The Bow Belle

After Independence Day there's NOTHING!!!  I didn't realize it until I started looking for reasons to wear this hair bow or that one.  So far July has been the driest month in terms of holidays, even niggling little ones that no one really celebrates.  So today we get yet another crap-shoot bow. It's already been a hard week.  The library board comes tomorrow and the three of us coworkers have been working hard to get the place clean.  That wouldn't sound like a big deal, but all three of us have arthritis and two of us are overweight!  Nevertheless I've done the heavy stuff that Mama and our coworker can't:  the vacuuming and the mopping.  I've STILL got mopping to do, in fact!  And it's supposed to rain tomorrow...and a certain relative of mine never wipes his damn feet. Dusty love, RagingMoon1987 

MmmmMay as well wear something to brighten the day. The board is visiting the library next Wednesday, and Boss Lady asked that the library be clean, so I've got a lot to do.  It's not a big deal, really, but I hate chores.  LOL, doesn't everybody??? Love, RagingMoon1987 

Another crap shoot, another random bow.  I picked my white lace bow today. Or is that more ecru?  Does it matter, LOL?  I griped to Mama this morning that this bow utilizes a French clip, and French clips are usually ridiculously uncomfortable.  They poke my head, pull my hair and are hard to place.  But so far this one has been very comfortable.  Etsy shop is VeryShine . Lacy love, RagingMoon1987

Mama joked not too long ago that I ought to find a bow with dice on it to wear during my crap-shoot days.  Alas, there was none to be found, but I'm not giving up.  Something new pops up on Etsy all the time.  But it's lemonade season now, and that gave me an excuse to trot out an old favorite.  The shop is also one of my favorites, osewpretty . Mama's favorite color and mine! I associate summer with Kool-Aid as much as I do lemonade, so I browsed Etsy for a Kool-Aid-themed bow...and found nothing.  I found earrings galore, but no hair bows.  It's been YEARS since I drank Kool-Aid anyway; when my sister and I were little Mama made it for us all the time.  Grape was my favorite flavor.  LOL, being a goofy little kid, I pronounced it "coo-laid."  As much as things have changed, Kool-Aid probably isn't as good now as it was when I was a kid.  Nothing is.  The chocolate is waxy, the sodas are bitter, and...well, NOTHING is as good now a...

It's Keroppi's birthday today! If Keroppi were a real little frog he'd be my age, thirty-six.  He was released in 1988 to celebrate Japan's rainy season that year, and I guess the public liked him.  In 1990 he'd outranked Hello Kitty herself as Sanrio's most popular character, but he's dropped off since then.  Keroppi is one of a set of triplets and has a girlfriend (all their names are a play on the Japanese word for "frog"). Truth be told, if we're gonna do Sanrio, Aggretsuko is my girl.  She's a red panda (I love red pandas), and she's very, VERY relatable.  Retsuko's birthday is Novenber sixth, but I've yet to find a hair bow with her on it.  This New York Times article lists Spottie Dottie and Pandapple as Sanrio's biggest flops, so I'd LOVE to find one of them on a hair bow.  I'll make my own if I have to!  Shame that Spottie Dottie was a flop, because I think she's cute.  Build-A-Bear apparently agreed ...

The remnants of Hurricane Beryl moved in over night and it's raining like y'all wouldn't believe.  That means that my green pool bow gets to come out. Looks to be an interesting day today!  Local weather says there's a possibility of tornadoes, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Love,  RagingMoon1987 

The only thing this post has in common with the anime is cicadas.  Here's my clip again. But I've got a different shirt this time.  It's another Etsy find, with a very realistic cicada on the front.  I unfortunately didn't get a picture, but the Etsy shop has good images . So far the cicadas in my neck of the woods haven't been any louder than usual, though they have been earlier than I can remember.  I don't remember being able to hear 'em before Indy Day, and yet it was mid-June when I started hearing 'em.  I loved it, of course; I love the sound of cicadas. Love and bugs, RagingMoon1987