WINTER HAS ARRIVED

yesterday, JUST YESTERDAY, we were out in the yard, trimming the rose bushes, putting up xmas lights – ok, i didn’t actually do anything lighting-wise, but i watched. and i got many thorns in my hands due to to the rose bushes even though for the most part i was...

first,

i just have to say that i made some site updates ON MY OWN! WHHOO, MEE! you’ll notice over there on the right that i added the time and date for my UPCOMING SHOW. not to mention that i wrote almost half of the show last night! yes, very very productive. plus, i’ve...

script

today kevin took my picture, to send in as part of my agreement to do a show at first night. so that’s done. but then there’s the actual show, which i must start writing. i was going to do it tonight, but then my family invited me to bernie and betty’s pizza and so i...

SUNDAY NIGHT

since we’ve been home i’ve felt a little more…sane…since before we went to NYC. and tonight i assured kevin that i’d be going to sleep at a more reasonable hour, i wouldn’t feel the need to stay up late after we went to work. it’s now 12:53. so never mind...

happy thanksgiving!

i’m a little groggy right now because i just woke up from a nap after having a lovely thanksgiving meal at a little italian restaurants a couple of blocks from the hotel. kevin had turkey etc, and i had penne pasta with vodka sauce and chunks of salmon. delicious....

NOT AN X BOX!

they’re not x boxes, they’re SONY PLAYSTATION 3s. and there are VERY VERY FEW of them, which has made people go crazy, as they are wont to do. there was a story about it on the front page of the paper today (you see how very thrilling and full of news the town is),...

FRIDAY morning

and i’m FULL OF ENERGY for all the stuff i need to do…except it’s already 10:30 and i’ve been sitting here for too long, looking up stuff online about NYC and i told myself that i wouldn’t do that anymore because i already have more ideas for things to do than...

and *poof,* it’s thursday

just four minutes till friday. NO IDEA how that happened. the cold weather has set in and it’s not even that horribly cold. YET. but still, i just want to sit around and drink hot tea and continue to obsessively read this book i’m reading. it’s called “Make Way...

oh yeah one more thing

i looked through the many many ads in the sunday paper and there’s this one item for sale that is somewhat horrifying. it’s one of those deals where you make three payments or whatever, and usually it’s for something like a train set or some kind of doll or something....

sunny monday……NOT.

that’s a “borat” inside joke. cloudy cloudy cloudy all day long. it seemed SO COLD and i wore my great big winter coat and a hat and gloves. but then tonight, for some reason, it didn’t seem so cold and i took mollie for a walk which she was VERY EXCITED...

more brooks & dunn trivia

we have an autographed brooks & dunn guitar in our music room. i didn’t know this. did my husband go to a B&D concert? he’s never mentioned it. maybe. or maybe he got it on e-bay. he has lots and lots of guitars, in case i’ve never mentioned this. LOTS and...

MORE MOVIES!

considering that i hadn’t been to a movie in i don’t know how long, the number of movies i saw over the week was quite remarkable. after “talledega nights, the ballad of ricky bobby,” fairly stupid but also funny, was “marie antoinette,” BORING...

ROGER EBERT IS AN IMBECILE

i just looked up some reviews of “marie antoinette” and he ADORDED IT. please, roger, get a clue, get a grip. he made this 10-point list of it, and one of his points is: “Every criticism I have read of this film would alter is fragile magic and...

SO INCREDIBLY BORING

that sums up “marie antoinette.” mom and dad said they were going tonight, the last night it’s playing here in spfld, so kevin and i went, but then mom and dad had to go later. when the movie was FINALLY over after about 15 days, i called dad and said...

the animals in the garage

we moved the cat food out of the garage so the unnamed animal (midget deer, bunny, possum, or some unidentified beast) won’t keep eating it. now the food is on the dresser in the front bedroom, which seems like not such a great place for cat food, but we were running...

i stand corrected

1. christine CARES NOTHING about brooks & dunn. she just knows who they are (doesn’t everybody?). now, a few lifetimes ago i know she liked country music and listened to it, but maybe not B&D. maybe she doesn’t listen to it anymore, i don’t know. 2. the bat...

country music awards

i started watching the country music awards because i’ve never watched it before and wanted to see what it was like. lots and lots of music. if you were a big country fan, this would be a great show to watch, i think, because it didn’t seem to be lots of talking and...

kevin’s article plus other things

not a lot of other things, except i’m ridiculously sore today from all the yard work yesterday. we didn’t get a subscription to the online sj-r yet, but we figured out how to save the article about kevin, and so i’m just going to cut and paste it here for you. In the...

kevin’s article which isn’t actually there…

i guess that link had a shelf life. it worked when i first put it in. so if you’re dying to read the article, you’ll have to wait till we get the secret information from the paper for accessing it. why can’t it just be available online like other parts of the paper?...

THANK YOU JANET FORD!

janet, who i’ve only actually seen in person one time, has been a loyal reader for a very long time. i’m sure we’ll see each other again somebody. meanwhile, janet e-mailed me today and said YOU CAN READ KEVIN’S ARTICLE IN THE PAPER ONLINE. you have to subscribe to...

MY FAMOUS HUSBAND

every thursday, in the state journal-register, they have a special column in the a&e section called “in the spotlight.” they feature somebody in the arts. and on tuesday, the arts guy nick rogers called kevin because he wanted him to be IN THE...

november 2nd

the day before my brother’s birthday. cold and sunny. more hawaii photos. i feel like i’ve been posting so many of them, but i’m not even finished with the second full day there in hawaii. we last went to the foster botannical garden, and then drove through honolulu...

one more picture

this is lucy, who was Tattoo from Fantasy Island for Halloween. just like every other kid in america.

hawaii and halloween and everything that starts with h

hell. colder than hell, but what kind of stupid expression is that? first, more of hawaii. after spending a lot of time at the arizona memorial at pearl harbor, we drove through Honolulu and it was lots of big buildings and traffic. we went to a botanical garden...