We now have a dry erase board on the refrigerator. We tend to leave each other little messages. Things like, "Have a nice day!", "Car keys are on the table", "You've got a really big, green sleepy-seed goober in your eye", and "Little orange cat is gonna die." It reminds me of my golden days of high school...but only with two premenopausal women and a husband.
We had a white board, as I call it, a grease board, as Brenda calls it, before. It is the run-of-the-mill deal that drugstore.com sends you with your first purchase. I received mine back in 2001. I found it so much easier to buy wart remover without having to look anybody in the eye. I assume Brenda's is of similar age. In any event, I think "dry erase board" would be a misnomer for that pathetic slab of laminated paper, which required the shoulder stamina of 40 Cleopatra-age rowing Egyptians to erase a message dry. I, having only the shoulder stamina of a scant 20 Cleopatra-age rowing Egyptians, often found myself discouraged.
Last night, I wrote on the new board, "And how much do I love the new board?
THIS much!" Note the underline...I put it there to draw your attention to the enormity of "how much"...much like this sentence. How sly am I!?
As I chatted with my aunts while they readied for work, I admitted, "And I love that I can nuzzle it with my nose and....IT ERASES!" Yes, I regularly use conjunctions to start a sentence. It's how my mind works, see. I never really complete a thought, because I know more will come to me later...thus the use of conjunction. Oh, and you know what?—it's perfectly legal to
do so. Please ignore the part where they say to use it sparingly, though.
Debbie rolled her eyes at my comment and said, "I don't wanna know..." hinting at something naughty, no doubt. Brenda indulged me and lowered the white board to a mere 3 feet—as if my nose only rose that far from the ground! I know she thinks herself high and mighty at a towering 5'4"...but I've lived with 6'2" long enough that she's not nearly so awe-inspiring in her heels.
So take that, Princess.
In response to the sassy new message board, the ousted drugstore.com freebie tries to play a sympathy card. I really messed with the curves and contrast so you could see the writing better... The refrigerator really isn't the same color as your typi
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