Yesterday Marilyn vacuumed my bedroom (this included using a brush on my rug to pull up Johnnie's fur). She's been asking if she could do it for ages, and I finally gave in. I'm glad I let her, as it's lovely having a cleaner room ( Read more... )

The highlight of the day? Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic to win the ATP World Tour Finals title -- and seal his spot as world number one! Marilyn, sister Sue and I were all VERY, VERY PLEASED about that! (woo hoo ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I went to the Creston Elementary School Bazaar today, arriving slightly before 11:00. It was interesting trying to figure out how to get there, but Marilyn found it ( Read more... )

Quick overview of my Friday, as it's late and I'm VERY, VERY TIRED ( Read more... )

Well, the Pinnacle Awards are in the mail. And we were really pushing it to finish up all the submissions and get them off. No, we most certainly DID NOT make the noon deadline. But that's okay. We'd set a noon deadline to force ourselves to get things done so there would be plenty of time for the final preparations and packing up -- then getting ( Read more... )

HOW did I manage to miss two more days of blogging? And I need to go back and BLOG for August 16, because it's about stuff I want to be able to easily REMEMBER for the future!!! Tomorrow, I guess. I'd meant to do it today, but as today is over, that's clearly NOT happening ( Read more... )

Henry had a terrible SPELL tonight. It was very much like December, 2010 (Christmas), when we almost lost him. He was trying to throw up -- we assume he was trying to get up a fur ball. He was choking and his mouth was hanging open and he was slobbering and then he got frightened (probably from not being able to breathe!!!) and he turned into a ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I started our day driving to The Dalles (after a quick stop at McDonald's). At the end of the trip, we actually used the GPS on my phone to find the library. Worked great!

Angel had a great crowd and did a wonderful show. We really enjoyed it. Then we three went to Spooky's pizza parlor, a favorite place. (After Mitch's death, Marilyn ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I did a bunch of shopping today. We went to Aaron's and Freddies (Interstate), then we went to IKEA, HomeGoods and Ross. And to Freddies, again (this time Peninsula, where we shopped for some groceries we needed). You know, shopping can be EXHAUSTING ( Read more... )

It's around 1:30 a.m. Marilyn and I have been watching "Jeopardy" episodes. We're finally caught up, except for Saturdays (which we're now going to watch, even though they're all old reruns).

Marilyn and I watched the 2013 movie "Enough Said," with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini (in one of his final roles). We both loved this 'slice of ( Read more... )