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.

Monday, October 11, 2010

BlogBlast for Peace Is Almost Upon Us

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My post is ready and will be revealed to the Blogosphere on November 4. What about you? Are you read for the BlogBlast for Peace ? You can t...
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Movie Monday -- All About Fall

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Share on a sampling of fall flicks, linking back here at The Bumbles. Home for the Holidays. A great cast -- Robert Downey, Jr., Holly Hun...
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Today's horoscope

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"Don't waste time on nostalgia or restless fantasies. You have something to do right now while your emotions are intense. Keep bre...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Being honest with my blog

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I'm not proud of this, but it's true. I realized today why I've been so angry at my mom lately: I'm mad at her for getting o...
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Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: Another 50 Questions Meme , Part One (perhaps) 1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing...
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Small, intense and memorable

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Never Let Me Go is a very special little film. Set in a parallel universe, where cancer and neuromuscular diseases were cured back in the 1...
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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Hush 1. In a social setting, are you more of a talker or a listener? The more nervous I am, the blabbier I become. 2. Do you tak...
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A Birthday Tribute from an Unexpected Source

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Today, October 9, is the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth. Google, the preeminent search engine on the Internet he never got to s...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

"The hardest thing I've ever gone through"

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I exchanged IM's with Ed today, and that's how he described sitting in his daughter's hospital room, wearing a mask, listening ...
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Firefox, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us?

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Company-wide, my favorite-most browser is down. I feel like a pioneer woman who has to cook over an open flame, wash her clothes by beating ...
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What a nice boy!

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My Friday sight seen: Two portly, matronly-looking ladies -- a mother and daughter, I guess. They were chatting rather animatedly in Spanish...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

But I just saw him last Tuesday!

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My former boss, Ed, and I had lunch last week . He was in such good spirits. We talked about how he and his wife spent their 30th anniversar...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

I Want Wednesday

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I want to win tonight's Illinois State Lottery. It's up to $5.2 million. After taxes, that's $2,500/week for 20 years. I'd b...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Queen's Meme -- Falling

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1. What is your favorite part about the Fall season? How suddenly comfortable the weather is. I'm happy to be outdoors, instead of avoid...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

Movie Monday -- The Supernatural

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Share your favorite movies with those witchy, surreal, psychic or alien happenings, linking back here at The Bumbles. Sliding up the banist...
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

Passage to adventure

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Today my nephew and I celebrated his 11th birthday. In addition to a Harry Potter t-shirt and backpack, I got him a pair of passes to Safari...
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Saturday, October 02, 2010

Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: The Time Traveler Meme The Rules: 1. Depending on your age, go back 10, 15, 20, or even more years. 2. Tell us how many yea...
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A lazy day that took me from Boston to Mayberry

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My tummy is still giving me a bit of grief, so I took things very easily today. Slept in, ran errands, went to lunch, saw The Town -- set i...

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Friends, Again 1. Do you make and keep friends easily? Yes. I'm really blessed that way. 2. Who was your very first friend?...
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Friday, October 01, 2010

John Mahoney sighting

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Had to go to the damn washeteria to do my laundry again last night. (Hopefully by next weekend the washers and dryers in my building will be...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

I don't feel good

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And I extend my sincere sympathies to whoever followed me in the ladies room. If I don't start feeling better soon, I think I will ginge...
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92% says it's DONE!

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Kathleen gave me a ride home yesterday and reported that her test results could not have come back better: there's only an 8% chance o...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

I Want Wednesday

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Right now, I just want everyone to be happy. Or maybe happier. Or perhaps just OK. I don't think my oldest friend has any real idea wha...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"Sad is part of life"

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So my shrink told me this evening. We weren't talking about me, we were discussing her. But only in the most superficial terms, because ...
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10 on Tuesday

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Here's what's on This Old Gal's mind this sunny Tuesday. 1) I'm worried about my philodendron. I inherited it from an abrup...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Gordon Gekko, Superstar

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This is the second terrific performance I've seen by Michael Douglas in two months (the first being Solitary Man ). One of the things I...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Movie Monday -- Heists and Capers

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Share your favorite heist & caper movies that create criminal characters we end up rooting for, linking back here at The Bumbles. I c...
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"I wish I was a kid again, doing what I did again ..."

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I spent Saturday with my oldest friend. She's getting ready to move across country to California, to begin a new job and a new chapter o...
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Sunday Stealing

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Sunday Stealing: The "I've Been Tagged" Meme 1. Where are you from? Brookfield, IL, a village just 15 miles west of Chicago. I...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Just Like Me 1. Who in your life do you think behaves and thinks the most like you do? When I look at my almost-18-year-old niec...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

He's cracking me up

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My boss, that is. Usually he's so hands-off it's laughable. Most of the down-and-dirty of financial marketing really doesn't see...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

I feel good, I knew that I would

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I worked out at lunchtime -- 32 minutes of cardio, reps on the incline press and the hip ad/abductors. Yea! Then I donated my platelets . I ...

This show ROCKED!

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I saw American Idol's Constantine Maroulis in Rock of Ages last night, and it was simply terrific. First of all, he's simply a cha...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Queen's Meme -- The Change Meme

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1 . Name one thing you'd like to change about yourself. The extra weight I'm carrying around. 2 . If you could wave a magic wand ...
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I Want Wednesday

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I want to work out! For one reason or another, I haven't been to the health club all week and I miss it -- which, I guess, is a good sig...
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