happy halloween!

here are some of the very cool old halloween postcards i found online. here’s the link to the site, in case you want to look at more of them. old postcards

OK, JUST ONE MORE THING,

which has nothing to do with halloween – they fired one of the people at FEMA. how about that? so that means that the fema people must be reading my website, huh, and realizing what CRETINS some of them have been. now that’s a satisfying feeling, that i’m making...

OK JUST A COUPLE MORE

it’s like i can’t move from the chair, i’m forced to sit here and shrink and crop and darken photos, i just can’t stop. so here are a few more. first, ann and her boyfriend frank. she’s INSIDE OUT, get it? he’s some rocker dude, i don’t know if he was supposed to be...

MANY MORE HALLOWEEN PHOTOS LIKE I PROMISED

one of the funniest ones is bev dancing. she’s singing, i believe, and her mouth is wide open and i showed it to her and she said DON’T PUT THAT UP! so i’m sorry, but i can’t. hopefully there’s another photo of her somewhere. oh, and also, those were only a FRACTION...

HALLOWEEN PHOTOS!

this is in response to aunt sandy’s FRANTIC PLEA for photos. it would be nice to have a long, uninterrupted time to put up lots and lots of photos. for example, some people think that we’re still in austria, or we just came back. seeing as how i’ve only managed to...

STILL MORE stupidity,

this time on the local level, right here in spfld. there’s an article in today’s paper about a guy who the city is paying $164,000 to rid downtown of pigeons and starlings. this was apparently all the mayor’s idea. the thing is, how does the guy do it? MAGIC, of...

what, exactly, was FEMA thinking?

last night i was perusing the paper because saturday night live didn’t seem funny at all, and i had to read one story twice. apparently, on friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency held a phony news conference about assistance to victims of the wildfires...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTINE!

she’s turning a MILESTONE YEAR today, and i hope she’s having fun. i offered to buy her a plane ticket to come visit us, but she’s not here yet. soon, hopefully. i’ve known christine for many many years. 13, as a matter of fact. my ex-boyfriend, scott, recruited...

PARTY TIME

well, not just yet, thank god. i still have quite a few things to do. bake bread. i have a list of things, but the list isn’t so bad. ok, i do have a brownie issue. amy has a fabulous brownie recipe, it makes the most delicious chocolatey delicious chocolate brownies...

SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY

now, THIS should cheer you up! i hope it actually works. my aunt sandy sent it to me last week but i didn’t think i could post it…but i think here it is. you will especially like it if you have/like cats. if you HATE CATS, however, maybe you shouldn’t watch it....

is anybody at all happy out there?

when people tell me how they’re really feeling, it’s not happy. do people tell me how they’re really feeling more than they tell other people? do i attract unhappy people? or is every single person in the world miserable? i hope not. it’s time to GET HAPPY, dammit....

morning in linz

the third day of our trip, we started out by walking our bikes over to the linz palace museum. much of it was closed, under construction, but we managed to see a lot of weapons and musical instruments. i’m pretty sure this particular piano has something to do with...

right now…

it’s 60 degrees. going to get more chilly, and then it may rain. on one of my favorite shows, “as time goes by,” the british sitcom, there’s this one kind of kooky character who always announces the weather conditions in the english channel when she enters...

austria…

it was eighty degrees here today, i believe, fyi. but by the end of the week, the rumor is that fall-like weather is actually going to begin. ok, i realize that it’s been almost a week since i’ve written about austria – when i left off, we’d arrived at our very...

thursday night…

erica and i went to dinner and then to world market where i did not buy ONE SINGLE HALLOWEEN ITEM. and then to barnes-n-noble, where i BOUGHT ONE XMAS GIFT! which is quite extraordinary for me. i’ve never bought an xmas gift before november, and really, lately, i...

AGREEMENT ON YARD WASTE REACHED!

that was the headline in today’s springfield paper. i added the exclamation point, because that’s just how passionate i feel about the YARD WASTE AGREEMENT! ok, i admit that i don’t even know anything at all about this VERY VERY IMPORTANT STORY. i will never ever get...

monday, continuing down the danube bike path…

and we haven’t gotten any farther than we were the last time i posted some photos. this continues to be this same pretty spot, where we went crazy taking photos and video. i’d just shot some video, but then i saw a cruise boat coming, so i told kevin we had to STAY...

sitting around waiting for the party to begin…

i guess maybe i’ve had a little too much time on my hands this week. suddenly the house is pretty darn clean, and very well-decorated. tonight i turned on the halloween lights and they look very good-n-festive and i’m now ready for the party to start. i have a couple...

p.s. GO SEE “THE SPITFIRE GRILL”

oh yeah, i forgot to mention, GO SEE “THE SPITFIRE GRILL.” please. we went to see it on sunday at the theatre centre and it was really well done except the attendance was exceedingly poor. molly mathewson, except in the program she calls herself amelia, is...

tuesday again?

i’m not quite sure how that happened. must write more. be more consistent. be a better person. not so lazy. blah blah blah. periodically i do realize that if i just somehow make the voices in my head SHUT UP, i’d be a lot happier. those voices in my head, they’re just...

p.s.

the only problem with photos of me on the trip is that most of the time i look like a totally big dork with my yellow biking jacket and helmet and very clingy bike pants. not my best look.

tornadoes?

i never, ever worried about tornadoes. because they never touched down. UNTIL LAST YEAR. a few blocks from our house. the tornado ripped the roof right off a house and they had to tear it down. now i’m a little more edgy about tornadoes. we’re just having a watch, not...