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In other words, the Farce is with us. TIE O’ THE DAY is just sayin’. 📜

Because some doctored Christmas photos never get old!

I sat down this afternoon to write a lengthy TIE O’ THE DAY post, in which the neckwear and I did many unusual and daring things. But it was 3 PM– otherwise known as Judy o’ Clock. Behold! When this JUDGE JUDY litigant showed up on the screen, I became petrified. And all my false and true stories promptly fell out of my head, and went splat on the floor. Not even a bow tie on this woman’s neck could have spared me from the debilitating fear which overcame me when she appeared on the 65-inch television screen. My eyebrows look downright svelte and tame compared to hers.

Welcome to (Bow) Tie o’ the Day #2. It appears to be made by DRY CLEAN ONLY. It has no other label on its tie-pidermis. It was probably created by Sister Who Wishes To Remain Nameless. It most likely calls itself Bow Tie Which Wishes To Remain Designerless.

Shirt is a short-sleeved Bugatchi, covered in a bunch of pastel blue (and a darker hue of blue) circles, on a field of yet a lighter blue. And yes, the circles resemble balls. And speaking of balls, I’ve told you before that even Mom thought Vinnie had cute ones. I have also referred to them as Vinnie’s Christmas Balls. Well, here is Roxy with her new holiday Easter Balls. She got right into the whole Easter colors theme for this picture. Notice that she made her left eye turn bright green for the tblog, while simultaneously turning her right eye a springtime yellow. The tblog models have all been wonderfully cooperative and gracious. Note that Roxy is, however, without neckwear. She has such a ball-track mind that when one is within her mouth’s reach, she can’t remember how to tie a Tie o’ the Day. I gotta learn her to multi-task.

 

 

Tie o’ the Day #1 is giving us a no-named designer, licensed by PEANUTS. Ah, Woodstock! Flying with an Easter egg. I love me my Charlie Brown/Peanuts characters. Pigpen is my fave, engulfed for time and all eternity in that cloud o’ dust. Even his Easter egg would be dusty, I’m sure. Shirt is from Urban Pipeline–a Kohl’s manufacturer. The shirt’s scenery sets a warm attitude for us all. So sing some Patsy Cline with me: “See the pyramids along the nile…”

And here’s a Chuck Brown aside: When Boston was born, his head was…interesting. His head was a Charlie Brown head. Robbie was paranoid about Bos’s head’s shape, and about how it loomed over his minuscule body. Of course, Bos’s head took its proper shape in no time at all. And Bos’s body grew into it (under it?) just fine. I still see a hint of a round, Chuck-esque cranium on Bos, but he is one handsome charmer.

The other thing about Neil Diamond, as promised by the above heading: That man can still sing. Powerful, full-on voice. Hasn’t lost a beat. In fact, I think I prefer his older voice. It is a touch deeper, with just a pinch of gravel. And I mean “gravel” in a good way. A Bonnie Raitt way. A Leonard Cohen way. And Suzanne declared Mr. Diamond officially still hot to look at. Suzanne does not lie, so believe her.

 

Tie o’ the Day #2 is a sweet little slice o’ spring orange, from IZOD. Got some purty yeller and sky blue stripes on this Old Navy shirt. The shirt is long-sleeved. However, today is one of those days near the end of winter, when no matter what you wear, you’re wrong. Too warm for jeans and long sleeves. Too cool for shorts and a t-shirt. After changing clothes from head-to-toe for the third time, I threw in the towel and got back into pajamas at around Judy o’ clock.

The picture Tie o’ the Day is presenting below is evidence of my Find o’ the Day. Voila! A new form of doggie breakfast! Mmmm…faux sliced pig flesh and chicken embryos for teethy pups!

And we all know the not-secret about our consumer culture and our canine members: Dogs don’t have $$$. Golly, mutts don’t even have pockets! Dogs don’t give a shucks about how their rawhide chews look. These doggie goodies are made FOR US, as “owners”! And even knowing this, I gladly took the bait and bought these chews for our mutts to have clever, fabulous-looking brunches for the week. And I won’t deny that I also wanted to present them on Tie o’ the Day! 👔🐶

 

Tie o’ the Day #1. As per usual, a Stacy Adams. Swell Easter colors. Tasso Elba button-down completes the Easter-ness, despite the fact that Rowan gave me this shirt for Christmas. He knows my style well.

Anyhoo…I’ve been experiencing what I call my “severed head” or “crazy head” for the past couple of months. Who knows exactly what starts its trajectory. But I know enough about where my bipolarity has me right now to know that despite some big changes/decisions I’m making right now in my life, what my head is going through is not situational. The various life-changes (I detest that term) are certainly variables in the life of my head. But these changes are not the cause of the inner turmoil.

And I understand my bipolarity enough to know how to deal with it. I have a host of coping mechanisms. I know what is and is not a good idea to try to accomplish in each of the stations of the cross of my mental state at any given time. The inside of my head is best described as a pendulum, and a thing I’ve learned about being bipolar is that wherever the pendulum moves–and how fast or slow it moves–it will ALWAYS move. It will always swing back to the other side. And it will always wear a bald trail along the path it plods. Sometimes it even stops for a while at the bottom of the arc it travels. The trick is to be patient enough to move through the tumult until the pendulum swings to a more habitable place.