Confessions of a Grandma

 I need to made a baby blanket. Ordinarily I avoid any shopping on a weekend but with COVID keeping people home I thought I would risk a trip to Joann's to pick up some yarn. I have a pattern that uses baby blanket yarn and a size L hook. I got to the store and there were probably four or five other shoppers about. Right there in the yarn aisle -- a sign announcing buy two skeins of baby blanket yarn and get one free. Oh lucky day! Since the only size of crochet hook I do not own is the size L, I figured I might as well pick one up. I discovered that is the exact size that Joann does not have in stock. Oh, well, make do but it felt less like a lucky day. I went to the cashier. She scanned my three skeins of yarn and gave me a total that was full price for three skeins. I told her there were signs in the yarn aisle saying there was a buy two get one free offer on this yarn. "Oh," she says. She calls someone in the back who went to check and then told her that, yes, that wa...

 Don thought -- I really couldn't tell you why -- that I needed this tee-shirt   Well of course I looked at this and before you know it my computer fills with wine related suggestions for me. Can't fault the Italians. This is science! At least a scientist. But this is just kind of ridiculous. Wine in the bath/shower?? 

 A light in the bathroom burned out so I got out the ladder and went to change it which started a chain reaction. The light bulbs were SO dusty. I took all the bulbs out to clean them off. Then a wiped down the fixture itself. While I am up there on the ladder I notice that the walls really need a good wiping down so I went to get some rags and a bucket. By the time I was finished I had scrubbed the sink, shower, tub and toilet. I even took the electrical plates off and cleaned them. I took an old toothbrush to the toilet and then I got down on hands and knees with a scrub brush and worked on the floor and baseboards. My bathroom sparkles and it smells good, too, but I am tired and my back is a bit achy. I hope no more lightbulbs burn out!

 It seems that lots of people had celebratory breakfasts, lunches or dinners yesterday in honor of the inauguration of a new president. I found the recipe on Julia's Album  -- Asiago chicken pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and spinach -- and I made some for myself. It was good but if I make it again I will leave out the way too much salt called for in the recipe. The cheese is salty enough for my taste. It did make my kitchen smell very much like an Italian restaurant and there is nothing wrong with that as far as I am concerned.

 I have just watched the memorial ritual for the 400,000 dead by COVID-19 at the Lincoln Memorial. Caring and compassion and dignity offered to those who mourn as well to those who have died. A turn in leadership toward healing and honesty.

 I have two points of agreement with our soon to be former president:  Low flush toilets are not all they are cracked up to be.  As he predicted, I am so very tired of his winning. Yesterday, he won the dubious distinction of winning the only president to be twice impeached prize. No, Susan Collins, he definitely did NOT learn a lesson the first time. Did he incite an insurrection? It really isn't up to me to make that call, BUT if it were up to me he and several others at their rally on January 6, 2021, would have been escorted off in handcuffs before the speeches were even over. Fight. Fight like this is war. Be strong. Strength. Show strength. March. Now.  AND I will be marching with you. By which is meant gleefully watching you on television from the comfort and safety of the White House. Let me tell you, I have encountered many a bully in my teaching career and have seen over and over that they are masters at manipulating others to do their dirty work while they...

This is totally my sense of humor.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.                                                                                                     --Jimi Hendrix

 When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

 Here's something that hasn't happened for a while -- like more than four years. I wasn't holding my breath the entire time I was reading the news this morning. I have hope that the heartburn I have been experiencing since November, 2016, will start to abate soon.