Random 5 for August 23, 2026 – Coffee, accidents, yearbooks, high school, eyeglasses

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I didn’t realize how appropriate this would be for today when I saved it!

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the day! — I spilled my coffee while getting out of my car this morning. Sticky mocha latte was all over my car seat, my clothes, my smart watch, my purse and the inside of my car. My clothes and half a dozen towels are in the washer now as I figure out how I’m going to get the coffee out of my beautiful pink purse and I’m going to feel sticky (even though I washed off) all day. Argh!

The last yearbook – I tossed my senior yearbook finally. (I have a Throwback post on this topic on Tuesday.) I took one last ride through my last year of high school. Only my portrait picture was in the yearbook. Despite being active in clubs and activities (I even played intramural softball, and I bet my current friends would be surprised), my picture wasn’t in. I was in the swim club (despite being a poor swimmer). We had a hot dog roast at the end of the year. Nope, it wasn’t covered. I worked the concession stand, no picture. Even then I was the touch of death. If I was in it, there was no coverage. One last thing, many of my classmates are gone. Certainly all the teachers are (they were old back then!).

Speaking of high school – Back then there weren’t specialize curriculums that focused on a single career track. I had one teacher note on an assignment that my writing was good, and I should keep on writing. That’s all she did. She did not encourage me to get on the school newspaper, no road map or anything else. Back then writing wasn’t a career for a woman. They expected you to find your own way which I did. More encouragement and some guidance would have been nice. I did well in life despite not being one of the golden few in high school. For sure better than most.

Eyeglasses – I started the search for new eyeglasses. Buying glasses is not as fun as buying shoes. You are stuck with something for a whole year so it’s best not to be too creative. I had seen an advertisement for a pair that I liked. So far, no luck finding them.

So how was your week?

 

62 thoughts on “Random 5 for August 23, 2026 – Coffee, accidents, yearbooks, high school, eyeglasses”

  1. Bummer about the spilled coffee. And yay about the weather.

    All my elementary, high school, and college yearbooks are gone . . . except for senior year of both. If i’m reading the alumni news and recognize a name, I can sometimes match it with a face.

    We’re busy house hunting, but not too close to deciding. Let’s just say that BFF & I have differing viewpoints on the right property to purchase.

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    • Have your decided on the location? Staying in Florida? All my yearbooks are now gone. To be truthful I never looked at them over the years. I loved high school but I loved what came after better. All my long term friends started out as work friends. After I graduated, my friends drifted off in different directions. I was surprised at how many got married within a year of graduation. Yikes! In my senior book I kept notes on who married who and when for a few years. Then I lost interest.

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      • We are staying in Florida, most likely in the Gainesville area, but possibly closer to the FL/AL border. We’re driving up the panhandle to visit my niece (and meet our great niece!) this week. While there, we may poke our nose around a bit.

        At the time of purchase, yearbooks seem like solid investments (like wedding china). As we age in years and grow in wisdom, they begin to look like clutter and no longer spark joy so Marie Kondo encourages us to let them go . . . with gratitude. :D

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  3. Oh dear, we can understand spilling latte in the car and on clothes is indeed a disaster. We had a car disaster as well. Our car was perfectly cleaned by our cleaning lady and Kb got an an old tree stump in was full of ants and it crumbled all over the boot. Siri and Dina were shocked, fortunately, speechless.
    The Fab Four of Cley
    :-) :-) :-) :-)

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  5. “Lie to me, you big beautiful cup of coffee, about how much we’re going to get done today.” That’s exactly how this day has gone for me. My expectations for the day were interrupted by dumb, annoying things, one of which was my Pandora account. I’ve decided I should listen to more music. But when I clicked on a song, Pandora told me it was “buffering.” I waited, and tried this and that, wasting time and getting more and more annoyed. Finally I found some online advice which I misunderstood two or three times before finally getting it right.

    I think I still have my high school yearbook. I’ll have to look at it.

    My eyes are getting worse. I asked for an appointment recently, and they said they couldn’t get me in until December. Oh, well. In the meantime I’ve got a nice magnifying glass.

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    • That’s a long time! It’s easy to get in for a refraction around here. Every day I wake up with unrealistic expectations of what I can get done. Maybe I could if I was 20 but I’m not! My coffee just helps me through it. :)

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  6. Lie to me, you big beautiful cup of coffee, about how much we’re going to get done today. Yeah, that fits my day. I didn’t spill my coffee, but several unexpected crazy things slowed me down. For example, Pandora. I’ve been reminding myself to listen to more music, but today when I clicked on Pandora, nothing moved. “Buffering” it said. I waited, and I tried a bunch of stupid workarounds that probably made things worth. Eventually I tried a Youtube video. Even that took me a few tries and a bunch of annoyance before I got it right.

    I think I have my high school yearbook. I wonder it still conforms to my memories.

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  7. If I spilled my coffee, it would be a disaster in the making. My coffee is black, no sugar, but still, the headache which would rage if I did not replace it would be epic.

    My yearbooks are around here somewhere, and I kind of wish they weren’t but can’t quite bring myself to throw them out.

    Now I’ve had my cataract surgery, I’m the only one in the family without glasses. It will change if I live long enough, of course, but I only ever got cheap frames as I would only wear glasses to drive.

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    • I had my cataract surgery 20 years ago. My vision isn’t bad but my astigmatism (which at that time they couldn’t correct with the lens they inserted) changed. My prescription is mostly for the reading part. I can’t read close up without glasses.

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  8. I hope you can repair your pink purse stain. When I worked at the diner, it was just the cook and me on Sundays. We’d get the church crowds from three churches that were in the neighborhood. I was bustling around and instead of putting the glass coffee decanter ON the burner, instead I crashed it INTO the coffee machine. Coffee went everywhere and my waitress uniform was white (and it was short). I was lucky I didn’t scald myself. My black apron helped the front somewhat, but I had coffee splatters everywhere for the rest of my shift.

    I wasn’t part of the “in crowd” in high school and found it very “cliquey” to be honest, but then we only had half-days for 10th and 11th grade, just the “4 Rs” for classes, as our millage didn’t pass for school funds for those years. We got all our extracurricular activities back for our senior year. The “cool kids” were the high school football team, their girlfriends and the cheerleaders who got all the attention. We did have 613 in our graduating class though. We are none the worse off though are we? My high school and college counsellors were not much help and so I never got a job in my chosen field.

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    • Somehow we managed to be successful. As I was going through my yearbook that one last time, it wasn’t only me that wasn’t in it. The kids I was friends with weren’t either. Some were in club pictures not none were in activity pictures. There is a good percentage of my classmates that are gone. I did some googling on a few yesterday. I always get curious about people after I read about them. One granddaughter is interested in the film industry and I’ve been impressed at the courses that are available specifically for that. Different times for sure.

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      • Every so often I think of someone from school and check them out on Facebook. A lot of the women used their maiden names hyphenated with their married names which is good for finding people. I’ve not known anyone with any kind of famous connections.

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        • Famous…hmmmm. I’m sure there were successful people (at least I hope) but no one I could say is famous. We had one guy who was supersmart. I googled him and he lives in California, probably in Silicon Valley and I expect he did very well. At this point everyone is long retired.

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          • I’ve not heard of successful or famous in our class. Our high school lost our accreditation the two years the millage didn’t pass, so it made it difficult to get into some colleges. I think most of ours are retired as well.

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              • Yes, it was and our school curriculum was nothing special to be honest. When I got to Henry Ford Community College, I realized just how bad our school system was. Fellow student in my classes had read a lot of the classic novels – we never read any of them. My parents subscribed to Reader’s Digest and they had the bound abridged versions of some classic books, plus these studens had read Shakespeare, had philosophy classes, plus foreign language classes, something we never had … a well-rounded high school education unlike our high school. We had to pay for driver’s ed classes too – my HFCC classmates were shocked to learn that.

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  9. The coffee spill sounds awful. I spilled mine recently, but it all ended up in the cup holder without the cup. Get your prescription from your eye dr and you can get a few pairs of glasses online for the price of one from them then you won’t get bored.

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  10. I’ve still got my senior yearbook but that’s it. If someone were to go through that entire thing looking for me they would never find me – it’s like I morphed into an entirely different looking person (I guess that’s not so unusual though). Now that I have had cataract surgery I no longer have to go through the agony of picking out frames. I RARELY could get the frames I wanted when I wore glasses though. You certainly should have been in that yearbook considering all your other achievements!

    Hugs, Pam

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  11. There are no pictures of me in my high school yearbook as I never joined any clubs, as I lived in the country and there were no late buses. In university there is one picture of me in first year sitting in a dive bar with some classmates, which is weird as I was not one to go bar-hopping off-campus. It’s a nice picture, my hair looks good, parted in the middle as was the style then but lots of volume. I could easily toss my high school yearbooks, but not my university ones – they remind me, lest I forget, how much work it was.

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  13. Kate, you make me wish I liked coffee! I feel like I am missing something. I hope you get the coffee out of your pink purse! I tossed my high school yearbooks in 2018 when we moved to Florida. I guess I don’t miss them, I threw them on our burn pile in the west field at The Tiny Ten. I hope you find some eyeglasses you love. It took me two years to decide on what I wanted. Our week was HOT!

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    • Our weather has been pleasant. I hate shopping for eyeglasses. I feel pressured to make the right choice. I don’t think I looked at my yearbooks since I was in school so there didn’t seem to be a point in keeping them. It’s not like I was really in it! :)

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  17. Coffee travels, I know this spilling it often. And you stoically didn’t mention your purse drank it instead of you. Bummer.

    Let us see your new glasses when you get them. Curious to what you’ll choose since frames have gotten very glam. You can always take Sasha the Magnificent along to get her cat’s meow opinion. :)

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  18. I still have my yearbooks though I have no idea why. I wasn’t all that crazy about the kids I went to school with and nearly 59 years later hasn’t changed my opinion about them. But I recently found out one of the people I did like passed away this year. That was a shock to me-he always seemed so healthy. Good luck on the eyewear. Now that my son is no longer in the biz, finding glasses that I like and that look good on my is really difficult-he knew what looked best and I’m not that great at choosing. Plus the fact that I no longer receive a friends and family discount really dampens my enthusiasm.

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  19. I was a nobody in high school. Next to the youngest in the class…only had a couple of changes of clothes so the same ones were worn several times. No money for any extras. Worked in the cafeteria to pay for my lunch.
    Everyone was stunned when I scored highest in the class on the Senior aptitude test.
    Graduated at 16 and went straight into a full-time factory job. Things have steadily gone up since those days. There have been hills and valleys…but a steady climb.

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    • I scored an internship in my senior year. There were less than 10 of us who achieved that. (Also no recognition in the yearbook.) They paid for my education. I worked at that company for 25 years before moving on. Sounds like you did well and are just where you want to be.

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