Anyway, Felicia knows it was my grandmother’s birthday because oddly enough HER grandmother has the same birthday. Except her grandmother is turning 81 this year and is still alive and living in her own home. I think it is wonderful that some people never have to worry about living in a nursing home because they have good health and family who love them and take care of them.

My grandmother did not have to live in a nursing home, either. My Auntie took care of care the last two years of her life and I really admire and respect her for doing that. I hope Auntie gets the same love and care when she gets older, too.

It was a good day to make up all those 2012 file folders I’ve been meaning to set up. Sad thing is, I remember reading somewhere that 80% of what we file away is never seen again. Wish I hadn’t read that – makes it even harder to stay motivated about getting the filing done.

For dessert, I made a lemon meringue pie. The hard part was finding the beaters for my hand mixer. It looks wonderful, but we have to wait for it to cool before cutting into it. Can’t wait!

Coffee or early to bed?

Of course, once I got down there, I poked around and looked in a few of the other boxes that were down there from several months ago. I found a couple things that I’ve missed, but to be honest, most of it is just “stuff.” I’m thinking we need to have a yard sale in a couple weeks and turn some of that stuff back into cash.

The only thing that I could find one other than news was Jerry Springer, which I never, ever watch. My nephew was on the Jerry Springer show a few years back and informed us on just how much it is all just a bunch on nonsense so I really don’t see the point of watching it knowing it is all fake. Besides being fake, it is all about people fighting with each other which really jerks my chain. How can they promote all of this physical violence and not expect the general public to act the same way and think that they will get away with it. In the real world when you assault someone you go to jail!

Turns out that the mirror over the bathroom sink fell. On its own. For no reason.

It took me almost half an hour to clean up all that broken glass. I hate the idea of getting a sliver of glass in your foot. So I cleaned and then cleaned again and cleaned a third time. And each time I found more slivers of glass. Unbelievable how much glass can be generated from one mirror falling off the wall.

Sometimes we like to sleep outside and pretend to be camping. Before we had to move, we had a big trampoline in the back yard and we would sleep on that. It was nice to be up off the ground and able to see the stars and the night sky. It was a different way to sleep and appreciate being outdoors. But it is so hot this summer that I don’t think I would like sleeping outside. It was still over 90 degrees last night at midnight. That is just too hot to sleep!