Sep 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, it did take me two seconds to find the rug online, so here it is – very cool and LOTS OF CREAM COLOR. i got it at overstock.com, where they have many beautiful rugs that are quite reasonably priced, plus lots and lots of other things but i really only buy...
Sep 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
ok, it’s already 5:13 a.m. people get up at this hour. CRAZY people, yes, but i know they’re out there. when i woke up…a couple of hours ago? or maybe an hour? i had high hopes for getting RIGHT BACK TO SLEEP, because i’m really really tired....
Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
after three or more days of being a nutty nutterson trying to re-post my video of kevin windsurfing, IT’S BACK! plus it’s the new one, with the VERY IMPORTANT opening and closing titles plus the very last shot. whew. one less thing to obsess about. i must...
Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
yeah, all that writing yesterday, it was like the rambling of a crazy middle-of-the night grace. today, things are much, much better. i still persist in trying to figure out my dumb youtube problem, though – i’m about to make another copy of the movie...
Sep 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
that’s the sound of me, gnashing my teeth over this whole stupid stupid video thing. i gave up on the slightly longer and more complete edited video and tried to upload the first one that was already up here…AND NOW IT WILL ONLY UPLOAD PART OF IT. maybe...
Sep 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
in between running around all day, including an unfortunate one and a half hours spent at the dentist getting two perfectly good teeth filed down in order to put in a bridge, i’ve been trying to upload the video i made of kevin trying to windsurf. “but...
Sep 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
aaahhhh…sunday morning, much, much more relaxing than yesterday morning…it’s a rainy day, and i’m just sitting here on the couch, where i’ve been for a good two hours now. thank goodness it wasn’t rainy like this yesterday. the...
Sep 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
she just came prancing into the living room with a big treat. ah, it’s all coming back to me…when kevin came to bed last night at 11, mollie was outside. she suddenly burst into the bedroom and kevin called her up on the bed. she happily jumped up in...
Sep 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
i got up at 5:44. it’s still dark out, with a little bit of light in the sky. mollie desperately wants to have her orange treat ball filled, so she can roll it vigorously around the house. she is very very energetic. kevin seems pretty awake now, too. i went...
Sep 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
kevin just informed me that we missed jesse james’ birthday, which was on the 5th. he meant, of course, the outlaw jesse james. not sandra bullock’s ex-husband. last night we celebrated our anniversary by drinking a glass of DOM PERIGNON, which kevin...
Sep 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’M TAKING TAP DANCING! i love tap dancing. i started taking it when i was 16, if i recall, and i loved it then because it was fun and LOUD, the same reasons i love it now. i was in “no, no, nanette” at the muni, and every night i tapped my heart...
Sep 16, 2010 | Anniversary!
whenever i think of happy anniversary, i think of that flintstone episode. all i remember about it is that catchy song, you know the one. TODAY is our 4th anniversary! it wasn’t yesterday. last week i got it into my head that wednesday was the 16th, our...
Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
things are much better in the light of day. here’s the finished picture taken at Lincoln’s Home a few saturdays ago. there’s kevin way over on the right, carrying the sign. this picture certainly loloks more grainy and authentic than the one i...
Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
it’s ALMOST FIVE A.M.!!! very very annoyed. i wasn’t gonna get up and open the computer because i knew i would be BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. but then, after lying in bed from 3:16 till 4:23, i finally gave up because it is VERY VERY BORING TO JUST LIE THERE IN...
Sep 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
it just keeps getting later and later today…i feel like it should still be morning. kevin has all the parts for his sail board now. on friday he took this picture of a sailboat, maybe assessing the wind potential. it was windy, but he didn’t try the sail...
Sep 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
i haven’t been up very long, maybe a half hour. i’m just sitting here on the couch with mollie. not actually “with” mollie, like over at amy and jim’s house. numie and noodle always want to be draped all over you, no matter what the...
Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
and it’s a beautiful day and everything is good… here are the photos i took of the LAST TOMB CEREMONY OF THE YEAR. the sky was beautiful on tuesday night. once again, kevin was in the back. he claims he’s in the back because he’s so tall. i...
Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
HERE IT IS! BEV IS WEARING ONE OF HER FABULOUS PRIZES, HER SPAM T-SHIRT! mom has this cute little spam truck. she brought it over to show bev, and i’m not entirely sure why she didn’t want to give it to her. maybe mom is going to enter something in the...
Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
what a busy weekend! not a moment that wasn’t a flurry of activity! ok, maybe i did have time for a (very short) nap saturday afternoon, but it was pretty busy nonetheless. saturday morning kevin was going to lincoln’s home, where they were going to...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
in between running around all day long today, i uploaded six videos of the tomb ceremony. watched in sequence, this covers most of the stuff that happens during the 20-minute ceremony every tuesday night at lincoln’s tomb – and as i mentioned, next...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
i was about to close the computer, briefly checking my e-mail for anything of note, and i got an E-MAIL FROM DAD! dad used to send me the occasional letter when i lived far away; mom’s letters were also enjoyable but she wrote lots of them, like i did, so it...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i just can’t wake up. soon mollie and i will burst out the door and go running, but for now i’m wishing i’d tried to sleep another half hour. last nightwe stayed up very late for us, til midnight, watching “the madness of king...
Aug 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
besides carefully perusing all of bev’s AWARD-WINNING ENTRIES, kevin and i spent a lot of time looking at other stuff at the fair, too. first, the butter cow. why, i ask you, did kevin figure that this was a view of the cow that ANYONE WOULD EVER WANT TO...
Aug 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
first, i must show you bev’s AWARD-WINNING FAIR ENTRIES. second place whole wheat bread. the funny thing is, i think the night before she was going to bake the bread, she asked me if i had a good whole wheat bread recipe. THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE WAS GOING TO...
Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
and i’m having trouble getting motivated. kevin went off to the shooting range bright and early, and i’m still sitting on the screened porch in my nightgown. i walked down to the dock, which took a lot of effort. the president of the gun club where they...
Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
i keep taking pictures, but then i don’t sit down long enough to put them up here, so i’m trying to KEEP UP. here’s winnie, constantly trying his best to chill out. the lake was just so sparkly and glistening and beautiful on sunday morning. and here...
Aug 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today is my friend Erica’s birthday. she’s working at the fair, at the St. Johns booth in the Illinois building, so if you happen to be in the Illinois building buying honey ice cream, stop by and wish her a happy birthday! she’ll be the one with...
Aug 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
one count. the jury only found blago guilty on one count. it was nauseating to hear him blather afterwards about he isn’t guilty, justice will prevail, etc etc etc. we’ll just have to grit our teeth and wait. they will get him, but it’ll take...
Aug 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
you may or may not recall that my friend bev is crazy about entering stuff in the state fair. she used to stick to baked goods and other foodstuffs, but then she branched out into other things, like collections of…i can’t remember the collections she says...
Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin’s reply to my crazy middle of the night but actually very early morning rant: boat covered – check daylillies watered – check ducks fed – check goose fed – check mollie fed – check winnie fed – check coffee drunk – check garbage out – check...
