Diane’s an avid NetFlix subscriber. She’s on the three movie plan  and is almost always satisfied with her picks. Today’s arrivals : Juno, A Mighty Heart, and Harrison’s Flowers. I always struggle with those mailers and Diane always shakes her head.

“Diane, how do you open this thing?”

“Honey, those are made for morons and they got to the right address.”

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Peter and I stopped in TJ Maxx to look for a temporary rug for the master bath which I’m remodeling. Matt and Joe ripped out the old tiled floor and I hammered in a new one, a temporary sink, and today I added the new toilet. Given how things are, I can’t dilly dally so we were without a sink for only one day and the toilet was missing for two. I told Diane that when I started I was anxious about how long we’d have a non-functional mess, and now that it’s again useable,  I’m back in my comfort zone. A functional mess.

I’m straying too far. My point is that we didn’t find a rug but I did steer Peter to the Hawaiianesque shirt racks. I told him about the one in K-Mart that I’d wanted, but had missed out on when someone else stole it from me after the price tumbled to four dollars.

“Thirty-six new, and now it’s ten dollars,” I said, “That’s the cost of a cup of coffee at Starbucks.”  He tried one on – I think it had beige palm trees swaying  against a black background.  He slipped it off over his head and said,   “This shirt is like putting a sign on my chest that  says hit me.”