Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Running the Numbers, Eating the Tums
Another bad business month like May and wrinkle creams are not going to touch my frown lines. Worst numbers since December! Argh! I keep telling myself that the economy is challenging and when you are challenged you grow, but I’m finding it challenging to remain happily challenged. It’s a challenge, you know?
This morning I sent [...]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Fishing on Facebook
In the parts from whence I hail, fishing would not be considered a viable exercise to get rid of belly fat since the “sport” also involves drinking beer. While catfish of 70+ lbs. have been caught in our rivers and the 40-50 lb. range is fairly common, most are taken on trot lines. You get [...]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Jitterbugging in Waltz Time
This has been one of those weeks I’m just as happy to see draw to a close. No big crisis. Not involved in funeral planning like one of my chums. Just one of those weeks where I never found the beat. It’s like time was jitterbugging and I was waltzing.
My accomplishment column grew thinner by [...]
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Drooling, Dozing, Doing Damn Little
If naps are appetite suppressants, I’m going to weigh 90 lbs. by the time these Level Orange ozone days pass. They either give me a headache or make me so lethargic I can’t get anything done.
You’d think we have group narcolepsy. R. is sound asleep in her chair. Andy is sound asleep in her lap. [...]
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The “Wrong” Shredded Wheat
Not being the kind of woman given to sitting around reading night cream reviews, I can understand screwing up when R. asks me to get a girly girl product and I come home with the wrong thing. For years she harped about something called “skin freshener” that I could never figure out until I appealed [...]
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Running, Running, Running – SMACK!
When I was in graduate school I had a little Siberian hamster named Leo. He was too tiny to run in a conventional wheel and they don’t make a rodent-sized treadmill, so he did his laps on a thing that looked a good bit like a satellite dish.
I can see his tiny gray self now, [...]
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Out on I-10, Under the West Texas Moon
Blogging has been off my radar for the past few days. It was a hectic week in many ways. On the one hand I was given a serendipitous, long-distance opportunity to perform a service for an old friend and on the other, I proved completely incapable of helping my housemate during one of her periods [...]
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Saturday Night Pajama Games
Sometimes when I have a really persistent bout of insomnia, I sleep in my chair one night (or on the couch, or simply reverse directions in the bed.) There’s no rhyme or reason to the strategy, I just know it works.
For as hard as it is for me to believe this, I apparently have not [...]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Midnight and Socks
We don’t have outdoor cushions on our patio chairs, but Miss Midnight, the “feral” backyard cat, has a bed and a blanket on the table. (I have no idea why, but she prefers them there.)
During bad weather, she camps in her circular domain under the patio awning, high and dry. With her head on her [...]
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
She Thinks I Get My Way? Excuse Me While I Choke Laughing.
Is it really Friday? Do I even need to add the “thank God?” I don’t understand why some weeks are longer than others, but I think, in part, it happens when you make the mistake of setting a simple personal goal – you know, as if you’re in charge of your own fate — instead [...]
