For some people Winter is the most depressing time of the year depending on where you live and your hobbies there might not be a lot you can do. We of course can’t ride the bike because of the cold and snow and that’s our thing. Bill always gets withdrawal and without the sunshine he feels depressed more than in other season.

I have always been the type to keep the blinds drawn, besides keeping it cozy I also avoid looking at the dust particles and dog hair, but not Bill he opens all the blinds and window shades in the house. He needs brightness. When I moved in I actually painted all of his paneling a wheat color to brighten the place up and I enjoyed painting all of that paneling.

I don’t mind the snow so long as I don’t have to drive anywhere and Shadow loves to chase the falling snow it’s like a game for him. I took a couple shots of the snow falling just so I can look at them in the Summer when I’m complaining about all of the heat. I would love to live where it’s in the low 70′s all year round and no humidity.

Of course it hasn’t amounted to anything so far this year and melts pretty quick. I know many of you live in places that have already had huge accumulations, but so far we’ve been lucky no snow blowers or shovels so far. I always have to dig a place out for the dogs to go and the yard always gets so muddy and the paws always need to be cleaned. Okay enough about Winter.

At one point in my life I was a clean nut and drove everyone crazy. Everything had to be just the way I fixed it and believe me you talk about stress well I certainly had it and gave it to everyone around me. It took me along time to get out of that then I realized there were more important things to stress myself out over. I think that was the only thing I could control at that time in my life and it became compulsive, now a little dust and dog hair doesn’t bother me… maybe a little.

I straighten up here and there and dust when I feel like it although Bill has asthma he hasn’t had an attack for a long time. Our house is old and when I first moved in we did a lot of DIY projects, it’s much better than it was, but it still needs a lot more work. I keep meaning to start new projects, but I’ve been having problems with my lower back and the older I get the worse it gets and I don’t want to go to the doctor right now so I take it easier. I’ll get around to them there’s always tomorrow and I’m not a clean nut anymore.

Sometimes I feel older than Bill and it’s harder to get up and down the stairs just like my Shadow with his bad hind legs. Maybe when Bill retires we’ll get more done and who knows we might just sell and move into a little cottage with no steps. Of course we do need to finish the basement it still has a dirt floor, we keep saying some day. However we probably wont move because I really don’t see the economy getting any better for quite some time and we have no mortgage and just have to pay our taxes so I guess we’re luckier than many.

I have two crappy vacuum cleaners, one for upstairs and one for downstairs because it’s too hard to lug around, but I will soon need a new one so I’ve been checking out the Dyson, Hoover, Kirby, Eureka, Oreck, Dirt Devil, Roomba, and  Miele vacuum cleaners. I’d love to have that system that is like your central air where you don’t have to lug anything around and it filters the dirt out automatically, but I guess that would be better suited to a new home and would probably cost a fortune.

At any rate I do count my blessings and I’m very grateful for what I do have. When I get too feeble to get up and down the stairs I’ll face that when it occurs which I hope will be many years down the road. Might be a problem since the bathroom is on the second floor. I don’t ever want to be in a nursing home and of course I do think about those things because I don’t want to be a burden. I shudder at the thought of wearing diapers in my old age and someone cleaning me up like a baby…too much for me to think about right now so have a great weekend.

I received a small sample of DermaLastyl-B in the mail and at my age I’m afraid it might be too late to help my poor old aging skin, but it feels good when I use it and actually feels like more elastin. You only need a small amount because it’s concentrated.

As I commented before if you smoke you might as well save any money you’re planning to spend on the fountain of youth because it simply wont work unless you’re prepared to get Botox and that only lasts a short time and is very expensive.

I have a friend that spent so much money on Mary Kay that she could have bought a brand new car and forget all the home shopping products and department stores. She didn’t even smoke and nothing helped her regardless of all the promises.

I took a close-up picture of under my eye which looks worse than if you view the whole face all together, but I wanted the shock value for myself and I could even see the fine downy hair all over my face which normally I don’t notice probably cause I don’t wear glasses unless working.

At any rate I’m going to use up the sample and see what I think and if I want to spend 89 dollars for a 2 month supply then I’ll decide, but I was reading that they are developing the one ingredient in this product to help with healing in the military so I’m keeping my eye on it.

I’m not good with photos so sorry, yeah I know they look crappy.

I learned how to drive in a Volkswagen many years ago and I loved that little bug it belonged to my sponsor, but I had many mishaps on the country roads where my brother lived. I didn’t pass the first time I took the test because I was the worlds worse parallel parker and was so nervous. I did manage to pass the second time though.

For some reason I always had it in my head that I wanted a pink convertible Mustang. My first car was a Mustang, but not pink it was teal and it wasn’t a convertible, but I loved it. I even had to have a car cover for it. It was used, but it was new to me and it ran great except in the Winter time all of a sudden it developed a squeak and you could hear me coming a mile away.

I really did baby that car and it looked so sporty. I have a couple pictures somewhere, but I don’t feel like digging them out right now. I finally sold it to my sister-in-law many years later and she still has it of course it’s 40 years old now, but still looks great according to my son. My son had visions of owning that car when I got old and feeble.

I have had so many junk cars over the years that I simply can’t remember them all, but I guess your first anything you remember the best. I still remember the first boy that put his arm around my shoulder, now that was scary because of how it made me feel, I was on the school bus in the 5th grade and he was older, but that’s another story.

The last car I owned was a Sunbird and I chose it because it reminded me of my Mustang, it was the same color and it didn’t squeak, but it made me feel the same way so I also remember my last, but nothing in between. I really hate driving now and we didn’t need 3 vehicles so I sold it, but now we are down to just the Jeep so we’re thinking about a 2nd car again encase I go back to work.

I have my scooter, but it’s just too cold in the Winter time, that’s basically for getting around in the Spring and Summer. Bill has his eye on a Grand Prix even though he dreams of a Corvette the same way I did about my pink convertible Mustang. I don’t dream about cars anymore.