Fighting the winter day blues. And making a little fun for myself on a workday afternoon on a day that really felt like a Monday, as the kids went back to school yesterday and Michael and I started our workweek.
I really do get affected by the winter grayness and it has been exceptionally gray for the past week or so. Man, any little moment of sunshine and I get really excited. "Look, the sun!!" I squeal happily to anyone around or in my mind when I am alone.
This mask was the souvenir that I picked up for Michael when I was in Mexico (you know I had myself in mind a little, too). Come on, who doesn't want a cool wrestling mask and a red one, to boot?!
A funny story from the other day: my son, who still enjoys dressing up occasionally at 11 was wearing a creepy, black, expressionless mask. He sneezed. "Oh man, I feel sorry for Darth Vader when he has to sneeze." he said, with his face all wet from the contained sneeze.
When Lucas was little, maybe 3 or 4 and supposed to be napping, I went in his room to get him up. He was up and dressed in full crazy costume: spiderman, cowboy with a sword. He turned and jumped facing me in a wrestling stance and hollered hahaaah! If only I had had a camera with me then. It was a priceless moment.
And finally yesterday, while listening to the radio at work, I heard a song about how we should love while we are young. And I thought, this song does not relate to me. And then I thought, oh but age is only a number and finally I thought, says no young person ever. Really feeling my age since turning 40. Not always, but more often than I would like.
Carry on then, but if you can do today in a fun mask, you get bonus points.
Always good to see you in costume! You are so much fun. As I told my daughter at her 40th birthday a few weeks ago ...and perhaps to you on yours if I remember correctly ...everything up to 40 is education after 40 it is application. These should be the best years of your life and the fact that you can still have fun "dressing up occasionally" (see where your son gets it?!) is proof positive that you still aren't OLD
@seattlite I hear you and I say that too. years ago I said it to a 40 year old friend who claimed to be old. But no 20 year olds tell me it's a number. In their eyes, I'm old. And shoot, I get these old feeling aches, pains and creaks now!:)
I couldn't say anything better than Katy - @grammyn! What happens when you get to 80? Done those two forty years! Perhaps its, 'sit back and let others do the work'? I'm working on that!
@alophoto I definitely feel your pain! I suffer from the winter blahs, too, some years worse than others. SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder. And it does, it makes me sad, all kinds of sad, and I hate it. Looks like you find ways to liven things up, tho! I think you have a quite playful spirit!
Is 'emotion' our theme for this week? (Did I miss that?)
Is 'emotion' our theme for this week? (Did I miss that?)
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