I’ve never thought of Friday the 13th as a particularly scary or bad day. More Friday Fill-ins:
1. Going on a safari is high up on my bucket list.
2. My favorite quote is “I think the concentrated essence of all the madness in the world took up its abode in my brain”; it’s from Wuthering Heights.
3. The online groups I’ve joined and the friends I’ve made there inspired me to start blogging.
4. Strawberries are best picked out of the patch, nice and warm.
5. I was dating John Corbett in the last dream I remember having. It was just this morning…
6. The most enjoyable time to go for a walk is evening to night.

Have a great weekend - I think having that dream is the most exciting thing I expect to do this weekend :)!

This questionnaire, from Friday Fill-ins, is either a fun way for others to learn more about you, or proves how boring your life is :).  Like mine.  Still, it’s a good thing.  It may just kick my arse into getting a social life, who knows?

1. Idle hands are usually freezing cold.
2. I love daydreaming in the shower.
3. My favorite time of the day is when the moon is out.
4. The last tea I drank was what I’m drinking right now - Stash Earl Grey.
5. I like to do the same things I do all year long in the Summer.
6. My mother always said (says) look at the positive.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to baseball and knitting (if only I were actually going to a game), tomorrow my plans include working at the library and planting more herbs and Sunday, I want to  I have no idea:)!

I grant you, my blog does not pop.  I don’t keep up with it, I don’t really do much with it at all.  Despite my best intentions, it sits neglected - no book reviews, no knitting, etc.  Maybe that’s why Blogger ate my other blog - a bit too dull?  Ah well - I WILL have the last haiku laugh - because I found them! Written here, there, and everywhere. So here’s some of my oldest stuff, written in green because green ink has an interesting history. Check out teabird melanie’s blog for the details.

Rain on the window
Thunder dances with lightning -
Cats sleep soundly on.

Gardens are busy
Butterflies and bees abound
Weeds are always there.

In a summer breeze
Despair of one is too deep
The tree sways softly.

Watching the snow fall
Each flake its own little world
Quietly perfect.

For I am hopefully going to join your ranks (well, in a year or three)! That’s the plan, anyway - I’m going to Simmons College in Boston next Spring for an MLIS. I’d say it was a career change, if I really had been having a career all along ;). Funny how Life manages to totally interrupt your life. Anyway - I haven’t had time to enjoy the thought of working toward something, because I’m too busy panicking over, well, Everything. Tuition, Housing, Living, Tuition. But I’m going, because…

I brought cookies to my therapists, and was given fudge and a daffodil by the wives of two of my prostate men:).  I had my treatment, got my certificate, my ceremonial mask -  and with hugs to the patients, I Left the Building.  For a few months, anyway.

Both mask and certificate are resting comfortably on the couch.

…to go! Then, my brain will be well and truly zapped (I was going to say fried, but I thought that would be in bad taste). Here is where the treatment takes place, with the wall of masks (it’s a kind of art installation, I think). Here I am, on the table (obviously), with the machine turned on its side. The table moves, too - so it’s kind of a weird ride. And here I am, up close and personal in my mask. It’s solid, but pliable. Think plastic canvas. When it was being formed, I forgot to take off my lipstick and it dried on the mask permanently. But I stand out on the wall o’ masks:)! I’ve lost about a quarter of my hair, but that should be it and I can disguise it pretty well with the hair that’s left and some hats.

 At my center, if you change into a gown for radiation, you have a nice little enclosed room.  If you have chemo, you get three waiting rooms with a big-arse fish tank as a dividing wall between two of them.  If, like me, you have radiation but can wear your street clothes, you wait at the Bus Stop.  That’s what they call it.  A long, benchlike couch in the hallway, and four chairs.  “Enclosed” by two half walls.  It’s tiny, totally exposed, and Rowdy.  Because treatment itself doesn’t take long, there are loads of people filing in and out of the Bus Stop everyday.  My people, those who are scheduled around my time everyday, are all older men with prostate issues!  We chat and laugh and cause others to stare at us when they go by.  Friday, I brought Hallmark’s Hoops and YoYo with me to capture the moment. It was empty in there that day, unfortunately.  They are propped up by my boss’ handbag in one shot, as their legs are not long enough to reach the floor:)!

Yes, I do! teabird, Carrie K, and I should all rule Saturn. How do you imagine that would go? Can’t say I agree with all of the points this quiz makes, though.

I am apparently from Saturn, as well. How about that?
:)!

You Should Rule Saturn

Saturn is a mysterious planet that can rarely be seen with the naked eye. You are perfect to rule Saturn because like its rings, you don’t always follow the rules of nature. And like Saturn, to really be able to understand you, someone delve beyond your appearance. You are not an easy person to befriend. However, once you enter a friendship, you’ll be a friend for life. You think slowly but deeply. You only gain great understanding after a situation has past.

That seems to be my posting schedule so far:).  Not much going on.  BlueViolet and I (known as pix on Ravelry) started a new group on Ravelry - Knitting 19th-Century Novels.  With the unasked for untimely demise of KTC through a Blogger error, we wanted to continue the idea.  There are some changes - there are two months to read and discuss each title, and all of the knitted/crocheted projects are posted on Ravelry.  If you’re interested, drop by!  The first book starts 1 March - Alice in Wonderland.  I can’t believe I’ve never read it.

This is my new blog.  It doesn’t exactly have more purpose than my last one, but I’ll try:)!  It happened because (no offense, exactly) Blogger ate my blogs!  All of them.  And the Gmail account attached to them.  It’s been a big problem for Blogger lately.  So there you are, and here I am at WordPress.  I’m still trying to find my way around my new blog options, but I promise more haiku, more knitting, more book “reviews” and the like.

Here’s a new haiku, trying to lighten a semi-serious situation of mine:

Glowing from within.
Shall that be my fate after
Radiation ends?