Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
That's the Facebook status I just posted - oh I am so conflicted! On the one hand: Yay ADAM!! A weekly taste of him singing and getting to see him act too? LOVE LOVE LOVE. I think he will inject a much needed spark into that show and well, we all know he can... Continue Reading →
As jammed as my days are, you might wonder how the house and yard stay maintained. Well, a lot of the time, they don't! I've already had one neighbor comment on the dead grass 
I can't blame her - it does look bad and she's newer to the area so never saw the dirt... Continue Reading →
Last week, just a few minutes after I arrived in San Jose for Netroots Nation, I ran into a young man who describes himself on his business cards as an "Apprentice Troublemaker". I think that is a very accurate description 🙂 I also think I was some pretty darn good company to have been interviewed... Continue Reading →
Pictures from my iPhone taken within the last week - starting with Sunday as I flew home from San Jose. Tales of that trip will begin dribbling out on my PP site over the next week or two. Meanwhile, the north San Diego coast line was sort of awesome from the air. The... Continue Reading →
Here's 16 with his shirt back on and a close up look at his red clown hair from Thursday. After the goofy Cardinal-Gold game, the boys had to put on their serious faces for a 2 day passing league tournament at the local college. It's a different setting entirely because it is 7 on 7... Continue Reading →
Thursdays Cardinal-Gold game - for which I may have spent a few hours and gray hairs preparing - was a lot of fun, especially since the boys don't take it too seriously. Also, thankfully, no one was hurt! Well, not entirely true. My eyes might have been hurt when I saw this:If you know my son... Continue Reading →
I'm taking an online writing course through Coursera and the assignments the last two weeks have been to describe scenes. We had to specifically use a certain number of sentences and parts of speech and such, but I thought "hey, since that's the way I am thinking right now, why not share scenes?" Seriously, just... Continue Reading →
Check out the new addition to my LinkedIn profile! Yes, I managed to earn enough writing points (by essentially selling enough posts) to get up to Level 5. Wahoo! I originally hoped to make it there in June, but I've continually surpassed my writing goals these first 3 months. This will come to a... Continue Reading →
My house is exactly 1803 square feet. There is laminate or tile flooring covering around 1,100 of those sqft (the entire downstairs for instance, then both upstairs bathrooms). The remaining 700 sqft which is carpeted covers the stairs, the bridge and the two master bedrooms on the second floor. That's a shade under 40%. Since... Continue Reading →
It was one of those longer stoplights, and the car to my right provided a little snapshot of life with a small child. A standard issue four door sedan that was, for once, not the usual black or gray but a rather pretty shade of cobalt blue. In the backseat, perched directly in the center... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 