from a book I just read written by Linda Bloodworth Thomason (Designing Women ( Read more... )

What a weekend! Do yourself a favor and never book on Amtrak. We were all geared up for the big Red River Shootout( I refuse to be politically correct and call it the Rivalry)...doing the same as last year...taking the train to Big D for the game. We enjoyed avoiding the white-knuckle Daytona-500ish drive on I-35 and G hates to fly these days ( Read more... )

A passage from a book I read(a conversation between Shirley, a young English policewoman and her boss, a very hefty older man ( Read more... )

A quote from Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible:
"Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes... It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes."

I think I have contacted everyone. If I missed you, I apologize...my mind is a bit foggy. Most of you know the details by now, but just in case ( Read more... )

What a month! Lots of food, lots of travel, and lots of people. I just want to curl up in a chair with a few hundred books and lots of TAB and hibernate. Great to see B again. Guess I'm getting used to twice a year visits. TG for cell phones, e-mail, ofoto and LJ! Hard to cut that cord, though. Can't believe she will be 27 next week. She just ( Read more... )

For those with no children-----this is totally hysterical ( Read more... )

Doesn't that combination turn your mind on end ( Read more... )

Just got home from the family reunion. Picked up the papers, unpacked the car, put the food up, fed the cats, grabbed a Tab and headed for the recliner. I was dead to the world in 20 minutes! SLEEP---wonderful deep sleep for 2 full hours! Don't know why I have such trouble sleeping these days. This weekend I felt like a zombie. I only got 2 hours ( Read more... )

My kids always laugh when I speak of the names of the girls who lived next door while I was growing up. B always says she doesn't like "normal" names. How about these? A family in Australia has 4 kids:
Stormie
Rainie
Hayley
Sonny
Think their dad was a weatherman?