Jose, my new bloviator friend

 

Bob and I went for lunch at Golden Corral, I paid for the buffet and Bob went off to find a table.

After we filled our plates, Bob said,

what took you so long?

I was talking to Jose.

Who is Jose?

The shift manager/cashier

You were talking all that time to the cashier? How do you know his name?

It’s on his name tag, and besides when he talked to me, He said his name while telling me things.

I said I need dollars for a tip please, he puts it on the tab, and I said, I never carry cash these days, except a 20 for emergencies.

He replied, I do the same thing. He said my dad said a long time ago, Jose, you make a dollar, you save 20 cents of that dollar, you do that and you will always have money when you need it.

I said saving is the way to go, I told my son if he wanted the radio that cost more than we paid for his car, to stop drinking big Gulps at the convenience store and in a few months, he bought the radio.

Jose said, My dad, he says to my brother, you want that motorcycle? Stop smoking, save the cigarette money, 1 year later he buys the motorcycle for cash.

Jose said our favorite waiter, Aaron, is always late.

Bob says Who is Aaron?

 I say you know the one I like so much; he wears eye makeup and is so cute. How do you know his name? He writes it on the ticket when he comes to our table.

We continued the conversation on the way home and Bob says, how do you know all their names and what about the people in line behind you while you talked?

I replied, there was no one behind me, we talked about Aaron, because while Jose swiped my card, Aaron swiped his time card through the other cash register which zeroed out the one I had just signed for, and Jose had to ask for my card and do it again.

Aaron was trying to sneak by while Jose was talking to me, and he caught him, and said something in Spanish to him, I wish I knew what.

The thing is, Jose is a bloviator and we are kindred under the bloviator skin. 

. Did you know bloviator in Spanish and English are spelled the same way?

Click here if you want to know how to say it in Spanish!

Walmart Bloviator #2

 

Saturday at O dark 30, I found myself, the MadBloviator1,walking through the doors elbow to elbow with another woman about my age. 

As we stepped in the doors, Bloviator2 said to me "You and I are the only shoppers in the store with paper lists in our hands."

I said "we even used the same type of tablet. Pen and Paper is my thing. It's so easy to just jot on the tablet and much quicker to glance down at that trying to balance a phone that might get lost if I lay it down"

She said  "I know, right? who needs to deal with a phone, paper is so much easier."

I said " I can beat the paper story, and you will not believe this, but last week I saw a MAN with a calculator? " Shopping! with a calulator

Her eyes went WIDE and she said "NO! You didn't?"   

Ok you get the gist of it. I met Bloviator 2 at Walmart; and I am not the only Chatty Cathy in the building.

This post is for those of you who said you don't like to talk to strangers in doctors' offices and public places and don't really want someone talking to you while you wait.

To Set your minds at rest, just in case you meet me in a public place, I only talk to participating Bloviators

I say, I like your shoes. You say Thanks! if you give me zero feed back, I WILL NOT talk to you. 

I only bloviate with other bloviators. Warning! the more feedback from you, the more you will get!

For those of you wondering what the glamour shots above have to do with this post, the answer is.

I asked AI for bloviator, bright colors, glamour. That is what I got.

Second try, I said "two old ladies, talking while walking into walmart  BINGO!

More like it but she had on jeans and a t-shirt and I had on leggings and a t-shirt. no hats.

Something New This Way Comes

 

Meet my new keyboard/mouse combo. the 20-month-old that came with the All-in-One Desktop bit the dust, died dead on the desktop

Short Story is, I got a new keyboard.

Bloviator Story below.

Can't blame Asus for the bad quality. Nine of the letters on the keys were faded so badly

bob could not type on it, because he could not read the letters.

It is slim line and fast and it came in the color that is in every room in my house.

With left over gift card balance and rewards

my cot was on $13.24

Additional nonsense Info is

The color is what the shutters on the house were supposed to be. 

I want to change that color butt will have to do it myself.

 I don't do ladders.

Bob still does ladder, but SAYS he likes the PINK shutters, I say he does NOT but

knows if he says he doesn't, paint will appear, and the ladder will come out

The good news is, I had the old 
WIRED keyboard to get me through the 24 hours it took Amazon to deliver this new keyboard.

Way back 3 computers ago, one came with the wired and I kept it for emergencies.

Ordered from Amazon and in my hand in 21 hours.

Liver Spots and the Senior

 

I have a story to tell you. 

Each day at noon, we eat lunch, sit in the sun by the pool for 10 to 15 minutes and I come in and lay down for a nap. Bored yet?

For some reason watching someone apply make up on a YouTube Video puts me to sleep. For years I have been unable to nap during the day. If I place the 10 inch Tablet on my Propup Pillow, within 5 minutes of watching I doze into sleep. I figured this out because I go to bed 15 minutes before Bob and put the QVC channel on and during makeup/hair color I get so sleepy I can't stay awake.

Finally, to  the PURPOSE of this POST and the PicMonkey creation above.

Yes, there is a purpose.

I am OLD, I have what my mother called liver spots on my face. THREE of them.

they are ugly and since I have not worn make up in the past pandemic year, they glare at me all day long each time I go in the bathroom, trust me, at my age that is a lot of glaring spots to face in one day.

Last week, while watching the Video of a woman applying Concealer with a tiny brush like the one above, covering up blemishes, I fell asleep.

The next time I faced the mirror in the bathroom and the glaring brown spots, I thought I need concealer. Just for the 3 spots. Remembering the cost of that concealer was $44.00 . I looked at the concealer I had paid a DOLLAR for at dollar tree, and tried it with the brush, thinking it would work better with the brush. IT DID NOT! it was so dark it looked like I had chicken pox.

Then I noticed the bottle of FITme! that has been there for a year, unused because I bought to light a color that did not FIT me!  Picking up the bottle I shook it, Just Like the Video Person, Put a drop on the top of my hand, dipped the brush in it, ran it back and forth across my hand to dry the brush and dry brushed the 3 Liver/Age spots.

Gone in 60 Seconds! or less!

If you are wondering why I don't just put on makeup, it is because it makes my eyes itch and I save money by going bare.

I took these pictures of the back and front of the bottle and hated them Instantly. 

A. it showed my bathroom is 1972 Green

B. You would notice I have no vanity top.

I quickly made the decision to play in PicMonkey for almost an hour with two photos to have the perfect one for this post. Just so you would all know

You CAN use cheap makeup as cover up

You can use YouTube to put yourself to sleep

You WILL have age spots if you don't already

Last but not least, there is a Reason I am known As MadSnapper AKA Bloviator

PS! One More Thing... I can and did remove my double chins in PicMonkey.

Click on Liver Spots to see what Mayo Clinic calls them. AGE Spots. I prefer Liver spots

How I spent Mothers day

 I opened my phone on Mothers day to send 6 people Happy Mothers day text.

Hours later, I came out of my Cell Daze and decided to tell you what I found.

First I customized my keyboard, all the better to 

SEE IT! not to mention it is easeir to touch those tiny letters. But, I talk my text!

After I could SEE the keyboard I noticed I could send Gifs and Emojis and STICKERS

the poor 6 friends are still reeling from the 

barrage of

stickers.

One even received Merry Christmas, Just because I COULD. 

One received a little PIGLET saying WHEEEEE out the car window, because she texted and said she was staying SANE ...

Last but not least, I found I could BUY more STICKERS since I had already used a lot of the free ones.

They had tons of FREE but the GOOD stuff needed to be bought.

ALSO! I learned that to get a screen shot of all this,

to show all of you,

all I had to do was press power/volume buttons at the same time!

And there you have what I learned sending Mothers Day Text.

Wait! Should I add MadTexter to MadSnapper and Bloviator in my header?

YES! I do realize I could have spent the day practicing GRAMMAR and Punctuation! 

I wanted this one and paid 99 cents for it.  

THE BOTTOM THREE WERE FREE!

Bloviator Report

Each morning, five days a week, hubby and I step down into this pool at the YMCA! We are first in the pool always, which gives this view because the lights are still coming up.

After Bob's surgery, he stayed home for two weeks, and I went alone. When he is with me, I am not allowed to stay and TALK... when he is done in the shower room, we leave. This puts us home at 6:30.
The first time I went alone, I walked in the door at 7.

He said Where were you, I was about to come looking for you. Really? was my answer. I was bloviating TALKING! and I would have talked longer, but new you were expecting me.

I bloviate with the front desk person, after bloviating with 12 of us waiting for her to open the doors

The sad news is, the pool has been closed, I created this the week before it closed.. Its waiting for us. I hope. I miss my TOPS and my YMCA fellow bloviators... but I still have YOU.. I hope

5 Bloviators and counting

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOVIATORS!!!!

This past Thursday there were 5 bloviators in the lobby of the Surgical Clinic. Bob and I waited for his name to be called. A man came in the door, wandered around, started back out the door, spied Bob and froze, staring at him for long seconds, he pushed the door open, backed up letting it close, and stood staring at Bob.
He stepped over to where we sat and said  "I'm sorry for staring but you look so much like my friend Harry, I thought you were him."
I laughed and said he has many look a-likes here...and shared the story of the woman who jumped in Bob's face as we walked into Wal-Mart one morning. She shook her finger at him and raked him over the coals for delivering her washer and dryer and not taking the old ones with him. She ranted and carried on even when Bob said he did not know her and The Bloviator Set Her Straight.

Anyhoo… that was the first bloviator that we met that day. He sat down and we talked until the air was blue with words. He stood up and said I have to go walk around, can't sit for long and as he walked out, Bob said to me  "he talks more than you do".

Impossible I said. And explained at length I am a Chatty Cathy and he was a Chatty Carl and I will spare you that story.
they called Bob back and in walked another Chatty Cathy and a Chatty Carl together. The chose to sit facing me, and our knees almost touched.
Talk about Blue Air from words flying. The 3 of us talked over and under and on top of each other.

I LOVED EVERY MINUTE... I could go on and tell you what we talked about but, since it was over an hour, I will spare you. Bob was NOT sad he missed it. Of course I gave him the Run Down on every word he missed. He was a captive audience and I was driving. What could he do?

Are you a chatty person? Do you LOVE to talk to strangers? do you repeat conversations you had to other people?


I did an image google search for bloviators and OH WOW! Look WHAT I FOUND HERE I searched for my photo and could not find it... but we all KNOW I should be there.

Bloviator?

Yes, LC, it is a word

My friend Rose, of Time Stand Still, loves to go back in time and read under the labels conversation or Bob, which is  the conversations between the two of us.

She says they make her laugh.  Last week she emailed and said she needed cheering up, and went to my post from 5 years ago, to re-read Bloviator.

Bloviator prior post here 

I had been awaiting in inspiration for a new header, Thank You Rose.

In 2009, I named the blog MadSnapper because I took 87 million photos of any and all things. 

Over the years my blog evolved into talking about the banal, mundane, humdrum, day-to-day life I lead.

From this day forward, I will be known as MadSnapper AKA Bloviator.

Evidently I write the same as I TALK!

I have been told by others:

 if I worked outside my tongue would get burned.

that I have a black belt in conversation

and my husband was asked if his wife was the one that talks a lot ,by the life guard at the YMCA.

I am NOT fluent in Silence!

A few 😁 may have thought but not said, You sound better with your mouth closed.

If the Bloviator fits...………...😎

Bloviator...

2008  photos

At the YMCA I noticed a new poster on the board and stopped to read it. It said Camp Talk-A-Lot and I was so excited thinking... AT LAST! a new program I can handle.... Alas, the fine print said 3 to 5 year old and I am just a TAD past that.

The above collage is my 64th birthday celebration in 2008, that Heritage Park Rehab home surprised me with. I volunteered for 6 years there and my JOB was..... are you ready? Talking, talking and telling tall tales. If you look closely, the one thing you will see if in every photo, my mouth is OPEN...

Camp Talk-A-Lot brought up these 3 stories from the past. Bob so kindly reminded me of them when I told him about the camp.

1. In 1984, my husband and I worked in Sears automotive.. I was greeter dispacher for all the mechanics jobs. Bob and his friend Mel were standing at the counter and Mel said... "Bob, its a good thing Sandra doesn't work outside" and I said WHY? Mel said "because with all the talking you do, your tongue would be sunburned."

2. Hubby and my 25 year old son and myself were leaving church and as I stood in a group of people TALKING, with the two men waiting impatiently for me, My son said to the group "my mom has a black belt in conversation".

3. When I first joined the YMCA in 06, Bob was talking to the lifeguard and mentioned me. Renee said "Isn't your wife the one that talks alot?"

Now you know why my post are so LONG and full of verbiage... I write like I talk... And all this Bloviating is not my fault. I was  born to be a bloviator...and to bloviate in person or on line. The funny thing is, a few days ago, while reading a book in my kindle, the word bloviating appeared in a sentence and I thought WHAT? tapped that word and this is what came up... It is a for real word and fits me perfectly.

I may just change the name of my blog from MadSnapper to Bloviator...