Jun. 30, 2007

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 6:25 pm

and i’m sorry i didn’t say it sooner. well, i did call randy at least three times today to wish him a happy birthday.

but i didn’t sing.

i should have sang. except he probably would have gotten tired of the singing. not that i don’t have a LOVELY voice or anything.

i’ve spent a good portion of the day deeply involved in a little bit of a german chocolate cake fiasco. his mom always bakes him one for his b'day, but she has been sick and has had all kinds of chaos in her life, including a partner in the ICU with all kinds of heart problems.

so i thought i’d make the cake. how hard could it be? first, i put in two sticks of butter and started whipping it then realized i was only supposed to put in one and a half sticks, and so i had to scoop it out and measure it but when you whip it it increases in volume. so the cake looks...kind of flat. too much butter, i’m thinking. but hopefully it’ll taste good; how bad could too much butter be? everybody loves butter.

and then there’s the frosting. sounded easy - mix some sugar and butter and stuff in a saucepan, let it bubble, add coconut and nuts. and refrigerate it. i did all this but it didn’t look right, it was still very thin. so i added some powdered sugar. and then more powdered sugar and then more and more and MORE and more coconut and it called for one and 1/3 cups of coconut but i ended up using the entire bag, which was FIVE cups of coconut.

it’s kind of thick now. too make up for the cake that is a little thin. it’s all going to be PLENTY SUGARY, that’s all i have to say.

ok for now,

grace.


Jun. 28, 2007

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funny baby! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 9:49 pm


my aunt sandy sent me this video, and maybe you’ve seen it before, but it sure made me laugh. which is all i was asking for.

funny baby!

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p.s. good shepherd [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:45 am

did you see the movie? and if so, can you tell me whose idea it was to push the woman out of the plane? kevin and i discussed it, but we couldn’t come to a conclusion about who was responsible for this. just one of the confusing things about the movie.

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paris! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:44 am

i know, i know, everybody is totally sick to death of hearing about paris hilton - in jail, out of jail, back in jail, and then skipping to freedom. but i walked into my sister’s salon a few minutes ago and one girl was getting her hair done while her sister or friend was waiting for her, and the one girl said PARIS GOT A MAKEOVER! IN JAIL! and then they discussed the fact that if they were in jail, they wouldn’t get any makeovers at all.

i’ve always been a little mystified by the brand that is paris hilton. she wasn’t anywhere (or maybe she was just a child growing up) and then suddenly she was PARIS HILTON, but she didn’t seem to do anything to justify all the celebrity. young and cute and very very rich plus she must have a great publicist. but wait, wasn’t it the publicist who told her it was ok to drive with a suspended license?

anyway, while i’ve been sick, i’ve had more time than usual to peruse the news online. and yeah, paris is just about celebrity for the sake of celebrity, but at least it’s a relief to read about her instead of, say, dick cheney. and the war. and in there paper, there’s one story after another about everything depressing - murders and fatal car crashes and bad people running amock all over the place.

i can’t remember when i’ve been so sick for so long, and it doesn’t agree with me. this week most of the physical things have abated, but i still seem to have no energy at all. this typing right now seems like a burden. I WANT SOMETHING CHEERFUL TO READ ABOUT, DAMMIT.

we bought a couple of DVDs the other day - a compilation of “south park,” and “the good sheperd.” my choice was south park. but then we went home and watched the Goood S. IT WAS NOT CHEERFUL. it was depressing and dreary and went on and on not to mention the fact that all kinds of things happened in it that i couldn’t figure out and i JUST WANT TO LAUGH ABOUT SOMETHING. or at least smile.

it makes me smile that paris hilton skipped when she got out of jail. i wholeheartedly believe in skipping. skipping is fun. when my energy returns, i, too, will skip.

ok then,

grace.


Jun. 25, 2007

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pumpkin! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 2:22 pm

the biggest thing we have growing is our pumpkin plant. we’re going to have lots and lots of pumpkins, and since we planted it a little earlier than it said to on the seed package, we’re going to have lots and lots of pumpkins in august or september, i think. maybe not. the pumpkin just keeps growing and growing and soon it will climb right over the fence into the front yard and down the street.




Jun. 24, 2007

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photos [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 1:10 pm
since i haven’t posted any photos in a while, here are a few photos that kevin took on his bike trip to ireland way, way back in 2004, right after we first met.










i’d tell you something about these photos, but i know nothing about them, except that there are lots and lots of ireland photos and i don’t know where any of them were taken and i can’t ask kevin right now because he’s up on the roof.

i know that that third photo is taken from one of the lovely places he stayed; i bet this was the first night of his trip.

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END OF SEASON CLEARANCE! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 12:50 pm

i was looking through the ads in this morning’s scintillating paper, and the Meijer ad was all about END OF SEASON CLEARANCE. stuff like plants and trellises and lawn furniture BECAUSE NOW IT’S THE END OF THE SEASON???!!!

it’s only the third week of june. there is PLENTY of summer ahead of us. PLENTY.

IT IS NOT THE END OF THE SEASON.

but i’m sure that next week’s ads will include NEW FALL FASHIONS and BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIALS. and the week after that they’ll be selling halloween candy, and the following week, CHRISTMAS SPECIALS.

last night we went to see the musical HAIRSPRAY at the Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan Illinois, and it was GREAT. FANTASTIC. WE ALL LOVED IT.

it was refreshing to see a show that was just plain good. the songs were all good, it was a great production, there was nothing to complain about at all.

well, the dinner beforehand wasn’t so great. we went to a place in sullivan called “jibby’s,” because the woman at the little theater said it was the best place to go. DOES THAT MEAN THE OTHER PLACES ARE WORSE THAN JIBBY’S? we started our meal with fried stuff, which i didn’t partake of because i’m still sick. but there were fried onion rings and fried CREAMED CORN. fried creamed corn? i would have tried it if i hadn’t been sick, just because it’s such an odd thought. everybody else had some and they said it was bad. i had lukewarm ravioli that i’m pretty sure was frozen, kevin and mom had very gummy vegetable lasagne, randy had a pork chop that wasn’t completely terrible but boy he hated the blue cheese dressing. amy had french onion soup and i know she didn’t like it but i couldn’t ascertain what was wrong with it because she was sitting down at the other end of the table. jim had spaghetti that probably came from the same place as my ravioli.

the restaurant was PACKED with people, so maybe it is, indeed, the best place in sullivan. very sad. maybe people in sullivan have no taste buds.

did i mention that I LOVED THE PLAY? it’s coming to the sangamon auditorium in september and i’d love to see it again.

the amazing thing about the little theatre on the S. is that it’s sort of like seeing a professional show on a high school stage. the theater is small and so is the stage but there wasn’t a bad performer on it. the dancing was phenomenal, the singing, great, and the orchestra really great.

i wish you could go see it, but tonight is the last night. but go see something else there, i’m sure the other shows will be good, too. except i can’t imagine that they could be as good as hairspray. it made me forget about being sick and the fact that maybe i’ll continue to be sick this week even though i have many things i need to accomplish.

hopefully i’ll be well enough to go out and shop for christmas specials.

ok then,

grace.


Jun. 22, 2007

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the good news is... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 4:53 pm

i lost seven pounds in the last four days.

the bad news...i lost seven pounds in the last four days.

i won’t go into the ugly details, except to say that i know that once i eat solid food again...anything, like one small piece of bread or a grape...that the seven pounds will come gleefully rushing back.

i don’t look any thinner, but there is nothing at all left in my stomach.

it hasn’t been a very good week, all in all. things went from bad to really bad to even more bad than that. my temp. went up to 101, and my normal temperature is 96.8

yesterday kevin took me to the doctor, who gave me many drugs including two different kinds of antibiotics. i do believe they’ve started to work, except they’re making me kind of groggy, and i’ve already been without energy all week.

i’m totally sick of either sleeping or attempting to sleep and lying around all the livelong day.

especially since it’s SUMMERTIME, time to be outside enjoying the weather, not lying around turning on the fan and turing off the fan and asking kevin to close the window then open the window and piling on blankets and then just wearing a big t-shirt.

i had the energy to take a shower today, which was a relief.

we’re supposed to see “hairspray” at the little theater on the square in sullivan tomorrow night, and i really hope i’m well enough to go.

but look, i’m typing, surely that’s a good sign.

on a more global note, what about China? are we going to find out that every last one of the millions and millions of things that are made there are actually made of asbestos and kerosene and strychnine and botulism and bubonic plague? i feel this will be the case. soon we will be forced to make our own stuff, instead of relying on the chinese, who are only paid two dollars a day and have to eat soup filled with toxins because it’s tasty and cheap and they’re very poor.

did you know you can get bubonic plague from flea bites? at least that’s what kevin told me.

i definitely don’t have the bubonic plague.

ok then, i bet your week has been better than mine (i HOPE your week has been better than mine), and i hope to make up for it over the weekend,

grace


Jun. 18, 2007

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p.s. keeping up appearances [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 2:10 pm

i forgot to mention this british sitcom the other day. it stars a woman named patricia routledge, a very funny actress, who plays a character named hyacinth bucket (pronounced “bouquet”), who is all about, well...keeping up appearances. she’s married, and she has three sisters, violet, rose and daisy. hyacinth is all about being perfectly proper, and she’s mortified by her lower-class sisters rose and daisy. hyacinth is always planning little “candlelit suppers,” but haven’t seen enough episodes to actually see one. it’s on at 8:30 on saturday nights, at least here in spfld, at least when PBS is actually working.

now i’m really really going back to bed.

gh

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never mind [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 1:46 pm


saturday evening, i was so excited about my PBS sitcoms - and i turned on the TV and PBS WASN’T WORKING. Kevin called our cable company, and it wasn’t them, it was actually PBS. very disappointing. instead we watched “minority report,” an intense movie starring tom cruise that i think is pretty good.

christine wrote to me that she thought camping sounded MISERABLE (she didn’t actually capitalize the word, but that was the thone i got from her e-mail). the thing about camping is, it can be so great. the place where we went, Site M, is a short, hour-long drive from here, and the primitive campsite is so serene and lovely and peaceful and crammed with nature.

except for the heat and the incredibly loud and rude fellow campers, it was great.

maybe it’ll cool off again, say, by...october?

worse, i’m suddenly sick. again. i was just sick a month ago and i never get sick and once again it feels like the flu, with chills and awful achyness and incredibly fatigue. i’m about to back to sleep, as a matter of fact.

because of my deeply-rooted worrying genes, i’m pretty sure that it’s something very very bad. because why would i get sick two months in a row? it could be lyme disease, although i pulled ticks off my socks but never found any anywhere else, plus it takes at least three days for any symptoms to show up. but maybe i got lyme disease before, sometime before i was sick the last time, and now it’s resurfacing.

the other possibility is ovarian cancer. how much do you know about ovarian cancer? it’s an incredibly deadly form of cancer, because there aren’t any symptoms, so it’s not found until it’s at a very advanced stage, and by then it has spread and most people die from it.

but i just read an article a few days ago, stating that now they’re starting to think that there are possibly early signs.

here’s part of one article:

Cancer Experts Identify Symptoms For Early Diagnosis Of Ovarian Cancer
Main Category: Women’s Health / OBGYN News
Article Date: 18 Jun 2007 - 6:00 PDT

The American Cancer Society, Gynecologic Cancer Foundation and the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists on June 25 are expected to formally announce recommendations for identifying symptoms that could signal early stages of ovarian cancer, the New York Times reports. Experts from the groups are calling on women who experience the symptoms – which include bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, difficulty eating or feeling full quickly, and a frequent or urgent need to urinate – every day for two to three weeks to see a gynecologist.

Some physicians said the recommendations will make women and doctors more aware of early symptoms of ovarian cancer and will lead to earlier diagnosis. “The majority of the time this won’t be ovarian cancer, but it’s just something that should be considered,” Barbara Goff, director of gynecologic oncology at the University of Washington and an author of several studies that helped identify the symptoms, said. She added that new and persistent problems were the most important for women to monitor.

According to the Times, if ovarian cancer is diagnosed and surgically removed before it spreads outside the ovary, 93% of patients are alive after five years. However, only 19% of cases are diagnosed early, and 45% of all women with ovarian cancer survive at least five years, compared with 89% of women diagnosed with breast cancer. About 22,430 new cases of ovarian cases and 15,280 deaths are expected in the U.S. this year, the Times reports.

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bad, huh? but i guess i don’t have most of the symptoms. and they don’t mention a horrible achy feeling and having chills and a temperature.

so maybe i’ll live.

goodnight.

grace


Jun. 16, 2007

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saturday night [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 7:38 pm

40 more minutes till “as time goes by,” one of the british sitcoms that i’ve grown to LOVE. one time erica told me that she loves to watch british sitcoms on saturday night and i thought that was a little odd, but now i’m HOOKED. “as time goes by” stars judi dench, and the show ran for nine season. i’m thinking about buying the entire dvd set. this week they showed the very first season, and it was fun to watch. the premise of the show is that a couple, judi (jean) and lionel, had met during the korean war and had a romance but then he had to ship off and he wrote to her but she never got the letter and she thought he hadn’t written and he thought she hadn’t written back. so this week was all about them meeting again, 38 years later, and it’s highly entertaining.

at first the show seemed a little dull, but now i’m captivated. before we went camping on friday, we bought a DVD recorder in order to record friday night’s episode.

oh yeah, we went camping.

it was fun, camping, except hot. very very very hot. we were going to leave some time yesterday, but it kept getting later and later because we had a bunch of errands to run, and it took a long time at best buy trying to find a good dvd recorder. it’s actually a dvd/vhs recorder, and it’s AWESOME. because we have it, shows look better than they did on the tv. it “uploads” them to...digital quality? i’m a little sketchy on the whole thing, all i know is it’s great and we managed to set it up and program it before we left yesterday.

at about three. in the afternoon. kind of late, but not so bad...except we drove down the street and i realized i’d forgotten the butter (not real butter of course, but the healthy, really good for you stuff that makes your heart stronger and helps you leap tall buildings in a single bound)...and the syrup (for the FABULOUS oatmeal pancakes that kevin makes)...and all the BREAD AND BUNS for the burgers and sandwiches.

you must be thinking HOW DID YOU FORGET ALL OF THAT? Well, we we just in such a hurry, and i filled two coolers with stuff and i thought i’d remembered it all.

nope. kevin suggested that we stop at the store instead of going back home, so we did that, and then we had to stop at the gas station...so we didn’t get to the camp site until about five. in the evening. but this was a very good thing, because it wasn’t quite as boiling hot by then.

we set up camp at Site M, in the primitive campsite, and there was one other group of people there. a few people with a dog.

things went well initially; we set up quickly, we made a lovely dinner, had some (VERY ILLEGAL BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ALCOHOL AT THE CAMPSITE) delicious wine, and went to bed when the insects started viciously attacking us.

and then, after an hour or so, the noise started. the group of people were playing a game or something, and they were very very loud and they went on and on and now i wonder, why did’t i yell SHUT THE HELL UP! because of course they’d have been able to hear me since i could hear them. but i didn’t, plus it was kind of hot in the tent.

and then they had to tromp to their car, i have no idea why, which was parked a ways away from the campsite (which is one reason they call it PRIMITIVE camping, plus there are no showers and no running water), and they were talking loudly as they walked by our site and then they shined their flashlight INTO OUR TENT and one of them said DON’T BE SO LOUD OR THEY’LL SHOOT US.

if i’d had a gun, i would have.

not a great sleep, but it was cooler and quite lovely this morning and we started hiking at 8:45 which was early for us. we skipped the pancakes because we wanted to get hiking. and it wasn’t bad on the trail, except christine would have HATED it, but i don’t think she’d enjoy the hiking in any climate whatsoever.

there were a few ticks, even though we sprayed bug spray with 100% deet all over our legs, but they weren’t so bad.

we hiked for a couple of hours, and then we thought, what will we do here now? we hadn’t brought the kayak because it would have taken even longer to leave the house if we’d taken it with us, and we didn’t bring the mountain bikes and i’m pretty happy about this and am not sure that i necessarily ever need to mountain bike again, so there wasn’t much to do. we spent time sitting around, which is usually quite enjoyable and one of the best parts of camping, because it’s so peaceful and pretty, but it was just too hot.

so we left. and here i am now, we turned on the air conditioning here at home, and life is good.

we’ll have to camp when it’s a little bit cooler. we can make more use of some of the cool camping stuff that kevin’s dad gave him - it’s stuff they used when their family camped when kevin was a kid, including a great set of knives and utensils, and a bunch of nested plates and a coffee urn. nice. and in such great shape, considering that their family of seven people used it a lot, i’m guessing. if i’d had something like that, i’d definitely have lost and/or broken quite a bit of it by now.

meanwhile, there’s another episode of “as time goes by” in just 25 minutes, except on saturday nights it’s always a commpletely different season than the one playing during the week. there’s another show called “the vicar of dibley,” starring dawn french, who was part of the comedy team of french and saunders, and jennifer saunders created “ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS,” one of my favorite shows. the vicar is entertaining.

lots of tv and air conditioning tonight.

i hope you’re keeping cool.

ok then,

saturday grace.

p.s. kevin just came in and announced that he’d checked my site and i hadn’t written in a week, BUT YOU’RE LIVING THE LIFE RIGHT HERE BESIDE ME, i told him.


Jun. 11, 2007

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very late on sunday night [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 12:37 am

my goal for tonight was to GET TO SLEEP EARLY, but now it’s past early. way past early. damn.

i was engrossed in transferring stuff from kevin’s computer to my FABULOUS NEW COMPUTER, and of course i had many issues with doing it and now it’s very late.

kevin doesn’t know what kind of tree we have in the back yard, either, so now i don’t feel quite as bad about my lack of plant knowledge. also, i planted many many bulbs today, including some dahlias and...uh...something purple with a very long name and...um...freesia? perhaps. planting bulbs is tricky, because it seems that they don’t grow so readily. if you plant actual little plants at least you can easily watch their progress.

we had salad tonight and put in some of the basil we grew as well as some peas, and added some rosemary and oregano from the garden to our CPK pizza which made it quite delicious.

it’s nice to actually eat something from the garden instead of the whole thing becoming giant weeds, like last year.

we didn’t have to pull any stripes off the boat today because it rained and then i got involved in planting stuff.

a peaceful sunday. and now it’s a peaceful sunday night, but I SHOULD BE SLEEPING.

goodnight goodnight goodnight.

grace




Jun. 09, 2007

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saturday evening [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 7:33 pm

goodness continues, as i sit outside in the back yard watching all the nature around me. a little bright yellow bird with a black head just landed on the new cherry tree and i could look it up to see what kind of bird it is, but i don’t feel like it. a yellow finch? a black-headed yellowbird? a canary? it’s definitely not a cardinal. nor is it a dove, not a parakeet. definitely not a parakeet. not a swallow. not a pigeon.

when i was a kid i assumed that when i grew up i’d know the names of things. like birds, but mostly like trees and all manner of plants. because dad knows most of the names of all the plants and trees and so i figured i just would.

i know we have a new cherry tree and a new peach tree because we bought them at the store and they were both clearly labelled.

we have a pine tree here in the back yard, and another tree. it’s very tall. it has smallish round leaves, and when it froze all the leaves died but they call cambe back. it’s not a chinese maple tree. it’s not an elm tree. not a pear tree, not an apple. i could call out to kevin right now and ask him what kind of tree it is, but he’s inside playing the guitar.

this afternoon we had a flurry of activity, boat-wise. randy and david both came over to help with the roof on the house but it was MUCH TOO HOT up there and so they had to stop, and instead they laid the new green carpeting on the boat and i somehow managed to get gobs of glue on my cool t-shirt from hawaii and i’m not very happy about that, especially since i was barely even around the boat at all.

mom and i had the very fun and exciting job of trying to peel the tape stripes off the side of the boat. kevin bought a heat gun to help loosen the tape, and the dark blue stripe isn’t bad and the the medium blue stripe is ok but the light blue stripe is HORRIBLE and we kept trying to melt it off the boat bu it just wasn’t working out so kevin got out some kid of circular scraping tool thing and i realize suddenly that not only do i not know the names of many birds or plants, i also don’t know the names of many tools except for obvious ones like hammers and saws and i fear i’m woefully lacking in many too many things and it’s a miracle that i’m able to function at all, being so woefully ignorant of so many very very important things and i need to start learing this stuff RIGHT AWAY.

anyway, tomorrow promises to be filled with lots and lots of scraping off of blue stripes. not the most exciting prospect, but at least we’ll all be outside.

ok then,

saturday grace.


Jun. 08, 2007

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FRIDAY! [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 12:13 pm

and i’m in such a good mood, and can’t exactly figure out why i’m feeling so very good. i think it must have something to do with the weather, which is simply gloriously perfect. it’s about 70, with a nice breeze.

i have to go spend most of the afternoon inside giving massages, but that doesn’t seem bad, either. because of the good mood. go figure.

it’s not like i’m usually in a bad mood, but usually not feeling quite so good. it probably also has to do with the fact that it’s FRIDAY, always a psychologically better day just because of being friday.

i hope that your friday is good, as well. not to mention the weekend.

ok then,

grace.


Jun. 04, 2007

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a few photos on monday [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 6:14 pm

we found the photoshop disk. well, kevin found it. he’d FILED IT somewhere. nothing ever gets filed around here, at least not to my knowledge. on the one hand i’m very glad it’s been found, but on the other hand, what else has been filed that i don’t know about? now i have one more place to look for things, in the filing cabinets.

but then i realized that even though i could now alter the photos, i can’t actually put them onto the computer yet because the slot in the side of the laptop doesn’t fit an xd memory card. but at least i’m a little closer to doing it. meanwhile, i sit here in the office and worry about the piles of stuff some more.

here’s what it looked poolside at the mirage, where we stayed.



by the way, in that last entry it was supposed to read “bake” anything not “BAK anything.” i just re-read it and wondered what i meant by BAK. bake. so you know.

the pool at the mirage was quite nice, and even though there were millions of chairs, they weren’t all filled. and even though the pool was quite large, there weren’t that many people swimming in it.

here’s me outside caesar’s palace, at least one little part of caesar’s palace. caesar’s palace goes on and on and ON, and they’ve built a whole bunch more shops since the last time i was there, so it takes about three years to walk the whole length of it.



why am i sitting there looking like such a dork? i can’t tell you.

this is one little part of the conservatory at the bellagio. only i don’t think that’s the right word, conservatory, but it’s a big glass-ceilinged place with many lovely plants and flowers and right now there’s a big ferris wheel.



enough about las vegas right now. here’s a great photo of kevin and david on the roof yesterday. kevin was hard at work and david stopped by and he was sitting in the kitchen and i walked out the front door and heard kevin talking on the roof and thought maybe he was talking on his phone, but david had scampered on up the ladder. kevin finished that whole side of the roof yesterday, putting the final piece in place right before and i mean RIGHT BEFORE a torrential downpour.



the weather was perfect yesterday, as it was today, except for a small amount of random rain.

here’s mom and jim, hard at work. while kevin toiled on the roof, mom and jim installed the entire floor of the boat. pretty amazing. and as you can see mom is hard at work carrying big pieces of boat around. mom is a very hard worker.



here is Honey, who had to come out and be part of things and roll around in the street, which is one of her favorite things to do. luckily we rarely have any traffic on our street.



as i was busy documenting all the hard work going on around me, i had to take a picture of these lilac bushes. or “bushes” i should say. we ordered them online and they were VERY VERY SMALL.

we planted them at least a month ago, and they’re not getting much bigger. they’re the two little tiny green sprigs in between the big bushes. at least they didn’t die, like the other two bushes we ordered online.



i love the smell of lilacs, but i seriously doubt that these bushes will actually grown enough this summer to become actual bushes next summer. perhaps we’ll go buy some real bushes.

that’s all for now. i hope you survived monday; i did, but only barely.

ok then,

monday grace.


Jun. 03, 2007

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another sunday night... [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:22 pm

not so bad. could be worse.

the cat is sprawled out on the couch in front of me. i don’t think it would be possible for him to be more relaxed.

i gave mollie a bath tonight. i lured her into the bathroom with some leftover chicken cacciatore that we’d gotten at mom and dad’s tonight. dad cooked. it was delicious. mollie REALLY WANTED SOME.

so after the dreaded bath i had to give her some, of course. she’s sleeping now, very content and exhausted from her very big day of hanging out in the driveway and then going to mom and dad’s for dinner and then having the bath. a full and fulfilling doggie day.

i took some photos today, because kevin was hard at work on the roof and jim and mom came over and TOTALLY PUT THE BOAT DOWN ON THE BOAT, which involved all kinds of measuring and drilling and stuff like that. i scrubbed some of the sides of the boat and then i pulled lots of weeds, in order to not have to be any part of the measuring and stuff because it looked very problematic to me.

i also documented their very hard work. but i can’t put any pictures up right now because i have to install photoshop on this FABULOUS NEW COMPUTER and i can’t find the disk and it must be in the office which is a scary thought. i looked around a while and realized that it’s impossible to find anything. i could put the pictures on the computer in the office but that would entail getting out of this very comfortable chair and i’m definitey not doing that.

tomorrow. somehow the photoshop disk will magically appear, or at least i’ll feel like going into the office and working on the GREAT BIG computer instead of this FABULOUS LIGHTWEIGHT ONE.

yesterday we had a meeting of DANGER:ADULT CONTENT, the group of people who did a show...i guess it was last summer? and before i went to las vegas i e-mailed mac warren and asked what i should bring to the meeting and he didn’t reply IMMEDIATELY and of course i was about to board the plane, so i e-mailed him again and said i’d bring chocolate chip cookies or brownies.

and then i got back from vegas on friday night, ready to drop from fatigue, and i thought THERE’S NO WAY IN HELL I’M GOING TO BAK ANYTHING, DAMMITALL.

i thought, I’LL JUST GO OUT AND BUY SOMETHING.

but saturday morning, i felt i couldn’t cop out like that so i made some brownies because at least they wouldn’t involve any tedious shaping of cookies.

what was my point here in relating this story?

i just wanted you to know that my entire weekend didn’t just consist of washing the dog and taking pictures of other people working really hard.

not that making the brownies was hard. plus, during the meeting there was all kinds of other delicious-looking food, like chili and chips and other stuff and all i ate was three of the brownies.

CHOCOHOLIC AND GAMBLING ADDICT.

just in case you didn’t know.

we read lots of different short plays during our DANGER: ADULT CONTENT meeting, although some of them seemed very long. nothing seemed really really funny to me, but then driving home i thought that maybe i’m just losing my sense of humor.

it could happen, couldn’t it? one day you have a sense of humor and then the next day, poof, all gone.

kind of like all that MONEY I LOST IN LAS VEGAS.

i really wish i could show you some of the pictures right now. LAZINESS WINS, i’m afraid.

goodnight.

it’s only the very beginning of june grace.



Jun. 02, 2007

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ADDICT [ General ] -  grace - grace@graceuncensored.com @ 11:56 am

gambling addict, that is. me, grace hughes.

it wouldn’t have been bad, being a gambling addict, if i’d WON A BUNCH OF MONEY.

actually, the only night that i was suddenly an addict, i did win money - but then i lost it all. WHY DIDN’T I QUIT WHEN I WAS AHEAD?

i guess that’s what people do when gambling, though, huh? they win money and then they say to themselves I CAN WIN EVEN MORE!!!

because that’s what i did.

here’s me and kevin, sitting at the bar next to the pool at the Mirage.



he took this picture with his phone. he took another good photo of the pool, too, but i don’t have time to upload it now.

las vegas is a very tiring place. i slept 12 hours last night, and i could take a nap right now.

it’s also very noisy. and still smoky, although not as bad as it used to be.

very very noisy, though. kevin didn’t really like it.

dad, on the other hand, was like the energizer bunny on crack while in vegas. that’s kevin’s description. vegas feeds dad with all kinds of crazy energy. he gambled, he ate, he drank, he gambled some more, he had a great time chatting with cab drivers and various other people and he seemed more energized as each day passed.

one evening while kevin and i took an hour and a half nap, dad was busy having a cocktail and gambling.

mom even gambled a little.

nobody struck it rich.

the one night that i gambled into the night after everybody else had gone to bed (well, we weren’t sure where dad was), i felt so mad at myself for losing money. the next morning i was still mad at myself and decided I’M NEVER GAMBLING AGAIN.

and at the same time i thought I MUST WIN THAT MONEY BACK PLUS MORE.

we probably won’t be heading back to vegas any time soon, even though in august they’re going to start having cheap direct flights from splfd.

“O” was wonderful, again.

ok then,

june grace.

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