Archive for June, 2008
Sailing Away
by Donna on June 30th, 2008
On Saturday I hopped into my car and drove to Maryland. I chartered a sailboat and took a two hour cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. It was very nice. The captain looked like a real sea dog. He wore a Hawaiian shirt, had a long white beard and incessantly played Jimmy Buffet music. The boat was called The Crab Imperial, which I thought was pretty funny.
I need to do things like this more often despite the rising gasoline costs. Even though it was just a regular weekend, it somehow felt like a mini-vacation because I got away.
Discus Love
by Donna on June 28th, 2008
I guess it was putting together those images for the mosaic in my previous post that prompted it. Last night I dreamed I was back in track– back in the discus circle– and flinging that damn discus as far as I could! I started at the back of the circle and I performed an absolutely perfect spin. The discus left my hand as my feet were off the ground, dangling in mid air! I watched it fly through the air like a ufo. It landed on a house’s roof and bounced off. All those great emotions I used to feel were there, rushing back to me. It was a great dream. Maybe tomorrow I can dream about my love of shot put. The wet ground, the cold, muddy shot pressed against my neck… heaving that bitch as far as I could! OH GOD I LOVED THROWING!
How would yours look? Like this…
by Donna on June 27th, 2008
I so rarely do this type of thing but I saw it at Dustbury (he swiped it from here)and I quite liked it enough to give it a go.
How it’s done:
- Surf over to Flickr (set up an account if you don’t have one — it’s quick and easy) and type your answers (one at a time) into the search bar.
- From the choice of pictures shown only on the front page, click on the one that moves you. Once the page with your picture opens, copy the URL.
- Surf over to the Mosaic Maker, set up your mosaic, and paste your URLs.
Click “Create!”
Here are the questions:
- What is your first name?
- What is your favorite food?
- What high school did you attend?
- What is your favorite color?
- Who is your celebrity crush?
- What is your favorite drink?
- Where would you go on your dream vacation?
- What is your favorite dessert?
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- What do you love most in life?
- Choose one word to describe you.
- Your Flickr name?
This is what I got:
Here are my answers and photo credits:
1. Donna - Canadian Music Week - The Donnas, 2. Pizza - Posina fora a pizza box!, 3. Pennsbury High School - You could run a mile in these shoes, 4. Red - The Photographer, 5. Don Amici - [ L ' a t t e s a / L ' a m o r e ] VI, 6. Beer - pentacon six tl wannabe edward hopper edward olive, 7. Greece - Monastery of the Holy Trinity, 8. Ice cream - Sunset Wine3 ice cream float:), 9. Emma Peel - In a corner, 10. ..and then the bridesmaid just took off.., 11. Kind - Entering Hyperspace, 12. Hello.Donna - Hello World
Psychic Doodle Dandy
by Donna on June 27th, 2008
Remember how I wrote the other night I dreamt about cake, screen doors, and shopping? I later realized that it wasn’t a screen door at all. I actually dreamt about the screen that sits on the back of my hair dryer. Except it was HUGE! But just like my hair dryer, it was also caked in lint. I tried to peel the lint off but it was difficult. I kept trying to think how I could move it so I could get a better grip. NOW HERE’S THE WEIRD PART! This morning as I finished drying my hair, I slammed the hair dryer down on the sink, a little too hard, AND THE SCREEN POPPED OFF! It’s removeable! I never knew! What an odd coincidence! Sometimes I think I am psychic! 
Speaking of psychics, anyone listen to Oprah and Friends on XM? Anyone? Anyone? Does anyone listen to Nate Berkus’s show? Anyone? Anyone? Did you catch the show in which he gets a “reading” from James Van Praggh? It was the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! And it actually seemed like Nate Berkus was eating it up which made it even funnier. James Van Praggh was like, “So Nate, your (dead) partner, he liked belts? Yes? I say this because I see him standing before me, holding a belt. He also liked boots, didn’t he?”
How insane is this? I keep thinking, if I was a spirit that found a medium who could communicate for me, I WOULD NOT BE HOLDING UP A BELT AND A PAIR OF BOOTS! NO MATTER HOW MUCH I LOVED FASHION! This is just odd. I don’t get it. I don’t get how anyone could fall for such crap. My favorite part of the reading was all the mistakes he made.
“Nate, who is John?”
“I don’t know anyone named John!”
“You will.”
CRAP. CRAP. How dare this man capitalize on people’s grief.
Another Stupid Song post
by Donna on June 27th, 2008
Listening to XM radio this morning, I heard this song called Stay Awhile by The Bells. LOVE IT! Very schmaltzy– reminds me of the song, Afternoon Delight in a weird way. At the end of this entry you will find a YouTube of it. Enjoy! My father told me last night my blog has really bottomed out. It’s so bad that it can’t really get any worse. I said, “But by saying it’s bottomed out, you are implying that it was at one time good– and I take exception to that! My blog was never any good!” My father than went on to spell out how when I was unemployed I was more interesting . He said he does understand that I am somewhat censored as to what I can write about anymore yet that is not an excuse. He also stated that I post entirely too many Youtube music videos.
HERE’S ANOTHER ONE! 
Pudge City
by Donna on June 27th, 2008
Last night I had dinner with my parents. I had read a newspaper article on the train ride home that said if you are trying to stave off hunger, simply visualize the last meal you ate. I was rather hungry at that moment so I decided to think back to my last meal. What was lunch? A smoothie. I tried visualizing a smoothie but it didn’t quite work, I was still pretty hungry. Maybe if I thought back to my meal before that one…. a cup of coffee? I thought of the cup of coffee but that didn’t help either. What did I eat the night before? A cup of yogurt. Mmmmm, prune yogurt that had separated. Nope, that didn’t work either. It was at that moment I decided I should go home and let my mom feed me.
I read a NYT article that had the headline, “Many Normal-Weight Teens Feel Fat.” No duh! Truth is, I think most Normal-Weight PEOPLE feel fat. I know I do, regardless of whether I binge, starve, or eat healthy. Just this morning I got on the scale, certain I was 10 pounds over my normal weight- only to find that I was exactly… my normal weight. It’s just so odd. I don’t get it.
Pooped
by Donna on June 26th, 2008
I am pooped. I think it’s the working late. Today I will try to catch the regular train coming home. My eyes feel raw, my head feels foggy. All I want is to crawl back to sleep. I had strange dreams of cake, screen doors, shopping and ?????
Another evening spent at the office
by Donna on June 25th, 2008
It’s 6:30 and I am still in my office. Proposals pile up and I gotta write them. Besides, it’s nice to sit here and listen to Chris Isaak. I get to feel productive and I don’t feel terribly exhausted or lonely as I do when I am at the donnavilla.
I stayed late yesterday. I kept my eyes on the clock to make sure I wouldn’t miss my train. At 7:00, I ran down to the platform and I noticed I was quite a bit early so I went to the ticket office and bought a pass for next month. As I was paying, I thought to myself, “I better make sure to put my credit card in the right pocket so when I use it to pay for my parking tonight, it’ll be easy to find.” PAY FOR PARKING! OH MY GOSH! I DROVE TO WORK THIS MORNING!
Is it obvious I need a vacation?
Hoo Boy
by Donna on June 24th, 2008
I am sitting here in my office, listening to Chris Issak on Rhapsody, trying desperately to movitvate myself to write the proposals I promised people yesterday. It’s been a crazy couple days. The cocktail reception went well dispite a huge location snafu. Luckily I got everything straightened out and the event went well. I am so happy it’s over. Now I have to start planning the next one. It’s never ending.
Remember how I said I like to close my eyes and think back to my relaxing trip to Mexico? The last two days I’ve been closing my eyes and thinking of Sunday’s sailboat ride. It was really nice. I even got to steer and control the sail for a few minutes. Amazingly I didn’t screw up. In fact, I event got the little boat to speed up! It was so much fun!
Okay, it’s almost 6:00. I gotta get these proposals out. No use sitting on them.
What a day!
by Donna on June 22nd, 2008
I am just about ready to crawl into bed. Tomorrow is the cocktail reception I sponsor every quarter. I dress up really nice, play hostess to about 50 people, introduce a speaker, and then moderate a question and answer session. It’s stressful but fun. Right now I am trying to figure how I can get into my office by 8am. Usually I spend an hour on Sunday getting everything ready. I didn’t do that today. Instead I went to Audra and Steve’s house for a BBQ and then I went sailing and then I sat at another Steve’s house for an hour and then at 9:00pm I made a dinner of chicken, rice and beans and I finally got to my house at 10:30.
Here’s the plan: Wake up feeling refreshed at 5:30. Shower, dress, pack, and leave house by 6:30. Get Dunkin Donuts coffee and muffin. Get into work by 8am.
yes, that is do-able