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Remembering to Breathe

Posted on April 29, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Oh, this is bad, this is not good, this is a problem. OK, breathe, Cindy, breathe. And drink some coffee. I think I will have to call this a ScatterBrained Saturday post. All I have done so far today is have a headache, wash some dishes, and feel nervous about tonight’s murder mystery. I came up with the headline just now when I was messaging my friend Kim on on Facebook, whining about my flustered state of mind. I typed, “I am trying some coffee and remembering to breathe.” Only when I typed “remembering” I missed the “b” (could have been clumsy fingers, but let’s blame my laptop keyboard; I hate for EVERYTHING to be my fault). I sat there saying “remember” in my head to figure out where the “b” went. So I added, “And how to spell remember.”

Maybe my headline should have been, “Where Does That Damn B Go Anyways?” Sometimes I just have to laugh at myself. Who forgets how to spell remember? It does lighten things up when you can see the humor. And a cup of coffee doesn’t hurt.

I have half my costume on and, as I had feared, my pants don’t want to stay up. They are fancy silk-looking purple pajama pants. I daresay they look fabulous, but there is no place to put a belt and anyways, I have them pulled up too high. Maybe I could tuck them under my bra (oh goody, I just made myself laugh again) (until somebody says “TMI” because I mentioned my bra; you can’t say anything to some people). My shirt is real silk, a black sleeveless blouse I rarely ware (YES, I remembered to shave! Talk about TMI: what a personal question!). I think my earring choices are good, but which socks? Decisions!

So I guess this is my blog post today: me dithering and whining. But what is a blogger to do? I have a show tonight! I hope I break a leg.

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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.

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I Felt Super!

Posted on February 4, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

Ah ha ha! (that was a triumphant laugh) I went running again! I took two days off, because it was just too cold for me, but this morning it was 30 degrees when we got up, so I said, “Hey!”

I waited a couple of hours first and ate a banana with peanut butter not quite one hour before I actually went. It was not much above 30 by then, but I thought I could rock it. I was right. I ran on the sidewalk instead of the road for the most part, because it was covered with enough snow to give traction. Sometimes I thought I saw ice underneath the snow, so I exercised caution. My middle-aged shuffle is good for that.

I had run for a half a block before I realized it was snowing. Snow? Oh well, I could still rock it (but not rocket, if you see what I mean). I had on leggings, a long sleeved t-shirt, a hat and gloves. I wished I had also worn a scarf, especially when the wind picked up. Then again, running without a scarf, I think, “Oh, if I had a scarf to cover my cold face, how nice that would be!” Running with a scarf, it’s, “I can’t get this damn scarf to cover my face right and now I’m fogging my glasses!”

As I ran, I thought about the blog post I would write, especially the title. It is Superbowl Sunday. Could I work that in? How about alliteration on Sunday? Then I looked around at houses, feeling happy when I saw the occasional Christmas decoration still up. I don’t really get over my post-Christmas let-down till spring. Sometimes it lasts till it’s time to start thinking about Halloween. When I wasn’t looking for greenery and wreaths, I was hoping the cold air would not give me a headache.

Regarding that last sentence, it was a forlorn hope. As I type this, I’m afraid I got one and it is getting worse (remember, the more you complain, the longer God lets you live). However, I see that I am over 300 words. Short for a Running Commentary but long enough for a Wrist to Forehead Sunday. I shall stop blogging and nurse my headache. But I ran for 26 minutes, the same as I ran on Thursday, and I felt pretty damn good about it. Happy Sunday, everybody.

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Bette and Joan on Tired Tuesday

Posted on January 17, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I’ve got the I CAN’T POST THAT disease, also known as the Type It In Backspace It Out disease.

They look how I feel.

When in doubt, post a picture. I confess to not being a great fan of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? although I adore both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, as well as old horror movies. You may ask me, what’s that all about? But I will not have a good answer. After all, one can’t like everything.

“I can just about spit in your eye!”

I may not have that quote right, but here is Davis in a movie I thoroughly enjoy, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, which ironically enough (given my enjoyment of one and dislike of the other) was originally titled Whatever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? I read all about it in a wonderful book called The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine. Ooh, now I should find a picture of Crawford in a movie I like, preferably horror. How about Straitjacket?

The caption is not a line from the movie. Also, Miss Crawford did not appreciate being referred to as a “broad.”

I may flatter myself, but I think this is turning out to be a not bad silly post. I haven’t even mentioned my headache (that was one of the lines I typed in and backspaced out, as mentioned earlier) (oops. Well, go ahead and judge me for whining). I’ll keep it short and end with another favorite picture.

She really lost her head over that movie.

Happy Tuesday, everybody.

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I Did Not Mean Pea Soup

Posted on January 13, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

What a perfectly dreadful day and I am not going to apologize for bitching about it!

But at least I will try not to continue bitching. I had plans for after work, namely getting some Mohawk Valley adventures in before the bad weather starts, both for blogging purposes and to write something for Mohawk Valley Living magazine. First I had a dreadful headache all afternoon, which got even worse as it got closer to quitting time. Well, my head doesn’t feel quite so bad now, but the weather! Yikes! There is flooding in various places, a fog you can hardly see through, and it is still raining. It seemed quite irresponsible to go anywhere.

Full disclosure: I went somewhere. I went to a big box store that needs no plug from Mohawk Valley Girl. I needed yarn. Let’s be reasonable: if I am going to be stuck inside for the weekend, I have to do SOMETHING. Clean my house, you say? I SAID BE REASONABLE!!! I intend to watch either true crime shows or monster movies and crochet. I might bake something if it gets too cold in here. It may not be a weekend worth blogging about, but I expect to enjoy it.

As I left the store, I said to two different people, “This fog is as thick as peanut butter!” Imagine my disappointment when neither responded properly with, “You mean pea soup.” Of course I would have said, “You eat what you like, I’ll eat what I like!” Luckily, I was not on an iceberg about to crash, but if I was I would certainly have yelled, “LAAAAND HOOOOOOO!”

Anyways, this will have to do for my Friday Lame Post. If you are a local reader, stay off the roads if you can. If you cannot, PLEASE be careful!

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Late, Lame, but Not Lean

Posted on December 23, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

Yesterday I took a real Blogger’s Sick Day. Judge me if you like, but one can only do so many things when one has a migraine. Determination will only take you so far. I was going to say “discipline,” but we all know I am notoriously undisciplined, while nobody refutes that I have a marvelously thick skull. Maybe that’s my problem with all the headaches.

Just to throw this in there: I AM doing something about the headaches. I shall not elaborate on what, because, you know, HIPAA and all that.

Last night I felt incapable of even Lame Post Friday. How unlike me. It was the last day of work before what I will call Christmas shut-down. I rather thought more people would be feeling more giddy, myself included. I knew I should have brought cookies. There is nothing like home-baked cookies to spread the Christmas spirit, as well as to add to the hip-spread of people who really need no help in that direction, myself included.

Yes, I have been sadly aware that this is a HUGE time of year for getting, well, huge. I knew it was coming; the calendar is remarkably predictable each year, and I have been around quite a number of years. So did I prepare by dropping a few pounds ahead of time (yes, I KNOW yo-yo dieting is a terrible thing; I’m only talking about five pounds, is that such a problem?)? Of course not! I’m still trying to drop the few pounds I put on last Christmas!

So this is my Friday Lame Post: a late lament about my weight. I believe that is sufficiently lame, yet universal enough that I hope some people are at least mildly entertained. For those of you who are not so plagued by those pounds (either by not putting them on or not caring if you do), you may bask in the glow of superiority. We’ll call that just another service I provide.

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Posting After Midnight

Posted on November 22, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I almost never get up in the middle of the night. When I can’t sleep, I just lie quietly and keep trying. Once in a while I read a book with a flashlight (so as not to disturb my husband, and also because too much light will wake you right up). So here I am, having gotten all the way up, come downstairs, and gotten onto the laptop, knowing damn well that screens are not conducive to sleep (I read that somewhere, or I heard it on the health segment on the news, or maybe both).

Well, you see, I went to bed early with a migraine, having not made my blog post, largely due to having the headache most of the day. I am still suffering from great pain in my head as well as nausea. And I woke up, unable to get back to sleep, and fearing that too much sleep will only give me a worse headache. So I thought, “I’ll go downstairs and make my blog post.” Unfortunately, I feel to ill to do anything but complain. I know, what a whiny baby. I hate to be called whiny, but sometimes I just have to cop to it.

But here is one amusing thing: how I remember how to spell “nausea.” On an episode of The Flintstones, Fred and Barney got a boat. One of them wanted to name it “Nautical Lady,” and the other wanted, “The Queen of the Sea.” They took the first three letters of one and the last three letters of the other. Betty said, “What a sickening name!” I’m thinking it would be a good name for the boat of a person who often got seasick.

And now I am approaching 300 words. I call that respectable for a Blogger’s Sick Day. I’ll try for a better post tomorrow, when my headache goes away.

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In My Defense, It’s a Bad Headache

Posted on November 8, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I went for a run earlier today, thinking I could make a Running Commentary post. It beats a Tired Tuesday post, so I thought. Well, I’m not too tired to write a post, but I have another blankety-blank headache! What’s that all about? I haven’t done anything to give myself a headache! It’s no fair.

So here I am whining about my tiresome ills instead of entertaining my readers.

That was when I paused and went to Facebook (my usual dodge during these blogging woes), where I posted that my head hurt and I couldn’t write. A Facebook friend encouraged me to continue writing my blog post about having a headache. To be sure, I have had worse headaches. For one thing, I am sitting upright typing. The headache has not made my nauseous (I just tried about twelve spellings of “nauseous” before happening on the right one; where’s my damn dictionary, anyways?).

Continuing to count my blessings, I see it is almost time for Steven to get home from work. We need to go vote. After my shower, I put on a cute outfit (although perhaps I flatter myself).

Ooh, I hear him now.

I stopped typing and went to vote. It is one’s democratic duty. And it did not take long. No lines, no waiting. I love small town living. Once we got home I warmed up and ate some sausage soup, so I am feeling better about everything. So this is my Tired Tuesday post. Run, headache, vote. Oh, and I did a load of laundry. I’ll get my act together yet! I hope to see you all on Wuss-out Wednesday, when Mohawk Valley Girl will be surprised and pleased to have made it half-way through the week.

Another Blogger’s Sick Day

Posted on October 31, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I just can’t do it. I can’t let today be the day I don’t make a post. Oh, I know, there have been a few days I’ve missed, due to computer problems or, well, falling asleep. I made my post for those days as early as possible the next morning. I thought briefly of doing that today, but, well, here I am, here is the laptop, my fingers are not broken, I have internet connection, and I am awake.

Full disclosure: I don’t want to be. I think I am coming down with a cold or something. I’m tired, I have a sick headache, I feel inclined to do nothing but whine. My dear husband, Steven, suggested I take today off. It was a kind, loving suggestion. But I just feel if I take one day off, I will take all the days off, and then I will not be a blogger any more. I suppose that would not be such a great loss to the blogosphere. There are plenty of bloggers out there, many of them better than I am in different ways.

So I begin to ask myself, why am I still posting every day? I started this blog in May of 2011 with the intention of posting every day for one year. I don’t know what I thought was going to happen after a year, but it seemed a good goal to set for myself. Now six years and a couple of months later, I am still at it. Sometimes I feel a little proud of myself for that. Then I think of all the foolish posts I’ve made along the way (YES, I realize this is one of them! Sheesh!), and I wonder.

However, when one is coming down with a miserable cold, it is not the best time to question one’s life choices. One is likely to feel the only good choice would be to crawl into bed, pull up the covers, and cry. Well, at least I won’t do the last one. For one reason, it dehydrates one to cry, and it is important to stay hydrated, especially when ailing. I am sure some readers will feel I might just as well have taken tonight off (you know who you are). No matter. I am counting this as my Monday Mental Meanderings, and I am going to make myself some hot tea. Thank you for tuning in.

Neither Carnival Nor Much Soul

Posted on October 24, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I feel like the reflection, blurry.

I would love to do a Monster Movie Monday, but the movie on my mind today does not exactly have a monster in it. Carnival of Souls (1962) is low budget, atmospheric and CREEEEPY! I admire it intensely, although I can’t say it is a pleasure to watch. I find it unsettling. What I really love is how scary it is using just make up, camera work, and acting.

This was my favorite among the posters I found.

This is why I don’t often write about movies I truly admire, especially horror movies. I don’t want to tell you anything about it. I feel a movie like this is best enjoyed if you allow it to unfold before you. Well, maybe I could share a couple of pictures, which I found on a Carnival of Souls Facebook page.

I suppose we could call this a monster.

Here is another depiction of how I feel, only I am dry. And I have short hair.

Full disclosure: I did not intend to write about this at all. I was going to call this Migraine Monday, because I have been suffering this nagging headache most of the afternoon. It is not a full-blown migraine, but you know how I love alliteration. To add to my sense of ill-usage, it got worse AFTER work. What’s that all about? But I was afraid it would sound like whining and begging for sympathy. I’m not, really. Actually, I’m afraid this is not a very good blog post, and I am offering a pathetic excuse. Hmmm… that doesn’t sound much better, does it? So judge me. Happy Monday, everyone.

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