Sleepless thoughts: denouement

I slept better last night, but there was still a lot of tossing and turning. I’m usually a champion sleeper and can quickly conk out in a bed, chair, on a sofa or floor, in a car, bus, train or plane. Could it be latent worries about the financial crisis? (Dear gov’t: since you are bailing out your big business buddies, can you forgive me about $17K in credit card debt? kthxbye) And I just don’t know enough about what’s going on to know if the bailout failing was good or bad - neither party seemed wholly on board with it. If anyone can point me to a primer of sorts on what’s going wrong, drop me a link in the comments. Hopping into the story now is like trying to hop into “Lost.”*

I really wanted Pelosi to be a great Speaker of the House, but she’s not too skilled with consensus building and failed to get her own (D) team to pass this bill on their own - they had the numbers.

I just want to know when I need to scope out my apple-selling corner or if I should have gone to the Starbucks job fair at lunch yesterday for a part time gig.

Anyway, the resolutions of yesterday’s “issues” that plagued me:

I took the Ben Franklin bridge and the happy travelers are home safe.

Diet. Bleah. But ignore me for now and congratulate Dave in California (not to be confused with Dr. Dave or BvP) on making his weight loss goal. He did it the way it’s supposed to be done. Huzzah!! (tosses confetti)

The C-P is moving its staff blogs to a new server, so my WoW blog’s undergoing a bit of maintenance at the moment. So no real updating until I copy over my old posts. I’ll promote the new link here when it’s ready. I’d love to have the most successful non-sports blog there. Why? Because I’m one of only two staff bloggers who doesn’t have the name recognition of writing for the paper.

The bangs are really a long layer, and they’re cute. They do start bugging mid-day, so I end up pulling them back anyway.

Samantha Who starts in 2 weeks, and this year’s “Dancing” cast is pretty meh. With the exception of Warren Sapp, that is. He can move!

Meet & Greet pushed back ’til Thursday which gives me time to track down the 4 ads that we have no artwork/copy for.

Still missing a house. But that’ll come.

The car’s pretty well aired out and the Febreze seemed to work. I’m going to take it to a car wash at lunch and vacuum out the interior because a summer of festivals and fun has left me with a sandy, junky car.

*By the way, have you seen the little one-sheet pieces at Starbucks? Each week up to the election they (partnered with Good magazine) put out a free info sheet on an important issue. It looks to be one broadsheet folded in half then quarters. This week’s is on Immigration. It’s very graphical and downright genius because it explains the issue, the controversies, and where each of the candidates stand. Genius, genius, genius.

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Odd little weekend

Friday night we stayed home and watched the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics. You’ve read it everywhere else, so I’m being redundant when I say it was the most amazing Opening Ceremonies I have ever seen. My favorite part was the creation of the gigantic painting.

The plan yesterday was to go out to breakfast, get some errands done and hit Collingswood’s Craft Festival. But when I fell asleep in the car after breakfast, I knew things weren’t going to go as planned.
We came right home and I fell asleep on the sofa for close to 4 hours. I slowly started to feel alive again. I guess I needed the sleep?

I felt badly about missing the craft show, but we switched our plan to go today instead. I woke up excited. First, we hit Wegmans for the necessaries. But while we were there, the skies opened up and the thunder rolled. So…blah. We came right home and it rained a good part of the afternoon. Groceries were put away, laundry was done. I tried to sew my skirt, but during the process I realized I completely cut the fabric incorrectly, which would have resulted in a giant seam going down the front of my crazy polka dot skirt. Which would have worked - I think - if the dots were lined up properly down the front. Which of course, they weren’t. So I’ll pick up some more cheap fabric from JoAnn and try it again.

And that was my weekend. Maybe I’m just feeling down because this time last year we were about ready to go to Walt Disney World.

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