May 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
do you remember that song? i don’t really remember any of it except that one line, and i think it was a sad song. kevin’s weekend plan was to go to the Lincoln Home area and camp out with the 114th. they were going to sleep in tents without floors. ...
May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
randy and i stopped by the grocery store the other day and i debated about buying a box of organic flax cereal. it’s quite delicious plus it’s very good for you and i had gotten it at wal-mart for about $3/box. but we happened to be in a county market,...
May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
last night we went to the fox theater in st. louis to see the flight of the conchords. it’s a band comprised of two guys, brett and jermaine, and we found out about them on the HBO series “flight of the conchords,” which gets funnier every time we...
Apr 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Clearly, Franklin D. never rode on the back of a motorcyle on a very windy day. very, very windy, let me add and emphasize. Ok, yes, i am an incredibly wimpy person. but i can’t help it. the last time kevin and i took a ride of any consequence on his motorcycle...
Apr 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
“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...
Apr 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
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,...
Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
Apr 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
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...
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,...
