Wednesday, December 24, 2008

christmas musing- christmas music

ok. we had snow for no reason last week. now we have rain for christmas.  that weather goddess got confused again. you just can't trust her. and the music! i put a whole mess of christmas music on the ipod and i think it spread like a virus. although i made a playlist, it seems to have spread throughout the rest of my stuff and so... come july we can still listen to the boston pops doing BIG christmas songs. as i have mentioned, old broads and technology is a very tenuous combination. well, time to wrap the coffee and drink some presents. i really love christmas seasoning.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

science questions at moonrise

when the moon is full here is it full in antarctica as well? sleepless full moon nights - do they lead to restless anxiety dreams for everyone or just for me? why does everything outside look huge and transformed under a full moon? are full moon saturday nights scarier than usual saturday nights? do people all around the world get crazier on these nights? vampires? werewolves? and why is it so much quieter? just wondering. my form of scientific thought.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

60 degree day

a reprieve! 60 degrees in december is always welcome even though we know it won't last. a taste of memory from summers past. the garden immediately reacts as if THIS  is spring. silly garden. like me. the possibility of going outside with only a hoodie always sucks me in. (or out?). oh, don't worry i know it is only a temporary blip. it just makes me happy. the goddess is such a tease. now, let's see what the rest of today looks like.......

Sunday, November 30, 2008

thanksgiving under wraps

staten island t-giving was a blast, of course. there were two babies for the first time and that really changed the ambience-less dancing, drinking-no smoking- and more adoration of the pass around kids. also, it ends earlier when short people are around. however, the inevitable turkey with requisite accompaniments was exceptionally well done- john shawn meynard and erene  cooked cleaned and hosted. we toasted "grace on ice" as the friend who is the farthest away this year. much laughter and gossip as well. 

Saturday, November 8, 2008

stuff

gracie is really on ice. we are not. just the unrelieved gray sky flatness. planting tulip and daffodil bulbs is the only revenge. i begin to understand the yankee thing. if one is alone too long one makes up stuff to do. to do that ya save everything for another possible project. maybe i will make something from empty rx bottles, those ribbons from candy boxes, lint from the dryer. then it all stacks up. piles and piles of maybe-one-day. if it weren't for the dogs, i would never get out from under all this stuff.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

hmmmmmm

a solitary existence is new for me. the options are endless yet i manage to do absolutely nothing. with the more things i think to do- the less happens. it took 2 days to change the pages on the calendars; longer to get the laundry down the stairs and forget making art. this computer has become my newest form of "displacement behavior".  somehow a lot of nothing gets done but i hang desperately to the minutae of everyone else's life.  listening to npr even when it is whiny, boring and self-righteous.  watching the dogs sleep and NOT having a meaningful epiphany. watching the trees lose their leaves and NOT considering the existential meaning of it all. is this being in the now? who's now? what now? now what?

Monday, October 27, 2008

it takes a while for old broads to figure out the technology- but once we have it look out! you will now be exposed to all my opinions, tedious life details, the beginning sentences of many unwritten books and the overwhelming detritus of my day-to-day existence. that will happen if i am not too lazy to bother to find this page. someone tell me how to get here without going through some really silly steps.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

initally yours

just for openers let me say that i am pretty sure noone will EVER read this. i wonder where it goes after it leaves the keys behind -does it wander as i wonder? let's see------