life is going better, and my friend, jenny sue, wrote to me =) long live long lost friends... thesis update: i'm on page 73 of chapter 2... almost there. 19 days of school left! almost summer =) here are some photos from last weekend. went to the twins game, and they won! go twins...

love that

Back to normal.... love that little quip from the last post. There is one part of life that is always dramatic-stressful, and so this week, I have to guffaw at "back to normal." Yet it's off limits because it isn't directly related to us, so what's a girl to do?

Find things that she can control-- and exploit them...

Back to WeightWatchers online, of which exploitation will only help, I guess.
Back to serious time at Lifetime, of which exploitation will only make the $69 bill more worthwhile. (Actually, swimming with Abbey always makes it worthwhile. And Friday night hottubbing....yeah, worthwhile!)

And these are things I have been aiming at anyways, so that when we get preg., I will be healthier...

Of course my ill temper comes only from sheer frustration.
And so I try to focus on other things...
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Like the completely cool poets we saw last Sunday night who have been competing this week in NYC at the International Youth Poetry Slam Festival. Stephen, Abbs, and I caught them at Macalester along with an acting class from a HS in St. Paul performing a play that they had written about the govts response to Katrina.

Which reminds me of my favorite adult slam master.... Taylor Mali... and some of his spoken word, which of course is better live.

Totally like whatever, you know?
By Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com

In case you hadn't noticed,
it has somehow become uncool
to sound like you know what you're talking about?
Or believe strongly in what you're saying?
Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)'s
have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences?
Even when those sentences aren't, like, questions? You know?

Declarative sentences - so-called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true
as opposed to other things which were, like, not -
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don't think I'm uncool just because I've noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It's like what I've heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?
I'm just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?

What has happened to our conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been, like, chopped down
with the rest of the rain forest?
Or do we have, like, nothing to say?
Has society become so, like, totally . . .
I mean absolutely . . . You know?
That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . .
whatever!

And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness
is just a clever sort of . . . thing
to disguise the fact that we've become
the most aggressively inarticulate generation
to come along since . . .
you know, a long, long time ago!

I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too.

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You do. And you have to learn to let things go. So that life can be, in fact, back to normal. Which is my personal lesson for the week. Do the best with what you have where you are...

Our week

After an...interesting Easter...we were back to normal life on Monday. Monday night we went to the driving range because Abbey has been asking about playing golf. Tuesday night, we went to L2 to get her a spring outfit that she's had her eye on. She had some L2 Bucks, which is essentially 25 dollars free, she paid 15 from allowance, and we paid the rest. We generally don't spend mucho $ on her clothes, but she is getting older... So finally, more interesting than text, are some photos. I WILL post some from the home improvement section of our life in the near future!

oh my

Well, well... some time to write. We here at the G/S household have been a load of fun lately! Yesterday, I woke up at 6:30 to let the dog out and feed her...and promptly started in on my thesis work. Of course I did go back to bed for an hour or so, but really, aside from two appointments (chiro and orthopedist) and a few trips to Home Depot, I worked on it until 1am. So far on Chapter 2 (the literature review that has had me banging my head against a wall for the past year and a half) I have 45 pages. I expect this chapter to be 60+ pages when I am done, so I've got a little ways yer. I truly have never EVER used my brain and entire being as much as I have for my master's thesis, but this is it I suppose--the difference between your bachelor's and master's--this time I am giving back to my profession., not just taking...becoming an expert in something, actually doing primary research and not just lookin up what others have written and regurgitating it (although that is the purpose of Chapter 2). I have several incentives for getting done: 1) My family won't have to listen to me talk about how I need to work on it; 2) I will get paid more; 3) Any further grad classes will finally count to getting paid even more (I'm to my limit now until I graduate with the MAEd); 4) If I don't finish by January, I will have to pay another $1400 for the capstone course; 5) I can possibly start into more creative endeavors again, like making jewelry and making some $ from it; 6) My brain will be back...except for the fact that I hear it departs when you get pregnant and possibly for the next 18 years, so even though I'm not pregnant yet, don't expect much for the next 20 years or so =)

Stephen has gotten himself into quite a mess. To take you back a bit, we are redoing our basement (I'll post photos sometime) and in the stage of waiting for more electrical bids as it will be around $2000 to wire and any little less from a company would be grand). So in the waiting process, we decided to paint in the kitchen and hallway. After an expensive trip to Hirschfield's (where we purchased paint that is bad for us) we began our journey into secondary home improvement (the primary job being in the basement). Painting isn't easy. Tape, remove all the face plates, remove the vents (and buy new ones b/c the old ones were nasty), remove all the woodwork, prime, paint, try to miter some new woodwork *chair rails* made from plasticy-balsa stuff, put it all together, and voila, a nice new kitchen and hallway four days later. Then there was the table set in the kitchen with the hunter green paint that, mmm, didn't do much for the light blue and cream.

So began Stephen's journey. He decided to strip the paint, which may be easy on flat surfaces, but on chairs with the little dowels in the back part and non-straight legs, not quite. He was up until 1:30am and is still working on removing the paint right now. Let's just say that when we redo the cupboards in the kitchen, it will be a cinch compared to the bastard table and chairs. I'm more prone to spray paint or NEW tables and chairs, but Stephen, the hard-worker-and-good-follow-througher he is won't give up until they are done. And they will look nice. We hope.

Abbs comes back today at around 4pm. Can't wait...we have great Saturday nights, sometimes karaoke, always Saturday Night Live (unless she's grounded from it, just twice though) and it seems so quiet when she's not here. Things have been going well with her lately; she's really excited for 5th grade and is constantly asking Stephen and I for advice on boys and all sorts of other things. It has been so much fun to watch her grow into a young lady and seeing her become more independent and inquisitive. She's chomping at the bit to go camping in the pop-up and wants to invite a friend with sometime this summer. Lately she wants to golf and go curling with Stephen, croquet and biking. It's great to watch a child open their wings (so to speak, that sounds so cheesy, but it's true). Last week she had a plan for a "new self" at her new school next year (which as a good stepmomI would never indulge--the plan or the school =) what her fav. color will be, what her fav. bands will be, etc. Reminded me of myself....I was forever writing up little plans like that when I was about 4th - 7th grade. I was glad to see that her's didn't include anything focusing on body size...which mine too often did.

Anyhoo, I need to go get her Easter basket and (blech) peeps and (yea) chocolate for tomorrow morning. Stephen is making a hunt for her, something she completely loves. AND, we are going to the Universalist church with my parents, sister and her family! Will be the first Easter not at a Lutheran church! Makes more sense to me overall, but should be interesting. Thanks for listening, MS

So I'm not sure why I get motivated to post when I do, but I thought this personality test would be interesting. I got the link/idea from Kari, Abbey's mom.

Here goes...

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||| 60% Stability |||||||||||| 50% Orderliness |||||||||||||||||| 76% Accommodation |||||||||||| 50% Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Intellectual |||||| 30% Mystical |||||| 30% Artistic |||||||||||| 43% Religious |||||||||||||||| 70% Hedonism |||||||||| 36% Materialism |||||||||||| 50% Narcissism |||||||||||||| 56% Adventurousness |||||||||||| 50% Work ethic |||||||||||| 43% Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50% Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| 56% Need to dominate |||||||||||||| 56% Romantic |||||||||||||| 56% Avoidant |||||| 30% Anti-authority |||||||||||| 43% Wealth |||||||||| 36% Dependency |||||||||||| 43% Change averse |||||||||||||||| 70% Cautiousness |||||||||||||| 56% Individuality |||||||||| 36% Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 63% Peter pan complex |||||| 30% Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Physical Fitness |||||| 24% Histrionic |||||||||||| 50% Paranoia |||||| 23% Vanity |||||||||||| 50% Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||| 56% Female cliche |||||||||||||||||||| 83%

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Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

Trait snapshot:
clean, self revealing, open, organized, outgoing, social, enjoys leadership and managing others, dominant, makes friends easily, does not like to be alone, assertive, hard working, finisher, optimistic, positive, likes to stand out, likes large parties, respects authority, practical, high self esteem, perfectionist, dislikes chaos, busy, not familiar with the dark side of life, controlling, high self control, traditional, tough, likes to fit in, conforming, brutally honest, takes precautions

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Not too familiar with the dark side of life??? I thought that phrase was particularily humorous! Not that I am, really, but I think that an unwanted divorce (although I couldn't be more thankful now) counts as being familiar... But yes, I do admit, pretty functional family of origin, very functional marriage and home life, functional job, etc. And I guess I DON'T sit in dark corners and drink or anything... Hmmm. So maybe it's true.

Likes large parties? Actually, small parties will do, but I can stand big ones. Just never go to any...

Respects authority? Pretty much, unless you mean the current political administration, which I have no respect for.

Dislikes chaos? DEFINITELY. I hate chaos. Hate it.

Tough? Ha, ha, ha. So I know how to argue well. You would to if you honed your skills with your first husband. But really, I have toned down my instinct to go for the jugular when in a disagreement...

Finisher... of most things, like, uh, what's on the plate, but not of books or movies, which I have a low tolerance for. I fall asleep way too easily when in front of a book or a movie.

Brutally honest? My face generally shows my first reaction I guess, but I don't think I'm a cutting person. Check my bro on that one! He's more brutally honest than I ever will be.

Which reminds me-- Chris and Cindy should be home in early June! I am glad they are in Costa Rica/Nicaragua/Panama, but I'm starting to miss them quite a bit.

Spring Break is next week. HOORAY! In other news, I've been coming along on the thesis, which is probably why I never blog. Graduate school... my nemesis.

Should be good for a little while. Sorry to those of you who check back and never find updates, like I do with DYLAN's, and AMANDA's, and JEREMY's blogs... I always get bummed when there is nothing new, yet it somehow doesn't prompt me to post any more frequently...

Have a good one!

sunday

Fewer and farther inbetween wasn't my goal for posting on this blog, but I have been getting more work done in terms of my thesis, the student newspaper, and reading for the two book clubs I have this week (one professional and one personal.) Sorry, real life trumps the screen /always.

Good news though, so I thought I'd break the ice for the first time in several weeks.

In addition to a solo show at the Gage Gallery at Augsburg College in 2007
and a 5 ft. show at Gallery 360 in Mpls in August

Stephen has been offered a solo show at the Taube Museum of Art in Minot, ND
either in September if he can fill the main gallery
or later this year or in 2007 if he has less work to show.

Congratulations! This is great news because as you know if you have submitted work for shows before, the rejection letters rush in more than the acceptance letters.

This is only one facet of Stephen's work; he has two other "sides" to his professional work: wedding photography (7 weddings booked for this upcoming season so far) and the business side... just shot for Minnesota Monthly, Augsburg three days a week, headshots, theater shots, etc. He is a busy freelancer and has really built his business. Which, I might add, was a little nerve-wracking for me when we got married. Teachers are on contracts and are guaranteed wages and benefits, so the whole piece-it-together thing was foreign to me. But I haven't met many people who work harder than Stephen and still cook supper every night, so it shouldn't be a surprise! And he still plays Narnia-Polly Pockets with Abbey, too =)

Speaking of Abbey, we have loads upon loads to Girl Scout Cookies to deliver. And eat. And go to the gym to work off. What a great time of year... =)

it's been

a while. The sick has finally caught up with me so the little time I spend posting in the first place has really suffered. The week has been full of stresses...
--student newspaper not done
--thesis not done (and time is creeping forward at an amazing rate)
--Chris and Cindy flew to their new home of Costa Rica on Tuesday
--chiropractor Monday and Friday, which is good but busy
--knee doctor on Tuesday, maybe a torn meniscus, maybe surgery
--MRI on my knee today, I HATE MRIs and I'll post a poem by Bill Holm about
them sometime (I don't think he likes them either)
--haven't worked out in a couple of weeks, and that's what keeps me on-kilter


The saviors of my week
--Stephen, my cook and my love who puts up with my occasional self pity
and sick self
--Abbey, who has been great lately--we've had really good weeks with her and we
get an extra night with her this week! Sweet!
--my parents will be here tomorrow night
--my neice turns two and has a party on Sunday, such a live wire, little ones are great

Monday I get the MRI results... I'll see what's up then I guess. MLGS

TOYMN in Crash

I always get sad when I hear about things like this. Good people lost.

m-w experiences

So I write with my students. Can you really be an effective teacher of writing if you don't write yourself? Can you coach hockey if you've never laced up, have only watched the Mighty Ducks?

I'm working on MEMOIR with the kids right now. Can't say I'm all that excited about writing a piece with the thesis, loads of correcting, and the student newspaper looming, (plus regular life like sweeping the black dog hair off of the floor and making sure the laundry gets put away, recycling gets put out). But I think it will be an interesting experience. And I know that all of them aren't super crazy about it either. But (yes, you can start sentences with conjunctions, stylistic you know) the only way to become a better writer is to JUST WRITE. No other way.

So we worked on Memoir-Worthy Experiences for a bit to get some ideas for writing. Here are mine. This really isn't a well thought out list.

Memoir Worthy Experiences
Traveling to CA when I was four
Camping/using acorns as Barbie toys
Too small to go on go carts at Disney Land
Too small to go on a horse ride that Lisa got to go on
Chandelier/surfboard at Great Uncle Dan's
Trampoline/hot springs at campground
Creepy hotel in LA while Mom and Dad were at Teacher's Conv.
Someone was stabbed there that very same night

Trouble with Mr. Serr when I was a senior
Trouble in 3rd grade- punching M. Saunders, writing notes to everyone with advice,
using tape (wasting) as a medical bracelet
Trouble in 1st grade- airplane pencil. stamping Smurf stamps in the tunnel
How I strove to be a good kid/do the right think, yet sometimes trouble struck

Divorce- I don't want to write about this for class

Car crash- changed how I think

Sandy/search for a dog as an adult/companionship

Eye surgery- changed how I think, feeling of loss, so young compared, fear of other eye going bad

Changed my life- step-parenting!

Guitar- follow through

How I deal with change-- cabin being sold, clarinet, Mini-Mart/old buildings, farmsteads

Important? Grad from college, travel to Europe 3X, study abroad/Spain

Night Chris was born, licorace

Travels to NY every few years to visit Dad's side, origin/place, who are we really, how much are our relatives like us without us really knowing them?

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I think my Writing Territories list is better, but those lists are all at work...
Wanted to put up SOMETHING so as not to completely lose the two actual people who read this...

Have a good weekend!

Tuesday

Random things you could have heard/witnessed if you were the fly on the wall at our house tonight:

"I really need to stop eating so much chocolate." (MS)
This was after trying on two pairs of pants to figure out what to wear to work tomorrow.
"But there is so much room for chocolate in my life." (MS)
"Did you just say 'There is so much room for chocolate in my life'"? (SG)

"I'm so cute." (SG)
"No, you aren't." (MS)
"Yes, I am." (SG)
"Moms lie." (MS)
"That's the number one rule. Moms lie." (MS)

So after Abbey was thrilled half to the stars by me picking up KFC and bringing it home for supper (my plan since last night when I smelled something similarily good as I headed into the chiropractor), she came back to earth after she confessed that she hadn't indeed read the assignment of chapters 9 - 15 in her reading book for school nor had she finished the questions that go with them. Why do these things always come out at 8:15 when she is in the shower? And after she has sworn that she is done with all of her homework? Parenting. A tough job, but yes, it is ultimately rewarding. Moreso on nights unlike tonight. At 8:15. While the kid's in the shower. So it's no allowance for this week and no SNL on Saturday. Make lemonade with those lemons. There's always SNL next week.

You know you are a dedicated step-mom when you turn your kid's LIGER shirt inside out whilst ironing so as not to distrub the decal on the front. Dedicated or nuts. I prefer dedicated. No wrinkly kid here =)

A walk at Minnihaha Park today

New Year's at Chris Shaf's

We celebrated with Jeremy, Chris, and Cindy... Food, Trivial Pursuit, Music, Champagne, and Fireworks! Happy 2006 =)

happy New Year's Eve!

I'm just waiting for my jeans to finish drying before we take off for Chris and Cindy's house to ring in the new year with the two of them, Jeremy Nelson, and I don't know who else. It's nice to be spending it with them since C + C will be heading to Costa Rica in five weeks indefinitely. We just got back in to town last night, so I haven't had much blog time... Lots to do so far. Any resolutions? I'll post mine tomorrow when I have more time. Cheers! Be safe and be merry tonight. Good times with the Mai Tais, Todd-- We've got lots of Leine's =)

Pictures from a T-Wolves game about two weeks ago. They slammed New Orleans taht night. If you can't tell, we were in the nose-bleeds, but they were free tickets!

favorite things

So I don't know if you've noticed, but there are NO comments to my question of, "What are a few of YOUR favorite things?" Blogger revolt. I need some comments, some new inspiration, to know that SOMEONE is reading... =)

Got a haircut today.

The Blizzard

Phillis Levin

Now that the worst is over, they predict
Something messy and difficult, though not
Life-threatening. Clearly we needed

To stock up on water and candles, making
Tureens of soup and things that keep
When electricity fails and phone lines fall.

Igloos rise on air conditioners, gargoyles
Fly and icicles shatter. Frozen runways,
Lines in markets, and paralyzed avenues

Verify every fear. But there is warmth
In this sudden desire to sleep,
To surrender to our common condition

With joy, watching hours of news
Devoted to weather. People finally stop
To talk to each other - the neighbors

We didn't know were always here.
Today they are ready for business,
Armed with a new vocabulary,

Casting their saga in phrases as severe
As last night's snow: damage assessment,
Evacuation, emergency management.

The shift of the wind matters again,
And we are so simple, so happy to hear
The scrape of a shovel next door.

from Mercury, 2001
Penguin Books

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I took a half day today... shouldn't have gone in in the first place, but I didn't have any sub plans written up, and I hate leaving people in the lurch. Besides, I have planning time periods 1 and 2, and I was only giving a test 3 and 4. I think it's been the flu all weekend. Sore back and ribs and sides, stuffy head, chills, stuff like that. It's always weird being home mid-day on a work day. Lots goes on outside of all of our jobs, and it has always been kind of mysterious to me, kind of like when I would leave the school grounds during high school. There's really a world out there that operates between 8 and 3? Generally when I see people enjoying the luxury of walking their dogs or jogging when I'm on my way to work, I swear under my breath, and wonder why they aren't heading to work. Obviously, just because they are out doesn't mean they don't have a job, but I somehow always think that. And I know that teachers get time in the summer, but I just read something where someone wrote that there aren't many jobs that are more mentally and physically labor intensive-- we have to be ON all day, every day, dealing with what seems like everything, sometimes. Last summer, I didn't ever fully unwind from all of the stress, but those kids are one year older now, and I don't have to deal with them except for occasionally in the halls. Anyhow, I just get this eerie feeling when I am home during the day. I don't watch tv much, and I don't even listen to the radio during the week days, so it's this silent world which leaves lots to wonder about. Or sleep through if you feel like I do right now.

Well, Stephen and Abbey are home, so I'm off.... Have a good week =)

McCarthy, Minnesotan

Remembering Eugene McCarthy

The hills are alive...

These are a few of my favorite things... (items not people mind you)

Aveda Light Elements Smoothing Fluid (yes, better than Hang Straight)
Oatmeal minty soap from Dunlaoghaire
A warm shower at about 9:30 on a bright day in the summer
with the bathroom light turned off
Victoria's Secret Balmy Days lip balm
My Grateful Dead/Willie Nelson and Trey ticket stubs
Barcelona (and being in Europe in general)
Reading excellent poetry, professional and student work
Minnesota/National Public Radio
specifically Cokie Roberts on Monday mornings at about 7:12 am
(just missed her this morning...)
Bright days, about 70 degrees and clear
My new Forester... rah, rah, rah it drives like such a trooper and keeps me safe
A good workout at Lifetime
Bluegrass music
Campfires and camping in general
Pad Thai
Good Indian food
Stephen's pan-smoked salmon
Election season... I LOVE election season

What are a few of your favOrite things?

sunday night

thanks to everyone who helped me celebrate on friday! seven bottles of wine and who knows how many beer bottles later... i really am thirty =) for the record, i slept by a plastic bowl all night, but i never had to use it. the surprise of the night: my parents showed up from minot! i didn't expect them to and didn't even entertain the notion that they would. they were in south dakota last week celebrating their anniversary, and we'll see them in a couple of weeks for christmas. so that was pretty cool! got some pretty cool stuff... chiang mai thai gc from jeremy, burt's bees lip assortment from paul and anna, hand-made scarves from lisa and nick, wine from my parents, marshall fields gc from jenny at work, notecards and cool post-its from christie at work, homemade bread from kim and seamus, a very cool card from amanda in minot, dessert snacks from jill, a cool package full of funny things from stephen's parents, assorted cards from relatives... a fleece robe from stephen and abbey. yea! it's different when you get older and don't expect anything. everything including the party is so appreciated.

so my niece, lauren, is just a kick lately! she will be two in mid february and has started talking a lot. of course, that means we all inundate her with requests to say our names and various sentences. at least we have moved on from imploring her to make barn animal sounds, which was our diversion for several months. this phase in her life makes me a little more excited to try to get [you know] next summer. i seem to go back and forth between being really freaked about a little baby and ok about it.

we took abbey to see the sound of music at eastview hs (apple valley) today. they did a great job, and it was fun for me to see lots of past students either acting or on the tech crew or pit orchestra lists. abbey has aspirations of acting, and i'd like to take her to so many more plays than we actually do. can't time slow down somehow?

the new vehicle>>> a 2003 subaru forester, silver. we got a great deal and will have some settlement money to put towards it. still, it sucks to have a car payment after having paid off both of our cars. i must admit that the subaru is a hell of a car! yes, nicer than a saturn wagon.

superhero journal
muse to muse
cool camera
post secret

and last but not least, i found myself writing an apology letter to parents of an off-again friend of abbey's. she got herself in hot water by using things we had said at home about their kid in a different way than we intended them when she spilled the beans in the guise of "my step-mom says that... and that's why i can't be friends with you." obviously none of us (parents) who said anything meant to be malicious when abbey would ask, "who is more __(fill in the blank)__, me or her?" but it still ended up hurting this kid. so that's that. when all was said and done, i felt bad enough to write a page full of apologies.

good enough to start the week...

Michannuel... has a nice ring...

For unto us a child was born and they called Her name Michannnuel -- meaning Michelle with us! Let us not ever forget that Michelle is with us:

• Even when they take Her name out of the schools (that would be at retirement)
• Even when they take Her name out of the pledges
(hmmm, pledge to MPR every year!)
• Even when they take Her name off the walls of buildings (graffiti?)
(oh, and they took down the big M sign in Minot, that obviously stood for, well,
Michelle... damn them)
• Even when they take Her name off our currency and coins
(ain't got a lot of that anyways...)
• Even when they take the most holy and highest name of all names and
blaspheme it (students who hate me? Abbey when she is a mad teenager?)

Father, let us never forget that it is because of KAREN and LARRY and Your gift of MICHELLE that we live today -- in Bill Clinton's name I pray Amen!
(because everyone knows that he should still be president...)

I suppose that was sac-religious... And here I am being naughty when my guardian angels were so good to me last week... in that I didn't get smacked on the highway after my car crash... because hitting a cement wall isn't enough... but everyone knows they helped out just because I didn't swear at all as I crashed, just repeated, "Oh my God" over and over. Really, it's true!

As a side note, if you are coming to my party on Friday, be ready to drink some wine. Mr. Geffre picked up enough for the whole neighborhood =)

easy come, easy go

easiest money i've ever gotten
for not eating cake!

i got paid 30 bucks
for driving south
thirty blocks.

they had run out of samples
by the time my shift came around,
so i got cash instead of calories.