They remind me of someone...

Soooooooooooo I go to the weight loss center I go to, to get back on track with weight loss, the owner like loves me and will give me like free products basically just cuz I'm Mary and she loves talking to me and well cuz everyone, almost everyone, loves me!!! LOL 

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Weeeeeelllll I go in one day and the owner isn't there and I'm greeted by this older grandmotherly type lady in a nurses uniform. She opens my file, reads my name and is like, OMG, SOOOOOO YOUR MARY!!! My daughter has told me sooooooo much about you...I'm HER MOM!!!! (The owner's)

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She's like, WOW, your really are SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! Oh just look at you, she says, all your little things, your hair ribbons, your just too cuuuute!!! OMG! On and on...She's just like GUSHING OVER ME!!!! Then she ACTUALLY takes my face in her hands and is just like, YOU ARE JUST ADORABLE!!!  

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I mean, I LOOOOOVED the compliments, buuuuuuut I left that place liiiiike, OKAAAAAY this lady is JUST CRAZY!!!! And YET, despite me thinking she's kinda quirky, I thought there was SOMEONE she reminded me of, that was ALSO KINDA WEIRD, buuuuuuut yet despite their quirkyness, I feel a FONDNESS towards them!!! I'm just  driving home like, hmmmmmm

WHO did she remind me of????

LATER ON...

I'm at home and I see my nephew and MAAAAAAAANNNN...I JUST LOOOOOOOVE THAT KID!!!! I just start hugging and kissing him and telling him he is juuuuuuust soooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuute!!! I mean, literally, I think he is like THE HANDSOMEST KID AROUND!!! Plus the kid is PRACTICALLY like a son, MINUS the financial responsibility...bahahahahaaa...I'm like, OMW O YOU ARE JUUUUUUUUST SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!! YOUR ADORABLE!!!! 

Annnnnnnnnnnd as soon as I said that, I REALIZED WHO THE WEIRDO WAS that lady from the weight loss center, FONDLY, reminded me of....

ME!!!!

I was the CRAZY WEIRDO she reminded me of!!!! 

I'm liiiiiiike, OOOOOOOOh yeah...that's WHO!!!!

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 I LOOOOVE the fact that I couldn't place WHO they remindinded me of, buuuuuuuut, it was someone I felt FONDNESS TOO!!! AHAHAHAAA!!!! Even though I thought she was crazy for gushing over me like that, I CAN SOOOOOOOOO see MYSELF doing that to someone when I am in my 60's!!! (Or maybe RIGHT now!!!;)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

The Corona Pick Up Line!!!

 Soooooooooooo, I've been hearing that THE HEAT is supposed to kill the Corona Virus...IF that's the case, BRING ON THE AZ 120 weather!!! Then I was liiiiiiike, HEEEEEEYYY, that'd make THE AWESOMEST PICK UP LINE!!!

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Goes like this:

Did you hear that heat kills THE CORONA VIRUS???

If that's the case...

We're SAFE!!!!👊

HEEEEEEEEEEYYYY!!! 👐

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♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. This was SPECIAL for you Jenny, hope you can fall asleep better tonight!!! Hee, hee!!! Don't forget to use this pick up line on the Hubz-He'll be soooooo flattered!!! ;))))Gotta help all you old married folks add some spice to your marriage!!!BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Pretty Nails!!!

I REMEMBER the first time someone told me I had pretty nails.

It was during a P.E. class at Desert Arroyo Middle School.

I was in 6th grade.

Standing in line to hit the soft ball.

Suddenly, a very popular girl, standing in front of me, turned and spoke,

"Oh MY GOODNESS!" She exclaimed. "Is that a french manicure?!"

I am like "HUH?! A WHAT?!?!"

(I had NO idea what that was AND I was actually quite in shock that her highness has even spoken to me!)

"Did you get a manicure?" she asks again?

"Uh, no," I say.

"So those are your NATURAUL nails?!?!" She asks in awe.

I think about this for a moment, not to sure what to say.

I NEVER cut my nails.

I NEVER file my nails.

I NEVER clean my nails.

I NEVER bite my nails.

I NEVER, EVEN think about my nails.

I wasn't even sure what a manicure was.

ESPECIALLY a French one!!!

"Uh yeah!" I say.

(Cause my nails are about as NATURAL as they get!)

I am totally shocked when she turns to me in total admiration...

"Oh wow!" She says. "I have ALWAYS wanted a French manicure!!!"

This was the beginning of compliments

on something I could care less about!!!

"Wow! you have SUCH pretty nails!"

"They are so elegant!"

"They look so graceful!"

"They look so healthy!"

"Such a perfect pink sheen!"

"Just the right curve!"

Divine!
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And I am thinking...
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AS IF I CARE about my nails!!!

Compliment me on my hair!

Compliment me on my eyes!

My smile!

My laugh!

My WONDERFUL personality!!! ;)

BUT NOT MY NAILS!!!

And of course the questions...

Do you spend a lot of time on them?

How often do you file them?

Is there a special vitamin?

What brand nail clipper?

WHAT do you do to get them like that?!?!?!

AND THE ANSWER WAS SIMPLE!!!

I DO...

NOTHING!!!

NOTHING!!!

NOTHING!!!

My nails grow.

They break perfectly even across.

Then grow back.

Thats it!!!

And I NEVER thought twice about them!

UNTIL ONE DAY

Oh happy day

A very, very, very cute guy came over to me and casually said...

"Hey, pretty nails!"

My heart started beating faster!

My pulse was racing!

I FAINTED a million times, INSIDE!!!

"Oh, thanks," I said CASUALLY!

And that was it!!!

SUDDENLY I CARED!!!

Shopping time!!!

I went with my friends to the mall!!!

They were looking at clothes for a youth conference.

NOT ME!!!

I was shopping for the PERFECT nail buffer.

I mean who cares about new clothes, WHEN you have pretty nails?!?!

"He said I have pretty nails," I said sighing.

"Oh brother!" said one of my friends.

"We've ALL told you that before!"

"Yeah, EVERYONE tells you that!"

"Yes, I said, but YOU ALL are girls!"

"I have had lots of girls say it before...

BUT the guys have ALWAYS been negative about them...

My brothers say they are gross, they call me "Claws"

Say they are daggers- a weapon-

"YOU NEED TO CUT THOSE!" they say...

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BUT HE SAID they are pretty!!! *SIGH!!!

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AND soooooo

I buffed them.

I filed them.

I noticed them.

I liked them.

I became VAIN about them.

OMW!!! I EVEN kIsSeD THEM!!!

*Gasp!!!

And one,

by one,

they began to break.

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As each one broke, I would think...

God is trying to teach me a lesson.

But still...

I filed.

I clipped.

I Buffered.

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Finally there was ONLY one long nail left...

I should probabley just leave it I thought...

"Clip it!" said my brothers!!!"It looks WEIRD!!!"

BUT instead

I pulled out my buffer.

Just one more time...

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SNAP!!!!

And it was over!!!

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Everytime my nails start growing back...

SNAP!

Gone is the beautiful elegance.

Gone are the compliments.

Gone are the looks of admiration.

In their place is short, stubby little nails.

*SIGH!

AND you know what I'm gonna do about that?!?!

NOThING!!!

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I don't cut them.

I don't file them.

I don't buff them.

( I do clean them now...I mean...LOL...)

I DO NOTHING!!!

You know why?!?!

CAUSE...

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I DON'T EVEN CARE!!! =)

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Pride goeth before destruction,

and an haughty spirit before a fall.

(Proverbs 16:18)

P.S. THANK GOD he didn't say I have pretty eyes!!! ;)
P.P.S. And after all these years, they are finally getting pretty again...and I still don't care!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Purple eyes!!!

So little O is realizing lately that certain things are for girls and certain things are for boys. Which, in this day in age is a GOOD thing to be realizing!!! Well first on for most on his list is PINK is for girls. Second, GLITTER is for girls! Any stuff animal that had glitter on its collar or any where else was given to SISTER!!! Well if pink is for girls, so is purple! AND blue, green, red, orange and brown are FOR BOYS!!! Weeeeeeeelllll I personally think that's being a little stingy with the color schemes since I happen to LOOOOOOOOVE COLORS!!!!

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So I was like, well O girls can wear blue too!!! He was like, NOOOOO it's boys!!! So I was like, well if blue is for boys, then WHY are my eyes blue??? He looks at me with a glare and says, YOUR EYES ARE NOT BLUE AUNT MARY!!!! I'm like, LOOK AT THEM, they're blue!!!!! He's like, they are NOT!!! So i'm like, okaaaaaaaay fine, if they're NOT blue, what color are they then???? So he looks at my eyes, and he's looking and looking and looking and just staring at them, I thought he would back down and finally say, OH they are blue! Buuuuuuuut NO the kid just keeps staring and concentrating, then FINALLY with a look of triumph he says, PURPLE!!!

YOUR EYES ARE PURPLE!!!!

I mean, I gotta give the kid credit for coming up with that! Especially since when I was a kid, purple eyes would have made me VERY HAPPY!!! Blue eyes were pretty much my childhood-trial-of-the-faith!!! People would oooooh and ahhhhh over my eyes, buuuuuuuut all it meant to me was that people always gave me blue things!!! When my mom bought me and my sister clothes, she would almost always get us the same, but my sisters would be the beloved PINK and mine would be BLUE!!! I would wine, WHY can't I have pink???? Blue is boys!!! And my mom would say, because, you have blue eyes!!! and me, BUUUUUUUT blue is for BOYS and Theresa doesn't have PINK EYES, it's NOT fair!!! 

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Ironically, as and adult, my two favorite colors are PINK annnnnnnnd BLUE!!! Pink because, well, it's PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!!! 😍 And blue because I finally realized WHY my mom kept putting me in it, I LOOOOOOK GOOD IN IT!!! Gotta love a color for doing that for one right?!?! LOL 

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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT I like PURPLE too! Because, purple was my mom's favorite color and because it's for girls annnnnnnd BECAUSE I LOOK GOOD IN IT TOO!!!! AHAHAHAHAAAA!!! So if the kid says I have purple eyes, theeeeeeeeeeeeeennnn…

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PURPLE EYES I HAVE!!!

ANNNNNNNNNND...

Because BLUE IS FOR BOYS!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I LIIIIIIKE YOUR UNICORN!!!

Soooooooo in February, for Presidents day being a day off VACAY day, we decided to take a little trip up to Prescott AZ! The plan was to eat breakfast, HIKE and EAT lunch there, buuuuuuuuut it ended up snowing up there, which for us Phoenix Arizonans is just AMAAAAAAAAAZING!!! (Btw: I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with snow! I LOVE to go to the snow and spend a day in it! Sledding, tubing, snow angels, snowmen and a few snowball fights, buuuuuuuuut I would NOT want to LIVE IN IT!!! After a day, i'm ready to part wayz! Buuuuuut can't wait to spend that one day in it again NEXT YEAR! Kinda like some people...AHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!;)

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So the day turned into a day of eating breakfast at Cuppers, playing in the snow, (No one wanted to hike the mountain with me in snow! Psssh!) SHOPPING, eating AND MORE playing in the snow!!! Well people just LOOOOOOOOOOOVED my outfit!!! I wore a blue hoodie, with my snowman cap...I was very warm and snuggly annnnnnd apparently ADORABLE...not to toot my own horn buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut TOOT, TOOT!!! ;) Okaaaaaaaaaaay, no, this was ACTUALLY this was everyone else's words, I mean, I wasn't arguing with them on the matter,

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BUUUUUT HEEEEEEEEYYY, if you look cute, YOU LOOK CUTE!!! And apparently, I had the adorable fluffy-snow-lady look going on and was embracing WHOLE-HEARTEDLY!!!

So people were just coming up to me all over saying they liked my hat, that I looked cute, they liked my outfit etc...This little old lady was following me at the mall, trailing me as I went into the bathroom, I hear this, excuse me, excuse me, so I turn and see this adorable lil old lady! (No disrespect in calling her a lil old lady, I plan on being an adorable, fluffy old lady some day!) So I turn to her and she's holding up her phone and was like, would you mind if I took your picture? Your outfit is just SOOOOOO CUTE! I really want a picture of it to show people! I was like, SURE, instantly ready to pose, OF COURSE!!! I mean people were just REALLY loving my snow-lady hat, a homeless man asked me for it, I just smiled, I mean IF he didn't have a hat, I woulda given it to him, buuuuuuuut he had a very nice, new and warm looking hat to keep him warm, if I gave him mine, then I wouldn't have one, ANNNNND I wasn't about to trade...Jus sayin! Sooooo I just smiled.

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT

My favorite compliment went to the little old man that complimented me, I was walking by him an he says to me with this thick drawl, "I LIIIIIIIIKE YOUR HAT!" I was like, Oh, THANK YOU! He was like, "A UNICOOOOORN, I liiiiiiiiiiiike that!!!" I was like, Okaaaaaaaaaay that was OFFICIALLY my favorite compliment of the day!!! I mean, everyone was freaking out and complimenting me on my hat because it had snowed and my hat was a snow-man, and this brotha just completely missed the whole point!!! (Or exchanged the carrot nose point for a unicorn-horn's point!) Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut heeeeeeey, I DO LIKE UNICORNS!!! Ahahahahaaaaa!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)