I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring, but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

My doctor is like 90 years old, but he’s been 90 years old since I started seeing him 15 years ago. Every visit he shuffles into the exam room in his suit and tennis shoes of indeterminate brand. He discusses lab results and ultra sound and bone scan results. He doesn’t miss a thing or even forget anything about me.  He greets me in French because he knows I lived there and he’s French.

Every visit I ask him, half fearing the answer, if this is the year he’ll retire and every year he says the same thing “We take it one day at a time”.....so the secret to living to happy and healthy old age is apparently to take it one day at a time.......

Google really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Aidric and I are hanging with Jessica today. We’re tidying the house and getting groceries for tomorrow nights dinner.

Jessica convinced me to walk to Imboden’s from her house to get the meat.  It would burn some of Aidric’s energy and burn off our breakfast. It’s less than a mile to the butcher shop so, even though it’s still soupy out, I said yes.

The problem is that on the way back I was carrying 8lbs. of carne asada.  See eight pounds of carne asada weighs 8lbs!.....

How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

We went to the zoo for Cormac’s 2nd birthday today. Aside from the fact that we spent the day trying to breath air as thick as pudding and sweating so much we were all drenched before the dolphins tried to splash us, we had a great time. Of course I took my camera and took pics of Aidric and his nephew. The two boys had to stick their heads through every photo board in the zoo. They were turtles, fish, snails, frogs, water drops......well you get it. I took some movies of the stupid dolphin show and more photos of the boys with Matt on a giant bronze gorilla. Wonderful memories all fully documented....... I downloaded them to my computer and every f****ng one of them is blurry. I hate the auto focus feature because it flattens my pictures, they have no depth, but I’m so freaking blind even with my glasses on that I can’t manually focus either. Totally sucks!! hmmm....maybe I’m so blind that I only think the pictures are blurry as I look at them on my computer screen.......Hey, it could happen......

There is a great need for a sarcasm font!

I love my teenaged nieces. Teenaged girls have the unique ability to be both incredibly mature and wise beyond their years and at the same time naive and child like and, well, downright silly. If you ever get a chance, you must peruse the photos that Emy and Caro took with grandma last night on her Mac with the Photo Booth program. The three of them were laughing hysterically the entire time and the photos reflect an evening of total fun and merriment.

In other news.........hmmmm,......nope that was it.....