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    So it’s Saturday morning and Kes comes in and drags me out of bed to go do a little shopping with her. “OK”, I says, “Let’s go.” So I hop up and while she gets dressed I am in a little quandary since I can’t find anything to wear that fits. You see, I’ve lost weight. A good deal of it, as a matter of fact. So have Kessa and Keelan. We’ve all been on the diet train. I put on a sleeveless white blouse and walked into the living room and stepped into the stairwell. “Kessa... Read Full Story

John is off work tomorrow. What will we do? Probably go grocery shopping. Run errands. Complain about the girls while knowing we would be lonely without them. Play with the dogs. Watch a movie. Water the lawn. And in the end, we will communicate a lot somewhere in there. And we will GET each other. This? Is why I look forward to my days spent with him.   Read Full Story

I need to post. I want to post! I am creatively frustrated right now. So I guess that’s better than being un-creatively frustrated? It is so hot outside I am wilting inside. Not to mention dragging out the water hose and sprinkler every evening and soaking down the yard, which was about to be completely dead before I caved and started watering it. You know what’s wonderful when it’s this hot? No, not running naked through the snow. See? I know how your mind works. Watermelon Peach... Read Full Story

Well, another miracle was preformed while Mither was here to help me out. Remember this ? Yeah. That was October 11. 2008. The stupid door finally got repainted. Took about 10 minutes and one sample sized paint can that cost $5.00. No. I don’t know why it took me so long to do it, except to say I just couldn’t decide on a color. I love red, but the neighbors across the street have a red door and I didn’t want to be a copy cat. Yet, I really do love mine, now. Behold! I... Read Full Story

Disclaimer: For your own sanity, don’t let your husband read this. At no point did I use a level, volt meter, or stud finder. Even though nothing went amiss and the levelicity of the end result is perfect, we all know how this knowledge will effect men. I also have used some fairly loose terminology. i.e. do-dads, thingy, hicky-do, etc. You do what you want… I just don’t want any hysterical emails saying your husband blew a gasket because I “eyeballed” something. Be safe... Read Full Story

Well, of course I didn’t forget that I was going to show you the upstairs bathroom! The Peace Corps, dear Mither, Kessa, and I are finished and there has been a HUGE improvement. Behold: The gallon of paint was an extra Mither had from some project she was doing at her house. It was a color that the girls didn’t really like. Kind of a soft creamy yellow. It was also a high dollar Sherwin Williams paint, so we took it up to their mixologist and he fooled around with it until he came up with... Read Full Story

First off, I actually did repaint both bathrooms. OK, right that only took a couple of days and Mither was down here helping. BUT, both bathrooms were in such disrepair I had to house a lot of peace corps people in order to carry out the make over. Yeah. That’ll be a good deal of my excuse right there. Cause I couldn’t just kick them out as soon as they painted my bathrooms! I mean what kind of jerk would do that? They were going to deploy to…. Bosnia in a week, so I let all of them hang here... Read Full Story

Do you guys remember waaaay back, over a year ago when John was in hospital and I discovered that he had been misled into believing his test for diabetes was negative when in fact, it was positive and his blood sugar was 566 upon admission? Well, (refresher here), he had been losing weight at a really alarming rate and so had figured he must have diabetes. We have never known anyone with this disease before and really had nothing to go on besides Wikipedia and medical websites, but it... Read Full Story

I have a bug bite on my arm that is itching like the dickens. This is odd because they usually don’t bite me. My family says it’s because I’m not sweet. The dirty bastards. John was off today and will be tomorrow and somehow we made it out of the house and ran errands and got at least a third of it done. People will buy the damnedest shit on ebay. And over look some really great things that I felt sure would go. Weird. I never know what’s going to be snatched up. We have... Read Full Story

Summer is right around the corner and the thing that goes best with it? OK, really it’s watermelon. But after that? Bruchetta. Here is the best bruchetta recipe I know of. It’s simple, refreshing and light and just tastes like summer.   Bruchetta 4 cups of finely chopped tomatoes-(I prefer Roma) 2 green onions, chopped 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley 1 T finely chopped rosemary 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1/3 extra virgin, (or just your regular virgin variety), olive... Read Full Story