Monday, July 29, 2013

The Iron Cage of Expectations

5 things:

1.  Own a car

2.  Have a lot of money

3.  Be tastefully dressed

4.  Belong to a church

5.  Get married to a member of the opposite sex

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Huckleberry Friends *6 things today....

6 things:

1.  SHS:  Jane, Jim, Judy, Marilyn, Mary K.Z., Mary E. O'B. 

2.  IA: Debbie, Erda & Kay; Ann, Jane, Jesse, Lisa, Tracy

3.  FNM:  Andrea, Craig, Marilyn

4.  NYC:  Mary Lou, Nan

5.  DC:  Cathy, Cynthia, Juliana, Linda, Mary K., Mary T., Peggy

6.  RIP:  Father Durkin, Dad, Murray, Mom, Sarah, Helen, Trudy, Julia, John, Dorothy, Gemma, Carmel, Bob DeJ., Martha, Connie, Gene, Bob

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Feelings Vs. Thoughts

5 things:

1.  Ask someone how s/he feels, and you get a verbal thought.

2.  Try to talk your way out of that.

3.  Can you feel your heart beat?

4.  Can you feel your pulse?

5.  I'm reading Martha Beck's Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Monday, July 22, 2013

Dining Out...and In

5 things:

1.  Finally I've finished the yellow squash!  Jaysus.  Makes a pretty substantial breakfast, but ta ta....

2.  Strawberries.  I have finally learned how to eat these:  with whipped cream.  Also good for breakfast.

3.  Crow.  Steady diet thereof, over the years.

4.  Poppy seeds scattered on a reading table at the public library yesterday.  I didn't eat them, but....

5.  Read that cooked blueberries are more nutritious than raw.  A blueberry pie at WF was $16!  WTF

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Questionz for today...

5 things:

1.  Where did my old blog pictures go?  

2.  What's to stop me from moving back to the state of my birth and running for senator?

3.  Other than megabuckets of money, that is....

4.  Are they rerunning weather reports here?

5.  How do you tell a short person not to put shoes on top of the refrigerator?

Friday, July 19, 2013

TGIF!! Household things I want/need to buy

5 things:

1.  Some of those great big square ice cube molds so I can make gin & tonics like the Jose Andres' special at Jaleo.  Great big m-fs.  i already have the gin and the juniper berries, and i can lay in a supply of tonic water and shave lemon peel with the best....

2.  two round cake pans so I can make a round cake of two layers.

3.  Do I NEED a two-layer cake in any shape?

4.  No, but I'd like one.

5.  Liquid laundry detergent from WF in BASIL scent.  The powdered stuff is shite.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

What'll I Do?

5 Things:

1.  Find an art studio to share.

2.  Mail gifts.

3.  Redesign my space.

4.  Mail photos to relatives!!

5.  Cut hair.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Just one of the Reasons Why I Hate Going to the Dentist

Five things:

1.  I have had problem teeth for 70 years.  (I am 76, which means my first six years of having teeth were problem-free.)

2.  Then my baby teeth fell out, and the ones with problems grew in.

3.  When I was about 7, I made my first trip to the dentist one hot summer afternoon, and the dentist's light practically fried my hair.   I was hotter than hell, and my head ached fiercely.

4.  I crawled into bed when I got home for a rest. When my dad came home from work a little later
I told him I had a bad headache and when I got up to go to the bathroom, my head felt as heavy
as a bowling ball--and my neck wouldn't support it.  My mom took my temperature, and it was pretty hot.  So they called the doctor, who came out, examined me, and said I had polio.

5.  So my first visit to the dentist ended up with me riding in an ambulance to the hospital. 

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Crime in the City 2

5 things:

1.  He came back....right across the driveway, and three people watched him try to open the interior doors with a credit card.  Fail.

2.  He is short, slim, black, impeccably dressed in a snowy white t-shirt, jeans, and a cap.

3.  "Probably a teenager" although that was noted the last time he was here.

4.  After he got nothing here, he moved to a different residence just down the hill.   He has a master key, which means he got into three separate buildings, all of which have their own outdoor entrance key.

5.  At the last place, he again used his credit card on the interior doors and got into an apartment only to meet the occupant, who grabbed him, but he got away and ran off.  More police....

Monday, July 1, 2013

Crime in the city.....

5 things:

1.  A burglary is not a home invasion.

2.  If you wanna know what a home invasion is like, read Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight.  (Also a movie starring George Clooney & Jennifer Lopez.) The book, at least, is violent and ugly. 

3.  There are only 6 states that have laws against a "home invasion." and outside
of the U.S., it's not mentioned in the lawbooks at all.  The states with laws against home invasions
include Illinois, Michigan, and Nevada.  (Think Chicago, Detroit, and Las Vegas.) 

4.  Also, a burglary is not a robbery.  

5.  I don't know who did it, but somebody stole a bunch of flowers from our front yard and then went down the hill to the adjoining yard and stole 7 bushes and about 6 of those spiky grass things.  I have my suspicion, but nobody seems to be exercised about it.