Author Archives: Andrea

I love it when I need a garage remote control battery and I have the exact one in my battery stash.

Imagine a window in a house

Imagine a window that you toss pebbles toward to wake up the sleeping person inside. Now imagine Jeremy waking up and thinking it’s his own idea…
it worked.

A good day today

A good day today, good work, good play, visited with friends, heard live music, hung with the bf, shared a delish dinner. Then drank 2 cups of real coffee with sugar at 10pm Hmmm 2am and I’m officially tired and wired… The Surefire Remedy: Turn all equipment off, lie down in the pitch dark in the dead silence and pay attention to how good the bed feels to my arms, my legs and torso; how good the air feels in my lungs.

Another spidey sense hit, or is it?

I like to keep track of how often my spidey sense is on target, even in small things.  A few days ago I wrote that I’d accurately predicted some events that sidekick Jeremy would encounter at work.  Today he was scheduled to get off after 9:00pm.  As I dropped him off at the office,  I told him I thought they’d cut him loose between 7:00 and 7:15pm.  He called at 6:58pm.

What are you paid to do?

Actor Michael Caine tells a great story of sitting once in between takes on a movie set with a young actor.  The newbie complained about being made to wait, “I get paid to act, not to wait.”  Caine, in his wisdom,  corrected him: “No, as a matter of fact, we are paid to wait.  The acting part of it is just the icing on the cake.”

How I’m spending Black Friday 2012

Last night after I picked Jeremy up from work last night, I was wide awake at 2:00am so I finished labelling and stuffing magazines into the mailers for the December issue of Horizons.   I got them all loaded into my car and then I came inside and prepared the post office paperwork.  First thing this morning, I was halfway through my morning yoga when I remembered it was post office day!  I drove the mags downtown to the bulk mail facility.  On the way home, I stopped by the bank to make a deposit, then at the Malabar Road post office to mail the first class subscriptions.  I picked up paper products at the Big Lots next door.  I went across the street to Walmart for a few more items.  Once home,  I took a lap around the yard to see what plants might benefit the most by some water and set up the sprinkler.  I swept the fallen oak leaves and twigs off the driveway.  I came inside and rearranged my office again.  I’m always on a quest to have less and less in each room.  This way also lets me see more of the courtyard just outside the window.  After I drive JoyBoy to work, I’ll head over the Home Depot and return a case of caulk.  I always buy more than enough and return what I don’t use.  Or maybe I’ll save that for tomorrow and just come home and crash out.  This is my favorite kind of Black Friday.   I don’t need to buy anything.  I’m not rushed to get anywhere.  I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do.   Life is good.