Eating Lunch All By Myself

                                                            Exactly 30 days ago I was drinking a beer and watching YouTube videos.  I was enthralled by this guy named  WheezyWaiter that does 30 day challenges.   No Internet for 30 days.  Intermittent fasting for 30 days.   No sugar for 30 days.  No porn for 30 days(I might have made that up.) Walking 10,000 steps for 30 days.   I thought to myself, I should do that. Thinking is one thing - and doing is another.   My first mistake, and I blame this totally on the Ultra I was drinking, was telling the hubs I was going to walk 10,000 steps for 30 consecutive days.  He was all about it and was ready to create flow charts, maps, weather forecasts, shoe catalogs...and shit...What the hell have I done? With Der Kommissar at ...

  Seldom wrong and right again.  I was correct.  Reading a newpaper online is not for me.   I will be returning to my Luddite ways in the near future.  Reading a newspaper should not require a password. Do you like to read newspapers online?    Find me on  Facebook

A sentence I never  thought I'd write.....Kamala Harris and I have something in common.                                                  Apparently during the summer, Kamala Harris was asked if she ever smoked pot in college or law school - and what music she listened to while inhaling.   Harris answered    “Oh yeah, definitely Snoop. Tupac for sure.”    Apparently, that timeline is a little bit shaky because Harris graduated years before Snoop or Tupac released their debut albums. Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986 and law school in 1989.     I am not faulting Kamala at all.  We suffer from the same affliction - putting the wrong music in a memory.                                     ...

For five decades I have received a delivered newspaper to my home. Since relocating to Ohio, we subscribe with home delivery to the Columbus Dispatch.   It was never a question not to subscribe to the paper as we both grew up reading the the paper and and have continued with home delivery wherever we have lived.   Online just didn't seen very cozy.  And I'm a self proclaimed Luddite. A four week subscription to the Dispatch is now $70.   I'm no mathematician - but that is more than double our current subscription price.   As a courtesy, since I was a long term customer, they did offer me a price of $65.  Thanks?   Time to make a decision. To me, this is a lot of money, especially when many of the articles refer you to an online article - but frankly, we both enjoyed sitting at the table every morning, enjoying a cup of coffee while reading the paper. This is hard.   I love reading the paper.   ...

If you were to ever look at my playlist - it would be hard to determine if I was 17,  35 or 70 years old.  There is everything from BTS and Taylor Swift to Loretta Lynn and Roy Clark from The Carpenters and Talking Heads to Michael Jackson and Little River Band. I've been trying to figure out for years where I got my taste in music.  I believe I have narrowed it down to one person.   My sister. She is a couple of years older than me, and of course, the younger sibling always thinks the elder sibling is way cool in all choices.  I have to say, for music, in retrospect, she was pretty cool. Before we could buy our own records, we had to depend on whatever was in Mom and Dad's collection.    My parents must have had the Oklahoma soundtrack because she introduced me to Surrey with the Fringe on Top.  She also introduced me to Herb Albert and The Tijuana Brass.  Her favorite was A Taste of Honey while I preferred Lonely Bull.  ...

                                   I found my first blog! I had to troll through the archives of every saved page on my computer - but I finally found my lost blog "The Spartan Wife!"  My blog debuted on February 9, 2009.  I actually remember writing the maiden post - we lived in Chesapeake, VA at the time. A lot has happened since that initial post.   We moved 5 more times.   We are now empty nesters and I work part time.   A lot has stayed the same.   I am still obsessed with cleaning shows, am still sarcastic and probably should never be taken too seriously. Here is my first blog entry:   I really don't make New Year resolutions. It has always seemed a little silly - if you want to do something - do it now. Don't wait six months, 30 days or 1 week to start something. (I feel the same way about the idea of driving to a t...