I made it home on the bike yesterday. It only took 10 minutes longer to go uphill than down. My heart almost exploded two or possibly three times, but I made it. I took a wee shortcut through a mini golf course, but that was mostly to avoid having to turn left at a busy [...]
Archive for May, 2008
29 May
I feel like the most powerful woman in the world
OMG, I just biked to work for the first time ever. And since that means I’m blogging at work, even though I got here 15 minutes earlier than I estimated, I’m going to make this short. It was great. I live on the top of a very tall hill, and I pretty much coasted the [...]
28 May
Ned doesn’t believe in insurance, he thinks it’s a form of gambling
I was in the middle of writing this kick-ass post about how I’ve discovered I can get over 30 miles to the gallon (city) in my 2007 Saturn Ion by simply driving the speed limit. But that’s really all there is to it. The rest of the post was simply a list of the new [...]
27 May
In a cynical mood
After packing in all the activities of this weekend, I feel like it was at least 3 years since I left work on Friday. On Monday, I became a last-minute hostess for a barbecue when the original hostess couldn’t make it to her own party. I ran to Stop & Shop to get some last [...]
22 May
The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
I consider myself to be a person of great taste when it comes to television watching. I don’t get a cable feed into my own home, so I befriend fellow Lost fans so I can watch at their homes, and reconciled with Birmingham partially for the friendship, and partially for the chance to watch Battlestar [...]
21 May
There’s no wrong way
Tuesday night at the cottage was not unlike Monday night at the cottage. I came home from work, and it was raining, delaying my portobello mushroom grilling extravaganza for one more day. I had no other plans, so the night was dedicated to reading, phone calling, and DVD watching. Since I’m in Netflix limbo, the [...]
20 May
Hudson Valley Saving Time
I was conversing with Minneapolis’s own The Grey Boy last night, who called while I was in the middle of watching The January Man, the other classic late 80′s/early 90′s film starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Alan Rickman. (I only rented it because I put every Alan Rickman movie in my Netflix queue last July [...]
19 May
Darling, you look radishing
I haven’t read the book “The $64 Tomato” but after this weekend, I can tell you what it’s about by only reading the title. People (like me!) move out of the city to the country, look at space in their backyard and think, “why bother going to the store to buy my vegetables? I can [...]
15 May
Paralyzed by choice
I was only in California for four days, but my job gives me two (or maybe three now?) weeks of vacation. I’m not certain, because we’re a small company, and our HR department is a desk calendar next to the fax machine where the employees note their days off. I decided it would be a [...]
13 May
No cable cars, no Rice-A-Roni, just lots of family time
I’m flying back to the East in the morning, and this lovely airport Holiday Inn Express has an internet connection, so what could be a more exciting thing than vacation photos? I kind of forgot all about the internet while I was gone, so for those of you who saw my Tweet that said, “I’m [...]
