Please please please bring your band closer to me.  There really ~is~ magic in the blues.  You can't take me where I want to go if you won't come closer!  We have a nice arena.  Good local food, too.  Please.  Please.  I need to hear Santana in person.  Just once.   It would last me a lifetime, I just know it.

Much love,
Chained to Shreveport

There is a contest for a $50K art scholarship which Connor's high school Caddo Magnet High School is in SECOND PLACE!!

Please please please vote for Caddo Magnet High in Shreveport, LA.  This is one of the top schools in the nation filled with bright stars. I'm sure they all are, but I know the kids at Caddo Magnet High.

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Here's a recipe I've been making a lot lately:  Low Fat Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies (made with beans!)
They are SO satisfying. I hope I have time to make a batch this weekend.  I have pre-measured portions of pureed beans in the freezer already  to save me some time.  I also still have three buckets full of pecans from our tree that I need to use ( Read more... )

I'm not a particularly good writer, but I do have things I'd like to say outside of a friends-locked personal journal.

http://frugal-wise.blogspot.com/


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I love listening to people talk about things they love.  I've watched/listened to a few dozen YouTube videos of Neil deGrasse Tyson while I'm cooking or folding laundry, instead of watching tv.

Somehow I never watched Cosmos before now.  I'm using Cosmos sort of as background "music" at work to drown out the random and chaotic noise, which I can't ( Read more... )

Somehow missing from my previous post is this paragraph:

I bought a hardbound copy of The Witches of Eastwick. I haven't seen the movie so I didn't have any expectations... just thought I'd give it a try since it only cost a quarter.   I don't think I like it but I'm just barely into it. I read some reviews and I think maybe I'm not really supposed ( Read more... )

SCORE!!!    Every September there is a giant book bazaar just up the street at Centenary College. Some years I haven't been able to go because it's held on D's birthday.  This year it wasn't - WOO HOO!!!   D and I accidentally showed up right as they dropped all prices to half-off. If we had known, we'd have gotten twice as much!!

I didn't find ( Read more... )

Being Connor's mom is a lot of fun. He has always been fascinated by bugs.  After a number of episodes with full on shrieking and wall-climbing, he learned how to approach me and present a bug so that I can look at it without flipping out.  He instantly recognizes when I'm calling for him to rescue me from a big water bug.  ::shudder ( Read more... )

THE BEST, I tell you!!!

www.youtube.com/watch

in case the link doesn't work, copy and paste this URL  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

Y 16 Men's Saber Champs:

Left to Right:  Wesley Davis 3rd place, Coach Andy Shaw, Joseph Yates 2nd place (Silver), and..... Connor Bass 1st place (Gold)

This competition was a little tougher than yesterday. :-) :-)


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