Musings
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Wordless Wednesday – Excellent T-Shirt Edition
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Getting to Know You
Some of my blogging friends have had the good idea to post a getting to know you type post, for new readers due to NaBloPoMo. So, here are a few things about me. How about you? What is your perfect day?
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Photo of the Day
Normally this picture would not warrant its own post, but I did say that my posts might get a little random during NaBloPoMo, right? So here we are. We live very close to a rapid transit station (BART), and you can see the mailbox in the background, which is where I mail letters and postcards and such. Yesterday I had a couple of things to mail, so I stopped by on my morning walk. Then I came across this tableau. A brand new walker, tag still attached, leaning against a bench. What’s the story? Does the fact that it appears to be wet underneath the bench mean anything? Was someone…
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Upcoming Reads and Foux du Fafa
Sunday, Maya and I went to the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland to Foux du Fafa around. That is what we call it when we want to just walk around a neighborhood, maybe have a meal or a drink, do some window shopping, etc. Our more specific goal for this day was for Maya to see the temporary location of one of our favorite bookstores, as they are in the process of rebuilding their old location that was destroyed in a fire last year. We started out with lunch at a pub with a nice outdoor patio. We enjoyed watching a dad party (4 young dads with their babies) and several…
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Mixing it Up
Earlier this year, I had a bone density scan, and was diagnosed with osteopenia. Not a shock, my grandmother broke her hip at 40, and I think I had osteopenia the first time I had a bone density scan almost 20 years ago. But now that I’m approaching 60, I’m finally getting a bit more serious about things I should have been doing for the last 20 – 30 years. Mostly that means being consistent about strength training. Last November, I started doing Caroline Girvan trainings 5 days a week. I’ve chosen the 15 to 20 minute workouts, and mostly I used 5 lb hand weights, though I have increased…
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Friday Randomness
Happy Halloween! The decorations at this house were not nearly as charming as skeletons playing banjos or ghosts on swings, but wow, it did scare me a bit when I came around the corner and saw it. Creepy. I don’t have a lot of randomness this week, but I did take some pictures. I went to the farmers’ market last weekend and got some berries and tomatoes. And apparently took pictures only of things I did not buy. I went to the weekly protest, which was much smaller than the big No Kings protest, but still about 125 – 150 people. Inspired by Diane’s post in which she has been…
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A Week of Breakfasts
Some people eat the same thing for breakfast every day. I am not one of those people. I like some variety. I don’t usually eat 7 different breakfasts in one week, but this week I did and I documented it for you. Working from home means that I have freedom in when I eat. Generally I get up, have tea and play my word games, do weights and yoga, go for a walk, sign in for my daily 8am meeting, and eat breakfast whenever I’m hungry. Saturday ~ Smoothie day. I don’t want you to think that I put any of these pills in my smoothie. I was thinking about…
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Friday Randomness
It feels like our descent into fascism is speeding up exponentially, doesn’t it? I suspect that is because it is. This has been a rough week or 30, hasn’t it? Oh hell, a rough century so far. To say I don’t understand this world is a gross understatement. Ted recommended a podcast to me. Forum is a locally produced NPR show, and this episode is about the tension between the stresses in the world while we still need to go about our day, and continue to find beauty in our lives. Life Goes On While Systems Fray – How Do We Make Sense of the Dissonance? Give it a listen…
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Friday Randomness
It’s been a busy week around here. We celebrated Ted’s stepdad’s birthday last Saturday – no pictures, but we had a lovely time. We had bbq ribs and chicken, green salad, potato salad, watermelon, hibiscus tea mixed with lemonade, wine, and chocolate raspberry cake. The weather was perfect, not too hot, but warm enough that you could sit outside if you wanted. Speaking of weather, it seems from your posts like it’s full on fall for some of you. I remember fall coming in August when I was a kid in Alaska, and when Ted and I lived in Philadelphia, it felt like a switch was flipped in mid September…
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Chest Wrinkle Pillow
I had so many questions about the chest wrinkle pillow I got rid of the other day, so here is your quick picture to show you how it works. I wore it some, and it wasn’t uncomfortable, but it made me hot and I didn’t feel like it worked, so away it went. I’m picturing the folks at Goodwill trying to figure out what the hell it is. Apparently I was once really upset by chest wrinkles, because not only did I spend way too much on this, I also bought some kind of silicone thing to help, which also…not enough results, so I threw that away. The end. That…
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Flashback Friday
Yesterday’s post was a list of 13 things that I have given away recently. Today’s post is about something that I tried to give away, but couldn’t. Looking at the picture above, from an Easter Sunday years ago, notice the adorable hat I’m wearing. I love that hat. I will never wear it again, however, and Maya doesn’t want it, and no one on Buy Nothing wants it, and I can’t bear to think of it going to Goodwill and no one wanting it and it being used for stuffing or rags or something. It needs to remain a hat. This is our beautiful girl, Genevieve, borrowing my hat back…
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Friday Randomness
So much randomness this week…this one is going to be scattered. Let’s dive in. Eggy GoodnessLet’s start with eggs, shall we? Maya and I watched a video on YouTube the other day about egg cooking hacks. If you need a lot of chopped up hard boiled eggs for egg salad or something, she has a tip where you crack raw eggs into a baking dish, bake them until they are set, then chop them up. That looked pretty good, but I can’t tell you the last time I needed a bunch of chopped hard boiled eggs. She had a trick for making poached eggs in the microwave that I had…
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Cool Blogger Meet Up
I met up with Engie last weekend! She and her husband were in Northern California to attend a wedding, and she had some time open when we could get together. She has had a lot going on lately, and I was grateful that we were able to hang out. I have a membership to the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco (I used to always buy one, but for the last few years they didn’t really have any exhibits that I wanted to see – when Ted and I went to see the exhibit of photographs taken by Paul McCartney in July, I piggy backed onto his ticket purchase, and…
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Friday Randomness
I don’t know this dog’s name, just that she’s a sweet darling girl, and if she is outside when I walk by her house, she comes running over and wags her tail like crazy, hoping for pets. I rarely pet her, she’s a little mouthy and I don’t like being nipped, but she clearly just wants to love the world. She and Mulder were friends, he would pull like crazy when we got close to her house, hoping she would be outside, and they would wag and wiggle and squirm and make darling noises through the fence. I think they would have loved to be playmates. As I said, I…
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Friday Randomness
I’m currently listening to The Bright Years, which I am enjoying. Early on, the protagonist, Lillian, ruminates that she feels resentful of people who express annoyance with their parents for little things, since her parents are both long gone, and she would love to have them here and be gently annoyed by their entirely normal behavior. I was struck by this, especially since my mom died when I was only 42, so most of my friends still had their mothers around. Don’t get me wrong, my mom annoyed me no end in 1,000 little ways. And when people complain about their parents, I get it, and I remember being (often…
