I get all stressed out about my mom and my crazy sister and my stomach feels crappy. Like not hungry but still full. And my shoulders are tight. I called again today and my mom said things were up in the air, like Karen might rent a furnished one-bedroom on her own with some check she claims is coming from California. Like they forgot to forward her mail from her PO box. Then the check will be lost. Hum de dum. Heard this before.
On a much lighter note, we went to see Lyle Lovett and kd lang at Hill Auditorium Thursday. kd has a fabulous voice and Lyle's band is indeed Large. At one point there was Lyle, a drummer, a conga guy, a guy at a grand piano, a pedal steel player, a fiddler, a mandolin player, a guitarist, a cellos player, Francine Reed and three guy backup singers, one of which was Sweet Pea Atkinson who sang with the Boneshakers. It was a great show. We ate at Conor O'Neill's before.
Last night, I volunteered at rally by the river. Question Mark and the Mysterians played and they were great and then Ian McLagan and the Bump Band played and they sucked. But it was a lovely night to be outside and I was home in bed by 11.
Today, I washed the floor in the living room. Last weekend, I did the green room. Just a few more square feet and those floors will look like buttah.
I should probably recognize this turn of events with Karen as a sign to get out now. How far away is far enough, I asked my boss. He said, "Mexico."
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
not really my problem
OMG I called my mom this morning who had left a message last night when I was outside and I talked to her and she said was I coming down Sunday to help pack up the storage closet because they're moving Monday and then she says Karen needs a bed, did I have one, which I do have a twin in the basement but how would I get that down there? and then Karen has the nerve to get on the phone and say how when they do the credit check for the apartment, since she doesn't have a job yet, she wondered if they could call ME and I told her absolutely not, I'm not being any part of any financial deal for her because I am still annoyed how I gave her all that money to move to California for 4 months and she blew that, so she screams JUST FORGET IT THEN, WE DON'T NEED SHIT FROM YOU and hung up.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
one week later
I have not talked to my mom since that phone call when she said she was moving in with my sister. Let sleeping dogs lie, I say.
Went to the Crosby Garden gala, bought a lovely necklace and bracelet. And some earmuffs. Went to Surly Bob's wedding party at Otsego Park Saturday. The Welders were chastised to play softly because of all the babies and children there. Mowed, did two radio shows, watered, had some burgers and potato salad with some wimmen. Bought some used CD's at Finders: reggae, Austin Lounge Lizards, Dr. John, Jimmy Vaughan, some blues compilation.
Amy's birthday is July 6 and we're going to Schedel Arboretum and then to the Jolly Roger in Port Clinton for perch. I'm working the Fourth to take that Friday off.
Didn't go see Jimmy Thackery at Mickey Finn's. Probably not going to see Jimmy Burns at Hines Farm this weekend.
Going to see kd lang and Lyle Lovett Thursday in Ann Arbor. Looking forward to a weekend without many commitments.
Went to the Crosby Garden gala, bought a lovely necklace and bracelet. And some earmuffs. Went to Surly Bob's wedding party at Otsego Park Saturday. The Welders were chastised to play softly because of all the babies and children there. Mowed, did two radio shows, watered, had some burgers and potato salad with some wimmen. Bought some used CD's at Finders: reggae, Austin Lounge Lizards, Dr. John, Jimmy Vaughan, some blues compilation.
Amy's birthday is July 6 and we're going to Schedel Arboretum and then to the Jolly Roger in Port Clinton for perch. I'm working the Fourth to take that Friday off.
Didn't go see Jimmy Thackery at Mickey Finn's. Probably not going to see Jimmy Burns at Hines Farm this weekend.
Going to see kd lang and Lyle Lovett Thursday in Ann Arbor. Looking forward to a weekend without many commitments.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
more signs of the apocalypse
Tonight I called my mom and lo and behold my sister is getting back to Ohio on Saturday and then she and my mom are moving into some apartment THIS MONDAY in Delaware. So good luck to them. I hope this works out for them. My mom swears she will not pay more than she's paying now ($224 a month, no utilities) and she'll have Karen's 3 cats to hang around with and you know how THEY SAY it's so good for old people to have pets.
SO ANYWAY, it's just the beginning of what I see as a giant CLUSTER FUNK where I will have to pay some money. Sometime. I did tell my mom that I would move her furniture. OMG why do these people do this to me? I'm such a nice girl.
SO ANYWAY, it's just the beginning of what I see as a giant CLUSTER FUNK where I will have to pay some money. Sometime. I did tell my mom that I would move her furniture. OMG why do these people do this to me? I'm such a nice girl.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
OMFG
So I go to Delaware today, where BTW they have taken down the Marching To Victory Vacation Bible School sign so I didn't get a good picture. And my mom says my sister has called last night to say she's getting evicted from where she lives on Tuesday. Next Tuesday. The woman has been out there in CA all of 4 months and she can't pay the rent. So my mom says that maybe Karen will move back to Ohio and LIVE IN APARTMENT WITH MY MOM. And we discuss the financial arrangements of this, which I point out are VERY BAD.
Mind you, this woman has gone to California with a dog and 3 cats, saying she has a job LA TEE DA and now, four months later, she has thrown in the towel.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Just 15 minutes ago Karen calls me TO APOLOGIZE for everything she's put me through (like about $3,000 not counting the $12,000 car I am paying off). And then she meanders on about not being able to FIND HER CENTER and that since Daddy died (in 1985), the family has just fallen apart and what do you have if you don't have family and that she guesses she will be living in her car for a while and that she LOVES ME because I'm her BIG SISTER (she said that part twice) and you know, you can call me a bitch, but I told her that your center is where you are and that for all you thinking someplace geographic is where you should be, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. I did not offer financial assistance or any clue as to what she should do now.
PLUS she tells me that my mom doesn't want to move to BG but she feels bad about me coming down there every Sunday and plus she has no one around for emergencies. So instead of packing anything up today and loading prior to the planned-for June 30 move, I left her with a bunch of boxes that she may or may not be using to move in with my sister, assuming she can find enough money to drive across the USA with her menagerie in the vehicle I own.
BUT YOU KNOW, I am still the happiest girl in the world, thanks to all of you are reading this. Party on.
Mind you, this woman has gone to California with a dog and 3 cats, saying she has a job LA TEE DA and now, four months later, she has thrown in the towel.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Just 15 minutes ago Karen calls me TO APOLOGIZE for everything she's put me through (like about $3,000 not counting the $12,000 car I am paying off). And then she meanders on about not being able to FIND HER CENTER and that since Daddy died (in 1985), the family has just fallen apart and what do you have if you don't have family and that she guesses she will be living in her car for a while and that she LOVES ME because I'm her BIG SISTER (she said that part twice) and you know, you can call me a bitch, but I told her that your center is where you are and that for all you thinking someplace geographic is where you should be, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. I did not offer financial assistance or any clue as to what she should do now.
PLUS she tells me that my mom doesn't want to move to BG but she feels bad about me coming down there every Sunday and plus she has no one around for emergencies. So instead of packing anything up today and loading prior to the planned-for June 30 move, I left her with a bunch of boxes that she may or may not be using to move in with my sister, assuming she can find enough money to drive across the USA with her menagerie in the vehicle I own.
BUT YOU KNOW, I am still the happiest girl in the world, thanks to all of you are reading this. Party on.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The usual too much of everything
So the latest is I'm moving my mom up here June 30. Got a moving company scheduled. The worst case scenario is that she can't get into the apartment up here right away and she has to stay here for a while with her belongings in storage. Really, how could this be any worse than March.
So here's what's coming up:
June
16-17 Jazz fest (not going)
22 Crosby gala
23 Bob and dottie's wedding reception
28 Kd and lyle at Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor
30 move mom/full moon
July
4 not off
6 off
7 lyle and judy pond party
12 dylan at the zoo
21 kim and jim pond party
28 tunafest
August
Band at the RibFest
17-18 Ribberfest in Madison, IN
September
Five weekends: labor day (Joe Bonnamassa in St. Mary's), swamp, NYC, home, PIB
Going to New York again for the big ABC meetings so I'll go on Saturday to hang with the child
Put in Bay party that last weekend and then
it's
Harvest Party, Halloween, the HOLIDAYS OMG
It's pretty much all I can do is laundry and dishes and food procurement. Because there is just continual hanging out with one friend or another. Not that I'm complaining.
Listening to Todd Snider "Viva Satellite" which Jenks bought off half.com because it's hard to get and it's the last Todd CD we didn't have.
We tried to buy a wedding present for Bob and Dottie at kohls.com but it wouldn't deliver on time so tomorrow night I will stop in there and see if they have the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer, which is what we planned to get them.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
June, OMG
Today I went to see my mom. Who has agreed to move up here, so I've been researching places she can be like Abundant Living in Perrysburg or Cedar Park here in BG. Today, we went to the Waldo cemetery where my mom's parents and her sister and her brother are buried. We put flowers on all those grave. I put this Stella d'Ora lily on my aunt's grave. Ada Ruth. Her sisters were named Marjorie Jean, Blanche Geraldine and Arlene Mae. The boys were William and Donald.
Listening to Raul Malo "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons." Drinking white wine and Perrier.
As I drive home every week from my mom's, the other drivers are hideous. Why does some guy think, because HE'S going 67, that he just HAS to pass that semi going 65? Can he not see that I am already in the passing lane going 78????? Plus that part of 75 from Findlay to BG is like the racetrack from Hell. I have to get off at Cygnet and onto 25. Stubbs will recall that I was on the phone with him during that section a few weeks ago and was privy to my bellowing "Get out of my WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY."
Today as I was leaving, Mrs. CL next door came out and I told her I was going to take my mom to some cemetery in Waldo to put flowers on various graves. She told me again about her trip to BG's Oak Grove on Memorial Day where her parents and her husband are buried. Then she says, "You know, we were only married for 10 or 11 years." I must have looked puzzled because she went on to say her first husband was an *ass*. She whispered *ass*. And that the second guy had adopted her daughter as his own. Then she started to segue into a familiar story about some inheritance from the *bitch* wife of her first husband.
Rain Rain Rain! Yay, I thought it never would. But this evening, it's been a deluge here in BG. Between Clay and Curtice Sts.
I've revised my retirement plan. I'll write a blockbuster novel in a few years! Gee, it seems so simple.
Listening to Raul Malo "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons." Drinking white wine and Perrier.
As I drive home every week from my mom's, the other drivers are hideous. Why does some guy think, because HE'S going 67, that he just HAS to pass that semi going 65? Can he not see that I am already in the passing lane going 78????? Plus that part of 75 from Findlay to BG is like the racetrack from Hell. I have to get off at Cygnet and onto 25. Stubbs will recall that I was on the phone with him during that section a few weeks ago and was privy to my bellowing "Get out of my WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY."
Today as I was leaving, Mrs. CL next door came out and I told her I was going to take my mom to some cemetery in Waldo to put flowers on various graves. She told me again about her trip to BG's Oak Grove on Memorial Day where her parents and her husband are buried. Then she says, "You know, we were only married for 10 or 11 years." I must have looked puzzled because she went on to say her first husband was an *ass*
Rain Rain Rain! Yay, I thought it never would. But this evening, it's been a deluge here in BG. Between Clay and Curtice Sts.
I've revised my retirement plan. I'll write a blockbuster novel in a few years! Gee, it seems so simple.
Memorial Day
So Doug had this slamming chair, that lounged back in a perfect position and had this excellent tray for, uh, stuff.
Here's Phil making an entrance with a fully folded out chair.
Hi, Chip!
The girls. What DO they talk about?
Donna's butt, which she claimed she had been working off. Looks like that's true.
No pictures please!!!!!!!
A coleus planter.
The lovely Christine. For some reason, I felt obligated to capture the entire Parsons clan.
And, of course, the chow. Meat, Amy's potatoes.
Connie's ensalada caprese, as Gus called and Annette said she thought he was mixing two foreign languages, as he was. So continental, that Gus. Martha's cucumbers, Deb Helmboldt's cole slaw, Chip's beans and rice.
The requested beans, and all those chips. TWO potato salads.
Here's what a plateful looked like.
Cards were played.
Donna thought it would be HIlarious if people all brought beans so here's hers.
Here's Phil making an entrance with a fully folded out chair.
Hi, Chip!
The girls. What DO they talk about?
Donna's butt, which she claimed she had been working off. Looks like that's true.
No pictures please!!!!!!!
A coleus planter.
The lovely Christine. For some reason, I felt obligated to capture the entire Parsons clan.
And, of course, the chow. Meat, Amy's potatoes.
Connie's ensalada caprese, as Gus called and Annette said she thought he was mixing two foreign languages, as he was. So continental, that Gus. Martha's cucumbers, Deb Helmboldt's cole slaw, Chip's beans and rice.
The requested beans, and all those chips. TWO potato salads.
Here's what a plateful looked like.
Cards were played.
Donna thought it would be HIlarious if people all brought beans so here's hers.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Youtube
My first post on YouTube, Todd Snider singing "I Waited All My Life for You" at the Madison Folk Fest.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
the folk fest
We meandered into Indiana and stopped at Napoleon's Retreat in Napoleon, IN, about 5 p.m. It had been a long and arduous trip, but in a good way. It was a very cute semi circle bar with about 12 stools max. They were very cordial. They knew we couldn't smoke in bars in Ohio anymore.
Here's the view from our balcony at the Hillside Inn. The hotel was not all that. We've booked for the Best Western for the Ribberfest. $76 a night. Not bad.
Friday night it was pretty dang cold and we saw the Duhks who probably would have been fabulous somewhere a little less breezy and chilly.
The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band was incredible. This guy could really play the guitars and that washboard woman was out of this world. We hope we can get them at the Swamp.
Here's a close-up of Breezy Peyton.
These guys just played their hearts out. And told some entertaining stories. Unlike the guy after them, Tim Grimm, who was mediocre. Plus they said he won Americana album of the year last year but it was some OTHER Americana award, not the big ones.
We went up to the Broadway Hotel and got a drink for a break in the afternoon of hot sun sitting.
And then there was Todd. I have a video of him singing I Waited All My Life for You but I can't figure out how to get it on the internet. Duh.
We ate some barbecue both nights. Friday night, we took a taxi from the hotel to the fest site and walked back, up this incredibly steep hill to the hotel. The weather was fabulous on Saturday, we got sunburned, we drank a variety of beers.
On the way home, out in the country, we saw a dog and pig running down the side of the road together. We took the interstates home which are faster but so boring. The country road down was nice although we had a detour around Farmland, IN, so we had to go through Ridgeville, IN, where the Top Hat bar served us some Coronas and everybody (OK, there were two guys n there) gave us directions for the detour. We went a different way that we devised on our own. Miss Jenks did some heroic driving.
This weekend, Memorial Day, Cookout Monday eat at 5. I'll have burgers and brats and chips. Have planted a lot of floral display for this. Hope it holds up. My plant luck is marginal.
Here's the view from our balcony at the Hillside Inn. The hotel was not all that. We've booked for the Best Western for the Ribberfest. $76 a night. Not bad.
Friday night it was pretty dang cold and we saw the Duhks who probably would have been fabulous somewhere a little less breezy and chilly.
The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band was incredible. This guy could really play the guitars and that washboard woman was out of this world. We hope we can get them at the Swamp.
Here's a close-up of Breezy Peyton.
These guys just played their hearts out. And told some entertaining stories. Unlike the guy after them, Tim Grimm, who was mediocre. Plus they said he won Americana album of the year last year but it was some OTHER Americana award, not the big ones.
We went up to the Broadway Hotel and got a drink for a break in the afternoon of hot sun sitting.
And then there was Todd. I have a video of him singing I Waited All My Life for You but I can't figure out how to get it on the internet. Duh.
We ate some barbecue both nights. Friday night, we took a taxi from the hotel to the fest site and walked back, up this incredibly steep hill to the hotel. The weather was fabulous on Saturday, we got sunburned, we drank a variety of beers.
On the way home, out in the country, we saw a dog and pig running down the side of the road together. We took the interstates home which are faster but so boring. The country road down was nice although we had a detour around Farmland, IN, so we had to go through Ridgeville, IN, where the Top Hat bar served us some Coronas and everybody (OK, there were two guys n there) gave us directions for the detour. We went a different way that we devised on our own. Miss Jenks did some heroic driving.
This weekend, Memorial Day, Cookout Monday eat at 5. I'll have burgers and brats and chips. Have planted a lot of floral display for this. Hope it holds up. My plant luck is marginal.
Monday, May 14, 2007
whirlwindishness
Friday night, I went to the Humane Society wine and cheese with Sal and her sister Lisa who I haven't seen in 20 years or more and Carrie. We had a swell time although we bought nothing in the silent auctions. Then we went to Beckett's and drank and played pool and went outside to smoke (all of us but Sal). We were tanky. I hope Sal got home OK.
Here's Lisa talking to Rodney at Beckett's
Here we are at the wine and cheese.
Here's some chow Sal and Carrie and I had at Rush St. in Ann Arbor when we went to see Norah Jones. Late, but OK.
Saturday, I went and got my new car.
I leased this because (1) my mom, who I have to see a lot more now, had a hard time getting in my Civic and (2) my old friends had a hard time getting in the back seat of my 2-door Civic. Plus now I can sell my Civic for 3 or 4 thousand more than I owe on it and pay that on my loser sister's car loan. Which will defray it by about one-quarter. But at least I have a new car. Which is lovely.
I didn't have a radio show Saturday which is good because I had a ton of stuff to do like yard work. I went to the perennial swap and got some wild ginger from Sherry and a Rose of Sharon. And I got herbs at Calico Sage, basil two kinds and cilantro and parsley, Italian flat leaf.
My kids both called me on Mother's Day although Anne called at 10 pm when I didn't hear the phone so I got the "So you're too busy to take a call from your child on Mother's Day" message. Oh, she's so brusque.
Saturday night, Stubbs and Doug came over and played cards with me and Amy, which was lovely.
Sunday, I went to see my mom and got home about 6:30. Woooh. Tiring. But she seemed to like it. I took her meatloaf and potato salad and beef enchiladas so she'll have something to eat. Which I made after working on the backyard for 3 hours Saturday. How do I do it??? It amazes me.
This Sunday I won't go down because Annie and I are going to the folk fest in Madison, IN, Fri Sat Sun. Actually we just drive home on Sun but I'm taking a week off from going to Delaware.
On the way out of town on Sunday, I saw my old high school boyfriend working in his yard so I stopped and talked for a little bit. When I left, he said, "It's always nice to talk to you. Always." They all still love me. Can't help it that I'm lucky, as Toni Price sings.
Tonight I mowed AND RAKED my front yard so finally it looks good. Maybe tomorrow I can make the back yard look better.
The week after this is Memorial Day already and I'm having the second annual Bean Fest although I hope only Annette and Gus bring beans because theirs are the best. Monday, eat around 5. Tell your friends.
Here's Lisa talking to Rodney at Beckett's
Here we are at the wine and cheese.
Here's some chow Sal and Carrie and I had at Rush St. in Ann Arbor when we went to see Norah Jones. Late, but OK.
Saturday, I went and got my new car.
I leased this because (1) my mom, who I have to see a lot more now, had a hard time getting in my Civic and (2) my old friends had a hard time getting in the back seat of my 2-door Civic. Plus now I can sell my Civic for 3 or 4 thousand more than I owe on it and pay that on my loser sister's car loan. Which will defray it by about one-quarter. But at least I have a new car. Which is lovely.
I didn't have a radio show Saturday which is good because I had a ton of stuff to do like yard work. I went to the perennial swap and got some wild ginger from Sherry and a Rose of Sharon. And I got herbs at Calico Sage, basil two kinds and cilantro and parsley, Italian flat leaf.
My kids both called me on Mother's Day although Anne called at 10 pm when I didn't hear the phone so I got the "So you're too busy to take a call from your child on Mother's Day" message. Oh, she's so brusque.
Saturday night, Stubbs and Doug came over and played cards with me and Amy, which was lovely.
Sunday, I went to see my mom and got home about 6:30. Woooh. Tiring. But she seemed to like it. I took her meatloaf and potato salad and beef enchiladas so she'll have something to eat. Which I made after working on the backyard for 3 hours Saturday. How do I do it??? It amazes me.
This Sunday I won't go down because Annie and I are going to the folk fest in Madison, IN, Fri Sat Sun. Actually we just drive home on Sun but I'm taking a week off from going to Delaware.
On the way out of town on Sunday, I saw my old high school boyfriend working in his yard so I stopped and talked for a little bit. When I left, he said, "It's always nice to talk to you. Always." They all still love me. Can't help it that I'm lucky, as Toni Price sings.
Tonight I mowed AND RAKED my front yard so finally it looks good. Maybe tomorrow I can make the back yard look better.
The week after this is Memorial Day already and I'm having the second annual Bean Fest although I hope only Annette and Gus bring beans because theirs are the best. Monday, eat around 5. Tell your friends.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
in and out
Note to self: hurricane songs.
So the mom thing continues. She was starving when I got there so we went to Cracker Barrel where she finished off chicken and mashed w/ gravy and cole slaw and biscuits. I had made her a ham/onion/cheese quiche, a chicken pasta hot dish and a cold pasta salad and took some brats with kraut I had cooked and frozen. I hope this holds her til I get back down this Sunday. Hmmmm, what to make this time....
Somehow I lost all her washcloths which I remember bringing home to wash but now they seem to be missing. Gotta get some more o those.
Ana Popovic was v. good but her voice was a little raspy. Monday and Tuesday, yard work and carousing.
Friday night is the Humane Society wine and cheese which I was not going to until Sal said her sister Lisa would be here for it, so I'm going. I may have to bag on Eddie Shaw this Saturday. It's so hectic around here. Because the next weekend is the Folk Festival and I'll be gone Friday - Sunday.
So the mom thing continues. She was starving when I got there so we went to Cracker Barrel where she finished off chicken and mashed w/ gravy and cole slaw and biscuits. I had made her a ham/onion/cheese quiche, a chicken pasta hot dish and a cold pasta salad and took some brats with kraut I had cooked and frozen. I hope this holds her til I get back down this Sunday. Hmmmm, what to make this time....
Somehow I lost all her washcloths which I remember bringing home to wash but now they seem to be missing. Gotta get some more o those.
Ana Popovic was v. good but her voice was a little raspy. Monday and Tuesday, yard work and carousing.
Friday night is the Humane Society wine and cheese which I was not going to until Sal said her sister Lisa would be here for it, so I'm going. I may have to bag on Eddie Shaw this Saturday. It's so hectic around here. Because the next weekend is the Folk Festival and I'll be gone Friday - Sunday.
Saturday, May 05, 2007
mo music mo music
Today the Atomic Mama announces that K D Lang and Lyle Lovett are at the Hill Auditorium on June 28 and Jenks and I decide to go although we know we cannot get seats together on the main floor so we go for single seats on opposite sides of the main floor about 20 rows back. I hope it will be delightful because I cannot find any seating chart pictures that assure me that they will be better than the mezzanine or balcony. But it's kd and then Lyle with his BIG BAND so how bad can it be?
Last night, Sal and her friend Carrie and I went to see Norah Jones at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. It was fabulous. We were very far back and could have used binoculars and the picture I took with my cell phone was worse than the Lucinda one I took so you're not seeing it. The woman sings and plays the grand piano and a keyboard and guitar. We ate at Rush St. where we had some small plates and it was very good although the service was not all that.
Today I had a radio show and then came home and cooked several things to take to my mom tomorrow after which I will go to Mickey Finn's with Jenks to see Ana Popovic. And then back to work on the day the weather clears up. Supposedly. So nighty night.
Last night, Sal and her friend Carrie and I went to see Norah Jones at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. It was fabulous. We were very far back and could have used binoculars and the picture I took with my cell phone was worse than the Lucinda one I took so you're not seeing it. The woman sings and plays the grand piano and a keyboard and guitar. We ate at Rush St. where we had some small plates and it was very good although the service was not all that.
Today I had a radio show and then came home and cooked several things to take to my mom tomorrow after which I will go to Mickey Finn's with Jenks to see Ana Popovic. And then back to work on the day the weather clears up. Supposedly. So nighty night.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
running on empty
Holy smokes, it's another week gone by. Tomorrow night, it's Norah Jones at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor with Sal and Carrie. I hope to get back in time to see The Recipe at Nate and Wally's. "With elements of funk, fusion, rock and traditional southern influences seeping into their sound, the Recipe do what jambands do best: weave several styles into a seamless whole."
Got my front yard mowed last night before GNO. The back is extremely long but it's going to have to wait until Saturday now. Sunday, go see mom who is having food preparation issues.
Listening to Robert Earl Keen "What I Really Mean." Tonight after work, I got a pedicure and a brow wax from Chip's daughter who is in beauty school. The pedicure was good but the brow wax was not all that. Went to Amy's to drink a bottle of wine.
My crazy next door neighbor has taken to catching me whenever I get home, leave home. This has got to stop. I am not her keeper. Last night, she wanted me to see what her grass cutter guy chopped out of her back yard. Tonight, I had to look at the neighbors' cut grass. Sheesh.
Also, my cats seem to have fleas already. I need to dose them. OK, did that. Probably need to set up the flea catcher: light over pan of soapy water. Did that.
Bought some new clothes today: two pairs of cargo capri pants, a black top with cleavage, a leopard print dress with cleavage. Cleavage is much better with my new haircut.
I think I have a radio show this Saturday and Sunday I go to see my mom and then Ana Popovic.
May 12, Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm . Then the next weekend it's the Madison Folk Fest.
Cleaned the cd player. My, what an exciting life.
Got my front yard mowed last night before GNO. The back is extremely long but it's going to have to wait until Saturday now. Sunday, go see mom who is having food preparation issues.
Listening to Robert Earl Keen "What I Really Mean." Tonight after work, I got a pedicure and a brow wax from Chip's daughter who is in beauty school. The pedicure was good but the brow wax was not all that. Went to Amy's to drink a bottle of wine.
My crazy next door neighbor has taken to catching me whenever I get home, leave home. This has got to stop. I am not her keeper. Last night, she wanted me to see what her grass cutter guy chopped out of her back yard. Tonight, I had to look at the neighbors' cut grass. Sheesh.
Also, my cats seem to have fleas already. I need to dose them. OK, did that. Probably need to set up the flea catcher: light over pan of soapy water. Did that.
Bought some new clothes today: two pairs of cargo capri pants, a black top with cleavage, a leopard print dress with cleavage. Cleavage is much better with my new haircut.
I think I have a radio show this Saturday and Sunday I go to see my mom and then Ana Popovic.
May 12, Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm . Then the next weekend it's the Madison Folk Fest.
Cleaned the cd player. My, what an exciting life.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
glad I'm home as usual
Last Sunday, I flew to Chicago for some training on the software we use to do the website. Here are the people I went with left to right: the two women from Seattle, Ryan who has my job in Flint and Kevin who has my job in Chicago. We were on our way to a teahouse where I had an earl grey with vanilla and cream. Delish.
We walked by this marquee
I had these scallops at the Park Grill.
Here is the park the grill is in.
Here is the inside of the Park Grill.
Here is the giant jellybean sculpture thing there.
Tuesday I had breakfast by myself in the Renaissance hotel dining room. I had a fruit granola yogurt compote in a martini glass and some toast and a latte while doing a crossword puzzle.
Today I went to get my mom out of the nursing home, thereby having to spend an entire beautiful day inside. Yesterday I had a radio show and then Amy and I killed a couple bottles of cheap wine.
This week is GNO at Deb's and Friday it's Norah Jones and Saturday is Cinco de Mayo and La Revancha is at Howard's and Sunday is Ana Popovic. Roll on.
We walked by this marquee
I had these scallops at the Park Grill.Here is the park the grill is in.
Here is the inside of the Park Grill.
Here is the giant jellybean sculpture thing there.
Tuesday I had breakfast by myself in the Renaissance hotel dining room. I had a fruit granola yogurt compote in a martini glass and some toast and a latte while doing a crossword puzzle.
Today I went to get my mom out of the nursing home, thereby having to spend an entire beautiful day inside. Yesterday I had a radio show and then Amy and I killed a couple bottles of cheap wine.This week is GNO at Deb's and Friday it's Norah Jones and Saturday is Cinco de Mayo and La Revancha is at Howard's and Sunday is Ana Popovic. Roll on.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
back safe home again
My kids used to love that line from some Richard Scarry book. About a worm, I believe. I have some great pictures from Chicago but my camera turned on in my purse on the way home and the batteries are dead and the extra batteries are in my suitcase which American Airlines can't find. I roll into T-Town yesterday about 5 p.m. and alas mine is the only bag lost. Between Chicago and Toledo on a teeny tiny plane. Many calls today have not established the bag's whereabouts.
Also missing in the luggage: makeup, phone charger, clothes and worse, some credit card bills I was going to pay while gone, but didn't. IDENTITY THEFT FEAR!!!! And those three new CDs Sherry made for me.
So last night instead of driving to Flint and staying overnight in a hotel, I drove home from the airport. Finished reading Jim Harrison's new book Returning to Earth. It was great. He's the guy who wrote Legends of the Fall, made into a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt.
Today I drove to Flint and back for some other training. Two hours door to door. Told me it couldn't be done.
Also the social work guy at my mom's nursing home called today to say Mom gets to go home Saturday. Only I have a radio show Saturday so I have a call into the guy to see if she can wait until Sunday. When it will be beautiful outside.
Also missing in the luggage: makeup, phone charger, clothes and worse, some credit card bills I was going to pay while gone, but didn't. IDENTITY THEFT FEAR!!!! And those three new CDs Sherry made for me.
So last night instead of driving to Flint and staying overnight in a hotel, I drove home from the airport. Finished reading Jim Harrison's new book Returning to Earth. It was great. He's the guy who wrote Legends of the Fall, made into a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt.
Today I drove to Flint and back for some other training. Two hours door to door. Told me it couldn't be done.
Also the social work guy at my mom's nursing home called today to say Mom gets to go home Saturday. Only I have a radio show Saturday so I have a call into the guy to see if she can wait until Sunday. When it will be beautiful outside.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Happy Birthday, Bomeli
Tonight, I came home and did a tape and Connie came over for me to take pictures of jewelry she and Amy had made for the Humane Society benefit auction and then I make little fences around my bushes out back with chicken wire which they now call hardware cloth and I do the dishes and some laundry and Annie calls saying she has stuffed peppers in the oven and they're probably on burn so I go over there and the oven has shut off, as it has been doing lately inexplicably, so I go to the bar where Tony and Joe and Nate are playing al fresco. But alas, it is towards the end so I have two beers and a shot of some buttery stuff with Dave since it's his birthday and I come home.
But I did endure an entire night Monday with no drinking in my attempt to lose this flabby tire around my middle. I watched "The Three Burials of Malquiedes Estrada" with Tommy Lee Jones and Levon Helm and Dwight Yoakum which was fabulous.
Sunday night, we saw Lucinda Williams in Ann Arbor and she was GREAT. I'm sorry to say that Carrie Rodriguez was not great. I liked that perky little voice she sang with Chip Taylor with but now she seems too serious. Here's Lucinda taken with my cell phone from the balcony.
We saw Bucktown Kickback Saturday night after which we went to Ricky Ault's new bar 149 North and then went to Howard's to see Student Loan but we saw Indgrass instead who was opening for them and I drank a lot of Jack Daniel's and then Sunday I went to see my mom before going to Ann Arbor. Amazingly, this lead singer for the band looked a lot like Amy's son Evan, even down to the smallish stature. Once again, taken with the cell phone.
Another giant weekend coming up with Ronnie Baker Brooks and Rod's two nights and go to see mom on Sunday and fly to Chicago that night.
But I did endure an entire night Monday with no drinking in my attempt to lose this flabby tire around my middle. I watched "The Three Burials of Malquiedes Estrada" with Tommy Lee Jones and Levon Helm and Dwight Yoakum which was fabulous.
Sunday night, we saw Lucinda Williams in Ann Arbor and she was GREAT. I'm sorry to say that Carrie Rodriguez was not great. I liked that perky little voice she sang with Chip Taylor with but now she seems too serious. Here's Lucinda taken with my cell phone from the balcony.
We saw Bucktown Kickback Saturday night after which we went to Ricky Ault's new bar 149 North and then went to Howard's to see Student Loan but we saw Indgrass instead who was opening for them and I drank a lot of Jack Daniel's and then Sunday I went to see my mom before going to Ann Arbor. Amazingly, this lead singer for the band looked a lot like Amy's son Evan, even down to the smallish stature. Once again, taken with the cell phone.
Another giant weekend coming up with Ronnie Baker Brooks and Rod's two nights and go to see mom on Sunday and fly to Chicago that night.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
checking my calendar
I see I have done about nothing for two weeks. There was GNO and a radio meeting. And I visited my mom on Easter and got a visit from the Easter Bunny.
But stuff starts up any day. My Aunt Naomi died so I have to go to Delaware Friday for the funeral but it relieves me from going on the weekend when I intend to see BuckTown KickBack at GFT Saturday night and Lucinda Williams in Ann Arbor on Sunday.
Also, I got a new haircut today. It's very short. I took in pictures of Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada as the idea. Now I need a whole new wardrobe and a Prada handbag.
And possibly a BMW convertible.
But not that bag with that car. Ucky.
But stuff starts up any day. My Aunt Naomi died so I have to go to Delaware Friday for the funeral but it relieves me from going on the weekend when I intend to see BuckTown KickBack at GFT Saturday night and Lucinda Williams in Ann Arbor on Sunday.
Also, I got a new haircut today. It's very short. I took in pictures of Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada as the idea. Now I need a whole new wardrobe and a Prada handbag.
And possibly a BMW convertible.
But not that bag with that car. Ucky.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
give me a freaking break
Many of you have heard of my hectic schedule. Today I went to Delaware to visit my mom in the nursing home and got back to town just in time to do my radio show. Then I had a couple hours off before my play. Which Amy and Connie and Sherry and Ginger came to. Thank you. So we go to Beckett's after for a couple of drinks and I get home at midnight and.... my front door key won't unlock my front door. My back door is locked and no key is in the secret hiding place. The only window without a screen in it, the inside window is locked. I go around to the only inside window I know is unlocked, and in the process of getting the screen out, one of the storm windows falls down and breaks into a thousand pieces. I fling the detritus to the ground, get a porch chair and climb in the window. I guess I should be glad it wasn't a window on the side where Mrs. Eilert lives or she would have been out there in a NY minute at the sound of breaking glass.
Tomorrow is the last play performance after which we strike the set and go to Perrysburg for the cast party. On to April. Yay.
The Rodney Crowell show at the Ark got canceled because Rodney is sick. But soon enough it will be on to Lucinda and two nights of Rod's Collision and Norah Jones and Eddie Shaw and Ana Popovic and the Madison Folk Fest. And then it will be Memorial Day. Cripe, before you know it, it will be the Harvest Party.
Tomorrow is the last play performance after which we strike the set and go to Perrysburg for the cast party. On to April. Yay.
The Rodney Crowell show at the Ark got canceled because Rodney is sick. But soon enough it will be on to Lucinda and two nights of Rod's Collision and Norah Jones and Eddie Shaw and Ana Popovic and the Madison Folk Fest. And then it will be Memorial Day. Cripe, before you know it, it will be the Harvest Party.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
continued swirling
So on top of my mom breaking her hip and me being in play practice, my ex-father-in-law died today. My daughter had already flown in from New York on Monday after calling me Sunday night, sobbing about her grandpa who was on the verge of buying the farm. I picked a bad time to quit smoking. Not.
I called Tom to see if he wanted me to book a flight but somebody had already got him one for $200. Apparently, I need some advice on this internet use. The cheapest one I had found was $383. So anyway, he's coming tomorrow until Monday (0 dark 30)and by the GIANT COINCIDENCE, both kids can come see my in the play on Friday night.
Tonight, at practice, I flubbed a couple lines STILL but I picked up some other people's dropped lines, so it all evens out.
And at work, which I never talk about, we are switching to a new front page next Thursday, so I am hustling to get a bunch of stuff ready for that, like a blog section and podcasts and other cool interweb content. You'll like it. Just click that link at the right that says Toledo news.
The Black Swamp lineup is coming together. Just missing the headliners for Friday and Saturday, the best part. Some interesting stuff: Alejandro Escovedo and Mose Allison.
I thought I had blogged about concerts but I don't see it. So it's April 11 Rodney Crowell at the Ark with Will Kimbrough. April 15, Lucinda Williams at the Michigan Theater. Then Rods's at Nate and Wally's April 21. Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm May 12. Norah Jones with Sal in Ann Arbor, May 4. Madison Folk Fest May 18-19.
PLUS, I have to go to Chicago for work April 22-24 and then I have to be in Flint early morning April 25 for some management training. And then later that week, I get the second half of that training at work on Friday. And Thursday, the only day I'm at work that week, is my busiest day of the week.
I called Tom to see if he wanted me to book a flight but somebody had already got him one for $200. Apparently, I need some advice on this internet use. The cheapest one I had found was $383. So anyway, he's coming tomorrow until Monday (0 dark 30)and by the GIANT COINCIDENCE, both kids can come see my in the play on Friday night.
Tonight, at practice, I flubbed a couple lines STILL but I picked up some other people's dropped lines, so it all evens out.
And at work, which I never talk about, we are switching to a new front page next Thursday, so I am hustling to get a bunch of stuff ready for that, like a blog section and podcasts and other cool interweb content. You'll like it. Just click that link at the right that says Toledo news.
The Black Swamp lineup is coming together. Just missing the headliners for Friday and Saturday, the best part. Some interesting stuff: Alejandro Escovedo and Mose Allison.
I thought I had blogged about concerts but I don't see it. So it's April 11 Rodney Crowell at the Ark with Will Kimbrough. April 15, Lucinda Williams at the Michigan Theater. Then Rods's at Nate and Wally's April 21. Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm May 12. Norah Jones with Sal in Ann Arbor, May 4. Madison Folk Fest May 18-19.
PLUS, I have to go to Chicago for work April 22-24 and then I have to be in Flint early morning April 25 for some management training. And then later that week, I get the second half of that training at work on Friday. And Thursday, the only day I'm at work that week, is my busiest day of the week.
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