It’s “Hey Rene J” Today!

My Android will no longer update the apps or add new ones. This is just wrong – as I still get two days of life out of the battery!

Yes, we’re going on eight years, but I think it should be a forever thing? Anyway, I’ll be shopping for a new device – well my husband will be since he likes this kind of hunt. Just biding my time for the best deal.

How I miss that first green Nokia flip phone.

Some people are just too creative and clever. This lovely gem appeared on my doorstep in honor of this auspicious “Year of the Hedgehog.”

Yes, we are having fun with these crazy themes, and “Parbara” took everything to new heights. Of course, “Panita” chimed in with an adorable mini-wallet adorned with hedgehogs. My sister and I were considering retiring the theme-of-the-year business, but then, I fear my friends would suffer from withdrawal each and every year?

So like good hedgehogs, we will continue to noisily forage for new themes annually. Rest easy.

It’s my new phrase after watching the Olympic Ice Dancing event. “Don’t mess up the Twizzle!”

Yes – major points deducted. “Don’t Twizzle it,” could be another interpretation. “Hey, you really twizzled that.” This is how new terms get added to the lexicon – by armchair judges interpreting unfamiliar terms. “Whew! You really did a Twizzle!” I guess it could now be a noun or a verb? Perhaps a Jeopardy question one day?

I’m to the next Olympic event. Maybe another fun phrase to use will be discovered?

…although it was the woodpecker. A sure sign of spring!!!!

Every year that little guy shows up and rat-a-tat-tats on the metal surrounding the chimney. I’ve become accustomed to it and rather like it as a harbinger of the changing seasons. All of this being said as I stare at the garden hose and dread dragging it around again.

Time to get the servants working for us – dishwasher, washing machine, sprinklers. (All of the water modes at once.) Oh, Margaret Craven is the author. I had to actually research it after I used her title. And I did read the book back in my children’s grade school years of required reading.

Monday musings…

Of course it was my own fault – to a degree. The fact that I never received the email telling me I had to get a new photo for my driver’s license, or the follow-up email canceling my driver’s license online renewal, was a slight contributing factor. Thus, I spent two days driving illegally, one of which was on vacation in a rental car.

Oh – I don’t get away with much anymore. My willingness to flirt with danger didn’t really want to go into the next month, but it was a possibility. Fortunately, I was able to secure a cancellation appointment this morning rather than waiting for my March appointment. It took tenacity and continual online perseverance for an hour, testing the website.

Good for another five years.

Okay – don’t know about this as it appears to be a little out there. The facts of this February are true, but I don’t think it’s anything like a miracle? It appears to be mathematical.

I had never heard of a miraclen, but if something only happens every 823 years, I kind of liked that thought. Little old February has got to have something to be proud of aside from the birthdays of presidents and the coolest people on the planet? It’s got to be tired of that groundhog show, too.

Thankfully, it’s a kind month as it shortens itself for our mental well-being. February rocks!

“Why then the world’s mine oyster. Which I with sword will open!” (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Off to seek some pearls!

One month later – found two Christmas items I hadn’t seen to put away. Hm. Makes me wonder when I last dusted this abode?

It could have spurred me to action, but frankly, it’s a really fun pair of glasses and I decided to leave them out for us to play with. It goes along with the clock I haven’t changed yet, knowing it will be accurate when we “Spring Ahead.”

Alas, Ssme things are just not worth the bother.

Which foreign country should I park myself in next? Every travel agency sends their “best deals” at the beginning of the year when hopes are riding high! It gave me pause. Perhaps I should contact the embassy first to ask if they’d pay me to stay away?

It’s true. After a trip to Egypt and the hot air balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings, the same company had a fatal crash a few days later. Additionally, it was only a few weeks later when the riots took place and the Egyptian museum was desecrated. In Turkey, we came home two days before the huge earthquake in the Eastern part of the country. The London subway bombing occurred the week after we returned. Greece had its currency downfall the week my sister and I were there – we tried to get on the news by attending the public protests, but they were still tame and uninteresting.

As far as I know, I wasn’t in Paris in the days before Notre Dame went up in flames. But you get the gist. Travel is fraught with excitement – mostly good. One could argue our streets and cities are just as apt to tragedies within moments of a visit? Plus, it’s good to have a little danger in your day – per my sister, “Pindy.”

Heading to Target now – definitely apt to find a little danger there.

Occasionally one needs a forced day indoors. No retail shopping, no heading out to see a movie, no dining at the newest gustatory establishment. It would be preferable to have that when you are not on vacation.

However, being indoors while the snow swirled and the temperatures dropped did give my sis and I the chance to binge a series, “Drops of God.” While utterly predictable to the genius level viewer – (we kept commenting that we could have written the script, probably a sign of watching too much television!) it was very different and imaginative. We got the first season under our belt.

Now that I am thawing out back in our temperate winter clime, I am staring at the tasks that await and deciding when to attack them. It doesn’t look like we’ll get a forced indoor day here in the near future, so I guess it’s time to put that washing machine in servant mode.

Ah – but first, a more important duty awaits. The stack of saved puzzles from the weekend. Ready, set, go!