Beauty

[just bee]

I want to get the dog out for a walk because it's lovely right now and I don't want to wait until it's warm.

But I can't walk.

Well, I can but it's not without difficulty.

I had a leg cramp the other day that was so excruciating that if I had been holding a chainsaw I would have just sliced off my leg to ease the pain.

Usually I wince, then breathe and stretch and the cramp is gone.

Not this one.  All I could do was scream.  BH was telling me, "Stretch, stretch!" and I was responding with "AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!  BWAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!  AARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

Didn't bother me at work that night but today I'm walking like the Mummy.

I don't recommend going online to research leg cramps because you'll come away thinking that you better get your will in order.

But I might try something.  Every time we have a work crew at the house we stock water and Gatorade.  The last crew didn't put a dent in the Gatorade and we have more than a case left.

I hate the stuff, but I might start with a daily bottle because my multivitamin has very little in the way of magnesium, calcium and potassium.

And I've been eating bananas this week!

Dehydrated?  Probably.  So if I drink this Gatorade I'm consuming sugar.  A lot of sugar.

So annoying.

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

I want to get the dog out for a walk because it's lovely right now and I don't want to wait until it's warm.

But I can't walk.

Well, I can but it's not without difficulty.

I had a leg cramp the other day that was so excruciating that if I had been holding a chainsaw I would have just sliced off my leg to ease the pain.

Usually I wince, then breathe and stretch and the cramp is gone.

Not this one.  All I could do was scream.  BH was telling me, "Stretch, stretch!" and I was responding with "AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!  BWAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!  AARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

Didn't bother me at work that night but today I'm walking like the Mummy.

I don't recommend going online to research leg cramps because you'll come away thinking that you better get your will in order.

But I might try something.  Every time we have a work crew at the house we stock water and Gatorade.  The last crew didn't put a dent in the Gatorade and we have more than a case left.

I hate the stuff, but I might start with a daily bottle because my multivitamin has very little in the way of magnesium, calcium and potassium.

And I've been eating bananas this week!

Dehydrated?  Probably.  So if I drink this Gatorade I'm consuming sugar.  A lot of sugar.

So annoying.

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@just bee 

Another thing that happens at 60. 😄

A friend gave me some packets he adds to his water in the summer to keep hydrated.  He swears he couldn’t work and sweat without them.  I looked at the ingredients and it was all stuff I couldn’t pronounce.  The only thing I recognized was the first ingredient: sugar.  

I threw them out.  I’ll take my chances with cramps.

[just bee]

@geezerette 

Exactly!  Especially ridiculous after I had to subject myself to some of the worst peanut butters on the market, searching for the one edible product with 1 gram of sugar.

[just bee]

[just bee]

I couldn't eat those Easter eggs.  But then I don't think I could afford them, either.

[geezerette]

@just bee 

Very cool!  Never seen anything like those!

I suppose if you could afford them, you also could afford to eat them. 😉

[just bee]

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@geezerette wrote:

@just bee 

Very cool!  Never seen anything like those!

I suppose if you could afford them, you also could afford to eat them. 😉

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@geezerette 

Fortnum & Mason in London.  They sell a lot of items that are just too beautiful to eat.

They sell tea, too.  In fact, they sell a Gin & Tonic tea.  I'm intrigued.

[geezerette]

I have a confession to make:  I hate spring.  And I hate summer.

It’s a beautiful day here this Easter morning—cloudless blue sky, birds chirping, green grass, trees and temps to be about 80.  And I hate it.

Why?  I hate what spring brings: bugs, heat, humidity and, often, bad storms.  I like the extra sun, but it reminds me that it’s going to be really hot and uncomfortable way too soon.

I hate warm weather clothes.  Can’t find bottoms that are comfortable and look decent.  And I’m either putting on shirts because of a/c, or taking them off because of the heat.  

I love long pants, sweaters and jackets.  I love the lower humidity of fall and winter.  I even love snow—to a degree.  (But not ice.)  I love a furnace running (although heat pumps s*ck) and a fireplace crackling.  I love hot tea, not iced tea.

Along with all that, I hate the allergies spring brings.  I feel so much better with a nice coat of newly fallen snow covering everything.  I can actually breathe.

I know.  Strange post for a lovely Easter morning.  But you all know by now that I’m a bit ‘off’.  Well, maybe a smidge more than a ‘bit’...🤪😂

Happy Easter, all!  🐰🐣🌷🌞

[just bee]

@geezerette 

I'm a fall/winter person myself, but I do have a soft spot for spring.  I like to see what has survived the winter -- gives me some degree of hope.  Spring is actually quite lovely here in the Duke City (except for the wind, of course) and my favorite blossom should be scenting the air very soon: The much-maligned pest Russian olive.  Smells like a candy factory.

We had such a spectacular sunrise this morning that I had to grab my camera to try to capture it.

Once the greening of the city begins and the bosque becomes a green belt it looks like we have trees and we're not as deserty and barren.  We lose the whole nuclear holocaust look.

Summer has never been a favorite season.  I do have some fond memories of summers past, but it's not a time I look forward to.

And summer is long here.  And it's hard to walk the dog unless you leave the house at sunrise.  He's already struggling and it's not that warm.  I keep telling him to leave the tux at home but he insists on formal wear.

I really should take him out now.  We took him to the bosque in Corrales yesterday and everyone had their horses out.  I could barely walk.  But I know I need to use this leg and shake out that cramp.

I celebrated Easter morning by consuming two hard-boiled eggs.  We're going non-traditional and will be making chicken curry for dinner.

Yup.  Better get him out to sniff.

Oh -- and I'm really going to try harder to wear sandals and some of those summer frocks I have hanging in the closet.  The ones that I haven't touched in years.

I say that every year, don't I?

[just bee]

Wanna hear something stupid?

I have enough blush to last the rest of my life: Two full-size Laura Geller baked blushes and two wet n wild Color Icon blushes.  But for some reason I keep thinking about the Milani baked blushes.

The Walgreens website has had them on sale for a couple weeks.  Dolce Pink and Luminoso are $7.12 and Bella Bellini -- which is next to impossible to find elsewhere -- is $6.22.  So that's $6.82 each if you buy all three.

First of all, the wet n wild blushes are similar colorwise.  Doesn't matter because I just got it into my head that it would be easier to buy the Milani blushes so I wouldn't have to think about them anymore.

But I think I found an out.  I went online and watched YouTube videos and one in particular showed swatches that were so glittery I gasped.  The wet n wild are glittery as it is, but the Milani looked even more sparkly.

If the day comes when I have to give up sparkle, I'd rather toss the $2-3 wet n wild blushes than pitch the more expensive Milani blushes.

So why do I think I need to buy more blush?  Things are very weird at work and my schedule will be changing soon.  But that's not it.  There's a leak in the bathroom.  That's not it, either.

I don't know.  It's a mystery.  Must analyze.

Is there something out there that you keep thinking you want or need even though it makes no sense?