I got an 88 on my final last night and passed my class. Lia, Toni, Denise, Alex, Adriane, other Maggie, and Raquel will be joining me in the next class. But Pam, Kathleen, Sophia, Marge and Lordes will not.:(

The house next door to me is a beautiful old farm house. 100 years ago the farm land was my house, the house on the other side of me, the church one lot down, and the cul de sac behind us. So when the farm house next door was about to go on the market, a family in the cul de sac behind me bought it for their sister in law to live in. They were ( Read more... )

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45% Tastefulness, 67% Originality, 61% Deliberateness, 38% Sexiness [Tasteful Original Deliberate Prissy]

One is certain: you have great taste and plenty of ideas. You have ( Read more... )

i got an 86 on my test tonight, the 2nd of 3 for this course. with my last grade being an 80, i remain in a safe zone for this course. one test to go ( Read more... )

Micro man is now known as FJB.

True love is listening to someone talk about their back problems and honestly forgeting to whine about your own sinus infection.

Today is Nana's birthday. Was. Not sure of the grammar here. But it is the first September 25th that I do not have her. I have been mostly okay. I saw my cousin Jenny last night for her 31st birthday. Remember the living. Jenny and I talked every few years before Nana got sick and now we talk every week. Her Nana and my Nana were sisters. ( Read more... )

I finally went to the nursing home today to pick up the rest of Nana's things. It was hard, but not as hard as it would have been if I tried to go in May. Everyone we used to talk to is still alive; just Harriet is in the hospital. I told Edward and Lucille that I would be in to visit them again. I hope that I am not full of crap.

So I ate like crap on this vacation bc my friend, who I mentioned is 8 sizes smaller than me, she can eat pretty much anything. She probably went through twice as much food as I did. Anyway, I came home and got on scale, prepared for the worst...and I am down 3 pounds. Someone please discourage me from going on the godiva milkshake diet.

Nana's last words to me were, "Keep up with your knitting." Okay, not her exact last, but they are the ones I am choosing to remember as her last. Shortly after she died, I got my library to start a knitting group. I went to the Thursday morning meetings once in a while, but it was tough with the kids' summer activities. There was also a ( Read more... )