The “Iced Tea March”
No it is not a musical score you never heard of, but more of an action that seems to be triggered in my brain at the absence of iced tea in my ex-husbands glass when we go out to eat somewhere.
Service these days is a joke in many restaurants. You sit down and wait for about 10 minutes before you ever even see a Waiter or Waitress approach to deem to take your order. When you finally receive the privilege you may wait for your drinks anywhere from another 5 to 10 minutes. Now it is understandable when the restaurant is busy, but I am talking about those times when there are only a few customers present.
The wait staff is just too busy sitting around and chatting with each other, customers are a second thought. Oh well the tips will reflect the service won’t they?
Now my ex-husband always drinks iced teas with his meals and this has started many years ago when I was still his little wife. He would drink his first glass extremely quick and then sit there for a long time waiting for a refill. Normally I would try to get the waiter/waitress’s attention but most of the time this would not bring much action from their part.
Now I have a very straight backed walk which my ex has nicknamed my goose stepping. Yes when I am on a mission you could think I am on the parade field and marching to my destination. Well for some reason his empty glass coupled with the extended wait for a refill seems to trigger a need to get up and march on an iced tea errand.
So picture me getting up, decisively taking his empty glass in hand and off I march to the wait station. My back is ramrod straight, my eyes are focused and my mission retrieval of more iced tea for his parched throat. All I am missing now is a weapon in hand and you could think it is a life and death situation.
With a fake smile and cold eyes in place I approach my nemesis who has caused this action and request a refill determinately.
Most of the time they see the futility of asking me to return to my table without the requested beverage and they would send the waitress to me. Yet ever so often a foolish soul might make that suggestion at which time the smile drops and my back becomes even straighter, if that is even possible.
“You see I have been trying to get our Waiter/Waitress’s attention for a while now, but he/she seems to be busy elsewhere. Now since I have already gotten up in order to perform his/her job, I would appreciate it if you would just fill up this glass with the tea and fresh ice. I will be happily out of your way then.” Now my eyes hold nothing but contempt. Do they really think I enjoy having to interrupt my meal in order to do what they get paid to do?
I no longer get any arguments after that and return to the table with my prize. Again marching all the way and continue to eat my meal which at this point has gotten cold most of the time.
The good thing about this is however, I seldom have to do this more then once at the same location. My march seems to rub off on the wait staff or maybe they just don’t like me coming that close to their base of operation. From this moment on however he seems to receive his refills in a timely manner. I would say that my march of the iced tea is a mission accomplished.
This morning started with a Belly laugh!
Some mornings I simply shouldn't read or maybe I should, because the results are funnier then hell.
I receive my daily cosmic charts and a Newsletter from Beliefnet. My habit when I first wake up right after the morning necessities is a cup of coffee, a cigarette and reading my emails before I do anything else.
So while spot reading to get rid of spam (isn't it lovely all those darling spam messages?) I quickly read over the headliner from one of my daily Newsletters.
This is what I read and stopped me dead in my tracks:
"Are you dating a gold fish?"
I sat there for just a second, started laughing and went back to it expecting it to be some sort of a joke. Well the joke was on me and made me laugh even harder at my weird reading this morning.
On closer examination of the headline and now really looking at it, the headline actually said:
"Are you dating a cold fish?"
I guess that is slightly better.
But either way I am not dating any fish, neither gold nor cold, so I guess it doesn't apply to me this morning. But thank you universe for a good laugh this early in the morning. The day can only be a great one after this.
How about you fine folks, have you ever misread something so badly that it just stopped you dead in your tracks and made you laugh hard after rereading? If you won't you post it and let us laugh with you?
Your Friend
Regina S.
The Economy sucks, but does it swallow?
We all agree that the economy really sucks right now, it may be getting better in a few parts of the world, but all in all it is still pretty darn bad. So that made me wonder as to the old "dating cliche" …but does she swallow?
Well I would say in this particular case the answer is a big fat YES!
Follow my train of thoughts here for a second if you will.
So far the she (the economy) has swallowed:
- most peoples savings, just to pay bills and survive!
- Homes, so many people have lost their houses due to not being able to pay their mortgages.
- Relationships, with the money being such an issue the stress factor in most peoples lifes have reached astronomical heights. Which translates into oversensitivity, fights and more.
- Businesses. Have you looked how many brick and mortar businesses are closed now? Especially the small Businesses since nobody can afford to spend a lot of cash.
- Education. For some reason, each time there is a cut in budget in many states, funding for schools seems to be the first thing to get cut. Honestly, our Country can not afford to make their students dumber then they already are. We are dumbing our next Generations down. How many kids over the last years, have already been graduated with reading and writing so low, that you would think they are still in 6th Grade?
And those are just the examples I can think of on the top of my head. Mind you it is only 4 am in the morning, and I am only on my first cup of coffee here. So might be a little slow right now.
Either way, I would really say, that yes the economy certainly does swallow…us up whole!
Can you think of anything else that has been swallowed up by her?
Your Friend
Regina S.
The late great George Carlin had it right, we simply …
have too much stuff. I love going back and watching some of the older clips from the late great George Carlin. If you have never watched him, you missed out. Yes he was straight forward, he was to the point, but afterall that is how I am as well.
So today I sat down and try to clean my office out and boy oh boy did I ever have too much stuff. I found things I forgot I had, and couldn't find the stuff I really needed. Shakes head…I am overstuffed with stuff.
Well folks I hope you will find this following clip as entertaining as I did. Did that not hit the nail on the head?
Your Friend
Regina S.
Gold flecked donkey testicals at $1000 a dollop…
Do you remember that line from Mama Mia The Movie? Do you remember her response to her Friends hazing? NO? She said laughingly:" That is the price you pay if you want to drink Champagne before 10 am in the morning."
So why did that random thought run through my head this morning? Well, honestly it came from looking into my mirror and crossing my eyes. Wow, isn't the mirror about your least favorite Accessory in your house early in the morning?
I am the first one to admit, that I am very happy for make-up. It is a universal blessing for sure. Really in many ways like magic. It can give us the illusion of a wonderful day, make our skin look healthy and bright, make our eyes sparkle and flirty when in reality we feel like caca doodoo.
I personally think that when we complain about having to put make up on, we really cheat ourselves. What a fun girl time, what a lovely personal ritual as we can transform ourselves, from tired and average, to outstanding and awesome.
To me it is like a personal space and time ritual when I do my make up (ok it is a fetish for me too, but eh). I light candles and incense, have all my fun make up set up and play my favorite music. Having a cup of tea, coffee or milk near by. MMMM and then just take my time.
So lets realize that we all need help and we should enjoy the process of being fantastic.
Your Friend
Regina S.
Do you have a designated ” Giggle Day ” ?
Times are so serious these days that you actually almost have to make an effort to find a spot in your life for a good giggle. I am not kidding! No really, I want you to make an appointment once a week and set up your personal "Giggle Day". Give yourself permissions to take 24 hours (including your sleep time) and look for things to make you laugh. Chuckle, giggle, guffawk, and all other sort of gloriously releasing funny noises. (No guys not those noises, they are for another more private day. And get your mind out of the gutter right now! I wasn't talking about those either!)
I have made Sundays my official giggle day. The day I give myself permission to be "childlike" and giggle over silly things that I would usually have to be to "grown up" to find funny anymore. (Stop it, I saw that look!)
I was getting really uptight lately and realized what was missing in my days. A good laugh! I was getting to stuck in being serious, hard working, worried about this and that, that I had completely forgotten to take a deep breath and let it out again. With other words, if breathing wouldn't have been on autopilot, I would have become to busy for that too!
My shoulders started to punch up, my neck was constantly stiff and I was wondering why I had more micraines then midas had gold! I had become a real poopnick and what is worst I was giving up the one thing in life that is FREE. Laughter! Doesn't cost a penny, free of all charges. Gratis!
At one point my daughter called me and we were instantly transformed back to our time together, when we would coax each other into silliness and that is when my shoulder relaxed, my neck stopped being so stiff and my headaches slowly went away. With each Giggle I felt better, until I finally connected the dots. I needed laughter back into my life.
So now on Sunday when I am working on one of my dozesn of projects I pop in a funny Tape and listen. I giggle and laugh until I have tears coming down my eyes. I go for walks and look for silly things to laugh about, or I pick up a book and read something that I know will amuse me. I look for stupid things that I have done that week that I can laugh about (like putting my shirt on inside out again because I didn't have my contacts in).
I grab my honey bunny (don't tell my husbadn I called him that please!) and tickle him if I get a chance too and hopefully lose in the wrestling match that usually happens if he isn't too tired. Or I ask him to tell me what happened at work and hope for the best. Sometimes he has really funny stories for me.
If all else fails I put on some silly kids movies that I used to watch with my kids when they were still little, have some ice-cream and doodle. If nothing else, it will bring a big smile on my face.
So, do you have a Giggle day too? If not, want to join me on Sundays and be goofy with me?
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