1. I love my ... younguns!
2. Looking in the mirror, I see ... an old lady, when did that happen?!
3. The best thing that happened to me this week was .... some hugs from my skating students.
4. Eating... is one of my favorite things to do!
5. I always have a good time .... with fondofsnape on vacation.
6. I'm looking for trash bags to clean the yards... this weekend.
7. "Oh, I'm bein' followed by a ... big fat ass".

13 crafts in my closet:

1. Crocheted antebellum doll dress (3/4 done) lost the directions.
2. Brown sweater started at the beach this summer (ripped out twice and still wrong).
3. Secret present (thinking of a better way to do it)
4. Chinese silk soakers for my blades (have all the stuff, haven’t touched it)
5. Glass bead necklace in amber and orange tones (used up the wire trying to crochet chain mail, long story, need more wire)
6. ¾ of a crocheted pink baby dress with white fur trim
7. ¼ of her scarf
8. 1 ½ socks
9. Ancient crewel-work Christmas skirt I started in 1977 I only have one more panel to go
10. Acrylic and oil paintings
11. ½ a blouse sewn
12. Material for a spring coat
13. There’s more but I’m disgusted with my short attention span!

The Weekend Wrapup

Friday - worked until 8pm oh yippee zippee doo dah. Brought work home, worked on the train home, worked on the train back this morning. Luckily forgot to bring the work with me to NY.

Saturday - left for NYC at 8:30, got to Kurt's house (after waiting 1 hour to get through the frickin Holland Tunnel and lower Manhattan) at 12:45. not so bad. We had lunch around the corner from his house at a lovely Japanese place. Had chicken teriyaki which was wonderful, they had that raw crap. Then back to the apartment to rest while they borrowed the car and ferryed stuff from the studio to storage. They raised the studio rent something ridiculous so he shut it down and will work from home exclusively. Luckily it's a 2 bedroom apartment. We never did get to the Fulton Fish market so back into the car to Manhattan to the Whole Foods to shop for our dinner. We made the infamous Lobster Bisque and Stuffed Clams from Dan's recipe. It was close but not his. We figured it was lacking the Jim Beam, beer and cigarette essence of the original chef. Had great Dancentric conversations then brilliant boy decides I need cheering up so we watched (cringed, hid through, and got sick over) Jackass 2. All I could think of was how easily that could have been brilliant boy up there on the screen. Off to bed.

Sunday - Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts. I just love the fact you can walk to the corner and get anything you want. Then I cleaned the damn kitchen. Then we walked around the neighborhood picking up household odds and ends, like a butter dish and sugar bowl and lightbulbs. Saw the most awesome drugstore, it was in a renovated club, it had a disco ball on the ceiling!!!! Only in NY, I tell ya. Then back to lower Manhattan for a lunch date with an old gf of Kurt's who was leaving to go back to Hamburg. We had a great time at Katz's Deli. Got fondof a pic of Johnny Depp (too bad it was on my blurry camera phone). Then off to Far Rockaway to Beach 73 street where we remembered Dan and give him a sea gift of tobacco and rosemary. Dropped Kurt off back home and home for me by 8:45pm. Whew.

This is Dan's final resting place.

Question

Is it just me or are there times when certain people walk by in the office and their good morning leaves behind the distinct ring of "good morning, oh and Rosa I'm afraid poor Fletcher left you a little doggie muffin under the piano".

1. Don't you hate it when ... the dogs are in a very needy mood at night!
2. The best compliment I ever got was ... yesterday, a trainer thought I was in my 40s!
3. Why am I ... such a bad catch at ...eharmony!
4. The brain ... fascinates me.
5. This weekend I plan to .... drive up to NYC to share a memorial weekend with Kurt.
6. Smoking ... is one of my worst habits.
7. "From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows ...will probably scare the crap outta me".

13 Things About Dan

Since this coming Sunday the 25th will mark the first anniversary of Dan's passing I thought this might be fitting:

1. He was a Vietnam Vet - 1966 - 1969
2. He was a New York City cop 1969 - 1983 73rd Precinct
3. He was one of five boys, all named with a D
4. He loved his sons more than they knew
5. He was a great lover, not the best at friend though
6. The boy could dance
7. He always supported me financially
8. OMG did he hate being sick
9. He helped people I never even knew about
10. He loved the movie tough guys: John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, etc.
11. He loved Law and Order in all its incarnations
12. He was the fancy schmancy cook in our family
13. He loved Christmas even though it was also his birthday

miss you deeg

Ode to Butter

There's a young woman
down the hill on a tire swing
her blonde hair is waving hello
with every wind blown pass

Her waspish waist, tied with a sash
flows out behind her
she is the picture of a southern lazy summer day.

She will never know
the same absolute orgasmic wonders as I
the one who watches her
slathering mounds of butter on my everything bagel

eff her the little twit

1. This week has been ...hot, cold ; I'm glad it's almost spring!
2. No more ... doughnuts!
3. I am SO ready for ...Disney!
4. I'm sure after ...that last weird dream, I was happy to see ....that the blob at the foot of my bed was only Chiefly dog.
5. Courtesy of Michelle: I think I really stink at ....percentages.
6. A horse is a horse.., of course!
7. Be ...afraid, be ...very afraid, have a ...smiley face sticker!

13 Things I Love and Hate About Spring.

1. It reached 82 yesterday. Felt so good to be warm.
2. My bulbs are all inching up out of the ground.
3. The magnolia tree is about to burst any day.
4. I have little petey pot flowers starting on the window.
5. The air smells like wet dirt, kind of good you know?
6. 50 days until Disney.
7. Open windows at night.
8. The damn geese are back honking.
9. The frickin mourning doves are who whooing..
10. Yard work, yuck.
11. Traffic moves faster at night cause its light out.
12. Everything moves faster in the springtime, even me.
13. Skating season will come to an end, yay cause I'm tired.

Just A Wednesday

Boy News:

Son #1 - is leaving to do shows in Denver and Salt Lake City, wish him well.

Son #2 - is taking his first Navy exam for Petty Officer on Thursday, well wishes for him also please.

Use your imagination:

I really did have a What Is It Wednesday idea but as usual I didn't take the picture so it's kind of like this so far, and it will progress weekly:

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oh and did I mention it's gonna be 75 degrees!!!!!!!!!

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1. Fridays are ....filled with the anticipation of sleeping in tomorrow morning.
2. It was a dark and stormy night; ....and I smell wet dog.
3. I was dancing in the moonlight... and then I hit a parked car, causing the alarm to go off!
4. If wishes were ...men, then I'd ....(edited for content).
5. Do you get ....US News and World Report? Me neither.
6. Where in the world are ... my frickin sunglasses?
7. This weekend, I hope to ... paint the closet doors!

13 Things About the Bedroom I'm Building

1. The colors: aqua, brown, gold, cream.
2. The sheers on the window are: brown, gold, cream stripes.
3. The drapes are picture #1 and lined with off white.










4. The bedspread is:


















5. The dresser is gone!
6. I put in floor to ceiling cabinetry on each side of the bed.
7. I installed a straight canopy from one cabinet to the other over the bed.
8. I installed a microbeam light in the middle of the canopy for reading with a side of the cabinet mounted dimmer switch.
9. Bought some beautiful dark square baskets for the shelf spaces on the cabinets.
10. Color for the closet doors will match the cabinets. Nice departure from white.
11. The walls are aqua.
12. I'm thinking of a cornice over the window if I have any bedspread material left.
13. Did I mention I'm doing this with my own two paws?

Because of You

How bad is it when Kelly Clarkson can sum up 33 years of your life?


I will not make the same mistakes that you did
I will let myself cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way you did, you fell so hard
I've learned the hard way
To never let it get that far

Because of you I never stray to far from the side walk
Because of you I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you I am afraid

I lose my way
And its not too long before you point it out
I can not cry because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake a smile, a laugh, every day of my life

My heart can't possibly break when it wasn't even whole to start with

Because of you I never stray to far from the side walk
Because of you I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you I am afraid

I watched you die
I heard you cry every night in your sleep
I was so young
you should have known better then to lean on me
you never thought of anyone else you just saw your pain
and now I cry in the middle of the night for the same damn thing

Because of you I am afraid
Because of you I never stray to far from the side walk
Because of you I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you I try my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you I don't know how to let anyone else in
Because of you I'm ashamed of my life because its empty
Because of you I am afraid
Because of you

The Weekend Wrap Up

Friday:
Got a haircut, oh oh oh, I brought a picture, I made mime movements to indicate how short to go. Still, not short enough, even after I asked to twice to redo it, so I cut it some more when I got home. Still not short enough. Ugh.

Saturday:
Up early and on the road. Drove to Norfolk Naval Station and met up with my birthday boy. He took me to his house, the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier. OMG that thing is HUGE. I got to see the hangar bays where the planes go, it's amazing, it's like trying to figure out how the new baby in your arms ever fit in your belly, when you try and imagine 80 airplanes in it. Then saw his workstation and met his Chief. Then a quick tour of various hallways when even with my 5'3" shortness I had to duck through access hatches and scrunch down stair ladder things. How the hell a 6 footer does it is amazing. Then outside to the scary side of the ship stair thingie to go up to the flight deck where it was just a trifle WINDY. Heart in mouth time but all of it amazing. Did I mention it was 73 degrees!

then off to the NEX (the Navy Exchange) where I got the coolest sneakers, tax free! Then lunch then to the hotel which was sweet. Then to the mall to get Robb his birthday present. Quick nap then off to dinner. We were so tired we ordered a movie in the room, saw Happy Feet. I dunno, but when you're tired and overfed everything is hilarious.

Sunday:
Said goodbye to Robb then took a very very beautiful scenic drive up the Eastern shore from Virginia to Maryland to my skating competition in Easton. It was fun, we were our usual terrible selves and went home with a gold medal. Don't be impressed, it was because it was more of an exhibition than a competition, we were the only team in our section thanks to creative scheduling.

Then home and dinner and bath and bed. Sigh.

1. Once, when I .... was a teenager I barfed all over a brand new 'Vette, haven't overindulged the grape since.
2. Lately, it seems that .... time flies even faster.
3. Lobster ass ... is so damn good!
4. Here's something you never knew about me; I ....stutter.
5. I am so ready for ....adventure.
6. If you put together ...vinegar and baking soda and pour it down the sink, you'd have ...a garbage disposal volcano!
7. My plans for the weekend include ... driving down to Norfolk to see Robb and his ship and then skating the ISI Annapolis competition on Sunday!

IT'S BIRTHDAY DAY!!!!

Happy Happy Birthday to Robb. Also known as, my Bubbles, fondofsnape's future husband, my youngest son, our sailor boy, Robert Daniel baby. He's 26 years old today and unfortunately is celebrating alone, on the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman. So Happy B-Day old salt.

13 Things I Do Each Day

1. Get up at 5 !@#$#% am.
2. Retrieve #2 dog, mix with #1 dog, watch their morning make out session and feed them.
3. Shower
4. COFFEE
5. Find out what the hell haven't I worn this week and slap it on.
6. Get briefcase (full of work I was really really really gonna do last night).
7. Repack the skate bag
8. Drive 270 which is just oh so wonderful
9. Feed the fish who lives on my desk
10. Read the blogs.
11. Open the old dreaded email.
12. COFFEE
13. Oh, and then work just a wee bit.