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No Matter on Wrist to Forehead Sunday

Posted on May 22, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I ran this morning, thinking I would go ahead and make two Running Commentary posts in a row. Then I thought a common or garden Wrist to Forehead Sunday would be OK. Now I am sitting here at the laptop, typing nonsense, and watching the clock creep closer to when my friend Kim comes over and my husband Steven gets off work and we head to the Little Falls Cheese Festival Fundraiser at the Overlook Mansion. There will be wine and craft beer samples there. If I wait and make my post later, I fear I will drink and type. Of course I have done that before, but it is not ideal.

Then again, it may be better than what I have so far. Perhaps I should compose two posts today, one now and one later, publish both and let the readers decide. Ah, but what to write about NOW?

This morning’s run was pretty good. I ran down to the canal trail, starting by Mohawk Valley Ambulance Corp, running for as long as I ran yesterday. Yay me. Back home, I made a macaroni salad for my lunches this week, also chopping vegetables for snacks. Yay me again, although it might be better if I did not eat all kinds of other crap besides the vegetables. However, I can’t worry about that now.

My real wrist to forehead situation today is what to wear to the fundraiser. I have a color coordinated outfit on now but I’m not in love with it. I think I look like an overweight middle-aged lady. Oh wait, that’s what I am. I suppose I will look like that no matter what. Ah, and what’s in the middle of that last sentence? “No matter.” That is what I often say to myself, and it is what I say now. I don’t like my outfit. I don’t like this blog post. No matter. I’m going to have fun at the fundraiser. I wonder if I can get anything else useful done before I go.

It Was the Halloween Socks

Posted on March 18, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

Sometimes the right outfit can make you feel better about everything.

Until you remember you still have not found the papers you need to bring to rehearsal and you have no idea where else to look.

Luckily, I came up with a few more ideas of where to look and found the papers. It would really behoove me to become more organized. However, I’m afraid that in order to accomplish that, I would need to basically tear myself apart and start from scratch, you know, like emptying the refrigerator or dumping everything out of your desk (oh dear, I just had a very unpleasant flashback to fifth grade when a mean teacher did that to me and I cried) (I cried a lot in those days; don’t judge).

Anyways, today is Lame Post Friday, so I’m not too exercised about my blog post. A little exercised, of course. I always worry my readers will say something along the lines of, “Why am I wasting my time with this trash? Let’s look at a real blog for a change!” Or is that my low self-esteem talking? (Sorry, I’m still recovering from that flashback. Do you suppose I need therapy?)

But perhaps some of you are waiting to hear about my outfit. I had to have one, you see, because I have rehearsal for He Laughed Himself to Death, the murder mystery dinner theatre Ilion Little Theatre is presenting at Morningstar Methodist Church in Ilion on April 1. I don’t need to dress up, but I do need to be dressed (I just gave some folks a bad mental image, but I will not apologize for such a thing) (you know who you are).

As it happens, the outfit isn’t such a much. I have on leggings, a t-shirt and a flannel shirt. The t-shirt is large enough to cover my butt and the flannel shirt is even bigger. I know it is quite the thing to let all your contours be lovingly outlined with your pants these days, but I prefer to be more circumspect. The flannel shirt is green and black plaid, green for St. Patrick’s Day. I wanted a green t-shirt as well, in case I had to take the flannel shirt off for a hot flash (which is much less unpleasant than the flashback mentioned earlier, by the way). I found one from Jeremiah’s Tavern, our old watering hole in Norwood, NY, roughly a hundred years ago. There is a big mug of beer on it. How appropriate is that!

For earrings, I put on my spider in a web, because the web is green. I noticed that earring earlier today and thought I might wear it. I put it in the ear with two holes and put a hoop in the second hole. I put an earring made from an Angry Orchard cap in the other ear. You see, the spider would jump through a hoop to get an Angry Orchard. Full disclosure: I have never had an Angry Orchard myself; the earrings were given to me.

I completed my ensemble with Halloween socks: orange with green and purple bats. I think that final touch was what made me feel good about the whole thing. Until, you know, the lost paper incident mentioned in the second paragraph.

And now I have found my papers, made my blog post, and may even have time for one more task before rehearsal. Score! Happy Friday, everyone.

Neither Wordless Nor Wuss

Posted on December 29, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

I was all set to do a Wuss-out Wednesday post when I remembered that some bloggers do a thing called Wordless Wednesday. Not that I am usually wordless, nor do I intend to be entirely Wordless now. But I do have a couple of pictures to share. So here are two views of me.

Do you even like my feet?

I was hoping for slippers for Christmas. I quite frankly never pictured these, but I LOVE them. You can’t imagine how cool it is to look down at your feet and see these big fluffy things. Unless you have a pair too, in which case, excellent!

The next was taken last night before Steven and I went out to eat. I wanted to put on something cute and this is what I came up with .

Steven said, “Hubba, hubba!”

Full disclosure I purchased the shirt in the late 1980s, when I worked at JC Penney in Potsdam, NY. I rediscovered them during Leading Ladies (remember? the show I directed for Ilion Little Theatre), when I wanted to dress fabulously each night to make the curtain speech. I added the Christmas vest and jewelry last night.

I confess, I thought I looked pretty fine. So fine, in fact I was the one to say, “Hey, Steve, take a picture!”

Oh dear, now I’m looking at the picture and seeing my pile of footwear at the bottom of the stairs. Then again, maybe most people didn’t notice them till I foolishly pointed them out. Oh well, these things happen.

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W(h)ine on Wuss-out Wednesday

Posted on September 15, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

I thought an iced coffee would help, I really did. Sometimes eating ice cream helps. Sometimes eating dinner helps. Sometimes nothing will help but yet I must just sit down and make my goddam blog post.

Welcome to Wuss-out Wednesday.

Sorry, folks, but the bad posts continue. I typed the above before I had to go pick up Steven at work. Actually, I still had to shower and get dressed. It took me a LONG time to get dressed (that is, almost ten minutes, I think), because I have a lousy wardrobe. I have a lot of clothes but most of them don’t fit, don’t go together or are unwearable at the moment for all sorts of stupid reasons. I put together a not unreasonable outfit and thought that would make a good blog post. Unfortunately, I had not time.

And isn’t that ironic? I did something I thought I could write a blog post about, but because I did it, I did not have time to make the blog post. Am I the only one who finds that striking? Perhaps I am.

So why am I not writing that blog post now? Did I not mention this is Wuss-out Wednesday? In fact, when I picked up Steven, I pointed out my fun little outfit and said if he wanted to go get something to eat, we could. I fully expected him to say he just wanted to go home and relax, but dinner sounded good to him. We ended up at Jamo’s, where they had a Date Night special going on which included a carafe of wine.

Yes, I have sipped and typed before (a carafe is only two glasses apiece; I did not tie one one, so stop making that unbearably superior smirk at me) (you know who you are). Today I am tired. That is three days in a row of being tired! I think I need a different approach. I’ll work on it tomorrow, on Non-Sequitur Thursday, when I will try not to wine so much.

Mohawk Valley Girl