Return of the Native or Imaginative

Where has the time gone? It doesn’t seem that three months have passed since I last put thoughts to keyboard and posted something of merit on this page. Major holidays have swept passed with the speed of passersby on a city street. I’ve failed to chronicle Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the beginning of a New Year.

Is there significance in my writing on this particular holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)? No, it just happens that the bank is closed and Thom is stuck working. So I am here alone with projects to be done around the house and a serious lack of ambition to accomplish any of them. So instead, I will offer up for you a list of thoughts, occurrences, and ambitions from the last three months.

HOLIDAYS – Halloween was a bust. Neither Thom nor I had the energy to be fabulous. Nor did we have the desire to attend the neighborhood street fair that was attended by more than 20,000 revelers (we could hear them until at least 2am through our open windows). Thanksgiving was spent with friends, of course only after watching the Macy’s Parade. For Christmas, we eschewed Disney and hosted friends and family for a scrumptious get together.

BK FLAMER – Before the holidays Burger King introduces a product they hoped would compete with Axe body spray—BK FLAME. Advertisements showed the Burger King king naked by the fire, covered only by a bearskin rug. The ad was disturbing to say the least. The king is one of the scariest promotional characters ever created and conjures but one image for me…pedophilia. What were they thinking?!

TAPS – My laptop died on New Year’s Day. The trauma was complete when Geek Squad could do nothing to recover my data. Stupidly, my last full backup was back in October (see, this page isn’t the only thing I’ve neglected) so much was lost. But hearken…there is a brand-spanking new HP on the way.

DIVERSIONS – I’ve found a couple of new ways to occupy my time and avoid what really needs to be done…Geni.com and Facebook. Now, since many of you are already on Facebook, I won’t go into too much detail other than the joy and surprise of re-connecting with people I haven’t had contact with in up to 30 years. As for Geni, it is a fantastic site where you can compile your family tree and have it accessible for editing to anyone in the family. Great for gathering info and storing family pics.

HANG-UPS – With much sadness, I have retired from playing and coaching softball. The pain in my back is such that I just can’t continue. I can’t describe how difficult walking away from something I love is for me. It easily would have been a full blog of its own, but I just couldn’t bring myself to write it.

MOVING FORWARD – We just set up a new writing space for me in the condo. So hopefully that ever-in-progress novel will get some attention during 2009. I really need to do something to better utilize my time, and escape from the horrors of my job… *NOTE TO SELF* GET A NEW JOB…

Until next time, my lovelies…