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, October 12, 2010

10 on Tuesday -- Devoted to Spenser

I just finished Painted Ladies , one of the Spenser mysteries published after author Robert Parker's death , and I really enjoyed it be...

It's been more than a MONTH

And we're still down to one dryer for 24 apartments in the building laundry room. So unless something unforeseen happens, it's back ...

Monday, October 11, 2010

BlogBlast for Peace Is Almost Upon Us

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...

Movie Monday -- All About Fall

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...

Today's horoscope

"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

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...

Sunday Stealing

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

Small, intense and memorable

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...

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Saturday 9

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...

A Birthday Tribute from an Unexpected Source

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...

Friday, October 08, 2010

"The hardest thing I've ever gone through"

I exchanged IM's with Ed today, and that's how he described sitting in his daughter's hospital room, wearing a mask, listening ...

Firefox, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us?

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 ...

What a nice boy!

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!

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...

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

I Want Wednesday

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...

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Queen's Meme -- Falling

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...

Monday, October 04, 2010

Movie Monday -- The Supernatural

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

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Passage to adventure

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...

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Sunday Stealing

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...

A lazy day that took me from Boston to Mayberry

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

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?...

Friday, October 01, 2010

John Mahoney sighting

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...

Thursday, September 30, 2010

I don't feel good

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...

92% says it's DONE!

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...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

I Want Wednesday

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...

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"Sad is part of life"

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 ...

10 on Tuesday

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...

Monday, September 27, 2010

Gordon Gekko, Superstar

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...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Movie Monday -- Heists and Capers

Share your favorite heist & caper movies that create criminal characters we end up rooting for, linking back here at The Bumbles. I c...

"I wish I was a kid again, doing what I did again ..."

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...

Sunday Stealing

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

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Saturday 9

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...

Friday, September 24, 2010

He's cracking me up

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...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

I feel good, I knew that I would

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!

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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