Cake and Cocktails never tasted so good

“ouch! the tree just hit me”

-the tall one not paying attention

“watch out for those chihuahuas, they can run you over “

-directed to the short one

Silly Texas

Some mornings are just perfect. I woke up to Koshka throwing up- her meds aren’t going easy on her. After cleaning it up, Koshka nestled back into bed with me and we slept for another hour or so….I woke up crying and coughing due to a nightmare/memory. At this point I realized I needed to go for a run. I’ve been putting it off for a week due to my knee hurting, causing general crankiness. eh

It was great! My lungs were being flooded by ice cubes , prickling as the ice moved over my expanding lungs with each inhale. After about 2 minutes of this I reached a comfortable temperature and pace. For about 15 minutes it was just my feet pounding against the pavement, clearing my head ,getting into the “zone” if you will. At this point I was able to clear my mind and resolve some problems I had. I will not go into detail but I will say that the move is near. Oh so very near.

it’s going to be a good day.

“Funny business, a woman’s career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It’s one career all females have in common – being a woman. Sooner or later we’ve got to work at it no matter how many other careers we’ve had or wanted. And in the last analysis nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that you’re not a woman. You’re something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings but you’re not a woman. Slow curtain, the end.”

- Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve.

Is this a scary prophecy that successful working females must face in the end? Or is it possible that those feminine qualities: tenderness, caring…anything that implies softness and all that is female, is an idea that must remain back in the 50s?

But don’t women face that they are still forced to be soft, and the “ruthlessness “that we got to practice in the 80s boom of females in the workforce now can also ruin us?

Look at Hillary Clinton, clearly an intelligent woman, who has to battle the image of being cold hearted in order to win support for the presidential bid.  Did she do anything different from a man in her political career?

Why is it that a man is the ultimate goal? Why can’t a career be viewed as an ultimate goal?

What is so scary about being alone in the end?

Why did I have so much tea?  Now I can’t finish one thought!