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Farewell, Natasha
I was saddend to hear of the skiing accident of Natasha Richardson. It reminded me of when Princess Diana was killed in that car accident. The first reports that were reported to the press said, “She has been in a car accident, and has been injured”, which is right and correct and as is should be, to protect the privacy of the family. This was what we learned before I went to bed that night, and in the morning, I learned that she was dead. Horrible. So Natasha, who I remember first and foremost as Offred from “The Handmaid’s Tale“, was skiing, and fell on a beginners slope, with a…
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Firsts Meme
I’ve had a few complaints lately, about the paucity of new posts around here. I know, it’s disturbing. I’m blogstipated. Feel like everything I want to say, I’ve said. Don’t worry, this has happened to me before. Plenty of fiber, and I’ll be fine again soon. In the meantime, to get certain people off my back, here’s a meme. Don’t complain, you wanted a post, you got a post. No one said it had to be good. Stole this from Dot’s Facebook page. FIRSTS MEME 1. Who was your FIRST prom date? John Crespi. Only prom date, as I only went once. 2. Do you still talk to your FIRST…
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Happy Pi(e) Day
(perfect pi/pie pic found here) Today is 3.14, March 14th, aka, Pi Day. I’m thinking we might celebrate with some pie. Ala’ mode, of course.
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Awards, lists, and plans
C from Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island gave me this cheery little award a few weeks ago, and it’s about time I got around to passing it on. I’ll admit that I wonder if perhaps it mutated somewhere along the way, because it’s a Kreativ Blogger award, but it doesn’t ask you to choose creative people, or talk about 6 ways you enjoy being creative, or anything like that. Hmmm. But it’s a fun award, and the perfect way to start out the weekend, so I’ll bite. The rules are that the recipient is to list six things that make him/her happy before subsequently passing forward the glee…
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Walking Away
I keep hearing about people who are underwater on their loans, and who might walk away from their homes in order to save money. I just read this on Yahoo, where four people who are underwater discussed their decisions to stay or not stay in their homes. It seems a bit disingenuous to me, becuase of the four people they interviewed, they found two who would not walk away from their homes, and two who are considering it, but they didn’t interview anyone who is definitely planning it. There must be some folks out there who are walking away from their mortgages, so why didn’t they get some of them?…
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Road Trip Weekend
(front row: Liz, Tracy, and Cherry; back row, me and Dorothy) One upside of blogging is the wonderful people that you meet, and how they can go from being just comments on your blog to being people that you genuinely care about, and sometimes, people that you get to meet in person. Cherry, Liz, Dot, and I were friends before we started blogging. We used to work together in a previous life, and happily, we’ve stayed friends all these years later. We’ve made friends with Tracy and Gina through blogging, and we’ve been fortunate enough to meet them in person. Cherry and I went to Tracy’s wedding shower, and Cherry…
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Happy Birthday, LaLuna!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNjsOHiBYs[/youtube] Happy Birthday to a wonderful Sister-In-Law, La Luna! I hope all your birthday wishes come true. (The recording is from when the Beatles were on a BBC show called “Saturday Club”, which is who they’re singing Happy Birthday to. In case you’re trying to figure that one out.)
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Just In Case
If fate were trying to kill you, how would you escape its deathly grasp? If your solution were to change your name, disguise yourself by dressing and acting differently, and protecting yourself by obtaining an imaginary dog, a greyhound named Boy, then you might be David Case. David is 15, and lives in a suburb of London with his parents and his baby brother, Charlie. One day he saves Charlie from jumping out of a window to his certain demise (Charlie was wanting to fly like the birds), and rather than feeling blessed and fortunate, he instead snaps and decides that Fate is out to get him, and his best…
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Wordless Wednesday ~ First Tulip of the bunch
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Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a ten-year-old Irish boy in 1968. The book is told in Paddy’s voice, and Roddy Doyle captures the confusion and attempts to make sense of the world that go along with being 10, suppositions and extrapolations that children make. Paddy on death and religion: When Indians died – Red ones – they went to the happy hunting ground. Vikings went to Valhalla when they died or they got killed. We went to heaven, unless we went to hell. You went to hell if you had a mortal sin on your soul when you died, even if you were on your way…
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Meme Monday
Because I’ve got nothing else this morning, and still I want to post something. Maya got a super cute haircut over the weekend, but she won’t let me take a picture for the blog. I finished my book last night, but don’t have time to write up a review right now. I’m going to go observe small claims court later this morning, as our homeowners association is being sued, and it seems like it might be kinda fun and interesting to watch. So, for now, you get a meme that I took from my Facebook & real life friend, Connie: 43 Things about me!* 1. Do you like blue cheese?…
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The Album Cover Project
Do you Facebook? I Facebook. Through Facebook, I’ve reconnected with some old high school friends (wait, that didn’t come out right…they’re not old…or wait, maybe we’re all old, I’m not sure.) Anyway, I’ve reconnected with some great guys that I knew in another lifetime, back when I was still trying to figure out who I was, and I was mostly shy and awkward and so on, and they were mostly friends of my brother, but let me hang around anyway. One of these guys is Darin, who actually left High School before I started, so I didn’t know him quite as well as the others, but he is a great…
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What, Me Worry?
(Alfred, found here) I’ve been unemployed for 3 weeks now, and people keep asking me how I’m doing…am I worried, am I stressed, am I OK? I’ve gotta say, thus far, I’m fine. I’m sleeping well, feeling fairly relaxed during the day, doing OK. I don’t have as much time for reading/blogging/watching TV/going to movies as I expected to have, but I guess that’s fine. I run a lot of errands, I volunteered at Maya’s school yesterday, I take walks or bike rides in the middle of the day. I look for work, but there isn’t much out there right now. I have a few job leads, which will hopefully…
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Making sushi rolls
(I totally wish these were mine, but no, the picture came from this site) Maya’s history class is studying medieval cultures this year. Right now, they’re studying medieval Japanese culture, and they had ‘Japan Day’ today in class. The kids worked in stations, learning about Japanese brush painting, scroll making, origami, and sushi making. Since I’m out of work, I decided to volunteer, and I was assigned the sushi station. We went to a quick training session on Monday, where they showed us how to make the sushi rolls. They gave us a recipe for sushi rice, asked us to finely slice a million bits of carrot and cucumber, and…
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
(cover found here) I LOVED this book. Really, really loved it. So charming and quirky and wonderful, I suspect I’ll be buying it as a gift for a few people, and recommending it to many others. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is the story of Paloma and Renée, two inhabitants of an elegant apartment building in Paris. Paloma is the youngest daughter of a wealthy couple who inhabit one of the apartments, and Renée is the building concierge. Both Paloma and Renée hide their true selves from the world around them, fearing the consequences if people find out their secrets. And their secrets are the same: they are both fiercely…