Halloween is almost here, and it's all I can do to prevent myself from diving headfirst into the candy display at Vons and just sort of rolling around until a few dozen "fun size" candy bars unwrap themselves and accidentally fall into my gaping maw.
While Susan enjoys quality time (and, we hope, calorie-laden meals) with her family in West Virginia, let's use this opportunity to play candy confessions. Please, no Godiva snobbery—just state your favorite three varieties of store-bought candy.
I'll go first:
1. Snickers
2. Peppermint Patties
3. M&Ms
Happy Halloween!
So Susan's starting her Hotel Hope stint, and you know how she hates missing out on all the fun she just knows we're going to have without her.
I propose that each of us commit to 30 days of really boring activities. The kind of pursuits Susan would be happy to skip. It's the least we can do to show our support.
Here's what I plan to do during her stay at CoH:
1. Alphabetize my spices.
2. Organize my sock drawer.
3. Clean the grout in bathroom with an old toothbrush.
4. Memorize all the state capitals.
5. Color my gray roots.
In your comments, please share the really tedious and/or boring activities you have planned for Smooky's hospital stay.
Remember, keep any really exciting news to yourself. We just don't want to know.
Having a bazillion gigabytes of storage is great when you have years and years of project files to save (and save again on a back-up drive). However, if you plop digital files in the wrong digital folder, they may languish there for years.
Imagine my surprise at seeing Smooky in a completely unrelated client folder. Skye Moorhead took this portrait and others during a "writers' photo day" a few years ago. I am close personal friends with Skye, so I got to see her favorite shot of each writer.
Why I filed the shots where I did is anyone's guess. I can't blame chemo brain, but I do use industrial-strength hair dye to cover my gray. Maybe the fumes?
What have you lost—or found—on your hard drive?
Gosh, it's been days since I used words likes "platelets" and "catheter" in casual conversation. Here are five ways to pass the time until Susan's next entry:
1. Giggle over fashion disasters in Go Fug Yourself.
2. Get green(er) with eco-tips from Ideal Bite.
3. Create an anagram from your name. For instance, Linda Sue Carrier becomes (heh, heh) "surlier radiance."
4. Coo over The Daily Puppy.
5. See how tech support worked in Medieval times. (You'll have to read subtitles.)
