Monday Mimisms ~ A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Vacation

Ten Things I Did in Hawaii On Vacation (The "Other" Ten will not be blogged. Ahem...)

Have you ever wanted something so much you couldn't stand it? Have you ever fantasized while driving through the drive-through to get a red slushy fruity thing and all you can think of is the "thing?" You stir the straw round and round in the plastic pretend glass, salivating about the moment the "thing" makes it appearance and hoping no one is reading your mind?
Oh.
It was scandalous.

None of that had a thing to do with my vacation but it was a nice thought. Mmmmmmaybe.
Here's what happened in Mimi's Hawaii. I was on a roller coaster in a hula skirt I'll tell ya.
I'm a bit dizzy. Aloha!

1. I attended a Flirt Fest.
Nuff said. But it had something to do with a bowl of popcorn.....You heard me.
Popcorn can be sexy.
Who knew??!



2. I played

This
over and over and over again
I've missed it so. Oh, I play everyday at work but this was different. This was not work. This was me ala piano in a nightgown on the bench with my hair all tangled singing wild and atonally appropriate and inappropriate symphonies to myself looking out the window in a fit of whimsy and caring not that the squirrels ran screaming through the forest in terror.
And barefoot. Did I mention I play barefoot?
...and then Sting showed up. He sat down beside me.
I knew that straw-stirring fantasy would come true.

3. I learned to love grass.
No. Not that kind.

THIS kind...........

It's growing under my feet with the dandelions in Bloggingham's front yard. Finally spring is here.
Still in a barefoot mood.
Do you mind?
And yet I still refuse to show my entire self to the blogging world.

4. I am reading THIS....

My reactions so far have been wide-eyed skepticism. Men are complicated enough and now he wants me to believe they're actually simple? I feel a migraine coming on.











5. The Fam: My son got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite at the beginning of vacation. I spent a lot of time in emergency rooms and pharmacies. By the end of vacation he was much better but I needed medication myself! He is responding well to the antibiotic. But that part wasn't fun......especially for him.
It was a slight setback for my "Hawaiian plans."



6. My dad took a turn for the worse, then got better, then worse, then better....a roller coaster dad he is. Hospice is back. He is still cracking jokes on morphine. I had to turn away in the ER when he told a friend, "Did you hear the one about the man who was looking for a bad woman?"


7. Had lunch with my best friend, Barbie, at Mimi's Cafe. Where else?

They were not amused when I told them my name was Mimi. I didn't even get a discount. Hmmpft! They should pay me for walking in there.

8. I missed Homer. And you.

9. In between long naps, nursing sick people, and flirting with popcorn bowls when I could, I worked on the Peace Globe Gallery and created a TWIBE for all you wonderful peace bloggers out there. Film at 11. In the process, I think we broke Twitter this morning. Yay!

10. So that's the vacation that was. And wasn't. Ups downs smiles frowns. And you haven't even heard about the carnival, my primpin' pedicure afternoon, and getting thrown out of the bookstore.

I may need a vacation from the vacation.
See you tomorrow.

P.S. Did any of you see Homer on Facebook while I was gone?

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