Jan 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
GO SEE IT!!! IT’S AWESOME!!! we haven’t been to a movie in a long time. weeks, months, years, even. ok maybe not quite that long. but a long time. tonight we went out into the seven-degree night to see “juno” and i thought maybe i’d like it but it was so...
Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
i told randy that i’d bring the fascinating photos of kevin’s knees to show him tomorrow. he said “i don’t wanna see them.” “but they’re not bloody or anything!” i said. they’re actually kind of interesting… “no. nope. i don’t wanna...
Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s going to be a bitterly cold weekend. my plan is to not go outside at all. kevin has pain, pain and more pain. we went to the orthopaedic surgeon yesterday and got a cool photo of the inside of his knee. i’m going to scan it and put it up here. the torn...
Jan 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was on hold for ONE AND A HALF HOURS, getting madder and madder by the minute. i finally said to kevin, who is busily thumbing through a Tandy leather-tooling magazine and wants to make me a purse, I’M GOING TO HANG UP NOW. he said “why don’t you give them 10...
Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
so you might not see my website. but i guess if they shut me down you won’t know that because you won’t be able to see me. that is, you WILL know that i’ve been shut down, but you won’t know why. it’s very frustrating. my server sent me an e-mail today telling me that...
Jan 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s the name of the magazine kevin was reading today. he showed me a holster that’s somewhat fancier than the one he made, in the magazine’s online catalog. here it is. guess how much it costs. no, you’ll NEVER GUESS. it’s (on sale) for $3,975.00. yes, you can...
Jan 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and i’ve spent much of it sitting on the couch watching the local weather channel with the sound muted. i’m starting to run out of some flavors of tea. the good thing: soon – well at least sometime in the next year, i’ll have an ALL NEW FORMAT for the website!...
Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
i plan to spend the day sitting on the couch watching the NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES. i have a good feeling that barack obama is going to walk away with the whole thing. if you just listen to him talk, you have to realize that he is different from everybody else, he’s...
Jan 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
the people at the web hosting place aren’t writing back to me now. not a good sign. according to their latest statistics, nobody at all looked at my web site in the past couple of days. i wrote to them about this, but will they respond? i don’t know. they didn’t...
Jan 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
kevin has been lolling on the couch all day after sleeping for a long time. lots of man-type shows involving shooting and outdoors activities and storms and motorcross racing. now he’s flipping the channels and am i the only person who is sick of only hearing about...
Jan 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s how it’s been around here tonight. today i’ve been…what have i been doing? i feel like maybe nothing. and yet i’m exhausted. kevin had to go do a bunch of things and by the time he got home he, too, was exhausted. neither of us can talk much because of...
Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
weird things continue to happen with this site. what happened to my recent postings? in converting it to a new platform, there are some problems. i’ll have to write to the guy at the company again. at least he e-mailed me, because when i tried to call them, i was put...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, i have to say it wasn’t the best new year’s eve i’ve ever had. the milk barn was COLD. the band sounded good, but it was hard to hear them because the crowd was loud. plus it was COLD. it was really nice, though, to kiss my husband when the clock struck...
Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
and it’s cold, damn cold. 18 degrees, but a wind chill of ONE. brrr. i could sit here huddled in my blanket and complain about the weather, but that would be a lousy way to start the new year, wouldn’t it? instead, here are some happy photos from xmas. i figured i’d...
Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
i was looking up my site again, and there are lots and lots of my photos floating around out there on different websites. there’s a photo i took at the hollywood bowl, there’s one of me at the huntington garden in pasadena, there’s one that kevin took of me in hawaii....
Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
it doesn’t get better than this. we’re sitting here in the lobby of the holiday inn, about to go have some dinner. kevin and the band are setting up in the milk barn down near hamel, illinois (i’d never heard of hamel illinois) but they’re having sound issues so it’s...
Dec 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
that perfectly sums up the result of yesterday. i started at 11. a.m. by 6:10 we had the stuff packed in the car. thousands of cheese puffs, trays of crostini with two kinds of dips (bruschetta and a delicious olive/artichoke dip), spanikopeta, sausage/cheese/olives...
Dec 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m happy to report that this chinese person feels that we have a lovely and sustainable garden. here’s the translated page. translated page!
Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
i was looking around at my statistics again and i found a very very odd thing. there’s a line from my website about my garden, with a photo of the garden. it’s on an asian website, and i’m dying to know what the person wrote about my garden, and they have a link to my...
Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
all of them. of course. ok, i haven’t eaten all of them. yet. i’ve been surrounded by all these cookies that i made, plus the xmas chocolate candies that i used for decorating the table, and the boxes of chocolates i received from people at work…but then dad...
Dec 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
whew. last night, lots of food. lots of food. a few gifts. this morning, more food. more food. many many many more gifts. we finally came home and set up our two BEAUTIFUL NEW RED LEATHER CHAIRS that kevin bought me and then we tried to take a nap but i couldn’t sleep...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m sitting in randy’s office now, where the stereo is, and because the speakers are in here, it’s VERY VERY LOUD in this room. i cannot even hear my thoughts at all, so you can imagine how difficult it is to try to type coherently. the party is going well, but i...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s three a.m. on saturday night. the wind has been howling outside for the past hour and a half. or at least that’s how long i’ve been awake listening to it. it was so loud that i was sure it was going to blow all the siding off the house, as well as major chunks of...
Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’ve reached my saturation point. tonight i was close to tears because i bought this one neat present that comes in a clear plastic case and i took it out of the case and now I CANNOT FIND THE CASE ANYWHERE and i kept looking and looking, around and around the house,...
Dec 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’ve almost reached the point where i CANNOT SHOP ANYMORE. last night i told randy that i’d be happy to go xmas shopping with him, because i’m just about done with my own shopping, plus i’ve pretty much stopped baking cookies except i did mix up some sugar cookies...
Dec 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
am i the only person who has never heard this very very funny and cute song? here’s a link to one of the many videos of the song on you tube. i’m glad i don’t watch you tube because i feel that if i did, that’s probably about all i’d do. YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK! I...
Dec 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
this has been the warning ever since last thursday. tonight randy says that on the news they declared that there will be a HALF INCH OF ICE by tomorrow morning and it will be VERY VERY BAD out there. right now it’s 34 degrees and seems to be getting warmer and i feel...
Dec 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
it was the call you never want to get. after seeing the bee movie on friday night, we came home and this was the message on my phone (which i’d left at home, which i never do) “hi, grace, this is mom. we’re at the emergency room, because we think dad had a heart...
Nov 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
soooo tired. such a very busy week of massaging this week. i was going to get up and DO WEIGHTS at the fit club this morning, but it just didn’t happen. i don’t care. perhaps i’ll take mollie for a short walk b4 giving a long massage this afternoon, but NO RUNNING....
Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
have you heard of this man? tonight i finally got to some actual content in oprah magazine, and there, on the very very last page, was oprah’s back page column, and she mentioned Dr. Randy Pausch, “the Carnegie Meloon professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic...
