May 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
on the big white chair across from me. we took a walk through the park this evening and she was overjoyed to trot through each and every puddle, big or small, and they were mostly GIGANTIC because of the tremendous amount of rain we had this afternoon. when we got...
May 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
so i’m sitting here in my lovely duplex apartment drinking a beer… WAIT! you’ll cry, if you know me at all. YOU NEVER DRINK BEER, GRACE! YOU HATE BEER! except christine, she may recall that i did drink a beer once, it was a stout, i had it when listening to a...
May 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’ve been sitting here looking at my computer for about 20 hours right now. i keep looking stuff up; right now i’m looking up b&bs in Oahu. the last place i looked at, it was definitely the oddest website i’ve ever seen. there weren’t any photos of the actual...
May 24, 2006 | Uncategorized
this morning when i woke up there were three messages on my phone. three “happy birthday to you,” each very melodic and lovely. but then, later, amy left me a singing message and that was the BEST one of all, quite full of much musicality and notes....
May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
hmm, very very early right now. very very early. i had no intention of being up at this hour, but i am. i got very very sick of just lying there in bed. so here i am. yesterday morning i went jogging through the park at about 8:30 in the morning. i ran past the duck...
May 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
MFH and i were walking to baskin robbin’s from my apartment, because we COULD walk there from my place, and we got to macarthur and in the parking lot of that family video there was a man with what looked like a fairly large dog. not a HUGE dog, but a good sized one....
May 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
i took a walk through washington park yesterday and stopped for a while to look at the ducks. there are lots and lots of baby ducklings right now and they’re quite adorable. but the day before i’d noticed different people headed over to feed the ducks and some of them...
May 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
although it feels like the weekend has been here for a while already because of the not working yesterday. the japanese restaurant was, indeed, very delicious and quite lovely. plus it’s all healthy and good for you; we had salmon and scallops and lots of veggies and...
May 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
well, it was very early in the morning, the train. it was supposed to leave at 6:33 a.m. and they said IF YOU DON’T GET HERE BEFORE SIX A.M., YOU WON’T FIND A PARKING SPOT HERE AT THE TRAIN STATION. randy and i pulled in at 6:05 and there were still places to be had....
May 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
FINALLY, FINALLY, it feels like spring again. we had all that warm lovely sunny weather and then BAM, dark and cold and grey. jason goodreau came to my place this afternoon to take my picture and he said the grey weather puts him in a bad mood, and that’s just how i...
May 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning i got a jar of peanut butter out to make a sandwich. when i went to make the sandwich, i’d misplaced the peanut butter. i spent too much time searching my kitchen for it, and then i looked again last night and this morning and clearly, clearly it’s...
May 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
is because, way way way back when, a man would go and capture himself a bride, and he had to have a bunch of warriors with him. groomsmen, actually warriors. they were needed to the bride’s family wouldn’t be able to steal her back, nor would anybody else get her. but...
May 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
that’s what i really missed at the crappy Tuscany non-buffet. i love french toast, although i rarely ever eat it anymore. when i was a kid and we’d gon on vacation, i’d always order french toast for breakfast and they’d bring out this GIGANTIC thing of french toast...
May 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
was had on sunday (MOTHER’S DAY, in case you forgot but now it’s really too late) at TUSCANY RESTAURANT. such a horrible, rotten time. randy’s mom told him she saw an ad for a mother’s day “buffet brunch” at tuscany. $16.95 per person, $12.95 for people...
May 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
things are winding down here inside my brain. it’s past midnight, which means i should have been asleep a while ago. at least a little while ago. lickety split, and i’ll be in bed, fast asleep. well, in bed anyway. some nice person just wrote to me and told me about...
May 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
GREAT DINNER. plus i beat randy at boggle. by only one point, but still. kevin would have beaten both of us, but he had to go back to work. here are some of my favorite words that randy made up tonight: vont pift randy always makes up highly entertaining words. he...
May 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
that’s how QUICK and SPEEDY i’m going to be FROM NOW ON FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE about writing on here. doesn’t matter if i’m very very busy or riding my bike in scotland or seeing shows in NYC or driving up the coast of CA, I’M GOING TO KEEP WRITING NO MATTER WHAT....
May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
i was watching “sex & the city,” except i wasn’t really watching because it was a repeat i’ve seen more than twice so i was really flipping the channels except that was very pointless, and i realized that i didn’t even mention the reason for saying...
May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
is that the correct spelling? i’m thinking maybe it should be “phooey.” yes, i think that’s right. not that i’m going to actually spend the two seconds it would take to look it up RIGHT HERE ON THE COMPUTER. i’ve entered a whole new realm of laziness. i...
May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
i thought i HAD just written on here! JUST. but i didn’t. i’m not going to apologize because i can’t just spend the rest of my LIFE apologizing for not writing. much too tiring. here’s a new and fabulous thing i found out yesterday – BECAUSE I’M GOING TO GET...
May 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
well, i haven’t really told many people yet about being engaged, but i was at a couples’ house tonight with amy, and i kind of know these people but not really and amy announced “grace is engaged” and the woman WHOOPED with joy and hugged me and stuff. and...
May 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
after two days, almost, of thinking about wedding planning, i’ve decided that it would be much MUCH better to just go to las vegas to get married. i’m not going to do this, mind you, but there are way too many things to think about. the only thing i really want to...
May 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
when i said “weird and crazy” in that last posting, i didn’t mean that MFH is weird and crazy, but rather the situation. just because it’s so very different for me. here’s the ring. ok, but now i have to explain this beautiful engagement ring to you. kevin...
May 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
if you’ve been reading what i’ve written for a couple of years now, you’ll remember me mentioning MNB (my new boyrfriend). i started writing about him almost two years ago, when we first started dating. i wrote about going with him to his first triathlon, about doing...
May 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
randy is standing here, breathing down my neck, yelling at me that i haven’t written in four days. he wanted to know how to write on here so he could fill in for me. so now i’m forced to write SOMETHING… i’ve been too busy. i’m sorry about that. randy continues...