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 25, 2011

Well, that was weird

My older sister was home for Christmas for the first time in, like, 30 years. My mom was nervous as a school girl preparing for a date. (I w...

Merry Christmas

And a big thank you to "my girls," the ones who sent so much support my way this year. If I'm able to keep the candle of Chri...

Friday, December 23, 2011

The wrapping is done

And my cat Joey approves! It took me a little over two hours to wrap all these gifts. I did it in front of the tree while watching The Gat...

Glam

My friend John and I went to see La Cage aux Folles Wednesday night. It wasn't a great production -- the actor who played the bitchy ma...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Meme

Liberated from Kwizgiver (again ... of course) 1.The Christmas song I can listen to even in June is... 2.Hot Chocolate, Egg Nog or Mu...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Thursday Thirteen #151

THIRTEEN POPULAR TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS 2011 These are among the top picks for kids, according to the gift gurus at Gifts.com. I like thinking...

I Want Wednesday

I want a little more Christmas spirit! To that end, I bought another book for the shelter for abused/homeless children. Today's is Awkwa...

Boone, IA! Who knew?

I got my oldest friend's daughter a gift subscription to Glamour , and they screwed it up. Oh, well. Shit happens. So I'm sending th...

The BEST way to start the day

Normally, waking up like this would leave me grumpy. After all, I crashed on the sofa (which always annoys me) and was awakened by how freak...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

North Korea confuses me

I believe the sorrow I see following Jong-il's passing is sincere. I just don't get it. Were these people so oppressed that they d...

Sad

I lost my nice umbrella, and this leaves me sad and blue ... and on the horns of a dilemma. My friend Barb got me a lovely scarf from Macy...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Yeah, I know

Of the three versions of Little Women (1933, 1949 and 1994), this one is the weakest. I agree with the experts that the problem is June Al...

Christmas Meme #6

As found at Ms. Kwizgiver 's. Christmas At My House…(one or the other) 1. Tree is fake/real? fake 2. Tree is under/above 4'? ...

Still worried

So my best friend had her date with Archie Bunker . She thinks it went really well. He was funny and told her she has pretty hair and he reg...

Baracking the Christmas Tree

Behold my two new ornaments. That handsome Santa is from my best friend, and the shiny green ball is from Obama for America 2012 .* I love...

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...

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