I got a LiveJournal account primarily so I could read Slackerville, the Louisiana School student forum.  It was fun and irreverent, and it keep me in the loop with what was happening at the school when my kids were away.

I also had this romantic notion that I would blog about my life.  I would be witty and urban in a "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" ( Read more... )

I'm sitting right now in my room at the Courtyard by Marriott in Lake Placid, NY.  Doug, Abbey, Casey, and I are up here for family vacation and then we're going to drop Casey back off at school before going home.  Benson is in Pennsylvania at the Pensic Wars, which he was really looking forward to, but is not having a good time because the weather ( Read more... )

() Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(X) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
Total: 8

(x) The Princess Bride
(X) AnchorMan
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
(X) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
(x) ( Read more... )

I rarely travel, unlike Douglas who travels almost every week.  So needless to say I'm the one who is the constant at home and the primary caregiver--previously to the children and the pets and now mostly to just the pets ( Read more... )

I quit my job.  Some people said I really didn't work.  I "officially" worked two half days a week, a total of six hours, at the quilt shop.  However,  it took me at least 45 minutes to get there and then again to get home, I often arrived early, and always left late since I worked the afternoon shift and therefore had to close the store.  Also ( Read more... )

Today my oldest child turned 25 years old.  That is a quarter of a century.   I myself am half a century old.  So now she is half my age.  Does this matter in the grand scheme of life?  I don't really know but it seems to.

I think being 25 years old is an important milestone.  Knowing that you have lived for a quarter of a century is important.  And ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of construction work going on at my house for the past month--demolition crews, framers, roofers, eletricians, sheetrocks guys, painters, you name it, they've been here.  They're primarily working on redoing Casey's room which has suffered greatly from water damage ( Read more... )

Accept or Reject -- Accept ( Read more... )

Yesterday my youngest child turned twenty.  A milestone for her, for sure.  Turning a decade is always something of a milestone.  But for me it was also a milestone of sorts.  I no longer have any teenagers.  I therefore cannot claim to really have any children per se.  You see, as long as you have children, you still seem young.  To yourself, to ( Read more... )

Today is the beginning of super weekend here in the Big Easy.  It is the weekend of the biggest parades kicking off the countdown to Mardi Gras, including Endymion and Bacchus.  And you know we'all down here in New Orleans feel really close to Mardi Gras and believe it to be at least one thing that we do really, really well.  We know how to throw a ( Read more... )