My heart aches to go back.

David is in Israel, touring with the same group that I went with a little less than a year ago. I miss the people I met, the places I saw, the food I ate, and the passion I felt. As I look at the pictures on his group's website and read his itinerary, my insides turn with longing to be there.

Lately, I've been ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAAAURGH! I'm so sick of this! I'm tired and achy and stuffy and all I want to do is lay down...but I'm sick of laying around!  I've been sick all weekend and can't seem to get it together.

Example:
I came home tonight and wanted to get some packages ready to mail out ( Read more... )

Thank God!  This has indeed been a lousy year.  I'd say three really great things happened this year and the rest was relatively unbearable, with splashes of good times.

Three Great things:

1. I went to Israel. After an emotional Christmas and an utterly ( Read more... )

This morning we opened some of our Christmas presents and it just wouldn't be Christmas without Mom giving someone a gift that could taken the wrong way. Last year it was the cute cartoony wall hanging of a woman dressed in gold that said, "High Maintenance" across the top that was given to Beth. Needless to say, the evening ended in tears and ( Read more... )

Okay, so I DID call my friend and I took a little nap instead of being productive. Now I'm packing and getting ready to leave in a couple hours. I have my second wind and my music is as loud as I can possibly have it this early in the morning. I am going to crash on the train, I know it, but in the mean time...I'm dancing around to some 80s music ( Read more... )

I had a bad cheese steak for dinner tonight and I am PISSED about it. I was out shopping for presents, and Marf...I can't WAIT until you see yours...and I decided that I wanted a cheese steak for dinner. I've been feeling sick for a while and wanted a treat. Steak and cheese sounded perfect. I went home, sat down at my table with my warm cheese ( Read more... )

Four years ago today, at around 9:30 pm, my father, Jim Hearst, died of cancer. I think about that day. I think about that week. I think about that whole year. I mostly think about my lost, my guilt, my grief. But those are not the things I want to write about today. I want to share a few things about my dad with you....some of the things I ( Read more... )

We had my birthday party last night and it was sooooooooooo much fun. A lot of people were there. We drank, a lot, and we danced and played cards. Libby brought candy necklaces. Phil brought those stupid balls that Megs gave us a couple years ago, and Caius emptied them into Diane's Papasan chair. So by the end of the night, our necks were rainbow ( Read more... )

I was very home bound this weekend. Friday, at work, I got really sick and just wanted to go home and go to bed, my a friend of mine had tickets to see Victor Wooten and the Soul Circus. He is apparently one of the world's leading bass guitar players and I found out why. I was stunned by his skill and was very glad that my friend dragged me ( Read more... )

If there is one person in this world who loves the Golden Girls as much as me, it's EEV. Phil, I know you love them too, but EEV is the only one who can go quote to quote with me. Anyway, when I made my invitation I knew that EEV would love it ( Read more... )