Weekend Road Trip

My Library Rocks.

I’m not sure whether to be more embarrassed or delighted. 
Today I stopped by the library to pick up a few things I had on hold, and when one of the librarians (or library workers; I’m not sure of his title but I see him working at the circulation desk pretty often) pulls out an extra [...]

Trip Pics and Such

To avoid making this a mile-long post, I’ll just hit some highlights: 

In order to deal with the mild terror I felt driving through road construction on the way up Going-to-the-Sun Road, I decided to have a little fun at one of the pull-offs near Heaven’s Peak… 

 
Yes, I made my mother climb up here. We had [...]

Bridesmaid Commandments

For starters, I am very ready for this to be over. I am thrilled and hopeful for my cousin, and for the most part have enjoyed lending a helping hand in her wedding. But it’s also been emotionally exhausting and time consuming.
Anyhow, as I’m sitting here trying to finish the final outline of my reception [...]

Sex and the City afterglow

No better or more eloquent way to put it: I went to see the SATC movie last night with some girlfriends — and I LOVED it. I have never cried so many individual times during a movie in my life. Each time I thought I had gotten a grip on my waterworks, Samantha (surprisingly) or [...]

“Put DOWN the paintbrush and keep your hands where I can see them…”

I’m pretty sure I heard CJ say that sometime in the past week. I got this crazy itch to paint, and I had to get it done… I’ve had paint samples hanging on a few of our walls for over a month, trying to decide what would look good. It was time. 
There are several funny [...]

The Good Stuff

Perhaps I have been a bit curmudgeonly the last week or so. I could present a dozen or so lousy excuses, but instead of dwelling on it I would rather point out some lovely things from the past 24 hours of my life:
1.) Yesterday at work, a few teachers and I threw a surprise party for one [...]

Dude, our Mega Millions ticket won!!!

Ok, so it won $7 for matching three numbers.  But hey, that’s a 700% return on the dollar we spent on the ticket. We’ll just forget about the fact that we buy a ticket three times a month or so.  

Another St. Patty’s Day…

…and I have no urge whatsoever to go out and revel with masses of people and large amounts of green beer or Jameson whiskey. This is QUITE uncharacteristic of me, as some of you may well know. Maybe you even remember the St. Patrick’s Day I fell down, while the sun was still up, within [...]

Writing Marathon at the Botanical Gardens

This afternoon some of my NWP friends and I got together at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens for a writing marathon (we’re nerds. don’t ask.). I did get a decent amount of writing done, but I also snapped lots of pictures: