"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Family, Photo entries, Recommendations, dumb things I have done on Aug 31st, 2010
A squillion years ago, more or less, I graduated from highschool and my grandparents gave me a really, really, really, really nice set of pens (one ballpoint, one fountain). I, being the hamfisted mutant that I am, managed to break the ballpoint pen within a year. Moreover, being an ignorant cluck, I tried to “fix” [...]
Posted in Family on Aug 30th, 2010
Now, if I had any sense of the fitness of things, I’d save this story for February 2, which is not only Groundhog Day, it is also the birthday of the Grandma involved. Alas, I am not that organized, and so, you get a story about hibernating groundhogs on the second-to-last day of August. In [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Family on Aug 26th, 2010
5 drops of Rose Otto (in jojoba) 1 drop of Patchouli scant .35 oz vodka infused with whole cloves (12 in a 1 oz bottle) I use these tiny perfume bottles that are .35 oz, so whatever liquid I put in besides the oils (usually vodka, either plain or infused) is just under .35 oz, [...]
Posted in Family, Photo entries on Jan 21st, 2010
I’m gonna be schmoopy for just a minute. I enjoy the heck out of Joel’s and my relationship – he just tickles me eight shades of pink and I wanted to share a couple of fairly awesome pictures of my feller: Joel is imitating a sea-gull in Santa Cruz – this is the day before [...]
Posted in Distractions, Family, Recommendations, nostalgia, videos on Nov 27th, 2009
I just got a movie recommendation from my Dad: The Long Long Trailer,” which opened in 1954 featuring the beloved Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz team, a 1954 Mercury convertible, and a really big travel trailer. Dad has been laid up for the past month following rotator-cuff surgery; he’s currently banned from using his right arm, so [...]
Posted in Adventures, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Family, Party, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Nov 6th, 2009
I said something recently about writing more frequently…and once again I did a lot of fun stuff, didn’t write about it, built up a backlog of postable material, got overwhelmed, and will be babbling forth a disjointed and photo-heavy entry…AGAIN. So. We went to Nebraska this past weekend-ish. We left town Halloween night, did a [...]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Adventures, Family on Sep 24th, 2009
I’m a total bum, and didn’t say a peep about Joel’s and my anniversary, but this past Sunday, it was a year since we did our “I do-ing.” We went out to dinner on Friday and took Joel’s mom out and had a joint celebration, since her birthday was on Saturday. One year ago yesterday, [...]
Posted in Family, Photo entries, Sewing on Aug 22nd, 2009
Good grief! I can’t believe it’s already a week since we went up to Omaha and helped my sister and her family celebrate Max’s second birthday, but there it is…I’m such a SLACKER! My niece and nephews are such awesome little kids! Here’s the birthday boy himself, enjoying an ice-cream-cone cupcake. The big kids decorated [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 17th, 2009
My grandpa was a hell of an interesting guy. He had the mind, heart, and soul of a mechanical engineer and a self-taught education that far surpassed the expectations of a depression-era West Virginia farmboy. He came of age in an era where aptitude could carry you just about as far as certification. A light [...]
Posted in Family, Party, Photo entries on Jun 8th, 2009
and miraculously not deeper in debt. Well, yesterday was my birthday, so I guess I’m now officially 32, though I’ve been telling people I was 32 for about the past 3 months. I have a longstanding habit of rounding up whenever my birthday is nearish. I think it may track back to the childish habit [...]
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