Even though I've had stuff to say, I had no time!Watched "Good Night and Good Luck" on Tuesday evening. Whoo boy. What a moment in history that was eh? It was so sobering to see the actual videos of McCarthy when he was running the hearings and then, most sobering of all, when he made... Continue Reading →
NOYB!
During my visit to my past life Sat evening, I ran into one of the Swedish women I have known for a long time. Seeing her immediately flashed me back to our last in person encounter when I know that I was a little less than kind to her. Ok, I was a bitch. You... Continue Reading →
Health check in
Sorry in advance to my readers for this very mundane, health oriented post, but I need this one for my own records.I looked back at the first month of posts that I made here and realized that did not keep up with my health markers during the year as I had wanted. Crap! I have... Continue Reading →
Past lives
Finished tree in the daylight. Just to give the blog that festive, holiday look :-)So I visited a past life tonight. It was the annual Christmas on the Prado weekend. Well, it's called December Nights now, but it will always be Christmas on the Prado to me!! Every year when I was with Erik we... Continue Reading →
World AIDS Day
Since I had not posted in a couple of days I was trying to think of something to share and then I stopped at DailyKos and saw a diary from a friend over there which reminded me what I have to say. This is a copy of the story I shared in that diary: We... Continue Reading →
Tales from the fruitcake household
Last night we took our holiday photo. To those of you on my address list, this is a bit of a preview though the picture I chose is different. It was taken before this one which clearly indicates our descent into fits of laughter.It was the funniest photo shoot ever. It started out rather frantic... Continue Reading →
The decorations are up!
How I spent my Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving:Twinkling snowflake lights along the garage roof line with a snowman and christmas tree which nicely reflect sunlight as well as having lights of their own. Oh, these pics were all taken at sunset.Snowflake lights blend into regular icicle lights along the side of the house. Those... Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving
My list of things to be thankful for: All my boys. That DS1 is mostly taking steps forward and for that wonderful opportunity he had to sing on stage and reveal a hidden talent. That DS2 is a Fruitcake 🙂 And also that he is still my snuggle bear while having a most amazing football... Continue Reading →
Vacation week
I know, you would think that since I am simply sitting at home all week I should be able to type up all sorts of fascinating and intelligent posts in here, right? All this time stretching in front of me and all. Hah! I have been doing things. Lots of things. Things that needed doing... Continue Reading →
Change of plans
No tournament for Alex. We fell short of players. Not surprising given that it is the weekend before Thanksgiving and we did not find out we needed players until late Thursday. I spent a lot of time on the phone last night and again this morning trying to sort this out. I'm first of all... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 