circa

things i do not like today:
my blackberry freezing
my computer freezing
anxiety
not being able to focus
having issues with everything/everyone

things i do like today:
grey and yellow together
roman columns and architecture
day-dreaming about soy icecream sandwiches
mini history lessons re: WWI and WWII
this photo of my mom and auntie jen i just re-found (see below)











circa: i dont know, 1970's
i wish my hair was as long as my moms was.
(auntie jen is wearing a kayak helmet, she isn't mentally impaired)

byebye butterfly

here is a quote that i like very much so, and it is from Slaughter House 5 which we are currently reading in Book Club (of course i will write more on Book Club soon, but my finger is broken because i fell because i stepped on Eli, so i will not type much because it hurts):

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to always tell the difference.

I just wikipedia-ed it and apparently it is part of the AA 12-step program. wonderful.



stephanie and i fed the ducks in albany a couple of times.

trade for trade

i am really into "trade for trade" if you dont know what that means (and you probably dont, because the title makes no sense at all) it means that i trade something with you for you trading something with me (that still makes no sense). aka lets say i make you some italian pasta sauce, then you trade that with me for lets sayyyyyy like cleaning my room for me; that would be a trade for trade.
soooo since we are in a recession i was wondering if anyone had anything they would like to trade for trade. it could be skillz etc. here are some things/skillz i could trade for trade:

- white domino sugar (i have a box of it, slightly used)
- life coaching; ie helping you organize your room etc
- some calcium vitamins (bc who wants osteoporosis?)
- a small LL Bean Boat and Tote (side note: it is monogrammed AEL, you could pretend it was handed down to you by your great grandmother and has her initials on it)
- i can cook a little: italian pasta sauce, french onion soup, cupcakes, dates in bacon.
- loads of clothes from Gap circa 2001 (buffalo exchange would not take them)
- making house rules for your apt (i have some really great ones up my sleeve)


sooo if any of this sounds good let me know and we can talk.


trade for trade.

y'all have chistmas?

we had our mini-christmas cocktail party which was very "nice". everyone got to admire our portly christmas tree and drink spiked egg nog and eat hors d'oeuvers and listen to al green and patsy cline while playing cranium. oh and thanks to damon lynn (thats his middle name) for choosing to clean his apartment over participating in a christmas-spirited shindig just around the corner from him.
xoxo

y'all eat turkey?

we had a pre-thanksgiving dinner and it was really wonderful and filled with goodness and joy and lots of wine and jazz music and wonderful food and thanks for coming if you came i am sure you had a lovely time.
xo

are you smarter than a 2 year old?

apparently i am not that smart. for example, i have to spell check my blog or else about 68% of these words would be mis-spelled.
i always thought that i knew things about this and that a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
well i guess i don't. i can't name 3 countries that border Germany, and I don't know my pre 1950's American presidents, i don't know 4 battles from the Civil War, i can never win a game of Connect 4 or Uno. I also thought that a Warewolf was the long name for a Regular Wolf. And forget math or science, i mean obviously i don't know anything about those.
so what do i know? i know that the inside, leathery part of a bats wing is called the "membrane" (thanks to the 7 year old I babysit, George Newberry). I know a little bit of French (mais oui!). I know that if you cross the street when you have a red hand you will probably get hit by a car. i know that in order for a caterpillar to become a butterfly it has to weave a cocoon. i know the proper use of your you're there their then than. i know how to cook a couple things, i know which cupcakes to order at sugar sweet sunshine, i know how to make little kids laugh and i know a lot about Jackie O and Andy Warhol and that's about it.
Awesome Possum.

and i thought i was bored

just when i thought i was the one getting so bored with people and places and things (nouns, mostly) i saw a woman on the subway this morning reading:

A PHONE BOOK

so casually like it was totally normal to be reading a phone book on the subway.

i would have taken a picture with my Not iphone/Blackberry but that would have been Pretty Rude and i am really trying to have Good Behaviour lately.

seriously, i didn't know people even still owned phone books. maybe i will start to get into those too.

xx