A friend died this weekend. Not a good friend, but a friend. And her daughter posted on facebook this morning "I don't know how to live without my mom". Suddenly, I'm standing at the foot of my mom's hospital bed, sobbing on my dad's shoulder as she takes her last few gasps of life and I say, "I don't know how to live in a world without my mom ( Read more... )

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I invited manfriend over for dinner tonight and offered to make loaded baked potatoes. Here's how this texting conversation went ( Read more... )

And as such my first phone call of the day was HIGHLY irritating ( Read more... )

I had someone call today, wanting a stowage lift installed on his pickup with a lifting capacity of 500 lbs. Now, I’m no engineer, but I’ve been in this industry long enough to know that is impossible. First of all with a pickup truck the lift has to be a boom arm, installed in the truck bed, that cranes out and down to grab the chair. The bed ( Read more... )

I remember the day I got Niblet. Me and my roommate at the time, Nichole, went to the Arizona Humane Society downtown Phoenix because it was “feeless feline” the month of August. At AHS I was given a number, something like 8th out of a total of 9 people and we got to choose our kittens in that order. I spied Niblet curled up into a tiny ball in ( Read more... )

It was three years ago today that we lost you. In some ways I can’t believe it’s been three years already and in others I swear I have felt every single minute of these years down to my bones. In this case time has been a healer though, because while I still think of you every day I do so now without as much pain. But while time has taken the ( Read more... )

When I was enjoying PURA VIDA last month my grandmother experienced a pretty serious fall and was in a hospital and then a care center for several weeks. After getting out my mom's cousin, Chuck, found her a new assisted living place where she receives more care and is checked on regularly. This is necessary because when she fell last month she ( Read more... )

I had one of the best times of my entire life while in Costa Rica. What a beautiful country! The people are so warm and generous, the food is amazing, the beaches are spectacular and the beer is very, very good. Really, there isn’t much more a girl can ask for in a vacation. Except maybe for a hunky boy to share it with, but Gloria and I did ( Read more... )