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May. 1st, 2014
My internet just dropped again! Arugh. This is making me crazy. Since a router reboot fixes it, I guess I have to blame the router but I just don't believe that. Oh well, it's not like I need it for business and the fix is easy.
Last night I just could not stay awake for the last 20 minutes of my book so this morning, I finished it off. It was a weird one. But I wanted to get to the end so I could start Greg Iles new book which came out this week. It's 35 hours long. His stories are always amazing and this is part one of a trilogy. I hope I live long enough to get to the end!
Today I need to stop at the Red Apple grocery for cole slaw and cream cheese. And stop at the Baby Corner. And stop at the library to pick up a CD. And swim.
Fortunately, all of the above is very near but still on the outskirts of the various rallys and protests and mayhem planned around the city today. Plus, I think all the windows smashing and general stupidity is planned for later this afternoon when I will be safely ensconced back in my living room waiting for the ball game to start.
On The Good Wife last Sunday, at the very end, Alicia had on the most interesting sweater. It was a cardigan with a geometric bottom that was both different and flattering. I went to Ravelry yesterday to see what knitters were saying about it and didn't find much. I went back today and found a bunch.
Not the least of which was an entry from a woman who lives next door to the guy who's in charge of wardrobe for the show!! He gave her the URL to the folks who created the sweater - not the actual sweater but ones like it. None were less than $1K - even on sale. The one that came closest to the design was on sale for $1,500 reduced from $3,500. I guess you could look at it as saving two thousand dollars on a sweater... hmmm.
Last night I just could not stay awake for the last 20 minutes of my book so this morning, I finished it off. It was a weird one. But I wanted to get to the end so I could start Greg Iles new book which came out this week. It's 35 hours long. His stories are always amazing and this is part one of a trilogy. I hope I live long enough to get to the end!
Today I need to stop at the Red Apple grocery for cole slaw and cream cheese. And stop at the Baby Corner. And stop at the library to pick up a CD. And swim.
Fortunately, all of the above is very near but still on the outskirts of the various rallys and protests and mayhem planned around the city today. Plus, I think all the windows smashing and general stupidity is planned for later this afternoon when I will be safely ensconced back in my living room waiting for the ball game to start.
On The Good Wife last Sunday, at the very end, Alicia had on the most interesting sweater. It was a cardigan with a geometric bottom that was both different and flattering. I went to Ravelry yesterday to see what knitters were saying about it and didn't find much. I went back today and found a bunch.
Not the least of which was an entry from a woman who lives next door to the guy who's in charge of wardrobe for the show!! He gave her the URL to the folks who created the sweater - not the actual sweater but ones like it. None were less than $1K - even on sale. The one that came closest to the design was on sale for $1,500 reduced from $3,500. I guess you could look at it as saving two thousand dollars on a sweater... hmmm.
Love the one you're with
May. 1st, 2014 01:38 pmI've been thinking a lot lately about the talent of embracing what you have rather than spending energy wishing for what you don't and so feeling victimized.
I have a great life and I really, honestly think I love it because it is a great life. But, I totally realize that I waste not one tiny drop of time or thought on what might have been, what could have been, what should have been. I probably could be richer, thinner, married, partnered and/or a parent. In nearly all cases, I made conscience choices to choose other paths. Sometimes those choices were the lesser of two evils and sometimes those choices were picking the best.
I have regrets. I wish I had been nicer. I wish I had been smarter. Yadda yadda but I don't waste any time on those. I do waste (?!) some time on trying to be kinder and nicer and smarter in the future but not in the past.
I love me and my life because I'm the one I'm with and I have the life I have. Honestly both are pretty easy to love. :)
And while all this stuff is renting space in my brain, I come to CES. For 3 of the past 4 years I've met my brother in Las Vegas for CES. Just the two of us. I love Las Vegas. I love gadgets. I love my brother. It's the perfect cocktail.
Last year, my brother said that this year he thinks he'll bring his wife. It was a casual remark made one time. But it has rained on my parade. I love being the two of us. My sister-in-law loves my brother and he loves her so she's okdokey in my book but she hates Las Vegas and we are very different people with different ideas of what is fun and what is enjoyable. I do not want to spend 5 days with her in Las Vegas.
I have paid for my brother - hotel, meals and plane fair - for the past two years. I'm not willing to pay for him if he's bringing her and I am sure not going to pay for her.
The email came out today that the hotels were taking reservations (with the special CES rate). Our hotel - the Encore - is coveted. So I made the reservations. I can get all of the deposit back if I cancel it before January 3rd. And SouthWest isn't even open for reservations then yet so it's not like I have to decide today.
But, still I'm thinking, how badly do I want to go? I think I don't want to go unless it's just the two of us. So call off the trip and avoid the problem?
Love the four years we've had and call it a day? I can tell my brother that I've decided not to spend the $$ this year.
Or figure out how to tell my brother to leave her at home? I cannot, right now, get my head around how to do this without hurting his feelings. And I'm not willing to do that.
And what's even weenier is that I am passively aggressively not locking down this entry. My brother never reads this journal but he knows it's here.
I have a great life and I really, honestly think I love it because it is a great life. But, I totally realize that I waste not one tiny drop of time or thought on what might have been, what could have been, what should have been. I probably could be richer, thinner, married, partnered and/or a parent. In nearly all cases, I made conscience choices to choose other paths. Sometimes those choices were the lesser of two evils and sometimes those choices were picking the best.
I have regrets. I wish I had been nicer. I wish I had been smarter. Yadda yadda but I don't waste any time on those. I do waste (?!) some time on trying to be kinder and nicer and smarter in the future but not in the past.
I love me and my life because I'm the one I'm with and I have the life I have. Honestly both are pretty easy to love. :)
And while all this stuff is renting space in my brain, I come to CES. For 3 of the past 4 years I've met my brother in Las Vegas for CES. Just the two of us. I love Las Vegas. I love gadgets. I love my brother. It's the perfect cocktail.
Last year, my brother said that this year he thinks he'll bring his wife. It was a casual remark made one time. But it has rained on my parade. I love being the two of us. My sister-in-law loves my brother and he loves her so she's okdokey in my book but she hates Las Vegas and we are very different people with different ideas of what is fun and what is enjoyable. I do not want to spend 5 days with her in Las Vegas.
I have paid for my brother - hotel, meals and plane fair - for the past two years. I'm not willing to pay for him if he's bringing her and I am sure not going to pay for her.
The email came out today that the hotels were taking reservations (with the special CES rate). Our hotel - the Encore - is coveted. So I made the reservations. I can get all of the deposit back if I cancel it before January 3rd. And SouthWest isn't even open for reservations then yet so it's not like I have to decide today.
But, still I'm thinking, how badly do I want to go? I think I don't want to go unless it's just the two of us. So call off the trip and avoid the problem?
Love the four years we've had and call it a day? I can tell my brother that I've decided not to spend the $$ this year.
Or figure out how to tell my brother to leave her at home? I cannot, right now, get my head around how to do this without hurting his feelings. And I'm not willing to do that.
And what's even weenier is that I am passively aggressively not locking down this entry. My brother never reads this journal but he knows it's here.
Baby Ready
May. 1st, 2014 01:57 pm
I take the bears each month to the Seattle Baby corner. From their own mission statement: The Baby Corner provides items necessary for the health and safety of babies and toddlers living in poverty.This morning, I spied this when I dropped this month's bears off. It was a bundle - stroller, car seat, bottles and all kind of other stuff - headed for a baby whose due date is today! There were several other bundles made, ready and waiting for other babies due this week.
Each of the bags had the head of one of my bears popping out. It cracked me up.
Jeanie, who runs the joint, always makes such a fuss when I deliver the bears and today she really did. I make them because it gives me an excuse to sit on my ass and watch junk TV. And it's a way I can give back without really having to do anything. So it's a treat to see these guys all ready to go on their mission!
BABY AHEAD!!