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Mid-Swoon on Mid-Memorial Day Weekend

Posted on May 25, 2026 by mohawkvalleygirl

I pause in doing not much of anything to make a Wrist to Forehead Sunday post. I really do feel like swooning today. My poor-pitiful-me meter is registering extra high. What’s that all about? Get a grip on yourself, me! I drink a little water and calm down. Things are not really that bad here in the Mohawk Valley, only I have not had any Mohawk Valley Adventures recently. I must get out more, but it is difficult on a rainy holiday weekend.

To remind myself why it is a holiday weekend.

Just to make me feel ashamed of feeling sorry for myself, I call to mind those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. So I throw back my shoulders, lift my chins, and try to make my own contribution, whatever that may be. At this time, I suppose, a blog post that may momentarily entertain those who read it.

Now, I am not one of those holiday shamers, who post memes of mourning army widows with snarky captions of, “And you thought it was national barbecue weekend!” I feel that one of the things soldiers fight for is the right to enjoy fun times with family and friends. But I do not want to start an argument. I am no good at arguments. I usually try to get out of them by changing the subject with a line like, “So do you think the Yankees are going to go all the way?”

I am wandering from the point, but then I do not think I had a point. I apologize to my readers for making yet another placeholder post. In my defense… never mind my defense. It’s a long story and not very interesting. In the meantime, I approach 300 words of nonsense. Let me look for another picture to end on a positive note.

Will my deck ever look this good again?

This was my deck some years ago. I aspire to reach such decorative heights again. Will I attain them? Or will I have yet another reason to swoon?

What? No Sunday Swoon?

Posted on September 12, 2022 by mohawkvalleygirl

I am beginning to think I need a different feature to replace Wrist to Forehead Sunday. Lately I do not possess the requisite oomph to swoon, dramatically posed with the back of one wrist to my forehead, on a handy chaise lounge or elsewhere. I know some of you are asking, how much energy does it take to swoon? Very little, I confess, for an ordinary swoon. But for a Wrist to Forehead Sunday swoon, I need to be dramatic! Surely you understand (it seemed a good moment to call you Shirley).

Now there is a dramatic swoon!

I throw in a picture from my Media Library to pep things up. It is from Mad Love, a delightfully creepy movie. I am ready to start watching Halloween movies. I do not have Mad Love on DVD, but I think it is still on my DVR from when I recorded it off TCM.

This is me being dramatic.

Here is the picture I was looking for when I found that one of the swoon. I am the one in blue, wrist to forehead, sobbing, “Oh shame! Oh degradation!” It was in Dirty Work at the Crossroads, a,1890’s melodrama directed by my husband, Steven, at Ilion Little Theatre in 2013. It was a fun scene to play, but it took a lot more energy than I seem to have these days.

So basically I need something for Sunday similar to Tired Tuesday, only I can’t think of anything alternative. I do like alliteration. Then I ask myself, what is my problem that I have to have so many days when I can’t seem to make a decent blog post. What’s that all about, me?

In the meantime, it seems I have blathered on for almost 300 words (isn’t “blathered” a word? my autocorrect wants to change it to “slathered”). I say that is not bad. I’ll work on making a better blog post tomorrow.

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All the More Reason to Swoon

Posted on March 14, 2022 by mohawkvalleygirl

I have said that a Monday through Friday day shift schedule suits me. However, I confess to sometimes having a problem with Sundays, hence my feature Wrist to Forehead Sunday. For anyone just tuning in, this refers to the dramatic pose with which one swoons onto a chaise lounge or other handy faint-on-able surface. Before anybody starts playing the miniature violins or rolling their eyes, I KNOW this is what they call a First World Problem, and, yes, I laugh at myself for having it. For heaven’s sake, when I talk about swooning on chaise lounges, doesn’t that sound like I am making fun of myself? Sheesh!

I just searched my Media Library looking for an illustration of me with my wrist on my forehead. I thought I had one. This gives me even more reason to swoon! Or I could just get over myself.

It has not been too bad of a weekend. The weather disappointed, but you’ll have that. I disappointed myself by not getting much done. That you will also have. I feel sure that the best thing to do in these situations is to try to do better going forward.

That was frustrating. I tried again to find the picture I wanted, failed, settled on another picture, and could not get it into the post! My only comfort is that I am over 200 words. Will I make a better blog post tomorrow? I hope you will tune in and fond out.

Typing… About… Writing…

Posted on January 16, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

Must… get… blog… post… written.

You know, like in the comic books? I don’t read a lot of comic books, but I know there is often a frame with the hero going through something dire and saying he must… do… something… I find that perfectly appropriate for Wrist to Forehead Sunday.

I truly am feeling very wrist to foreheady this afternoon. For anyone just tuning in, wrist to forehead refers to the old timey heroines about to swoon. I stole the expression “wrist to forehead” from a former co-worker. I think I made the pose and she said, “It’s a wrist to forehead situation.” I know I have explained this before, so my apologies to longtime readers for being redundant.

The reason for my current angst is that I am having the damnedest time writing. Yesterday I managed six post cards and a blog post. I have other things to write! What the blankety-blank is my problem? I know, I know, I have to just sit down and bloody well do it. Well, I am. The first thing I have to write is today’s blog post. And here I am, typing away at it (as Truman Capote famously said, and as I have previously quoted, “That’s not writing, that’s typing”).

And I see I am over 200 words. That is all I require of myself for a blog post. Self-indulgent, you say? That could be. Then again, I am not burdening my readers with too long of a post. I don’t always read the really long posts myself. Oh dear, any bloggers reading this who make really long posts might take offense at that. Then again, you never know. Maybe I read all of THEIR posts, and it’s the BORING long posts I give up on. I hope nobody has given up on me. That would really be a wrist to forehead situation.

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