Tuesday, May 31, 2022

#213 @writeousmom




 

728/730 Main Street, Downtown Pleasanton California -for (me!) sandra, tvgp



original post september 28, 2017
has been in draft.  when i 'undraft' and 'publish'  will show up as if written today:  may 31 2022.
looking for help.  would love a way to undraft, but have post remain in it's proper/original time slot.


on the bottom floor:  my studio, slash store  [previously described: purple books/joyce meyer; autographed books, mag time frames, the heart seen, mixed media, novel gifts for writers, poetry, photography,  quotes, lucky number etc.] storehouse of things that really matter
on the second floor:  my home, with beautiful guest rooms for taryn and jack, and their future families; and other family/friends throughout the year
on the roof/two tiered:   garden. green house. entirely window enclosed/temperature controlled; see out, but can't see in..   allows visual access to the outdoors/ sky day/night; all weather; all year
mural on side; elevator inside, parking lot used for fellowship/meals
balcony  -parade views
magic, lights, sparkle, funk, eccentricity
walking distance to everything I love: book store, restaurants, library, firehouse theater, classes, aquatic center, fair, stores, barones, live music, entertainment, parks..      #firehouseartcenter

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Mermaid Bliss summer 2022 yard art by (sexy! & topps!) #bliss #haiku @writeousmom




public "thank you!" to solomon, AKA pops,  for the drone shot!! -awesome


 

Friday, May 27, 2022

#warriors #haiku by (me!) ~topps @writeousmom



 victory mindset

patient determination

NBA finals

You're Going To Do Great Things! (jack!) i love you ~writeousmom


 with end goal in mind
pressing through, moving forward
skill sets for "success!"

Washington State Grad
Cougar Friends & Family
Set New Goals, and "Go!"

****

#WSU #cougs #haiku  

 

Thursday, May 26, 2022

#filoli #haiku @writeousmom

You are a fresh bloom
An explosion of color
FIght, LOve, LIve  ~anew

[personal goal of writing 100 more haikus by end of 2022]


#213 #superblogger @writeousmom


 

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

love & healing prayers for hearts broken in texas from (us) #LHPart @writeousmom


 #prayerart #texas     singsabrokenheart









#IWA #twinlakes #theheartseen #cheers @writeousmom


 

#Mondo -as seen by (me!) ~topps


~honestly...    first discovered in pleasanton,  california in 2015..       re-seen in san jose, california 2022, only weeks ago..  and has already made it to:   twin lakes, santa cruz, california..

can mondo swim?

 #mondo @writeousmom

Monday, May 23, 2022

@writeousmom by (me!) ~topps #ilovemyhusband


 so maybe we should spell tops with a double p? 


Thursday, May 19, 2022

Time to let the whole world hear MY song! (me!) ~tops #warriors #tooshort #christianizedlyrics @tooshort @writeousmom


 original post aug 27, 2020 [also, a very fun CH, but presented in a way you don't even have to click..  -because what i wouldnt give to meet...]  and p.s.   "WAY TO GO WARRIORS!!"  -you are so exciting to watch!

with love, for Too Short (todd anthony shaw!) from (me!) 

 

-Blow the Whistle

Lyrics “Christianized” by (me!) Sandra Harrison Kay, AKA: WriteousMom

Backstory:  we love this song!  If a live band starts to play this song at a dance club.. my sexy would immediately give up his place as the next person in line for our cocktails,  grab my hand, and we hit the dance floor

 

***

It is on my commercial free shuffled playlist for our workouts, so I hear it often; love to watch how my sexy lights up when it comes on..

But me, I’m not so comfortable with the lyrics..   and, so..  I have been divinely inspired to, with love, truth & humor, Christianize them.   And.. in prayer, I said to Jesus with a smile, I said,

 

  -I want it so that even Too Short himself would be moved & get to laughing “Thank You Jesus!”   amen.

 

***   if i had the means/resources i would have a music video made, but i can write now.. do this:

   [video images of (me!) typing blog posts/excerpts from posts/stats]

I go on and on

Can’t understand how I write so long

I must have super-powers

Write 40+ years and 10,000 hours

Get a calculator, do the math

Wrote 5000 posts to help you save your ass

       [me/sexy dancing; post c/ups’; songs/laughter]

And! For the last three hundred months

I’ve made thousands of posts with (me!) on the front  -fist bump

Where you get your beats?

I heard ninety three people say a Christian like (me!)

Two singers and ten comedians

And I’m still gon’ post it every time you see (me!) in

Hmm, What’s a different word?  

   [failing to reach area in lower mid back to scratch it/grab wooden back scratcher/reach successfully]

Itch

Why my arm gotta be too short

Itch!

You know you can’t play on my court

Can’t hang with my Jesus posts

Pray on the porch

 

Blow The Whistle x4

                           [video images of speeches/JM, TDJakes, JO, Southgate YB, BA Degree, Bible, in prayer]

Where you get that from?

Grab the mic, post one, let me say it blunt:

Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes & that Joel Osteen

Keep preachin’ that bible til’ you too-B-lieve

President, that’s Southgate Baby

B.A.  -that’s Hayward Baby

Pit to Palace -that’s Jesus Baby

Ain’t nothin’ but prayer these days -SHE

 

                     [c/u gun to head; c/u paralyzed w/fear; c/u praying]

My fragile mind got locked up

 Cocked gun to my head, that fa-luck't me up

Change my luck, yes,  -I had to pray

Jesus showed up  & he lit the way

 

                [bible, prayer, victory stance, dance club, Hayward pix, fake id]

Do you really wanna be like (me!)?

Conquer the world -know vic-tor-Y

Hayward girl, now VIP

Danced in the clubs with a fake ID

 

Blow The Whistle x4

                  [swish numb ritual]

My mind was gone

My brain was blazed

I was Terrorized for countless days

Swishin’ junk

went numb for real

Couldn’t stop.. just kept rollin’ down hill

Swish & spit, get more, sit back

Stay numb as you can  -you can’t handle all that

Man, I’ve been healed so long

Time to let the whole world hear my song

                     [books, mags, journals, website(s), appearances]

Like (me!) my words get around

Leave the country, come back and hit the town

I’m in mags, and books, and time will tell

On walls, on stage, saw Dave Chappelle, about this scratch; itch!

Learned it from (me!)

At least fifty million dollars

-should be comin’ to (me!)

                                    [remember them.org monument in Oakland]

But I’m pray-z and you wanna be like (me!)

Remember Them in Oakland and then ya get type-ing

 

Blow it!

 

Blow your whistle..

 

“itch!”

 

Writeous..

All my life baby

Blog post 4,915

Y’all can’t read all that…

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Miracles, Breakthroughs, Answered Prayers! #Mondo @writeousmom


 now, the only thing i do more than write; "take pictures!"    ~mamarazzi

and i have some 500+ from our recent travels, celebrations, family visits, sightseeing, hikes, meals.

so, will be a little bit before i can organize; edit; post

but WOW are we ever swimming in back-to-back blessings and gratitude.   "Thank You! Jesus!"   hallelujah & amen

***

in the meantime;  2 recent CH (cerebral hyperlinks).    -repeating myself i know, but with a 'trigger' it just opens; you can't chose ..  (you can train to respond differently); with a hyperlink, you can chose.. you can bypass, or, choose to click and open and explore your own memories




CH!  LOVE this one...  i remember writing...

#mondo @writeousmom




Tuesday, May 17, 2022

"I have 74 Tweets!?!" (me?) @writeousmom


 -so, sometimes, my dad will tell a joke over the phone, and we are smiling in response, and verbally say, like, "that's pretty funny"

but my dad will be audibly laughing the loudest at his own joke.

and i get it from my dad then, because..  i just now; only moments ago, while doing a little research, re-discovered that i created  -74- tweets apparently, in 2009

and when i was re-reading my own tweets..    crackin' up at my own jokes.

-we are our own best audience.

***

contemplating whether or not to jump back in..      the character restrictions make for good writing exercise

H&A


***


"Thank You! Jack!"   -fix in progress...     love you   xoxo 

Monday, May 16, 2022

If we too move to Idaho... #haiku


 i will gather people, young and old, and i will take them on haiku hikes.   -black bay park.   we will marvel at all of God's gorgeous landscape, trees, sky, wild flowers, the lake, rocks...

we will learn together about each...   about everything our eyes and hands land on.   and i will encourage the best haikus out of people who have never even heard the word; who have never even imagined in a million years that they would read a poem, let alone author one..

and for a bit there, i was saying to friends and family, "if we moved to Idaho I would immediately become a naturalist and lead hikes..."

and then i was looking up the word -naturalist..   doing a little reading..   because, Lord only knows how many words I employ incorrectly..   connotation; denotation..   exaggeration...

but the name 'darwin' kept coming up..       really?  one of the world's best and most famous 'naturalists'

   -to me the word naturalist is synonymous with Christian practically..   every living thing evidence of and glorifying God's name..

something inside me always recoils when i hear his name..     perhaps unjustifiably; i don't know..

i know i am not a fan whatsoever of that icon depicting the so called 'evolution' of man.

      -and sometimes we hold on to one thing so tight with both hands that we don't even know what would happen if we set it down and looked closer at it..

i believe.. 

i believe if i were to read his work..    point out what i have learned from my life experiences, and layer them together

well, i do believe I feel him smiling and winking at me write now, this very moment  -from heaven.

***

it is not either/or;  it is and.                  /where have i heard that before? i say with a big, tired smile..

                 now i lay us down to sleep; i pray the Lord our souls you'll keep

                 and when we wake from this nights rest; i pray you'll help us be our best

in Jesus name,   -amen.


Driving in Idaho with California Plates (us!) ~sexy! & tops!



based on a casual conversation here, and a friendly conversation there

i admit to being a little nervous driving all around Idaho with California Plates.     But, we literally never had a problem, and in fact, several people we spoke to were originally from, guess where: California.   and they even said it out loud and in public and everything.   Many people who have moved from California to Idaho light-heartedly refer to themselves as refugees

in light of the current war in ukraine, (and wars on larger scales in general) it seemed not write to use that word..

but then again, 

i both understand and respect it as the current colloquialism.   the combination of, and accumulation of homeless, drug addicted, mentally ill and released inmates is, in my opinion, and in fact, a type of natural disaster; a very real and ongoing threat to individuals and families

i will skip here, the economic impact..  but Californian transplants are high on the blame list for the high cost of housing in Idaho (and other popular run-for-your-way-of-life states like Montana..  Washington, etc.)

and from my perspective, experience, point of view   -the only thing growing faster than the homeless, drug addicted, mentally ill, and released inmate population is   -inflation.

but let us save that romantic and tender conversation for another time...

In Jesus is our light in a dark and broken worlds' name,  -amen.


***

good place to p.s. my favorite quote while visiting Couer d' Alene Idaho.    It was gifted us by a young woman who,  -surprise!   left California for Idaho to unstagnant her life.     Couer d' Alene, Idaho, if you have not yet been is a way beautiful, way clean, way safe.. spectacular place to live, to work, to visit, to hike, bike, fish, hunt..    long list here.   and Idahoins' (sp?) work to, plan to, and are quite committed on the whole to keeping it just the way it is 

the thing is, this young woman, like me, was from a part of the bay area which was   -not the polar opposite of Couer d' Alene..  but let's say, a part of the bay area which was, and is, 'checkered' with 

/stuck for a proper word..    let's skip to the quote

i said with a smile, i said to her, "yes.. i'm from the bay area too"    -and my best guess is that she wanted to go out of her way to make me feel okay and welcome;  -she seemed suddenly a little guilty about living in such a clean, safe..  and so she goes, 

"but when i get home sick for the bay area, i go visit spokane where there is homeless and people dancing in the street."

****

hallelujah & amen
 

DO NOT MAKE RESERVATIONS HERE says (me!) ~tops


 what intrigues me is the online rating of 4.1 stars and the 1,644 google reviews.

i don't suppose this means ALL star ratings and reviews are unreliable resources; but the amount of digging and reading and researching you would need to do!

check my record..  i don't give bad reviews..  i praise whenever, wherever i can

-has to do with the bible passage in Philippians, and also, the starve what you don't want; feed what you do attitude; the shrink the bad, magnify the good mentality.

and, remember, i was born and raised in the bay area..   my tolerance for questionable transients, for homeless, for vagrants is not zero

but what happen here is that..   'oh my an entire homeless encampment..

hmmm...    group of potential gang...             don't make eye contact...          -is that guy breaking into that truck?                  is that guy over there..  mental illness?  drugs?

and it did not matter what direction i looked in..   boarded up building..    a lot of unpredictable people and behavior

   -wouldn't stay if the price was free.    -danger zone.

and sad, sad, sad..     broken, broken..

even when we left for a safer location,  -just getting back on to the freeway required lots of hope and prayer..   a fire was burning near the on ramp, vagrants in large numbers, litter, trash, 

plain scary.

but it sounded so pretty initially and was, geographically, about where we wanted to land based on several upcoming visits with different family and friends.

Best Western Inn At The Meadows...


We chose a different, safer, cleaner, nicer Best Western    -the cancel/new reservation process was quick and easy.   but of course!   of course it argues for space and attention in my mind

what type of leadership can return something that broken to its former glory?   and in my imagination,  -since we know no one is going to be staying there in the near future..     -what if it was repurposed for the homeless?      

it just bothers me to no end that leaders are spending gazillions of dollars creating new buildings, new infrastructures for the homeless, drug addicted and mentally ill,  when we have so, so many vacant, unoccupied buildings doing nothing but taking up space  -buildings that already have the infrastructure; rooms, plumbing, garbage..  etc.    repurpose! do not build new

and then i was like...   what if they turned it into a church!?          and then i wondered..  what did it used to look like?   and if we came back two or five years from now..     what then?

it is entirely unignorable though; unshrinkable; unstarvable

the way the homeless population has increased in so many cities and states    -crisis levels everywhere

i do not have or know the answer

most people who can are responding the way we did with the hotel..    relocating to different cities and different states; everyone looking for a safer, cleaner environment.   those who can't afford to move their entire families, or who don't have 'portable/remote' jobs are just getting slowly engulfed..

part of me wanted to go back just to take pictures to share; but i assessed that as way not worth the risk.

as i mentioned before...  sometimes i start going on like i have a doctorate on a topic i know very little about, but i remember...

i do remember

more than one charlie rose interview with rudy giuliani     -and his stats, and his record for turning unsafe neighborhoods and sleazy business districts into safe and clean, livable, visitable places..

so, it can be done..   and i sure wish..   and i sure hope..   and i sure pray..   and i sure vote..

in Jesus name,  amen.

  

Happy, Grateful Mom Heart (me!) ~writeousmom AKA: mamarazzi







i told each of my children at their individual high school graduations, "every single parent here is proud.  -of course, -write.  but if they could x-ray such a thing..  you would know i am the most proud parent of all!"

and to also get to attend their college graduations!!    -couldn't be happier; couldn't be more proud.

*****

You are going to do great things!  I already know..  God's got his hand on you...
                                                                                                                                       ~sidewalk prophets


way more pix & stories to come!

it pours. by (me!) ~tops


 the contrast!  of leaving our northern california drought and getting to see and experience:


the full, rushing, current of the Columbia River on my passenger side write;  heavy rains falling directly down on the road ahead; and rain plus waterfalls to my left  -all at the same time!

every conversation we've had over the past several years with friends and family regarding water was battling for attention and revisit in my mind..

                  -how i would LOVE to see a graph..  20 years worth.. state by state in the U.S.  because every hotel/motel that once washed every sheet, towel, pillow case, every day for every customer, whether it needed it or not... those practices are long gone..    not one hotel i've stayed in washes anything unless you specifically request it.   -and for my husband and i..   we never request any washing services until we leave..

                 -the amount of lawns that have been converted!  either to succulents, or very low water demanding native landscapes; or fake lawns...

                   -from just those two very dramatic changes, the water saving seems enormous!


i've just mentioned that the 'intended' water savings from water saving toilets or showers..   counter-productive..  an utter waste!  cut your losses and start over..   we were better off before

     -and the instant! response i've received each time i've ever casually mentioned 'desalination'

                 "way too costly!     -Blah, blah..     environmental costs..  monetary..."

i always say and think the same thing:    do you realize how many things humans have invented over time that initially were way too costly..   but over time, we learn how to streamline, how to improve the manufacturing and quality and reduce the cost..      -but you have to at least get started in order to reach that place..

my husband talks a lot about dams..  being better stewards of the rain God provides us;     and he always gets the same response i do about desalination..          /insert grumpy, curmudgeonly voice here    "   way too expensive.. damage to the environment... "

***

oh!  thank you for asking Oprah..   here is what i know for sure:

water is, when it comes to resources necessary for human life and existence,  #1

i mean, it's write up there with air.

and i KNOW for sure, we already have the minds (the intelligence) to solve this problem

and it may be awkward and costly initially, but i also know for sure..  

we better start doing something!


lots of people mention.. us included:  ' if you can pipe 3 million barrels of fuel per day between texas and new york..   [colonial pipeline]

why not water from up north, down south?

we all know this can be done.      -write. 

and best we can all do, us average, everyday, layperson citizens..  

vote for leaders who not only know it can be done; but will invest in making it happen.

   -amen.


***

agree w/this letter to the editor LA Times (date?)   -summary

     states near the gulf of mexico are often flooded

       -southwest is suffering long-term drought

     why not begin a grand national infrastructure project of building a water pipeline

                  -from the flooded areas to the drought areas..

genius.


***              really? in carlsbad?   -just learning...


and this is a great time to confess just how many of those conversations with friends and family over the years about water..   very passionate but without much research and knowledge.   -we each have our ideas and opinions based on random little blurbs we see, hear, read.  and certain people (like myself) who see one headline and spout off like they've earned a doctorate on the subject.    -these type of conversations have, and are and always will take place in coffee shops, donut shops, bars, restaurants, on park benches and at dinner tables   -laypeople with more heart than knowledge; politicians with more promises than action; students with more awareness than influence. 


but...   water pipelines...   desalination...    dams...      the trifecta!

yes, please, thank you, hallelujah & amen.

when it rains by (me!) ~tops #superblogger


 k. remember:   everything is relative.

and relative to the shower in our home; which is literally perfect!  i mean, absolute perfection when it comes to water pressure and temperature control and curtain.  

compared to the shower in our home; every other shower, in anyone's home, anywhere that we have ever visited, any motel or hotel..    all other showers suck.

it only has to do with determining to what degree each shower sucks.

sometimes, it's close, within a few degrees of perfection, but not perfect like ours.

other times..

well, other times

and, i am not,   -that is, i am like the polar opposite of an exhibitionist.   so, 

1.  i did not take a selfie of my horrifying shower experience to share with the public at large (or to even share with my sister!  -but it is exactly my sister that i dedicate this post to)  in truth, i am still embarrassed and red in the face when i realize how omniscient; omnipresent our God is, and

2. i am not sharing this experience as any kind of attention-getting device

rather, 

God has designed me in such a way, that if i don't get it out..
      "get out!  get out of (me!)!"  via writing.    my minor internal, and otherwise private, embarrassing experience will grow fast and tall and wide as a bamboo forest, and then there will eventually be overcrowding, which only a wild fire can extinguish or control.. 

that shared and understood, 

here's what happen:

k.   -here are some details that are not unimportant, and must be factored in to fully appreciate what i have to share

i am 56 years old and 5'3.

wait..  let me be a little more specific:   i am 56 year old female; i weigh 150lb,  -give or take (and what 56 year old woman doesn't lean more toward take than give...  -write).    i have never had botox, or any kind of plastic surgery.  i take long walks, yes..  my heart is fit; yes.   but i don't really, say..   you know,   -exercise in a way that results in a fit 'physical body.'

i am a super blogger; not a super model.

i was born in 1966..  and raised in the bay area of California, USA..   so, my 'physical self image'   -despite the pathetic counter-attacks on the silver screen & magazine & tv shock and awe campaign defining what female beauty is..

well, bottom line..

you are not going to find me parading proudly in a bathing suit on the catwalks of any given  -anything; any time soon.    

i barely    ( bottom line; barely.. the potential puns!)  feel comfortable in the birthday suit God gave me, even when i am the only one in the bathroom!     i can pretend like the best of them, yes.. but i am aware i am pretending..  i am aware i am working so hard to override..

anyway..  that brings us to the first   -but not last-   thing i look at and assess when i am about to take a shower in any shower other than our own...

the door.  or curtain.

and write away, in the shower experience i am about to describe

of 'frickin' coarse!'   /spelling intentional

the door is a GIANT CLEAR GLASS DOOR WINDOW.       

now, my mother raised me not to use the word 'hate'      "hate is a very strong word... blah, blah.."

so, give me a minute or two here...










thank you.




my very, most, least favorite shower door is: the entirely clear glass shower door that was before me.   

i will not, here and now, explain to all the novices and ignoramus' how clear glass shower doors became popular in the market place at the exact same time, camera's being everywhere..  and 'fire alarms'  and 'carbon monoxide' alarms became mandatory.   i would not self-describe as a conspiracy theorist, but i have no problem going on record as being highly and very suspicious

so,    -especially if you are good with math: 

add together a non-quantifiable, but significant amount of self-consciousness, (X) with a GIANT ENTIRELY CLEAR, VERY CLEAN AND SEE-THROUGH, WINDOW SHOWER DOOR, (XX);
and an otherwise foreign shower being used for the first time  (Y?)

and!  as previously mentioned, i am 5'3.

    -most regular tubs, (tub/showers) for most all of my life..    they were easy to step in and out of..  13/14 inches high, and you barely had to make any effort to step over and in..

i'm not sure about the who, when, what, Y, but the shower i was about to step in, had a tub that must of been...

    /let me re-create the experience in private here to give a true estimate...

the tub of this particular shower was  ....   ?  and the height of the shower head itself! well, it was positioned for a person much taller than i am; much!

 i did automatically start looking around for a portable stepping stool..     how am i supposed to get in this thing and adjust the shower head?

  -there was no stepping stool in the bathroom.   the thought of having to put all my clothes back on and go out to the living room and ask someone for one was just too much

the advantage of being 56...   is the amount of years of Christian training..  so i looked at the mountain before me, and i did the sign of the cross, and i said,  'not in my own strength!'

which is a holler for help to the holy spirit within.

i reached for something to grab onto with my left hand..    and there was nothing really..  so i kind of anchored my hand, solid as i could against the wall

my write hand held the half-way open 
 GIANT ENTIRELY CLEAR, VERY CLEAN AND SEE-THROUGH, WINDOW SHOWER DOOR, 

and i used gravity, effort to leap up and onto 

"ouch!  ouch!  ouch!  ouch!"    -because, let me explain here, that when you have a mountain high tub WITH a GIANT ENTIRELY CLEAR, VERY CLEAN AND SEE-THROUGH, WINDOW SHOWER DOOR,  -

that door needs TRACKS on the tub, in order to open and close.

when your bare feet hit metal tracks, instead of soft, wonderful porcelain, for example..

"not in my own strength!"    

write about then, with the shock of my bare feet landing on metal tracks,  i lost my balance a little..

my brain knew..    if you fall backward, you will crack your head open on the floor and have to be rescued while in your birthday suit

and so it was my heart that knew,    -reach..... r-e--a----c-----h for the shower head...

  -the shower head in our home shower, is   -approx. at the 6' feet mark, and it is flexible!  and it is perfect.     "i love you!"   i can reach it all by myself without a stepping stool.












the shower head location in the shower of horror...    honestly..  it would be hard to exaggerate just how unrealistic

you would need a stepping stool to get in, but a ladder to reach the shower head

i had to kind of...  jump!   -jump up to reach and grab onto the shower head to prevent myself from falling backward

and it is in this very moment...    bare naked, with one hand grabbing for the shower head at 9 feet...  my bare feet trying to avoid the metal tracks on the tub, my ego trying to avoid rescue, my raw, natural, unplastic~surgeried boobs danglin'; my i-love-good-food-and-drinks stomach bouncin'; my bowling pin thigh cellulite jigglin'; 

literally!

the only thing that prevented me from falling apart and crying

was the instant use of my imagination.

and when i used my imagination to see my sister   -see me, in this highly embarrassing, entirely humbling, awkward situation

i could literally hear her laughing...    i could hear the sound of her contagious and uncontrollable laughter, and i could see her doubled-over, and i could see, with my imagination, how she would pee her pants..  and tears would be streaming down from her eyes..

and that is what saved me.

so, "Thank You! Keeshie!"        -as the lyrics go,   "Life gave me you for ups and downs..  God gave me you for the days of doubt.   And when I think I lost my way..  There are no words here left to say...  It's true.  It's true.  God gave me you."


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speaking of...

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a very big public "THANK YOU!" here to my sexy..

if you look the word 'counter-productive' up in the dictionary,   -what it should say is this:

water-saving shower heads   and/or  water-saving toilets.

  -because, while the intention may have been noble; the results are very VERY counter-productive.

people are flushing water saving toilets, 3 or 4 or 5 times, instead of one.

and people are having to either stand in the shower 5 times as long to rinse the shampoo out of their hair because of those stupid water saving shower heads

or, if you are blessed with a wonderful and understanding husband like i am

    -the shower head can be (temporarily) removed at any given hotel so that you can actually rinse the soap off your body, the shampoo and conditioner out of your hair in a manner of minutes.

i have written on the topic a few times now, so i will provide the upshot based on my personal traveling experiences

to date it is wildly, painfully apparent that only men have designed motel and hotel and resort showers/bathrooms.   

this is not an anti-men post by any means..     

if only, exclusively,  women designed the bathrooms/showers in motel, hotels and resorts, there would always be a place to place PERSONAL shampoo, conditioners, shaving cream, soaps and razors somewhere WITHIN the shower area itself.  who can use the 2oz freebies except for an emergency?  we bring our overpriced, oversized, stylist recommended hair and skin products  -while men can often shampoo with handsoap, and not even worry about conditioning, or shaving 12 different body parts...

goodness.  it's 2022, and i'm writing like it's 1999

forgive;

the point is this..  in addition to a beautifully designed privacy curtain or heavily stained-glass-ish window door; every shower, every where needs decent water pressure, needs a place to put personal, regular sized hair and skin products, needs designed so that you can safely enter and exit; needs a non-slip something on the floor;  needs the shower head within reach of an average fan or coach, not NBA player.   -and a leg rest..   prementioned, but... when you shave your legs...

everyone..  go shave your legs in a hotel shower..



my point has been made.


in, I know, .... Jesus only had a mangers' name..      amen.