Month: June 2006

apple of my eye!

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Were you wondering where I’ve been?

My BFF Mary and her daughter (my god daughter) Claire came for a visit and to celebrate Claire’s 12th birthday! Happy Birthday Claire! We had a real girls’ weekend, complete with popcorn and Mr. Darcy. Claire is one of my all time favorites, with her sassy attitude and her sharp mind (I think she gets that from me!). Her Mom is tops in my book too.

Claire has recently taken up knitting and completed her first sock. I put together a knitting basket for her birthday. As if she couldn’t get any better, Claire also requested a spinning lesson and seems to be a natural – the girl is good! check out that spun fiber in her hands – that is the result of a quick mini lesson and about five minutes of spinning!

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Intense

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Poe has a crazy love affair going with his tennis ball. Any tennis ball actually. He gets really really crazy about it. He loves to have it thrown so he can run and catch it. No matter where I am or what I am doing, if he has this ball, he wants me to play too. When I am spinning, he will drop it on my feet, when I am in the bathtub, he plops it in there with me. This morning as I was swimming laps in the pool, he kept dropping it at either end.

What these pictures don’t capture is the high pitched whining, almost a hum and his quivering body. He vibrates with this thing!

He’s nuts. And he makes all of us nuts with the ball, until we get fed up and then have to hide it from him. At which point he trots all around the house, humming, quivering and sniffing. Sniffing, sniffing.

And then he finds it!

The only successful hiding spot is in the dog food bin.

I swear he’s part bloodhound.

and part pain in the ass

zzzzzzz

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that’s the sound of me snoring……

It’s a gray, windy, rainy day here and after D#2 got off to school, I went back to bed. Just to watch the morning news and weather report. The next thing I know, it’s 10:30.

good grief – I can’t remember the last time I slept in like that. It has completely frigged up my schedule, which means less time for blogging. That’s okay – not much to say anyway. Because of it’s size, my Kiri shawl has stopped looking like a crotch and is now looking a bit … Hassidic. By the way, did you read Julie’s comment in that post? She told me to google the word merkin. Who knew blogging could be so educational?!

And another thing — a few of you have posted high school pictures. Do you know that that frickin meme drove me deep into my photo albums – every single one of them. Which of course was a little weepy seeing how cute my girls were. Still are. but you know what I mean.

So there was some soft sobbing.

All trying to find a certain picture of me in my band uniform spinning a rifle …… haven’t turned it up and now it’s driving me crazy. I just saw it when I painted my room (that’s where I keep the photo albums) and I remember tucking it away. But where??!!