Oct 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
hmm, i have a vague memory of that last post, and how happy i became after getting out and exercising. this morning i practically had to force amy and jim to go walking. not that a person could actually force them to do anything, but they were both in their jammies...
Oct 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s how i’m feeling this morning. sometimes mornings aren’t so good for me; i’m usually not fully awake for several hours, but sometimes i’m just so dang crabby… this is one of those mornings. i’ve been sitting her...
Oct 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, it’s not THAT late. kevin and i watched a few episodes of “arrested development” that amy and jim lent to us. they talked about AD for months and months and we finally started watching it and it’s BRILLIANT and i’d love to sit...
Oct 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
FRIDAY NIGHT: we went to see “lincolnesque” at the abraham lincoln museum and it was quite entertaining. the reviewer said the play itself wasn’t so great, but clearly the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. it was especially...
Oct 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
sitting here reading stuff about the VP debate. it’s over now, i must get things done today. we’re having a picnic for 30 people here on sunday, we’re also having an open house at our old house on sunday, my car is so full of boxes and bags of...
Oct 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
this morning (SUCH A LONG TIME AGO) i wrote extensively about kevin’s cowboy shooting. but he pointed out that it’s NOT JUST MEN, there are women cowboys too. cowgilrs? is that the appropriate terminology? there was one woman shooting in kevin’s...
Oct 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
…and i woke up feeling anxious, about various and sundry things. not the best way to wake up, but it’s better than my mood yesterday, which was downright, well, depressed. yesterday afternoon i decided to avoid life by napping for a half hour. the best...
Sep 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
but i started looking up things online and then couldn’t stop…how i wish i’d seen katie couric interviewing sarah palin. there were two of them, last night and the night before. i could have watched, if i’d known about them. i did read many...
Sep 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
maybe the last warm friday afternoon of the year. it’s simply beautiful outside. i’m sitting on the deck and Shadow, who appears to be fully recovered, is lying on the edge of the chair next to me, hoping that i’ll hand him my bowl of carrots with...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just opened the front door AND THERE WAS A FOOTLONG SLUG, up on the porch, headed right for the door! ewwww. WHAT DO WE DO??? i yelled to kevin. SPRINKLE SALT ON IT he said. i know that salt kills slugs, but since i live out here with my nature man and my next-door...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just made a link over there to my friend erica’s myspace page. if you want to read some good writing, with many words, intelligent stuff, funny and good, then please click on that link. good writing. with the words. lots of them. ok then, grace grace...
Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i thought the summer just whooshed past, i wasn’t sure where it went, it was such a flurry of moving and unpacking and looking for things… but now it’s officially fall and things seem to continue on like this. soon it will be christmas. it’s a...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
it’s saturday evening, i’m getting ready to go out and hear kevin’s band. i have to shower and get ready and all of that. but right now i was checking my e-mail. now, in addition to frequent e-mails from wanda, i’m also getting them from my...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
my friend wanda sends me e-mails about the campaign. lots of e-mails. i post them here sometimes, but sometimes i get overwhelmed and just want to stop reading about the election and go live in france. but this one is really good, so i have to post it now....
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin, hard at work on the floor. doesn’t it look great? you’re welcome to stop by anytime to take a look. mollie, as you can see, is helping as usual. ok then, still saturday morning grace although if i don’t get up soon it will be...
Sep 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, you have two more chances go to see it. tonight at 8, tomorrow afternoon. Twenty bucks. the best use of twenty bucks i can think of for you to spend this weekend. it’s playing at the hoogland downtown, on 6th street in case you never get downtown. some...
Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
i forgot to mention, on wednesday night before we went to dinner and a movie…i got to mow. mowing here is different than mowing at our old house on longwood. i mowed there this week, and the front and back yards took a total of 35 minutes. speedy. but here,...
Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
already. right now i’m dogsitting for five dogs, and mollie makes a total of six dogs in my care right now. they’re all sleeping. earlier they were all barking. after that, two were howling. prior to that i had to take shortie and gizmo for a walk....
Sep 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
right this very minute i’m typing this on mom’s BRAND NEW FABULOUS COMPUTER. it’s a laptop. red. it’s a gateway, with more memory than my gateway laptop, plus it’s RED. mom had a lot of anxiety about buying a new computer. THERE’S...
Sep 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
…so, yesterday we got lots of things done. cleaning, lots of cleaning, plus kevin finished the new floor on the screened-in porch. oh, and the great big picnic at our house was CANCELLED because of the weather. so that was kind of relief. but today…not...
Sep 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
it didn’t start out so well today…amy said that in the middle of the night he started that horrible screaming kind of sound. but he’s been here at my house since about nine this morning, and he’s acting just like his old self. he has spent a...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
just one more thing tonight. my friend rochelle sent me this piece by arianna huffington: Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush by Arianna Huffington Posted September 8, 2008 | 03:28 PM (EST) Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
i feel that my mood shouldn’t be pure rage. but that’s how i feel right now. if you know me, if you’ve seen me in real life in person, you know how rare the emotion rage is for me. depressed, yes, sad, sometimes, dissatisfied with this or...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
my friend linda just forwarded me this e-mail. i forwarded it to all the women i could think of (and i would e-mail YOU TOO if i had your e-mail address!), but i figured i should put it up here so more people could see it. if you want to look at their website,...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
he continues to lie next to me. the vet told amy that his thyroid level is low. i looked this up online and it’s called hypothiroidism and the good news is that it can be treated with drugs. jim is at the vet right now picking up the drugs for shadow, so...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
first, there’s this: wherever i am, he just quietly lies down beside me. i did get him to drink some water out of a bowl i held in front of him, and he ate some BILJAK, a favorite dog treat of all dogs i’ve ever met even the very fussy and particular...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
this was just sent to me from wanda, who spends her days keeping abreast of all things election-related. Obama and the Palin Effect by Deepak Chopra Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin just sent me a photo of this incredibly delicious-looking pie. no e-mail about the pie, just the photo. then he FINALLY sent me the e-mail he sent out to his co-workers (it must have taken him A YEAR to finally send it. or perhaps four minutes). “In...
Sep 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve had lots of things to get done this week. in addition to massaging people, there are all those peaches that are about to be overripe. my plan is to cut them up and freeze them today. yesterday i was going to tackle the many many things that still need to...
Sep 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and i just wanted to include a link to this video of barack obama in michigan, but it ended up over the on the blogroll. i tried to move it to the top of the blogroll but i couldn’t. frustrating. i tried to add it to the middle of the post, but i couldn’t....
