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Today seemed like every conversation veered back to my mother and each time I tried to have that conversation about her from banal to not, I was fighting back the tears. We had a friend over this evening and were discussing the latest rants and musings and our friend said that in life when people, family, behave like a unit it is out of a need to clearly define who is core and who is…
Hump day, wake up and at my desk before Tin wakes up, so I don’t get to see his smiling face in the morning. At one point I found myself curled in a ball from being on the phone and staring at my computer and so I just got up and started pacing and pacing and pacing and realized I have cabin fever. I had about an hour in the mix that I could maybe…
I have a friend who I met in college who used to refer to me before she met me as that “tappy foot bitch who sits in the front row” of classes that we shared. My entire family has happy feet and shakes their leg and definitely knows how to get up on the dance floor – it’s in our blood. I was looking at my iPod the other day and thought to myself that…
As we have no time for our friends, Tin’s friends list is growing. Today the girls visiting from D.C. had to stop by for another Tin fix bearing Elmo books and ducks and race cars. Tin was running around like a crazy man with his new found shrill scream of excitement. Never a dull moment.
I brought out the measuring tape and found out that the two inches I’ve gained in my bust, my waist and my hips with this last two years of weight gain has not budged. But just two days ago a friend said she could see in my face that I’d lost something. So I got on the scale this morning, two weeks from the day Lent started, and I saw two and a half pounds…
It’s cold and I want to kill Phil, the ground hog that saw his shadow – here we are stuck with another cold and overcast day. We were spoiled and teased on Sunday by a gorgeous day. A day we could sit on our front porch. A day we wanted to be taking a walk. Yesterday huge storm – today huge cold. Blech. Who needs it?
I was reading the NYT article about Scott Brown and how he came to be elected in Massachusetts and honestly, after reading the article I felt like I knew less about the man than when I started reading. It had zero meat to it and basically was describing a person who resembled more Sarah Palin as a candidate – more about maverick and attractive rather than thinker, knower, doer – a lot of soundbyte, a…
The wind picked up today and the sky grew dark and ominous then the rain came pouring down, but that didn’t stop Monday from being Monday – it just added to the overall feeling that I’d rather have stayed in bed.
Since Wolfie died, T has signed up for every German Shepherd group known on the planet and she has read stories to me about a tripod Shepherd in need of a home (can’t have stairs), a puppy born to a dog that was ditched after being bred as the owners decided they didn’t want to be breeders, a puppy bought by a woman who realized she couldn’t have a puppy because it was too much…
We watched A Serious Man by the Coen brothers on Saturday night after learning that most of the Academy Nominees are on On Demand now. It was certainly a departure for these guys but nevertheless an entertaining story that borrows from the Book of Job to tell the plight of a man trying to be good against an onslaught of tribulations coming his way. It’s an interesting premise man against everyone/thing else and trying hard…