I saw Spamalot yesterday. First of all, we have fabulous tickets, and this year, all 4 of us have tickets (both daughters, myself, and mom) which is as it should be, although getting poor mom there is a whole separate issue, more about which later ( Read more... )

I lurk so often on everyone else's journals, I never think about updating my own. Sometimes, I'm just too busy ( Read more... )

Today; these events-my ex husband's 61st birthday. Each time I talk with him I relive my sorrow that he is not a man I can live with and keep my health or sanity, and I feel his sorrow that he was not able to stay in my life. Very complex. Yet, I am so glad I left that marriage. I was forced to euthanize my 12 year old Blue Point Himalayan cat, ( Read more... )

You know, it wasn't entirely unexpected that Ron and Hermione would hook up. There were certainly "anvil size" hints that Ron liked Hermione. I take serious issue with the size of the hints that she liked him back. There were as many "she likes Harry" hints, and probably the dumbest point anyone made in the JKR/TLC/MN interview was that it was so ( Read more... )

There is a relationship between my stress levels: job, mom, family, money, time over-commitment (who in their right mind would promise to design 3 musicals in 4 months, chair a symposium committee for work for late October while being on the logistics committee for TWH for early October?  Right mind is the operative term.)  health, applying for new ( Read more... )

I testified in court yesterday. That's the first time I've been in court since my divorce in 1991, and before that it was either jury duty or when I worked for the school system and had to testify for abuse cases for small students. This was interesting. Naturally, I can't say too much about it because I have to protect the confidentiality of ( Read more... )

The Goblet of Fire coverage: that's my mother's day present. More later ( Read more... )

Since I read this everyday, you'd think I could be bothered to update ( Read more... )

The Teaspoons ( Read more... )