Fabulous Friday

Well, it is just a fabulous Friday. The air is a little cooler, I had lunch with my hubby and have made a batch of yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Am looking forward to tonight when Randy and I will don our aprons and cook orange chicken over udon noodles! We have several friends who are in a season of life which is throwing them some health problems and was reminded of a little story from a few years back. Randy and I were at a meeting down by Austin and while he was in the meeting, the wives of the directors were having breakfast and talking about the different stages of being a women and the different ailments which went along with each of those particular decades. Each women there had had some type of surgery befitting her age, some in their early thirties had just had children, some in their 40’s had had either gallbladder surgery and those in their 50’s (which is where I was at the time) had had knee or hip replacement, back or neck surgery, etc. As we were sharing stories, one lady was complaining that she had had surgery that was just so painful and that the pain pills which the dr had given her was just not doing any good. I told her that she should ask the dr for some valium as it was such an awesome pain killer, and if taken correctly, even if it didn’t take the pain away, you simply didn’t care!. When she heard me she exclaimed, “Trudy, no one should take valium, they are just so very addictive!” At this point, I injected, “no they are not, I have been on them for years”. Well, everyone at the table just cracked up and it was then that I realized just what I had said. What they didn’t know is that I had taken them once a month for that wonderful time each month, when the rest of the world is crazy and mean and I was the only one that had any sense or feelings. That was what the dr’s in the 60’s prescribed and I had taken them with success each month until I didn’t have that “precious time of the month anymore”. So all this to say, sometimes, I do miss my blond hair, it always gave me something to blame my “choice of words”. Hoping your Friday is Fabulous!