Jul 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
this is how my week started: monday morning, amy and i took our dogs for a long walk. i had many many other things planned for the day, and when i got home i looked for my glasses; i’d been wearing my prescription sunglasses. it’s hard to look for things...
Jul 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
i don’t even know where my computer is, for one thing. we went to bed at 10 tonight, ridiculously over-tired, but then i couldn’t sleep because i’ve been thinking about everything in the world, plus more. today…kevin FINISHED THE ROOF. this...
Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
i wanted to be the first one to wish randy a happy birthday! ok, i guess i wish i wasn’t wishing him happy birthday at 4:13 a.m. i would rather be sleeping. but for some reason i can’t get back to sleep. so here i am. did i mention that we’re having...
Jun 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
last weekend i went back over to the old house to continue with the cleaning and last-minute things to fix the place up, and there were still many things to do. when i got there, kevin and hank, our friend and realtor, were there signing the papers for the...
Jun 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
christine commented on the song i sang for her, and she couldn’t remember it, only the last line which is “so early in the morning.” WE HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION! more importantly, my computer is actually not lost, unlike most other things we own....
Jun 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was shocked and saddened to hear about tim russert dying yesterday. he was only 58. here’s an article about him, in case you want to read more. chicagotribune.com Tim Russert 1950 ~ 2008 Common touch, powerful reach Respected newsman loved political arena By...
Jun 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
i checked my e-mail, feeling that maybe it’s for the last time because who knows when the internet will be working at our new house; it’s just like all my stuff that i put in boxes and then i feel that i’ll never see any of it again. christine wrote...
Jun 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
that i’m still connected! we’re a little uncertain about when our cable and internet were supposed to be switched, but we pretty sure they were going to be gone yesterday and hooked up at our new place today. but i’m still at home enjoying one...
Jun 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
this morning i stepped out on the porch to add water to the lovely glass of roses sitting there (we have no more vases here, they’re all packed away somewhere) and, in my bare feet, i stepped on something wet. i looked down and it was…ENTRAILS. two of them...
Jun 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
the move from our house to mom and dad’s house, and the move from their house to their new home has been interesting. challenging. slightly slow at times. we’re getting to the point where everything will be moved. well, most things. some things, anyway....
Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
and i wanted to put a link in this posting, but instead it came up over there on the BLOGROLL. but that’s fine; now it will always be up there for you to find. it’s called ANIMATOR VS ANIMATION, and YOU MUST WATCH IT! it’s very funny and clever. when...
Jun 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper, the State Journal-Register, after there was an article about songs being written about/for different candidates. he said that GRACE SMITH HUGHES has a video about barack obama on you tube… this was very...
Jun 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
one of the innumerable, insufferable, incredibly annoying things that hillary whined about during her campaign – which will apparently never, ever be officially over, until she is actually no longer breathing – is that the media was being sexist in their...
Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
we survived the night and slept through it, mostly, except for the NOAA weather radio going off a few times. oh, and the carbon monoxide detector also went off, certainly a novelty. we have a whole-house fan which is a wonderful invention and blows all the warm air...
Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
it looks like obama has CLINCHED THE NOMINATION! except i keep reading that hillary keeps saying she’d consider being VP if she’s asked…PLEASE DON’T ASK HER, is all i have to say. ok, but the panicky part is because of MORE TORNADOES COMING...
Jun 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
so we have this NOAA weather radio and it’s very cool because all of a sudden it will BEEP very very loudly and then we’ll get the OFFICIAL WEATHER WARNING. friday night it kept going off about every 10 minutes, no exaggeration. the tornado sirens also...
Jun 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
i thought you might want to read what mayhill wrote today about mr. clinton. Please wait, your request is processed… Mayhill Fowler Bill Clinton: Purdum a “Sleazy” “Slimy” “Scumbag” Posted June 2, 2008 | 05:47 PM (EST) Update:...
Jun 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin went to bed very early because he was very tired. “i’ll be right in,” i told him. “as soon as i’m done reading these 9,022 online articles about obama.” he thought i was kidding. i was reading the huffington post; bill clinton...
Jun 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was sitting here in the living room minding my own business, reading about the neverending primaries (PLEASE SHUT UP AND GO HOME NOW HILLARY), when kevin walked in and said “we did shoot my musket today.” what? what are you talking about? musket? so...
May 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, it took me five minutes to google her. she’s married, BUT NOT TO MARK! but they wrote “he’s just not that into you” together. so it’s nice that they’re still friends and can work together. she got married in 2005, to some...
May 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
of FREE ICE CREAM! my cold stone creamery coupon expires tonight and it’s just not gonna happen. oh well. my friend gary wrote and said i should march into baskin robbins with a printout of all of kevin’s knee woes and ask for a grace period…but now...
May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
my $100,000 pyramid debacle – and it was a debacle – i talked about it thoroughly in “gracetalk #1” or maybe #2, i can’t remember. i really really need to have another show, and i think i should re-tell the tale because how many people...
May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
i have accomplished many many things already this morning. this, despite my current BANGS CRISIS. christine called me this morning and said “how are your bangs?” and i said “huh? what? what are you talking about?” yesterday evening i left her...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was just thinking about getting comments on the site again after that drought of, oh, about the entire length of the existence of this website, roughly four years. i was thinking that it was funny that even though comments are now ALLOWED because the hordes of evil...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
harvey korman died today. very sad. he was a really funny man. i bet he was a very nice person, too. i never met him, i never saw him in person. vikki lawrence, however…she was my celebrity partner on “100,000 pyramid” many years ago. she...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
bev gave me a fabulous barack obama book for my birthday. it’s not BY barack obama, it’s ABOUT him, and it has lots of photos in it which makes it quite great. it even includes a photo of the obamas’ wedding. i got way too many gifts for my...
May 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
we went to mario’s for dinner last night and i brought my sweater in case it was cold. i brought my sweater into the restaurant and DISTINCTLY REMEMBER PUTTING IT ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR. we got home later and i remembered that i’d left the sweater there....
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
maybe you’ve heard about hillary clinton’s statement about primaries running into june, where she . it’s all over the place, if you’re an obsessive primary-watcher like me. She defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday...
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i thought that it was fitting and appropriate that kevin and i spent about 45 minutes searching everywhere for my car keys. i kept opening the same drawer over and over again looking for them. at least finally kevin found them in HIS coat pocket.
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
my brother has a big blue van – not a minivan, a BIG van – and today i had to drive it. i had to drive it on the highway, i had to drive it on the part of the highway that is under renovation and there’s this one part that has a concrete wall on one...
