Listening to: Mame – Original Broadway Soundtrack
Reading: Summer Sisters (don’t ask!)
Weather: 70 and sunny
Trivia: HOW DID NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK COME TO BE? --
In the early 1800s, urban sprawl made people appreciate nature more. Many came to see nature as a work of art. In 1853, the New York state legislature authorized spending millions of dollars to create Central Park. The most novel feature of the master plan - sunken roads, so they would not block the view.
Cool word: mad as a hatter
If someone says you are mad as a hatter, they are accusing you of being quite irrational. The sense of madness here is "suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane." This phrase usually refers not to someone who is actually insane, but rather to a more normal person who is behaving in an irrational way. The phrase emerged in England in the 19th century. Hatmakers in those days used a lot of felt that was treated with chemicals
including lead, arsenic, and mercury. Unfortunately, those chemicals are highly toxic. The symptoms of such poisoning include palsy, confused speech, and distorted thinking.
Today, making hats is a much safer profession, but the phrase survives.
An interesting alternate explanation of the phrase derives hatter from Anglo-Saxon atter (poison), which is related to adder (a poisonous snake whose bite was thought to cause insanity).
Flying Time
Where does time go? Especially on the weekends? It just sails right on by me, and suddenly it’s Sunday evening and I’m going through my totebag trying to figure out what I brought home from work and what has to be done. I’m making lunches and I’m ironing outfits for the week.
I know I had two days off, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it.
I can’t say I was totally unproductive, nor was I as productive as I should have been. I still have piles of stuff around that really should be put away, but alas. I can’t figure out where it should go.
I was fairly busy today. I spent time this morning doing work on the Internet that I needed to do, searching for info etc. I could spend an entire day doing that, as I start following links, find all sorts of nifty stuff to look at and read, and suddenly I’m lost in cyberspace. (Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!)
It would be so easy to shut out the entire world and just keep on surfing.
I forced myself to break away from the computer to go and visit my parents today. My brother had just gotten back from a week in Vegas, so he had lots of stories to tell. Unfortunately he didn’t come back a millionaire, but he did come back about $40 ahead.
My mother has had a roof put over the back deck, something she’s wanted to do for a long time. It looks huge. She’s now decided to wall it in and add windows or screens. I’m willing to bet heat is next and it will become an all-season room. She’s very cagey about getting what she wants.
Visitng gave me the chance to do the laundry as well, although I did end up going to the Laundromat. I would have been there forever trying to dry everything, so I stopped at the Laundromat, took over four dryers and was out of there within a half hour.
I shrunk yet another shirt. I’ve gotta learn to pay attention to those tags. You know the ones I mean…they say "dry clean only".
I ended up watching quite a bit of the Ryder cup this afternoon, and I’m really not much of a golf fan. It was an exciting finale. I felt it was my obligation as a Bostonian to watch it, as it’s been all that anyone has been talking about for the last month. I still didn’t understand the scoring, even when the USA pulled it off at the end.
There is something thrilling about watching the pride that these men take in their performance and the closeness that developed among them as a team. It even brought a tear to my eye…sniff.
Here’s the next part of my numerology profile:
Soul Urge: 3
The Soul Urge number has also been called Heart's Desire and Spiritual Urge. It is our secret, innermost longing. Our dream, our motivation, the fuel that energizes our journey. The Soul Urge number reveals what we secretly strive to be or accomplish. Some have said that this number tells us what we have been in previous lifetimes, the accumulated growth of our soul.
Your urge is to bring hope, joy and beauty to all you meet. You feel the best when you are in beautiful and comfortable surroundings. You have a creative essence and use your inspiration and imagination to make others happy. You enjoy attention and admiration, and you desire recognition for your talents.
Once again it’s very true. I perform because I love applause. The best way to get me to do something for you? Compliment me on something I’ve already done. I love to use my imagination and spend all sorts of time thinking about crazy methods of getting lessons across.
And yes, I love beautiful surroundings. The problem is that I don’t have an income to support that love.
I had a dream about Michael last night. He had totally changed his looks and image, and was rather brusque with me. I had kept him waiting, and two girls warned me never to do that to him. It was a weird dream. We were also looking at beautiful, futuristic looking white limousines that were trimmed with bright blue. Even the windshields were totally white. The headlights were itsy bitsy light bulbs that cast a huge amount of light. He ended up being pleasant enough, but it was a weird setting and I had a strange feeling when I woke up.
Any dream interpreters out there?
I also have yet to tell him I’m coming to NYC. I have this fantasy about spending the entire day with him and his even going to a show with me. I don’t expect it to happen, but would like to leave a door open for him to walk thorough if he so chooses.
I just can’t figure out how to word it.
I’ll accept any words of wisdom anyone cares to impart on the subject.
As long as they’re encouraging.
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