Nov 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
soooo tired. such a very busy week of massaging this week. i was going to get up and DO WEIGHTS at the fit club this morning, but it just didn’t happen. i don’t care. perhaps i’ll take mollie for a short walk b4 giving a long massage this afternoon, but NO RUNNING....
Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
have you heard of this man? tonight i finally got to some actual content in oprah magazine, and there, on the very very last page, was oprah’s back page column, and she mentioned Dr. Randy Pausch, “the Carnegie Meloon professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
the cat honey sleeping next to me reminded me of last week’s roofing debacle. here are some of the photos i took in the morning, before the fatigue caught up to me and i was ready to weep from fatigue and hunger. ok, see that peak of the roof? mom and randy had to rip...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
ok, well one thing, anyway. ok, i called erica. i mean, this was actually something on my list of THINGS TO GET DONE. but i was going to save calling erica till i had done other things that i didn’t particularly want to do. so actually, then, calling erica was...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
my great big pink jammies, to be exact. i bought them last year at kohl’s and they’re very very soft and fuzzy and comfy and they’re extra-large so they’re really really huge and i love them. yesterday during the day i was thinking that there are many many things i...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
here are a few more photos of mom’s trip to europe back in the 50’s. i know that the people out there who don’t read this but just look at the photos will be very confused about these pictures because sometimes people seem to think that we’re STILL on our bike trip in...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
after the requisite gobs of turkeystuffingcranberrysaucemashedpotatoessweetpotatoescorncasserolegreenbeansalad dessertsgaloreincludingagermanchocolatepecanpiethatwassosweetitwasalmosttoosweetforme andyouknowthat’sreallysweet, it was time for the highlight of the...
Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s mom in vienna, on the square in front of st. mark’s cathedral. and this is the danube river, taken from somewhere in vienna. this is mom with some man named johann emmerstorfer. i have no idea who he is, but i’ll find out today when we show the slides. now that...
Nov 22, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i haven’t written in a whole week because i’ve been very busy scanning, going to missouri, and roofing. yes, that’s right, roofing. i can add that to my resume of very valuable skills. when we were in missouri over the weekend (it was beautiful, by the way, and we did...
Nov 15, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i’m not sure how it got to be thursday already. there continues to be many things i want to do, but suddenly it’s thursday and i haven’t accomplished any of them. currently i’m obsessed with scanning. we bought a scanner and i’ve been scanning slides from a trip my...
Nov 12, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
so it’s only taken me almost two months to get to the photos in our bike trip that were taken at the town where we spend the night on sunday, sept. 16th. we had just coasted over a very long bridge over the river and into the tiny town of emmersdorf. our hotel, the...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
our cat’s name is honey, she’s the killer cat who brings dead or alive birds into the house. she’s a terror, but she’s very sweet when she wants to be. honey was also the name of kevin’s parents’ dog. a sweet golden retriever who i didn’t get to spend much time with,...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
the plan: my friend gil arranges bus trips to see different shows. we were to spend saturday night taking a bus down to st. louis to see the musical comedy “the drowsy chaperone,” which looked very funny. the reality: we were supposed to be at the JC...
Nov 8, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
I can’t stop, i’m on a roll, there are only a few more abbey photos and i feel i must post them in order to have closure on this day. this was a special grove of REALLY REALLY OLD TREES. i can’t remember how old, but i do remember that they were endangered so there...
Nov 8, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i’m sitting here with the computer on my lap, hoping that the heat from the laptop will make my leg muscles feel less sore. so far it’s not working so great, but the kitty honey seems to be enjoying sitting close to me because i’m wearing my big fluffy pink robe. she...
Nov 8, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
i spent most of yesterday sprinting from one activity to another, rushing rushing rushing all the livelong day. after all the activity, last night we went to randy’s house to watch the country music awards. ok, i really had no desire to see the country music awards,...
Nov 5, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
it claims to be the oldest town in austria period, not just lower austria. our hotel was much better than the tiny tiny room we had the night before in linz. but we still didn’t want to just hang out in the room, so we walked around in the town a bit. it was pretty...
Nov 5, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
…not that i’ve just been SITTING HERE LIKE A SLUG ALL DAY OR ANYTHING! i got up, was NOT going to run, but then mollie was looking so pleadingly at me that i had no choice; we went for 28 short minutes and were both glad we went. and then i gave a long massage...
Nov 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
recalled: over 120 MILLION pepperoni pizzas. recalled: ONE MILLION POUNDS ground beef. ok, you can eat something – BUT NO MEAT. ESPECIALLY NO PEPPERONI PIZZAS AND HAMBURGERS. you could always do like i’m doing, which is eating gobs of leftover halloween candy....
Nov 1, 2007 | Danube Biking 2007
here on the website over a week ago. linz was the second day of our austria trip, and we left the town on the third day, which was friday, sept. 14th. the last photo i posted was from the bike trail heading from linz to enns. we biked through a couple of little towns...
