Just a drive-by post to show you guys my new icon. I got it at Facebook, so I don't know who to credit. I love Gregory House...erm... Hugh Laurie.

*laughs and laughs*

1. I'm v. happy at my central heating unit being fixed ( Read more... )

Finally. I went to my old hometown and visited mother's gravesite on January 3. I'm so v. glad I did. In an attempt to prevent myself from laying in the dirt and crying, I took with me my friends Maree and Maria. We made a day trip of it. First we had lunch, then we drove around town and I pointed out various places of interest: the house I ( Read more... )

I've been making microwave popcorn for twenty-some years. The other day I was at the store and decided to buy a bag of the old-timey kind. Kind of cool, that. Popping the old fashioned way; shaking the big pan on the cooktop. It definitely has a different taste than microwave, and it brought back memories ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas, friends ( Read more... )

So much has happened since my last post; where to start ( Read more... )

My mother died. She went to bed Thursday night and woke up with Jesus Friday morning.

Mary Beth Toombs
December 2, 1927 ~ July 4, 2008

*How awful that the seventeen year-old kid in Georgia was decaptitated by the Batman ride as he went into a restricted area to retrieve a $10 hat. How awful that his family will likely sue the park, even though he climbed two fences with KEEP OUT, DANGER, DO NOT ENTER RESTRICED AREA signs all over the place ( Read more... )

1. That low, rumbling sound coming from the throat of a tail-slashing kitty is not an invitation to play ( Read more... )

For those of you traveling, safe journey!

Christmas blessings to all of you.

~D