Yesterday, I had an eye exam.
After my eye doctor and I go through our annual routine of super-dialating my eyes and then spending a half hour shining bright lights through a magnifying glass directly into my eyeball so as to examine the hole in my right retina, the rest of the day seems vaguely unreal. It takes my pupils hours to get back to normal. I can’t read, my eyes water uncontrollably, and everything looks like it has a shiny, shiny halo.
And so it was when I was driving to meet a friend out for dinner. I decided… Read the rest
Meanwhile, this is what’s happened to my office at work:
So that’s what I’m going to be doing today.
Much as I love Shanower and Young’s Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz series, this is not okay.
Jules sent this to me, and it made me love Jon Hamm more than I already did.
He even references Everyone Poops. You should also know that Marc’s interview with Jon Hamm on WTF was really good. All this reminds me about how much I want to watch the new season of Mad Men, but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t turned my TV on in almost two weeks now. TWO WEEKS. It’s un-American, I tell you.
I’m even behind on listening to my WTF Podcasts.
I need to get this figured out.
Tanita’s post here is a not-inaccurate reflection of what life’s like inside my head.
There’s a lot going on, and I haven’t had much time for writing or reflection or quiet. It’s work and work and more work. My demons are starting to get irritated.
Last night, Tam brought over a bottle of wine, bless her, and that’s what happened to yesterday’s blog post. Today, I decided I needed another break, so after I picked Lucas up from school, we went to Charlotte, had some custard, and walked the pier.
The lake was all mud and choppy waves… Read the rest
They can’t say anything about my lawn, though, because I’m the neighborhood widow. It’s not fair, but that’s how it is. I imagine they won’t miss my dandelion-loving ways when I move.
Yesterday, Tammy and I taste-tested canned tomatoes, an idea we got from reading The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn. Tammy wrote about our project on her blog. I thought some of the foodies out there might be interested in our results and maybe trying such a project themselves. I mean, you get a bunch of food and then spend a happy hour sitting around eating and talking. What’s not to love?
Incidentally, Tammy doesn’t mention this in her post, but I’m the one who first read The Kitchen Counter Cooking School and then I talked about it… Read the rest
In a week, my house will be on the market. Setting a date has prompted a flurry of activity the likes of which this house hasn’t seen in a long time.
I am tired.
I’ve been thinking a lot about midlife these last many months, as I and a lot of my friends have been dealing with issues that I think are strongly related to seeing 40 on the horizon. Fortunately, Judd Apatow’s been thinking about this, too, and his next movie, This is 40, will be dealing with exactly that. Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until… Read the rest
As far as Tammy and I are concerned, you can divide the world into two groups: people who go to Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe and the sad people who don’t. Sugar Mountain is a cupcake place that shares a building with a tea room. During the day, you can go and have tea and whatnot, and at 5:00, it transforms into a cupcake shop with a different menu and owners and everything.
These cupcakes are popular. There is typically a line when the store opens at 5:00pm, and sometimes they sell out of cupcakes. If you’re in the… Read the rest
Things have been happening around here.
For instance, yesterday Rochester was hit with a plague of butterflies. Just now, looking out my office window, I counted about ten of them flitting around. They’re fun when you’re outside on foot, but if you drive through a swarm in your car, it’s disturbing. Butterflies make a bigger thunk than you’d expect. Also, the June bugs are out, and the May flowers all bloomed weeks ago and are spent. The world seems to be reflecting the mildly controlled chaos in my life as I’ve been running around doing social things, working like… Read the rest
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