I have an account at Facebook.  I have friended a few of you there.  I keep a VERY low profile on Facebook and have had decidedly mixed feelings about the site overall for quite some time.  Why am I there?  Some friends were VERY adamant about how much "better" Facebook was than LJ or other sites and twisted my virtual arm to at least "give it a ( Read more... )

....was successful.   She went in yesterday for teeth cleaning and oral surgery.  Had to have one molar removed ( Read more... )

....because it is better written/photographed than some "professional" sites, and because the writer obviously has a quirky sense of humor as well as a gift for creative, inventive food.  I adore both.

So with no further ado, I strongly urge you to check out smittenkitchen.com/

You'll be glad you did.   :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

May this year hold peace, joy, fulfillment and warmth for you and yours.

I look forward to 2009 and embrace the possibilities.   :D 

....and it seems so "un-possible" that a year has gone by.  Already???!!!???

So much has changed.

And yet so little has changed.

I am grateful--humbly grateful--for the friendships and a few well-timed "thumps-upside the head" bestowed on me by friends.  (Doing the "hard things" is probably the greatest gift a friend can give.....)

I will miss-- ( Read more... )

JUST got my Fall Quarter grade... the Statistics class I sweated bullets over.....  was a B.

I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THE DEGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm probably babbling like a fool but .......  I DON'T CARE!

This has been a long haul......  and I've questioned my sanity more than once for embarking on it at this juncture in life... but it ( Read more... )

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Take this day (and every day) to remember how much you have and how much you have to be thankful for.....it's good for your heart and soul......

So the garbage disposal. Yeah, that one. The one that didn't work. No matter how many times I tried it.... or pushed the 'reset' button on the bottom.... or prayed or cursed ( Read more... )

......that anytime I need to have something DONE around the house that requires skills I don't possess.... I have to find a reliable "handyman" to do it ( Read more... )

..... just got done taking a weed whacker to the backyard. Some of those suckers were BIG. I think Tom mistook one pair of especially ambitious weeds for cultivated plants and left them when he so graciously was putzing in my backyard the day I had to spend several hours studying while he was here. (No OTHER reason I can think of that they'd ( Read more... )