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.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

A lovely afternoon

Spent the afternoon with my nephew, celebrating his 10th birthday. He was most pleased by the WII game I gave him, along with a Harry Potter...

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing: The Starrlight Meme 1. What was the last thing you put in your mouth? Vitamins 2. Where was your profile picture taken? Ho...

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Lazy day

Why am I soooo damn tired? Fatigue? Post-Olympic depression? All week I have felt tired, and today, when I had no obligations, it was blarin...

It was a good time, but now it's over

There's an old song -- introduced by Liza Minnelli, I believe -- that I want the city workers to sing as they remove all the "Back ...

Friday, October 02, 2009

An important message

Breast cancer facts, as originally posted by Kwizgiver Facts * Every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. * One woman in eig...

"That's so gay"

I asked a thirtysomething coworker to please not use that phrase when she was being derogatory. She got all defensive and said that she has ...

I feel terrible for him

Mayor Richard M. Daley is aces with me. Chicago is most emphatically not a perfect place to live , but I'd rather be here than anywhere ...

Thursday, October 01, 2009

I believe her

I believe Mackenzie Phillips was sexually abused by her famous father. It explains her particularly sticky problems with overcoming addictio...

I agree the last point is true

You Are a Poached Egg You are a competent and successful person. You are obsessed with making sure your life is well organized and scheduled...

Glad I got to tell her

My former boss and current theater buddy Barb and I went out to a "cultural event" last night. The performance itself was pretty p...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Atta girl

I'm listening to Babs' new album, Love Is the Answer. It's the first new music of hers that I've bought in years,* and I am...

But he's real, and so is what he did

If Roman Polanski were the invention of an imaginative fiction author with a gift for dialog (I'm thinking William Goldman), I might fi...

Inspired silliness

Over 90 minutes and 8 emails, my best friend and I were cracking each other up with goofy, adolescent comments about men's underwear des...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Well, that's over

Chicago is a great place to live. But in addition to the parks and museums and restaurants and theaters, we also have a very dark criminal p...

The Queen's Meme -- The Crazy Hospital Meme

1 . What is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you in a hospital (besides your illness)? N ot enough towels? No condiments? Can...

Monday, September 28, 2009

Can't stop thinking about her

I saw a dead cat in the gutter yesterday afternoon. She got hit, hard, while almost making it across the busiest street in the village. Smal...

Monday Movie Meme: School

Share movies touching upon the world of education and then link back here at The Bumbles . Splendor in the Grass. (1961) I saw this on TV w...

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Baby, I love you

Meet my new jeans: Relativity Modern Straight Leg, relaxed through the hip and thigh for a comfortable fit, classic 5-pocket styling. Petite...

Words of wisdom from the eternal Golden Boy

Redford's missive from the Fall 2009 Sundance Catalog : We've all heard how as one ages, the time around us moves faster. Aging has ...

Saturday, September 26, 2009

What the hell was that?

Love Happens is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. It's not the performances -- Jennifer Aniston and Martin Sheen ar...

Friday, September 25, 2009

Today is my uncle's birthday

I mailed his card back on Monday, so he should have it by now. I hope he's having a good day. He suffers from Parkinson's, and doesn...

Friday Fill In

1. One week ago SEEMS LONGER AGO THAN IT ACTUALLY WAS. 2. I HAD A CRUSH ON MICHAEL LANDON when I was young. 3. Mama told me NOT TO COME . ...

I'm the center of the universe!

First, suspended Chicago Cubs dick Milton Bradley apologized to me … and all Cub fans, of course. He came here for me in the first place, a...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

I wonder what I'd do

I'm almost done with Clara's War , Clara Kramer's memoir about hiding from the Nazis in a bunker under a neighbor's home in...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

She sounds like she lived this

I have been listening to Whitney Houston's new CD, I Look to You . She's back and I'm glad. Her voice is deeper than I remembere...

Feeling kinda creepy

This is one of those posts where I share an unpleasant truth about myself. Yesterday afternoon, while riding the el home, I had a very, very...

Originally viewed over at Kwizgiver's

You Are North Like a Viking, you are assertive, decisive, and dominant. You seek power and destroy those in your way. People admire that you...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

It just gets worse and worse

Here's the latest in the John Edwards saga, as reported today by CNN : Edwards paid Hunter's production company $114,000 for a seri...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday Movie Meme

This week's movie topic is all about Your Childhood Favorite... For me, it's all about her . Julie Andrews. Back in my long-ago chil...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Don't do it! PLEASE don't do it!

The Saddest Boy in the World and I are doing laundry at the same time this evening. I try every hard to avoid him because I know he has a c...

How to describe Milton Bradley? What's the word I'm looking for?

(Snapping my fingers. Scratching my head.) Oh, yeah. "Dick." Read the comments that got this $30 million, .257 hitter suspended f...

A Quandry

My brother-in-law is a good father and a hard worker. He's also having employment problems these days. His boss, a developer, hired a cr...

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing: One Long Meme (Part Two) 27. Do you prefer to sleep or eat? I don't have a preference. When I'm hungry, I eat. Whe...

Friday, September 18, 2009

Happy to be home

... in front of the set, already in my jammies, watching the Cubs play the Cards. This is a great rivalry, and both teams seemed stoked for ...

Where's that beer cart?

You know how annoying it is when little things somehow become big, hairy things? Before he left for the day, my boss let me know that next w...

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