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Breakfast Twins at Heidelberg

Posted on April 3, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

My husband Steven had a rare Saturday off on the 31st; he had requested it for the murder mystery (which I believe I mentioned once or twice). We celebrated with breakfast out at Heidelberg Cafe in Herkimer, NY. For another reason, we wanted to purchase some yummy rolls for Easter dinner on Sunday.

We got an early start, to beat the crowd, but were not there at the crack of seven, when they open. There were plenty of tables available. Some neighbors already enjoying breakfast said hello (I love small-town living). We took a table for two, and a waitress almost immediately asked what we wanted to drink. We both asked for a cup of coffee and a glass of water. Looking over the menu, I noticed some lunch choices that sounded delicious. I’ve only had breakfast at the Heidelberg. I’ll have to expand my horizons.

We continued twinning when we ordered food: two eggs over medium and sourdough toast. YUM! We enjoyed listening to the local radio station while we ate (I’ll have to write a blog post about that radio station one day soon; it is a recent addition to the Mohawk Valley). We also discussed how may rolls to purchase, counting on our fingers how many were expected at my Mom and Dad’s for dinner. A dozen and a half sounded good to me.

For once we refrained from getting any goodies other than the rolls. I had a bad moment when I saw the English Tea Cookies — I LOVE them! But I am far enough from my weight loss goals.

I’m afraid this is a rather dull post. In my defense, I am waiting for Steven to get home for dinner. It will consist of sandwiches made with Heidelberg rolls and leftover ham from Easter dinner. I’m SO HUNGRY! But I have proven to myself that I can compose a blog post while hungry. I also avoided having a Monstrous Monday, so I will content myself with that. No promises for Tuesday, though.

Heidelberg Cafe is located at 3056 State Route 28, Herkimer, NY, phone number 315-866-0999.

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Most of the Time, I’m a Regular Fool

Posted on April 2, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

So I guess my stomach problems yesterday were not purely nerves. At least, I seemed OK during the murder mystery (which was a blast, by the way) and not bad this morning, but as soon as I ate something… well, these things happen, I suppose. I really hate to make another blog post whining about my petty health complaints. I will try not to whine but merely state the facts. Then again, it is Wrist to Forehead Sunday. Perhaps a “woe is me” followed by a swoon is appropriate.

Most of the audience seemed to really enjoy Secrets at Suiter House, our murder mystery, last night. Now I must rush headlong into the next, Spring into Murder. I’ll have more blog posts about that, no doubt. Theatre is my life! Part of my life, anyways.

I had a very nice Easter dinner with some members of my family. My stomach allowed me to partake of ham, cheesy potatoes, and Heidelberg rolls, among other treats. I admit it: I am rarely too ill to eat. I keep thinking if I eat the right thing, it will make me feel better. This explains my continued failure to meet my weight-loss goals.

However, as I often say, tomorrow is another day. I guess a lot of people have said that. How embarrassing to resort to cliche. Well, what do you people expect of me when I have a bad stomach on Wrist to Forehead Sunday? I can’t be profound under these circumstances! But apparently I can make a blog post, however foolish. Hey, I just remembered something else: it’s April Fool’s Day. That’s it! I’m just an April fool. Happy Easter, everybody.

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Stomach-ache at Suiter House

Posted on April 1, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I’m sitting here wondering if my upset stomach is due to the piece of leftover pizza I had for lunch or to nervousness about tonight’s murder mystery. It feels more like a pizza upset stomach, quite frankly, but one cannot completely discount pre-performance butterflies.

As more astute readers will have guessed, this is going to be another foolish post. However, since I often have foolish posts before a theatrical performance (oh, OK, and the rest of the time too), I think I will be forgiven. And if not, oh well, I will just have to live with the disapproval.

The murder mystery, in case you didn’t read about it in a previous blog post, is Secrets at Suiter House, to benefit the Herkimer County Historical Society. I think it is one of my better scripts, but perhaps I flatter myself. I have an excellent cast assembled. I know they will do a marvelous job. I dare to include myself in that confidence. Accuse me of tooting my own horn if you like, but I maintain that there are worse things than having an ego the size of Manhattan, especially for an actor.

Is my ego the size of Manhattan? I’m sure these things are difficult to measure. I certainly have ego enough to set my foolish words afloat into the blogosphere (there’s a silly word) and trust some people will be entertained by them. I have ego enough to write a murder mystery and present it to a room full of people, trusting that they will be entertained.

And yet I sit here with my stomach roiling, saying to myself, “What the hell am I thinking?” I guess a gigantic ego does not always translate into a plethora of self-confidence. Never mind. Overconfidence is a dangerous thing, and sometimes nerves are a good sign. So I say, break a leg, me.

Maybe I’ll try the effects of some ginger tea on my stomach.

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Chardonnay on Lame Post Friday

Posted on March 31, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

OK, today is Lame Post Friday, and I am going to make a fast post, because my husband, Steven, has not been on the computer since this morning. I can’t hog the laptop, after all. So here is a quick shout-out to a few Herkimer, NY, businesses that made our Friday evening a little bit better.

First I went to Hot Spot Salon and Spa to get a hair cut. I did not know quite what I wanted, but I wanted it to look good and I didn’t want to do to much myself to make it so. Clair helped me out as always, and I left looking pretty damn good.

I went to Asteroga Ale House, where I got a glass of Chadornnay, sat down, and wrote on the next murder mystery till my husband, Steven, showed up. I enjoyed sitting there amidst the Friday Happy Hour crowd, but after Steven showed up and had a glass of Chardonnay himself, I wanted some food and I didn’t feel like cooking. Accordingly, we went to Salvatore’s Pizzeria and Restaurant, where we had some food and, yes, another glass of Chardonnay.

This is looking like a Scattered Friday post, which lacks the alliteration of a Scattered Saturday. Well, I can’t help that. For one reason, I am home how and Steven has poured me yet another glass of Chardonnay. I have to watch Snapped. It is Friday, after all. Happy weekend, everybody.

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I Think I’ll Have a Drink Now

Posted on March 30, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Check out the hair! Mine’s curly! And Steven has, well, more than he has now.

No, it is not my wedding anniversary. However, I thought I would try for a Throw Back Thursday theme and share some old pictures. Naturally this one came to mind. Look at us sipping champagne out of those wide glasses. I prefer a flute, to preserve the bubbles (not that I generally nurse a glass of champagne long enough for it to lose its bubbles). Also, I love the look of a flute.

This is about what our hair looks like now, although I am getting my cut tomorrow.

And here we are, still together, still sipping the bubbly. This bubbly is beer from Woodland Farm Brewery in Utica, NY. This was actually some time ago. I have not worn that sweatshirt since my hot flashes got severe and frequent (not complaining, just noting the effect on my wardrobe).

Drinks and friends, what’s not to like?

I didn’t think I had another picture of Steven and me drinking (we’re not complete lushes, after all), and then I saw this one! It isn’t throwing back all that far, only till last October. This is a cast shot from A G.R.A.V.E. Murder, an interactive mystery we presented to benefit the Herkimer County Historical Society. Ooh, and that brings me to the present time: our next murder mystery, Secrets at the Suiter House, is the day after tomorrow, Saturday, March 31, at Ilion Moose Lodge, once again to benefit the Herkimer County Historical Society. For more information, consult the Facebook event.

Well, I kind of like how this post worked out: past to present. Does that make it Throw Back Thursday or Non-Sequitur Thursday? Or possibly Pictures of Me and Steven Thursday? You decide.

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My Sinuses Say Spring

Posted on March 29, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I avoided Tired Tuesday but I am SO going to have a Wuss-out Wednesday. Sorry, folks. I’m not sure, but I THINK because the temperatures went back up into the 40’s, my sinuses decided it was indeed spring and time for the allergies to kick in. I have killer allergies in the spring. And in the fall, and much of the rest of the year, but never mind that. I feel like crap! But never mind whining about something that happens all the time anyways. On with the blog post.

I managed to go for a nice long walk after work today, in the interests of exercising for my health. I thought I could manage a Pedestrian Post, but things were not all that memorable, especially my thoughts at the time. I neglected to take my Tablet with me to take pictures, which might have helped. Then again, the last time I was on my Tablet trying to take a picture, I couldn’t get it out of “selfie” mode. As regular readers know, I am not technologically adept.

Still, pictures always pep up a dull post. Do I have anything in my Media Library I haven’t used recently? Let me look.

This is what I’d LIKE to see!

This is a picture from my yard taken last spring. Um, much later in the spring than now. I feel a little ill-used, suffering from spring allergies without actual spring, other than the 40-degree weather I mentioned earlier.

Be all that as it may, I see I am over 200 words. I call that not bad for a blogger’s sick day. I hope to see you all on Non-Sequitur Thursday. At least, it will be like a Friday for me, because I have Good Friday off, so I may have Lame Post Thursday. A little uncertainty adds suspense to my evening.

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The Sandwich was Better than the Blog Post

Posted on March 28, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

How about a brief cooking post in lieu of Tired Tuesday or Bad Attituesday. As usual with these openings, I end with a period not a question mark, because I intend to make the post with or without permission. Well, I just can’t write another post about not writing a blog post today! Check with me tomorrow. In the meantime, I fixed something yummy yesterday for my lunch today.

I love egg and olive. I was introduced to it by a young girl I used to babysit,many many years ago. It is egg salad, but with olive. Genius! But of course I can’t make it that simply. I have to add a little pizzazz. Along with the olives and mayonnaise, I added mustard, Worcestershire sauce, dill and lemon pepper. There were not as many olives as I would have liked left in the jar, but I cut up what was there. At least they were big. The jar said Martini Olives. I like martinis, too.

Well, that sure didn’t take long to write about. It didn’t take long to make, either, once the eggs were boiled (and that didn’t take very long either). I put the bowl in the fridge for the flavors to blend. Later Steven made me a sandwich on whole wheat flat bread. He almost always fixes my lunch. It is very sweet of him.

I looked forward to my egg and olive sandwich all morning. It did not disappoint. If this blog post has disappointed, well, at least I didn’t whine about not being able to write. And there is always tomorrow. Happy Tuesday everybody.

Well! It’s Another Monstrous Monday!

Posted on March 27, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I think Monstrous Monday is going to be a regular thing here, and I think many people can identify with the sentiment.

A common sentiment, am I right?

I know, I KNOW, I must plan ahead and write blog posts in advance. Well, some readers enjoy my silly posts about not being able to write a post, so there. Still, you can get too much of a good thing. Isn’t there some saying about going to the well too many times? I try to avoid such cliches, but I do say “well” a lot.

Be that as it may, on with the blog post. I wrote a very little on the next murder mystery, Spring into Murder, but am not making much progress in finding a complete cast. I thought everybody wanted to act! Oh well, I guess not everybody (see, there I go with “well” again).

I act, with gestures!

Speaking of everybody wanting to act, here is a picture of me acting up a storm in last summer’s The Tempest with LiFT Theatre Company. That was one of my big, dramatic scenes. OK, I am big and dramatic in all of my scenes, in real life as well as on stage. I always say, go with your strengths (I suppose that is a cliche. Oh well!).

A graphic depiction of how I feel about my continued inability to write a decent blog post.

I swerve into non-sequitur territory with a picture of fake poo. These were props from one of last year’s murder mysteries, He Laughed Himself to Death. I have long been an aficionado of fake poo.

And now I am over 250 words, which as regular readers (if any remain) know, I consider respectable. I return to my Monstrous Monday and, as always, hope for a better blog post tomorrow.

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A Blog to No Where

Posted on March 21, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Can my readers bear yet another post about How I Can’t Write a Post Today. I can’t write ANYTHING today! And it has been that way for a very long time.

OK, that is an exaggeration. I can write something. Here I am, typing in nonsense I intend to pass off as a blog post. Sunday I wrote two articles to submit to Mohawk Valley Living magazine. I wonder if they were any good. I can’t worry about that now. Where was I? Nowhere, it seems.

Now I am sitting here staring at the word “nowhere.” My computer is not underlining it, but it looks wrong. Like it really says “now here.” These are the things that keep me from moving on to the next paragraph.

The next project I am dithering about is the murder mystery for Morning Star Methodist Church in Ilion, NY, planned for Saturday, April 28. I think I have a situation, and the names of some of the characters. I have a victim but not yet a murderer. This is not uncommon. Sometimes I write the whole script before I decide whodunnit. You can do that with a ten-page script. I wouldn’t try it with a 300-page novel. No, I have not written a 300-page novel, but I have written 300 pages on a novel. At least a couple of times.

And now I have written a 200 word blog post. It looks kind of sad without any pictures of monsters. Maybe I could include just one.

“Where have you been all my life?”

There you go: a monster and a beautiful girl. What’s not to like? Oh, I’m sure somebody could find something. Once again, I’ll try for a better blog post tomorrow.

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It’s a Crime to Not Watch Movies

Posted on March 16, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

A distinguished cast of characters? Or a rogues gallery? What’s bothering me is where is Cecil Kellaway?

I found this picture among my downloads recently and thought it might be a nice way to begin a Non-Sequitur Thursday post. Full disclosure: I have another one of my headaches in addition to feeling quite lazy and whiny today. I suppose you never feel lazy and whiny (you know who you are). Well, I will bestir myself to type a few words including as few petty complaints as possible.

The above picture, in case you didn’t know, is from Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, one of my favorite movies. My current profile picture on Facebook is Bette Davis in that flick:

“Oh, so you want a blog post, do you?”

I am feeling a little movie melancholy these days, because our DVD/VCR abruptly quit on us during the snow storm of March 2. It happened right after we briefly lost power. It seems a little odd, though, because we have a power strip, which I thought was also a surge protector. The television and cable box emerged unscathed. Phew! The nice this that when we finally get a new player, we will not have seen all our favorite movies for a while.

One of my other favorites.

We don’t watch as many movies these days anyways. As regular readers know, I am addicted to true crime television. And when I really want a movie, I have a few on my DVR, including, if I am not mistaken, a couple of Hammer Horror flicks I recorded last October and haven’t watched yet.

Who could be uncheered by a vampire?

Or I could just read a book.

You were expecting War and Peace?

I see I am closing in on almost 300 words. 300 silly words, but aren’t they usually? I’m going to watch a true crime show till bedtime. Maybe a monster movie tomorrow. Or perhaps I will have a Mohawk Valley adventure I can write a real blog post about. As always, I hope you’ll stay tuned.