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Fitness Plan…
Aerobic workout with Gilead….check High Fiber cereal with antioxident (and yummy) fresh blueberries for breakfast….check 30 minute nap added to daily schedule….check* Did you see the latest, that a 30 minute nap every afternoon, if you can manage it, is good for your heart? Here is one we’ve all been waiting for: A Harvard study has found that a regular afternoon nap could reduce the risk of cardiac death by 37 percent. First we learned that a glass of red wine is good for the heart, and now so is the midday snooze. For the wine, we have the French to thank. For the nap, we can thank the Greeks.…
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Weekend Wrap Up
Our weekend started off with a steak craving, thanks to Gina’s Friday Poll. Ted isn’t much of a beef eater, his red meat of choice is lamb. However, he’ll make the occasional exception for either an avocado burger at Manny’s if we happen to be in Stockton, or a good Rib Eye steak. On Friday, we decided to go out for a nice Rib Eye, and we hoped to pay a lot less than $200 for the three of us, which left out these pricey favorites. We ended up at Hungry Hunter, but were dismayed to see that the only Rib Eye on the menu was quite complex, with peppercorns…
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Sunday Funnies
One for Miss Cherry, because she gave Maya her vintage “My Pretty Pony” collection, so I thought she might have a laugh at this: [youtube]NEZ5kNZf-7I[/youtube] And one for Autumn’s Mom, and maybe LD as well, because of their Coach addiction: Click the comic to see it larger…
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I’m either in denial, or I’m the most boring person EVER…
You Are 14% Borderline Your personality isn’t borderline anything. You’re happy, stable, content, together… ever consider being a therapist? Do You Have a Borderline Personality? I saw this over at Wendy’s blog, and thought I would play. Am I kidding myself, or am I really that well adjusted? And if I am that adjusted, why aren’t I more successful in my life? And really, what is successful anyway? How would I measure that? Why am I here? Why do I take these tests? What was I thinking? Clearly, I’m kidding myself.
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Friday Thoughts…
Nothing big today… We saw the film, Proof, the other night. It was OK…not GREAT, not sucky. Mostly what I thought was that Gwenyth looks like the movie star version of my sister, Maya, which made me think of Laura Dern looking like the movie star version of me, and wondering who the movie star version of my sister, Melissa is…maybe Emily Longstreth, whom I thought looked like Melissa back in 1989, when she played Kevin Bacon’s girlfriend, Susan, in “The Big Picture”, which was a great movie, by the way. I’m not sure who else Melissa looks like. Someone, I’m sure. That got me to wondering about my brother,…
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Microwave Update
Well, I hope to hell that you all are wrong about the water that’s been leaking from the microwave being some kind of radioactive waste, because both Ted and I have already cleaned it up several times, with no gloves, just towels.  I put the microwave in the backyard this morning, since the counter was completely wet again this morning, and I don’t know if we can legally just throw it in the trash or not… Where do I buy a geiger counter, anyway?Â
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Thirteen Memes…
I was recently tagged for two memes that I’ve already done, and I don’t think I could go through with doing them again, as much as I do love me a good meme. So, I thought, why not milk this for a Thursday Thirteen, another type of meme….I mean, really, why not. So, here you go, Thirteen Memes I’ve completed. Wendy and Curiosity Killer, the first two are the ones you tagged me for: Five Things You May Not Know About Me – Okay, Wendy, yours was 6 things, so here’s one more: I confess so much to you people, that there is nothing left to put here. That’s something…
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Calling Engineering Types…
Has anyone ever heard of a microwave oven leaking water? I have never heard of this, but ours definately is. It’s not even plugged in, hasn’t been used in a day or two, but it put out a HUGE puddle. This has happened several times, and ruined several of my cookbooks. We’re going to trash the thing and get a new one, since it’s almost surely cheaper to buy a new one than to get this one looked at, and we’ve had it for maybe 10 years, but I think this is VERY weird. Today, I heated up some soup on the stove at about 11:30. The counter was dry,…
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Scruples
 “Scruples…They are unbearable to me, because I have suffered too much from scruples…” ~ Anaïs Nin All of this talk of infidelity and morals has me thinking…thinking about how some people see the ties of marriage as a pair of shackles, see the mores of society as beneath them, as not appyling to them, because they are ‘free spirits’, and thus, somehow above it all. I try not to be judgemental of folks for the way that they choose to live their lives. If someone wants to have an open marriage, as long as everyone knows what’s going on, OK, whatever. If, for example,  Anaïs Nin feels stifled in her…
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Henry and June
I finally finished the second book in my Winter Classics Challenge, Henry and June. I vaguely remember watching the film when it came out, and we own the soundtrack, which is lovely, but I don’t remember a lot about the movie, other than that I liked it. If you’re not familiar with Henry and June, it’s the journal of Anaïs Nin, written in France during a year of sexual awakening, in which she becomes involved with writer Henry Miller and his wife, June. In the beginning of the book, Anaïs finds herself drawn to June, and they share a kiss. June leaves France and returns to New York and the…
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Queen Mary 2 Enters San Francisco
Did anyone see this on the news or in person? We didn’t go to SF to watch, but WOW, that’s a big ship. So big she had to sail around the Cape, because she won’t fit through the Panama Canal. Whew. Photo courtesy the SF Chronicle, and you can find more pictures here.
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Notes on a Scandal
Saturday, Maya went to a sleepover birthday party at her best friend Jackie’s house. Ted and I took the opportunity (free babysitting! Is it called that when your baby is almost 11?) to go see a rated ‘R’ film, with dialogue, sex, and intrigue. Specifically, we saw “Notes on a Scandal“, with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. I’ve got one word for you…Oscar. (Both are nominated, Dench for leading roll, Cate for supporting) Judi Dench gives a chilling performance as a British schoolteacher (Barbara), who befriends the new art teacher, Sheba (played by Blanchett), and becomes obsessed with her.  Barbara witnesses a tryst between Sheba and a 15 year old pupil, and they…
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Goodbye
Goodbye to those I loved, lost one sad spring… My Granddad, whom I never had the chance to meet… My dog, whom I cherished… My Grandpa, who spoiled me and who I loved utterly… Spring of ’88, a time of falling in love, while at the same time, saying goodbye, so sadly, over and over again. This is my attempt at the Sunday Scribblings challenge.
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I’m Old…
Worse than being ‘Ma’amed’ at the grocery store, is when you’re buying fancy dog food at the neighborhood feed store, and the guy behind the counter says, “Your last name sounds familiar. Did you have any kids that went to (the local community college)”. My KIDS? Excuse me? Wait a minute, my Grandma was a Grandma at my age. A young grandma, but still….I’m officially OLD.
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Crisis Averted…
 No need to find out if the world will end or not, because of me having nothing to say. Shockingly, the source of my inspiration is me wanting to bestow major kudos on a conservative Christian Republican from Texas. From the A/P: Governor Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer…. Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade — meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 — will have to get Gardasil, Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. I’m going to ignore…