One of the few daytime television shows that I watch is called “What Not to Wear?” Now, of course, because it is one of the few daytime shows I like, it is being cancelled. The host and hostess deal with some ladies that have been nominated because of the “quirky” things they wear. Now you might not know exactly what quirky means (just as I wasn’t sure) so, of course, I looked it up on the Internet. I do this a lot recently. So, the definition of quirky is: “strange, not normal, but cool.”
I decided that I seem to be going a little crazy or maybe I’m “quirky.” I guess it does not have so much to do with how I dress as with some other aspects in my life. I’ve started keeping a list of things to write about from time to time.
I thought about nominating myself and I could get a free trip to New York and $5,000 worth of new clothes. They did have one young lady that uses a wheelchair or elbow crutches and with their help she purchased some lovely clothes but had to allow them to give all her old clothes to charities.
I think I know some things they would find quirky about my clothes. First, I wear long white pants everywhere in the summer. Why? Because most of my shirts match, or as it’s said, “anything goes with white.” In the winter I wear black, beige or gray pants. I’m sure Stacey, the hostess on the show, would want me to wear dresses, but I get so cold in air-conditioning during the summer and freeze outside in the winter if I don’t wear pants.
They encourage six-inch-high heels, but I seldom wear shoes at all. Why? Because my feet swell and I can’t walk anyway, so what’s the point in buying new shoes.
In the third place, one good thing is that I love jackets, and according to Stacey, that is what completes an outfit. I am drawn to pretty jackets because they keep me warm.
Their hair dresser would want me to allow him to color my hair, as he would have a hard time believing that I have never had it colored. He would definitely want to cut and style it, but I am quite content with how Debbie does my hair.
The makeup artist could teach me a lot about how to apply makeup in a stylish manner. As usual, in some of my stories, I am off “chasing rabbits.” Since the folks on this show have used the word quirky several times, this story so far has written itself, so back to quirky things that happen in my daily life: Because of my disability, I try to keep a phone in my lap all the time. But they tend to slide off my lap onto the concrete. So as it turns out, I am getting new phones now.
At times I do lay the phones down on the cabinet, and on occasion they get covered up and then I have a hard time finding the receiver. There is the button which will locate receivers with a loud noise and blinking light that usually helps me find the receiver.
There have been some times when things are a little crazy around here and misplacing the receiver has been a “hoot.” This last time I hit the relocater, it sounded like the receiver was in the TV room, so down the hall I wheeled. It seemed louder than usual, so I went across the hall into the bedroom to see if I might have left it on the bed.
Then I remembered I had gotten some clothes out, so I decided to check the drawer just in case I may have left the phone in there. As I leaned forward to look in the drawer, I glanced down and there was the receiver on the foot rest of my wheelchair.
One might think that I would remember that at times I do put it there. Not too often, however, after it fell out in the yard one of those times. The locater doesn’t help find the phone in the yard, and that was a challenge with which I hope to never have to contend again.
There is one word I don’t care to use, but I laughed at how “stupid” I felt. My mama used to say “Stupid is as stupid does.” And her other favorite saying was: “If the shoe fits, wear it.”