Greetings From the Housewives of Seton Court

Tara is recovering from her laser lipo procedure. Tara and I jewelry shopped this morning and we all went to the beach this afternoon. Mary and Julie rode their bikes. Julie is manically cleaning because Mark's parents are coming down for a week. Mom was in a super bad mood today in Morgantown so  I was on the phone at the beach most of the PM. I continue to walk and eat lettuce. Cassie and Justin checked out a wedding venue in PA today and there were dead chickens in a pen at the locale and Cassie refused to see anymore. Hey, they want an outdoor rustic wedding. What more does she want? I'm trying to coordinate a redecorate of Mom and Dad's Rowlesburg house from Ormond, find a mother's of the groom gown, start a new facial care regime, anti-age and evenly tan all in the next few months. Preston is getting teeth. I think growing all new teeth might be easier than what I'm trying to do. We were all considering lipo until Tara told us the"painless" procedure was worse than child birth. I still haven't recovered from or lost my baby fat from Justin's delivery 25 years ago so I'm going to continue walking and eating lettuce. I did give myself a ped/leg massage with wet sand and salt water at the beach yesterday. Then I showered and moisturized my entire body in Vitamin E oil and my feet in Mary Kay moisturizer for super dry skin and slept in socks. Of course my face was coated in stuff too but Rob didn't seem to notice. He was reading a murder mystery. That kind of bothers me sometimes that he is always reading murder mysteries. Julie went furniture shopping but I stayed at the beach because I needed to walk. I had Rob pick up dinner for us because my day was so stressful. Mark loaded and unloaded the car for us girls to go to the beach. He had to come and pick Julie up when she was ready to go home. She can ride her bike 50 miles but is totally incapable of walking back from the beach. I am use to waiting on myself and would never expect something like that. After I finish the laundry tonight, I'm going to eat some more lettuce, coat my body again, do my feet and hope for the best. I'm so glad my friends aren't shallow. That would be really difficult for me to live with. I really need to finish up this blog post and call Tara and see if she is going to the beach tomorrow.

Me, Tara and Blue Eye Shadow

I decided it was time to restock my old make up and face care products so I scheduled an appointment with the local Mary Kay person. I told Tara to come over, if she wanted and play with make-up this afternoon. I will give it to Tara on this one. She is knowledgeable about make-up.  Me not so much. Tara thinks I'm stuck in the 80's but actually it is the 70's. I admit I'm stuck on blue eyeliner, eye shadow and blue mascara. Tara spent the entire afternoon putting makeup on me and trying to steer me away from blue anything. I actually was more interested in the facial care program. You know, anti aging, moisturizer, and cleanser products. Mary Kay has two products I'm addicted to, which would be their under eye gel and the moisturizer for dry skin. I needed the moisturizer in the dry air, indoor, winter climate of West Virginia. I would coat my body in it. I convinced Tara to buy it. Tara and I also  did the lip products, facial products. Last was make up. I had told Kelly on the phone that I really liked blue so she got out the blue samples and Tara started rolling her eyes and telling me that blue was so not cool and was not age appropriate for me. Tara obviously forgot that I do what I want and don't tend to listen to anyone, especially former students, so I reminded her. I did let Tara apply my make up and she did a good job but didn't use the shade of blue I liked. Once again she told me that the shade I wanted was not age appropriate. Tara did a good job on her make up but had to leave to get Preston a bottle. I knew this was my chance to order all my blue make up before she got back, which I did. Actually, the price of the make up was more than worth it when I saw the look on Tara's face when I told her that I not only had bought blue eye shadow but blue liner and mascara. Anyway, I get to try all my new products tonight and Tara came over to show me her make up and clothes before she went out on her dinner date this evening. She had reapplied all her make up.  I thought she looked fine but she had gone from a day time look to an evening look. I don't have that problem. I wear blue for everything, 24 hours a day, for decades.

What's New with Me ..... I Thought You Would Never Ask

I went home to West Virginia for a week to visit Mom and Dad which means I also had to see David. Mom and Dad are spending the winter in Morgantown beside David. I spent most of the week hanging out with them, shopping and doing little errands for them. I also had Meloney cut and color my hair so it looks natural again. Mom and Dad are coming back to Rowlesburg soon because living beside of David is not like living near me but I could have told them that. We needed to do work on their house in Rowlesburg so it is good that they were away for the winter so construction could be done with out bothering them. The weather was only nice one day while I was home.I spent much of the week complaining about the weather. I was really looking forward to getting a wedgie from "Charlie's" Belko but they aren't making them any more so I complained to David and Caron because they are friends with the owners. Caron told them I was upset so maybe the wedgies will come back.  Mom, Dad, Shannon, Brandy and I had lunch one day together. It was Chinese delivery in Morgantown. There is no food delivery in Rowlesburg, unless you count me sending Rob to Cool Springs and bringing it back to me. I visited with a couple of other people but mainly I spent the week with Mom and Dad. Dad thinks I'm funny. Mom not so much. I rode back to West Virginia with Cassie and Justin. They like country music and I wasn't allowed to talk much. I was glad when they dropped me off at the house. Justin isn't allowing me to have much input in the wedding plans, either. It is starting to appear that my family is really not that interested in my opinions which I find almost impossible to believe. Justin and Cassie did drive me to the airport and we worked on the invitation list for the wedding and discussed other things about their special day. Justin informed me that I should just be happy that I'm invited. I don't know what I'm allowed to say about the wedding so that will have to wait. Cassie's Mom and I want them to have the wedding of the century  but they don't want anything we want. I've been spending lots of time on Pinterest planning the wedding I think they should have. I really haven't been on Pinterest or Facebook much in the past week because no one would let me use their computer while I was home in West Virginia. I made a few observations while I was back home in West Virginia. There are lots of pot holes everywhere. Winter is cold. I mean really cold. I forgot that Sunday morning when we were getting ready to leave and wore my Mary Jane Birkenstocks. I didn't know it was only in the single digits when I started up Oak Street to meet up with Justin and Cassie. It took a blanket and the heat on high all the way to Pittsburgh for my feet to thaw out. I had on my new fur vest which was totally useless when we landed in Orlando. They plane ride was good and  they served a new little snack I liked on the plane which I'm going to look for in the store today. Rob is really glad I'm back. He doesn't have anyone to wait on when I'm gone and he gets kind of out of shape so I'm going to help him get back in shape this week. So it is back on schedule for me this week. My life is tough but only I can do it so I guess I'm signing off of here to go get dressed before the noon bells toll or maybe I'll just take a nap.

My New Job Mother of the Groom

I have a new job starting today. Justin proposed to Cassie this morning at sunrise at the beach.  Before anyone thinks "how romantic", Justin was going fishing anyway.  He takes Cassie to hold the fishing pole while he puts a new shrimp on the hook. I guess he thought I'll kill two birds with one stone while I'm at the beach. Anyway, it sounds romantic and Cassie was happy so I guess that is all that matters. I was back home in bed with the pets and Rob. We are trying to balance two dogs and Midnight this week. Midnight hates Bailey and Buster. Bailey hates Buster. Buster hates Midnight. I'm constantly putting one in one room and trying to feed the other. Anyway back to my new job. I am Mother of the Groom. I am not sure what my job is but I think Justin and I are going to have some problems. So far he thinks they are registering at Cabelas and honeymooning in Alaska. He thinks hunting and fishing could be a wedding theme and camouflage is a wedding color choice. I on the other had would like a Royal Wedding theme. I have watched all the Royal Weddings and Kate and William's wedding is so recent in my mind that it would be easy to duplicate. Cassie and I were practicing our English accents today. Justin was not amused. I started looking up appropriate castles or estates for the location today. Justin informed me that it would not be a formal wedding and that I may not be invited if I kept insisting on a theme. OK, the dolphin/mermaid, pirate, Cinderella at the Castle, Rhett and Scarlet, and Gypsies,Tramps and Thieves may have been a little over the top but there has to be a theme. I started picking out my dress tonight and that made Justin mad, too. It is a lovely little number from Nordstorms. Justin informed me that it looked like a nightgown. Cassie and I have spent hours on Pinterest and wedding web sights today looking for ideas. A location still needs to be picked, a theme, decorations, centerpieces, flowers, a caterer, favors, colors, invitations, etc. Justin just doesn't seem interested. He feel asleep in the car when we were trying to discuss it. He asked if registering at a gun shop was appropriate. I think he wants deer jerky and ramps at the reception. I mean what is a Royal Mother of the Groom to do?