Finding My Car 🚗

I’m always at the local mall

I can walk, it’s not that far

Although – to be quite honest

I often take the car.

Because of that annoying

Autopilot brain of mine*

Forgetting where I have parked

Happens all the time!

So I’ve devised a system

It’s kind of a little game…

(While I find it amusing

My kids just think it’s lame).

I take the letter of the Level

And the number of the Row

Then I turn it into a word

That I’ll recall, you know.

If park on Level F

Somewhere in Row 1

Perhaps my retail outing

Will be lots of fun.

But if I’m on Level C

In Row number 4

When I get home, I may need

To exercise my core.

My odd little system makes

Finding the car a breeze

Now I need a simple way

To find my flamin’ keys!

I had another verse in mind

About a D6 parking spot...

But my hubby shook his head

“Perhaps you’d better not”.

 * see

 My Autopilot Brain

Declutter - Junk Mail

Now that the New Year has hit

You may have heard me mutter

“Just look around at all this stuff

It’s time (again) to declutter”.

Good stuff goes to the op shop

Broken stuff into the bin

And, perhaps, I should cut down

On the stuff that’s coming in…

That paper pile on the bench?

It grows without a thought

Till I can’t stand it any more

And through it, I must sort.

I bought this sign months ago

It’ll go out front, one day

My family don’t believe me

“That’s what you always say”.

Catalogues in the mailbox

Surely I can do without…?

But, you see, sometimes

I just don’t want to miss out!

Can't resist a bargain 🍾😀