True Colors

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(istockphoto.com)

I don't own this particular spool of thread but I wish I did. Look at those colors!

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My lower back always feels pretty tight after I finish a craft show. I try to go in the hot tub that night but sometimes I'm even too tired to do that. But I did, after last Saturday's show. It helped but not completely. So I scheduled a massage but couldn't get an appointment until yesterday. I got "yelled at" for waiting so long between massages. Mary has explained to me that muscles remember how to relax. Mine must have forgotten. She beat me up good. I'm going again next week to make sure this is all worked out of me. I'm not going back to going every week, but maybe I'll try to go on a more regular basis than as needed.

(Click photo to enlarge.)

I saw this in Money magazine. Oh my. I tried to tell myself that making a living is nothing to be ashamed of. Working your assets, building on your hard-built reputation, none of that is a bad thing. Rockers have sold their music to commercials on TV. Admittedly, that was a little weird for me at first, but I got used to it.

But this! This is a cheesy ad - it's ridiculous! I went on their website to try to grab the image, to save myself time scanning it - and found Davy Jones has done a series of print ads - and this is the best of the lot! In the other ones he's hugging a giant gorilla. (That is, a person in a gorilla suit, not a real gorilla.) I was as big a Monkees fan as anyone back in the day, but even I think it's a considerable stretch to call Davy Jones an "entertainer extraordinaire". (Mickey was my favorite, if I had to pick one.)

I'm sorry you had to see this but I thought if I shared the above photo, it would lessen the burning in my retinas somehow.

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