Archive for January, 2007
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
The deal with the phone
So day before yesterday I dropped the receiver of the kitchen phone onto the floor. It bounced one little teeny bounce against the linoleum, and I picked it right up…and although it showed no outward signs of trauma, it has refused to work ever again.
No dial tone. Nothing.
Now I don’t get this. Phones used to be […]
7 Comments » - Posted in inanimate objects, real life by sandi
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Life, improved, without sleep
I woke up, stark raving awake, at five o’clock this morning, even though I didn’t go to bed until close to 1 a.m. And now it is after 10 p.m., and although I feel a little slowed down–perhaps even patently stupid–that could just be because I have a head cold.
Lately sleep seems to be an […]
5 Comments » - Posted in real life, self-improvement, sleep, tea by sandi
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Bring another round of chocolate!
The winter–such as it is–is taking its toll.
Today my friend Beth told me she became flat-out hysterical yesterday when she tried to put her jeans on, and they no longer fit. Now this is bad for many reasons, not the least of which the winter hasn’t really kicked in yet, and that means that the Days of […]
2 Comments » - Posted in friendship, real life, weight by sandi
Friday, January 5th, 2007
The weather we deserve
This may sound crazy, but tonight, when it is 9 p.m. and 55 degrees outside, I am feeling just the tiniest bit of what can only be classified as Weather Guilt.
It’s not that I’ve been driving a Hummer or using up way more than my share of the ozone–it’s just that I’ve been enjoying the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in real life by sandi
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Boomer mid-life crisis
Like a lot of my fellow boomers, I’ve been trying to find time to schedule my mid-life crisis. But frankly, there just hasn’t been time. Between fighting with all my inanimate technology objects, trying to rid the house of leftover Christmas truffles by eating them, and attempting to figure out what comes next in my novel, I just […]
1 Comment » - Posted in getting older, real life by sandi
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
…bzzt…
Yep.
That’s what you think it is: the sound of a computer deciding never to work again, shutting downs its RAMs and its BIOS, and fading to black.
It’s also the sound a computer makes when a person–okay, a hysterical person–keeps punching the ON button over and over again, saying, “No, no, no! One more chance! Just […]
4 Comments » - Posted in inanimate objects, writing by sandi
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
A deep New Year’s conversation with Mom
There’s nothing like a brand new year to get a person in a mood to reminisce about the past.
And since I talk to my mother for approximately an hour each day lately, we’ve gotten into some pretty heavy talks about the past. Only with my mother, being as how she’s borderline insane, you never […]
4 Comments » - Posted in crazy mothers by sandi
Monday, December 25th, 2006
Speaking at the Guilford Senior Center
[ January 12, 2007; 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm. ] Hey, I will be speaking about my new novel, A Piece of Normal, at the Guilford Senior Center at 12:45 p.m. on January 12, attempting to explain how a person can possibly take seventeen years to write a first novel…and then get assigned to write a second one in just twelve short months.
When you subtract […]