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So I bought _A Moveable Feast_ by Hemingway and I’m thinking, “Hmmm, I wonder about Gertrude Stein…?” I go to the Kindle store and download a sample of _Autobio of Alice B. Toklas_. Then I get a sample of David Sedaris’ _When You Are Engulfed in Flames_ and he’s talking about Paris too! It’s like total synchronicity. I feel like life is finally moving at the pace of my interests. Maybe I’ll learn French with Rosetta Stone. Which reminds me…I thought about getting a Chinese dictionary, but Rosetta is total immersion and the sample dictionaries take you out of Chinese into English. What I really wanted was a book of pictures with the Chinese word (apple - ping guo), kind of a See Jane Run kind of a book.
November 4th, 2008
I got my Kindle. It was so exciting. It was packaged like a gift. Then I had buyer’s remorse for a couple of hours. Then I bought a book. Then I fell in love.
I made soup yesterday. It’s supposed to be Fall isn’t it? So soup. Except it didn’t feel like Fall. But we really like Tortellini Soup. It’s full of vegies, so I consider it a good vitamin boost at this time of year.
So, Fall. Halloween didn’t feel a bit like Haloween this year. Why? The days were getting shorter; the weather was a tad bit cooler. Oh, I get it. We hadn’t changed the clocks yet. As soon as we did that this morning, the goofy, slightly-off feeling set in.
Maybe that’s why Halloween is so natural at this time of year. We’re all a little off (except Arizona, I think), so spooky sounds right.
November 2nd, 2008
Yes. I watched Oprah. I bought a Kindle. It should arrive in a few days.
I did it again. This was posed to publish over a week ago, but I hit the wrong button. Duh.
November 2nd, 2008
Ni Hao! Last night I thought up a really cool thing to blog about. Really cool. I just wish I could remember what it was.
We saw the Terra Cotta Warriors. I’m enlarging my cultural experience. I’m reading _Three Cups of Tea_. The Baltis call tea the same as Mandarin: cha. My mother used to call it “tay”: “Would you like a cup of tay?” She was being quirky, but the British actually used to call it tay. Since her family tree is almost directly English back to the Dutch Purchase, it might have actually been handed down, mother to daughter.
[Place holder for a snappy ending]
October 14th, 2008
I meant to get some ideas down yesterday. So much happened. Autumnal Equinox, stock market “not a crash” crash. There’s more, but my brain is fatigued from learning Chinese. Yeah.
Why Americans are fat: It happened with 9/11 and I’m seeing it again with the mortgage crisis/stock market slump. It happens with poor people. When people are freaked out they eat. When people feel like they have no control they eat. When people can’t afford anything else they eat. When people feel like, “What’s the point? I’ve been denying myself and look what it’s got me?” They eat.
The world is ending. Let’s eat. Or I could be wrong.
September 24th, 2008
Thank goodness for the delete function.
August 6th, 2008
I must have woke up in the wrong part of my sleep cycle. I feel narcoleptic. I was having a dream where my mother invited a bunch of people to my house for a Christmas party and acted like I was supposed to know and show them a really good time.
I’m supposed to visit my mother with my sister tomorrow. Maybe that’s why the dream. Right now I want to cancel. But I’ll wait until the coffee kicks in and see if that makes me feel stronger.
The dynamic between my mother and me or my sister and me is crazy enough, but all together, it will take me days to weed out the damage they do to my ego. Or, I could think of myself as the sane one (which I am) and think of it as solving a puzzle. Their crazy don’t stick to me.
This is interesting:
- Main Entry:
- cat·a·plexy
: sudden loss of muscle power following a strong emotional stimulus
I wonder what other useful words I do not know.
June 30th, 2008
This is from December:
While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.
The down side to being balanced-brained is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways.
I sure wish one of those hemispheres would get me to a better place.
May 15th, 2008
My husband chose the movie. I wanted to please him. We both know I can’t watch violence and this was the worst. I will never watch a violent movie again for anyone. Ever.
March 6th, 2008
The whole hi ho hi ho mood is gone. I’ll analyze it later; I just want to document that I’m practicing energy saving and having an unexpected reaction: less energy to the point that I feel like I’m getting sick.
December 15th, 2007
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