Saturday: tooled around Rosedale with Renee. I bought some maternity clothes (a pair of pants and a shirt) and hung with her at their place while the boys went to Half Price...........again. I am sort of in the market for some more casual maternity pants, but I think what I have will work ( Read more... )

I only had three things at the Fair, and they were had in this order ( Read more... )

In your opinion, what is the one food you have to get at the Fair? An "I will not leave these Fairgrounds until I have......." item. Name two, even. If you could go and get one or two (and only those one or two) things, what would you get??

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J ( Read more... )

Y'know what? QVC makes it way too easy to order stuff. Seriously. I mean, did I *need* the 50th Anniversary Special Edition Plush Smurf w/DVD? No, I did not. However, it's very rare that I see something on a home shopping show that makes me think of childhood. In 6th grade, one of my teachers (Mr. Mallander) had a massive Smurf collection. I ( Read more... )

There. Let the subject line serve as your filter ( Read more... )

I finally heard from Mom this week. She and Al left on July 8th for a 3-week vacation. She called Wednesday night from Yucca, Oregon (Ore-uh-gone, since I don't live there). They had been to Mt. Hood (one of the passes was closed so they detoured a bit), and to Big Sky, Montana to drop off the ashes of two of Al's brothers (Ken and Fred, in case ( Read more... )

New default userpic. S/he looks ready to fight, huh? Yeah, I think that'd be the Susan part of him/her.

Copy and paste this bad boy to your own LJ. Erase my answers and enter yours. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question ( Read more... )

Apparently "Ira" will have a lovely 5 o'clock shadow. Nice.

Ira!