maybe you’ve seen this, but…

maybe you haven’t.  it’s a very, very funny thing that billy dee williams did for the jimmy kimmel show.  i promise you’ll laugh, and don’t we all need a laugh on this very last day of 2009?  of course we do. Billy Dee Williams...

ouch.

this morning i got up, worked out, went to kohl’s, had a bunch of stuff to do before giving a massage, plus i needed to clean because we’re having some people over tomorrow night…and kevin called.  he was headed to the ER  – dad had fallen on...

trying to blow people up

I just read this account on the huffington post from one of the passengers on the plane that the guy tried to blow up.  a gripping account. OVER DETROIT SKIES by Roey Rosenblith Roey Rosenblith is the Founder and Director of Village Energy (Uganda) Limited, a startup...

battle of the birds…

there’s a big pile of starlings all over the cheesecake now, which will  be gone soon.  they keep slapping their wings at each other, trying to knock out the other starlings.  kevin said that earlier, there were hundreds of grackles in the trees and they all...

yes they do!

it’s the starlings who love the cheesecake.  jim just came over (wearing his flip flops, which he quickly realized wasn’t such a great idea in all the snow) and told me that the black birds with spots are starlings, and some people don’t like them...

do birds like cheesecake?

that is my question for the day.  i hope to find this out soon. i made kevin a delicious lowfat, low-sugar pumpkin cheesecake for thanksgiving.  because we had so many desserts, we finally put it in the basement refrigerator.  i just found it a few days ago. it had no...

merry christmas eve morning!

hmm, things are good here this morning – i have finished my cookie-baking marathon, having made more kinds of cookies than ever before, plus a delicious rum-soaked fruitcake.  i’ve included (relatively) healthy pumpkin bars made with splenda for kevin,...

RECIPE FOR BACON-WRAPPED DATES

my friend lori ann wanted the recipe for these mouthwatering morsels of deliciousness and i was going to post it on facebook but my post was TOO LONG.  perhaps that’s why i never post anything on facebook. i told her i’d put it here, and then i had the...

ON BOARD THE QUEEN MARY II

i got up at SIX THIRTY this morning.  i don’t know why.  maybe because i have a lot to do today.  mostly today i have to make stuff for randy’s party tonight.  i was going to space it out during the week so i didn’t have to do everything today, but i...

i know i know i know…

why haven’t i been more better about writing on here?  well, yesterday i decided that i HAD TO MAKE A LOT OF COOKIES. so i made a LOT of cookies. i’m about to start the process of posting more photos from our scotland trip…i think i’m almost...

wednesday.

10.  degrees. wind chill of -7. i went outside to feed the birds but since the back sliding door is frozen shut i had to go out the front and march all the way around the house.  mollie was delighted for the opportunity to go run around like crazy, but even she was...

update on the cold

IT’S STILL COLD. i got an e-mail greeting from the warwick hotel, where we stayed at the end of our scotland trip.  i LOVE the photo, so i’m including it now for you to see because it’s so cute. actually, i’m including it because kevin figured...

cold tuesday.

on friday morning i was sitting in my chair looking outside and one flake of snow drifted to the ground.   NO!  i yelled.  I’M NOT READY FOR SNOW! that seemed to do the trick. but then, later, more snow. it was ok, though, because it wasn’t so cold out and...

QUEEN MARY II

finally, finally, more photos.  but the thing is, after these, there are STILL MORE!  will they never end? maybe by christmas i’ll be done with them… so on friday, july 24th, we took a cab from our b&b in southampton to the port. they had sent us an...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

good morning!  how is your day going?  i realize maybe you won’t be reading this till monday because i think many people read this at work and hopefully you’re NOT WORKING today. things are going well here.  i’m watching the macy’s thanksgiving...

dancing with the starz

i’ve been uploading photos of scotland this morning but i realize i’m going to have to do a little bit of work looking up specifics about the queen mary to share with you, so right now i’m just going to post these photos of this charity event that...

the fancy state dinner at the white house tonight

i just read about the state dinner they’re having at the white house tonight, right this very moment, probably…and i just want to know why they’re having it in a tent.  is the white house being cleaned?  are there no free rooms? i’m sure there...

scotland

finally some more photos…i was going to post all these photos in a timely manner, remember? this is our last day in Glasgow; we took the train on wednesday morning from edinburgh to glasgow, and spent one night there.  i wanted to go to the university museum...

one wild photo (of rijstaffel, of course)

today might be the last warm day of the whole year and instead of being outside enjoying it i’m in here reading more about rijstaffel. i looked up recipes and found this photo.  the guy who posted it actually got it from a restaurant in  bali called Ketupat...

right there in westwood…

i just found a restaurant in LA called Ramayani Westwood.  I could have easily gone there when i worked in west LA and drove back home to west hollywood.  i know i was so close to the place so many times… its located at 777 Westwood Blvd . Los Angeles . CA ....

Rijsttafel, or a reason to clean

the night before last i was awake for about an hour, and for some reason i decided to obsess about the huge amounts of stuff in our basement.  kevin has made great strides in cleaning it out, but there are still many many many things down there, and some of them are...

what will she do now?

taylor swift won entertainer of the year award last night at the country music awards.  plus she won four others – best video, best female vocalist, and album of the year. so, what will she do, now that she’s achieved everything she’s wanted to...

watching the country music awards…

we COULD be watching “the office” which i’m TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH right now.  but this morning i ordered seasons 1-5 online and they will hopefully be here soon so i don’t have to fast-forward through all the commercials on the DVR all the time...

two censored halloween photos…

my friend linda, instead of being a sexy witch or something more suitable to her loveliness, this year came to our party as a…flasher. not just any run-of-the-mill flasher, either.  she sported a custom-made appendage, the likes of which you are not likely to...

good things and bad

good thing – i finally cut my bangs. bad thing – i finally cut my bangs. see, amy cuts hair for a living and she always says “i can cut your bangs any time because it only takes two minutes.” i’ve cut my own bangs plenty of time, but...

wednesday morning

and i’ve added a new link so you can e-mail me.  but then when i tested it, it tried to get me to open a new server thing and type in the POP and all of that, so i added a note in case this also happens to you. so if you feel like sending me an e-mail, you can...

photos photos photos…

think i already wrote about our friends tim and gina…she was an octomom and he was this scary guy from the movie “trick or treat.”  we wore a custom-made burlap bag over his head, and underneath the bag was this horrible rubber mask.  my aunt sandy...

happy birthday, big brother!

today is my brother david’s birthday.  we’re going out for dinner tonight…at some point yesterday i decided i’d make dinner, instead, but after spending a great chunk of the day deconstructing halloween around here, i decided to rethink that...