Monthly Archives: November 2012

Day 299 Wake up! If you are reading this you are certainly awake (or a very talented sleep reader) … but though awake … I would like you to wake up! Yeah, wake up and smell the roses … or … Continue reading →

Day 298 It’s the holiday season … I’m doing stuff around the house … I have the TV on, in the background, for company. Every third minute, or so it seems, some commercial is blaring out louder than the programming that … Continue reading →

Day 297 I saw Elvis today at the post office. Alive and well with thick side burn choppers to boot. He was not, however, sporting his light blue leisure suit … but jeans and a black jacket. Somehow the outfit … Continue reading →

Day 296 If these posts were printed, I could say, “No sooner had the ink begun to dry than …” But there is no ink … it is merely an illusion of ink. Cyber-ink I guess I’ll call it. So … Continue reading →

Day 295 There are five days left of November … 26,27,28,29, 30. My house is decorated (sans the tree). All the autumnal decorations and empty holiday bins have been put away. The leftovers have been eaten. The house has been washed … Continue reading →

Day 294 I woke up the other morning to an odd light. I don’t mean there was a spaceship in my backyard – however exciting that may have been – but the lighting was well … odd. I stumbled down … Continue reading →

Day 293 It’s nearly 1:30 am on Friday night/Saturday morning … and I’ve done it … again. I’ve waited too long to sit here and write … my assignment … my challenge … as my brain is BLANK. I am … Continue reading →

Day 292 I find it utterly pathetic that American’s have taken a holiday of togetherness and thankfulness and turned it into football and shopping … and I won’t even get into the gluttony part of it. Actually, I won’t even get … Continue reading →

Day 291 Today when many people are thinking about when they are going to join the throngs of (idiot) shoppers for Black Friday – all while stirring their cranberry sauce and looking at the ads – I am not. I am … Continue reading →

Day 290 I’ve been wondering about a few things all day … mostly about food and how things come to be. I mean, who made marshmallows? How did that come about? I can only imagine it was an accident with … Continue reading →

Day 289 Today I decided to toss my work aside (which seems to happen quite often these days) and partake in a little retail therapy before the craziness and hysteria of the holidays. I needed to get out and do something … Continue reading →

Day 288 There are days when, for one reason or another, the last thing I want to do is this blog … and usually it is. Today I had just finished laying insulation in the “meat-locker” aka: hall closet attic and was looking at … Continue reading →

Day 287 Though it’s a week before Thanksgiving and I really hate to admit it … it’s officially Christmas-time.  I know, I know. I saw Christmas stuff on the shelves next to the Back-To-School pencil packs back in AUGUST – but I … Continue reading →

Day 286 It’s a very sad day here in my household. I just read Alexandra Petri’s blog (www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost) and learned that the Hostess company is planning on closing its doors. Who would have thought this day would ever come? It’s the … Continue reading →

Day 285 I am a sucker for stupid t-shirts. You know the ones … the ones that have quirky or pithy sayings on them. The shirts with the pi symbol on it made of all pumpkins (pumpkin pi) or in the … Continue reading →

Day 284 Once upon a time, in the far away land of Habit, there lived many creatures. If I were writing a fairy tale of my day it would start as such … but I’m writing non-fiction and though a fairy tale … Continue reading →

Day 283 Later this week will mark the one year anniversary of my book being published. 148 Days ~ A Journey of Love and Loss took me nearly 3 years to compile. It was written during Tim’s cancer journey but … Continue reading →

Day 282 Today I learned two valuable lessons. Do not go anywhere after November 1st without gloves in my coat pocket or purse while living in this area … and to keep smiling.  It was 66 degrees here yesterday. It was … Continue reading →

Day 281 I am surrounded by turkeys. Not actual birds and I’m not referring (directly) to my neighbors, either. However, I am still surrounded by turkeys nonetheless. My neighbors to the south and north both have those giant inflatable turkeys … Continue reading →

Day 280 I’d like to do today over. I don’t like wanting that. Even thinking that – I feel like I squandered a day … that I threw away a precious gift … that I didn’t enjoy something that I … Continue reading →

Day 279 Curse you Miss Luchek! She was my 5th grade teacher and besides having a weird and complete fascination with all things Pooh (as in Winnie the …) and calling kids who did not do well on tests and homework … Continue reading →

Day 278 Well, once again, I am the recipient of a bad haircut.  And I only have one person to place all the blame onto … and that one person is myself. No … I didn’t go to a pricey salon … Continue reading →

Day 277 It dawned on me today, some time after dawn, that I am too old to stay up until 4am twice in one week. Well, it’s not that I can’t stay up that late … it’s the unwarranted expectation … Continue reading →

Day 276 V-I-C-T-O-R-Y … that’s our victory battle cry! All I can say is, I was a cheerleader for too many years. I’ve been watching the election results all evening … holding my breath when each state’s results were announced. … Continue reading →

Day 275 It is now technically election day … as it’s after midnight on the first Tuesday of November this election year. And though I say “day” it is roughly two-something in the morning and the polls will be opening, in a … Continue reading →

Day 274 I’m having deja vu … Or maybe it’s just being a creature of habit that I feel like I’ve been here, done this before. As in, time after time after time- before. This being what I normally do … Continue reading →

Day 273 The ceiling is low. No, I don’t mean my actual ceiling … but the sky, the cloud ceiling. It’s very low today. The sounds outside on this gray day are amplified and muffled at the same time. The … Continue reading →

Day 272 There are times when I’d like not to be a night owl. Tonight is one of them. I’m tired. It’s nearly 4 a.m. and I am still up and awake and doing things. If I were a vampire I’d be … Continue reading →

Day 271 Today is the beginning of one of my favorite times of year. It is November 1st. I happen to love the month of November.  I think most people find it a boring month; I find it perfectly lovely. I am … Continue reading →