Hello my friends!  I am in fact still in the land of the living, mostly.  It's been a heck of a year so far, Burt's mother had been sick with Pulmonary Fibrosis for about 5 years, and took a drastic turn for the worse in January.  She was placed on hospice and passed away in March, three days short of her 83rd birthday.  As you can imagine, we've ( Read more... )

FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!  This has truly been the week from hell, so far behind, but now that we've shoved the last sugar laden child out the school door, there are several weeks of freedom to enjoy...woohooo!

It's a mixed bag at best.  Burt called last night to say hello and tell me that while he'll be home Friday night as planned, they were having to go back next week.  So he'll leave again on Monday.  I find this to be depressing.  As KC said, I married the man because I wanted to be with him, not two states away with limited phone contact.  Le Sigh ( Read more... )

I am writing this so I can remember when the hard times come  that occasionally there are weeks where life is just GOOD!  Today the water heater got fixed, the girls and I had a great and successful time clothes shopping, and had lunch together, and then we found out that all three of us are in Dolly for the summer play.  (All three chorus, ( Read more... )

The week in Chez Lamoureux ( Read more... )

Way to spoil a day!  I had an eye doctor appointment this morning, and he dropped a bombshell on me.  I have a "corneal neoplasm", (highly vascularized) which sounds suspiciously close to "cancer" to me.  I have an appointment with a specialist in Houston next Friday, but as you can imagine my mood isn't the best at the moment.    He has no record ( Read more... )

I know I've posted a lot today, but I'm seeking a bit of advice.  We're looking to change from dial up to either DSL or Broadband.   What do you use, what do you like, and which is better.  What's the difference between the two?

I have now discovered what heaven is to me, a cup of hot peppermint tea and a chocolate almond biscotti.  Ahhhhhh!

It was a coffee and Bailey's Irish Cream sort of night.  Looooooonnnnnnggg day in which many incompetent people showed their true levels of incompetency.  To my detriment.

Ah, the joys of Baileys.

Now for a loooong warm bath, for tomorrow it's back to the idiots.

WOW!!!! A little background on this first. My neice went to France and Spain last year with her school *she takes Spanish at school* and we watched a slide show of some of her pictures while we were in Colorado for the Holidays. Funny thing though, Lelia, our eldest, came in and started naming all the things Emily had seen in France that she ( Read more... )