Human beings are a rational group, as species go.  We know eating vegetables  is good for us,  going out with wet hair is questionable and sending textmails while driving is not a good idea.

So why is it we behave irrationally around shiny toys – phones, gadgets, cameras, bathroom scales?

I am having the most aufgereght arguments with my digital scale over a questionable quantity of ten pounds.  It says yes, I scream no.  I approach it nicely in the morning, stepping slowly and as lightly as I can while exhaling any extra air weighing me down.  Of course, if I don’t like what I see, I step on the scale again until I see a number I like better.  This could go on for a while.   Surely there is some caloric benefit from all of this.

I am home with the flu and wrestling with my flu demons – aches, chills, fever – and my shiny toys.  You know what I am thinking, don’t you?  If I’m going to be sick, I might as well drop a few pounds.

Crawling to Wow!

Logic went out the window once the February and the flu caught up with me.  I am so far from feeling good, doing good and – ha! – looking good, so nicht Wow! But the good news is, things can only get better.  From your mouth to God’s ears, I can picture the words falling from the lips of my late mother-in-law, Mildred, like gestoyner broit (Yiddish for “yesterday’s bread”) bouncing off a truck.  I can also picture her applying lipstick and putting on a freshly ironed apron before putting out the garbage and saying, “You never know who you ‘re going to meet.”

Mildred was Wow! She was a WAC, a devoted wife and mother.  And as the daughter of a tailor from the Bronx, she inherited an uptown eye for style.  The feel of fabric, the cut, the styling of a jacket, the effortless effect of so many tailored details in a well made garment.

Well, I am going to feel better soon! I have shoes to design, patterns to write, style notes to share,  a nonprofit to run…

How are you doing?  Are you feeling good, doing good and sigh! looking good?

I would be so farklempt (Yiddish for “overcome with emotion”) if you would leave me a comment and let me know.