Not Pretty
Not everything about our life here in paradise is pretty. Last night we sat down and worked on some of the nitty gritty details of payments-made and payments-due related to all our projects underway. A dirty kitchen seemed like the perfect place for such an unpleasant reality.
I am feeling mopey, because my life has been taken over by the demands of a new puppy who seems to have constant needs, and because I tried to replace my all-time favorite boxer briefs underwear, shopping online, only to find out they are nothing like the original (even though the description includes the word, “original”).
I am so attached to the old style that I tried searching the internet for the possibility of a long-lost pair still lingering on a shelf somewhere. The results where humorous.
I started searching the two most prominent groups of digits that look like model numbers. What I found for search results was a number of poor souls engaged in the same search as me. From my informal survey of the forum discussions that turned up in my results, I see that I am far from the only one who became frustrated by the undesired changes that exist in the design of the current offerings under the description of “original.”
I also discovered that those prominent groups of digits are not the right numbers. Further inspection revealed the location of the number I am supposed to use for searching the old style I seek. Too bad it doesn’t do me a bit of good. I got exactly zero hits on that number in a search query. Not one. Not even a bad result! Doesn’t that seem kind of strange?
I’m back to wearing the old pairs, and that is not a pretty sight.
Relative Something 
You two have me giggling!!!
Mary
August 2, 2013 at 4:05 pm
LOL! I love the dirty kitchen pic, makes me feel a *little* better about mine. And I can totally relate to the underwear issues. I stumbled across a brand/style that quickly turned into my fave, and the company must have changed the material or SOMETHING because now they suck. Frustrating when they say nothing has changed, but I KNOW that’s not true!! The first pairs lasted a long time and the new ones I try to buy give up the ghost in just a few months. Grr. Maybe many of the world’s problems can be traced back to things as simple as “I’m feeling crabby today because my underwear just aren’t right”…
Liz Shatek
August 1, 2013 at 8:32 am
I think you might be on to something. I should start a campaign for world peace by way of getting my underwear manufacturer to go back to the much-sought-after-truly-original style. The Palestinians and Israelis could all wear them. All of Afghanistan could wear them. We could distribute people’s preferred underwear all over the world to assuage crabbiness and get people hugging again. Peace just might have a chance, after all! I wonder if I could get our puppy to wear them?
johnwhays
August 1, 2013 at 8:49 am
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dog-Underwear-Dog-Shorts-Pants-100-Cotton-Tail-Hole-Comfortable-2-Colors-/251117363335
These look comfy… 😉
Liz Shatek
August 1, 2013 at 9:14 am
Good lord! What is the world coming to? Please forget I ever mentioned that idea.
johnwhays
August 1, 2013 at 9:26 am