"Dad almost died....(30 minute pause) 

..slipped and fell overboard.......170 feet deep........big sharks swimming everywhere..........

lost his expensive glasses.......couldn't see the rest of the day.........I caught a huge shark........almost pulled me in..........feet came way off the deck...........on our way home now........Dad is flooring it."

 

Yeah.  I got messages like that. 

No pictures of the shark that Carson caught......or of Davis treading the shark infested water.  Clearly, I'll have to go along next time to properly document the event.  Everyone made it home with all their limbs, so all is well that ends well. 

        

 



2) Another event that shook me at my very foundation.......I found 12x and 18x magnification mirrors at Stein Mart this week and can I just say that it has been one of the most disturbing things that has ever happened to me in my life!  I really didn't even know those existed except for maybe in the Hubble telescope or somewhere like that.  I've had 8x mirrors and those are bad enough......but I've never magnified myself 18 times.  Let me just tell you.....it's not pretty.  Whoa!  I purchased the 12x mirror because I felt it told enough of the story.  The 18x was just the stuff nightmares are made of.   

If you ever feel your ego is getting too puffed up, go get yourself one of those and sit by a window with it for a few minutes.  You can see hair three days before it surfaces.  Each pore looks like a sinkhole, and my fine lines....well, they look like a page from the Rand McNally Atlas.  Oh, and the eyebrows.......they looked like my Daddy's when magnified 18 times.  Now, there are a lot of ways that a girl would like to favor her daddy, but eyebrows are never one of them.

I apprehended the usual suspects on the chin with my tweezers and found one who'd apparently been a fugitive for a while.  I didn't know whether to put the curling iron to it, call Guinness Book, or just pluck it out.  Plucking it almost felt like cutting down an old oak tree that had seen so much in its time and had a story to tell.  Oh, if that hair could talk. 

It was oddly impressive.
3)  And the most recent rumble in my little corner of the earth.......Blair left today.  After being home for three whole months, she headed back to college for all the sorority activities that precede school starting.  The door to her room is closed off again and our house has a little less fancy now.....a little less aerosol, a little less Michael Kors.......a little less happy noise.  We have palled around all summer together.....shopping, eating, exercising, watching movies, talking, and eating (did I say eating?) so, naturally, I'm going to miss her so much.  It's hard to be too sad though when you recognize the excitement in her eyes.......that kind you remember feeling. 

Unfortunately, she can't move into her apartment yet which means that even though Blair left us today, her large, ominous pile of things did not.  Davis and I will move those in a couple of weeks.        
                                                                                      
I guess that's all that has rocked my world this past week!

Here's to calmer seas starting tomorrow.

Smooth sailing to y'all!