We are getting ready for spring and with that comes lots of cleaning and repairing…especially for my husband and I. We have been putting off a house warming party until this spring/summer so that we aren’t couped up in this house. We have a big backyard and we look forward to putting it to good use this year. But we have so much to do before we have a bunch of people over. It’s called decorating and painting!! We still haven’t decorated the house because there isn’t any color on the walls. Everything is an off white with the exception of one bedroom that is purple…yuck. I honestly don’t know what to pick out when it comes to paint colors. I really wish I could hire someone to make these decisions for me……then at least if we don’t like it then we can blame someone else for the poor color choice!

Well I’d just like to report that the snow should be stopping….soon. The reason? and how I know this? My husband is going to buy a snow blower today. Yep, he wants one and he’s going to go buy it. So kiss all the snow goodbye and you’ll never see it again! He will buy this snowblower and I hope we never see one blasted flake again. Naaa I heard there is more coming on Sunday so it was wishful thinking. But the hubby will be VERY happy with his new toy.

Heard on the news last night that we could see “blizzard conditions….white outs” So with my bottom lip quivering, I asked my husband if he could possibly drive me to work. I told him that there was no way I’d still be on the road with the new car and that I would be in a ditch somewhere. Well he did bring me to work and the roads seem just fine. I’m not seeing blizzard conditions and I don’t think we will see any. So here I am at the station waiting patiently for my husband to pick me up so I can go home and sleep. Don’t get me wrong….I’m VERY happy that we didn’t get all this snow but now I’m going to be here for a couple more hours…fun!

I could sit and watch old movies all day. I love the elegance of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. But not only did their dancing amaze us but I always wanted to dress like Ginger. How they dressed back then always dazzled me. The dresses, the high heels, beautiful waves of golden locks, long eyelashes…..simply perfection! What our elders must think of us now! It simply baffles me to see people doing their grocery shopping in their pajamas….have we gotten that lazy that we roll out of bed and do our daily errands not stopping to brush our hair or even put tennis shoes on? I am guilty of dressing like a slob….maybe not to the extent of wearing my Pj’s out  shopping. But I love my comfy jeans, soft sweatpants and oversized sweatshirts. I don’t necessarily see the point of dressing to the nines to do shopping. Unfortunately, times have changed and dressing in long dresses with petticoats, high heels and hair perfecty pinned up just doesn’t fit in today’s world. While we women dress in comfort, men choose not to shave, throw on a flannel shirt and toss on a baseball hat…..and if we are lucky the pants actually fit around their waist not around their rear ends! But thoughts of Carey Grant and Rock Hudson are never far from my mind. How handsome they were! So when I’m faced with seeing someone at my local grocery store decked out in their tweety bird Pj’s I think of what must be going through our grandparents heads. How glamourous they must have been! Do I think we’ll ever get back to the glamour of the 40’s and 50’s? No. But we can at least stop wearing the pajamas…do our hair…shave the beards….pull up our pants. It’s a start!