Spinners

I’m stirring the pot.
When I was a kid the presidential election was between Mondale and Reagan.  My grandma was solidly in the Mondale camp.  My family was solidly in the Reagan camp. And my Grandma spent the winter with us.  It was tense, and it got even more tense when I mentioned one night at [...]

Because I feel like it

Pip got me tickets to this guy’s concert in November.  I’m pretty excited.

And of course embedding is disabled, so click it.  It’s worth it.

Yes, we still have them

Almost 2 years ago I posted about the cats we acquired through an attempt to relieve the guilt we felt over things not working out with Elsie the greyhound. Mmmm, yes.  We should have just let that wave of guilt crash onto the shores of our souls and return to the ocean of feelings the [...]

Testing…testing…1…2…3

I’m currently chuckling because I can’t type, hear or say that title without thinking about the way Pip usually does that.  When we were dating Pip was in a band and they used to test the sound using this phrase instead: “Testes…Testes…1…2…3?”.  Makes me laugh every time.  Speaking of testes, I saw a bumper sticker [...]

It must be close to Spring

I just took this picture of the sprinkler going in the yard next door.  Unfortunately you can’t see it very well.  Unfortunaltely what you can see well is the two slats missing from our porch swing.  Note to self:  Fix that.   Our neighbor has an obsession.  He’s obsessed with watering lawns.  I’m rather [...]

No, I’m not the latest thing to go under in this economy…

I’m still here.  Explanation: When we returned home from our vacation to Phoenix over the holidays we found that our computer died…alone…without us there to hold it’s…power button?  Anyway, we needed to save and wait for a certain check from the government to get the computer we wanted to replace the old desktop.  In the [...]

The Christmas Card picture

I thought I’d share with you all the attempt to get a photo of the kids for Christmas cards.  A better title for this post would be “Why can’t my kids be serious?” or “The many faces of DQ and TM”.

And the winner for Christmas card photo 2008 is…..

Happy Halloween

Yes, I finished the costumes.  Here they are.  This was last Saturday night.  We’ll call it the dress rehearsal for tonight.   DQ is the “Spider Princess” (her own creation).  I found this great spider web print red satin at JoAnn for her skirt and the crown was a lucky find at Target dollar [...]

Let this be a lesson to you

If a child in your life should ever choose Inspector Gadget as their Halloween costume GO WITH IT!  I did not.  “Why don’t you choose something else?”, I said.  “It will be so hard to find a trenchcoat in a size 5.  Let’s try something else”.  He chose a skeleton and I thought EASY!  Lucky [...]

Continuum

If you haven’t already, you must check out John Mayer’s new album, Continuum, because it’s awesome.  So there.  Especially, but not limited to, track 7 entitled “Stop This Train”.  Just wow.