Pole Dancing Wednesday, Jun 18 2008

more cat pictures

Being forty-something in a pole dancing class of twenty-something yr olds.

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Intellectual Conversation Monday, Jun 16 2008

[Scene]  Early evening.  Jer and I are lying in bed talking.

Me:  “Hey Babe look at that moon!”

Jer turning towards the window:  “Where is it?”

<Pause>

Me:  “In the sky.”

<Silence>

<Laughter from me>

Jer getting out of bed:  “I’m leaving now so I don’t kill you.”

<More laughter from me as Jer walks away>

 

 

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Fun with Synchronicity Sunday, Jun 15 2008

A couple weeks ago an old friend of mine in Austin, TX turned thirty-something.  I sent him an email wishing him Happy Birthday.  I usually call but he and his wife were on a road trip celebrating his birthday and their anniversary so I didn’t want to distrub them.  I received an email from him a couple days ago upon his return.  They’d been to Key West and had a fantastic time.  He asked if I’d ever been there.  I wrote back yesterday letting him know that I’d been to Florida many times but never that far south.  The furtherest south I’d ever been was Orlando.  He wrote back last night giving me a list of reasons why I should go.  He went into great detail listing the names of restaurants they enjoyed- Blue Heaven, El Siboney, and The Cafe were some he mentioned.  The best spot for those beautiful sunsets – Fort Zachary Taylor beach. Lastly, how much fun it is to “scooter” around the island and look at the old homes.

This morning I sat down to write him another email thanking him for all the information.  Just before I began writing it an email dropped into my inbox.  It was from one of my girlfriends here in OC and the subject said: July Trip!  I was curious enough that I decided to open it before writing my email to M in Austin.  The email was asking a few of us girls if we wanted to join A and A on a trip to Miami (South Beach) for 3 days and then on to Key West for 3-4 days at the end of July.  I sat back in my chair with my mouth hanging open for a bit.  Wow!  How cool is that!  What a coincidence!  Truth be told I’ve never had the opportunity or inclination to go to Key West (not that I don’t think it’d be great) it’s just not at the top of my list of places I want to see before I die. 

I appreciate these moments of synchronicity!  It always brings a little magic into my world and makes life even more wonderful than it already is.

So?  The question is…do you think I should go on the trip?

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Printer Possession or Printer Malfunction? You Decide! Friday, Jun 13 2008

I started keeping a visual diary of our life together (Jer and I) a few years ago. Being that we’re foodies and lovers of wine, often the restaurants we’ve been to find their way into the diaries. It’s a great way to remember those amazing dining experiences! Mostly I go online, google the restaurant, and print out the name to then add it to the diary. To save on printer ink as soon as the restaurant name has printed I cancel the print job. It always asks if I am sure and I click yes and the printing stops and spits out my paper and I move on. Being conscientious about helping save the planet I then take the unused scraps and use them as scratch paper. I’ve done this many times over the years with this particular printer and have never experienced any problems or weirdness. That is until a few nights ago…

The printer began to behave as if possessed by something other than its own internal mechanisms. I had made a list of places, events, and restaurants Jer and I had been to that I needed copies of. As I was moving down the list and cancelled the print job for a particular restaurant the printer started up and resumed printing that page again. My first thought was…hmmm…human error? Maybe? I must have clicked the wrong button. So I went through the process again only slower to make sure I did it correctly. Same result – print job stops, waits a few seconds and resumes again. This is a bit strange! As I continued to cancel each print job it continued to start up again. I knew I was smarter than the printer so I finally reached over and hit the power button to turn it off. Much to my surprise this didn’t work. Getting a little weirder! I hit it several times – hard, soft, quick, held it down – nothing, it just kept printing. The printer would not turn off!! NOW I think it’s just a little more weird that this is happening. Eight pages with just a little print on them (cause I kept hitting cancel) spit out before I got the brilliant idea to get up, walk around my desk and unplug the thing. Success!! Finally all was quiet. It was then that I realized something else…

Regarding the title of possession or malfunction: We had a cat named Tippy who unfortunately passed away this past January. He had been diagnosed with heart disease and just as the doctors predicted had a stroke one evening and had to be rushed to the emergency animal hospital by Jer because I was at a restaurant having dinner with a group of foodie friends. It took me 45 minutes to get to the hospital where we had to make that difficult decision to put him to sleep. Anyone who has to do this for their pet knows how difficult it is. Anyway, I’m sure you’ve made the leap already – the name of the restaurant I was printing out when the wackiness began was the one I was at the night Tippy had his stroke. Nothing I have printed since that night has resulted in any printer mayhem. Just saying…

My conclusion? I’d like to believe that Tip stopped by to pay me a visit that night and was determined to get my attention (just as he did when he was alive) by mucking with that printer at just the precise moment I was printing out that particular restaurant. He wanted to make sure I didn’t forget him. Or…I could be wrong.

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Irony Thursday, Jun 12 2008

My dad passed away in August ’06 at the ripe old age of 98. In life this man was a talker! He’d traveled all over the world as a merchant marine so he had plenty stories to share. They were fascinating the first few times you heard them. Trouble was our family heard them hundreds of times over the years. We might have been tired of hearing them but that didn’t mean he was tired of telling them. I think being in Spain during the Revolution was one of his favorites. Everyone in the family knew that story and therefore the running joke was to never mention the word Spain in my dad’s presence.

I think it’s only natural to have dreams in which your deceased parent is alive and well. When he appears in my dreams he is young, physically strong, and mentally agile. The irony for me is that when my dad appears in my dreams he never talks – to me or anyone else that happens to be in the dream with me. How irritating is that? During life he never shut up and in death/dreams he won’t say a word.

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Why am I here? Thursday, Jun 12 2008

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for the past few months.  I even came up with some ‘great’ ideas of what I wanted to write about.  Here I am and I have stage fright.  What is up with that? 

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