After I wrote my last post, I realized that I had left out an interesting aspect of my life here at home. As I mentioned - I am living at my Grandma's apartment. My Gammie is 95 now...and so I have an inside view into what it is like to live as a 95 year old woman. And I've learned some important things I would like to share:
1) The secret to why old woman have so many nicnacs is that they have NO garbage cans. I kid you not...I searched the whole place - none in the kitchen, none in the bedroom, none in the den, not even one in the bathroom. I was so confused I even called my dad to ask if I was missing something! But no, he confirmed that actually she liked the garbage to be taken out every day, so she would keep it on the counter in a yogurt container....*insert me looking confused here*
2) Grandmas have perfect nails because they have disposable nail files in absolutely every drawer of every piece of furniture in their whole home. I actually think my Gammie may have been planning a missions trip to some third world country and was stocking up to be able to do all their nails at once.
3) That distinctive "Grandma's house" kind of smell....is due to really old scented drawer liner paper. I actually think that if I brought this stuff to the Antiques Road Show they might offer me a pretty penny. Especially if I brought the matching sachets of potpouri, and the weird cedar thingies hanging in the closets, and the assortment of perfumes from the bathroom. I could quite possibly pay off med school with a haul like that.
4) Greeting cards are a collectable item. You should have many dozens in stock for any holiday/occasion related emergency where you need to whip out the perfect greeting card within the next ten seconds or someone may die.
5) Jello, and pudding related products, are their own food group. As is jelly. The fridge must contain at least 10 different kinds of preserves at any one time. And the cupboard should NOT contain useful things like icing sugar, or flour, or peanuts, but definitely must have 3 lemon jellos, 2 pistachio puddings, 1 plain gelatin, 1 lemon pudding, 1 vanilla pudding, and 1 creme caramel. Oh and 12 pudding cups in the fridge...even though they don't need to be refrigerated. I guess that maybe greeting card emergencies are sometimes coupled with pudding-related emergencies.
6) One tablespoon of vodka is an adequate amount to warrant keeping the large bottle.
7) It is perfectly reasonable to have 14 chairs in a 1 bedroom apartment.
and last but not least 8) One should always keep their butter in a china butter dish in the fridge....and have a backup butter dish (which does not have butter in it) also in the fridge. I guess it needs to precool or something in case it needs to have butter in it sometime soon?!
Lots of laughs!
Pamela
p.s. Dad - I think its safe to say we shouldn't print off this blog and take it to Gammie :)
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