It’s snowing – that’s right, in many places it is snowing – but not here! Yippee. Instead, we are having a gorgeous sunny day. There are puffy white clouds in the baby blue sky and a nice cool breeze blowing. The joys of living here. A colleague said this morning – “You live in vacation land, except for Hurricane Season.” Guess that about sums it up.
Move your hips – when I sign off from work, I head to the bayou to hula hoop and there with my IPod on my Hula-Hoop Playlist I find the joy that has been sucked out of my day by too many things on my to do list – when all you have on your to do list left to do is move your body to music, you align your rhythm to whatever dreamland you…
Got to love these affirmations I get – I got a text from a friend on Thanksgiving that said HFT – our code for Happy Fucking Thanksgiving – I saw it later in the day when I was a whirling dervish and I was about to write back you mean “Fabulous” right? Because I was having a fabulous Thanksgiving, but I paused for a moment thinking I sounded too Polly Anna, and then never got…
We were talking about last names for the baby and haven’t decided whether to hyphenate, use one of ours as a middle name, or what. Of course, there will be international travel so we want to make sure we are both identifiable as legal parents. And then it gets to my last name, which I kept from my last marriage – Dangermond. My maiden name is Namer – which is Sephardic and means Tiger. I…
I was trying to figure out what generation T is since I’m a baby boomer, but she’s not a gen X which are the youngest boomers, and so is she a Y? Meanwhile, when our baby is born most likely s/he will be a Generation O – born under Obama’s presidency – born under the introduction of hope again here in America.
Loca and I ran into one of our regular walkers this morning in the park – it was nippy cold and we were walking briskly – so was he. Even the swans were gliding at a clip in the lagoon. I said as we passed, “It’s getting colder so we have to walk faster.” He grimaced, “No, I gained ten pounds so I have to walk faster AND farther.” I responded, “Don’t you know it.”…
Waited till mid morning to take Loca to the park and the day is absolutely stunning. The little bit of fall color that goes on display here is best seen inside the park along the lagoon. I love to watch the coots chuking along the water, and the Great Egret, the immature Cormorants sitting up in the tree, the lonely rail, the moorhens, the mallards all seem to have found paradise, just like me. The…
For all of us who always thought we would get pregnant at some point, the question is always when is the best time to have a baby? Since I waited till I was 40 years old to try, I feel like marching into colleges across the country and talking to women about the notion of them having it all – it just ain’t so. If you want to have your own child, you cannot wait…
Monday night look up into the night sky and behold a rare wonder – a crescent moon and two bright shining stars that are actually Venus and Jupiter.