Oct 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
i never, ever worried about tornadoes. because they never touched down. UNTIL LAST YEAR. a few blocks from our house. the tornado ripped the roof right off a house and they had to tear it down. now i’m a little more edgy about tornadoes. we’re just having a watch, not...
Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
first of all, mollie is in heaven. well, at the moment she’s sitting on the couch next to me, looking imploringly into my eyes, hoping for some treats. but last night it was mollie nirvana around here. we had the family and randy, bev and erica over for dinner last...
Sep 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
and here’s just one of the hundreds of photos from our trip. beautiful. i started looking at all the photos kevin took, and it made me want to go right back. i’m sort of in a jet lag fog, i think. i was kind of ok when we got back on saturday evening. we stayed up...
Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
i decided it’s still growing and will still be there to pick when we get back. whew, that took a load off my mind. tired tired tired, that’s how i spent the weekend. the bike ride on saturday was good; we went about 29 miles. it was fun because we first rode to the...
Sep 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
as the time seems to be shrinking all around me. we’re leaving in three days. i feel like i have many things to do before then. i had an unexpectedly long and busy day working and got home very tired and very hungry because i didn’t eat lunch which is absolutely not...
Sep 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
how did that happen? so they arrested some terrorist who were planning to blow up some things at the frankfort airport on sept. 11th. WE WILL BE AT THE FRANKFORT AIRPORT ON SEPTEMBER 11TH. so hopefully they caught all the terrorists, not just a few of them. hopefully...
Sep 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
what will the next one be called? the bourne ULTIMATE ULTIMATUM? and then the bourne VERY LAST ULTIMATE ULTIMATUM? and then the VERY VERY FINAL ONE LAST ULTIMATUM AND THEN THAT’S IT, NO MORE? i saw the first bourne film (surely with some man, because why would i have...
Sep 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
kevin and i are about to go on a bike ride. it’s already getting pretty warm outside, and i told him we don’t have to go biking if he doesn’t want to, but he’s putting a new inner tube on his tire and then we’re going. i can’t believe it’s already 12:30 in the...
Sep 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
last night, after seeing “the trip to bountiful” at new salem, we went to erica’s cast party. we arrived at the party before anybody else showed up, so we sat on the front steps with our bottle of wine. kevin said that if we had a corkscrew we could open...
Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
that’s how cold it’s supposed to get on thursday in vienna. fortunately we won’t be there yet. brrr. it’s weird to think about cold weather.
Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
that’s how cold it’s supposed to get on thursday in vienna. fortunately we won’t be there yet. brrr. it’s weird to think about cold weather.
Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
THAT’S what you say when you need to find a bathroom in austria! now BADEZIMMER, because my friend gary wrote to me and said that if you say that, people will think you want to take a BATH. whew, i’m glad i learned that very very important piece of information before...
Aug 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
first, an apartment block designed by wagner: this place is a mile and a half from our hotel in vienna. so we can just stroll down there. and take many photos, so you’ll see some just-taken photos in…oh, in a while, realistically. in a month or so. and this is...
Aug 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
is that now i feel that we have to stay in vienna for at least a WEEK in order to see all the wonderful things there. i’d thought we’d have time to see the major sights – the schonbrunn palace, which looks like versailles, the opera house, a cathedral, the...
Aug 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
here are the four couples in the play; this is after the husbands have all taken their yokumberry tonic and become hunkified. the women are dressed, of course, in their finest traveling finery. the wives are, left to right – vickie, kim, loretta, and fran. the...
Aug 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s rainy and dark and the only reason i’m not napping is because i got plenty of sleep last night. we’re about to go see “mr. bean’s holiday,” and i hope to see many other movies this weekend. we RODE OUR BIKES yesterday, all the way to chatham, about a...
Aug 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
the play was a success. i have one very funny photo that i need to put up here, but i don’t have time right now. maybe later. the party, too, was a success but why do i have to obsess so much about cleaning the house before a party? perhaps if i’d try to clean on a...
Aug 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
i was going to write this yesterday but caught up in a whirlwind of cleaning, because we’re having a cast party tonight. yesterday morning bev, a delightful, funny, and incredibly multi-talented woman, who also plays multiple roles in “li’l abner”...
Aug 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
yeah yeah yeah i know that’s not how you spell it. it’s LACKADAISICAL, but i feel there should be an “s” sound there in the middle. so. that’s how i’m feeling. the show opened and it went well but then it got hotter and hotter and by sunday night i was...
Aug 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
there’s lots of reasons for ALL CAPS as well as exclamation points! this week. tonight our play “li’l abner” opens. it’s going to be hot. very hot. right now it’s 92 degrees. tomorrow or sunday it’s supposed to reach 103. and yet last night linda, our...
Aug 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
it was a SURPRISE PARTY for kevin’s 50th birthday on saturday! this is what he looked like walking into my parents’ house. that last entry i typed on saturday, i only did it because i thought kevin would check the site and i wanted to make SURE HE DIDN’T KNOW. but i...
Aug 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
it’s raining, buckets. we did a lot of fencing this morning and then we ate a lot of mexican food at lunch, plus the cupcakes i brought with the very delicious chocolate frosting, and soon we’re going to amy and jim’s house for pizza and yet more food. it would be...
Aug 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
5-0 today! the big fifty. we’ll start the day with fencing and cupcakes! gh
Aug 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
kevin is turning FIFTY on saturday. whoo hoo! happy birthday in advance, honey. xxx grace rabbitt
Aug 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
and all is well. kevin got back from colorado springs at 5:45 last night, and we left for rehearsal at 6:15. perhaps he’ll get unpacked before we take a trip in september. but maybe not. here’s a very official-looking photo from his last day of fencing coaches...
Jul 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
for some reason, in the midst of the many many photos he’s been sending me from colorado springs, kevin sent me this photo. i guess it must have been on there for a long time and he needed to delete it in order to take more photos. it was almost one year ago that jim...
Jul 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s already early evening and i’ve managed to avoid setting off the car alarm all the livelong day. not to mention the fact that i haven’t dropped and broken anything, nor have i cut myself with any sharp objects. a good day, indeed. for me. right now. mollie and i...
Jul 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s kevin with his roommates at fencing coaches college. one of the guys in in foil class with him, but i think the other guy is in sabre. something different, anyway. one of them is a pastor and one is an english professor. somewhere. teaching the english. with...
Jul 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
…i finished #7 at 11:13 p.m. last night. now what will i do? i’ve decided to go back and start at the beginning, #1. basically, since i last wrote, i’ve been trying to find any spare minute to read HP. last night i decided that i HAD TO FINISH IT. so i did. i...
Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
of THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. BOOK NUMBER SEVEN. WHAT WILL I DO WHEN IT’S OVER? sleep, for one thing. it arrived in the mail on saturday, and i helped kevin with his whirlwind of packing for fencing coaches college in colorago springs, CO, at the olympic training center....
