musing of a menopausal momma

I think that this should be the title of our blog, but my better half did not agree. Seems as I continue to experience so much joy during this faze of my life, I thought I would share some of this joy with you. I have always loved and appreciated the blessing of taking a shower, standing in the warm water feels so great. I would prefer one shower a day but the last few years the showers come all day long, coming unexpected, the best ones are reserved for nighttime. Some call them hot flashes or hot flushing. I call them a pain in the butt. I have tried a variety of things to relieve them, but to no avail. I am sure these lovely sweating events have something to teach me, and I suspect as soon as I figure it out they will go away. Oh, if I could only figure it out. Then there is the lovely gray hair that coloring does not cover as well anymore. Must be too much gray to cover. The sagging eyelids and the wrinkles, where the heck did they come from. They were not there yesterday or were they? Oh well enough on this sad tale.

As some in this fam likes to talk about what irritates them I thought I would jump on the band wagon.
1. People with a total lack of social skills. Is this a lost art?
People talking on their cell phones when you are trying to help them with something. Oh, I guess my time is not worth anything.
People coming in to apply for a job talking on the cell phone, wearing jeans and hoodies with the hood up, and talking in a mumble that is barely understood. Am I deaf or are they talking a new language?
Oh lets not forget that they always need a pen and lots of help with the application questions.
My fav is the young men that come in with their pants around there knees, with their lovely underwear showing. What makes them think I want to see their undies. Someone poke my eyes out.
2. Standing in a long line at any given store and finally, finally getting almost to the checker and the clown in front of you decides oh, I forgot something and takes off to find it. 10 minutes later they come back with another 12 items. What part of them thinks this is socially exceptable.
3. Back to job app. Person...Yo do you have any jobs? Is this a question or is this a figment of my imagination? How do you spell JOB?
4. Folks driving, talking on the cell phone, drinking coffee, putting on eyeliner and reading the paper all at the same time.
5. Folks camping out at Walmart.
6. Folks yelling at Walmart.
7. Folks that take up two parking spots or better yet they just park in the driving lane.
8. Women who wear high heels, designer clothes and really puffy hair and 16 pieces jewlery to Walmart in Utah.
9. Folks who tell the checker at the check-out stand that there is no more milk in the cold case. The cold case being at the back of the store as far from the checker as possible and why the hell would she care or what the hell can she do about it? Or maybe in her free time she can go and fill it.
Alright this is enough on the irritations of a lack of social skills. Must be a menopausal moment.
10. I hate it when people blame irritations on menopause. HA HA

One of my favorite things these days if the Music I-Pod. I can listen to it for hours. I have to take it off when I go to work. This is the hardest part of going to work. Speaking of work, it is so nice to work in a nice place with good employee's and really great and special residents who's lives inspire me daily.

The last thing I would like to talk about is the Joy of being a grandma. Having three little grandson's is just the greatest thing I can ever imagine. Having the gospel in our lives and seeing these young little boys either being sealed or being born under the covenant is my greatest dream come true. There is nothing I could possiblely want more than this. The worldly things seem so nice and important at times it is easy to get distraced by things that ultimatly have no worth. Thank heavens for the gospel and a prophet to lead and guide us along and to help clear our vision. Thank heavens we know that weak things can become strong when we humble ourselves and have faith. Thank heavens we know that we can feast upon the words of Christ for hehold the words of Christ will tell us all things what we should do. These things are a great comfort to me as I often do not know what to do or what direction to go at times, but I am trying harder to learn to wait upon the lord and to realize that when it seems my prayers are not answered that the lord speaks peace to my mind concerning matters and then I realize that this is the answer.

Thought for the day...D&C 84:88
Ask him to go before my face, to be on my right hand, to be on my left hand, and his spirit in my heart and his angels round about me to bear me up.

MMM

Word of the day

Tortfeasor: In law, one who commits a tort, a civil (as opposed to criminal) wrong.

I've acknowledged my new addiction in reading appellate (sorry, Greg, I misspelled it previously) court opinions. Nothing is as bizarre as the reality of life and the twisted (at times) legal logic of appellate judges. As I've said, it's like Cops, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil et al rolled into one. And the sweet extra benefit in reading these is the new vocabulary words I'm learning.

Which brings me to tortfeasor. I do believe it is the ugliest word I've ever encountered, not counting vulgar words. It sounds ugly; it doesn't roll off the tongue easily. It seems to imply nastiness. I'm sure if you went into a bar and called someone a "son of a tortfeasor" you would surely be punched out. You probably wouldn't even need to go into a bar.

I challenge you to come up with an uglier word.