Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
when i woke up this morning it was snowing. big fat wet flakes, a lot of them, pouring from the sky. i went back to sleep. ok, yes, it was kind of pretty. when i got up there was a little bit of snow on the ground, but as the day progressed it got warmer and most of...
Nov 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
this morning i woke up feeling like GETTING STUFF DONE. i started some laundry, looked at the piles of papers in the office…and then read the paper. so not that much stuff done, but now we have to go buy…A NEW FAUCET. because when you turn on the...
Nov 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
LONG WALK? LONG WALK? there was no time for a long walk yesterday. for some reason even though i was only making a portion of the thanksgiving meal, i spent the whole day cooking. luckily we didn’t eat till six, because if we’d eaten earlier i...
Nov 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
because when it comes right down to it, is there anything else to thankgiving besides eating a lot? in our family we don’t have a big meal till the evening, tomorrow it will be at six. amy said that way if people want to come over early and start grazing on...
Nov 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
obama held a press conference this morning and i saw part of it as i was climbing the Stairmaster to Nowhere. i didn’t catch it all because my time was up and i was more than ready to leave the gym. i just read something more about his economic team, and was...
Nov 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
melons and pumpkins are two different things. entirely. so at this neverending massage workshop this weekend, there was one woman in the class who was very chatty. she periodically made comments during the neverending lectures, some of them relevant, some not. at...
Nov 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
today was the first day of kevin’s retirement that i was home for. friday was his first official day, but i was in chicago listening to a guy lecture…and lecture…and lecture. today we did some things, including buying some test strips for the hot...
Nov 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
there are many many fur coats in chicago. i found it most funny that there were quite a few women in fur coats at trader joe’s. trader joe’s is all about eco-animal-friendly stuff, and those fur coats just didn’t belong there. one of the women...
Nov 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
degrees. outside. COME ON HERE PEOPLE. i got up early. am almost ready to drive to chicago. even though it’s obscenely cold outside, at least it’s sunny and beautiful. winter isn’t quite so bad when there’s no snow, so you can pretend...
Nov 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin brought home the remains of a huge cake from his office HAPPY RETIREMENT party yesterday. we ate cake and drank the champagne that his boss bought him. today i ate nothing but cake until about three in the afternoon, when i suddenly decided that nothing but...
Nov 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin is so giddy with delight that he is retiring on THURSDAY. he’s like a little kid, counting down the days, hours and minutes…plus he keeps trying to figure out ways to GET OUT OF THE OFFICE on these final days of his. he called me from work this...
Nov 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
ahhh, nothing to do tonight…i made a lot of chili last night and decided to fix some cornbread and a bread pudding with whiskey sauce for dessert and have the family over for dinner. first i somehow exploded a can of chiles on the front of my shirt. then i set...
Nov 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s been challenging to feel awake at all. last night we stayed out till one which isn’t so late for many people, but after the show and then drinking/eating a lot, i was SO TIRED, and still SO TIRED today and may have to have a nap soon. the show,...
Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
more gray skies, although maybe it won’t rain. mollie woke me up by standing on my head. ok, not RIGHT on my head, but very close. her breath smelled like cat food. not the most delightful way to wake up. i convinced her to move to one side and sleep for a...
Nov 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s gray and raining and there’s absolutely no reason to step foot outside. instead, here are some more photos of when it was sunny and warm and beautiful. i realize all of these photos are all inside the fabulous climatron conservatory place; there...
Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
this afternoon i just found out that a friend’s partner died on friday morning. my friend jimmy got up, went out on the porch…and david was dead. he was young, healthy, no medical problems…and then he just died. it’s sobering and very very...
Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
when i got up it was only TWENTY SIX. but this weekend i read in the paper that there was something like 45 inches of snow somewhere in one of the dakotas, plus 20 foot drifts! so, like most of life, it’s all a matter of perspective. we went to shaw’s...
Nov 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
even though amy says that ONCE HALLOWEEN IS OVER NOBODY CARES ANYMORE, i thought i’d post these post-halloween photos i took on saturday morning after the party. things weren’t really horribly messy because bev had done so much cleaning on friday night...
Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
on that same page of the huffington post there’s also a bunch of newspaper headlines from around the country.
Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
today is BEV’S BIG DAY! and we’re going out to RED LOBSTER to celebrate. bev wanted to know what i’m going to write about here now that obama has won. hopefully i’ll find something. but right now, here’s a link to the huffington post,...
Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was sitting here waiting for obama to come on the stage and i fell asleep, and then there was so much applause that i woke up and then he started talking… remember wen i made that silly little barack obama video? i did it because i was so excited about barack...
Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
what a long road it’s been. john mccain is making his concession speech right now, in front of a sea of angry-looking white faces. the obamas are going to be really really tired pretty soon. after the adrenaline wears off. i hope they get to take a little...
Nov 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just read this gripping post by andrew sullivan. if you want to check out his blog, here’s the link. Andrew Sullivan 03 Nov 2008 12:30 pm Barack Obama For President by Andrew Sullivan On a spectacular September morning more than seven years ago, our world...
Nov 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
it’s a little nerve-wracking, waiting around. i’m trying to keep calm by eating halloween candy. i guess sugar and chocolate aren’t necessarily the best things for promoting calmness. yesterday the obama campaign sent me ONE LAST REQUEST FOR MONEY...
Nov 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
there weren’t that many more to put up so here they are. plus i took a bunch of photos yesterday morning, but those will have to wait. plus there were two swans down by the dock and i took many many many pictures of them. and then i took more photos this...
Nov 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’m outside writing. most of the halloween decorations have been taken down. we took the dogs for a long walk. i haven’t ONLY eaten halloween candy thus far today; i also had some pancakes. here’s ralph shank, who i had never met till friday...
Nov 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, here we go. today my goal is not to only eat chocolate halloween candy. so far i’ve been sticking to the goal. but it’s not even nine a.m., thanks to the end of daylight savings time. dang it’s going to get dark quickly tonight. first,...
Nov 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
last night the party was…actually kind of fun. i didn’t feel utterly wiped out by one a.m. when the last guests finally left. and i owe a huge part of this to my AWESOME FRIEND BEV. i had asked her to “help out” during the party with...
