Tag Archives: Missed posts

Brains Aren’t Everything

Posted on February 8, 2024 by mohawkvalleygirl

So… I missed making my Tuesday blog post Wednesday morning. I overslept as the introduction to a very weird day. And then I did not make my Wednesday blog post on Wednesday, and it is Thursday morning, and I thought I should post something. I do not know what I will end up billing it as, but I confess at the outset, that I do not have much in the line of brain power. If only I could handily find the picture from The Brain from Planet Arous, I could properly illustrate this post.

This group didn’t have their act together either.

I veer into Throwback Thursday territory (Wayback Wednesday?) with a picture from Much Ado About Nothing, presented by LiFT, Little Falls Theatre Company in, I believe, 2016 (no, I can’t go back and look it up, go ahead and roll your eyes at me) (you know who you are). I had a lot of fun playing the Watch, or whatever we were called. We played it really dumb. I always say, go with your strengths (that was directed at me; I was not casting aspersions on the brainpower of my fellow thespians).

Ah yes, more theatre in the offing.

I add a picture of Salisbury Grange in hopes of inspiring myself to complete the as yet untitled script for the murder mystery we are doing there in April (preview of coming attractions). What is with me that I have not finished it yet? Get to work, Cindy!

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

Yes, that is the caption I usually use with this picture. It is how I feel: half buried and unable to do anything but wave my arms and wiggle my toes! I remind myself that how I feel is not necessarily reality. I may be buried, but excavation is possible. So is writing that damn script. Look, I managed over 300 words of a blog post. I think I will call it a Non-Sequitur Thursday.

It’s Been Murder on my Blog!

Posted on October 20, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

I guess this has been a Blogger’s Sick Week. I have been plagued by terrible headaches. I try so hard not to whine but sometimes find embarrassing little whimpery noises coming out of my mouth. Luckily nobody else has heard them. Even more fortunately, my bosses at work believe me when I tell them I have a migraine and need to go home.

Oh dear, what a boring post this is turning out to be! I don’t suppose it matters, though. I am on my Tablet which still won’t let me put in a headline. I will try to finish this in the morning, when I will feel more like sitting up at the dining-room-table-top.

This was taken at the Inspire Moore Winery.

I put in a picture to represent the passage of time. It is now early Friday morning and I am at my dining-room-table-top, ten-finger typing and waiting for the coffee to perk. I think it finished perking while I searched for an appropriate picture.

Ah yes, coffee always helps. When I write letters to my sister Diane, she likes it if I give her a blow by blow of where I am and what I am doing while I write. I tend to use the same technique with my blog. Is a blog like a letter to anybody who chances to click on it? Discuss amongst yourselves.

I may wear the same dress in our upcoming production.

I was going to share the posed picture of the cast of Fabulous and Fatal, which I have shared many times, but opted for an action shot instead. This was the murder mystery we presented to benefit the Herkimer County Historical Society in 2019. I use the picture because last night I was at the first rehearsal for Lights, Camera, Murder! the murder mystery which will benefit the Historical Society on Saturday, Nov. 11. Yes, it is close. We put these things together quickly.

So there you have it: an apology for my absence and a Preview of Coming Attractions. Am I back to daily blogging? I hope so. And I hope people will continue to tune in.

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Could I BE Any Lamer?

Posted on September 30, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

I thought of this title before I thought of anything to say. I still cannot think of much to say but am determined to make my Lame Post Friday post. We shall see how I do.

I suppose some of you have noticed that I missed posting Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I was just too tired. Tuesday and Wednesday I fell asleep on the couch at an embarrassingly early hour. Thursday I went to Ilion Little Theatre’s monthly dinner meeting so fell asleep a little later.

And I just remembered the thing I was supposed to do earlier today: call the VA and make a primary care appointment to possibly find out why I am feeling so tired all the time. How did I happen to forget that? I guess I can blame it on feeling too tired.

A sweet couple.

I decided to throw in a picture to pep things up. I was at Fratello’s Pizzeria in Frankfort earlier tonight. I saw my niece Kimi and her boyfriend Matt. They were not sitting at the bar, as they are in this picture, but I thought we could stretch a point.

It is very embarrassing to have missed posting for three days, especially since I missed posting for four not so long ago. However, I shall not let embarrassment keep me from posting today. I hope I have managed to entertain at least a few of you.

By the way, I do not know if anybody noticed the oblique television reference in my title: Chandler on Friends used to put emphasis on unexpected words. I used to watch a lot more television.

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Did Anybody Miss Me? Or My Monsters?

Posted on September 20, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Well, this is dreadful. I have not posted in four days. I haven’t missed this many days in a row since I had COVID. I was (and I guess am) sick again, but I do not know what it is. The main symptom seems to be complete exhaustion. I guess not literally complete, because I did go to work yesterday and made it through the whole day. I even did some work.

Never mind my stupid physical problems (and we won’t even go NEAR the mental ones). Let me try instead for a blog post.

“Puttin onna RIIIIIIIITZ!”

When in doubt, throw in a monster, that’s my motto. Here is the Monster and his creator from Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, one of my all-time favorite movies.

Me too.

And here is the Bride, with a rather profound saying. Have I had enough coffee for profundity? Better have a little more.

Can you dig it?

Torn between two pictures, I went instead for a third one, because I have not used it in recent memory. Back in the ’70’s, when I was in my early teens, my favorite saying was “Dig it!” I became rather tiresome with it, as junior high school students are apt to do. Am I becoming tiresome with my monsters? I’m afraid that is what old lady bloggers are apt to do.

In any case, I am over 200 words. I’m a blogger again! Or do I flatter myself?

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Missing Steve, Missing Posts

Posted on August 15, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Grief is not linear. You do not go through the steps in an orderly fashion, magically feeling a little bit better each day until one day you realize you have finally found you could live with it.

I just imagine this is not a startlingly original insight. I feel sure every grief stricken person has found it to be true, and a number of people who have yet to be bereaved have suspected such a thing. I suppose I suspected it myself. Now I know it to be true.

All this by way of apologizing for missing both my Saturday and Sunday posts. I was just too sad.

I share one of my favorite pictures of Steve. For anybody just tuning in, Steven is my much loved husband, who passed away Feb. 3 of this year. So I recently passed the six month mark. I am trying to concentrate on remembering the good times, being thankful that I had my husband for as long as I did, and learning how to live alone. Some days it works better than others.

Here is a picture of me and Steve together. I will just interject at this point that my Tablet and/or WordPress is really screwing with me today. It only shows a bunch of letters and symbols for the pictures I share, it won’t let me edit said pictures to add a caption, and my predictive text thingy (sometimes annoying but sometimes helpful) is gone. And the letters on my screen are way smaller than usual. What the hell? (Ooh, at least it is not autocorrecting “hell” into “he’ll”!)

So this my Monday post. An apology for no Saturday or Sunday post, and a grief update. Thank you for tuning in.

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I Could Have Been Lamer

Posted on June 11, 2022 by mohawkvalleygirl

Since I broke my streak of posting daily by missing Thursday, I thought the least I could do was make my Lame Post Friday post on Friday. So here I am, up later than I usually am, pecking out one letter at a time with the stylus (although sometimes the predictive text thingy helps), and hoping for enough brain power for at least 200 words.

One reason I did not post on Thursday was that we went to Cacciatore’s in Ilion, NY. We had some food and enjoyed music by Matt Grainger. Tonight we went to Dibble’s Inn in Middleville, where we had food and enjoyed music by Phil Arcuri. So we have been musically entertained this week.

Someone may point out that I could, in fact, have made a blog post yesterday, either before or after going out. Come to that, most days I missed posting, I could, in fact, have posted. Oh dear, let us not go down that road of Could Have. I COULD HAVE done all kinds of things! I didn’t!

Now we arrive at a nice bit of half-baked philosophy, and regular readers know I love to indulge in half-baked philosophy on Lame Post Friday. Most of the time, it is a useless and depressing exercise to dwell on What Could Have Been, or more particularly, What I Could Have Done.

It is, at the same time, an almost irresistible temptation to indulge in these repinings. I like to kid myself that it will help me do better next time. This is particularly true of verbal encounters. I think, I should have said thus-and-such! And I treasure up that bon mot for the next time somebody says whatever it was to me. I am trying to remember if such an opportunity has ever arisen. I can’t think of one

However, I did just think of when Could Have is a comforting phrase. Sometimes when I have not done as well as I hoped, I realize that I could have done worse. I missed posting Thursday. I could have missed Monday through Wednesday as well.

I think we can agree that this blog post could have been better and could have been worse. What it is, is over 300 words. I’m going to bed!

Is This a Post?

Posted on July 14, 2021 by mohawkvalleygirl

Late posts have been a thing for a while. I guess missed posts are now a thing, too. I don’t know yet if this will count as a late Tuesday Post or lame Wednesday post. I don’t suppose it matters much.

It is no secret that I am under stress and not handling it very well. I have no excuses, and it is embarrassing for me. But let us not go on about my petty problems.

I guess all I am doing right now is typing in a few words to let readers (if any) know I still exist in the blogosphere. I close with a preview of coming attractions.

I realized I have yet to write about last Wednesday, when I went to Fratello’s Pizzeria in Frankfort. I enjoyed good food and good music by Max Scialdone.

In the meantime, please excuse Mohawk Valley Girl etc., etc. I hope to get back to daily blogging soon.

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