but at least I can tell I like the length and lightweight material.

At the end of this story there is a comment made to me that I can't figure out what the speaker meant.

Might as well share the story.

On getting out of the public pool about an hour ago, I saw that my sneakers, the car keys I put in them, and my beach towel were all missing.

I quickly walked to where I could see the parking lot, and my car was sitting right there. Whew.

My gut tells me someone just scooped my stuff up with theirs and won't notice until they get home.

The guard said there was a cop parked outside the fence, so I went over and talked to him. The thing was, my bag and my phone were both locked away in the car, so I used his phone to call home. Wally was going to drive over with my spare key. By this time it was dark out.
The cop said it could have been an accident, or someone is holding the keys waiting for the pool to close and him to drive away to take the car.

Anyway. While I was chatting with the cop in the parking lot, I noticed this man just standing there staring over at us. I figured he was just interested in what was going on. Eventually I walked back to my car to hang out, and he just kept looking at me leaning against my car. I didn't feel unsafe or anything, especially with a cop right there.

Finally the mans wife comes out and they get into a truck near me. As she is backing out the man rolls down his window and says something I didn't catch, so I go closer, he repeats but I still don't hear. Finally I'm right by him and he says "I was being sarcastic. You must really be living on the margin to get the police involved with your lost towel."

I laughed thinking he was joking and said "Oh no, it's also my car keys. I can't go anywhere and I'm waiting for someone"

His face fell and he said "Oh God, I'm sorry! I didn't realize!"

I'm still smiling and said "Oh no. I'm lucky. I can afford a new towel. I'm one of the 1% I guess."

This is where I don't get it...

Him: Well then, you must be rich enough to be a Democrat.

Me: I am a Democrat

Him: Well must be nice, and then the truck was moving away.

Must be nice?
I'm guessing that was a dig, but damned if I know why.

Ideas?

Commie Democrats with their spare towel funds.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

I've been so busy stashing cash away in my spare nail clipper fund.

I dream of getting the "no splash" variety.
That's really commie.

Fancy!

I just freaked out my neighbor from across the street, and I have to admit I'm delighted with myself.

He's across and maybe 3 doors down actually. Moved there maybe a year and a half or 2 year ago. Really don't know. Just knocked on my door with a petition to sign so our street will be closed off on Halloween.

He actually had to introduce himself, as I had no idea.

I just said "nope"

but.....it's about closing the street....

"I hate halloween"

Well but....

"Yeah.....nope"

But the children.....

"I don't care about the children. Really, I don't care about them at all"

It was so cathartic.

I just absolutely don't have time anymore for bullshit that has nothing to do with me.

BTW, the gray cardigan fit really nicely

Well, that's good. There's always risk when purchasing clothing over the internet.

As for Halloween, I've in the past kept packets of plain oatmeal on hand or the large canisters where a scoop can be poured in the kid's bag or plastic pumpkin (occasionally being extra nice, a spoonful of dry-milk powder too). Thinking about this year dumping a scoop of coffee grinds as well.

I just make little bread cubes and wrap them in aluminum foil. I like to visualize the little dickens showing of their booty under the streetlight.