I've been in a bit of a funk lately and I can't figure out why? I have so much to be thankful for. I am beyond blessed! Yet something is bothering me and I can't figure out what it is? I've been tossing and turning in my sleep and getting up way too early for me! I got up at five AM again today. I don't know, maybe it's worrying about my cat Rat? She's on her last legs. She's old, 17 yrs old, and she seems to be going down hill fast. I check on her more then a few times each day (she lays under our bed most of the time) and I am always afraid of what I'm going to find. I know her time is short. I have to believe that there really is a rainbow bridge up in heaven for all our four legged babies! My mom and dad used to joke around saying that my grandpa (moms dad) must look like the pied piper up there, because grandpa, like me, loved his cats! He used to feed all the strays in the neighborhood. I remember seeing him going into their garage (where the cats would eat) every day, with a trail of cats following behind him! My grandpa was a soft spoken man, really, he didn't say much at all. He didn't need to, you knew he loved you and he made you feel safe. He was a big man. Not heavy, but big like a football player. He had an infectuous laugh, a head full of white hair until the day he died, and a gold capped tooth! I never even thought about asking why he had that gold tooth until after he passed away. Grandma said he knocked his tooth out ice skating when he was a little boy. In younger pictures of him he reminds me of Elvis with his dark hair and blue eyes. Grandma once told me that after he met her, he said "boy I'd love to wake up with her (Grandmas) shoes by my bed"! Although it was hard to imagine my grandpa ever saying anything like this, it makes me smile. It wasn't like today, with guys saying "I'd love to get my hands down her pants",the times they have a-changed, and I think I liked them better in grandpas day! Grandpa was also known to be very thrifty...okay, cheap! He worked hard and saved his money. Maybe this is why when I was growing up my mom used to say "you might as well spend your money today, because you may not be alive to spend it tomorrow". Whatever the reason for her saying this, unfortunately for Pat, it stuck with me!
I have been good the past two days with my shopping addiction! I've been on ebay, but have not bought anything! Of course, I still have a vintage green blazer and and yet another hair piece coming in the mail! Pat does not know I bought these things, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get them past him without him finding out?! I always get caught...will I ever learn?!! Thank God, he, like my grandpa, is a soft spoken man too!
I just love shopping! I used to sometimes shop in vintage stores. I love Victorian clothes, the corsettes and lace (and lace up boots), the big hats. I love clothes from the '50's too. I love looking at pictures of my mom when she was young. I wish she would have kept all her clothes. She did give me her wedding gown, which I still have hanging in my closet. It's a ballerina length (lace) gown with a little bolero that goes over it. Over the years it's yellowed, I wish I would have known to have had it preserved. If I had, I'd wear it on a cruise on one of the formal nights! That is my favorite night of a cruise, the formal night! You can get all dolled up and no one looks at you like you're from another planet! I think I spend as much on my formal night gowns and shoes and jewelry as we do on the cost of the cruise! We're planning our next cruise in the spring of 2013. I already have my gowns ready! I bought a black one that I've never worn yet AND I'm going to wear a white one that I wore on our cruise last Dec., gasp.....Im going to wear a gown that I've aleady worn before!! Miracles never cease! This gown is one of my favorites. It's white and flowy and has a (of course) blinged out top! Stones that look like diamonds cover the top of it. When I wore it last year, and a man saw Pat and me walking to supper, he shouted out "Congratulations", thinking that we had just gotten married on the ship! We just smiled and said "Thanks" and laughed...seeing that we had just celebrated our 37th anniversary the month before!
Okay, I'm going to post a few pictures of my mom, who says she has never been into fashion. My sister and I fail to believe her, because she always looks so beautiful and put together in all the pictures we have of her!
and here's moms wedding gown....
She looks beautiful!
and here's the gown that I'm going to recycle and wear again on our next cruise!
I just wish that we didn't have to wait until this next spring! I'm ready for RCCL to "take me away NOW"! but I guess for the time being, I'll have to go with the calgon! maybe if I drink enough beer, I'll think I am in the Caribbean instead of my bathtub!
Here's todays dose of cute! My little Chloe belle in her grannys fedora and a mermaid costume, this baby is a mini me!!
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