Some days you should hide under the covers because there are big scary monsters out there and they like to eat you up and spit you out. You always know when one is coming and you know you should hide - but someone always talks you into getting out of bed, and then you are truly screwed - the scary monster will win!!! I do believe that the people ( Read more... )

Just found out today that Mike and Amy my neighbors across the street are moving about 30 miles away. It makese so sad because they were such a tie to Steve, since Mike was not only Steve's boss, but one of his closest friends. Amy and I had developed a very good freindship ( Read more... )

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I have a new bird feeder thanks to a freind. It was a hope that the cardinal who keep beating up on my side view mirror would be too busy eating to try to fight imaginary birds. Well, he did quickly find the feeder - but that just called for aonther round of mirror beating - after all, one must protect one's food source. At least this time he ( Read more... )

I have decided that procrastination and sloth are my best friends of late. I come home from taking one of the ill to the doctor's and sit down at the computer to play mahjong or sit on the porch with Sam while telling myself, I will start on the myriad of things that need to be done in just a few minutes. I have even tried to bargain with myself ( Read more... )

I have just learned far more about brain tumors,(low grade gliomas to be specific) than I ever wanted to know and none of it is at all reassuring ( Read more... )

Okay, I can accept that my cat, Sam thinks he has the right to meow at me every time I leave the house, but I guess he has found the job of keeping me in line too difficult. He has enlisted the help of a very vocal mockingbird. I walked out my Mom's front door on Wednesday and heard this meowing that just kept being repeated and sounded like it ( Read more... )

Okay I can't stand it any longer! I want to go impulse shopping, run away to a tropical island, or just about anything that isn't related to house cleaning or a messy house. Now mind you, I haven't been cleaning of late and that's why it is driving me crazy to be in the house - it looks rather like a tornado went through it. Of course, the ( Read more... )

In the dark depths of the night when silence wraps around me like a thick cloak; I find the answers that like fleeing shadows have eluded me in the bright light of day. Out of this ebony solitude come views of roads passed by, lives that could have been, the cries of unborn children ( Read more... )

It is midnight and I am wide awake, so I have been reviewing the week and planning the upcoming week. I sit here with chips, a glass of wine (really a bottle) and James Taylor on the cd player ( Read more... )