Category: Life

  • It’s Like the Engine Won’t Start

    I have been having trouble getting back into the grove after our Thanksgiving break. This is the first time in two days that I have had the time or energy to sit down and just hammer something out. Monday was no motivation, and yesterday I was swamped with chores… well one chore – 6 loads of laundry.

    No one likes it when the vacation comes to an end. And it was a good break. We were with friends up in the deep woods of New England. There was cold weather, and snow, and fires. Lots of relaxing and conversations, and food. We all needed time away from our lives in New York, and we got it. Good times had by all.

    But instead of coming home feeling refreshed, I feel wore out, and lacking focus and drive. I am getting the minimum done, you know, to keep me and the family going. But everything else feels so difficult. I even forced myself to go to bed early last night, with the hope of an early bed and an early rise will get everything jump started. Except I woke up at 3am and really didn’t get back to sleep. I’ve been dragging today.

    The day isn’t over, there is still plenty of time. But, I don’t think a short story review is coming today. I need to work on Christmas things, because that isn’t too far away.

    I just need to get going…

  • It’s That Time of Year…

    … For a monkey washing a cat.

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    I hope you are getting a chance to share with the people in your life that you are thankful for on this day.

    In that spirit, here’s one of the best Thanksgiving themes ever written…

  • Getting Ready for Tomorrow…

    Just a reminder that some of us might need a Leslie Jones at our house…

  • Last Day of Work Before Vacation

    There are a couple of things that I miss about working. I was lucky enough to have a couple of office experiences with some really great people, so to camaraderie of working with stealer people is one thing I miss. The other was working on a day before vacation starts. It was such a wasted day, and also a day that felt the closest to what the last day of school was like. (And for that matter, the feeling of the last day of school is the greatest feeling that I wish desperately that I could experience again… but alas… that is a story for another blog.) Sitting in an office, talking to co-workers about the pending holiday that we would all be off for, and just watching the minutes tick by was such a slow burn of boredom and anticipation wrapped in one. I don’t think I spilling the beans on the fact that in an office, no one, and I mean no one, works on the last day before vacation.

    There were so many times in the office, before Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or 4th of July, when we would spend the whole day just taking, swapping stories about families, and crazy things uncles and aunts would do after a bourbon or two. Bad Christmas gifts from siblings was a popular topic as well. A few times, I think before Christmas vacation, the office would head out to a bar and hang out for a couple drinks. Christmas lights and martini’s is a state of mind during the Holiday Season.