Posts from — October 2010

1. My Halloween plans this year will include dressing Indira up and taking pictures of her and unfortunately not going to any Halloween parties or hosting any Halloween parties! It’s going to be a dud of a Halloween but our excuse is baby and we’re moving next weekend.
2. My most memorable Halloween costume was either the Cabbage Patch kid costume that my mom made me (and I won a costume contest for it!) OR my Frida Kahlo costume that I wore a few years ago which was just a kick-ass costume. It came out AWESOME and I worked that unibrow (to the point that Dave was freaked out by me the whole night).
3. For Halloween this year I’m going to be nothing. Like I said, unfortunately this Halloween is a dud which sucks because it’s one of my favorite holidays, especially since it lacks the generic holiday drama.
4. I’ve always wanted to dress up as Madonna. I mean, she’s Madonna so why not.  I think I actually must have dressed up like her at some point in the past but I don’t recall.
5. Halloween free association! fun, trick or treating, costumes, witches, candy, parties, hay rides, jason, michael
6. The worst thing about Hallow when I have no fun Halloween plans.
7. The best thing about Halloween is costumes! For sure! No doubt! Excited for a Halloween party next year hopefully! And also excited for all of the costumes to come for Indira.

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Just re-watched a small portion of the movie Sylvia as I worked on a website. I wonder, why did this movie not get better reviews? Your thoughts? I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was brilliant (though maybe I’m biased). I found the movie beautiful and sad and poetic. Exactly what a movie about Sylvia Plath should be.

Did you see the movie? What were your thoughts? I know, it’s several years since the movie came out, but I stumbled into it again today.

The Moon and the Yew Tree
by Sylvia Plath

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God
Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility
Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place.
Separated from my house by a row of headstones.
I simply cannot see where there is to get to.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky –
Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection
At the end, they soberly bong out their names.

The yew tree points up, it has a Gothic shape.
The eyes lift after it and find the moon.
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
How I would like to believe in tenderness -
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering
Blue and mystical over the face of the stars
Inside the church, the saints will all be blue,
Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews,
Their hands and faces stiff with holiness.
The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild.
And the message of the yew tree is blackness – blackness and silence.

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1. I am stronger than I thought.
2. I wish travel was free and that I had more time.
3. I like crisp fall evenings when there’s a glow over everything before dark settles in.
4. I can not wait until we are in our new amazing house!
5. I hope to find a little of the elusive balance in the upcoming months.
6. I think I can.
7. I was worried that I wouldn’t be a good mom. I know that I am. Now I’m worried about balancing it all. I will figure it out though. Or, we will figure it out rather.

More Fill in the Blank Friday over here.

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Grabbed this from Bookish Penguin (thanks, Candice!)

Five Things I’m Grateful For (in no particular order, not even subconscious)

1. Dave for tons of stuff even though he probably doesn’t realize I’m grateful
2. An awesome daughter – yeah, she rocks. Ask her dad.
3. My family for giving us a place to live for three months (not to mention a bunch of other stuff)
4. Finding (and moving into in two weeks! Woo!) a perfect house to live in. It’s gorgeous and fun and just amazing. Can’t wait! (Oh, did I mention skylights in the bedroom and a door to the deck from the bedroom?)
5. More family for taking care of our dogs for the past two and a half months and two more weeks. Wow, they are in great hands and are lucky to have interim families to take care of them (and so are we).

Four Things I Can’t Stop Thinking About

1. Getting my body back in shape
2. Our new kick-ass house
3. Balancing motherhood, loverhood, and work
4. My site redesign

Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week

1. Finish building the temporary Married to a Chef page
2. 2 more workouts (it’s already Thursday night)
3. A date

Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About

1. Balance
2. Relationships

One Random Thing

Our new house has one of those crazy cool bowl sinks in the bathroom (not to mention skylights!) and it makes it feel like we’re moving into a house from a magazine.

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