So I am on Facebook because much of my family and close friends are on it. I have what seems to be a workable number of friends on it. About half of them are familial, about half not. I have stayed in close touch with one friend from high school and when we friended I got lots of other request from high school friends/acquaintances. I accepted two ( Read more... )

plan to fail. Many years ago when I met with a financial planner (maybe 18 years ago or so) I told her that in my priorities I was more interested in retirement planning than for college funds for my (at the time) 2 kids. I told her that both J and I had paid for our college educations at UM by working and I thought my kids could (should)do it as ( Read more... )

We have tickets to the inaugeration. Yellow section 13! Assigned seats ( Read more... )

a 14# brisket..first and second cut and a big old fat cap on top. Direct to me from the wilds of Long Island. For some reason around here it is impossible to find a whole brisket, but thanks to G and L tomorrow the beast has a date for 8 hours or so in my toasty warm oven. When I get home from school eau d'brisket will permeat every micron in my ( Read more... )

was at my polling place at 6:10 and about 30 people in line. Left at 7:10 and there were hundreds!!!!

It was so wonderful to cast my vote; I have always loved voting, but never as much as today. Off to work now flaunting my "I voted" sticker.

it was hemp and I wasn't wearing white, but there was a lot of rope and it was fabulous. We have been steadily getting our post-hip replacement mojo on and a week ago I was asked what I wanted to do. I mentioned that while we have played with rope post-op we haven't done anything too severe. Hmm, that is all past tense now. The bondage was awesome ( Read more... )

and my word, it is cold. My trip to LA and Maui was fantastic. I am still smiling even as my teeth chatter as I dream of beautiful beaches and warm breezes. LA was perfect; it was all a reunion should be, just not enough of it. As the moments together passed I reminded myself to stay in the moment; when the moment is all you really want that is a ( Read more... )

I can't beleive that its been almost four weeks since hip replacement surgery. Time has both flown and crawled by. Recovery has gone really well, albeit so much slower than I craved. I think that I officially turned the corner last Wednesday when I put on my blue jeans after three weeks of wearing yoga/sweat pants. Some of my other recovery ( Read more... )

no, I didn't have it for dinner, but it is the name of the color that I am currently wearing after a fabulous manicure. Red nails look so good doing filthy things.

No, not so much, although the implant is the newer metal on metal kind -- no plastic for this girl. The votes are in and the date for my hip replacement surgery is December 20th. Yeah, what a wierd time to do elective(ish) surgery, but it means that my support staff will be at its highest level and that is my most important criteria ( Read more... )