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The cherry tomato is a marvelous invention, producing as it does a satisfactorily explosive squish when bitten.
– Miss Manners
1. Our tomatoes, finally turning red!
2. Our cucumbers, finally revealing themselves!
3. My (recently) new external hard drive, which saved my computer from being overrun by photos.
Lots of sad news in the entertainment world this week, but there’s still good things happening. What are you happy about or thankful for today?
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
– Michael Jackson
I’m not a fan girl, but anybody who grew up in the eighties lived through this phenomenon, and today is a sad day, I think.
I remember creating dance routines with neighborhood friends to this album and charging our parents (and anyone else we could con into coughing up the dough) a quarter each to see us perform one late summer afternoon. I also remember being terrified of the Thriller video, especially at the end when his eyes turn green and creepy.
He certainly defied the norm, to put it mildly, particularly in the last 15 years or so, but life could not have been easy for him, even before that. I hope he’s at peace now, and I wish his children and family solace in what is sure to be an incredibly difficult and trying time.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
– Robert F. Bennett
Wow. Sorry for such a delay. I wasn’t home Thursday night until late and I was too tired to post, and then Friday I was busy, and yesterday it was on my list of things to do (along with about 20 other things) and it just got lost in the shuffle.
At any rate, here’s this week’s list:
1. Taking charge of your mental health
2. Those giant 6- or 8-seat strollers day care centers use to take their tiny charges out for walks on nice days
3. Wii – I’m not a video game girl, really, but Wii is a totally different experience. Aimee was here a couple weekends ago and we played for hours, till we were exhausted. Yesterday, David and I played the new Grand Slam Tennis, where his Roger Federer beat my Rafael Nadal (at the French Open, no less, which would never happen in real life), and our doubles team of Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg lost humiliatingly to the Williams sisters. So fun!
What are you happy about or grateful for today?
May you live all the days of your life.
– Johnathan Swift
And she’s as princess-y as ever, let me tell you. Here she is, decked out in her birthday finery:
It’s the shoes that kill me.
There was trampoline fun for everyone!
There was a piñata – princess-themed of course.
David suggested I appreciated the irony of beating the princess-themed piñata to pieces (I’m anti-princesses). He wasn’t entirely wrong.
There was a cook out and cake. Before I say anything else, let me once again commend Molly on her cake craftiness. She asked the Princess what kind of cake she wanted, and she made it happen. That said:
Hannah Montana? When did my sweet, innocent, princess-loving niece discover Hannah effing Montana? God help us.
When I asked Nate if the Princess wanted anything special for her birthday, he told me that when he asked her, she said “Flip-flops,” so I headed to the flip-flop extravaganza that is Old Navy and picked out two pairs. I knew which ones she’d love most, and I was right. Here she is, modeling both her new dress from her other aunt, and her new favorite flip-flops:
I wish I’d taken video of this – she was sashaying back and forth in the living room like a model, flipping her hair, with her little hand on her hip like that. I was dying. She is too grown. God, I love her.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
– Stacia Tauscher
1. The Princess, who turns 5 today!
2. Dippin’ Dots. It truly is the “Ice Cream of the Future”!
3. a comfy pair of scrub pants
What are you happy about today?
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
– Elvis Presley
Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?
– Jacques Plante, former NHL goaltender
1. watching hockey with David – I still don’t understand it all, but I love his passion for the Red Wings, and get excited when they win.
2. The Sopranos – we’re Netflixing, starting from the beginning. I’ve seen episodes here and there, but I was never a regular watcher; I’m loving Nancy Marchand as Tony’s mother!
3. Travelling Mercies, by Anne LaMott – I adore this book. She’s tells so many truths, but with such honesty and humor. I love her novels, too.
What’s making you happy today?
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
– Kahlil Gibran
I came across this link today through a monthly email digest I get. For some reason, this makes me almost unbearably sad. Is it just me?
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