Feb 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m excited right now because i’m about to get a BONE DENSITY SCREENING. but then the thought struck me that maybe it’s a little pathetic, being so excited about getting a BD screening. but i can’t help it – mom has osteoporosis, and what’s even more shocking is...
Feb 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
yesterday was mom’s birthday. my mother is an intelligent person, but she started the day by WEIGHING HERSELF. i can’t think of a much worse way to start a birthday. she also cleaned her bathroom, and she interviewed for a job. hmm, are there any other unfortunate...
Feb 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
we went to see the movie “the queen” last week, and it was quite good. it was only here in spfld for a brief time, but then they brought it back because it was nominated for an oscar, and it’s been here for weeks now. but here’s my question – did...
Feb 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
one of the columnists in the op-ed section of today’s paper wrote about some woman in australian who has a best-selling self-help book called the secret. it sounds like it’s all about the power of positive thinking – oprah said that “we create our own...
Feb 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
i mentioned that kevin WON the fencing tournament last sunday, but here is a picture of him with his trophy. but this isn’t even the REAL trophy. the guy in charge of the tournament was giving out trophys and i noticed that the inscription on them was NOVICE 1st, 2nd,...
Feb 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
driving home from work, i heard just the very end of a story on NPR, one of their “I believe” series. all i heard was talking about cake, so naturally that made me look it up online. it’s a very sweet story, a nice tradition that this woman has started....
Feb 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
first of all, today it’s WARM. right now weather.com claims it’s 44, but out on our porch, the thermometer reads 50. it’s supposed to be SIXTY on saturday. then kind of colder next week, but hopefully the snow will be GONE. TIME FOR SPRING. there’s this news story...
Feb 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
enough already with the snow. last night we braved the cold and went to see “cabaret” at the hoogland, it was dinner theater, a lot of fun. dinner theater is a great idea and i think we should have more of it here. people like to eat and they like to be...
Feb 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s 80 in honolulu today. also tomorrow. the sad thing is that it’s supposed to reach the 40’s here next week, and this seems so great to me… anwyway, the last time i wrote about hawaii, we were hiking on the trail at the very end of the road on waimea canyon....
Feb 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
i don’t know how much time i have to sit here typing, because mollie is sitting on the floor next to me, looking up at me expectantly. IT’S TIME FOR FOOD RIGHT NOW is what she’d be yelling if she could talk. instead she just sits there looking cute, wagging her tail....
Feb 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
i hope yours is good. my mom has always loved valentine’s day but i’ve always kind of hated it, because mostly i wasn’t with somebody i loved, and even when i was, things were usually not so good for one reason or another. mostly because those other someones weren’t...
Feb 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
at least we don’t have 12 feet of snow like they have in upstate new york. i wonder if we’ve ever had that much? i doubt it. it is pretty bad, though. there’s about six inches on the ground, and it’s incredibly windy out there and the snow continues to fall. yesterday...
Feb 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
first, and most importantly, kevin WON the fencing tournament he was in on sunday afternoon. this was a lovely ending to a very very long day. the tournament was supposed to start at 1:30 on sunday afternoon. kevin didn’t want to leave too early and then have to stand...
Feb 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
the big problem with thinking about cholesterol and heart disease and fatness is that it makes me want to eat more. here’s a link to the website that was used yesterday in the heart luncheon. it shows the huge increase in obesity in america. OBESITY IN AMERICA. the...
Feb 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
well, he didn’t win first place in the fencing tournament on sunday, but kevin came in 3rd out of 28 or so people, which is very very good. it was a fun day and at the end of it i was exhausted even though i didn’t actually do anything all day except watch and cheer...
Feb 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
we’re spending the weekend here at amy and jim’s lovely home, with their three dogs and four cats, plus mollie, making a total of eight animals. none of the dogs slept in our bed with us last night, but at six a.m., noodle wanted OUT. one by one, they each catapulted...
Feb 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s a closeup of that bird with the marshmallow. he’s obviously blue, with a green head. the fire is made of red gummi worms. and i like this one because it highlights these birds here in front. i wish i had closeups of all the funny birds. but then again, it’d...
Feb 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
and here in spfld it’s cold and just gonna get colder. brrrr. so i was cleaning things and picked up my very old 35 mm camera and noticed that it still had film in it, so i took it out and took it to walgreens and they said i could get a cd of the images. wow, i had...
