With a Nod to Tim Burton

Throwback Thursday

That LOOK my father is giving his mother! (and her expression/body language!) LOL 

I'd love to know what was going on here!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

One of Life’s Little Inequities

What this likes……. 

and what THIS  likes……..

are two entirely different things.

More’s the pity.

Punny Monday

I was going to buy a book on phobias, but I was afraid it wouldn't help me.

Flash Fiction on a Friday

The dreams started soon after the funeral.

Always the same.

I had to get the new owner out of the house so she had somewhere to come home to.

Even in the dream I wondered how she was going to accomplish it, having been cremated, she had no body to come back in.

Still, in the dream I dutifully crawled on my belly, commando style, up the hill to her house to get rid of the new owner.

The dreams varied only by which house it was. Sometimes it was a crazy quilt conglomeration of all the houses we had ever lived in. But it was still my job to get everyone out in preparation for her return.

Sometimes in the dream I was happy she was coming home. Sometimes I was bothered by it. Sometimes I thought she hadn’t really died and I had sold the house out from under her.

But last night’s dream was different.

I was already in the house preparing for her arrival, but this time it was MY house, and I heard her say, “It’s time to let some of this stuff go.” 

I know she’s right.

I’ve held onto too much of what had been hers. Trying to live in the past and not being fully in the present.

It’s time to let go.

After eighteen years I think I finally can.

Funny how the mind works isn’t it?

Throwback Thursday

This was my absolute FAVORITE dress. It was red dotted swiss with no less than THREE petticoats! I wore it until I couldn’t squeeze into it anymore then I put it on my 

Patty-Play-Pal doll. It was a perfect fit for her! 

Wordless Wednesday

My Claim to Fame

When I was in modeling school one of the classes they taught was how to do the ‘model slouch’ and walk down a runway. THAT lesson has come in handy over the years! LOL

But I digress…..

One day while we were practicing the slouch/walk/turn they gave us new shoes.

Mine were lime green with blue polka dots.

And as we walked the elevated runway there was a man taking our pictures.

Not pictures of us turning and slouching and walking for our portfolios but pictures of our feet.

Just our feet.

We were told he was hired by Montgomery Ward (the big Mail Order Catalog Company.)

He was taking pictures of the new line of shoes they would be offering in the next catalog.

We were all very excited. Fame and fortune awaited us!

We waited with bated breath for the new catalog and when it came we anxiously paged to the shoe section!

There in all their glory were the shoes we had been given to ‘model’!

But how could you tell if it was OUR feet or not? The pictures were cropped so tightly all you saw were the shoes.

Not even our ankles showed!

To this day it’s still my one and only claim to fame in the modeling world!

Hey, I take fame where I can get it! 

Punny Monday

I knew a woman who owned a taser, man was she stunning!