We were all set to attend a Fish Auction at 7 a.m.  Bremerhaven has quite the fishing fleet, and I had read that they auction off the fish every morning, starting at 7.  We took a taxi to the Auction Hall, since we would have had to get up earlier to take the bus down there, and sadly, the Auction Hall was closed and dark.  Our taxi driver ( Read more... )

Another lazy start, breakfast at 10:30, then cardio work, clean up and whoops! Time for lunch! My good intentions last through breakfast and lunch, at least. Made the 2 pm trivia, where we scored a mere 24 out of 50, 15 (!) points behind the leaders….. More trivia at 5:30, where we again came in the middle of the pack - dang those pesky mythology ( Read more... )

Since I discoed until 12:30 a.m., I guess it wasn’t surprising that I slept in until 10 a.m. I just missed breakfast - they closed at 10:30 - but scored an apple and a leftover hardboiled egg, so all was good. I spent an hour or so at the gym, then cleaned up and had a hamburger. The Easter bunny (i.e., GL) had delivered a bag of goodies to my door ( Read more... )

GL is matron of honor for one of her friends who is tying the knot for the 6th (!) time.  She is hosting a Coffee Party for the bride's local friends to meet the groom, who is from out of town and relocating permanently here.  GL requested that I make my internationally famous cinnamon rolls(they're frozen for her to thaw out and bake the morning ( Read more... )

Am staying in Delaware for a week or so.  There are Joe and Jill Biden paper dolls in the bookstore, and only one person in 48 hours has said anything about my purple hair (other than GL, who I am visiting - she says Delawareans all have good manners and would never dream of commenting on something like hair color ( Read more... )

Be at peace......

D1 is having a great few weeks, with school and work and all coming together just right.  It's so nice to hear her be so cheerful after her dark period this summer.....  D2 is thinking about buying a house *pause to remember what I was doing at that age...yup, buying a house*.  How grown up they are ( Read more... )

I'm trying to do ... something that I can't identify because ... well, just because.  The first time, I used two unmatched thingys, so I wasted one trying to make them match.  The next time, I put something upside down, so I messed up the base and had to find another one.    The third time, I made the wrong connection, so I had to find another new ( Read more... )

GL says next time we're going to Aruba.  I checked online and air tix are actually cheaper from Frankfurt to Aruba than they are to Virginia, so we vote YES.

Whew, we're home and almost all the stuff is put away.  We have some great photos, only a few people got badly sunburned, we gave a fantastic surprise party for GL's birthday and she cried (yes, it was 3 months early, but everyone was there and they won't be on the actual day), we played hearts with 12 people (never again) and spent more than $600 ( Read more... )