After I had imbibed on the words deliciously served by CJ on his blog Rambles from My Chair (found here), I was struck with the urgent need to possess my own Concise Oxford Dictionary! Now to see if I could afford to own this treasure. Off I go to my favorite site Amazon.com. There I am pleased as punch to find it at a reasonable price. I click on "Buy now with one click", record it in my check register...then store the memory who-knows-where in the land of my brain. Two days later while my granddaughter and her dumpling are visiting, we hear someone at the door, but no one enters. I proceed to open the front door and see a package. Said visitor asks me, "What is it, Grams?" I reply that I don't remember what I ordered. I rush the mystery package over to the counter so that I can rip it open. When I spy my new treasure, I blurt out, "Oh, it's here!" Granddaughter sighs, "I don't know anybody else who would be so excited at getting a dictionary in the mail." What can I say? It's the little things in life that bring truth to the song "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries." |
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I understand about misplacing your glasses; in recent years I do try to put them, keys, etc. in the same place each time. But...you know.