"...it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No...eight days a week."
My (fictional) kindred spirit!
Reading
Thought I'd make some headway into the stack of books I've got from the library. Figured it would be easy to just whip this one book out. Then I got caught up in it and am so enjoying the writing, the story & the main character. She's 11 years old and this is what she had to say about one of my favorite places:
Meaningful Words
A quote I came across this morning that I absolutely love:
Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. ---Teilhard de Chardin
chocolate
Absolutely had to have a piece of chocolate today. Somehow the world looks better with chocolate. (Still off of sugar - but isn't it true that chocolate doesn't have any sugar?)
Klutz
I'm such a clumsy oaf-ette. (Part of it is this silly foot stress fracture that makes me feel a bit "out of whack".)
Dropped my beautiful African Violet on the floor. Hope it doesn't die from the bash on the head it took.
Scissors
I've often wondered who, where and when someone figured out that they could put two blades together to cut things. Considering how much we use scissors at our house, I figure it must have been some kind of genius.
Ready To Go
So today I did about a million loads of laundry, grocery shopping, cleaned up the pantry and other things to make me feel at home again.
Why then, am I feeling like I'm ready to take another trip? (I must have had a wonderful time!)
Sleep
Had another thought: I'm too old to get up at 3:45 a.m. and stay up until 11:45 p.m. Did that 3 days ago and I'm still sleepy.
San Francisco
Just a few observations from our couple days there:
I'm constantly amazed at the number of ways there are for people to move from one place to another. On this trip we utilized quite a few of them: private car (to the airport), airplane, BART, light rail, buses, trolley cars, cable cars, escalators, elevators, taxi cab (wonderful when you're standing in the pouring rain waiting for the bus that you don't yet know isn't coming), boat and of course: feet.
People can provide comic relief: the two ladies trying to trash their coffee so as to be able to get on the cable car. Apparently don't speak English and thought the blue mailbox on the corner was a trash. The Hubby stopped them. But I giggled about it for a full city block.
January 2010 in the City By The Bay made me extra grateful for my hooded waterproof rain slicker. I really needed it this week.
If you're down on Fisherman's Wharf looking for good food, try Lou's. I was elbow deep into the cioppino and loved every bite.
Ghirardelli Square hot fudge sundae shared with My Love was just the perfect dessert.
The Blue and Gold Fleet Bay Cruise was nearly as much fun as a ride at Disneyland.
The $ we saved by not renting a car, we used to splurge on a room with a view. The cost of the room worked out to only about $37.50 per square inch.
Cable cars that break down and leave you to walk what felt like a mile, uphill both ways, make you grateful for cable cars that don't break down.
And finally: The whole reason we went to San Francisco this week: "Wicked". Can't find enough superlatives to express how fabulous, tremendous, stupendous, wonderful, terrific and fun our night at the play was.
Row E, the two seats next to the center aisle at the Orpheum are the perfect seats for this great play. I absolutely loved it. Thanks, My Love for a wonderful Christmas gift, and a wonderful trip. It was completely the best!!!
Miscellaneous
84 year old women shouldn't fall down and break their noses. It's scary when they do.
Re-arranging furniture can make you feel hot.
Lunch with family can be very fun.
Sunshine is great therapy - particularly in the middle of January.
Eating
Apparently if I want to be slender, I must eat only about 5 bites of anything and save (or toss) the rest. Can't be much fun to be slender if I'm too weak to enjoy being that way.
Words
Tomorrow I'll be in Church listening to this one particular person (again) and wondering the same thing I always wonder when she's talking:
What if we were each given a specific finite number of words to use in our lifetime? And what if someone reached their limit and ran out of words in the middle of a sentence?
Shoes
Love my new Skechers Shape-ups. Bought them for one reason only: COMFORT. (But I don't mind that I'm an inch taller when I wear them.)
Exercise
Today I've felt more energized than usual. Must be that elliptical that The Hubby got for us - I got a good workout this morning for the first time in over 6 weeks and it was great! Thanks, My Love!
Home
What fun it's been today to vacuum, put the Christmas tree away, replenish the pantry and just in general putter around our house. I love being here!
(But strangely enough, I'm also looking forward to our next trip - weird for someone that claims to not like traveling!)
Vacations
Just a few thoughts I've accumulated over the last 9 days as we've been off having fun with family members.
Vacations can be great when someone has been working w-a-y too hard.
Vacations are so much better when you know that your house is being so very well taken care of in your absence.
It's a real treat to actually see the sunshine in the darkest days of January.
Public restrooms are so much better when the locks on the stall doors actually work. (I got walked in on today. She felt really bad.)
Don't like it when the tire pressure light on the rental car keeps coming on even though we've checked and re-checked the tire pressure.
Some people have a hard time taking a road trip without sitting on a pillow for their sore bum.
Some other people like to eat their way along the road.
Pizza with pineapple and ham is appreciated when you're the only one in the group that likes it, but you manage to get it anyway.
Grandchilluns who act like they love their grandparents absolutely cause indescribable joy in the heart of said grandparents.
Grown children who are kind and generous to their parents cause nearly the same joy. Thanks, Kids.
My favorite ride at Disneyland is STILL the Maliboomer. Should have ridden it again!
It's A Small World ride at same Disneyland somehow is a bit more tolerable with Jingle Bells integrated into it. (The song didn't go round and round in my head all night that way.)
Love the kind security guy at the Pinocchio parking area at Disneyland who came to our rescue with his contraption for starting the rental car with the completely dead battery. Still trying to figure out how that happened.
Love that the grandchilluns seemed to like riding the rides with us.
Wii is great fun with the grandchilluns.
I'm totally awful at those rides where you have to shoot at things for points and a hopefully high score. (Never will happen in my lifetime - high score that is.)
Disneyland should have a better variety food with better prices.
The first restroom inside the park should be avoided at all costs. Hold it until you can find another one.
Discounts should be given (still talking Disneyland here) according to the amount of the park shut down for whatever reason: new construction, re-furbishing, updating, whatever. The more things you can't do, the bigger the discount. (Maybe some free food as compensation?)
There should be more shuttles from the park to the parking at the end of the day so as to avoid that trampling thing that we nearly lost part of our family group to.
And the best part of the vacation: sleeping in my own bed tonight, showering in my own shower, getting the 9 days of mail sorted, distributed, paid or tossed - all of this while enjoying the memories of a fun-filled festive time with My Love and the rest of the family we saw. Fills my heart with gratitude!
Children
Children are truly gifts from our Heavenly Father. Our children when they become adults are still wonderful gifts.
Zipper bags
Today I'm hoping that whoever it was that invented those plastic storage bags with the zip-lock top is a multi-millionaire.
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