Still No Camera

So if anyone wants to send me any photos, I'm up for it.

My First Love

This is an official Valentine's Day post. Cue sweeping theme from 'Endless Love'. Dim the lights. Breathe deeply, starting at your feet, up through your center chi (?), and out the very top of your head. Exhale. Ahhhhhh......I have loved Harrison Ford since the beginning of time. And, in spite of his queer little earring, his rash of bad interviews on Letterman, and his decision *gasp* to couple with Ally McBeal, I love him still. Indiana Jones IV, here I come. If only I could spend sweetheart day with you....

Elvis, is that you?

They say Patience is a Virtue

Our house is very cold. Frigid drafts creep in through the light switches and pour out of the cabinets every time a cupboard door is opened. I sewed a draft dodger early in the winter, but it does little to stop the cold from somehow coming in through the floorboards, even though we have a basement. I don't know how this is happening. I only know that I sit my son down to breakfast in the morning in a stunning kitchen made all of windows, and he consistently asks for a jacket before finishing his peanut butter panda puffs or gorilla munch or cheetah chompers or whatever it is he is eating. Putting on layers is now part of our daily bread.

These drafts are a reminder of more tangible elements of our new home that remain incomplete, pending time and money, will and the necessary build-up of general complaint. Excepting of course the unusual drafts, such complaint is not immediately forthcoming. I haven't forgotten what it was like to live amidst construction. A little mess and a lack of color doesn't bother me yet. But have patience. I'm sure it will bother me soon.

In a Sudafed fog

When I was getting read to leave Philadelphia and move to a smaller, slower town, I about had a nervous breakdown. While packing up my house and trying to find a new place to live, I had to hire someone new in my office to do my job. I brought her in from out of town, introduced her to my staff (who didn't really like her), to my supervisors (who really did) and then showed her around an apartment complex in an area I certainly wouldn't have ever lived. All the while I had been nursing an ear infection with a 24-hour antihistamine - taken accidentally twice a day - for the previous 72 hours. Needless to say I was foggy. I almost got run over, in front of this woman I didn't know, twice in a single morning. That's how I feel today. I'm going to go make myself a pick-me-up. (By the way, our camera is still in the shop, so we will have to be content with these vintage repro posters, found, where else, on ebay at mainposters.

A Latin Proverb

"Keep adding little by little and soon you will have a big hoard." That about sums up the last week or so. I have literally been so busy watching items on ebay that I have not had time to post. (Also very busy at work, which may have something to do with it.) I could have an entry entitled "The purses I have lost" which would be a catalog of awesome bags that I just couldn't bring myself to bid high enough on, even after watching them daily, multiple times a day for up to a week. What's great about ebay is that you can shop anywhere. I haven't tried the tub, but I'm sure I could shop there too. You can bid, but end up not buying. For this now very full month-long new year's binge, my grand ebay total is just over $100. Not bad, so long as you don't count the ebay-inspired real life shopping. Which is an actual phenomenon.