Vapid Inanities From Miss Chris
The July 3, 2009 EditionBe warned: this will be truly a vapid and inane Miss Chris blog entry. Perhaps later today, I'll be a good girl and post my Gratitude Attitude entry for the day.
*Tonight I played "Eating Cheap Yellow Mustard On My Chicken Sandwich While Wearing A Brand New White Blouse Roulette" - and I won! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*I am just now "deplaning" (thanks for that word, Beth!) from one very wild and traumatic trip to Planet Migraine. I find it difficult during said trips, to believe that a body can feel that sick and NOT die. While I am grateful tonight that I am back on Planet Anti-Migraine, I am struggling with attitude problems. July is traditionally a horrific month for me with migraines because of the particular allergens which are proliferating, and because of the heat and humidity which will soon enough head our way again. I am not being pessimistic or negative when I say I know that the next number of weeks are going to be a severe test of my mettle; I'm just being realistic, as it does happen every year. I need to work on my gratitude muscles, and also focus on what I CAN do - not on what I can't do during these firestorms of sickness and pain. Many of you who do me the honor of reading this blog are not only my friends, but are also CFS/fibromyalgia/migraine/other chronic pain patients. I know you know what I mean about needing to develop the good ol' gratitude muscles and to find the silver lining to these thunderstorm clouds.
*The sun hasn't shone here in several days. Not only that, but we have set records for low maximum temperatures. Actually, it's been nice having it be autumnal after that nasty little heat wave a week or so ago, but it's not helping my pumpkin patch to grow! I am obsessed with pumpkins this year. In fact, late as it is, I am going to go outside this morning and plant some more Jack-O-Lanterns and Connecticut Field Pumpkins. Me has a hunch that we'll have temperatures in the 80's in early November. It's a weird year.
*Speaking of pumpkins, I have already planted about a gabillion "Jack Be Little" ornamental (3 to 4 inch in diameter) pumpkins in the back flowerbed behind the garage. I had also planted numerous dwarf sunflowers and cactus zinnias, which the evil and nefarious tribe of chipmunks brutalized (a few survivors remain). However, the chipmonsters did NOT ravage the pumpkin seedlings, and this is good.
*Speaking of chipmonsters: I was in Shopko the other afternoon and saw boxes and boxes and BOXES of this massive atomic blasting "Vindicator" water guns. Methinks I have found a humane (though humiliating) weapon with which to chase this brazen band of beasties out of my garden and patio. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
*Back to the pumpkins (seeeeeeeeeee... I told you I was obsessed!
) I didn't put my dad to work spading up the garden this year because he is so busy with church activities and mostly with other lawn care (I'm beginning to think that lawn care is a full time job, even when it's not your second religion like it is one of our elderly neighbor's). I digress. I didn't put my dad to work spading the garden, and doing it myself was simply waaaaaaaaaay out of the question this year (some years I can do it, and some I can't. Those are the breaks). Anyway, I did do some hoeing last month, and built up five hills for pumpkins. Two hills of Connecticut Field Pumpkins (the big, honking 25 pound doozies - Lord willing) and three hills of Jack-O-Lanterns (which typically weigh in at 8 to 15 pounds, plus have a more beautiful deep orange color). I notice that we have bees aplenty in the yard this year, so I am thinking that they will be nice little friends and pollinate lots of the pumpkin flowers whence they bloom so that I will have lots and lots and LOTS of pumpkins. And hopefully there will be spare pumpkin flowers for dredging in flour and then deep-frying!
*Speaking of my friends the bees doing their job this year: Whoo hoo! BOTH of our apple trees are simply loaded with baby apples this year! One of the trees has never produced while we've lived here, and I prayed for the dear thing this year, and voila! It actually flowered as profusely as the other true, and those flowers did indeed turn into baby Granny Smith apples. I am going to be busy picking apples this fall - and busier making apple pies and apple crisps (with loads and loads and LOADS of cinnamon! YUM!).
*Back to my Pumpkin Passion: I hope to have something of a Pumpkin Ministry this fall. More on this another time.
*Back to less gardenish vapid inanity: My mind does not function at peak performance during the day. Ever since I was a baby, I have been a Night Person to the profoundest Nth degree. I would get more work done around here if I could get my dad to sleep soundly enough that I could do laundry and dusting and watering the garden in the middle of the night. Instead, here I sit on my "brains", blogging vapid inanities when I could be doing something "productive". Unfortunately, my dad has taken up Coffee Drinking as a second religion as of late and tiptoe through the house like a quiet little mouse I must lest I wake him up and lose my precious middle of the night "able to think clearly" hours. I say a pox on the world that insists on Day Personism. I say, "Equal Rights for Night Owls"!
*Okay, enough whinenyness (would you like some cheese?). The sun is going to shine again today, and (Lord willing) I will spend part of the day outdoors tidying up my patio flowers, soaking in the sun's rays, and getting a much needed change of scenery.
*I went shopping at Shopko the other day for some "be comfortable around the house and yard" tops, and got them all at 50% off. Now I'll have something to wear (she says with her closet so bursting that she can't even get the doors shut) when my mom comes up from Florida and wants to take me shopping. (Hint to Mom: I would rather have technological bling for my birthday than clothes this year!)
*I am getting so daggone geeky that I can't stand myself.
I installed new RAM in two of our computers and set up a wireless network and am going to soon teach my dad about the wonders of email and the web. I should really stop this blog entry and finish setting up some of the network (sharing printers, etc.) while I am awake and functioning mentally (I use the term loosely, of course. I am on Lyrica for fibromyalgia pain relief and I'm just NEVER "all here" mentally anymore. Sigh. But... it's so nice here in my cushy executive chair, beside an open window while a light and cool breeze caresses me as my fingers tickle the keyboard....
*TVLAND.com has had a Beverly Hillbillies marathon going on this week, so on non-Planet Migraine days/nights, I've been watching the Clampetts' antics. So, my comedic tastes aren't always sophisticated and modern! Shoot me! I can't stand the junk that's on network TV the past several years. Netflix, the Internet, and my local public library's DVD selection are my friends. And, I think I could do with some British Comedy again soon.
*I happen to love eMusic.com. Last month, I bought some excellent Celtic fiddle music CDs by: Bonnie Rideout, Liz Carroll, and Natalie MacMaster. Also got the latest by Waterdeep (
Pink and Blue). I also downloaded some primo editions of sacred music composed by Bach (the
Mass in B Minor, and
The Magnificat) and Mozart. And then I bought an audiobook of Tolkien's
The Silmarillion, Volume I performed by Martin Shaw. Then I promptly canceled my subscription! I was soooooo tempted to buy the "booster packs" but I just need to not buy anymore music or audio books for awhile. It would behoove me to not spend so much on entertainment. Sigh.
*Eric Clapton Rocks! I just still love the
Unplugged CD, as old as it is.
*Independence Day Weekend is when I typically start listening to Christmas music. It is also when I typically get the urge to start knitting woolly mittens and crocheting woolly socks. Last night, while on Planet Migraine Medication, I had a niiiiiiiiiiice dream about cross-stitching Christmas ornaments - everything was in brilliant red and green holiday technicolor. This is one of the advantages of being a CFS and/or fibromyalgia patient: while the rest of the (healthy) world dreams in mere color, WE get to dream in TECHNICOLOR! Whoo hoo!
*Twenty-five years ago on Independence Day, I acquired my first kitten - the one and only Miss CJ Kitty. She was a beauty, and was simply the best cat friend in the world. Never did I shed a tear without her climbing on my lap and comforting me.
Well, 'nuff out of me for tonight. I'm going to try to clean my closet (albeit on tiptoe, quiet as a mouse). I still have wool sweaters that need to go upstairs to the cedar chest in the loft - IF there's anything left of my wool sweaters. There have been moths in the house this week. I am almost afraid to look. If anything happens to my Irish sweaters, I will be sad.
My prayer for each of us this weekend and coming week is to be content with what we have, and with what we can/cannot do, and to focus on the ways in which God blesses us daily. I will pray for each of you (I promise!), and I humbly covet your prayers - be they even a mere two seconds long - for me.
Much love to one and all in Christ Jesus,
-Miss Chris
Comments (1)
I hope and pray you will feel GOOOOOD for the whole month! Christmas music huh? I don't know about that but I am going to start crocheting a blanket for my coming granddaughter!
Happy 4th of July. I agree with you that I do need to count my blessings and be thankful for what I have and not what I don't have. Take care!!