Posted in Amusing, Friends, Work on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
My friend from High School came into work yesterday with her hubby and 4 kids. We’ve been communicating via email for several months and have talked about some pretty deep things. I was so glad to see her… that this non-huggy-of-non-family-members-woman (me!) was inspired to hug my dear friend!
They were going to visit her dad, [...]
Posted in Amusing, Brain Dump on April 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
-Next-door neighbors we haven’t seen in months brought over home made jam and biscuits, and chatted about everything from our potential foster kids, to God’s divine providence in our lives.
-Iced mocha. I can’t help that it makes me so happy.
-Sunshine. Having a nice day to go to Michigan State to hang with my cousin, Tegan.
-Shopping [...]
Posted in Amusing, Marriage on April 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rob has an amazing sense of humor. Sometimes I forget that he’s funny, and I’m annoyed at the little things he says and does- but I have prayed for and received a little dose of patience and also remembered why I love him so much!
Rob is a huge movie fan. He’ll remember little bits of [...]
Posted in Amusing, Childhood, Friends on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m sitting here, still reading “Little Women” and the girls are talking about returning visits from their neighbors… and Rob and I, having lived here 14 years barely know our neigbors, let alone “visit” with them.
And it just struck me: I grew up a mile down a gravel road. There were seldom more than 10 [...]
Posted in Amusing, Hobbies on March 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve begun “Little Women” on dailylit.com and I’m laughing hysterically at the mishaps from Chapter 2 when the 2 oldest are getting ready for a party. This sentence was the last before the festivities:
Meg’s high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo’s nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into [...]
Posted in Amusing on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is positively the best part of Emma, by Jane Austen. I just can’t help myself.
CHAPTER XIII (CONT’D)
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the [...]
Posted in Amusing, Home Improvement on March 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m 3/4 the way through Emma, by Jane Austen.
The movie, starring Gwyneth Paltrow will be on PBS the evening of March 23, btw.
In it, most of the nicer homes have names, such as Emma Woodhouse’s “Hartfield,” Mr. Knightley’s “Donwell Abbey,” and Mr. & Mrs. Weston’s “Randalls.”
I so love the idea of naming homes. Even on [...]
Posted in Amusing, Baby Making, Family Making, God on February 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m reading Emma again. I do love reading Jane Austen, but then it makes me talk like her… and at this moment I’m Miss Bates- oh have you heard that the watched pot never boils? Oh, said I, that is what my grandmama always used to say, and right she was, for it seems to [...]
Posted in Amusing, Family Making, Marriage on February 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I adore Pinky and The Brain, the cartoon. Not because it’s amazing or fills a deep-seated need. I love it because of the Pinky-and-The-Brain-isms, such as this:
Ponderings
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?
“Pinky, are you pondering what [...]
Posted in Amusing, poetry on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One more from my book at Dailylit.com . I get three posts per week and I’m just loving it. The rhythym of this one captivated me.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT.
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” by Edward Lear (1812-88), is placed here
because I once found that a timid child was much strengthened and
developed by learning it. [...]
Posted in Amusing, God, poetry on December 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently begun a new book at DailyLit. It’s called Poems Every Child Should Know, by various authors. I’ve selected two to share tonight:
THE BABY.
I found “The Baby” in Stedman’s “Anthology.” It is placed in this
volume by permission of the poet, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, of Cleveland
(1828-), because it captured the heart of a ten-year-old boy [...]
Posted in Amusing, Holidays, Work on December 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
At Best Buy, apparently they only hire 14-year-olds anymore. Or maybe it’s that I’ll be 35 next month and all the college kids working at Best Buy are looking awfully young to me.
I was supposed to have yesterday off for Vacation, to get my cards and shopping finished. But the Photo Lab malfunctioned and I [...]
Posted in Amusing, Family, Health, Soapbox on December 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Jack the Quack
When I was a kid, we’d go to a Chiropractor whose first name was Jack. My dad always called him “Jack the Quack,” even though we all went to him for treatments and agreed that he was an adequate chiropractor.
See, our family isn’t of the idea that Chiropractic will cure every ill, but that [...]
Posted in Amusing, Family, Food, Holidays on December 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m up and awake. It’s nearly midnight and I am on a mission.
My mom is retiring at the end of this month and I, LIKE A SILLY GOOSE, am throwing her a party the day before she would have had to go back to work, were she not retiring. That means January 5 is the [...]
