One Gal's Musings

These are the thoughts and observations of me — a woman of a certain age. (Oh, my, God, I'm 65!) I'm single. I'm successful enough (independent, self supporting). I live just outside Chicago, the best city in the world. I'm an aunt and a friend. I feel that voices like mine are rather underrepresented online or in print. So here I am. If my musings resonate with you, please visit my blog again sometime.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

There's a price for keeping secrets ...

… and I don't want my little nephew to pay it. The family is abuzz about a paper my third-grade nephew wrote. The topic was, "Somet...

Look who's here to keep me company!

I always love Lucy, but never more so than when I don't feel good. Here I am, on the sofa with my cat Charlotte at my side, watching Luc...

Yeah, but I'm stubborn

It's after 1:00 AM and I'm up again, unable to sleep. I woke up with a headache and a stuffy nose. It's just a cold, no fever, b...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Fave meme

Liberated from Kwizgiver 1. Political show: Morning Joe on MSNBC. They always have a variety of opinions represented, and even when the gu...

It helps to remember

I still don't feel good, and I've only been sleeping fitfully, so I'm reminding myself of a Thursday 13 I wrote in May, 2007 . I...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Love Kara, hate The Bikini Girl

Kara DioGuardi is fun. Paula is her same, sweet sensitive and slightly off center self. Randy is a self-consciously hip parody of himself. S...

Ya got to have friends ...

Over the last 24 hours, I've heard from or been touched by these friends. My oldest friend sent me a lovely bouquet of flowers in a coff...

Monday, January 12, 2009

I feel soooo virtuous

I worked out today! Even though it's cold and I'm still a little congested and weak as a kitten. I did 15 minutes on the treadmill, ...

The Mimi Meme

1. Click on the blogs in your sidebar, follow list or blogroll 2. Find S unday's post. (January 11) 3. Copy the FIRST SENTENCE, whate...

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Umcka Cold Care has a new fan

I woke up this morning with a sore throat, which pissed me off. It's SUNDAY . I wanted to have fun today. After all, yesterday started w...

She cracks me up

This is Stephanie Courtney, who plays Flo, the Progressive salesgirl on the car insurance commercials. She's always much funnier than he...

Sunday Stealing #16

Sunday Stealing: The Hardest Meme Ever 1. What is the bravest thing that you feel you've ever done physically? Four and a half years ag...

Saturday, January 10, 2009

It's just SNOW!

Yesterday, Illinois did something that's never happened here before. Our governor was impeached. I thought this was a major news story. ...

Saturday 9 -- The Phone Is for You

1. Your phone rings. Who is the most likely caller? Lately it's been Mike, the very nice -- but extremely high maintenance -- guy I pay...

Friday, January 09, 2009

Corporate America Is Icky

That's a word we forgot! "ICKY!" My best friend hates his job today. He hated it yesterday, too. Looks like he'll worry ab...

The Friday 5

THE LUCKY ONES 1. Among people you know, who seems to be lucky in love? My friend Mindy. She met her future husband on a blind date, fixed u...

Thursday, January 08, 2009

2008 in Review

I got this idea from Mo , who snagged it over that other Gal's place . Copy, paste, & share the first sentence(s) of the first post ...

Happy Birthday, Your Highness

“It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.” Bruce Springsteen “When I first ...

I say a little prayer

My best friend lives outside Boulder. He says he can see the wildfires from his home office window. He seems more concerned about his big 20...

The Soul Patrol Meets Rydell High

I saw the Broadway in Chicago production of Grease, with Taylor Hicks, last night at the Auditorium Theater, and I had a wonderful time. Th...

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Stolen from Kwizgiver, again.

If you want to see how she answered, click here . What is on your bed right now? I'm not home so I can't say for sure, but I bet my...

I like this one better

Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence People with Linguistic intelligence love and are talented with words. They enjoy reading, writing and learnin...

Grease is the way I am feeling

Tonight I'm going see the ten billionth production of Grease to play Chicago (it started here, you know). What makes this one special? ...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Heads or Tails #21 -- Three Things

Tell three things you learned in 2008. 1) How to both spell and pronounce Kosuke Fukudome's name . It was hard, but being a Cub fan is n...

Tuesday Tunes #16

Word association time again! Give us the artist/album/song etc that you think of when you see the following words: Country: Reba Break: I...

Fred Mertz? REALLY?

I just took this personality test and found that one of the TV characters I'm most like is Fred. Of Fred and Ethel. Lucy and Ricky'...

Today's phrase that pays

"Cross-Dressing Killer Doctor Found Dead" I admit it -- I see a headline like that and I click on the link. For those of you who a...

Monday, January 05, 2009

The Travolta Tragedy

I'm sure John Travolta and Kelly Preston loved their boy. It must have been horrible to lose their child, and I don't imagine that b...

Manic Monday #21

Do you have any idiosyncrasies or unusual quirks when it comes to food and/or eating? I eat one thing at a time. For example, on Thanksgivi...

What goes on behind closed doors?

We're all back at the office after the Christmas holiday, and we're all nervous about our jobs. Mr. Big (my boss' boss) has been...

I've got to start somewhere

Today, for the first time in ages, I went to Bally's at lunchtime. It was PACKED with other poor souls, like me, who have resolved to l...

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Sunday Stealing #15

1. Looking back on 2008, what might your theme song have been? "Rosalita." Because Bruce sings, "Someday we'll look back...

Saturday, January 03, 2009

I love this show

This show would be The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Napoleon Solo (right) is the man of the title, Ilya Kuraykin is a fellow top agent, and they use...

Saturday 9 -- Dying to Know

1. What do you believe happens when we die? We all go to Heaven. 2. Do you consider yourself religious? I prefer "spiritual." 3....

Back home

Reflections on my trip ... • I flew down with John Cusack. He's better looking in person but seems to be losing his battle with male pa...

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