( An exhausting project )

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to stop in at Starbucks soon ( Read more... )

Got back last night from a trip to Ohio to celebrate the parents' 75th birthdays. The travel was loooooonnnnnnnger than usual, thanks to road construction in both directions. Blech. Got to see Li'l Bro and SiL and Baby Bump. Shopping with Cousin J and Mom, trip to Greenville with the fan ( Read more... )

For those who think that stands for "Political Action Committee," it does not. It's Performing Arts Center, thankyouverymuch.

My old job in Ohio is hiring. I felt a little twinge when it showed up in my e-mail box. Would that I could apply, but I've got other prospects at the theater here.

Usually, I would be posting about the highlights of the previous year right now. But I'm so far behind, I need to journal my Christmas first.

( Christmas in Ohio )

Sometimes I think I should have been a pop cult major. My alma mater has one of the biggest, best Pop Cult departments in the country ( Read more... )

Geo and I are back in Ohio this weekend. He's recording eps of his radio show, and yesterday, they did one for a "live studio audience" at a Dayton theater ( Read more... )

The Nutter Butter Banana Pudding Trifle was a great success last night. The nine-year-old told me it was a good one and to put it "in the box" I think is what he said. (Recipe box? Maybe?) I told him I'd put a star beside it. (I put foil stick-um stars by favorite recipes in my cookbooks ( Read more... )

So. If you've been following this LJ since the beginning of the year, you know that I've been very shaken up by the death of a schoolmate, Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Hopper.

Well, yesterday, my high school was put on lockdown for 3 hours because of gunshots fired in the neighborhood.

Shots fired near local schoolNow, you gotta understand that I ( Read more... )

Sheriff Kelly in the Springfield News-Sun.