Entries from August 2009

August 25, 2009

This is your birthday song, it doesn’t last too long..HEY! (my song from Bethany!)

I had my cake and ate it too. I am 48.
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This is the part where I wonder where the years went. Having connected with some high school and college friends on Facebook, I realize that my kids are now OLDER than when I hung around with these people that I remember so well. The years, [...]

August 23, 2009

Will you marry me, Bill?

It’s the heat and the humidity. I hate them both. Heat and Humidity, the dastardly duo. I cannot wait to see them leave. Unwanted guests, they are.
We waited so long for summer that I thought I would welcome any and all aspects of it when it finally arrived. I was wrong.
I am wrung out with [...]

August 11, 2009

Look up, please

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I had some fatal flaws with my romanticized vacation fantasies.
I envisioned myself rising every morning, rested and ready to take on the world, wandering leisurely downstairs to  sit on my front porch, drinking coffee and knitting while greeting the waking world.
The first problem with that scenario?
I don’t drink coffee.But [...]