Both PODS have come and gone. It may be Spring before we can get back in the garage with even one car, but we are making progress. Wall units are in place and I'm down to the last box of stuff that came out of them. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having a cardboard fit, but it's getting better.
This week I found the pots and pans! Flatware is changed out and we have sold three beds, two night stands, and one dresser and one TV stand. We still have a sofa and love seat, four tables, and one cabinet to go. We will continue trying for a few weeks then the remains head for a consignment shop.
The pieces for the china cabinet arrived and the carpet is pulled back waiting for the install. Bill and DH have the base units scheduled for Saturday, the carpet guy will be back Monday to cut and fit it around the new cabinets. The counter is picked out and ordered and will be measured Monday. The counter fabrication will take two weeks and has to be installed before the upper cabinets can be installed. Then, the cardboard count should decrease significantly. I cannot wait.
My counter tops are still littered with the kitchen overflow as I struggle with what to discard and what to keep. What ever I decide, it will probably be something I regret later, but some of this must go. Karen has taken one box to the kids so far and I have two more started. I need to decide between sets of everyday dishes. It's really foolish for two people to have as many dishes as we do. I have two sets of good and better china, not counting the antique set in a trunk in the garage. I didn't feel that I could make that decision before we left, or even had the energy to figure out how many remained from my great grandmother.
By Wednesday night this week, I was so tired I skipped Knit Group! Those times are fairly sacred around hear, and truth be told, I think DH enjoys having the house to himself. I need to stop unpacking and make a couple of valances for the Michigan house. I want to reuse the drapes from the living and dining room down here, and while I have some fabric left over from that project I don't have enough to remake them for my two 104 inch sliding glass doors in the living room. I do have enough of another fabric, to make valances that will look nice in Michigan. DH is heading north to strip wallpaper and paint two bedrooms in that house, on Tuesday. I need to get busy. I've decided on the style and since the sewing room is unusable will need to find the top of the kitchen table and, the drapery lining that I know I have somewhere.
The last month in Michigan got very chaotic as I broke a tooth, had to have a crown made, and a week later needed a root canal (on a different tooth) and another crown! All way beyond my dental insurance coverage. I made a last visit to my long time Doctor, for prescription refills and a check up. She found a lymph node that she didn't like, but felt could be attributed the the root canal the week before. She wanted me to have it checked out when I got down here and wanted me to get established with a new doctor. I did that yesterday and Tuesday need to have an ultrasound on the gland. What fun. When it rains it certainly does pour . . . . I was hoping to avoid Dentists and Doctors for at least a few months. When you are a breast cancer survivor, they take this stuff seriously.
On a lighter note I started a new sweater using a wonderful alpaca yarn from my stash. I loved the Fir Cone lace stitch pattern so much I decided to use it again. I'm almost up to the neck line on the front. The color is a dark teal blue and feels wonderful. I'm not usually a wool or alpaca fan but this stuff is so soft, I am hopeful that it won't send me into a scratching frenzy. TBD. . .
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I've moved my computer to another room. This is only temporary while I paint the usual computer/junk/grog store room. So, I may be here for quite a while, but Mrs Snowy seems to think these things need to be done as soon as possible, and she does seem to have "considerable influence" on what happens in this house, so it may be sooner rather than later that I return to the dungeon. "That's life", as a famous bush-ranger in Oz once said as the noose was adjusted around his neck. I suppose by that stage it was rather pointless saying anything else. I'm not sure why I make that simile. I'll leave others to ponder on that, if they can be bothered. I can't.
Which is a pity, as I like my new computer place. No, this isn't only because of the uncluttered desk that is definitely not the norm for me. It's the view. I look through the window to my back yard and beyond, and I see trees. And I watch the birds. They go about their daily business of survival with no complaint. Sure, they bicker among themselves, while they provide for their brood as best they can. No wasting time on asking "Why?". It just is. So get on with it. And find the time to sing about it as well. I'm not sure that we humans have the best of this world at all.
So, it is with some surprise that I find myself arguing with some of my Vox friends about environmental matters. I do care about the environment and our fellow creatures. I really do. But I also care about we humans. That is why I am here. My ancestors fought literally tooth and nail to survive. They consumed our fellow creatures, just as our fellow creatures consume their fellow creatures. That's just the way it is. Yes, I stand in awe at the wonder of it all, and I don't lightly dismiss the objections of those who point to the destruction of the environment on this planet that we share. But if it comes down to deciding between the survival of we humans as compared to other species, then I unapologetically come down on the side of humans.
I'm not sure what this has to do with moving to a different computer room. I'll leave you guys to figure that out. And it is Friday night...
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Ho Hum Twilight New Moon...what can I say? Ho hum and all their gloomy sultry looks just left me feeling so depressed and blue I felt like going and lying down out in the shopping center car park and ending it all in the pre-Christmas rush. Unless you are 15 wait for the DVD.
The best bits? The scene where Bella jumps on the plane and flies to Italy to save Edward - the HUGE logo splashed all over the plane is Virgin Airlines. The virgin on Virgin Airlines! I burst out laughing at the pun. I hope they intended it as a pun as I am sure Richard Branson paid a packet for product placement. If they didn't - well even funnier. The virgin Bella flying Virgin airlines....big jolly for the day.
Second best bit was right at the end - SCENE SPOILER!- We had a small child sitting not far behind us, and we could hear what he was saying to "Dad, Dad, DAD!" from time to time. Right at the end of the movie, Edward says that he has one condition for Bella before he will turn her into a vampire. "I have one condition" says Edward and Bella says "what is it?" AND the kid behind us yells at the top of his lungs - "MARRY ME!". I kid you not, before Edwards can say, Marry Me! the kid said it! I could only wonder how many times that poor kid had seen the movie already! Either that, or the movie is so predictable that a six year old can guess the plot!
I still wanted to smack Bella as in the first movie - "I love you, and I love him, and I want everyone to love me" and all very Wuthering Heights out in the forest, but at least Edward's hair was less bouffant that in the previous movie. He looked quite "normal" except for the fact that he wore a suit most of the time - way to fit in Edward, because all 17 year olds wear a suit.
Remember that it is a teenage movie, not based on great literature. It doesn't pretend to be anything more than that, which is a pity because, though the books are simplistic teen lit, the movie was a chance to flesh out the characters, but alas no, they didn't.
I did enjoy the books, despite the reasons listed above. I even enjoyed the first movie to a degree, but this one is too brooding and nasty. I wanted to also slap Jacob who "can't forgive" Edward for telling Bella that he couldn't see her anymore to keep her safe, but hey doesn't see the irony in his own situation when he tells her the same thing when he becomes a werewolf. PLEAAASSSEEEE!
There is not enough dialogue and no suspense - no building of excitement, or thrills or fears for the audience. It just starts, dum de dums along, and then it ends.
But I really, really, enjoyed the spinach and pumpkin lasagne after the movie - now that was good!
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It's taking a while to figure out how to use the device, since I've never owned one. It's fun, but the novelty is wearing off pretty fast.
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Thursday, 3:38 p.m.
LOUD! The music was loud! The bass was thunderous! The catchy, finger popping beat was heart pounding! The singing was exhilarating, the words catchy, but there was no party. There was no dancing. There was no one to enjoy the music that penetrated the blood-splattered walls inside Myra Barrett’s statically still apartment and seeped through plaster and concrete walls out into the adjourning apartments and into the long, pastry tan colored hallways of Ellington Tower Apartments. Myra couldn’t understand why no one had come pounding at her door yelling for her to turn down the music. Her floor, the thirteenth floor, was one of the quietest floors in the whole twenty-two story building, and it was rare for anyone to blast their music so loudly. Maybe that was because most of the tenants of the ten apartments on her floor were over fifty years old. That is except for Myra herself and Alice Reynolds down the hall. Myra was only thirty-three years old. She wasn’t ready to die.
“God,” Myra said feebly, the taste of her own blood on her tongue, “help me.”
Someone had to hear the music. Someone had to be annoyed. The music was deafening. With the right side of her face smashed into floor, Myra’s head was pounding from the roaring bass which was making the floor under her pain-racked, blood soaked body vibrate. The walls had to be vibrating, too. They usually did when the music was especially loud. By now Mrs. Harris next door should have been banging on the door and hollering for Myra to turn down her music. Did Mrs. Harris have a doctor’s appointment today? Where in the world was she? God, please let her come. Oh, God, please. Myra started to gag. The taste of her own blood seeping into her mouth from her throat reminded Myra that her weak hold on a life she desperately wanted to continue living was slipping away.
Oh, God! Footfalls. He’s coming back! Oh, God. Myra tried to stop breathing in what little air she was getting. She tried to close her eyes. She couldn’t. Her eyes were frozen open and when Norris stepped in front of her, she couldn’t even shift her gaze to look at his foot. Norris stood over her and Myra could only guess that he was most likely looking down upon her with that same evil mask of disdain over his handsome face that he’d had on when he first started stabbing her. She had no idea Norris hated her so.
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Author's biography:
Nationally acclaimed award winning author GLORIA MALLETTE began her true literary journey by self-publishing her second novel Shades of Jade in April of 2000. By July and 13,000 sold copies later, Gloria signed on with Random House who re-released Shades of Jade in 2001. Shades of Jade made several best sellers lists, including Black Board, Essence Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, and The Washington Post/Washington is Also Reading listing.
Gloria has been featured in The New York Daily News, USAToday, ToDay’s Black Woman, Upscale Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, and The Pocono Record. Gloria also has a featured novella, Come Tomorrow, on the USAToday website.
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National Best Book 2009 Awards Finalist -- Sassy
National Indie Excellence 2008 Award Winner -- Living, Breathing Lies
Catholic Girl
The supposed buoyancy of Jesus in water
Used to obsess me as a child
Was Mary unable to bathe her baby?
Once at the end of a Sunday
I realized I had a bit of Jesus
Caught between molars
I hadn’t felt godly all day
And had fought with my sister
In the choir balcony
I squeezed shut my anus
My vagina
To avoid fouling the air
Sweat poured off me
I grew dizzy and saw lights
At the moment of transubstantiation
Red mist poured from the priest
And a low hum like a lion’s growl
Swirled about me
I had nightmares about the church
Running between pews
After a little devil dressed
In yellow rain coat and galoshes
Like the Morton Salt Girl
When I caught her
I saw myself at five
Laughing and bewildered
At the same moment
I had nightmares
About the Cat in the Hat
Damning me to fiery hell
He was not natural
A six-foot tall cat
Wearing a hat
He was Satan
Later when my sex swelled
And I had thoughts
Of women and men
I had dreams of coupling
In the depths of the sea
Mermaid beautiful me
I came upon the shore of the bed
In waves, in spume
I dreamt I was a lime-white lady
In a brocaded gown
a scary medieval Madonna
I came to the church
And was met by knights
Wearing those silly duckbill helmets
They told me
Though I was queen of the land
I was not ruler of the church
And could not enter
I’ve even dreamt I was the
Whore of Babylon
Riding a seven-headed dragon
Who was actually quite nice
Everywhere I went
I withered crops
Unintentionally
It wasn’t my fault
There were some saints
I could kind of have
I always felt that Joan of Arc was hot
I’d go with her
I’d be in her club
And Mary Magdalene
Was almost stoned
Till a long-haired Jesus
Saved her
She was worth saving
Worth fighting a crowd for
I think I’ve found my Mary
the scared girl at the back of the class
Something god-like in her
I want to help her fight
Lucy Simpson, Seattle, 12/2009
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