BoomerGirl Diary

... If you can possibly help it

I'm tired of all the books telling me what I have to do before I die. As if there wasn't enough pressure in the world already, we have books telling us the movies we must see, the countries we must visit, the foods we must eat, and the music we must hear. If we do not go gentle into that good night, it will be because we're furiously flipping through the books at our bedside wondering what we've missed.

I say "pooh" to that. In fact, I'll be bold enough to say "pooh pooh" to that.

I'm taking the opposite tack. I will advise you in my upcoming blogs about things to not do before you die, if you can possibly help it. Think of all the time that you'll save!

First up is something that I found out today while moving some pictures and mirrors after a new master bedroom/bath paint job:

Never put a mirror on a flat surface like a table and then lean over and look into it.

I was actually already aware of this dictum, because I remember seeing it on "The Golden Girls" many years ago when my skin was moist and taut and I thought that the sitcom writers were exaggerating the effect to get a big laugh. Bea Arthur and the other Golden Girls took turns looking down at a mirror and screaming at what they saw. I did not scream when I inadvertently looked down at the mirror that I'd placed on a flat surface so that I could clean it.

It's nearly impossible to scream when you've passed out.