A Quickie

Just to let anyone who cares, know that I am still around.
A Blogthing quiz is all I can muster today:

You Paint the World with Deep Colors

You are a true individual. You are very unique. Your friends can count on you to be expressive. You're never at a loss for words. You are a truly warm person ... though sometimes you can be a bit selfish. You are keyed into your emotions and easily moved. You are quite sensitive.

How Do You Paint the World?

*************

~~~~~

It's true--part of me wants to be selfish and get some time to myself, but lately, I feel like I am on auto-pilot and just filling my days with what I have to do.

I'll get my blogging groove back eventually, I promise.

Who me?

A "guest blogger"?

I had been invited by Clare to write a guest blog over at her Lilac Grove blog today, while she is busy with company(and potty training?)this week.

Of course, I went and wrote a l-o-n-g entry there, so most likely it won't get read and therefore won't have many comments. I find that if I post a really short entry(with even just a YouTube video or a photo) that I'll get the most comments. Has anyone else noticed this?

(of course, this may have something to do with my lengthy posts getting too rambling and not-too-the point quick enough. Readers must just give up.)

So...go visit here, and try to read the whole thing?

Also, definitely read some of Clare's entries. I like her blogging style--a wide variety of topics from an interesting expatriate Brit in Cali(she loves Grover and Gene Wilder, I have discovered--how cool is that?)

The photo up top? I just liked it--found it online somewhere and saved it a while ago. I like the juxtaposition of the modern white table and the wooden green painted chairs, as well as the openness and bright windows everywhere.

In fact, I would love to be a guest there and eat a meal in that serene room. It's so clean and uncluttered, too. Unlike my own surroundings. With it being so hot these last few weeks, a lot of household stuff simply didn't get done around here.

I am.....

I Am.....

thinking that I just might actually turn the oven on today. I have had the ingredients for granola for a week but it has been so hot that doing anything with the oven turned on would have been crazy. But, today...it feels not so hot-- a freshness in the air and almost a little coolness. No humidity. My arms aren't sticking to the desk as I type, which is what was happening all last week. What a relief!

Wearing: my jammies, still...

Drinking:

lukewarm cawfee. i think I need staff that will go and refill my cup when I am engrossed in blogging.

Eating:

nothing yet. wish I had some homemade granola . i'll probably eat a bowl of Cheerios instead. granola tomorrow, then.

Listening to:

birds, softly cricketing crickets, fan whirring in other room

Craving:

homemade granola.

last night, about an hour after supper, i had a mad craving for a slice of Key Lime pie. i think i may need to find a bakery that will sell me one today(or make it? ) in case i get that craving again later on.

Hmmmm..now that i have just written about Key Lime pie, i am craving it again...right now. Key Lime pie for breakfast would be divine.

Worried About:

the mild headaches I have kept getting after sucking in the yellow fumes of the fire extinguisher that was used on the fire at work last Wednesday. Yes, we had a full-blown electrical fire last week(lighting fixture in flames, ceiling in flames, floor below in flames..) and one of my co-workers pretty much saved the shop and my job with his quick thinking. So, yeah, the extinguisher is a very good thing, but I wonder about all the fumes(acrid smell of molten hot burning plastic and metal, too) we inhaled and am probably being paranoid and a little silly. Still, these almost daily headaches....

Missing:

routine (but this will return soon enough once J and R are back at school next week)

Wanting to:

draw, paint , make a creative mess. something I have not done once all summer. what happened? i never painted our hallway, either, like i had said i would way back in the spring...*sigh*

Reading:

The Madonnas Of Leningrad by Debra Dean

Dreaming about:

last night i dreamt i visited an online friend(whom i have never met). this is the second time she has figured in a dream of mine, too.

Muggy Manic Monday

Manic Monday questions time. Go here if you want to play along, too.

*What is the first thing you notice about people?

What they are wearing, as shallow as that sounds.

*What song always makes you happy when you hear it?

This was easy to answer:
"Happy" by Martin Sexton :-)

"..yeah, I'm happy,
like the first day of summer vacation..."

• Happy by Martin Sexton

More Martin Sexton music on iLike

(So good, I linked to it twice...actually I did this by mistake, but like that there are two now)

*What fashion trend do you just not get?

Those enorormous shoulder bag-satchel-type things I see everywhere lately(in my local Marshalls' store, they have been trying to sell these in orange and acid green fake leather with giant rhinestone peace signs on them...see them there every time I go in--they don't seem to be moving. Maybe the trend is past?). Usually they have huge buckles on them, too. Not my thing at all...

Feeling tropical

These giant lily pads and flowers I photographed alongside the road yesterday sum up the hot, lush and nearly tropical feel of the climate we have been experiencing around here for the last two weeks. Yes, it has still been just too darn hot for blogging (and other things..wink, wink, nudge, nudge...). There isn't any air conditioning in the room this computer is in, and with the stifling air, even a fan doesn't offer any relief.
Besides, this kind of weather makes me feel lethargic and uninspired to write or even communicate.
I have been taking it easy--drinking lots of iced tea, reading(found a used copy of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion"--the basis for the musical "My Fair Lady" and would sit in the shady part of our yard and read that when I got home last week), actually writing some snail mail letters, taking lots of cool showers and spritzing myself with light colognes out of the fridge. A lady still has to smell nice even in the most sweltering of conditions, right? ;-)

But...right near where the lily pond was, I saw some red leaves vining up along a maple tree. An indicator fof the fast approaching cooler fall days ahead and some regular entries here from me.