Just A Lazy Day

Yesterday was an incredibly luxurious lazy day.  It wasn't my intent to accomplish nothing.  In fact, we had quite the itinerary of errands to run.  Instead, we just never got going.  I sat on the front porch and read a few chapters, took a small nap, sat in the backyard and read some more, then took yet another nap.  It was fabulous.

It dawned on me at some point in the day just how relaxing this house is.  I tried to recall when or where I've felt at ease like this.  Certainly it happens when I'm camping, it also struck at my brother's house, but it's also a memory from my grandparent's home in Los Angeles.  It was a happy, safe place - inside and out.  There were lots curious things to discover, a lot of history buried in closets, but always I was able to sit back and relax.

I hope my grandchildren will think back on my house in the same comfortable coziness.

Friday Fragments - March 15, 2013

Ah, the Ides of March.  What shall today bring?

Surprised to see me?  Yeah, I've been MIA for a couple of weeks, sorry.  It's crazy time at work - isn't every spring like this for me?

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Last Sunday I took my lovely daughter to see The Great and Powerful Oz.  It was wonderful and we both enjoyed it.  The movie was the prequel to The Wizard of Oz.  It had some quirks to it, Chinatown threw me for a loop, but overall stayed true to the original including having the parts in Kansas in black and white and Oz in color.

What's funny is that my supervisor took her daughter to see it at the same place only a half hour later!  Of course we never passed since she was in a different room, but it definitely made for interesting lunch chatter the next day.  She felt the same way about the move and was happy to spend some time with her daughter as well.

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... and that's as far as I got.   Today, Wednesday March 20th, is the first time I've managed to get back to this page!

I'm going to hit post and declare a blog hibernation for myself.  I should resurface in late April. 

See ya on the flip side

A Day Of Rest

Yesterday morning I took The Husband to have an infected hair follicle removed.  I fell asleep in the waiting room, then when I drove him home I fell asleep on the couch only to wake up long enough to run to Subway for lunch and then sleep away the rest of the afternoon. 

What the hell?  Was it the culmination of stress from the last several weeks?  Or is my body still fighting this stupid cold?  Or all of it all balled up together?  Whatever it was I knew not to fight it.

Sweet sweet sleep

Surgery Tomorrow

It's funny, I'm almost excited about getting my gall bladder yanked out.  I'm quite calm about it, not nervous at all.  If anything, I'm giddy.  Not about the surgery or losing body parts.  I'm rather attached to the pieces God gave me, but if one must go, so be it.  No, it's the full week off I've scheduled.  I know I'll feel puny, but I am looking at a full week of NOTHING. 

And what do I anticipate doing during this Week Of Nothing?  Well there's going to be TV watching and catching up on crappy chick flicks and maybe read a book and certainly reading plenty of blogs and naps and more naps.  My biggest goal is to trim all of the recipes I've pulled out of magazines over the past several years and glue them to index cards.  Absolutely everything I have running through my head can be performed from the cushy comfort of my couch.  I fear one week may not be long enough!

I may or may not get my Friday Fragments posted tonight and I'm not all that sure about Sunday's In My City.  We'll see how crazy life is tonight.  I have to find a bottle of glue that certain people swear exists in our house.  I may have to drive all of the way to Walgreens and purchase more supplies (tossing flour on my face and looking overly exhausted... pity me)

So I'll catch y'all next week sometime.  Play nice.

My Brilliant Idea For Mexican Restaurants

Don't you think that when you dine at a Mexican restaurant, especially for lunch, that the meal should include a siesta?

I mean, this is a freakin no brainer for me.  Buy a fajita, get a nap for free.  Buy a margarita, get a nap.  Buy a sangria, get a nap. 

Your cell phone starts ringing, it's the office, "sorry, I'm at a Mexican restaurant and it will be a while.  We haven't had our siesta yet."

This could be caused by a couple of nights of staying up too late and a dire need to lie down, but who cares, it's a FABULOUS IDEA!

Right?

Friday Fragments - Dec 11

The Car
Last Saturday, as you may recall, I managed to mangle the under pieces of my car with a tire sitting in the middle of the highway. On Tuesday the dealership informed us it was about $2500 worth of damage. CRAP!!!!! Due to some freak of nature I failed to get the call from the insurance company on Monday so I didn't talk to them until Wednesday to get the appraiser rolling. So I won't have my car until next week some time. CRAP!!!!

The Tree
The kids all converged on my house on Saturday and got my Christmas tree assembled and mostly decorated. By the end of the night there were still three boxes of stuff waiting to be unpacked. Two days later Ian set up the fireplace with knick-knacks and lights which help tremendously in getting me in the Christmas mood. My tree, however, is missing several ornaments that are sitting in the bottom of their rubbermaid tub. I will need to get those on the tree sometime soon. And all of the empty boxes need to be moved back into the basement. The tree decorating always leaves a lot of work for me afterwards. I guess since I'm without a car this weekend I don't have much of an excuse not to get this wrapped up.

A Day Off
Due to lack of transportation I took last Monday off from work. It was nice to lounge around and do nothing. It's one of my most favorite things in the world EVER. I got more ornaments onto the tree, but with Ian underfoot I got aggravated and put it off for a time when he's not around. I got caught up on some movies on DVR and a nap! Unfortunately a day off work means getting slammed on my return. There are only two people in my department and whenever one of us takes off work it seems that everything falls to shit. On Monday he was tormented with a constant stream of computer breakdowns and on Tuesday when he was off, I got hit with server issues.

Grandma
Grandma fell and broke her arm over Thanksgiving. She's healing well. She moved into her new residence back in September and never really liked it. Finally this week the staff is figuring out how to handle this cantankerous woman with dementia (ironic, no? that one of my online monikers is Queen Dementia. Not really, I've known this hideous disease lurks in my family). The staff has found ways to coerce Grandma into compliance while letting her think she's in control - and isn't that the basis of effective control?

Mom
Yesterday I got a call as I walked into work from my mom. She informed me that she had fallen on the ice the day before. LOVELY. She didn't break anything, just sore and laid up on Advil. Well, I hope she's okay and doesn't need me to run and get anything because I'm without a car. She assures me she's okay, just that I should know she's been injured.

Tonight
The daughter of a college friend is going in as Honored Queen of her Job's Daughters bethel. I've been asked to be one of the installing officers, for which I am quite honored to do. It's been a while since I've been an installing officer, probably since my daughter was installed Senior Princess several years ago. I get to be the schmuck holding the flag. Fortunately I don't have to do any memorized work because I'm pretty sure the way things are going this week I would screw it up. I'm excited and it sounds like a fun evening. Congrats Patsy, you'll be a great queen this year!