Gerri Dee Hoppe
Journal Entries for Gerri Dee Hoppe
Another Day
August 1st, 2008 7:29 pm MDT
Well here is another day in the life. Tried on the new Size 22 Grey Empire dress I picked up at Burlington Coat factory in Tampa. Light day for makeup every thing came out pretty good I think. The make up skills are coming along and I felt really good about the job. Now if I could just get rid of the shadow without the clown pink I would be real happy. Decided to go the full route today with complete conversion and felt really feminine. Opened the panty hose to facilitate ease of use of the ladies room. Even got a little daring and went without….. Had on my favorite pair of heels and even said nuts with a match. Took a brown purse with me. OOOH brown with a grey dress and black heels? Nobody pointed me out in my travels. Went and filled the monster with gas. Then I resumed my hunt for a nice pair of strappy sandals. Proceeded to Rack Room shoes. At the back of the store they have a wall. On this wall is a whole collection of sale shoes. On the top shelf, sits the prettiest pair of black strappy heels. Lit the fire immediately. I look at the boxes and spot a size 10 on the very tippy top shelf. Well at 6’1” in heels (yes, I learned I shrunk 2”), I reached up for the box and damn if they didn’t all start to slide out real nice. Then boom, they fell all over the place making a heck of racket. I looked around, no one came. Then I looked at the mess I created and saw they were all white sandals. I am looking for black. Oh nuts! So I look up and right in front of me is a box of size 10 black 3” strappy heels. Grabbed them and ran. As I went to try them on I passed one of the sales guys and said “I think I left you a mess back there”. He smiled and said it was ok! I tried the shoes on and bought and a 2nd pair of heels. From there I eased my way down to my favorite Payless Shoes. I don’t know why but I just had to check them out. I headed over to Sally’s and checked for some nail glue. Didn’t find anything. I am looking for the glue like they use on self sticking nails. It has to be out there somewhere! Then to the Dollar Store. Now I am in pursuit of a small plastic box with 10 compartments to keep my nails in. I am careful about reusing the nails but when I store them they get stuck together. I have ruined more nails trying to pry them apart. No luck there. Finally I wandered into Target, headed for the Shoe Department. I wonder, do I have an addiction to shoes? Am I a shoe-a-holic? Is there a 12 step program for a shoe-a-holic? Checked the sale racks but didn’t spend anymore money. Oh well off I go. Alas it is time to take Gerri Dee home and the world of reality again. Livings to be made, kids to put through college and diets to pursue. On a sad note, I lost a good friend and coworker to cancer yesterday. In reflecting about his death, I looked at life and saw how fragile it is. The reflection made me feel very comfortable with myself and who I am. Enjoy life, no matter what twists confront us. We are who we are and life goes on. Enjoy who you are and being who you are.
Weekly Update-Health
July 31st, 2008 10:17 am MDT
I had to wait on the treatments. Karen and I met 2 weeks ago and reviewed what I want done. to much time in the sun this year, I am to tanned. The lighter the better. Plus there are some spots she wanted me to check with a Dermatologist for skin cancer before we go to clean up the beard and skin conditions with the laser. I don't go outside without a hat and SPF 65 now. I am really beginning to lighten up on the hands which is good because is going to clean up the "Old People" spots on my hands. Those know how old I really am tell me the only outward sign of my age is the spots on my hands. Having them 2 teenage daughters later in life has kept me young. Now that I am taking care of my skin helps too. Between the weight loss and the maintenance program I'll be able to buy more from Kat's
Life Goes On
July 27th, 2008 3:48 pm MDT
Well, life goes on, and the opportunities for Gerri Dee were dimmed this week. Decided that there were other things to do and it has just been hot, hot, hot, mixed with a lot of humidity. I decided that I needed to focus on the maintenance of Gerri. As everyone knows I have long been dissatisfied with my appearance. Everything from weight, conditioning, to teeth. Well in view of this I decided this last week that it is time the bears figure out where to poop in the buckwheat. I had to do something. It started last week with a visit to Karen for laser treatment. She reviewed what I wanted to do. We decided I had to much time in the sun and needed to lighten up for best results. Good thing that came out of this is that when I am done I should have some major improvement in complexion in addition to being shadow free. Some of my old age spots will be eliminated. Negative side of the visit is I need to visit the Dermatologist for some spots that I need to have checked for skin cancer. I’ve known this for a while but have put it off. Now it will be done. The next major attack I opened up was the weight issue. I am headed for 170, size 14. Went to the Weight Loss Clinic in St Pete. Looked at the various plans. All expensive, but worth it. Average out to $100 a week. I did this once before when I was getting promoted in the Army. I stripped off 65#. Took me 15 yrs to put it back on, but there was a lot of stress with retiring from the Army and Police Dept, moving to Tennessee, then moving Florida, a wife with substantial medical issues and bills. Things have settled way down, stress is way down. Time to “Git’er Done”. Basically, I am looking to get the other half of my closet back in service. Some awfully cute dresses and blouses that I can’t get into now. Plus I would like be able to keep the 30% of my photos that I am now dropping because they just make me look to fat. So it is diet, exercise and then some follow up life style counseling to make sure I don’t slide backwards again. They tell me the older you get the harder it is to strip off the weight and I don’t want to go through this again. Well that is it for now. I’ll post the progress as each week goes by.
OUT and ABOUT
July 9th, 2008 9:01 pm MDT
Just finished a shopping expedition. Decided to stop at the Witness Cafe. Pulled into the lot and promptly got stage fright. Watched a stunning blonde strut in like she owned the world and thought boy am I out of my league. Got over the stage fright. Walked in, found the odds to be 6 guys to one girl. I thought I saw one of us talking to the stunning blonde in the back by the dance. Was a little self concious so I just kept on going. Left there and headed for home. I love being dressed but I can't keep staying up till 0230 every night. Got to call it night. Clean off the make up, hit the pool and onbe more cocktail and I am out of here.Gerri Dee
Just More Girl Happenings
July 8th, 2008 10:11 pm MDT
Well the day finally came. Got the ladies off on their 4 day expedition to Ft Lauderdale. Checking the new college home for my youngest.Of course they didn't leave till 2000 which was 3 beyond expected departure. Standard procedure for my wife, I expected it.Once they hit the road I went to work assembling the wardrobe for the next 4 days. Days have been hot and humid but the nights cool off. I decided that I would spend tonite getting everything right for the next couple days. I started by stopping at our Nail Shop. Decided I was going to do it right with a pedicure and manicure. Didn't want rough feet or nail tearing up the nylons. The I moved to the closet and emptied out all my heels, suits and dresses. Have them hanging in the hallway now for easy selectionDecided on a brown and black empire dress, with black jewelry, french nails and white pearl necklace. Took a number of photo's here at home. Then I decided I would head over to the Witness Cafe. Got there, took a look around and chickened out. One lady walking into the bar at 2245 is not high on my list of smart things to do. Especially since I didn't know if there any other girls inside. So I headed back to the house. Took a couple more photos and changed into some red silkNaturally silk and cocktails called for a few more pictures. So the night ends, soft, satiny silky and smooth. At peace with the world and ready to and take on another day. Well I still need to do tonights pics so I can add them.Take careGerri Dee
Girl Talk
July 3rd, 2008 8:49 pm MDT
Well it certainly has been a long dry spell for this girl. I finally had all the suns, stars and moons fall into place for some Gerri Dee time. The wife surprised me when she said she had school today. Great! She is gone till 1700. It is now 1150. Youngest daughter said she won't be home till 1600'ish. WOW! Cleaned up, made up, dressed up by 1300. Decided on photo shoot in the house. Hot and humid outside today. Lots of rain. Did about 30 photo's inside. Decided I would go out in the drive and shoot some pictures near the car. YIPES!!!! I got the door open and started to walk out with the camera and tripod. As I turned the corner I spot my youngest's car in the drive, with her and boyfriend inside. Holy poop! I did the fight or flight routine! FLIGHT was the choice. Made it in the house, got the bedroom door partially closed and dashed for the shower and got it running. Youngest called out, "Eric's here, I am closing your door". GREAT!!, thanks!! (I already knew that piece of intel) Stripped down, hid the boob's, hip pads, and my brand new hair. Slapped on a wad of cold cream and proceeded to scrub away my fine makeup job. Broke my heart. Said nuts with it, and decided to hit the pool. Oh well it was great while it lasted. When I started to edit the pictures I made note of the fact that I was kind of frumpy looking during the photo shoot. There were a few with smiles that I think looked kind of cute. For the most part I appeared to be unsettled. Well I sat down and started to play with my newest toy, a Zune 80 gig MP3 player. My daughter's wound up with the last 3 players I had. Took me a while figure it out but I got it go. As I type this now I am listening to some super oldies The good news is that I will have 3 days of uninterupted Gerri Dee time next week. Wife and Daugter headed to Ft Lauderdale to check out college for the youngest. I am lookoing forward to that. Well I'll sign of with Bruce Springsteen's "Better Days" ringing in my ears. Till the next edition!
Still Here
June 29th, 2008 11:08 am MDT
Hey everyone, I am still here. Graduation Parties, Graduation Trips, Silver Anniversary trip to Disney, Graduation Trip to Disney, god it has been crazy. Things are starting to slow and I hope to see some more time for myself.
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January 31st, 2008 12:22 pm MST
Well I finally made it out. The wife and D1 went to see a play. I cleaned up, got dressed up in the new dress that I picked up last week. Really did a decent job on the makeup. I am finding that with the mineral based Makeup, less is truly more. I have really taking a liking to the L’Oreal Mineral Foundation. Shoot I even had a bit of that feminine glow on the cheek bones. I used the clown pink to kill the blue, but was very careful to press it in and smooth it out so there was no build up. I did use Bare Essentials Mineral Veil very lightly on top with great results. I used a dark blue sparkles eye shadow with a lighter blue high lighter. The eyeliner did me in. I am using a different type of eyeliner that is like a pencil. Smudged the lower eyeliner out but later on it looked like hell. I never have any luck with eyeliners that aren’t liquid based. I guess this is one of those perishable skills.Put my lips and out the door I went. I only had a limited amount of time so there was no shopping tonight. I proceeded to Witness Café, where 2 weeks ago I chickened out of going inside because I wasn’t sure of myself. Today I made up my mind I was going in. parked the car, walked up to the door and ran slap into the sign that “Cover Charge”. Well I am no cheapskate but somehow I found it fundamentally unsound to plop down a cover charge when all I wanted to do was see if any of the local girls were inside and I had just enough time for maybe a glass of wine. Away I went best intentions down the tube.Just the fact that I had the time and opportunity to get dressed was enough for me today. Hopefully I will get the full Monte in some time next week.
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