In fact, it has been a long enough while since I've logged on here that I forgot both my user name and password!  And, what with the computer do si doe-ing, the information wasn't available for retrieval on any of my current machines ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful lunch yesterday with my sister, two cousins and an aunt.  We sat around the restaurant table eating rusticky Italian food and just talking for hours.  All 5 of us are women of a "certain age."  Middle age, although Kat would disagree-she says that she is old.  I suppose once you are 60 or older you are allowed to hold your own ( Read more... )

(at least, if it isn't in soup...)

If you've ever eaten broccoli while pretending it was a tree and you were a dinosaur, repost this in your journal. Then see how many of your friends are just as awesome as you are.

If there were any more stress and anxiety manifest in my house, I swear the house itself would be quivering.  In the last week, it suddenly became "real" to my younger daughter that yes, she really is going away to college.  As in, 5 hours away.  As in moving out of the house and bedroom that she has lived in her entire life.  She is a thoroughly ( Read more... )

It has been a season of preparing my younger daughter to go off to college, it feels like it has been a decade of getting her ready to go.  My living room looks like the lost luggage department at Grand Central Station, but I think that we have nearly everything.  Tomorrow, we go buy extra sets of contact lenses and underwear (how's that for a ( Read more... )

I came home from seeing a client this afternoon, and as I drove past the side yard, I saw 2 small spotted fauns lying in the grass in the middle of the circle.  Clearly, they felt safe there, and mama must have felt that it was a safe place to leave her babies while she was off doing whatever (but not doing it to my tomatoes-I think I fixed that ( Read more... )

There are just too many people in my house ALL THE TIME.  My oldest never found a summer job, so when her boyfriend doesn't have time for her (he has a summer job), she just hangs around "resting up" from the rigors of college before starting the rigors of graduate school.  The younger one has a summer job, but as it is at a "Wild West" re- ( Read more... )

Please, Please Men of Certain Advanced Years (well, maybe all men, but I work primarily with the elderly),

DO NOT wear short baggy shorts with nothing other than baggy boxers underneath when you do floor exercises.

Thank you.

It is with great relief to me that the psychological construct known as "summer" has finally begun.  The house has felt overscheduled and hectic since my older daughter graduated from Columbia in May, and moved back home, seemingly with her boyfriend.  (no, he isn't here all the time, and yes, I do like him, but he isn't family yet, and this house ( Read more... )

Jim and I went out to dinner and to hear and hang out with the Crimson Pirates, last night.  This was the 4th  we've done this in the past year; it is the start of our future no children at home, life.  Actually, the girls are still home, but, it is only  a matter of a couple of months ( Read more... )