Life's a Beach: Bucket List Dis

Flipflops: Katy Perry, Amazon

Top: So, Kohl's

Bracelets clockwise: Iris Apfel for INC, Macy's; B Fabulous; Mixit, JCPenney; Cloud Nine, Ocean City; Sunglasses: Wild Fable, Target

Skirt: So, Kohl's

They (and Morgan Freeman) say that most of us have a bucket list.  Or, in other words, things we want to do before we die.  Items may include seeing the Great Barrier Reef, meeting Oprah, and skydiving.  The point is, must-dos are usually lofty, even over-the-top to the point of being unachievable.  Maybe that's why, to me, a bucket list simply spells pressure.  And pressure's the very last thing that I want while thinking about The Grim Reaper.  

Speaking of buckets, I was delighted to find a bucket bag shaped like an actual (beach) bucket.  I almost missed out on it because it sold out the first time I saw it.  I guess others, ahem, dig sandcastle style too.  

Bag: LC Lauren Conrad, Kohl's

Thankfully, no shovel -- or cyberstalking -- was required to make this Sunset Trip Necklace. 

Sunset Trip Necklace

Ablaze with red and orange, it reminds me of the spectacular skies you seem to see only while on vacation.  And that makes me happy because no one should have to endure jetlag to experience beauty. 

That said, I guess that scooping up this bucket bag -- and all purses shaped like unlikely things -- means that I've got a bucket list after all.

White Night: Off Their Rockers

Perhaps the only thing funnier than Betty White's newish NBC show "Off Their Rockers" is the recent "Saturday Night Live" parody of it in which Maya Rudolph impersonates Maya Angelou (a laugh in itself) and pranks "Morgan Freeman" by putting a banana cream pie on his chair.  Charging into the coveted Wednesday 8:00 pm time slot to save us from the horror that was "Whitney" and reruns of ABC's "The Middle" (my favorite show, by the way.  When will it be new again?), "Off Their Rockers" borrows from the tradition of "Candid Camera" and "Punk'd," putting a new spin on practical jokes by placing senior citizens in the role of the pranksters.  Their prey?  Unsuspecting and often sullen twentysomethings loitering around southern California hotspots and beaches.  Interspersed with blurbs of Betty herself zinging one-liners from her gorgeous estate (or maybe it's just a set; who can tell?), the effect is charming and zany and showcases the go-for-the-gusto-before-it's-gone spirit that illuminates the eldery set.  Betty, after all, is ninety!  Sometimes, when I feel tired or put upon or even just plain old discouraged, I remind myself that Ms. White appears in a weekly sitcom ("Hot in Cleveland"), makes movies (the latest of which is The Lorax), and guest stars on a host of other shows in addition to this fresh venture, all with unbeatable humor and grace.   Who knew that The Golden Girls's ditsiest dame had all that fabulousness tucked under her blond bouffant?  Well, I did.  But that's only because I have a soft spot for kooks and watch too much TV.