My Left Foot

Literally, well okay it's in a slipper but you get the drift. Anyhow, I am waiting anxiously for the next hour and a half to pass so I can attend my grandson's 7th b-day party. Yeah Baby, this is what I do for excitement. But these little fellas really do crack me up sometimes. Like the other day Austin (the one who's having a b-day today) said to his cousin, "You smell like rice." And his cousin replied (with a lisp which made it even funnier), "Tahths becath I love rith." Okay, I was expecting Austin to finish his sentence with poop or farts or any other body function smell that boys usually "go to" for descriptives but just the fact that he said RICE cracked me up in the first place. Then when his cousin didn't even say," Shut up, you smell like rice" or another rejoinder and just stood in the moment (metaphorically) and claimed the RICE SMELL. These are the things that live in my brain and make me smile.

Old School

This is what used to be the main office of my high school. Of course, even this rubble is no longer there because this photo was taken over a year ago. Now there's a shiny new building because in the community we live if a building is over 20 years old it's considered ancient and needs to be demolished. Then they move to a new site and build a brand new version.

Crane Spotting

I would love to drive a crane plus I think it would be a hoot to drive one of those roller things that smashes shit.

Lucky Lucky ME

One of the perks of having breast cancer and a mastectomy is that insurance will pay for what is called "lymph massage" because the cluster of lymph nodes under the armpit was messed with so it doesn't drain as well as it should. Well today is LYMPH massage day and I cannot wait. So I'm lucky to have a warm house to return to and lucky for about a million other things!! YEAH!

No Subject, No Point

I enjoy the process of going to my Blogging space and popping around and seeing other people's artwork, etc. which mostly always make me feel inadequate and pleasure in equal measure. Go Figure. Inadequate because I feel eveyone else's stuff is better than mine but pleasure because the stuff I read and look at is fulfilling. So, just like I HAVE to drink my coffee at least once a day I also feel compelled to find a piccie and write something. Is there therapy for this?

I'm learning........

The title of this post has a double meaning when coupled with the photo. The picture is of the high school that I graduated from in 1975 when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Hence it is the place where I learned. Secondly I also learned how to shrink jpg picture files this morning and was able to also post this picture on my myspace!!! Yeah. Also, as a sidebar this building is no longer around as the entire high school has been remodeled and basically not even in the same place anymore.

Thursday Jan. 18 2007

It snowed the other night. I had always thought that it had to be warmer than freezing to snow but I was wrong. It's been around an average of 20 degrees F here since last Friday night. So I'm wondering if Global Warming is only happening in certain parts of the world?

Repeat after me..."It's COLD"

Lordy, it was 12 degrees F. here this morning. We live in what is supposed to be the banana belt of our state/region. Well, it's frozen banana time now so where's the whipped cream and cherries? My husband installed a heat pump recently and in case you didn't know this Heat Pumps are friggin useless in this kind of cold. The thing has been running steadily since the wee hours of this morning and it's still only 63 degrees in our livingroom. I guess I could always take up figure skating in the bathtub.

Myopic Relatives

We live tooo near a nuclear power plant and this is the result.

Fun for Dummies

I can't do alot of technical stuff online like links, etc. I barely can get into my email and send photos so being able to put pictures on my blog is akin to success for me! Therefore you will see alot of photos on my blogs that have nothing to do with anything but it's my entertainment! Ta-Da.

Happy New Year

It seems weird to me that a new year has started which feels monumental but in reality life just putts along as usual. Seems like we should all have awakened this am to find ourselves with a different eye color, skin tone, accent, new name. But alas, there's the same 2 drugstores up the street across from each other, same cars driving down the street. Don't they know it's a NEW YEAR; A DIFFERENT ONE since yesterday? Okay, I'm being overly dramatic but it felt good to write that all down. Yeah, same old blog, new year.

Merry Christmas

I'm just in a weird mood and wanted to say I had a great Christmas and even the days after have been good.

Goodwill is Awesome

My husband bought this red leather couch at The Goodwill (for those of you outside US, you may call it a Charity Shop). Of course the Christmas presents were not on it at the time! So don't forget to shop at your local thrift shops you never know what you'll find.

Happy Birthday December 14th

This cute fellow will be 79 on December 14th. It's my dad.

Rum a pum pum my ass

I enjoy Christmas music. Doesn't matter if it's a Hip Hop rendition of a classic or Patsy Cline singing a carol for one month out of the year I want to hear this music. EXCEPT for the Rum a Pum Pum song!!!! Why does every singer decide they have to do their version of this song and also Why does the radio station feel compelled to play it constantly? I feel like if I hear another artist say, rap, or sing those words I am going to scream obscenties at the top of my lungs.

Easily Amused

When I go on holiday, I waste time on photos like this!!! Oh well.

Christmas Shopping

Needs no blog.

Silliness

We saw a few of these signs while we were in England. One of them had the words "Elderly People" written below the picture. I assume it means watch out for old people and try not to run them down with your Mini Cooper but it just cracks me up.

Musings From Ruislip

I am having a wickedly good time on holiday with my husband in England. I feel bad that we are not making it to Wales and Scotland to make the whole UK thing but I have seen some beautiful countryside and eaten WAY too many fish and chips and other good food. We spent yesterday and most of today in Brighton and I swear to you there are at least 500 tiny little stores crammed into this place they call THE LANES. It reminded me so much of the French Quarter in New Orleans before Katrina except The Lanes is cleaner with less nudey bars (as in none that I saw). I don't really have anything clever to write about except that I have been getting to watch some BBC programs and I have just about laughed till I peed!!!

Die Laughing

I was recently reading (looking actually because it was a visual effect) another person's blog post and as several responses slipped hopelessely through the sieve that used to be my brain I started to ponder laughing while dying and I have decided that is exactly how I wish to go.