Sporting my new, easy 'do at Michigan's Adventure
Ok now, this is a catch up post. Because I've been on vacation this week and being really lazy about this blog (although I have written in the other one, which I may or may not tell you about some other time.)
Hair (If this topic bores you, skip to the next subhead.)
Tuesday I decided I just had to have my hair cut right now. I hadn't had it cut since February in prep for my trip to Hawaii. I don't know why. I've never let my hair go so long between cuts; Ive always been an every 5-6 weeks kind of gal. Guess it's true, as one friend suggested, that I've been letting myself go of late. LOL!
Anyhow, I like this cut 'cause I don't have to do ANYTHING with it if I don't want to, other than mess with the bangs a little. Too late I realized it is exactly like my sister Loraine's hair, but oh well. She's a blonde. And I never see her anyway. (Sorry Lor. Just kiddin'. Really!)
GR Blogger (If you don't like this one, you're so in the wrong place.)
I finally went to my newsreader today (didn't get very far, however) and saw -- wowee! -- TWO new Technorati search results for this blog. One was from my buddy at work, who links to me every now and then, especially since I quit blogging for my company :-).
The other was from a blogger here in GR whom I've read a couple of times and who is a member, as am I, of the Grand Rapids Bloggers Webring (oh, the buddy above is a member also). Matt VanDyk is an attorney here in town who seems to have started a blog rather recently. He's done a waaaaay better job than I have of ferreting out local bloggers, and some worthwhile reads, too. Well, Matt has me on his blogroll right now, which is cool. He's got several recommendeds on his site, which I'm going to check out. Trouble is, they all seem to be Calvin grads. (As is he. Hey, Aaron, you should be on the list -- do you know Matt?) Well, I guess that's not really a problem. And anyhow, I do sing at Calvin in the Oratorio Society and my last name begins with Vander ... Maybe those two things make me meet the criteria????
Reading (This one's for Lori S. and you.)
A couple of my friends have tried to encourage me to read more, one by loaning me a bag of books (which I have yet to read or return) and another by telling me pointedly, "You need to read more." So right now I have three books with bookmarks showing progress made in each since oh, January. Pretty pathetic, I know.
The one I'm working hardest to get out of the way is the worst: Scar Tissue by the Red Hot Chili Peppers's Anthony Kiedis is getting pretty ho-hum after 335 pages (only 130 to go!) of fired guitar players, drugs, sex, shows, drugs, girlfriends, sex ... I mean, how many girls can possibly be the sweetest angel ever in Anthony's world? Quite a few, evidently, but it's geting old.
I'm also reading a free pdf version of Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture, and I'm going to say that the reason I haven't finished that one yet is that my pdf is stored on the flash drive that I ruined ... no, that excuse won't work for a downloadable file, will it? OK. Anyhow, I'm about halfway through Lessig's look at where art and culture are headed in the digital age. If you've ever illegally downloaded even one song off the internet, you need to read it. It's scary. Truly!Which is maybe the real reason I haven't finished it. (You're not buying that either, are ya?)
The third book I really just started this week (OK, so I lied about January). It's a fiction work by Goldberry Long called Juniper Tree Burning. The name of the novel is also the female protagonist's name, and so far most of her problem seems to stem from a troubled upbringing that is exacerbated by (and obviously signified by) having been given such an odd appellation. So far the woman mostly just irritates me -- she's a real hard-ass bitch. I'm thinking she'll redeem herself though, so I'll keep reading.
Weekend (You're almost done. Hooray!)
The daughters and their cousin are spending the weekend at my folks' house in Muskegon. My brother-in-law (the niece/cousin/god daughter's dad) is here entertaining my husband. There's nobody online -- NOBODY -- to talk to, so I'm just taking it easy. Reading, walking the dog, taking little naps, lounging in the sun, half heartedly catching up on stuff online. For two nights now I've gotten away with refusing to do much in the way of fixing dinner. OH -- I do have some laundry I'd better get busy on, but other than that it's been a nice, lazy weekend. A fitting wrap up to a pretty laid back week off. Well, the dog is whining at me, so I guess I'll take her for a walk before it gets too dark. Can't neglect all my duties, don'tcha know.
