Cozy or not...take two

Yesterday we chatted about books being cozy. Nice, but doesn't give me a cozy feeling. What are some things that do make me feel cozy?

What am I good at?

I was inspired to answer this question thanks to another blog post, No Second Guessing. Here are my thoughts...

Sleep is highly overrated...

Not really...but I wish it were. My sleep pattern has gotten crazy this last year. 

Not today...

Wednesday night, I got no sleep, but did take a two hour nap during the day. Last night I managed to sleep nine hours. Yay.

Yay, until 1:00-ish when I got my optical aura. For years, I never got the headache afterwards. That changed a couple years back. Now 50-60% of the time the aura is followed by a headache.

Today I'm the loser - getting off the computer and letting the TV watch me. I just started binging Heartland.

Are you binge-watching anything in particular?

Forks and Spoons

I have a quirk. A quirk that can be irritating at times. But a necessary quirk.

Challenges and deadlines...

I've always loved challenges and I've always worked best under a deadline. In high school, I often waited to the last minute on big projects and still got an A. Makes me wonder what might have happened if I started earlier. 

Clothing - Clothes?

Did you know clothing is the clothes people wear? Huh, confusing, isn't it. Then there is cloth like in facecloth or the cloth you buy to make clothing (or make clothes?). And we can't forget closet, which has no connection with clothes/clothing. It came from the French word 'closet' for small enclosure.

Moving on...Nope! Coffee is the next letter C word

Anyone who has known me for very long, knows I love coffee. I'll continue drinking, even after it's gotten cold (I do have a Mr. Coffee warmer on my desk). I'm not big on foo-foo drinks but I do love a good iced cappuccino. And I do enjoy McDonald's coffee - senior size with two cream and two sugars. 

Counting…

I can be a compulsive counter. 

Not just to go to sleep where I've been known to count to one hundred in Spanish, but when walking. 

Comfort, Comfortable, Comforting

Comfort. Comfortable. Comforting. Yes, I'm still stuck on the letter C.

Colors

Yes, I'm still on the letter C...

As a child, my mother loved to dress me in reds. So much, in fact, that as an adult I avoided red for many years. My favorite color was warm blues. I wore a LOT of blue clothes. One day I found a sale on a red suit. As a professional, I needed suits and when they were on sale, I would grab them.

This was a turning point, I fell in love with red again and that love has lasted over forty years. Blue? Not so much. I now find myself avoiding clothing in blues. I have also discovered I need warm reds, not cool reds. If you've ever dabbled with what season you are, you understand. I am pretty sure I am a warm autumn.

So what are my favorite colors right now? What colors am I using to build a capsule wardrobe in mostly wool? Teals, olive greens, burgundy/mauve, with a dash of neutrals (black, white, gray). Accessory colors are in warm red and coral colors. I even have Allbirds Wool Runner shoes in burgundy and teal!

Yes, I know there are blues in the chart that are good for me, but I'm just not there. Oh, and I do have a short-sleeve merino tee-shirt in a light lavender that isn't on the list, but I love it (and it's a Woolx tee and they are so awesome).

Have you ever had your seasons done (or tried to do them online)? What are your favorite clothing colors?

C or See Me

Have you ever felt invisible? I have. Not most times. In fact, I sometimes feel too visible. Most of my life I worried about how I looked, how I sounded, how I appeared to others. Now in my 70s, I worry less about what others think of me. I'm still me. I haven't changed. Well, except for looking older...

Compliments & Kindness

I thought about this incident last night before I fell asleep. On a recent cruise, a younger woman we met (maybe in her 40s) said this to me after meeting Stu and I and chatting a while. "I don't mean to be mean, but I thought you were his mother." Um, really?

Compulsions, Perfectionism, Procrastination & Control

Image by John Hain from Pixabay

I tend to be somewhat compulsive in certain areas. Am I OCD or just trying to keep control? Perfectionism is a sign of needing to control things. I used to have two recurring nightmares. In one, I would go completely blind unexpectedly.

Crooked....

My body seems to have an affinity to crooked seams. I remember wearing stockings with seams (many years ago) and it was always difficult to get them straight. Now it's my newer leggings with seams. I pull them on straight, I swear I do, but next thing I know, they're crooked. 

Ramblings, Musings, Thoughts, & Miscellanea

Now that my 100 Day Wool& Challenge is done, this blog is returning to its original purpose - my ramblings, thoughts, musings, and other miscellanea.

I deleted a bunch of old posts when I changed the purpose of the blog temporarily and I changed  favicon and the theme layout as well. So now it's time to change it all back to something that works with for this purpose.

Let me know what you think!

I'm Weird....

Yes, I admit it, I'm weird. Why do I say that?

On being a septagenarian

I turned seventy last September. Guess what? It didn't bother me! Nope, not one little bit. In fact, I felt proud that I'd made it. While I still have a couple of years to live longer than my father, I've way surpassed my mother who died at sixty-one.