Tumbled Words

my laptop gave up on me… today It was acting up so I repaired the permissions yet again. Then it quit working, but this time, the hard drive is not even allowing me to repair the permissions, the disk utility shows there is an error in the “mass storage” — and even when I tried to just reinstall the entire operating system, it could not see the hard drive, so I was not allowed to install it.

Bye bye laptop. You held up quite well for falling out of a van and off a bed and being jolted as I caught you falling off my lap several other times when I nodded out typing….Besides that, your keys were so worn down from all that typing while I was fully retired, I can’t blame you for tiring out.

I would be lying blatantly if I said it did not put me in a mood! I had a ton of photos put to the side to optimize for this post this morning… but that was on the laptop…. However, I am extremely grateful I have the iMac we bought last year. The cool thing about Apple, all I had to do was plug the Verizon wireless card in and it set itself up. I love Apple. Of course, dragging a 20 inch computer around in the car will not work…. so it has cramped my work environment, but….

Happy New Year! May it be a year filled with adventure and smiles and may Mr. Murphy take a vacation from all of us!

P.S. Brian, we watch movies on the iMac - it has a 20 inch screen, luckily Leon is a movie freak and has plenty of DVDs and doesn’t mind watching them repeatedly… when he gets bored watching the story line, the actor/director in him studies them.

or can you? Not that we ever considered South Florida home really the four years we were here. But, we had found a couple of restaurants that we could at least have a decent salad or sushi (for his royal highness).

We went back to the town of Sunrise to a Thai restaurant that had a great sushi chef, splurged to celebrate Leon’s first two deals signed. Of course, he had to eat an entire Boat; he had only had sushi twice in the three years since we left. They were making more vegetarian dishes than before, so I was equally glad to be back. They did NOT let us down. OK, my conclusion: You can go home!

Lunchtime today, we headed down to Miramar to a small Italian restaurant we used to have quick lunches at close to his office. We walked in at the height of lunch. Though Saturday, and a holiday weekend, we expected SOMEONE else to be there. Hmm. Then I made a mistake and ordered something different: Eggplant Parmigiana sub. I don’t love them, but wanted something to stick to my ribs, I was overtired and needed heavy food. It sucked. I am known for eating less than perfect food that Leon would turn his nose at, yet I don’t think I have ever disliked something so much. I ate some of the cheese, a tad bit of the bread, nearly gagged on the awful tasting eggplant. (Was it really eggplant?) The French fries were even awful… and I could live on French fries. Not those. Did I send it back? Nope, I was afraid to try anything else. MY conclusion: You can’t go home!

And yes, Leon offered to take me to get something somewhere else, but I didn’t want to see food a while. But now…

… after our beach walk for an hour we are going to eat a ridiculous amount of Emeril’s all natural pasta sauce: ROASTED GAAAHLIC with the addition of green pepper and onion, over spaghetti with broccoli and cauliflower — because we had that stuff left from Christmas dinner. Since there is no exhaust fan in this kitchen…. the gaaahlic will be here forever, grin.

An almost normal day to be followed by a normal evening: Dinner in front of the imac watching a DVD since we have yet to get a TV or cable. Leon doesn’t miss TV much because he has an extensive DVD collection — and can watch them repeatedly…. I can’t…. but tonight is a new movie - to me.. “Notes on a Scandal” There better not be anything gross in it. Or Emeril’s sauce may say, BAM!

… and all through the house (scratch that, make it half nice, half CRUMMY apartment)
creatures remained hidden, (thank goodness!)
as does my smile (OK, honesty check… I can’t hold it back ALL day, it likes to come out!)
as you see I am moody — and energy wanes –
my biorhythm, I suppose, has always been strange.

I can spout out poetry (no, not this almost, kind of, sort of facsimile, well, yeah, this rubbish, too)
or talk all day about anything, whether I know it or not (OK, I don’t do so well on the nots…)
or design the apartment five ways for play,

but if it takes making links or a bit of concentration,
well,

my mind just goes elsewhere to play.

I usually don’t mind, for procrastination comes easy –
but today is one of those days when I want
to get it done (and so was yesterday and three days ago)
but know it will take more effort than I can muster —

and I know this as fact
(and not just pretend)
’cause even the walk through the neighborhood
did not energy lend… though I did redesign
some front yards in my head and then write this dribble
and upload photos… oh, see, one thing I did!

Now, he is concerned, I don’t seem content,
but heck he should be used to these moods (by now)
I’m content as can be about him
(and a few thousand other things)
just impatient for the plotting and scheming I’ve done
to pay off

and for our lonely house in WA to be filled
with happy faces, even if they change everything I’ve done,
the house will then know it has friends…

I’ll stop here, for now, because, as you’ve already guessed,
(make that seen), I could go on forever,
but for your sake (only), I won’t.

Now, doesn’t this make you want to just go back to work
to have conversations with people more sane?

It would me!