StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

Archives for October 2008

Windy Wednesday…

As I sit here in the dark morning, the wind is howling outside my windows…yikes!  It isn’t even November yet!  Temps are “normal” but with wind chill figured in, the meteorologist this morning said to take a warm coat. Speaking of warm, I have had a sharp, throbbing pain in my right center right buttock […]

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Monday morning, can’t trust that day…

It is so dark in the mornings these days.  Normally, I am a morning person…early to bed, early to rise. But, a combination of late-night baseball playoffs/World Series, menopausal middle-of-the-night wakefulness and the early-morning darkness, I do not want to get out of bed.  Woe is me! Rehearsals for Steel Magnolias are going well.  I […]

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I’m stalling…

It is 9:30am on Saturday and I should be outside staining the repaired trim work P just finished.  Instead, I am wallowing in kittens (asleep on my legs), watching FoodTV, trying to let the caffeine and Focalin kick in.  Naughty me… This has been a tough week, workwise.  I work for a real estate lawyer […]

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More kittens…

We are still hopelessly, shamelessly in love with Puck and Phoebe…they are now almost 3 months old and are still full of kittenish bounce and frisk.  As they get older, though, we approach the moment that makes me very nervous…reopening the cat door to the basement which is open to the outdoors.  I grew up […]

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Ahhhhhh…

I LOVE autumn in New England.  I have a half hour drive from home to work, through woods and streams and fields.  The leaves are turning, the corn fields are harvested and full of canada geese, and every now and again I spot a family of deer strolling across a grassy meadow.  The smell of […]

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