I have a wooden plaque thingy featuring one of those black/white photographs of kids that were so popular back around the 1980’s. You know the ones -- they had one spot of color, the most famous,I think, is of a 9 year old boy in a suit giving a 9 year old girl in a dress a rose, the kids look old-timey and are in black and white but the rose is in ( Read more... )

My husband ROCKS ( Read more... )

( In which Dad and I give someone a book )

Monkeys is making me a drink me icon for my coffee, but he's busy at the moment, so I'm monkeying around myself with some of the Cafe Du Monde images I started earlier this week ( Read more... )

For several years now we have had problems with our front yard by the porch - between evil popcorn trees and wild growing things, it never looked nice for long. After several years we chopped down the popcorn trees, but the stumps didn't want to leave. We tried various tricks for stump killing, but the trees kept coming back. Plus, while I like * ( Read more... )

I am so full ( Read more... )

Today I didn't run as many errands as last Friday. I actually stunned myself with how much I got done last week. Today was a much lazier day - went over to my parents' house and hung out with them. Dad and I watched the View (Dad's an addict), and we actually got into a fairly deep political and religious discussion - which was cool. Then Mom and I ( Read more... )

So I broke down and went to the doctor's office today. They managed to work me in to see a PA at 2, so I skipped lunch and took an hour leave. That meant I still managed to get any priority work done before leaving - yay ( Read more... )

My mom called me one day last week concerned because she found a pair of sunglasses in her car and thought they were mine/Monkeys. She wanted to make sure we knew where they were and that they'd get returned because she figured we were missing them. I assured her they weren't ours because both Monkeys and I wear prescription glasses, so we don't ( Read more... )