Oct 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
my husband and i just went to the fit club which he’s probably going to join because he has a new schedule, 11 p.m. till 7 a.m., and he can work out at the fit club during his lunch hour, which would be somewhere in the neighborhood of four a.m. WORKING OUT AT FOUR...
Oct 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
i found that notebook that i was going crazy looking for. it was right there on the floor in the living room. i found it because i was moving a speaker out of the living room. cleaning. it was VERY VITAL TO MY VERY EXISTENCE, but i haven’t actually opened it up...
Oct 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
tonight i received an e-mail from my mother-in-law, and part of it read: “I must not have been paying attention 49 years ago, but I could have sworn that kid only had one penis. And it didn’t look like a dried up parsnip, either!” this from my...
Oct 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
i gues list-keeping is sort of an obsessive-compulsive thing. but on the other hand, without a list, i’m always thinking WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT I’M FORGETTING ABOUT? so, in cleaning for the party we stacked great quantities of things in various places in...
Oct 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
i got swept away by all the cooking and planning for our halloween party, that’s why i haven’t been writing. and now i’m about to go running because it’s BEAUTIFUL AND SUNNY today. perhaps the last day like this we’ll have all year. but you never know. here’s a...
Oct 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
i couldn’t make those photos appear, so i made them into new photos. here’s his fort, on the beach at Kualoa. and this is what it looked like just a little while later. this is the giant buddha inside the Byodo-In Temple. incidentally, if you’re a “lost”...
Oct 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
one more thing before I HAVE TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW OR I’LL BE LATE – i know the photo of the fort and the washed-away fort are missing. i uploaded them and it looks like they’re there, but they’re not and i don’t know how to get them there and i’ll try to upload...
Oct 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
some photos of hawaii. first, that first day on the beach kevin built a little fort and i took a picture of it. it was a very nice fort, but then it got washed away, as forts in the sand tend to do. after we sat there on the beach for a very long time, we drove up the...
Oct 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
technically, already monday. a busy weekend. COLD WEATHER has struck. tonight jim had an excellent idea. he said we should all cash in everything we own and band together to buy a small shack on kauai. excellent idea. here’s a photo of a beach on Oahu called Kualoa...
Oct 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
except i also have to work tomorrow so today feels more like thursday. but not really, friday is always friday to me. i have one more massage this afternoon, and then my husband and i are going to a cabin concert. my friend ann, who has the concerts, told me to give...
Oct 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
i can’t exactly say why i’m not in bed yet. here is the very first picture kevin took in hawaii. i’m on the street near the b&b we stayed in on Oahu, where we were for three nights. it was a very short walk to the beach. this was the next morning when we went to...
Oct 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
yeah yeah yeah, can i account for all the time that has lapsed since i last wrote? hmm, nope. i can say that i’ve developed an obsession for printing out wedding photos. why must i print out so many? because there are so many good ones. i have to stop, i keep running...
Oct 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’m going to go to sleep. unless my HUSBAND comes home from work. which he should, any minute now. unless he’s frozen somewhere. so anyway i looked up hawaii real estate. the most incredible thing i found is a house for $350,000…and it has THREE HUNDRED AND...
Oct 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
time, that is. how is it one minute till midnight? i don’t know. when you read this it’ll say it’s thursday, but it’s really still wednesday night. later and later. i feel like i’ve accomplished nothing today, but i know i got millions of little things done. and...
Oct 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
delicious homemade pizza and visiting and chatting, and then jim made a bonfire and we sat around it and talked for a long time after eating s’mores, and it was really nice and peaceful and good… i came home and turned on the heat and puttered around for a short...
Oct 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
i’m going to make an effort to download those photos. i’m not even sure where kevin’s camera might be, which is where all the pictures are. i took video. three hours worth! we’ve watched more than half of it. today…another lovely fall day. warm and sunny and...
Oct 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
now, thes are the lyrics, according to another website. i noted that “aussen fay” and “chafafa” are here “oss and fay” and “shifafa.” hmm. the latter are allegedly the lyrics that diana krall used when she recorded the...
Oct 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
here’s the song, thanks to wikipedia: “The Frim-Fram Sauce” is a jazz song, made famous by The Nat King Cole Trio and performed by a variety of musicians over the years. “The Frim-Fram Sauce” was written in 1945. The lyrics were written by Redd...
Oct 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
there are many many things that i have to get done. get a new driver’s license, a new social security card, change the name on my bank account, get new business cards, new brochures for my business, new passport, change all the addresses and names on different...
Oct 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
i just STOLE this photo off jerri’s website, because it’s SO CUTE. lucy is adorable of course, and mollie is looking at her like “what’s this baby gonna do?” or maybe she’s coveting lucy’s binky. “does that baby have FOOD? how can i get it without...
Oct 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
i don’t think i’ve mentioned that we’re having a BIG HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY! theoretically we’ll be sending out invitations by this weekend. HOPEFULLY. but i’m just telling you now, in case you’re reading this and you think you should be invited but maybe i’d forget...
Oct 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
my friend bev was voted SECRETARY OF THE YEAR this year. i just found this out last night when she came over to eat lasagne and leftover wedding carrot cake and watch one of the hawaii videos. how about that, secretary of the year? bev is a great person – smart,...
Oct 2, 2006 | Uncategorized
because all day i’ve been tired. dead tired. so tired. i stayed up till kevin got home last night, at two. and we stayed up till three. we got up at 11. that’s EIGHT HOURS of sleep. enough for any adult. and yet i’m so tired that i might as well be hungover. but i’m...
Oct 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
i showed my family two of the three-hour honeymoon videos. they enjoyed watching it because they went to Kauai two years ago when amy and jim got married (their very SURPRISE wedding, where only mom and dad were in attendance). it was quite gratifying to see that we’d...
