SSS-Suddenly Single Senior: Lovin' the Laundry Room & Other newly Found Quirks

SSS-Suddenly Single Senior: Lovin' the Laundry Room & Other newly Found Quirks
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Woodwards/Eatons, I MIss You! Toys R US Sucks!

I'm a 'with-it' kinda senior gal!  I email and text message. I have an Iphone which I cherish! I keep up with world events and am comfortable in conversations with the younger generations..So it's not that I'm too old fashioned or behind the times. But, I confess, I miss Woodwards and Eatons! I miss "thank you's & please", and "How may I help you?" I guess I miss the comfort and ease of days gone by...when you shopped for your daughter's baby, and arms full of packages, someone ALWAYS asked " Can I help you with that?" Where you bought a baby's cradle and knew it would stand the test of time! Not some plastic version which comes in 1000 pieces! Not like yesterday's excurion to Toys R Us where I purchased today's version of a 'cradle.' The cashier tells me that for an extra $22 I can insure this plastic many pieced cradle for 15 months! 15 months???? Wouldn't I expect this cradle to last a few years??? I declined and this young lady actually seemed annoyed with me? My arms full of three heavy packages, I struggled to leave the cashier area with two very young employees busy chatting...not one offered to help! So hey, what the **@@!!***, I figured a way to sling my purse over my shoulder, carry my cane rather than use it, and struggled to get those packages through that swinging door before it closed on me..did I make it? Yes! Was I happy? No! Do I have many more baby things to buy? Yes! Will I shop at Toys R Us again? Very unlikely!


(PS the cane is because of a leg operation..I am usually 'two-footed.')

OMG! My life has been overtaken by a wee angel!

Suddenly I'm not so wrapped up in  my "SSS ness"! An angel has been born..and SHE IS MINE (well , partially mine!)...my first, my only grandbaby..my sweet girl..my Jamie Elizabeth, creature of late night rocking and countertop changes! I am in love..majorly, completely, utterly!
When I float down off my dreamy cloud, I'm sure those old sentiments will resurface...but for now, I am in a heavenly state....euphoric...blessed!

Just More Fluff

I faced an unusually quiet laundry room ...one elderly lady who turned out to be a very careful folder of all things clean. She had a sweet smile and hello...my first 'communication ' of the day! Funny maybe, but when you're all by your lonesome in a strange high rise on a rainy day, that quiet laundry room hello goes right to the heart! So I scrapped the shredded Kleenex fluff off my dried laundry and headed back to the suite. Met a young couple in the elevator for a quick chat and was beginning to feel like the day looked brighter, especially since the sun was peeking through those clouds. Now  I'm off for a seaside stroll!
Did I mention that I will become a grandma tomorrow? My first! And did I mention that this means the world to me? A golden thrilling moment for this suddenly single senior!

Lovin' the Laundry Room & Other newly Found Quirks

This morning I woke up hearing the patter of light rain, sighed big time and thought of how to fill my blank canvassed day.....I know, thought I,  I will  'do laundry.' ...even though I have NO dirty clothes! So I'm gathering a few towels, a few pair of my more attractive undie pieces and a tee shirt or two, and heading down the elevator to do the 'chore.' I'm hoping, of course, that no one I meet will wonder why I seem to have so much laundry that I appear too often in the steamy moist basement of this 1960's building.
And why do I write about this non-event? Well, actually doing my laundry has become an event of some significance! After all, when your sweet spouse has been gone for a year and you find yourself alone in a newly acquired one bedroom apartment in a rather newly acquired city by a newly discovered ocean walk amongst
not -yet -acquired friends & date material, rainy days occasionally do cramp your yet to-be-acquired "style "! Let me just say that seagulls landing on your deck begging for crumbs gets SO old! I'm sure you understand!
So off I go to throw yet more coins in the purring machines and lounge around with some  sense of ' je ne sais pas quoi!' I'll let you all know what comes to pass ...unless it's only about cleaner-than-ever undies and towels!