Gosh, it's been soooo long since I've been here!  Everything is fine.  Just BUSY!!!  I'm working on our Club's yearbook (and all the annoying shit and people that come along with that) and I'm also busy with PTA stu

Daughter is turning 9. I can hardly believe it.  It goes WAY too fast.  She's at a wonderful age, although I say that every year.  She's maturing.  She agreed to forgo the $400 twenty kid party where

The little rat bastard has been driving us nuts since day 2.  She bit my little girlie pretty damn good.  Blood, teeth marks, the whole nine yards.  Husband couldn't get the little bitch out of the cage.  She would shriek and

My mother turned her kitchen sink on to soak something.  She put the stopper in and some soap.  The phone rang.  She answered it and walked into her bedroom.  ONE HOUR LATER, she heard a funny noise she thought was the TV in the k

Our dinner party was a complete success!  Everyone had a great time.  I changed the specialty cocktail to Espresso Hazelnut Martini's and that was a good thing.  The ladies LOVED them.  One of my buddies brought a bottle of Go

I just finished this novel by Ivan Doig.  It's a beautiful story of a man who has recently been widowed.  He and his three sons live on the Montana prairie in the very early 1900's.  The father and sons are really good people a

It has been a long, hectic week.  We had our living room painted and it looks beautiful.  But the ride was rough.  We live in a very small house.  Downstairs we have the living room, the dining room and the closet that is the kitc

I do!  I love the lights, the spirit and the rebirth of the new year.  I love the decorations.  So this year I decided to start early.  I used to pooh pooh (did I just write the word pooh????) the decorations coming out right afte

Is a big deal.  I can't believe my little girl is 8.  I remember being in the hospital and the day she was born.  It wasn't pretty.  We'll just skip those details.  Daughter has always been gorgeous.  And I m

I went on a "house tour" for charity.  You pay $75 and you go through 5 different houses in 5 different towns and then you go to the local country club for a buffet lunch.  SO NOT MY CUP OF TEA.  But my good buddy was going a

I have a friend who, if I told her I was in a car accident, killed a dog in the process, got 100 stitches and totalled my car, would respond with "but when you think about it, there are soooo many other people with worse problems, and you know,