from: may 2011 in My Days

‘’I’ve had a good day. Today has definately been a good day. [4:15 p.m. atm].

Nothing terribly monumental happened it was just. good. I woke up like I said between 3 and 4 a.m. for no apparent reason other than I was just up. A few hours later I rearranged one of my drawers. watched The Today Show. it was interesting. Dick Van Dyke, Isiah Washington and Steven Tyler were on. they had a segment on frozen vs. fresh foods. Dick Van Dyke reminds me of Tony Bennet. who seems like a nice guy. but I don’t like his voice. he did a duet w/ K.D. Lang who I love. I’ve seen the show Mary Poppins. it’s charming and sad. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like Julie Andrews. not that i’ve asked it just seems like most would since she’s such a lovely sweet lady. Steven Tyler’s definately out there and up untill recently I only knew about his one daughter Liv. he has another one. they’re both pretty. I don’t like Steven’s voice either but ‘dream on’ ‘s a great song.

So at 10 I went and got a smoothie. It was my first smoothie of the season yay! yes i do celebrate/get excited over the stupid silly trivial.......little. things. strawberry banana. they have tea lattes now. i want to try them. The cashier’s name was Marius. he had an accent i couldn’t tell from where.

so came home watched tv. ended up watching The Doctors which is a doctors. talk show. it’s interesting you learn stuff. and one of them’s from CO. this show was about taking time for your health. at the very end they always have their doctor’s orders. and one of the doctors said that we watch other people and see what they’re wearing [that’s one reason i like tv] and take time for them even though we can’t talk to the tv people as i wrote in a poem of mine. and.........but there’s someone else much more important: you. i thought that was sweet.

it’s great and a great comfort to be reminded of that even if you don’t know the person and they don’t know you

So.......then I went to Chipotle. not very crowded but i was the last person in line. which i didn’t mind, really. I looked at the menu. they had something called panz........olne? no that probably isn’t it. it’s Mexican. oh and hominy which i keep meaning to look up. it’s in a soup of theirs. I listened to the music. I think I like that place not only bc of the music but also bc it’s calm. i like the people they’re nice. not overly so but.........i’ve never had a bad customer experience. i got my usual chips and guacomole. because it’s Tuesday and Glee is on and that’s my thing. :). it’s nice to have those things. and. i love guacomole. also know how to make it.

got home in time for Ellen which i hadn’t planned but it’s also nice. On my way home there was a senior citizen going ahead of me. i waited for him. I passed a woman sitting waiting. turned out, she wasn’t reading. had she been i’d have liked to know what book as i always do. she was looking at her phone.

Steve Martin was on Ellen. i like him. he seems quiet. he’s funny.

I watched the latter half of Dr. Phil, interesting. and now........I’m watching Oprah w/ Shania Twain. she’s so pretty. Shania although Oprah also. I didn’t know much about Shania before this. other than Oprah interrupts as we all do including me and she’s a bit egotistical I like her. I want to read Shania’s book. i’ve been really into biographies lately.

so I learned stuff today. oh I also did laundry this morning. I’m currently reading and almost done w/ Saving Max by Antoinette Van Hengten. it’s really good. it’s written in 3rd person but like a Piccoult book in that you’re not as disconnected. it takes an unexpected twist and much like V.C. Andrews it’s dark and twisted.

It was warm and sunny this morning and now it’s cloudy. though it wasn’t as warm as i’d have liked it to be for a smoothie. the smoothie was ok I also got a blueberry muffin which was good bigger than the muffins I make. not that that’s bad just different. I tipped the Chipotle people as always.

and that’s been my day’

‘I watched the latter half of Dr. Phil, interesting. and now........I’m watching Oprah w/ Shania Twain. she’s so pretty. Shania although Oprah also. I didn’t know much about Shania before this. other than Oprah interrupts as we all do including me and she’s a bit egotistical I like her. I want to read Shania’s book. i’ve been really into biographies lately.

so I learned stuff today. oh I also did laundry this morning. I’m currently reading and almost done w/ Saving Max by Antoinette Van Hengten. it’s really good. it’s written in 3rd person but like a Piccoult book in that you’re not as disconnected. it takes an unexpected twist and much like V.C. Andrews it’s dark and twisted.

It was warm and sunny this morning and now it’s cloudy. though it wasn’t as warm as i’d have liked it to be for a smoothie. the smoothie was ok I also got a blueberry muffin which was good bigger than the muffins I make. not that that’s bad just different. I tipped the Chipotle people as always.

and that’s been my day’

‘4th

.........she’d buy the flowers herself.

i’ve not read that book.

brrr.

currently: 7:25 p.m.

watching: Minute To Win It

I’m cold. well I mean I’m perpetually cold as of late anyway but even moreso bc my heat’s not working. Not that you need heat in the summer. well i might. And my AC which I don’t use doesn’t work either.

I’ve warmed myself w/ blankets, so. figured out a solution.

I think my pilot light’s out. er. out. no not ‘out’ it’s just unlit. When I turn the heat on I hear it click and then it doesn’t do anything. so I’ll email my dad about it next week.

Oh, I made a mistake in my last entry. My mom’s going to be 56 not 57.

On to today. At 7:09 my mom phones waking me up. i’m not annoyed. waking up at 7 is late for me. she tells me we’re going to run errands.

I get ready she gets to my place around 9. We went to their [my parents’] place for. something. [i sound like my mom]. oh! She orders a new printer. and I help her w/ her email. she has Outlook Express for her clients [she’s a CPA] and it wouldn’t work. i showed her how to sign in and then back in again. and then it worked. for everyone else she has MSN/Hotmail. as do I. Stevie [the dog] ‘s there as usual.

So we go to the garden. she has a plot at Botanic. we thin the radish plants. and she waters.

Oh and then we go to the actual garden which is huge. and very nice. we walk by the tulips I ask if Holland [my parents have been there] was like that. My mom told Kate their tulip experience was like Alice In Wonderland. My mom says it wasn’t bc the tulips in Holland were much more. er. there were much more of them. I see 3 different kinds. The standard kind, a kind w/ triangle um. petals. and a kind w/ feather-y petals. The yellow and black tulips remind me of bees w/ their colors. The red and orange ones remind me of fire.

We walk through the garden seeing pansies, vicna, redbud, lilacs, peonies and others. My mom tells me how when she was in high school a friend and herself would climb over the now gone fence and sneak into the garden. they’d sit by the now gone pond. He [the friend] sounds like a nice guy. at one point when she climbed over the fence she cut her leg and falls. she’s wearing a skirt [weird, since my mom only wears pants. but that’s how it was back then] and when she falls she lands rather. undignified. Her friend doesn’t say anything about this though.

Part of the garden reminds me of The River [where i was assaulted 6 yrs ago] due to its seclusion which I don’t like. I think I handled that well reminded myself to breathe. And that led me to think of Him.......my ex who assaulted me. and how yes there were some good parts.....for instance we cooked together i think we made garlic bread. At that moment today I realised I hated today. not bc it was bad but bc of the reminders.

We start going out of the secluded area and up ahead we see a building. I’m reminded of Central Park. which is the same way. big and.......an oasis. i like that word. oasis.

The peonies we see aren’t the ones you see in stores. they’re smaller. not as full.

We walk by the tents where they’re having a plant sale. they’re selling raspberries among others. yum. we didn’t buy any.

Then the store where we get meat, milk, tea, cereal, potato salad, fruit and Midol since it’s getting to be that time. we go back to their place and put the meat and milk in the fridge. then Panera where we got a mango smothie and 2 pastries. As we sit down to eat we run into Claire and her mom Grace. like Grace Kelly. it’s how I remember people’s names. I.e., “Hi I’m John” ok as in John Lennon. or, “Hi I’m Oscar” as in Oscar Wilde. some are harder than others. Claire is a woman in my mom’s pilates class. she’s nice. she’s 32. apparently we’ve met before at a get together at my parents. i don’t remember meeting Claire. her mom’s also nice. Claire’s sister is also Kate. who I met last summer while my mom and I were at a show downtown it might’ve been Mamma Mia. I told Kate she has the same name as my sister. Kate Claire’s sister is thinking about marriage. she and her boyfriend have been going out for about a year which isn’t long according to Claire.

although time is subjective, so.

When we saw Kate at the show last year she was w/ 2 of her friends one of whom, Jane was getting married. Kate’s 36.

Claire’s brought her son Jalen. he’s almost 1. he was cute. I’m not very good w/ kids [nor am I w/ dogs] although I like them. he’s social seems to like people. he liked me. and the lights dripping from the ceiling. he knows the sign for ‘lights’ since he’s taking sign language. which apparently kids are good at. cool. he’s fairly quiet. he has lunch w/ us. I’m content to sit there and eat my chocolate pastry while the women talk.

See eating around people is only weird if I think about it.

Panera is cold. I’m reminded of reading there during the summer. Claire tells us they’re going to Kazoo & Co. for toys for Jalen. I bring up the idea of Slinkies. she says that’s a great idea; even if he didn’t understand it he’d have fun watching it.

That’s how kids are. even if they don’t understand something they like it. And when they don’t. they have a feeling of ‘uh oh this isn’t good’. Grace and Mom discuss their travels.

After lunch Mom and I go to CostCo where we get a magazine and granola cereal. Then back to their place where we get the food, address labels and a stapler. I have a mini stapler but the staples I have for it don’t fit. so. The stapler’s not a critical thing but it’s a good thing to have. and it’s free being it was given to me. though sometimes things actually are free. Samples for instance..........I only take 1 even though they’re free and you can have as many as you want. and the best things in life according to Sinatra.

So then Mom drops me off.

And now I’m waiting for Law & Order SVU. i don’t usually watch that show although I like it. but John Stamos is on and I like him, so. it’s an interesting show. you learn stuff.

more [the afternoon/inbetween portion] to come! ‘

‘5th

......what a way to make a livin.......

it’s 7:10 p.m. atm.

currently watching: Big Bang Theory. it’s a pretty good show.

Finished........: Jodie Sweetin’s memoir. it was interesting.

So here’s what happened today.

I woke up at 6:34. baked muffins for Mom, blueberry. 6 but 2 were in 2 big pieces so I had those while watching tv. put the others in the fridge. watched tv while painting a pansy for her. It was hard! I can draw a pansy but painting’s harder bc of all the lines. I looked up images online and grew frustrated w/ each drawing. they have lines on the petals.

The painting was green, yellow, black and purple. i’m not much of a painter. it looked like some weird. flower. thing. which it was, a flower. well it’s better than having it look like a spaceship. or. something.

I think that’ll be my next art project. after the collages. don’t have much else to do. The collages and then I want to do something w/ flower seeds.

My mom liked the painting. which she thought was an iris. Last year she thought the grape hyacinth I’d painted was a purple tree, so. but that’s the cool thing about art. it’s interpretative.

or it can be an iris if she wants it to be.

she also liked the seeds, muffins and tulips. She brought me cheese. and a cupcake from the cupcake place.

Oh I gave her the gifts bc it’s her 56th today.

So we went to her parents’ where we had a small get together. it was nice. My parents and grandparents had the Greek food my parents had brought. I had 2 pieces of bread. my grandmother remarked that it wasn’t very much. twice. Though she’ll regularly make the same remark twice within a 10 minute period, so. I said I was ok.

They had the rest of the cupcakes. we gave my grandparents 2 muffins and 2 tulips.

Then Mom and I went to the show 9 - 5. it was fun cute colorful funny. i liked the music. Dolly Parton had written all of it. i’d only heard 2 songs the title one and Backwoods Barbie. some of them weren’t classic country which was interesting. She made a video cameo in the clock. She seems like fun. Apparently when I was little [was born in ‘87 i’ll be 24 this coming august] Miss Parton had a variety show which i loved according to my mom. which i don’t remember. i still like Miss Parton. she’s so cute. seems friendly.

So often we think something is primarily about one thing but it has other aspects. The woman from the show Hairspray Diana [Diane?] DeGarmo was in it. she was very good. and the one who played Judy had a ‘Defying Gravity’ moment. One of the songs the one right before intermission reminded me of Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman’. great song an anthem for women everywhere.

I’d seen the movie on PBS but it’s been awhile. I have the DVD. I remember the scene where the papers from the copier are flying about.

And there was a screen onstage before the show started filled w/ images of 1979. Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett, President Carter. Bob Dylan. Cher. and others. the big nuclear plant, white. i don’t remember the name but it had either the word ‘three’ or ‘thousand’ in it. my mom told me about that.

Oh there was a black dude in the show. he danced a little bit differently from the others. that was so cool! he danced disco Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. i was reminded of my sister telling me I dance like Uma Thurman in that movie.

yeah........i also [like to think] i dance like Edie Sedgwick. w/ *the arm thing. [how specific].

So my dad picked us up and drove us to my parents’. on the way my Uncle Dave called to say happy birthday to Mom. they’re siblings.

At their place Mom changed into her pilates clothes and talked on the phone while I put the flowers in water. well. in 3 vases and a water bottle. then she took me home. She has pilates tonight.

Stevie their dog was all crazy when I got there. I let him smell a flower. he was pretty much indifferent to the flower. dogs are good company.

When my mom got the gifts she said she was ‘gifted’ lol.

and now here i am

*the arm thing being where you move your arms above your head while dancing like they did in the ‘60’s.’

‘ So...........here’s what I did today.

well not a whole lot. woke up at 10 something baked before The Today Show’s 4th hr. muffins as usual. blueberry. because it was cold out. and in too. didn’t take long never does. and the muffins came out perfectly yay! usually they’re in 2 pieces. i had those throughout the day. watched The Talk. Alex Trebek was on. he seems like a nice guy. then 2 hrs of ‘ghost whisperer’ [reruns]. and then Oprah. Sarah Ferguson the duchess of York was on. it was interesting but I didn’t quite understand her story. I gathered she was unhappy and something about approval?....

Oh did some more editing of my writing. adding in explanations. which is what i’m going to be doing.

Songs of the day are..........’in the winter’, ‘california dreamin’ and. ‘fever’.

and now I’m watching Idol.

so even though the weather sucked. basically. it was nice bc i baked.

*a trick of Peggy Lee’s was to sing softly so people would have to be quiet in order to hear her,

**Michael Buble also covered ‘fever’.

I love Judy Collins. her voice makes me cry. those sopranos........if she was/is a soprano. she’s what, 70? and is still beautiful.’