Days of the Week beginning with a "T"

Well, it happened again!  I got a later than usual start and had to skip blogging yesterday.  The Strawberries are heading out for a family weekend....whoo hoo.  But first the old van needed an uplifting.  Hubby received a call from the dealership and they said the old air filter was d-i-r-t-y and would we like a new one.  No thank you; we'll keep sucking in that old grit and grim coming out of the old one, but thank you for asking! Of course, we want a new one!!!!  I know, I know; they have to ask.  It's Mona, I tell ya.

Speaking of uplifting; Graini-Aunt read my make-up story and sent in her make-up snafu.  It is hilarious and makes me laugh out loud every time I picture it!!!  I'll step aside so she can tell you.

     Once, when I was working, I was at a meeting in Minneapolis.  My partners were there and an executive from Air Foyle Ltd. in the U.K.  We were staying at the Embassy Suites.  I got up that morning, took a shower, fixed my hair and started to put on my makeup.  I got interrupted by a telephone call.  When I got off that call, I got dressed and grabbed my briefcase and went down to the lobby for breakfast with my colleagues.  We had our breakfast and went to our Minneapolis office for a meeting.  Once we got to the office, I went to the ladies room and looked in the mirror.  

 

     Was I ever shocked!  It has been my habit to put on foundation, then lipstick and put a dash of the lipstick on my cheeks.  Then I use my fingers to blend it in and finish with mascara.  I had stopped my routine at putting a couple of dashes of lipstick on my cheeks.  I'd not remembered to blend it in because of the interruption of the phone call.

All that time, I'd been in the Lobby Restaurant around lots of folks including my colleagues, gone to the office and NO ONE mentioned that I looked very much like a clown with dots of lipstick on each cheek.  (Strawberry LOL-ing here!!!)

 

     I asked them why they didn't say something and to a man, they said, "We thought you knew, that it was something new and if it wasn't, we didn't want to embarrass you."
I survived but still feel embarrassed about it.

 

     Life has a way of keeping you humble, doesn't it?

 

 

 

Oh yes it does!!!  I wish I had a photo to display at this time, but alas I don't! 

 

Tuesday I went in for a cut and highlights.  At work on Wednesday everyone was complimentary about my new 'do.  One of the young tellers (22 y/o to be exact and let me add she even says she is a prima donna so don't take it wrong when I call her that!) exclaimed "Oh, I like that color a whole lot more than your other color!"  Sidebar: I know she was trying to be complimentary in her own 22 year old way, but I just had to joke with her.  Here's the conversation:

 

22: Oh I like that color a whole lot more than your other color!

 

Me: Oh you mean better than my natural color?

 

22 (laughing):   That's not what I said!!

Me (smiling): You said you liked this color better than the other one.  The other one WAS my natural color.

Yep, life has a way of keeping you humble.  Now go and take on the day!