So, yesterday was my first day wearing shoes instead of sandals since Cameron's wedding back in June, and that was probably the first time since April. Now, it's shoes until spring.

Sunday night I went to the store in my coat and my sandals and realized that, the time had come to enclose my toes. Sigh...

I was on the phone with my Mom yesterday, and she was telling me about all this stuff she got at the white elephant sale at church on Sunday, about the giant teddy bear ($2) and the books and the twelve mugs (50¢ apiece) and the $15 sofa that she almost bought but realized that there would be no place to store it.

MOM
I got six mugs with (some design that I cannot recall at this time) and six mugs designed like drums, you know, with the pointy things on the sides, but not just the pointy things, completely like drums, but open at the top so you can drink out of them!

ME
So, you can have eleven people all over for coffee at the same time!

MOM
Yes, and I will be entertaining in the new house, like I used to years ago! Anyway, do you want some of the mugs or maybe the old mugs?

ME
I have no room for mugs, and I never drink out of mugs, but I'll take some of the old ones, like the one with the yellow spots on that Daddy used to drink out of.

MOM
Yes, all of the old mugs all have meaning to them.

ME
So what you want is a bunch of new, meaningless mugs.

MOM
Yes, that's it. And then I bought something that I have wanted for years!! Guess what?

ME
Not a clue.

MOM
Shrimp cups! Seven of them!

ME
So, when you have these alleged eleven people over for coffee, you can serve seven of them shrimp! The other four, or five if you have some, will have to look on in despair.

Then she started telling me about this guy she met, I didn't catch whether it was at church or where, as I do admittedly zone out occasionally when she talks, but he's this old gay man who recently lost his partner of 55 years, so Mom and he have bonded over their respective widow/widower-hood.

MOM
And do you know, homosexual love is the same at heterosexual love?

ME
Yeah Mom, I did know that. It pretty much comes down to a person and another person, and there at heart it's all the same.

MOM
I know, I know, and I really have always known, but I never really understood. I think I always said that I knew without knowing, but everything that he talks about is so familiar, and I really understand now.

ME
Great, Mom, glad you are expanding your mind.

MOM
He asked if we could get together sometime during the week, and I said yes, I really think I'll enjoy it! And I don't have to wonder about whether it's a date.

ME
You'll be the geriatric Will and Grace!

I was going to the bathroom (wait, it gets better!) and I was about to grab my jeans to pull them up, and I saw the back of my lower right calf, down by my ankle was all reddish, like a rash. I rubbed the spot, and it felt kind of dry, but wasn't hot or itchy, and I couldn't figure it out.

Then I noticed that the same spot on my left leg was exactly as reddish. And the penny dropped. It's not a rash, it's what happens when you wash a cartload of pink dye off your head in the shower.

I never claimed that I was that bright. Lucky thing that, ain't?

Today's horoscope:
Emotional matters change rapidly. Roll with the punches and don't expect to end up in the same mood as you start your day.

One year ago today:
("We're burning down the Fine Arts Building?" "No, I think that the fire will remain in the fireplace.")

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