Carpe Diem...Reserved

Lawyering - Inactive and Closed Teaching - No Longer Considered a Colossal Failure Nursing - Clinical Lead, Department of Neurology DIEM CARPED, BITCHES !!!

Introducing Big Betty...Reserved

Last Tuition Payment Ever ! - Reserved

Ruffle Border...Reserved

Sam's birthday...Reserved

Happy Birthday, Duch. You're my favorite !

Today's Bullet Points...

*Coffee - missed photo op of steam coming from 50 year old 6-cup shiny electric coffee pot *# of watched minutes of Tour de France to Commercials: 15 to 45 *Check backyard temp - 88 degrees - nice *Iron 5.5 yards of fabric *Cut a quilt *No photo, again - I'll just have to "feeeL" the pinks and browns *Overheat *Pool time *Fancy bagel with cream cheese - Nana just loves "fancy" bagels *More coffee, during pool time *Save stinging little yellow jackets from drowning *Caffeine kicked in - head to garden *Cut blue hydrangeas for outside display (Note added many hours later: just ran outside for photos, better late than never, economically grabbed a few extra shots of purple flowers, and pink flowers, and an orange one) *Dodge stinging little yellow jackets - ungrateful little bastards *Check backyard temp - 88 - it's hot *Overheat X2 *Try the pool again, no coffee this time, beer *Watch Vooch till the garden - footnote: pull any number of photos from past thirteen years *Watch the chickens charge into the garden - same footnote *Chase chickens *Weed perennial bed, front stage left... Is it stage left looking at the stage or standing on the stage ? Yell out question to Duch *Pull wrong weeds, set skin on fire - note to self, research this weed later (Done. Cue "future post") *Run around showing everybody burnt skin *Check backyard temp - 88 - WTF, I need an ice bath - 3rd missed photo op for backyard thermometer *Overheat X3 *Head to pool *Change mind *Head to air conditioned room *Lay out aforesaid quilt *Change lay out *ditto, and... *ditto - took pictures of laid out quilt with smart phone - now I need to figure out how to get pictures out of smart phone and in to laptop - Polaroids were sooo much easier *Get summoned to heat up Chinese food for dinner..."now" *Eat heated up Chinese food for dinner - I still can't get my head around overhead food/on/plate pictures *Fold clothes that I neglected to include as *washed and *placed in dryer earlier in list - I have plenty of opportunities to photograph an overflowing laundry basket, no worries about missing the moment with this one *Head back to air conditioned room *I forget what I did, but I know that I did something *Returned downstairs to look for ice cream - no luck - insert pouting selfie, not *Photographed Milo and Swanson from a "cat's perspective" *Tied up tomato plants with re-purposed scrap strips from earlier quilting exercise *Piled Steve, Sam and Nan into the car and headed out for ice cream - left Pap home tying up his tomato plants with re-purposed scrap strips from earlier quilting exercise *Missed perfect photo op for close up shot of hand holding dripping mint chocolate chip cone *Drove around, checked out an overgrown, forgotten tricentennial park, bitched, bickered and begged the dog to stop breathing down our necks, shared some stories *Drove by an outdoor garden wedding with flowers and tractors and white doors for the arch - joyfully smiled *Drove by my girls' high school - all locked up to be re-built for the newest members of our small town - wistfully smiled *Drove by my awesome neighbor jogging, beeped and waved - broadly smiled *Checked out backyard temp as we drove down our cracked and frost-heaved driveway - 88 - perfect *Home... & happy - what an extraordinary day

To Quote My Favorite People...

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag

You Know You're Eating A Bug Because Of The Legs...

This month I am going to: (1.) celebrate my baby turning twenty-one (2.) eat chocolate with raspberries (3.) take a chance (4.) drink at least one tupperware bottle of water a day after i (5.) find my brand new tupperware bottle that i had in.my.hand 48 hours ago (6.) stretch daily (7.) learn the words to Done by The Band Perry and sing it, loudly, everywhere (8.) finish three books, two seasons of two series and one career (9.) pay my mortgage before the 15th (10.) dance at a wedding (11.) camp, rain or shine (12.) play cards in the woods with my best girlfriend (13.) cut out three quilts (14.) savor a multi-course italian dinner prepared in celebration of my birthday (15.) drink really cold Sam Adams Porch Rocker (16.) order the floor for the green room (17.) buy cat food (18.) canoe and bbq and jam with some of the most amazing people i'm lucky enough to know (19.) pinch my tomato plants (20.) polish my white Danskos (21.) secure health insurance waiver for Fall semester (22.) submit final fin aid form for Fall semester (23.) not think about Christmas shopping - no matter what music i hear - until Fall semester (24.) find four antique bin pulls (25.) try not to be afraid to paint the piano (26.) return yoga books to the library (27.) arrange a lesson with Tucker (28.) retire my smart phone (29.) find a flip phone - preferrably before #28 (30.) put a point and shoot in my bag (31.) take a deep breath, or two