Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
that i kept observing all the bright red people getting cooked out there on the beach. last night i realized that i’d burned the bottoms of my legs something fierce. we stopped by a drug store and i slathered on the aloe and kept doing it and took lots of...
Mar 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
it’s been a really hard day, out on the beach. we rented lounge chairs and an umbrella. we got there about 10, and there weren’t many people around. by about 12, it was pretty packed. very crowded with such a crowd. many string bikinis. many people...
Mar 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
this morning i walked down to the lobby in the back of the hotel where they serve a free breakfast. a lovely spread, and, more importantly, a beautiful, serene, warm morning. i sat at a table overlooking the pool area. beyond the pool is a little sandy yard enclosed...
Mar 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
the rain continues, the wind whips all around, the lake is turbulent, and i’m happy that we’re leaving any minute now. we decided it’d be better to drive to st. louis tonight and avoid any potential snow. i was only going to pack different kinds of...
Mar 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
i woke up this morning to a grey day. i fed the birds out on the deck, and now there’s a big group of them enjoying breakfast. then i picked up the paper and one of the front page stories was FOUR TO SIX INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED TONIGHT. good grief. it’s...
Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
i’m going to be a volunteer at the presidential museum. I LOVE THE MUSEUM. it’s going to be me and legions of retired people. i’m in training now and we’ve had to introduce ourselves to our little splinter training groups (the entire training...
Mar 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
when second city’s “rod blagovich: superstar” came to the hoogland center for the arts, i didn’t want to go. tickets went on sale a while ago and i wasn’t interested because i was too thoroughly disgusted with all things blagojevich....
Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
finished the dining room on friday. it looks lovely. saturday, the st. patrick’s day parade where i drank an entire guinness. a good time was had by all. i didn’t see that much of the actual parade because we got there in time to see kevin marching...
Mar 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
i love wall-e. i realize it’s been out for a very long time now and so this is just a bit late, but last night we watched it on DVD and i WISH I’D SEEN IT IN THE THEATER, because even though we have a pretty darn big TV, i know we missed a lot because we...
Mar 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
time for spring. the cold came back, as i knew it would, and it just makes me mad, and makes me want to never go outside. last night i braved the elements to go listen to the yale a capella group, Out of the Blue. they were entertaining, but then i had to go back...
Mar 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
ok, i kind of suck as a friend because i keep forgetting to mention bev’s daughter’s a capella singing group. they will be performing TOMORROW NIGHT, WEDNESDAY MARCH 11TH, at SEVEN P.M., at the LAUREL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, which is on the corner of...
Mar 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday i got to be a reader at muni auditions. there were four of us, and i sat next to pat foster and we spent a lot of time chatting, but not too loudly to interrupt the auditioning. we got there at 12:30 and it was supposed to be over by 5:30 but it lasted till...
Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
last night i dreamed about mel-o-cream doughnuts. i was just picking out a dozen of them, not eating them, unfortunately. i was picking them out for somebody, amy or dad, trying to remember what they liked. plus i got a chocolate old fashioned for myself. my dreams...
Mar 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
you might already know this, but there is no need to spend money on microwave popcorn. you can make popcorn in the microwave using plain old popcorn. it makes sense, doesn’t it? microwave popcorn isn’t somehow imbued with some kind of magical,...
Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
that photo is WAY TOO BIG. but i don’t have time to shrink it down right now because i have to get ready to work. once i’ve posted enough things, the posting will be lower down on the page and then the problem will go away. i could write more right now,...
Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
kevin just sent me this photo, part of the inauguration picture i just talked about. he pointed out that there’s a guy who somebody photoshopped out, leaving just the top of his tweed hat. kevin is still very alert even though he has retired from being a...
Mar 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
kevin’s friend hank sent this to kevin, who sent it to me. it’s this interesting, kind of odd and quirky thing about abe lincoln, definitely worth looking at. In Love with A. Lincoln
Mar 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
sorry that i didn’t write that sooner. mom’s birthday was on thursday. we went out to dinner thursday night, and then went out to dinner again last night. before dinner last night, though, we went to a wine-tasting at the motor boat club and i tasted...
