we meet again my blog. Here I sit in my office at home (red walls, gold trim) watching yet another snowfall in central New York. Winter started early this year, I swear it's not my imagination, and now it's wearing thinner and thinner with each new storm. In fact, I think it snows a little every day. There are huge piles of snow everywhere, and I'm even past the point where I want to take pictures. I will, however, say that my spirits are pretty good, considering that I'm usually the one who complains more about winter than anybody I know. I actually found myself saying to Aunt Grace today that even though it's snowing right now that means that the temperature is above zero, so I'm optimistic.
Is it the yoga? Not likely since I talk about doing it more than I actually do it. Is it the prescription vitamin D? Perhaps. I can tell you one thing; it's not because of the great nights' sleeps I'm getting. Winter insomnia and I are at it again, but we're comfortable companions this winter.
There are simple things I'm okay with, and that seems to be making a difference. I am happy that I don't have to worry about Missy lying down in the snow and refusing to come in, happy that she didn't suffer, and after the initial adjustment happy to have her ashes here in the house.
I am learning that we can't, try as we might, hold on to everything with an anxiety-riddled grip. We have to let some things go because if we don't they build up like plaque (pardon the shitty dental metaphor, but I've got a lot of dental work coming up relatively soon).
For me, it's a pretty good time overall. I'm winding down the days of living in this old house and starting to think about where and when and how we can pull off this wedding thing. All I really know is (and maybe this is the Valentine's Day talkin') that I'm gonna be somebody's wife again and I think that's pretty damn cool . . .
except for the scary parts, that is. You didn't think I'd changed that much, did you?
Alright, namaste m'f fers. I gotta go do some yoga.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Five Random Questions
to get me back into blogging. I've be bbbbbaaaaaaaaaaddddddddd! I feel unimaginative, lazy, and kind of a dumbo. So maybe asking and answering inane questions will help get me back on track.
1) What is your hometown best known for Pat?
Gee, it's actually best known for a group suicide committed about 25 years ago by four high school students. Google Bergenfield NJ suicides to find out more. Sociologists still study the case.
2) What other interesting event happened in your home town Pat?
Well, after an old family friend sold her house, a man took a woman (let's say a prostitute kinda woman) to that same house a (a mere three blocks away from where my Aunt Grace lives) and murdered her with a knife -- WITH A KNIFE! Google all you want. I couldn't find it. This incident occurred in the same house in which our friend Marge once came home to find out that her dog HAD EATEN ITSELF TO DEATH AND EXPIRED INSIDE A BAG OF DOGFOOD!!!!!! Google Bergenfield NJ Beagle death by dogfood and see what you come up with.
3) Tell us a little bit about some of your hometown's attractions Pat.
Have you been reading or what people? Suicide, murder, death by gluttony: what more can you ask? Okay, there's Cooper's Pond and the Cooper Chair Factory and the Old South Church (second oldest church in NJ).
4) What does your hometown smell like Pat?
It smells like New Jersey, just like New Jersey.
5) Do you hope that anybody reading this post will come up with other, more interesting and less offensive things to blog about?
Yes, but I'd be just as happy if they answered the same questions about their hometowns.
Do me a favor -- if I keep up crap like this, just shoot me.
1) What is your hometown best known for Pat?
Gee, it's actually best known for a group suicide committed about 25 years ago by four high school students. Google Bergenfield NJ suicides to find out more. Sociologists still study the case.
2) What other interesting event happened in your home town Pat?
Well, after an old family friend sold her house, a man took a woman (let's say a prostitute kinda woman) to that same house a (a mere three blocks away from where my Aunt Grace lives) and murdered her with a knife -- WITH A KNIFE! Google all you want. I couldn't find it. This incident occurred in the same house in which our friend Marge once came home to find out that her dog HAD EATEN ITSELF TO DEATH AND EXPIRED INSIDE A BAG OF DOGFOOD!!!!!! Google Bergenfield NJ Beagle death by dogfood and see what you come up with.
3) Tell us a little bit about some of your hometown's attractions Pat.
Have you been reading or what people? Suicide, murder, death by gluttony: what more can you ask? Okay, there's Cooper's Pond and the Cooper Chair Factory and the Old South Church (second oldest church in NJ).
4) What does your hometown smell like Pat?
It smells like New Jersey, just like New Jersey.
5) Do you hope that anybody reading this post will come up with other, more interesting and less offensive things to blog about?
Yes, but I'd be just as happy if they answered the same questions about their hometowns.
Do me a favor -- if I keep up crap like this, just shoot me.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
When Jess and I have that coffee
you can join us if you can name the song from which I got the title for the last post.
and if I look like death today,
well please let her know
I'm climbing out of strep throat after three days in bed, so I'll keep this short. Warning: it won't be sweet
Five reasons not to like strep throat:
1) It makes the dog nervous, really nervous
2) It makes the house smell, or
3) It makes my head smell
4) It makes devoted college teachers miss their first day of classes
5) It made me miss my first day of classes
Cheers
I hope you're well
I'm climbing out of strep throat after three days in bed, so I'll keep this short. Warning: it won't be sweet
Five reasons not to like strep throat:
1) It makes the dog nervous, really nervous
2) It makes the house smell, or
3) It makes my head smell
4) It makes devoted college teachers miss their first day of classes
5) It made me miss my first day of classes
Cheers
I hope you're well
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Songs About Trains
I'm going on a train ride today and I'm so excited. I suspect I love trains because I grew up with a mother who used to work for the New York Central railroad and a father who was/is a train enthusiast, to say the least.
If I was patient enough to burn, download, whatever, I'd have to include the following songs in my train mix:
Off the Rails by the Notwist
Pilot by the Notwist
Yeah, Neon Golden is actually the only cd I own
Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight and the Pips
Downtown Train by Tom Waits
Take the A Train Duke Ellington or any version
The first four are some of my all time favorite songs. The fifth is included cause it's a cool and obvious choice.
How 'bout you? Any train, car, plane or maybe hot air balloon songs?
Peace Out
If I was patient enough to burn, download, whatever, I'd have to include the following songs in my train mix:
Off the Rails by the Notwist
Pilot by the Notwist
Yeah, Neon Golden is actually the only cd I own
Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight and the Pips
Downtown Train by Tom Waits
Take the A Train Duke Ellington or any version
The first four are some of my all time favorite songs. The fifth is included cause it's a cool and obvious choice.
How 'bout you? Any train, car, plane or maybe hot air balloon songs?
Peace Out
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Things I have learned today because I have insomnia
That's right, it's another pathetic attempt to look on the bright side of being up since 4:30. I have watched a dvd of last night's season premiere of Antiques Roadshow, scrubbed my kitchen sink, and learned (from that vast and sometimes disturbing repository of knowledge the worldwide you-know-what):
My ruby glass isn't worth anything.
This one's for Josh. I can reduce this crazy static thing that makes me freakishly charged all the time by doing all kinds of stuff, like carrying around dryer sheets and making a spray of ten parts fabric softener to one part water and spraying it around my house. I'm drawing the line at the suggestion of rubbing fabric softener sheets on my skin, but I can totally see me at committee meetings whipping out the fabric softener sheets and rubbing one all over my clothes. I'm desperate enough to do it, even though fabric softener sheets are so enviro-nasty. I also learned that for people who have problems with static more body hair means more static. No comment.
Aunt Grace's Nippon vases might be worth a lot of money.
You can determine what shape your face is by looking in a mirror and outlining your face in lipstick on the mirror. I kid you not. I just did it -- oval.
You can find videos that help you figure out what shape glasses you should be wearing based on face shape, skin, and hair color.
If you have an oval face, perky women with perky hair will tell you (in videos again) that you can wear any hairstyle, get any haircut, which is not helpful if you happen to know that the haircut you have isn't working any better than the previous two haircuts you got.
All that and it's not even 7:00. Got anything you've learned from the Internet that you want to share? This blog prompt is NR, so have at it folks.
My ruby glass isn't worth anything.
This one's for Josh. I can reduce this crazy static thing that makes me freakishly charged all the time by doing all kinds of stuff, like carrying around dryer sheets and making a spray of ten parts fabric softener to one part water and spraying it around my house. I'm drawing the line at the suggestion of rubbing fabric softener sheets on my skin, but I can totally see me at committee meetings whipping out the fabric softener sheets and rubbing one all over my clothes. I'm desperate enough to do it, even though fabric softener sheets are so enviro-nasty. I also learned that for people who have problems with static more body hair means more static. No comment.
Aunt Grace's Nippon vases might be worth a lot of money.
You can determine what shape your face is by looking in a mirror and outlining your face in lipstick on the mirror. I kid you not. I just did it -- oval.
You can find videos that help you figure out what shape glasses you should be wearing based on face shape, skin, and hair color.
If you have an oval face, perky women with perky hair will tell you (in videos again) that you can wear any hairstyle, get any haircut, which is not helpful if you happen to know that the haircut you have isn't working any better than the previous two haircuts you got.
All that and it's not even 7:00. Got anything you've learned from the Internet that you want to share? This blog prompt is NR, so have at it folks.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Top Five, Not In Any Apparent Order
Ruby (as in don't take your love to town, and I'd even get a cd of that song and play it while I drive)
Red Bull (cause it has so much energy)
Pauline (I have no idea why)
Specter (cause it's a Spectra, yo)
Murfmobile (not really, but it would be fun to say "To the Murfmobile, Missy!"
Whaddya think?
Red Bull (cause it has so much energy)
Pauline (I have no idea why)
Specter (cause it's a Spectra, yo)
Murfmobile (not really, but it would be fun to say "To the Murfmobile, Missy!"
Whaddya think?
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