It Only Hurts When I Blog

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I thought I invented the word 'Blogeuphoria' yesterday in the car (great joy), but now I see a website already has the BlogEuphoria url taken (deep sadness). Too bad, I'm using it anyway. I left myself a message on the answering machine so I wouldn't forget it. (That's something you do when you get older - you need reminders for just about everything.)

Blogeuphoria defined:
A feeling of great happiness or well-being while blogging.

I am still enjoying my blogging time, it unloads a little of my brain while I'm not working. One of these days I'll invent more fractured 'blogurisms'.

I am on page 431 of my 'Wheel of Time' book 11. I like big, involved books with hundreds of pages, and I am usually disappointed when I've 'run out of book' at the end. This one, for example, has 761 pages - and add 22 more for the glossary at the end, which I rarely read.

The quote of the day (sobering though it may be) comes from Lan (a Warder - kind of a permanent protector to someone):
'Death is lighter than a feather, Duty heavier than a mountain.'

Whew! Heavy! Where do I go from that - Intermission? Take five to think that over and come on back.

Thinking of that quote also makes me think of a line from 'Parenthood' with Steve Martin - his character is miserable and says 'My whole life is HAVE TO'. Well, a lot of my 'HAVE TO' disappeared February 20th, so I can be thankful for that!

Let's lighten things up a bit. From the movie 'Arthur' with Dudley Moore - he laughs hysterically for no apparent reason and says 'Sometimes I just think funny stuff!' That's me. I usually have a grin going because I'm thinking something humorous MOST OF THE TIME. It's a gift. ;-)

For more Arthur quotes see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082031/quotes (they have just about everything on the web these days, don't they?)

Plans for the day:

• Putter around the house, make the bed, unload the dishwasher, make breakfast, decide what to make for dinner.
• Go swim.
• Make several phone calls - Career Center, 401K people, auto insurance.
• Finish up putting cellophane on the baskets I am making for a fundraiser on Saturday, and make lists of the contents.

Want to see the baskets? You do? Well, all right! Here they are...

Here is my jam, coffee and tea basket.

The next one is a toy, puppet and book basket.

And the last one is a handmade goods basket.

TTFN!