Can anyone help me with this word?   It's so stupid because this is a word I have used countless times in my life, but for some reason these days I hunt for it in my head and can't find it.  If it does pop up, I have a jinx on it so that I will know that I will forget it again next time I want to remember.   It's like fooling with a bad tooth--I ( Read more... )

Well, shoot me now.  I just read a list of fashion "don'ts" for women over forty, and I'm afraid I'm a sinner.  Truly on the wrong side of decision-making!!!!  I raise my hand and confess.

No horizontal stripes  (throw out the cute green and dark blue narrow stiped t-shirt)
no jeans with low waist  (HAH! My favorite jeans are ones my neice cast off ( Read more... )

So post I will, with absolutely nothing to say.  I am posting just to be posting.  Just to grease my wheels because I really will have something ot say.   Someday.  Soon.

Don't anyone dare comment on this post.  It is so non-posty I daren't expect you to. But you see.  I need to do it.  To post.

And therefore.
I am.

Rabbit Rabbit  (for those who know ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday

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What do you do when you hear unexpected sounds of explosions???

Funniest thing just happened.  We live up the street from a lake that is situated smack in the middle of Seattle proper.  Not talking suburbia--it's the city.  Each Fourth of July there is a huge fireworks display over the lake.  People gather at the park down the street and all ( Read more... )

 Okay, there is another young thing I find adorable.  I don't have a crush or anything--but I think Johnny Weir is....adorable.  For those who don't know--he is an American Ice Skater who has won the National Championship for the last three years.  He's outspoken and unconventional, and skates like a ballerina.   His skating is about artistry more ( Read more... )

I am just awful with this journal thing.  I do it all in my head.  "Okay," I'll say to myself,  "I just saw Happy Feet--I'll go write about it in livejournal." Or ,"Ten interesting things happened today, maybe I can post." But no, I never do.

So backwards backup all the way to Happy Feet, which my daughter took me to for Christmas the day after ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas and happy all the holidays!!!  I like knowing you all...such complex people, rich with imagination and with compassion.

I wish for you all a cozy evening and a joyful day tomorrow.

Peace.

Yay!!  Vintage Hobbit just wrote me to say she watched the dvd I loaned her of Everything Is Illuminated and she loved it!!  We will get together next week and discuss everything wonderful about Everything Is Illuminated.  Then we will talk about everything wonderful about the election results...and then maybe I can talk her into going to see Happy ( Read more... )