Aging Nicely #3…

Dressed for success?

When I woke up this morning it was a clear, crisp day… it was a  little on the chilly side, so I put on a pair of olive green cropped stretch pants under my hot pink, mid-thigh night gown and an orange, zip front sweatshirt over it. My intention was to read my book, surf the net and eat breakfast…never to leave the confines of my house. But my mind wanders and I follow it.

As I was sitting eating breakfast, I saw a pile of greeting cards and the Netflix movie in its return envelope – all ready for mailing. I thought, if I don’t put these in the mailbox, I’ll forget them later and the mailman will pass and they won’t get where they are meant to be until it’s too late. By now it is an hour since I got up and my mind has gone beyond whatever I was thinking then.  I walk out the back door and down the steps into the driveway. At this point, I think: “watch me see someone I know while I am in this hideous outfit.” I continue down the driveway and just as I get beyond the shelter of the house and car, there is not one, but three total strangers on a morning walk. What could I do? I continued to the mailbox, said “Good morning” , shook my head at myself and returned to the house.

Not sure if this makes matters better or worse, but I wasn’t wearing my glasses, so I won’t recognize them, but I bet they’ll recognize me!