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, December 18, 2011

Love with a townie!

My niece and a man she met in town have declared themselves boyfriend/girlfriend on Facebook! She was just here on Friday night, stopping by...

She stays with me

I took the bus on Saturday and saw the saddest woman. Or maybe she wasn't sad. But she was certainly disturbed. She was over 40 with d...

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing : The Community Meme Cheers to all of us thieves! 1. As a blogger, what do you draw inspirations from for your posts?...

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: I Will Survive 1. What in the 2011 has proved to you that you are a survivor? I got through the run up to surgery. In retrospe...

Friday, December 16, 2011

To borrow from Joe Jackson, "She's really going out with him."

My oldest friend is going on her first date, just coffee, with Archie Bunker this afternoon. In addition to OWS, he hates coddled athletes,...

Thursday, December 15, 2011

To borrow from Pinocchio, "I feel like a real girl"

I was fingerprinted today as part of my refinancing with JP Morgan Chase. How legit and official is that! I can't recall ever having bee...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Thursday Thirteen #150

MY THIRTEEN FAVORITE GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS 2011 1) An official Late Night with David Letterman mug for my mom. She loves her Dave. 2) Croc...

I Want Wednesday

I want to always feel this way. I am happy today. No particular reason, beyond Christmas and friends.

Christmas Cookies -- Chapter 3

Are they not gorgeous? Yes, they are. My best friend ate only one,* but he declared it, "very good" and said he's sure I coul...

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

And it was 58% off!

According to the website Delightful Children's Books : Vera’s Baby Sister by Vera Rosenberry. A wonderful story about a girl, Vera, ...

Monday, December 12, 2011

Christmas Meme

Favorite Christmas… 01. Non-Jesus-related song? River (I wish I had a river that I could sail away on ...) 02. Jesus-related song? Hark!...

He's a good egg

My friend from the Keys was incommunicado Saturday, and I admit I was pissed. I wanted to get his birthday/Christmas gifts in the mail and ...

Sunday, December 11, 2011

I ran away to the darkness

I love going to the movies. Sitting there in the dark with movie food (today it was popcorn) is good for my soul. Because my weekend was ful...

Christmas Cookies -- Chapter 2

Baked three more batches from The World's Easiest Cookie Recipe. Then I chose the 10 finest specimens, surrounded them by wax paper, cu...

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing: The Blue Memory Meme, Part Two 26) Are you happy with the person you've become? Yes 27) What's a sound you hate...

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Drift Away (RIP Dobie Gray) 1. Who or what bores you enough to mentally drift away? I can easily send my mind away to the happy...

Friday, December 09, 2011

This one is hard for me

This week former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to a staggering 14 years for ... well ... he didn't actually accomplish any of his n...

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

THURSDAY THIRTEEN #149

THE THIRTEEN MOST POPULAR CHRISTMAS SONGS Thanks to Wikipedia for this list (and the pretty tree photo, too). 1 " The Christma...

Wow!

Had an impressive session with my shrink last night. I told her that I'm really pretty happy these days, and that makes me feel bad beca...

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

My favorite traditional carol

Peace on earth and mercy mild. God and sinner reconciled. I love "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!" It makes me happy whenever I he...

A great honor for a Cub great

I only wish Ronnie was alive to see it! I adored Ron Santo . I grew up on him! He wore the #10 in Cubbie Blue for 14 seasons, encompassi...

Monday, December 05, 2011

Only as sick as our secrets

When I was at my mom's yesterday, I happened to see the Christmas card she received from my oldest friend. It was a lovely, very convent...

Sunday, December 04, 2011

Celebrating my mom's birthday

This intense and soulful looking man is Chaz Dean. He has a line of haircare products , sold on one of the shopping networks, that has compl...

Christmas Meme

Purloined from Kwizgiver . 1. Worst Christmas song? "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" 2. If you were a Christmas charact...

Point. Click. Give.

This made me happy. I was able to donate a copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever to the annual Today Show Toy Drive … WHILE STILL BARE...

Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing : The Blue Memory Meme, Part One Cheers to all of us thieves! 1) If the whole world were listening to you right now, wh...

Saturday, December 03, 2011

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Lies 1. “Everybody lies. But it's alright because nobody listens.” is one of Bud's Law's. What do you lie about? M...

A Tale of Two Teeth

A surprising and unwelcome part of my birthday celebration was my chipped molar. It's been more than a week and there's no pain, so ...

Friday, December 02, 2011

I'll know it when I feel it

On my way back from the post office where I mailed paperbacks to the soldiers , I spotted a book fair. For just $3.81 (including tax), I was...

One last gift

I think I am almost done with my Christmas shopping! All that's left is a Chicago Bulls cap for my young nephew. I didn't pick one...

About comments

Every now and again I read one of you blogging buddies o' mine wondering wistfully why you don't receive any more comments. To which...

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Pressing my "dad" button

My dad was like Archie Bunker. He used to say grumpy shit that didn't make sense, that he didn't even mean, just to hear himself bei...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Thursday Thirteen #148

THIRTEEN COMMON, INEXPENSIVE ITEMS THAT COULD BRIGHTEN A SOLDIER'S LIFE And not just soldiers. These things would be valued by troops ...

I was happy

My last day off and I pampered myself to a facial. I enjoyed it while it was happening. The cleansers and lotions and potions all had a nice...

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Permission to vent

I hate my oldest friend's cousin, Sharon. There, I said it. And it felt gooood . My oldest friend moved to California -- more than 200...

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