Insert ethereal music here. Throw in some singing angels...
Side note: Do you know that the Bible NEVER mentions angels singing? They "say" and they "proclaim", but they do not "sing" - at least not in the Biblical reports.
Just thought you needed to know that.
Groovy is smiling now because some of you are digging out your Bibles in indignation as you imagine the chaos when next Christmas is heralded by "Hark, the Herald Angels Say".
Ok, so back to the light and the music. We bought a therapy light yesterday. I was trying to decide between buying from our local friendly medical supply store and buying online. We opted for local. But I'm wishing we hadn't. The online light had a lifetime guarantee and a promise of 10,000 lux at 24". This one is 10,000 lux at 12", meaning I have to be very close to the light for a therapy treatment.
The med supply store was clear that we can't bring it back if it doesn't help my SAD, but we can bring it back if it doesn't function properly. Well, one of the lights flickers and that's a no-no, so this one will be back to the store soon - I'm gonna get the online one.
All those boring details aside, I had my first treatment this morning. It was rather weird.
Several years ago I had a friend who was selling those Nikken therapy magnets. We dutifully tried them. Mulletman taped them on to relieve muscle tension. Scout tried them to help him recover from football injuries. I could never use them at all. Put a magnet on me for very long and my fillings start to get warm and I get a strong metallic taste in my mouth. This is true even if the magnet is on my ankle! You can imagine how I leapt out of the chair 5 minutes after they covered me with a magnetic blanket! Oy!
The even stranger thing is that I only have a couple of fillings. Hmmm...
And so, this morning I tried the light. It was slightly off centered to my right and folks, my whole right jaw feels warm and tingly. When I realized this was happening, I repositioned the light more to the center. Unfortunately, it was almost to the end of my treatment time, so I'm not sure it helped. Now I have a headache behind my right eye and across the right side of my scalp.
Perhaps 1/2 hour ws too long for a first session!
Tomorrow I'll try just 20 minutes and make sure the light is dead center. I know you are all hanging on the edge of your seats to see how this saga concludes, so I will keep you posted.
I just realized that it will be extremely difficult to use the light on Sunday morning. We have to be at the church at 7am to practice music. I usually get up at 5am and I'm running the whole time...Ain't no way I'm getting up at 4:30! Maybe I can eke out 20 minutes if I bathe the night before instead of showering Sunday morning.
Wow. If this post was any more exciting, you folks would need tranquilizers.
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I would be remiss if I did not insert a very happy cheer into this post:
GO MIKE HUCKABEE!!!! WHOO-HOO!!!!
In case I haven't told you before - I Like Mike!
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No hamsters yet. Mulletman is getting anxious now, so he's going to check the pet stores in Bangor. Surely SOMEONE has some cute little Chinese dwarfs.
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I feel tremendously petty for complaining about our paltry pelting of precipitation when the Sierra Nevada mountains are s'posed to get TEN FEET of snow over the next few days...Ten feet. I can't even fathom that much snow!
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GrammaJ is coming over today to do her laundry and hang out. Her birthday is tomorrow and we decided to celebrate with an overnighter. Tonight is homemade tacos and some sort of wonderful but yet to be decided on dessert. Tomorrow she and I will go out alone for lunch to have either seafood or Chinese. (Just for your info: We will not be eating Chinese hamsters.)
GrammaJ will be 69.
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I've decided that the only way to avoid have school every blueberry-picking day of our Maine summer (we ain't got no cotton, ya'll) we shall have school six days a week for the next few months. Fortunately, the girlies are so sheltered and naive that they don't know they're supposed to have Saturdays off.
Ignorance IS bliss!
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I need to unload three seasons of Little House on the Prairie dvds. The girlies got them for Christmas, but aren't interested. They'd rather have the books! (Can I hear an AMEN to that?!!)
The dvds were purchased for us from Amazon and it's a big butt pain to try to return them. They are all brand new. If you're interested, you can buy them from me for $35 per season (Seasons 1,2, and 3), shipping included. You could pay me on PayPal.
Any takers?
Showing posts with label 25th anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 25th anniversary. Show all posts
07 April 2007
Longfellow's Wayside Inn (aka Day 1of the Getaway)
Mr. Clean, My Psychotic Husband
The first getaway day dawned bright and sunny and a bit windy. I was all packed and ready to go out the door a little before 10:00am, but Mulletman (aka Mr. Clean) decided that he needed to wash, vacuum, scrub, and otherwise detail BOTH vehicles before we left.
If you know Mulletman, this does not surprise you.
About 10:30 I went outside and stared at him. He finally looked up and saw me. Slowly it dawned on him that he was gumming up the start to a much anticipated celebration and he began to blush.
"Sorry. Thanks for putting up with my psychotic behavior."
"Oh, it's fine really. I DO appreciate riding in a pristine car. And it's very thoughtful of you to leave the van clean too so we don't have to worry about that when we get back."
I kept on staring, a tolerant smile locked on my face.
"I'll be psychotic a little more quickly!" he blurted and started rubbing for all he was worth.
To his credit, He was showered and ready to go within 20 minutes of our conversation!
On The Road!
Once we were on the road, everything was lovely. We ran some errands, ate a leisurely lunch at Panera Bread (Their soup in a bread bowl is my favorite!), and made the obligatory stop at LLBean in Freeport. We have an LLBean credit card and therefore earn "Bean Bucks". Translated into English this means that we can go to Bean and get very expensive stuff for free. Nii-iice!
We meandered our way toward Boston and, naturally got stuck in rush hour traffic behind the honk-and-go lady. I don't know what was up with this woman. We kindly paused and let her turn out in front of us. From that moment on if we stopped - which we did quite often because it was rush hour - she STAYED stopped. She was looking at and fiddling with something down on the seat beside her. The anxious type-A behind us would lay on the horn, I would give a light tap on mine and then she'd look up and go 20 feet to the next stop. And then she'd do it again. And again and again and again. I thought the guy behind us was going to have a coronary! Oh well, nothing's perfect.
Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Our first overnight destination was Longfellow's Wayside Inn in South Sudbury, Mass. Please DO take a few moments to look at their website - especially the pdf map of the grounds.
The place is extraordinarily old (for America) and tremendously groovy! It is, in fact, the oldest continuous inn in the U.S. It was immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his book of poems, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Naturally, we bought a copy of the book for a couple of literary geeks we know (I wonder who?).
There are 10 rooms in the Inn; 8 in the new wing and 2 in the oldest parts of the building. Rooms 9 and 10 enjoy the presence of a ghost or two (or so they say!). Our room, #5, was furnished entirely with beautiful antiques. The comfy king-sized bed was covered with a gorgeous handmade quilt.
The Secret Drawer Society
As we snooped around, we discovered that the antique secretary desk (no pic, sorry!) was stuffed full of notes from previous guests. There were YEARS worth of notes in there! Apparently it is a tradition at the Inn for guests to take part in the coveted "Secret Drawer Society". The premise is that each guest will write a note and hide it somewhere in the room to be later discovered by others. This set us to hunting. In addition to the desk, we found notes written on the backs of all the pictures and mirrors in the room (even in the bathroom), on the tags of the chairs, and under the extra pillows inside the big dressers. We had a great time adding our own notes to the stash!
Exploration
We still had a little time before dinner, so we toured the inside of the Inn. In true New England style it has been added on to innumerable times and some portions were rebuilt after a fire. Consequently, it goes on and on and on! Most of the many, many rooms have been converted into dining rooms, all of which are decked out in true colonial style. Even the lighting is colonial. They don't use real candles in the sconces and chandeliers, but the electric lights they use look like lanterns or candles and are kept quite dim.
Because the Inn is a popular tourist attraction, they set aside one of Henry Ford's rooms for the exclusive use of their overnight guests. It was pretty, but it wasn't really a good place to hang-out. The room was fairly large and all the furniture was in straight lines along the walls. Fortunately, there were a few books and magazines and, of course a television. A very SMALL television. A very small television with an antenna rigged with a COAT HANGER. It was so incongruous with the rest of the Inn that we had to get a picture:
A Wonderful Anniversary Meal
We had our supper in the main dining room. It was incredible! Since the meal was included in the price of our stay, we thought we'd have a limitation on menu choices, but we didn't. We could order anything we wanted! Mulletman had steak with salad, marvelous mashed potatoes, perfectly cooked veggies and apple pie. I had lamb with the same sides and indian pudding for dessert.
Embarassing Moments
Before the meal they brought out a basket of their famous breads and muffins made from flour that's stone ground in their own grist mill. Awesome! They also brought out a little dish with a small scoop of something orange in it.
"Ah," I said knowledgably. "That's orange sherbet to cleanse our pallets between the salad and the main course." Mulletman agreed, of course, because I am the culinary genius of the family. When we finished our salads, he handed me the dish and a spoon. I took a spoonful and slid it into my mouth…
It was cheesespread for the crackers! I thought Mm was going to keel over with laughter. Embarassing, yes, but I was not the only clever one on the trip.
We left the girlies with their grandparents while we were gone. Since Gramps is in poor health it seemed prudent for us to take a cell phone with us. We don't have a cell phone, but the folks have a cheap, open-faced trackphone. So we charged it up and brought it with us.
During the meal, Mm got up and went to the restroom. While he was washing his hands he started hearing a distant voice saying, "Hello? Hello? HELLO!?" Suddenly he realized that this voice was coming from his pocket. He had bumped his pocket and accidentally auto-dialed his brother in California! After they had a nice, though unexpected chat, we went on with our meal.
Of course, then I had to one-up him by trying fervently to unlock the door to our room, only to realize quite suddenly that I was trying to break into Room THREE which had a prominent "DO NOT DISTURB" sign displayed. Eeek! You can bet I disappeared from that scene in record time!
Gift Shop Treasures
After we ate, we scouted out all the goodies in the gift shop. We got the girlies some wooden fifes, bought the aforementioned book for the geeks and got ourselves several bars of homemade bayberry soap (only $1 a bar!) and this beautiful "bun warmer".
BedTime!!!
We retired early that night ;-) , put up our own "DO NOT DISTURB" sign and, um, enjoyed the evening.
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Coming Soon: Day 2
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The first getaway day dawned bright and sunny and a bit windy. I was all packed and ready to go out the door a little before 10:00am, but Mulletman (aka Mr. Clean) decided that he needed to wash, vacuum, scrub, and otherwise detail BOTH vehicles before we left.
If you know Mulletman, this does not surprise you.
About 10:30 I went outside and stared at him. He finally looked up and saw me. Slowly it dawned on him that he was gumming up the start to a much anticipated celebration and he began to blush.
"Sorry. Thanks for putting up with my psychotic behavior."
"Oh, it's fine really. I DO appreciate riding in a pristine car. And it's very thoughtful of you to leave the van clean too so we don't have to worry about that when we get back."
I kept on staring, a tolerant smile locked on my face.
"I'll be psychotic a little more quickly!" he blurted and started rubbing for all he was worth.
To his credit, He was showered and ready to go within 20 minutes of our conversation!
On The Road!
Once we were on the road, everything was lovely. We ran some errands, ate a leisurely lunch at Panera Bread (Their soup in a bread bowl is my favorite!), and made the obligatory stop at LLBean in Freeport. We have an LLBean credit card and therefore earn "Bean Bucks". Translated into English this means that we can go to Bean and get very expensive stuff for free. Nii-iice!
We meandered our way toward Boston and, naturally got stuck in rush hour traffic behind the honk-and-go lady. I don't know what was up with this woman. We kindly paused and let her turn out in front of us. From that moment on if we stopped - which we did quite often because it was rush hour - she STAYED stopped. She was looking at and fiddling with something down on the seat beside her. The anxious type-A behind us would lay on the horn, I would give a light tap on mine and then she'd look up and go 20 feet to the next stop. And then she'd do it again. And again and again and again. I thought the guy behind us was going to have a coronary! Oh well, nothing's perfect.
Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Our first overnight destination was Longfellow's Wayside Inn in South Sudbury, Mass. Please DO take a few moments to look at their website - especially the pdf map of the grounds.
The place is extraordinarily old (for America) and tremendously groovy! It is, in fact, the oldest continuous inn in the U.S. It was immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his book of poems, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Naturally, we bought a copy of the book for a couple of literary geeks we know (I wonder who?).
There are 10 rooms in the Inn; 8 in the new wing and 2 in the oldest parts of the building. Rooms 9 and 10 enjoy the presence of a ghost or two (or so they say!). Our room, #5, was furnished entirely with beautiful antiques. The comfy king-sized bed was covered with a gorgeous handmade quilt.
The Secret Drawer Society
As we snooped around, we discovered that the antique secretary desk (no pic, sorry!) was stuffed full of notes from previous guests. There were YEARS worth of notes in there! Apparently it is a tradition at the Inn for guests to take part in the coveted "Secret Drawer Society". The premise is that each guest will write a note and hide it somewhere in the room to be later discovered by others. This set us to hunting. In addition to the desk, we found notes written on the backs of all the pictures and mirrors in the room (even in the bathroom), on the tags of the chairs, and under the extra pillows inside the big dressers. We had a great time adding our own notes to the stash!
Exploration
We still had a little time before dinner, so we toured the inside of the Inn. In true New England style it has been added on to innumerable times and some portions were rebuilt after a fire. Consequently, it goes on and on and on! Most of the many, many rooms have been converted into dining rooms, all of which are decked out in true colonial style. Even the lighting is colonial. They don't use real candles in the sconces and chandeliers, but the electric lights they use look like lanterns or candles and are kept quite dim.
Because the Inn is a popular tourist attraction, they set aside one of Henry Ford's rooms for the exclusive use of their overnight guests. It was pretty, but it wasn't really a good place to hang-out. The room was fairly large and all the furniture was in straight lines along the walls. Fortunately, there were a few books and magazines and, of course a television. A very SMALL television. A very small television with an antenna rigged with a COAT HANGER. It was so incongruous with the rest of the Inn that we had to get a picture:
A Wonderful Anniversary Meal
We had our supper in the main dining room. It was incredible! Since the meal was included in the price of our stay, we thought we'd have a limitation on menu choices, but we didn't. We could order anything we wanted! Mulletman had steak with salad, marvelous mashed potatoes, perfectly cooked veggies and apple pie. I had lamb with the same sides and indian pudding for dessert.
Embarassing Moments
Before the meal they brought out a basket of their famous breads and muffins made from flour that's stone ground in their own grist mill. Awesome! They also brought out a little dish with a small scoop of something orange in it.
"Ah," I said knowledgably. "That's orange sherbet to cleanse our pallets between the salad and the main course." Mulletman agreed, of course, because I am the culinary genius of the family. When we finished our salads, he handed me the dish and a spoon. I took a spoonful and slid it into my mouth…
It was cheesespread for the crackers! I thought Mm was going to keel over with laughter. Embarassing, yes, but I was not the only clever one on the trip.
We left the girlies with their grandparents while we were gone. Since Gramps is in poor health it seemed prudent for us to take a cell phone with us. We don't have a cell phone, but the folks have a cheap, open-faced trackphone. So we charged it up and brought it with us.
During the meal, Mm got up and went to the restroom. While he was washing his hands he started hearing a distant voice saying, "Hello? Hello? HELLO!?" Suddenly he realized that this voice was coming from his pocket. He had bumped his pocket and accidentally auto-dialed his brother in California! After they had a nice, though unexpected chat, we went on with our meal.
Of course, then I had to one-up him by trying fervently to unlock the door to our room, only to realize quite suddenly that I was trying to break into Room THREE which had a prominent "DO NOT DISTURB" sign displayed. Eeek! You can bet I disappeared from that scene in record time!
Gift Shop Treasures
After we ate, we scouted out all the goodies in the gift shop. We got the girlies some wooden fifes, bought the aforementioned book for the geeks and got ourselves several bars of homemade bayberry soap (only $1 a bar!) and this beautiful "bun warmer".
BedTime!!!
We retired early that night ;-) , put up our own "DO NOT DISTURB" sign and, um, enjoyed the evening.
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Coming Soon: Day 2
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03 April 2007
Spring in Maine
Yep. It's SPRING. In Maine. Oh. Boy. Goody. Goody. Yee. Haw.
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Celebrating 25 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart. April 3, 1982 to April 3,2007
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THEN:
And Now:
Details on the romantic getaway are forthcoming. I should have the first installation up on Thursday.
Since we already had 4 days away and alone we're going out tonight with the folks and the girlies for seafood.
Will the fun never end????? ;-)
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Celebrating 25 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart. April 3, 1982 to April 3,2007
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THEN:
And Now:
Details on the romantic getaway are forthcoming. I should have the first installation up on Thursday.
Since we already had 4 days away and alone we're going out tonight with the folks and the girlies for seafood.
Will the fun never end????? ;-)
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