Balance is everything.

1. I just finished a great mix cd.

2. I'm visiting Ann in New Jersey next week.

3. Peter and I just finished Breaking Dawn, and I can now use it in lieu of a hammer when fixing the chair I'm sitting in.

 I made a custard pie today and it's still warm and I want to put the smell in a jar and send it to everyone ( Read more... )

"And what suggestion has anyone to murmur as to how I am going to drift lightly back to slumber? Here I am, awake as high noon what with all this milling and pitching around with La Rochelfoucauld. I really can't be expected to drop everything and start counting sheep, at my age. I hate sheep. Untender it may be in me, but all my life I've ( Read more... )

7/6 - Egg/cheese breakfast, set out south, first view of The Reef, beautiful beach, spontaneous sea turtle creation, swimming in warm, shallow Caribbean, dogs from nowhere, walk back for more sunscreen, walk North, discover Coconut Bay Resort, hot tub and pool, security guard must keep us in sight -- thinks we're hotel guests, dinner at The Reef ( ( Read more... )

I am going to be married in two months. 

I have been clairie_b for six years now, and will continue to be, but Tricia's birthday present inspired me to make a new website.  It will display my startling lack of technology skills, my exceptional knowledge of unusual animal facts, and my discomforting sense of humor.

Animal Punch

 It is my first Monday back from spring break, and obviously that means I have spent the last two hours getting drunk and watching 6 episodes of 30 Rock, then wikipediaing Tina Fey and planning out the next decade so that I might BECOME HER.

It is my birthday tomorrow, and I already got a porcelain (I'm mad that I had to spellcheck that) pickle and ( Read more... )

 Ten reasons to be so happy ( Read more... )

 "There seemed to be a parade of walking sticks that day, too; I must have seen five or six of them, or the same one five or six times, which kept hitching a ride on my pants leg.  One entomologist says that walking sticks, along with monarch butterflies, are able to feign death-- although I don't know how you could determine if a walking stick was ( Read more... )

Two years ago I paid some smarmy guy $50 to do my taxes, and I vowed that I would never do that again since he didn't do anything I couldn't have done myself.  But this year as I sat down with my 1040, post it notes, and pencil, I realized that for the first time ever, I OWED money.  This didn't seem right, so it went like this ( Read more... )