Airlines, briefly

I am disappointed in the service of the American Airline industry and AA. I used to really like them and would choose their company over others. I've decided I much prefer foreign airlines others... namely JAL's service as of this last trip. More to come later.

shopping marathon

i've never shopped as much as i have in this past week. everyday it seems, we're at some department store or clothes shop buying this or that. i'm "along for the ride" and exhausted by the end of the day. i guess that's what happens when you put 4 generations of women in a family together. they get together and shop. either for clothes, presents, souvenirs or what not. it's been exhausting even for me...and i'm usually pretty patient with shopping.

world is still spinning

well of course the earth is spinning. it's always spinning.

but i'm feeling dizzy still. lack of sleep. jet lag & travel worn...
experienced little bouts of dizziness, esp going up 90+ flights in the world's fastest elevator.

The world was spinning all day

i woke up. ate breakfast with dh, and the world started to spin. i was incredibly dizzy. i lay down on the couch, thinking i was just lacking sleep. eventually i went back to sleep and awoke from the nap in the afternoon, still dizzy. Vertigo. it was very uncomfortable...and trippy. it was like motion sickness, but i was on land and in the house. even when i closed my eyes (usually that helps when I get migranes etc), i was still dizzy and the world was spinning behind my eyelids. i had no extra symptoms, no headache, no body aches, nothing, but dizziness. just felt like the world was spinning around me. it caused me to throw up. it was worse than morning sickness. i was nauseous and yucky and dizzy and nothing helped. couldn't keep down food or fluids. took dramamine and threw that up too.

eventually with intervention, i slowly felt better. thank God for that!

even now...my head feels a bit spinny. my equilibrium is off.

She's napping!

YAY! She's finally napping today!

Happy Birthday to my dearest!

Happy Birthday to the man in my life! Thanks for being born! I'm glad that you are here today. Yay!

"Momsense" on YouTube

so gone are the days when i could surf YouTube for fun. i don't have that type of time anymore, but a friend sent me this one.

the summer i was prego with the dependent, i was so nauseous that i stayed in bed mostly and surfed the net b/c i didn't know what else to do. my lil bro suggested that i surf YouTube and so i did. i liked all the Japanese practical joke videos.

boring posts

as i look back at the previous posts...gosh...how boring. it doesn't really reflect who i am or anything. from the posts, i seem to live a super dull life of domesticity where painting my walls, buying photo frames, and paper towels are the highlight of my life. what's up with that? ahhh! oh wait! i AM a SAHM. i am being assimilated...

dh posts about politics and all i can share is my preference for paper towels. has my brain become soft and mushy? oh wait! it was already soft and mushy with white and gray matter, csf - mostly water (almost 80%!), a bit of lipids, some protein & carbs, and then other organic stuff. haha!

that's the thing about blogging or journaling. what is written is later interpreted as a glimpse into the person's life/mind or what not. but what i choose to write about here doesn't even reflect my whole life at all or much less what is going on in my mind most of the time. i think i select these really random tidbits that say absolutely nothing and then expand it into a blog entry. doesn't that seem like a waste of time? maybe?

i should probably start writing stuff of "import" or "interest" but hey... the blog IS titled "MUSINGS of a RANDOM mind" so why should i feel responsibility to publish things of import or to edify the general public?

i certainly don't want to journal publicly. though i DO feel that i need to journal...of important things in my life, my milestones, my stories. but not here. where shall i journal...hmm...

i write enough about the dependent on her blog. so that takes up most of my limited time to blog. i think for me that's good enough, to document the dependent's growth, developmental milestones, etc.

maybe this blog will eventually evolve into something more substantial. but for now...it's going to continue to be random musings. mostly ambiguous, non-identifying stuff from me. more "fluff." but it's all from yours truly.

read on! whoo hoo!

paper towels

before i forget...random story...

so the other night, i discovered that blue liquid laundry detergent had leaked onto and into a large package of paper towels that i left on top of the washer. i quickly separated the "stained" from the "non-stained" and salvaged the ones that had not soaked up any detergent. there was a particular roll that had detergent on 1/3 of the bottom diameter, but not soaked through it. being the non-wasteful offspring of really frugal parents, i couldn't bear to toss the whole roll. i proceeded to attempt to save the roll by cutting off the soaked "corner." dh saw me, laughed, took the serrated bread knife and proceeded to cut off the bottom 3-in cylinder of the roll. i laughed, and we then switched to one of those Forever sharp surgical stainless steel knives that my mother had given to us (she buys those gimmicky TV items) to saw the roll. paper towel shavings were flying everywhere. but we "saved the roll" by shortening it. ridiculous...and the time was really late at night. i was just totally ocd and couldn't let it be. ha ha!

we usually get the Bounty select a size. we also like Viva b/c of its clothlike feel and absorbency. but this last time i ended up buying Sparkle, don't ask me why. just did - maybe to give another brand a try. and we just don't like it as much. oh and we like them in white, but the Sparkle i bought has patterns on it, and i definitely prefer the white.

photo frames

i think i spend too much money on photos & photo frames. but i really like photos and portraits. i like "decorating" the house. not with TONS of photos, but selected family ones in our stairwell...

i finally bought more frames and mats for the portraits we took in august. framed them and put them up today. i got some on sale! yay! and i didn't even know they were on sale until i checked out. i may go back and get some more frames...

eventually i think i'll buy a digital frame. but i'll wait for now...

i haven't printed off any of the ones i've taken in the past year. i just store them on our hard drives and look at them, and periodically email them to peeps. mostly family that requests it. and then they come up on the screen saver. oh and i post them to the dependent's blog. they're all mostly of the dependent anyways.

painted wall...

when we 1st moved in, we decided to "add some color" to our new place. i decided we should paint the dining room wall. it was 1st supposed to be a light green, leafy color to match a leaf jacquard table cloth, a tea set and some green accessories, like a light greenish window treatment. well, i took the tea cup to do the color match, took the paint home, and dh painted the whole wall for me...and it was too green.




so after some brainstorming and another paint purchase, i decided to do a whole layering effect. i diluted a taupe brown color with water, and did a wash over the green to tone it down. then i used a sponge brush and stenciled on leaves. next, i diluted a light green with water and glaze, and painted vines and also stenciled on leaves over that. here is the result. very organic, patterned, and brings together the dining room elements much better.




We also decided that it should be a half wall of color, and not the whole wall.

blogging bandwagon

yay! got dh to jump on the blogging bandwagon!
so i muse while he rants.
he probably will have a lot more substance to his posts.

mine is just fluff....so far...

got lots of computer "to do's" done today. caught up on a lot of posts and updates and uploading of photos.

why?

so much to do. so little time!
so here it is in the wee hours of the morn...
burning the midnight oil, doing stuff... for them.
they better appreciate this.

much better

woke up super early today. and i feel fine. feel good and very productive. ready for a brand new day. the dependent is still sleeping. yay.

i think i will tackle many things today. i'm in one of those super productive states. it's a good day.

i really like breakfast foods. funny that i'm a night owl and not really a morning person. i'm eating some nice crispy pancakes right now. i like them crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. it's a delicate balance. dh made me some eggs too. yummy! i like eggs. i also like them crispy on the outside (border) and soft on the inside. had some yummy crepes at R&R's Monday morning. haha! their initials are R&R. we did get lots of rest and relaxation there too! i'm going to tell them that. in the future, that's what it'll be. we will go for rest & relaxation at R&R's!

don't really feel like doing much

i'm tired. my head sorta hurts. i know i have a lot to do...and stuff that i'm not even remembering to do. i think i've forgotten to do a lot of things. and i'm perfecting procrastination - to where things are procrastinated to the point where doing them is just pointless anyways. i think this is the accumulation of years of sleep deprivation and a messed up circadian rhythm and biological cycle.

the dependent is sleeping. and i should be taking advantange of the time to be productive, but alas, i'm going to do "not much."

i'm going to catch up on reading my friends' blogs.