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Musings and Mummies

Posted on May 21, 2024 by mohawkvalleygirl

I am quite tired this evening but determined to make some semblance of a blog post. I was thinking of doing a Monstrous Monday, despite my lack of new monster pictures, but then remembered I had re-instituted the feature Middle-Aged Musings Monday. Only I am not sure I have any particular musings to share. For one reason, the temperature went above 80 degrees today. I am one of those people who melt in the heat. I must haul out my fans and turn them on.

Me not be dramatic? Never happen!

I know, some people have no sympathy for those who do not like their favorite weather. Some people have no sympathy for anybody for any reason. Is that a nice way to be? I think not. If anybody wants to complain about any weather to me, I will listen. Until you have gone on for an inordinately long period of time. Then I might find an excuse to leave the room.

He’s all bundled up.

I wanted to throw in a monster I haven’t used too many times and found this cute little mummy. I don’t remember where we got him, but I think we added the orange yard around his neck. It is nice to have a well-dressed mummy in the house.

Even mummies need love.

Here is a less well-dressed mummy, but he apparently goes to all the best places. I’m thinking this was not an actual episode of The Love Boat. I used to watch it every week (I never had a Saturday night date in those days), although I did lose track of it the last couple of seasons.

I see I am over 250 words. Score! I hope to return to posting about Mohawk Valley Adventures soon, and of course I hope you will stay tuned.

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Brains Are As Brains Do

Posted on May 10, 2024 by mohawkvalleygirl

I continue posting late, making my Non-Sequitur Thursday post early Friday morning while the coffee drips (I would like to say “perks,” but my sense of accuracy forbids me) (now I feel like I am a drip, as opposed to being perked up) (but I digress). I’m thinking those parenthetical comments may be the start of another post, but perhaps I flatter myself.

THERE’S that brain!

I was looking for a random picture to pep things up, as I often do on these foolish posts, when I found the Brain from Planet Arous! Regular readers (and my WordPress Stats assure me that I have some) know I like to use this picture to illustrate when I am feeling brain dead (which occurs with lamentable frequency) but often cannot find it in my Media Library. Don’t you always find things when you are looking for something else? Oh, I suppose YOU never have to look for anything; “a place for everything and everything in its place” (you know who you are).

One reason I was too tired to make my blog post on Thursday was that I went for a mile and a half run. Chicken-feed to hard-core runners, of course (I first put “real runners” but felt that was degrading myself and others), but hard enough for me after a full day’s work. Before the run, I took care of a couple of chores, nothing worth blogging about, but I mention it to prove to myself that I am less useless than I sometimes feel.

I see this nonsense has brought me over 250 words. Score! Maybe one more picture to round things out.

Plans for later.

Who me, drink wine? Well, maybe after work. Right now my coffee is done.

Too Tired for a Pre-Rehearsal Post?

Posted on April 24, 2024 by mohawkvalleygirl

How about a Pre-Rehearsal Post on this Tired Tuesday (full disclosure: I am tired most days). I ought to be looking over my lines again, but regular readers know how seldom I do what I ought.

The rehearsal is for Deadly Night Life, the murder mystery we are putting on at Salisbury Grange this Saturday. I have not blogged much about it, because it sold out quickly. I did not want my local readers to get all interested then be disappointed. However, as I have very little to blog about right now and (again, as regular readers know) very little brain to blog with, I thought I could talk a little bit about it.

Only there will be all tables on the floor.

Here is a picture I took of the Grange last April, when we presented Shooting at the Grange. I did not act in that one, which I regretted on the day of the performance. Oh well, I had my reasons for not taking a role, and we cannot always predict how we will feel about these things.

Here’s a shot with tables.

The above is a picture taken at one of last year’s rehearsals. I have not taken any pictures of this year’s rehearsals, but perhaps tonight I will have a photo op.

It seems I have rattled on for over 200 words without saying much about the murder mystery, the Grange, or tonight’s rehearsal. How typical of me. No matter. It is Tired Tuesday, and I always feel that a blah blog post is better than no blog post at all. Do you agree or disagree? Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Dare I Call This a Post?

Posted on January 31, 2024 by mohawkvalleygirl

Yes, I was too tired to make my Tired Tuesday post on Tuesday. I am in fact a little hesitant to make the post this morning for reasons which I will not go into (explanations are so tiresome). I am ten finger typing on my Chromebook with the very necessary cup of coffee at my side. At first the Chromebook could not seem to get on the internet. It tends to jump off and on, which is weird, because when I click on a little thing in the corner it tells me the wi-fi signal is strong (why is wi-fi underlined? Is that not a word?). I do not properly understand technology, as regular readers know.

A holdover from Monstrous Monday?

I pause to put in a coffee-related illustration. I don’t know that I feel dead inside, but I feel a certain amount of pressure to update my life insurance. That was a joke. I guess brain dead would be a better way to describe me this morning, but I am far too tired to look for picture from The Brain From Planet Arous. Imagine my delight when somebody referenced that movie on one of my monster pages recently.

He was a handsome dude.

Sorry to interject a sad note, but I am approaching the one year anniversary of my husband Steven’s death. I guess I can blame that for my current malaise. However, one learns to deal with one’s grief and go forward one step at a time. And in this case one blog post at a time. So having said very little of substance (do my posts ever have much substance? Discuss amongst yourselves), I dare to call this a post, hit publish, and drive one. Once again, thank you for tuning in.

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Tired, But Typing!

Posted on December 27, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Make your blog post now, I said to myself. Use the dining-room-table-top, I said. You can ten-finger type, it’ll be quick and easy, I said. I was full of beans (only I don’t necessarily say beans). My dining-room-table-top is SLOW, and my brain is at no time what you might call a speedy instrument. Never mind all that, let me attempt some semblance of a post in lieu of the Tired Tuesday Post I was just too tired to make on Tuesday.

I used to be pretty fast on this sort of thing.

I throw in a picture, as usual, in hopes of pepping up the post, only to find my computer is fairly slow about those too. I would not be having these problems if I had not been too lazy to make my lunch last night. Here’s a point to ponder: why do I feel I was too tired to blog but too lazy to pack? Sounds like some half-baked philosophy more suited to Lame Post Friday. Ah, Friday, one day closer since yesterday! But one must not pin all one’s happiness on the weekend, as I have said before. Let me look for some joy in today!

A common sight on my walks.

One point of some relief, if not joy: we have not had much snow yet. I put off shoveling the driveway a little longer! The warmer weather also makes walks more pleasant. I had a nice walk yesterday morning. This morning it was raining, but perhaps this afternoon I will take a meander, even if the rain continues. I don’t care to go to work drenched from the rain, but just to return home for my evening is another matter.

Now I see I am approaching 300 words. Score! Will I make a Wednesday blog post tonight and stay caught up? A little suspense adds interest to my day.

Wrist to Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Merry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate it. To all others, Happy Sunday. Things just brightened a little bit for me, because I realized I can do a Wrist to Forehead Sunday Post.

Please understand that I have had a perfectly delightful day and have no reason to swoon, dramatically posed with the back of one wrist my forehead, even if there was a chaise lounge handy, which there is not. Still, I am awfully tired, and while I am thoroughly grateful for the day and my wonderful family I spent it with, sadness will inevitably creep in.

I have been telling myself all month that the first Christmas without my husband Steve would be hard. It is supposed to be hard. That is what happens when you lose someone you love so much

Now I have a reason to swoon, because I am not saying anything new or even entertaining. What the hell, me? I start the post wishing people happy, them go on to moan on a most morose manner (just felt like throwing in a little alliteration).

I add a silly picture to lighten things up. This is the lower part of my outfit today. I didn’t get a picture of the rest of it.

I am making this post from my phone, which does not tell me my word count. Still, it feels like a post, so I’m going to go with it. Once again, thank you for tuning in.

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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It Bugs Me To Make A Late Post

Posted on October 10, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hello and welcome to another Late Post Week here at Mohawk Valley Girl. Last night I managed to make a couple of phone calls, get the trash out, and find a book to read since I could not find the book I was currently reading. I’m usually reading more than once book at a time anyways. Last night I fell asleep even while enjoying my book about Death and the Virgin Queen. It is about the alleged murder of Amy Robsart, possibly by her husband Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite. It is history, not historical fiction. I usually have a problem with historical fiction, especially when I know a little about the actual history involved.

OK, is this going to be a post about books or a Monstrous Monday post? I vote for monsters!

Yikes!

Trolling my Media Library for monster pictures I have not shared recently, I found the poster for Tarantulas. This raises the question: which is worse, little spiders or big ones? In this movie, obviously the big ones are the problem. However, it seems to me the little ones are more insidious, because they are harder to see and can find more places to hide. In fact, how do you know that one is not crawling up your leg right now? EEEK! Just kidding. I do not have a problem with spiders. They eat bugs I really hate, such as mosquitoes and flies.

Scary!

OK, I guess the big bugs can be pretty bad, too. Here is Joan Collins in Empire of the Ants. I would like to have that one on DVD.

Speaking of which…

I do not have another picture of an insect or arachnid to round out the post so end on a philosophical note (half-baked, as my philosophy usually is? You decide). Some readers may be tired of Monstrous Monday. Some may feel I should have found more pictures for this post. I personally have not had coffee yet and mean to correct that deficiency. Once again, thank you for tuning in.

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In My Defense, Cheese!

Posted on October 4, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

Hands up, everybody who figured I would be making my Tired Tuesday Post late. Now pat yourself on the back, because you were right. I could say I was tired after my rehearsal, but the rehearsal was, in fact, not that strenuous.

What rehearsal, you ask? Well, yes, I am in another play, this one with LiFT, the Little Falls Theatre Company. I guess I just can’t help myself. In my defense, it is a short, reader’s theatre piece, meaning minimal rehearsals and no lines to learn. Additionally, it is in conjunction with the Little Falls Cheese Festival. How can I resist cheese? Most importantly, it was written by Angela Harris, the brilliant writer of Strike Story. I love Angela!

Angela and I at a previous cheese festival.

I was a little stunned to realize that the Cheese Festival is this Saturday, Oct. 7. I guess I somehow thought there was more space between September and October, or maybe that October had longer weeks. Widow brain. It’s a thing.

A shot of the 2019 cast.

The cheese plays are done like an old time radio program, complete with microphones. The plots concern Mac Blac, the only problem solver in the Little Falls phone book.

A rehearsal from 2018.

This year’s play will be held at Little Falls Public Library at 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Come on out and see us! If you can tear yourself away from the Cheese!

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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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Tired, But Typing!

Wrist to Christmas

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It Bugs Me To Make A Late Post

In My Defense, Cheese!

Could I BE Any Lamer?

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