Marilyn and I slept in at the beach house. Then we got up, got ready, packed everything up and headed out to drive to Forks, Washington ( 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... )

Marilyn and I started our day watching US Open tennis. We've been watching a lot of it, by the way, even though I haven't mentioned it much. (Just so much else to blog about lately. Hahaha ( Read more... )

SPOILER ALERT!!!Okay, if you don't know, yet -- and don't want to know -- then QUIT READING right now ( Read more... )

what a relaxing and lovely Sunday! We started the day heading off to the store for some essentials (toilet paper was one item!), then we got Starbucks (at Safeway, where we shopped). When we got home I made brunch, then we watched the Sony Open finals (Rafa lost, I'm sorry to report ( Read more... )

Marilyn did some cleaning today -- but I can't claim I was really much help. I really need to get in and do some stuff around, no doubt about it! I guess things just seem to keep getting in my way ( Read more... )

How was my Saturday (well, so far!) -- quite good ( Read more... )

Apparently Amazon has decided to embrace fanfiction (better known to many of us as fanfic). Really? Those interested can read about Kindle Worlds HEREThere are many reasons to debate against this concept. Fanfic online has always been free -- and zines were basically bought in order to pay for the work that went into creating a hard copy document. ( Read more... )

Michelle Obama's gown for the Inaugural Ball??? Stunning! And I love the bangs!!! She's such a classy lady. Oh! And I also loved what Malia and Sasha wore to the event (their purple outfits). Very nice! What lovely girls they are ( Read more... )

I found this out last night, by total accident -- and I was so excited!

Marilyn WON the fanfic writing contest she's been participating in for months (since last August)!I'm so happy for her. Of course, I might be biased (!!!), but she's an amazing writer, and I think she really deserved to win. She never took a 'skip' for any challenge even once ( Read more... )