It looks as if the test worked. I can now add pictures to my blog.
The top picture is of those fake ice cubes I told you about in an earlier blog, and the bottom picture shows the costumes of the Easter Parade girls. I'm the one on the left whose slip fell down around her ankles--after the performance, thank God.
See you tomorrow with a picture.
I picked up three things yesterday just walking through the house. Three items of no use to me, but I have kept them around because "they're still good."
- Three 3-inch carabiner clamps. They were in a small basket on my clothes dryer by the back door along with various other gems which will no doubt be tossed in the very near future. I don't remember what I bought them for or how long they've been there.
- A small bottle of PRO CLEARZ antifungal liquid with vitamin E. While it may work just fine to combat toenail fungus, Tea Tree Oil and Vicks VapoRub work better. Lesson learned--use what you already have on hand. Grandma did and we all survived just fine.
- This last item came from a Brookstone catalog. It tells the indoor and outdoor temperature as well as the humidity and a forecast. It even has a light on the top to color code the weather: blue is rain, white is snow, yellow is clear, etc. I can look out the window to get that information. It even tells the time, which reminds me, I need to get rid of some clocks.
- "Yoga for the Rest of Us" and "More Yoga for the Rest of Us" by Peggy Cappy. I'm sure you've seen her on public television. I used to do the former pretty regularly, but when I bought the latter, I quit altogether. Maybe I'll get the first one on DVD and try it again. (When I try to talk myself into keeping something, I know I have to throw it out.)
- Two unused Yoga for Beginners on DVD with promises to increase strength + flexibility and improve your health and vitality. Since I bought them, I'm intimidated by the pictures on the front. I could never do that.
- One "Beginner's Manual" from The American Yoga Association. A fully revised and updated difinitive guide from the nation's preeminent yoga center. Wow. Sounds impressive.
I will throw out the videos today, and give away the DVD's and book. (Still thinking about going to Amazon.com and buying that first Peggy Cappy DVD. I think I used to enjoy it.)
Sorry, but still no luck with posting a picture which means you won't be able to enjoy the beautiful shades of blue of 30 fake ice cubes. Another catalog purchase that seemed like a good idea at the time. Don't know why. I rarely use ice cubes since I like my drinks room temperature, and guests have all turned them down when offered. They have been in my freezer for about two years.
The other two items are also "what was I thinking" catalog purchases. One is a small plastic bottle with a spritzer on top called NuBrush. When spritzed on your toothbrush it's supposed to keep it clean. From what they don't say. It's been on my bathroom sink, next to the toothbrush holder of course, for a very long time. Used it once. I usually soak my toothbrushes in a small glass of hydrogen peroxide when I think they need it.
The latest acquisition was a battery operated fingernail file. I know you're chuckling because I am too. All three gone. Out, out, out.
I got fed up with my bras. They weren't doing their job anymore, if you know what I mean, so I bought some new ones. Easy. The old me would have shoved in the new and pushed the old to the rear, only it didn't work this time. The drawer was too full. Not so easy. Thus, my three-a-day choice was made for me. I tossed:
- 9 bras
- 3 exercise bras hardly worn because it takes a contortionist to put one on, and
- 8 half slips which I almost forgot were there. No one wears half slips anymore.
There is a story, however, about a 9th half slip, which I did throw away not so long ago after it fell down around my ankles right after a performance. While the chorus sang Easter Parade followed by A Pretty Girl is like a Melody, five of us dressed to the nines wearing long dresses and large Sunday hats with parasols in hand slowly walked down the two aisles of the theater and across the stage. The audience loved it. After the concert was over and everyone was leaving the theater, I left the stage to greet my family. That's when the slip fell to the floor. Luckily the audience was leaving the auditorium, so their backs were turned. Only my girls saw the mishap.
P.S. Sorry, but I've spent the last what seems like an hour trying to upload a picture of us five Pretty Girls in our Easter Bonnets to no avail. Pictures will have to wait.
- A tablet of 365 Daily Teachings of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- Inspirationl cards from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
- A box of positive affirmation cards by Louise Haye
I remember only one out of all 465 quotations, and it has helped me overall. "When you do what's easy, life will be hard. When you do what's hard, life will be easy." That one is from Eker.
I don't know what I thought I needed by keeping these around. I really believed that I would read one each day--and do what? Your guess is as good as mine. These are going to church.
Instead of three things to tell you about today, I got rid of a lot of paper, so there will be three categories instead in keeping with my Toss-Three-A-Day intention. If I counted each individual item as one, the blog would be agonizingly tedious and would reach into the next millennium. Lord knows there's enough paper in my house.
Eighteen mail-order catalogs which I have kept "just in case" I might want to go back and order something I missed with the first order.
Seven travel books from AAA. One was for a trip to Yosemite I took over 30 years ago and another for a trip to Yellowstone some 20 years ago. Souvenirs I never looked at afterward. I don't know how I made it to the Grand Canyon without an AAA book, but I did.
Fifteen maps of Los Angeles and environs. (Did I happen to mention I like maps, too?) I had the pleasure of doing my duty as a good citizen to serve jury duty every 2 years in L.A. for 14 years, circa 1979 to 1991. During the long 2-hour lunch break on the first day of each 10 day stint, I would go to the gift shop at the New Otani Hotal in Little Tokyo and get a visitors guide map of the city. Sometimes I wouldn't always remember to bring the map, so would get another one. Kept them all. Souvenirs or, better yet, "just in case" I might go back again I wouldn't have to stop at the hotel. I would already have one.
So much for maps. I have a GPS on my iPhone now. (If my parents could come forward in time and read this last sentence, they would have no idea what I just said.)
