Mar 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
new computer. UNBELIEVABLE. it has a webcam with all these crazy pictures and things on it…i took this picture, but then i also made a little video but i cannot figure out how to put the video into the body of the text here. i know somebody knows how to do...
Mar 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’d have to say that traffic court here in springfield isn’t so bad. i wonder what it’d be like in LA – i remember going to the DMV, an entirely different thing altogether of course, but also having to do with driving – i was actually...
Mar 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s going to be warm and beautiful and i’m going to spend my afternoon in traffic court…well, it should be interesting. different. my just desserts after being so happy about not having to do jury duty… wayne took my laptop away yesterday. ...
Mar 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
kevin took this picture with his phone, then added this cute border. his phone does many fancy things. the moon has been beautiful. i took a couple pictures of it on sunday night – here’s one of them. then, last evening, jim called to say that i MUST...
Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
aunt sandy wrote to me, asking why i’m taking the prednisone. i guess i failed to mention that the dr. on friday said i’m allergic to the antiobitic i was taking after the tooth-pulling. it is called amoxicillin and i must NEVER EVER TAKE IT AGAIN. ...
Mar 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
dad says it’s his drug of choice – when he had shingles, the doctor gave him prednisone and he says it made him feel like he was in his 20’s again. when i went to the doctor on friday, that’s what he prescribed for me. i’ve been taking...
Mar 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
my computer seems to be working fine now. whew. here’s that photo from last night. beauty. i actually look WORSE this morning. my left eye is even more swollen, so fetching. i’m going to call the doctor when the office opens. as i wrote last night, it...
Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
first: in the past few days my computer has been acting a little suspicious – notices popping up saying there was an alert, you know, that kind of stuff that pops up sometimes…and then, yesterday, i was reading something online and all of a sudden the...
Mar 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
today amy cut and colored my hair and then blew it dry and puts lots of fancy hairstyling products in it and it looks FANTASTIC. so if i just don’t smile really wide, nobody will know i’m a hillbilly! there was a patch covering the gaping hole, and some...
Mar 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
you wouldn’t know it’s the first day of spring today. it’s cold, windy, gray. friday, though, it got a little bit warm. when i looked out on the deck, there was a duck. i don’t recall ever seeing a duck on the deck. this one was clearly...
Mar 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
on thursday morning i couldn’t see the lake at all because of the fog. zero visibility. a couple of geese were down in the yard, and when i went outside they started complaining loudly that i was interfering with their stroll. i figured there wouldn’t be...
Mar 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
one of the many admonishments on the very detailed instruction sheet for post-op tooth care said “You should not eat very hard foods, such as rock candy, for about eight weeks.” ROCK CANDY?? is that the first thing somebody is going to think about after...
Mar 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
at least it’s sunny here today, after a morning of lots of fog, but we so rarely have that vivid, intense sky like in key largo. here, finally, are the rest of the pictures of that trip. these are a few photos that dad took – here are some of the many...
Mar 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Whew. i was going to write yesteday but it wasn’t till last night that i had the energy to open up the laptop, and then it was only to see if we could watch something instantly on netflix. putting together any kind of coherent sentence was way beyond my...
Mar 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s about to begin, in just an hour or so…i have to be at the oral surgeon at 8:30 and i’m sure they’ll first make me pay the HUGE AMOUNT for the pulling of the lone tooth…and then i get what will hopefully be really good drugs because...
Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
as i’ve written before, kevin is enrolled in not one but TWO classes at lincoln land – piano class and something like music theory only they call it something else. he missed a whole week of class because we were in key largo, then they were on spring...
Mar 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting here on the couch looking outside and even though it’s not in the teens and bitterly cold, it’s still bleak, windy, blugh. mollie and i went running and at least she was very excited about the whole thing. i would have been perfectly...
Mar 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok so just forget everything i wrote about “parade” the musical. it was really, really good. all the people were great, as i’d figured they would be, and paul presney puts on a show like nobody’s business and the music was really...
Mar 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was a reader at muni auditions all day, since 8:30 this morning. that’s a mighty early hour to be out and about – i can’t imagine singing so early, but there were plenty of people doing it. last sunday i saw quite a few good people, but...
Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
there has been no sun at all today. it started to rain a little bit when we were running, and it’s been raining ever since, and it’s just supposed to keep raining… florida, a very blue place. when we got back from driving down the keys, mom, kevin...
Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s how far we ran (or shuffled) today. we were running (shuffling) across the field and all of a sudden kevin was zig zagging along instead of going in a straight line. i felt like we were running MUCH FASTER than wednesday. i asked him why he was doing...
Mar 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
i just can’t seem to get a handle on much of anything this morning, but i did take this picture of mollie who was looking so sweet, and so at least have to share that with you. we’re now about to go running which i’m really not looking forward to...
Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
my aunt sandy sends me many, many different forwarded things. sometimes they are DIRE WARNING, sometimes they are pictures of different things, mostly cute animals. I LOVE THE CUTE ANIMAL PHOTOS, but none of them, NONE OF THEM, has been as cute as these INCREDIBLY...
Mar 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
we did have plenty of sunshine and WARM TEMPERATURES here yesterday, but things are still pretty darn brown. this is kevin on our first day of vacation, enjoying the local cigar he bought at the cigar shop in key largo. the next morning we started heading south, and...
Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was wondering what i’d take pictures of around here, now that the snow geese seem to be gone, as well as most of the other geese. but then we were outside and THERE WAS A SKIER! ok, so, sure, it’s warm and incredibly wonderfully warm today…but i...
Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
in celebration of the fact that it’s going to be in the SIXTIES today, here are some more photos of key largo. here’s yet another view of the water, taken from the edge of the property. it reminds me of gilligan’s island for some reason. have i...
Mar 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, i changed that banner – this is the picture i wanted to use, but i’d just have to cut too much of it off to make it nice and long. kevin took this picture with his phone and he’s using it for his screen background on his computer and it’s...
Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
i realize it’s time for a new banner – it’s WAY PAST february now. must get right on that…
Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
what is james cameron’s mood this morning? what did he do last night, after getting shut out of the oscars, after his ex-wife won for both best director and best picture? did he get really drunk? did he go home and cry, or did he smash things? i’m...
Mar 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been writing because i’ve been in florida. key largo, to be exact. we left monday morning and got back late last night, and i took SO MANY PHOTOS. a RIDICULOUS amount of photos, and i have to look at them and do all the stuff with them so i...