Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
the cat honey sleeping next to me reminded me of last week’s roofing debacle. here are some of the photos i took in the morning, before the fatigue caught up to me and i was ready to weep from fatigue and hunger. ok, see that peak of the roof? mom and randy had to rip...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
ok, well one thing, anyway. ok, i called erica. i mean, this was actually something on my list of THINGS TO GET DONE. but i was going to save calling erica till i had done other things that i didn’t particularly want to do. so actually, then, calling erica was...
Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
my great big pink jammies, to be exact. i bought them last year at kohl’s and they’re very very soft and fuzzy and comfy and they’re extra-large so they’re really really huge and i love them. yesterday during the day i was thinking that there are many many things i...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
here are a few more photos of mom’s trip to europe back in the 50’s. i know that the people out there who don’t read this but just look at the photos will be very confused about these pictures because sometimes people seem to think that we’re STILL on our bike trip in...
Nov 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
after the requisite gobs of turkeystuffingcranberrysaucemashedpotatoessweetpotatoescorncasserolegreenbeansalad dessertsgaloreincludingagermanchocolatepecanpiethatwassosweetitwasalmosttoosweetforme andyouknowthat’sreallysweet, it was time for the highlight of the...
Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s mom in vienna, on the square in front of st. mark’s cathedral. and this is the danube river, taken from somewhere in vienna. this is mom with some man named johann emmerstorfer. i have no idea who he is, but i’ll find out today when we show the slides. now that...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
our cat’s name is honey, she’s the killer cat who brings dead or alive birds into the house. she’s a terror, but she’s very sweet when she wants to be. honey was also the name of kevin’s parents’ dog. a sweet golden retriever who i didn’t get to spend much time with,...
Nov 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
the plan: my friend gil arranges bus trips to see different shows. we were to spend saturday night taking a bus down to st. louis to see the musical comedy “the drowsy chaperone,” which looked very funny. the reality: we were supposed to be at the JC...
Nov 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
recalled: over 120 MILLION pepperoni pizzas. recalled: ONE MILLION POUNDS ground beef. ok, you can eat something – BUT NO MEAT. ESPECIALLY NO PEPPERONI PIZZAS AND HAMBURGERS. you could always do like i’m doing, which is eating gobs of leftover halloween candy....
Oct 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
here are some of the very cool old halloween postcards i found online. here’s the link to the site, in case you want to look at more of them. old postcards
Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
which has nothing to do with halloween – they fired one of the people at FEMA. how about that? so that means that the fema people must be reading my website, huh, and realizing what CRETINS some of them have been. now that’s a satisfying feeling, that i’m making...
Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s like i can’t move from the chair, i’m forced to sit here and shrink and crop and darken photos, i just can’t stop. so here are a few more. first, ann and her boyfriend frank. she’s INSIDE OUT, get it? he’s some rocker dude, i don’t know if he was supposed to be...
Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
one of the funniest ones is bev dancing. she’s singing, i believe, and her mouth is wide open and i showed it to her and she said DON’T PUT THAT UP! so i’m sorry, but i can’t. hopefully there’s another photo of her somewhere. oh, and also, those were only a FRACTION...
Oct 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
this is in response to aunt sandy’s FRANTIC PLEA for photos. it would be nice to have a long, uninterrupted time to put up lots and lots of photos. for example, some people think that we’re still in austria, or we just came back. seeing as how i’ve only managed to...
Oct 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
this time on the local level, right here in spfld. there’s an article in today’s paper about a guy who the city is paying $164,000 to rid downtown of pigeons and starlings. this was apparently all the mayor’s idea. the thing is, how does the guy do it? MAGIC, of...
Oct 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
last night i was perusing the paper because saturday night live didn’t seem funny at all, and i had to read one story twice. apparently, on friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency held a phony news conference about assistance to victims of the wildfires...
Oct 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
she’s turning a MILESTONE YEAR today, and i hope she’s having fun. i offered to buy her a plane ticket to come visit us, but she’s not here yet. soon, hopefully. i’ve known christine for many many years. 13, as a matter of fact. my ex-boyfriend, scott, recruited...
Oct 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
well, not just yet, thank god. i still have quite a few things to do. bake bread. i have a list of things, but the list isn’t so bad. ok, i do have a brownie issue. amy has a fabulous brownie recipe, it makes the most delicious chocolatey delicious chocolate brownies...
Oct 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
now, THIS should cheer you up! i hope it actually works. my aunt sandy sent it to me last week but i didn’t think i could post it…but i think here it is. you will especially like it if you have/like cats. if you HATE CATS, however, maybe you shouldn’t watch it....
Oct 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
when people tell me how they’re really feeling, it’s not happy. do people tell me how they’re really feeling more than they tell other people? do i attract unhappy people? or is every single person in the world miserable? i hope not. it’s time to GET HAPPY, dammit....
Oct 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
the third day of our trip, we started out by walking our bikes over to the linz palace museum. much of it was closed, under construction, but we managed to see a lot of weapons and musical instruments. i’m pretty sure this particular piano has something to do with...
Oct 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s 60 degrees. going to get more chilly, and then it may rain. on one of my favorite shows, “as time goes by,” the british sitcom, there’s this one kind of kooky character who always announces the weather conditions in the english channel when she enters...
Oct 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
erica and i went to dinner and then to world market where i did not buy ONE SINGLE HALLOWEEN ITEM. and then to barnes-n-noble, where i BOUGHT ONE XMAS GIFT! which is quite extraordinary for me. i’ve never bought an xmas gift before november, and really, lately, i...
Oct 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
that was the headline in today’s springfield paper. i added the exclamation point, because that’s just how passionate i feel about the YARD WASTE AGREEMENT! ok, i admit that i don’t even know anything at all about this VERY VERY IMPORTANT STORY. i will never ever get...
Oct 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
and we haven’t gotten any farther than we were the last time i posted some photos. this continues to be this same pretty spot, where we went crazy taking photos and video. i’d just shot some video, but then i saw a cruise boat coming, so i told kevin we had to STAY...
Oct 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
my friend ann sent me an e-mail a few days ago about different bluegrass groups performing on channel 4, public access tv, and i read the e-mail this afternoon and made a note of it…and then promptly forgot all about it. but i just turned on the light which is...
Oct 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
i guess maybe i’ve had a little too much time on my hands this week. suddenly the house is pretty darn clean, and very well-decorated. tonight i turned on the halloween lights and they look very good-n-festive and i’m now ready for the party to start. i have a couple...
Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
oh yeah, i forgot to mention, GO SEE “THE SPITFIRE GRILL.” please. we went to see it on sunday at the theatre centre and it was really well done except the attendance was exceedingly poor. molly mathewson, except in the program she calls herself amelia, is...
Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m not quite sure how that happened. must write more. be more consistent. be a better person. not so lazy. blah blah blah. periodically i do realize that if i just somehow make the voices in my head SHUT UP, i’d be a lot happier. those voices in my head, they’re just...
Oct 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
the only problem with photos of me on the trip is that most of the time i look like a totally big dork with my yellow biking jacket and helmet and very clingy bike pants. not my best look.
