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.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

10 on Tuesday -- I'm curious

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Ten female celebrities and the superficial questions I'd ask them. 1) Elizabeth Taylor. What's it like to have once been the most b...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 30

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Jackpot! My new office really has a great view: Millennium Park and Trump Tower. And to think I actually told my boss I'd swap this offi...
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Movie Monday -- Child Actors

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Share the roles you've enjoyed from the younger set, linking back here at The Bumbles. I'm going to take this opportunity to send a...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 29

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Little things mean a lot. This evening my best friend sent a message while he waited in the parking lot outside his daughter's ballet st...

Life imitates art

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Tonight's episode of Mad Men ("Waldorf Stories") surrounds the Clio Awards. A commercial done by Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce...
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: The Majorly Personal Meme, Part Two Cheers to all of us thieves! 21. If you were to live your life without your best friend...
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August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 28

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Cubs win! Cubs win! OK, so it's been a disappointing suckfest of a season. But individual games can still bring me joy. Like today'...

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Little Miss Can't Be Wrong 1. Who was the last person you dealt with that felt that they could never be wrong? One of my ar...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 27

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My new checks arrived! Aren't they great? As this disappointing season limps to an end, it somehow seems even more important to show my...

Crazy Old Neighbor is at it again

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Put a load of laundry in the washer at 7:00. Went down to the laundry room at 7:45 to move it to the dryer and couldn't. Because someone...
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Is it wrong?

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My neighborhood Blockbuster will be closing its doors forever -- after 20 years -- in mid-September. And I just spent nearly an hour wanderi...
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I don't get it

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I admit it -- I'm an unabashed fan girl. Whether it's Sir Paul McCartney or my beloved/beleaguered Chicago Cubs, or more recently NC...
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August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 27

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Watching Reynaldo make a friend. My neighbor across the hall has her 7-to-8-year-old grand daughter visiting her. The three of us rode up in...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Why is this man smiling?

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This is Robert Blagojevich, Rod's brother. He's grinning because he just learned that the government has dropped all charges agains...

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 25

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FREE pizza! Since I stayed late to (almost) finish packing, a team that was working late* and ordered dinner invited me to partake of their...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

That's approx. $8.75 I saved

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I rescued 24 letter-sized folders from one of the dumpsters outside my office. On the one hand, I'm pleased that I am able to recycle ...
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I Want Wednesday

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I want perspective, to have it and to share it. I realize none of us sees our own lives clearly. Watching how my oldest friend keeps self-s...

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 24

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Done! After six months and countless hours and $700 (it would have $1075 without insurance), my tooth is finally done! Why was it so compli...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

10 on Tuesday

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About the move. 1) We're changing offices on Friday. 2) I'm moving down the hall, and I believe I'll be getting a nicer view of ...
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The Queen's Meme -- The Back to Fools Meme

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1 . Do you know your primary colors? Describe for me, if you will, the colors red, blue and green to a blind person. Red is cinnamon. Blue ...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 23

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My virtue. I not only worked out at lunchtime, I brought my lunch. AND I resisted the seductive scent of barbecue and made my own dinner at...

Introducing Urban Shocker

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Is this not one of the greatest baseball names ever ? Born in 1890, Urban played for the Yankees and the St. Louis Browns from 1916 to 1928 ...

"Oh, Gal, this is AWFUL!"

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That's how my 10-year-old nephew responded last night when I said, "Hello." The family has been away all week, up in Wisconsin...
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Movie Monday -- Prison Movies

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Share movies you've enjoyed featuring jail time or the escape from them, linking back here at The Bumbles. However - NO SHAWSHANK RED...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 22

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The boys. Reynaldo and Joey have become best buds. It amuses me that they play, roughhouse and nap together, because they seem oblivious to...
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So far, this is my "happiness moment"

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This makes me laugh, even though the Blago was photographed in the Batmobile at Comic.con yesterday. Watch for the Cubs logo. It's even ...

Farewell, Sweet Lou!

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With the announcement that Lou is leaving the Cubs forever after today's game, I will treasure having seen him one last time -- live and...
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My scale once said this

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It may never say this again, but I am posting it as a reminder -- What [wo]man has done, [wo]man can do.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: The Majorly Personal Meme, Part One Cheers to all of us thieves! 1. Are you happier now than you were five months ago? Heal...
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August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 21

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Plenty of nothin'. Today I got a haircut, went to the movies ( The Switch ), wandered around the bookstore, enjoyed some Ben and Jerry...
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The opposite of Cary Grant

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A homeless man was being questioned by police, right next door to the ice cream parlor. He was short and unkempt and missing his front teeth...

Isn't he terrific?

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I'm halfway through the PBS Cary Grant marathon (a special about his life and career, Arsenic and Old Lace , and Bringing Up Baby ). I d...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Welcome Back 1. Where were you the last time that someone welcomed you back? Absolutely nothing comes to mind. Isn't that sa...
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August Happiness Challenge 2010 -- Day 20

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They're Playing Our Song. In 1979, this was the big hit on Broadway, Marvin Hamlisch's followup to A Chorus Line . I loved it then b...

Just pouring it out

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This post has been bubbling up inside of me for a while now, and I'm just going to let it flow. Maybe getting it out of my system will h...
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