i should be helping mom and dad pack boxes RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE.
but first, a few moments of peace and quiet. except honey the cat is rubbing up against the computer and occasionally tries to walk across the keys which isn’t so great for the typing.
the kitties are a little nutty lately. well, honey is no more nutty than usual – she continues to lose her collars, and i know that somewhere there is a giant pile of abandoned honey collars. or maybe she dug a hole somewhere in the neighborhood to get rid of them permanently. someday someone will dig them up and wonder about them.
now she’s just resting the side of her face on the side of the screen.
winnie, though – since i’ve started taking baths with epsom salt in the morning (and twenty minutes in the bath can seem like FOREVER), winnie really really wants to join me. he jumps up on the side of the tub and i have to pet him or he meows like crazy. he also walks to the back of the tub and puts his paw on my head, and today i realized that he’s doing it because he wants to get climb over my head to make it around to the other edge of the tub where, of course, things must be VERY EXCITING.
he also lets his tail dangle down in the water, and a couple of times this morning he dipped his paw in and then flicked it at me, getting the newspaper all wet (i pass the time reading the paper, which is tricky to keep dry even without the cat flicking water on it).
i feel that at some point he might just jump in. now that should be entertaining.
also this morning mollie decided that all the fun must be in the bathroom, so she kept coming in to see what was going on. fortunately she didn’t decide to try to jump in and join me because it would have been a little crowded.
re: this new site – bev commented that she missed the archives over there on the right, but they’re not gone, you just have to go to that thing that says “archives” and then where it says “select month” you just…select the month.
and christine is working like MAD to create rotating pictures like there were on the old site. if you have any ideas on how to do this, please let us know. when i was scanning mom’s old slides i found quite a few funny ones that i hope to have up there someday.
life feels good this morning, probably because i got my FREE COUPON BIRTHDAY CONE e-mail from baskin robbins. how could things not be good with something like that in hand? not to mention that this morning i found a couple of mini dark chocolate bars in the freezer. they were in odd shapes, clearly having been melted somewhere by somebody and i have no idea how they got there but i suspect randy might have put them there. i ate one just now, also a reason to feel good.
because i have no photos of the move, here are a few of those slides of mom’s. first, mom and dad one halloween when they SCARED ME TO DEATH.
and here’s me and amy. isn’t amy cute? (she’s the little one on the left).
eating chocolate chips cookies and reading, of course. this is how i spent my entire childhood. except i read books, and this looks like a magazine. maybe it was the sears catalog?
finally, this is me at age 13, with an easter cake i baked. when i was scanning all the slides i thought it was funny that there were photos of me with various baked goods that i’d created. all of it a precourser to THE WEDDING CAKE.
my, what an attractive 13 year-old.
speaking of the wedding cake, here it is, in case you might have forgotten what it looks like.
ok i MUST STOP GOOFING OFF NOW and go pack boxes.
grace grace grace.