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Yesterday, no link sharing because I didn’t actually have time to read anything. Today was slightly better but only slightly. Good thing what I did read was excellent.
I am tempted to learn the fine art of being a well-dressed wife. Geez.
Maybe I will put the kids to work making a Mother’s Day coffee cake?
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I’m trying to come up with a good question for Carly Fiorina. Help!
I want to go to Maker Faire 09. Really.
I wonder if TW is interested in doing this stuff with her wedding dress. I wonder where my wedding dress disappeared to.
Folks, this is a lesson you need to learn. Fat is not a feeling. Really. It isn’t. So quit saying it.
I’m done. Fried. Exhausted. And I am going to pack a box, right now, before I fall into bed. Have I mentioned I am really tired?
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And the questions about the move just keep on coming… some I will never answer in a blog post but if you’ve asked, I’ve replied by email anyway – that’s good enough for those. Other questions will be answered in a series of posts I’ll be making about moving – stay tuned, I swear the first one will appear next week. Other questions, I’m trying to answer as time allows. Time. I need more of it.
Now, on optimism and positive thinking. Yea. Whatever. That’s pretty much my answer to those of you who are bound and determined to get me to look at the bright side. Yea. Whatever.
I spent more than 20 years moving around the world because the Air Force insisted I do so. I was full of optimism and positive thinking. Any time I see a military spouse upset about her new tour of duty, I kindly remind her that “your tour is what you make of it….”
I know, I know. Really, I do. I appreciate the attempts at positivity but they aren’t all that necessary. Once we’re in full-fledged move mode, I’ll be fine. Once we’re there, I’ll be mostly fine. In the meantime, I’m going to bitch as much as I want to – or need to, because believe me – I need to.
And while I’m sure living in the suburbs of Chicago will be AWESOME for a dozen reasons, it’s also never going to be a place that I regret leaving. This, I can guarantee. And that’s ok. I can live anywhere for eight or nine years. I’ve lived in worse places and under worse circumstances. It will be fine. Once we do it and once we settle into it.
And to answer one of Vered’s questions, very specifically…
Can you name something, anything, that is better over there compared with Gainesville?
I’ve already named one – Joy! Joy will live there! Joy who is the mother of THE Jory DesJardins. That’s better.
Also, major airport makes it much easier to book flights to wherever we need to go. Flying from Gainesville stinks – to put it mildly.
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Interesting day. Lots of questions. Not a lot of answers. Maybe you have some answers?
How can I stop hating my body? – I’ve answered this a lot in my lifetime, even though I don’t really have an answer.
Here’s an answer to the age old question, “how do I get more traffic to my blog?” Leave a lot of comments.
Where is YOUR sex tape? (let the google searchers come. hah.)
Isn’t this what organized sports should be like every day?
What was John McCain thinking? About himself?
What did you learn from your mother? I’m considering an anti-mother advice post – just for fun. Wonder what my mother would say to that? I’m sure she’ll be along to tell me, won’t she?
Have you apologized to yourself? And did you accept your own apology?
Look at all of the questions.
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Oops, almost forgot that I said I was going to do this and then, when I sat down to do it I couldn’t remember what I’d enjoyed reading today. Weird. Onward.
Legitimzing romance and literary reviews, interesting. I don’t really want romance legitimized. I like it the way it is. I’d rather people embrace romance and embrace pulp and embrace trash for what they are. Wouldn’t you?
Homo and Skim and a car with an alarm problem. I’d love to figure out why TW’s car alarmed a couple of weeks ago – when it doesn’t have an alarm system.
Easing the pain of pregnancy announcements – OK, I can live with that but I want to know why women, including infertile women, always ask you “how long have you been trying?” And if we aren’t supposed to talk about getting pregnant right off the bat, then what should we reply to that very direct, and indelicate, question?
Zoe and 6 degrees of separation in which I feel like a real live lesbian blogger for like the very first time – but not until Zoe pointed it out to me in comments. Wow.
Great post from Suzanne, whose parents live very close to our new house in Glenview – yea!, about Yom Hashoah and female guilt.
Uh oh, I hate it when I run out of eye of newt and this happens (click through to the full post after you hit my link.
What are YOU reading today?
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So. Vered. I like that chick. Even if she DID tag me for a meme… the 3 random things meme when radomness is something I struggle with. I won’t hold that against her. She’s new. She hasn’t seen me question the very existence of random.
Here’s my shot at it…
1) I’m really angry right now with my former workplace. I’ve been annoyed about one particular issue since 2001 and I just read something that turned my annoyance to anger. Lately, I’ve been talking about blogging my personal branding rant – this thing I’m angry about is related to that post I haven’t written. Or maybe the post I haven’t written is related to what I’m angry about? Whatever. Chicken/egg – Egg/Chicken, it’s all the same thing. But, instead of blogging while I’m angry, I’m sitting on my hands – again. How long will I be able to sit? On my hands?
2) I just ordered vegetable fried rice and fried wontons for dinner. (Why does wordpress think wontons is is misspelled?) I had frozen eggrolls for lunch. It’s that kind of week around here. Frozen. Whatever’s handy. Spend $50 to have food delivered. I hate those kinds of weeks but they are better than not eating at all – which is my ultimate preference.
3) I’m looking forward to watching Survivor tonight. We watched it last week from the hotel but it feels like we didn’t watch it – because we weren’t in our space. That’s weird, isn’t it? I’m like that, I like my house – not the house, just you know, my personal living environment and my boring everyday life and routine.
Now, about that tagging five people thing… errr… who would I tag that hasn’t already been tagged? Since TW tagged Vered and then Vered tagged me – that six degrees of separation thingy is at work and I’m either going to have to re-tag someone who’s been tagged, tag someone who does NOT do memes, or tag some poor new to BlogHer person who will think I’m insane for tagging them out of the blue.
So, rather than risk scaring off the new BlogHers – consider YOURSELF tagged if you’re reading this and you haven’t BEEN tagged or haven’t BEEN tagged in the last six months. And If I stumble into someone I think deserves to be tagged – I’ll come back with that link. I swear.
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I know, I’m sorry, I came home to a ton of work and have had absolutely no time to blog more about our trip north. I still don’t have a lot of time and I’m working on a series of posts about moving that won’t come ’til next month – hopefully this will tide you over for a while.
When we arrived in Chicago and had that weird automatic that expected me to shift, we took a quick driving tour of houses we were interested in seeing – we started with a house in Lincolnwood then hit two more in Glenview. From there, three houses in Wilmette and then onto five in Evanston and then finally two in Skokie. By the time we hit Evanston, TW was ready for a pit stop so she said “if you see a McDonald’s, I’d like to stop” (code for I have to use the bathroom.)
This caused me to realize that we’d been driving for a very long time, covering a lot of territory and I hadn’t actually seen a McDonald’s or any type of fast food besides Dairy Queen, Jimmy John’s and Einstein Bagel – all in strip malls. We’d also seen Starbucks in strip malls. But no stand alone McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell etc… hmmmm
I kept driving and finally when we hit Dempster, I knew we’d find some because I had heavily researched Dempster because I was SURE we were going to rent a house on that street. (We didn’t.) I pulled into McDonald’s – TW raced for the restroom – I pulled out my phone to call Michelle. I also ordered a coke and while I was ordering, I said to Michelle “Well, it took us two hours of driving to find a McDonald’s.” The woman who had just ordered in front of me turned around and burst into laughter. I thought for sure we were going to see ourselves on Overheard in Chicago. heh
A lot of you have asked “So, what’s it like in Evanston/Glenview?”
It’s hard to describe, particularly if you’ve never spent much time in Indiana or Illinois. It looks like THAT. I think we boiled it down to “Evanston looks like Chicago but without the stuff that makes Chicago cool.” and Glenview looks like a suburb of Atlanta would look if Atlanta was in the midwest. Does that help?
Let’s see… what else can I tell you?
I finally ate at Cheesecake Factory. I’ve never been – I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. I’ve always wondered why people go there for birthdays and make a big deal of it. It’s a chain, what’s the big deal. I see now. It is a chain but it’s a specialty chain. And I enjoyed it.
We went to Trader Joe’s, finally! Yay. There’s one around the corner from where we will live. No more care packages from California are necessary (though I have greatly appreciated the ones I’ve been sent.)
Also, The Blind Faith Cafe in Evanston was awesome. I had this Shiitake Gorgonzola Biscuits thingy and it was awesome. I said awesome, right? We also hit the Cafe Express on Dempster and the chick working was very nice, coffee was good, too.
What else do you want to know?
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