p.s. belly dancing

we saw a belly dancing performance on saturday night.  it lasted for over two hours, which is a bit too long for the belly dancing, in my opinion. my favorite part about the belly dancing was the costumes.  I WANT A BELLY DANCING COSTUME.  it would be great motivation...

yeah, the yellow is a little jarring…

i made this banner in march, before honey died, all ready ahead of time for april.  it looks very bright now, but there’s only one more week of april…or actually i guess there’s only a couple more days of april…so i’m not going to change...

here on tuesday night

erica sent me an e-mail about something interesting she’s going to do: “I signed up to volunteer on May 16th at the Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach. They do really awesome things by saving medical supplies and equipment and sending them to countries that...

STOP READING ALREADY.

swine flu swine flu swine flu.  i haven’t been watching it on TV but i keep reading about it online and i feel over-saturated with it. so let’s all stop the obsessive reading and take a break and do something fun.  read some comics.  play some music.  eat...

a (not horribly) bad friday…

i’ve had a new flip phone for several months now.  i liked it well enough, except that i kept dropping it. i drop phones.  it’s just something i have no control over. i used to have different models of a basic phone that mom claims is called a...

BOAT!

we just ordered the seats and the console and the bimini top for our pontoon boat this morning.  they should arrive sometime this week, and who knows, by next week we might be on the water again! here are more photos of miami…this is the front of our hotel. and...

so mom kept saying to me,

“grace, where are the photos of our trip to miami?”  she did an excellent job of not nagging me about them, and i finally at least printed some of them out for her and they looked good so i decided i’d better post some of them right now. the problem...

HURRY UP AND CLICK ON THE LINK!!!

the newest link, over there on the top right of the “blogroll”…it’s a performance you must watch. you must. It’s the link called “a performance you must not miss…SUSAN BOYLE.” just CLICK.  watch. although, actually,...

at least this story has a happy ending…

Shadow finds the most comfortable seat in the house. It’s actually two stories.  First, Tuesday afternoon.  Amy had given Shadow a haircut and bath earlier in the day.  Shadow’s long hair makes him really hot all the time, and Amy thought that was why...

Very Bad Friday

Friday started out OK. I laid in bed thinking about cleaning the pile of papers off the kitchen counter. I got up and shuffled out into the living room, drank some tea, and read the paper. Honey came over and lied down on my lap, and I noticed that her breathing was...

lobster legs, lounging by the pool.

the sun is shining, the plam trees sway, and it really seems just too beautiful to leave this place. amy and i went running on the beach this morning. it’s supposed to be 85 today. lovely. i woke up again last night because of my sunburned legs.  ouch.  lesson...