I’m not talking about naturally gray hair, but people who are purposefully coloring their hair gray. Ask them why their hair is gray and for what reason. Just tell them if you want gray hair, you don’t get it from a box. You just need more stress in your life. Give it time!
I once read a letter to the editor. Someone complained about having an extra hour of daylight. She said it ruined her garden. During the “spring forward” many complain about losing an hour of sleep. Well if you go to bed one hour earlier you can counteract this discrepancy. You might say, “I have trouble falling asleep!” Well, I’ve had my wrestle with insomnia, and let me tell you about this product. Non-habit forming and not as dangerous as radioactive butterflies. I tried prescription sleeping pills, but Melatonin works just as well. In fact, it might work better than anything else I’ve tried. They smell a little bit like death, but maybe that’s why they’re so effective. As the wise old Nas used to say. “Sleep is the cousin of death”.
Side note: I don’t understand why people are always saying this. “Ah, I slept like a baby last night”. I don’t consider a good night’s sleep waking up every two and a half hours. Either I need to poop in my pants or need something to eat. I think it’s time we started sleeping like grown-ups.
I hope by now you’ve set your clocks on your range and microwave an hour ahead. If you rely on those electronics to wake you up.
There was a transitional period when I was 17. I couldn’t find an anti-perspiration that would stop the river of briny fluid flowing from my pits. I tried several brands from Speed Stick, Right Guard, Old Spice, and Degree to whatever Dad was using. I finally found Arrid XX about mid-way through my junior year of high school.
At one point, I remember the sweat rings became enormous. They would reach the ends of my shirt bottoms. The rings even reached halfway to my back. It was like I was squeezing out a dish sponge under my arms. If I was sitting at a certain angle, I could feel the sweat drip and roll down the side of my torso. Before I found Arrid, I applied so much product. It would start to build little cakes in the armpit portion of my shirt. It would dry and make the armpit part of the shirt brittle and stiff. No amount of washing could fix it, you had to throw the shirt away.
The problem resurfaced once I started to lose weight. Arrid was ditched and switched to Certain Dri. It worked until my body stopped freaking out about losing so much weight so quickly. Now I’ve switched back to a normal deodorant. Also, sweating is linked to anxiety, so you probably need to chill out a bit, so to speak.
I understand it requires much effort to maintain a lawn. If your yard is 90% weeds, you should take care of your overgrowth. It begins to creep over. You could also take care of your clippings. I know where the property line falls. How much effort does it take for one small pass of the mower? It could compensate for your clover neglect. I guess I will have to be extra careful. When I apply my weed and feed, I must be cautious. I need to ensure that I do not damage the precious clover you are eager to share.
This is not a situation of you making a plan and then canceling if something better comes up. This is a situation where both parties lack solid plans. They both release their schedules at the same time. Yeah, it happens.
People just don’t know how to say no. They also don’t know how to say yes. Heck, people don’t even say maybe anymore, they simply don’t respond. If you have two conflicting plans on your calendar and both are very important then someone will be disappointed. If you are required to be at both places who do you let down? What is the best method? Do you tell them early and hope they understand or do you wait until the day of the event?
If you inform them early, you risk them slathering on a thick layer of guilt. They may suggest that their event is not important to you. If that happens here’s what you do. A few days before the event, tell them that someone in your family died. Ask them again if you are still required to be there or if can you go bury your family member. Either way, you probably want to break off that relationship.
I vote for whatever this thing is. What is the purpose? To help you tear the toilet paper off the roll? How much trouble are people having if they can’t tear toilet paper?
I doubt this thing ever gets cleaned and is constantly caressed by poop fingers. I guess the flush handle is really the nastiest item in the bathroom. If you don’t clean it every day, you will now. You’re welcome.
I’m not pro-gun or anti-gun, but rather gun neutral. I don’t care if people own guns and I don’t care if you choose not to purchase them. I do think that we need to keep quiet about it. What I mean is, do not brag about it and cover your automobile with stickers. I don’t care if you hate guns either, and you should keep quiet about it.
At one point in history, there were no guns, just people smashing each other in the face with blunt objects. Before we figured out how to stab each other, we beat each other to death. You won’t fix the problem by removing objects.
The problem is not guns, but people. Just as there is not a problem with rocks, but people again. Do you think if God banned all rocks then Cain wouldn’t have killed Abel? Certainly not, he would have found some other way to kill him. How do you remove human depravity? Simply put, you can’t.
Some people just don’t know when to quit their verbal dialoguing. There are a few things you can do to ease the conversation to an end.
Electronics!
Play with your SmartPhone or Nintendo Switch OLED.
Making eye contact
You can make eye contact with other people as they walk by and use your “Help me” eyes. If you see a person with said “Help me” looks, call them on their phone and save them. Or you can make deep eye contact with the person talking your face off. Don’t reply, just maintain deep eye contact, even if they walk away first.
Other tips:
Mastering these quick exit strategies will save you from awkward or endless conversations while keeping things polite and professional.
Groundhog day is one of those special times of the year. We all wait for a woodchuck to forecast how much longer we have to deal with seasonal affective disorder. Don’t worry, spring will be here soon enough along with all of the allergies to go with it. Then you have summer heat exhaustion to look forward to. How about you just enjoy your present moments. Don’t trust meteorologists or prognosticating rodents but rather a system we’ve all agreed upon.
Daily Irritant 
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