Dec 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
so this morning even though i should be doing a bunch of cooking for tonight, instead i’m sitting here being SO BLEEPING MAD at wordpress. it won’t let me upload any photos, still, and it’s been almost a week now and it makes me SO BLEEPING MAD....
Dec 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
not by me, by chris britt. it’s called “a blago christmas,” and it’s very, very funny. that’s all for this day before new year’s. ok then, grace
Dec 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
it was a ridiculously lavish christmas here at the hughes household. apparently santa didn’t get the memo about the worldwide recession and economic meltdown. i got up thursday, christmas morning, to see a huge box next to the tree. well, i got up and was...
Dec 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
but i really wanted to post a couple of photos with it, and for some reason, all day long, i haven’t been able to upload any photos here. so i’m going to wait till tomorrow, and maybe the problem will have resolved itself. i hate this wordpress site for...
Dec 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
so i’m sitting here in the dark…i would turn on the light, but randy came in and said if i did that it would ruin the ambience. but since i’m in here by myself, i’m not sure who, exactly, the ambience would be ruined for. randy is having a...
Dec 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s about all to say for today. oh, and VERY VERY WINDY, too. right now it’s 5 but feels like 19 below. i only went outside briefly, to amy and jim’s house next door. because there’s really no point in going out. tomorrow morning, i have...
Dec 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, after spending literally a couple of hours reading the many, many comments on thecapitolfaxblog.com, i had to share a couple of them with you. Phineas J. Whoopee – Friday, Dec 19, 08 @ 4:05 pm These blowhard defense attorneys do nothing beneficial for their...
Dec 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
here, i found out who made the comment about all that darn initiating initiations… “The state’s top welfare officials repeatedly said Thursday they didn’t know or couldn’t recall who it was that decided to press forward with a taxpayer-financed health...
Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s my favorite thing that i read from thecapitolfaxblog.com today re: the impeachment of our governor. a whole bunch of people were doing a running commentary on the proceedings, and i’m not sure exactly who said this pithy remark; i think it was the...
Dec 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
i decided in order to cheer myself up, i’d post a couple of photos. first, amy and kevin feeding the swans. note how mollie is trying to help herself to the bag of bread kevin is holding. this is one of my favorite photos, honey lying on top of the boat as we...
Dec 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
it’s both fascinating and maddening to read the capitolfaxblog.com. lots of people who know all about the state goverment write in with comments. yesterday the house voted unanimously to start a committee to see about impeaching the governor. today the...
Dec 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
it is 34 degrees and raining pretty hard. by 11 o’clock it’s going to turn to snow. so i figure somewhere in the next half hour it’s going to be freezing rain and not pleasant at all to be outside. and then in the middle of the night the...
Dec 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
last night we got home from yet another holiday party and mollie was very enthusiastic and happy to see us. on the floor was a box of chocolate hazelnut tea, the teabags scattered all over the floor, some of them gnawed on. also there were two potatoes and a bag of...
Dec 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
we were getting something framed at hobby lobby this morning, and there we saw rep. rich brauer. he was having a picture framed; it looked like a metal rendering of the state capitol building, and it read “in this house we believe in santa.” like i said,...
Dec 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
this is from the tehran times: Ayatollah Khatami dismisses Obama’s anti-Iran claims TEHRAN (IRNA) — Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami here Friday dismissed recent “uncalculated” anti-Iran claims of the U.S.’ “nouveau de rich”...
Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, this is probably the last posting about our still-governor for today. this is from the Herald, from Monterey, Ca. i mean, isn’t it amazing how this story is now everywhere? earlier today i noticed an article from the netherlands. everywhere, the guy is...
Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was reading and article in the wall street journal about the shame the governor has cast upon our fair state – and a couple of paragraphs lept out at me. first: “Some residents are worried that the whiff of corruption coming from the state capital in...
Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
soon, all the stories on the internet will just be BLAGO ALL THE TIME. besides the brittany stories, of course. here’s a very funny parody i found, from the Weekly Standard: U.S.A. vs. Blagojevich–What the Feds Left Out A parody. by Matthew Continetti...
Dec 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
here’s a little bit from one of the over NINE THOUSAND stories on the web about the governor right now: “Dick Durbin, the senior senator from Illinois who has been one of Obama’s closest allies in Washington, sent a letter to Blagojevich calling on...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
but, i mean, all this swearing is in an OFFICIAL U.S. DOCUMENT. this is exactly what blago said about our president-elect, in relation to blago picking a replacement senator: ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
yet more, in case you STILL haven’t read the summary of the affadavit: A 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps during the last month conspiring to sell or trade Illinois’ U.S. Senate seat vacated by...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
he also wanted the tribune to fire its editorial board in exchange for his giving money for wrigley field, which is owned by the Tribune Company. Misuse of State Funding To Induce Firing of Chicago Tribune Editorial Writers According to the affidavit, intercepted...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
the thing he finds “most delicious” about Blagojevich going down is that he, kevin, and all state employees are subjected to taking an ethics test every year (blago implemented the test). the press release from State’s Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
here’s my favorite quote from blago, at the end of the tribune article about blago’s arrest this morning: “Look, I believe everybody should just tell the truth and pursue the truth and be truthful and then you do that and everything’s...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s a quote from one of my favorite quotes from blagojevich that i just read in the chicato tribune this morning. here’s the rest of that particular gem: May 2005, accusing his father-in-law of trying to cash in on his position: “Do you have the...
Dec 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
they arrested him at his house early this morning, charged with, among other things, trying to sell or trade obama’s vacant senate seat. that’s all the information i have about it right now but if you’ve been following the shenanigans of our...
Dec 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s the number of cups of tea i’ve drunk today. holiday spice tea, peppermint tea, chocolate caramel enchantment tea, mexican sweet chili tea, eggnon’n tea, chocolate hazelnut tea, apple cinnamon tea, more peppermint tea, i’m drowning in...
Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
does this mean i’m one step closer to being a bag lady? you decide. but i know in my heart that it probably does. here’s the only photo i could find online of my slipper-shoes that kevin gave me THAT I LOVE. they’re the ones on the right. on the...
Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just looked at the weather on weather.com because i’m a little bit obsessive about the weather especially when it’s SUDDENLY WINTER like this. and it informed me that it’s 21 outside but it FEELS LIKE SEVEN. luckily i’m never going outside...
Dec 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s what i’m walking on right now. yesterday kevin gave me an early xmas gift, a fabulous pair of…well, i guess they’re not technically slippers because they have rubber soles so you can wear them outside, and i’ve basically been...
