it's a good morning, oddly.- May 31, 2008 getting organized for gram's service... and the day is gorgeous, i've played in the gardens, and felt pretty connected to a lot of people. planted tomatoes and thought of gram, listened to the ship's bell i have hanging in the garden and thought of dale, listened to the owl in the tree next door and thought of sleepovers at gram and gramp's where i'd wake up and listen to the owl who lived byhttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_25_msophelia_archive.html#7738642084526010580 as john hannah says, 'this is actually what i want to say.'- May 31, 2008http://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_25_msophelia_archive.html#5100173260213054817 i was thinking this morning on the way in to work, (dangerous before coffee, i know), and for some reason, this poem came into my head.- May 30, 2008 if you haven't heard it before, it's worth listening to. (will try to find an audio clip later.) if you've ever seen Four Weddings and a Funeral, then you've seen the reading that introduced me to the poem. and John Hannah's reading still brings me to tears. Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and withhttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_25_msophelia_archive.html#8393844966336794331 my grandmother died yesterday.- May 25, 2008 i'd been planning to go down this weekend, and then got the call from dad saturday morning. 'come now.' was out the door in about 7 minutes flat. worried (stupidly) about what to wear. got on the road, said a prayer for no traffic. traffic was fine. timing was not. she passed about an hour before i got there. but - she had family with her, and it was peaceful. thank you, god, for thehttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_25_msophelia_archive.html#1163397255100539846 just settling down from the day part of my day, and getting ready for the night part of my day.- May 20, 2008 dinner: kalmata hummus, black olive tortilla chips (organic!), 2 hard boiled eggs, courtesy of TJs, since i can't hard boil an egg to save my life. okay, maybe then, but not most days. washing down with fakey-fake beer, which, much like the real deal, still tastes better in a bottle than a can. i suppose that sort of undoes the detox i'm doing this week, doesn't it ;) ran errands all thehttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_18_msophelia_archive.html#613927420653345162 best quote of the day:- May 13, 2008 'it's not that i'm not a detail oriented person. it's just that i'm oriented to different details than you are.' :) so, am i the only person that thinks this whole "gas holiday" thing (she said, airquoting her ass off) is a bunch of bullshit as i understand it, politicos say 'no tax on gas! whee! stimulate economy, solve problem! whee!' okay, so i'm paraphrasing. and yet, the cost of ahttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_11_msophelia_archive.html#4687796707810315701 spoiled, really spoiled, is how i'm feeling this morning.- May 11, 2008 did i say i got to run my weekend at my own schedule what i should have said was that i had a schedule-less weekend. was out running errands, and thought about doing a few more, then decided i wanted ice cream, got a slushie instead (Richie's rocks), then went home. after feeding the cat (nearly got him a new food dish that says 'what part of empty don't you understand' on the inside) andhttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_11_msophelia_archive.html#2592672890645322972 y'know, i'm not sure it's right how much i'm enjoying this weekend.- May 10, 2008 i have the weekend mostly to myself. and not as in, doing my own thing while they do theirs. no, i really have it mostly to myself - hubby and MedSm are doing a cub scout sleepover. they left this morning. yipee! i've been able to run the day on my own damn schedule, and it feels fine. got a haircut, bought myself a box of chocolates, a cookbook, a crappy magazine, and lunch at the sushihttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_04_msophelia_archive.html#7645666666408148989 so, having calmed down a tad, i still have things to say about the Stepmom Card Debacle.- May 8, 2008 slightly more nuanced, but not much, i guess, because the wrongness of it all just irks me. as difficult as it was for me to deal with not finding a card, at least i can put on the Big Girl Panties, put it in perspective, and move on. (having finally found an unsucky card - one, count 'em one - helped.) but what if you're the kid you love your stepmom or stepdad, and want to get them ahttp://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_04_msophelia_archive.html#8150784275796519901 and some days, a good 'guy with guitar' song makes it all better.- May 6, 2008 this is one of those songs that i love hearing on the radio (WERS, and thank god for them and their commercial-free oasis of musical goodness) - will blast the shit out of it, windows down, driving along the road to work, drinking my tea and looking at the trees and sun, and digging Ryan and his six string.http://msophelia.blogspot.com/2008_05_04_msophelia_archive.html#6832284657086195723 |