I'm typing this as I wait for dinner to emerge from the oven. Wonder what I am having? Here is the recipe...
- Go to the store and buy ingredients for pork chop casserole. Struggle to remember as you don't have the recipe with you.
- Go home and unload groceries
- Realize you forgot to buy pork chops... a key ingredient in pork chop casserole.
- Back to the store for pork chops
- Begin browning pork chops and discover you can't find the sour cream you bought at the first store.
- Search refrigerator, freezer and cabinets for sour cream.
- Search car for sour cream. Unable to see due to darkness.
- Feel around in trunk for sour cream
- Emerge triumphant and finally put the food in the oven at 7:30
I wonder why I don't cook every night?
OK cyberfriends, you can tell me.... Is it a bad sign if the highlight of your day is a Buy One Get One free sale on Vitamins?
I went to pick up some Ester-C and was so surprised at this sale I stocked up. When I got home I thought of other vitamins I needed
This, I believe, is the secret to happiness. Take your joy where you can find it.
Yippee!
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return - we can only look behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the circle game
I was in a pet store last week watching the mice run on the wheel. They look happy to do it. I wonder if they are happy or just compelled to do it? Sometimes several of them pile on and the wheel slows. I wonder how this parallels our lives? Hardly an original thought, but no less valid for its unoriginality.
It can seem at times that the I am running very fast and getting nowhere. And yet, I look back and see how far I have come. Ted was in the city where I grew up today and snapped a pic of my childhood home. I have truly come a long way....geographically, financially. In many ways, I created the family I wanted to have. But I sometimes lose sight of the things that are right in my life. Why is it easier to focus on the things that are lacking?
Sometimes I think that we focus on the negative in order not to tempt fate. Perhaps if we put on a good show of how things are awful we wll be able to hold on to what we have. If we are vocal about the good things do we increase our chances of having them snatched away?
It is hard to strike a balance between introspection and action. I am working on it.
In recent years I find myself struggling for a list of things to ask for. As an adult, if I really want something, I tend to buy it for myself if it's a reasonable price. If it is not a reasonable price - who can afford to get it for me on Christmas?
This year I have asked for Doctor Who, The Complete First Series. I have hesitated in buying it for myself as it is a little pricey, between 60 and 90 bucks. I also want The Second Series, but alas and alack, that will not be released in the US until January.
I also need a gym bag.
I am sure most people can come up with a longer list. Perhaps this is another defect in my personality.
So, I decided to participate in a project called Holidailies at Home. (Thanks Tim!) To be a part of this project, I agree to make a daily post during the month of December. I am already behind. The story of my life.
Today's Prompt: "Write about a memorably perfect day in your life."
In July of 2004, Ted and I had the opportunity to visit San Francisco. I had to attend a conference for work and at the last minute Ted came with. We only had two free days, but they were great.
On one of the days we were able to meet up with some online friends I had made. They lived right outside San Francisco and upon learning we would be visiting, were gracious enough to offer to meet up with us. We agreed to meet near Pier 39
It was so funny meeting people that you knew yet hadn't met. The first thing I thought was "Boy they are tall!" Height does not translate on the internet.
We went on a tour of the harbor, out the the Golden Gate and back past Alcatraz. Then we hiked up to Ghirardelli Square where we had ice cream. It was a beautiful day filled with lovely weather, crisp, clear, good company.
A perfect day.
I find the best music on Hear Music XM 75 or maybe I should say that Hear Music finds the best music for me? It is programmed by the folks from Starbucks. I kept hearing a song called "Ain't No Reason" by Brett Dennen. The best thing about XM is that you see the song information so it is easy to look up information later.
From sfgate.com
Dennen's new CD, So Much More, opens with his unadorned acoustic guitar supporting the lines, "There ain't no reason things are this way / that's how they've always been and intend to stay / I can't explain why we live this way / We do it every day," followed by series of quotidian scenes of preachers, sidewalk prophets and "a pigeon with a broken wing," a few pessimistic portrayals of prisons, politicians and bombs and a telling, counterbalancing affirmation: "Love will come set me free / I know it will."
Love will come set me free I do believe.
Here is "Ain't No Reason". Reviews compare Dennen to Van Morrison and Billie Holiday. Some of the cuts actually remind me of Nina Simone. Let me know what you think?
Though you can't tell by the weather the last few days. It has been in the 60s everyday. I need to live somewhere with weather like this at all times. When we have cool nights and temperate days, sweater weather, I feel invigorated.
Layla the lab is better, her congestion seems to be breaking up.
Christmas is coming so fast I can't believe it. OK, I know that time doesn't really speed up but it surely feels like it at certain times.
In fact, the years seem to get faster in general the older I get. I have it on good authority that the years continue to whiz by faster and faster every year.
Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
Yes I have. I felt great! There was not one reference to me :)
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