This one was taken on the Sunset Cocktail Glass Bottom Boat Cruise... Yes.. I firmly believe in multi-tasking... even on vacation... saw the sunset, got a Rum Swizzle buzz, saw some fish and coral, and saw Bermuda from the bay... Lovely!
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Sunset Bermuda
This one was taken on the Sunset Cocktail Glass Bottom Boat Cruise... Yes.. I firmly believe in multi-tasking... even on vacation... saw the sunset, got a Rum Swizzle buzz, saw some fish and coral, and saw Bermuda from the bay... Lovely!
Pristine...
I could have spent days photographing Bermuda - the "stepped" roofs to collect the rainwater... the pastel houses... the palm trees... and even in late October the gorgeous flowers everywhere... Unfortunately I didn't shoot NEARLY as much as I would have liked... there was just too much to do and not enough time to do it in!
Pinkish Sand at St. Catherine's
This is St. Catherine's Beach in St. George. Not the pinkest beach on the isle but pink just the same! We spent Thursday relaxing here, swimming in the aquamarine water and Mr. 9 2 Bay got in some snorkling around the Fort! A truely LOVELY day! That's the old Club Med on the hill - it's been abandoned for around 15 years now and they are tearing it down at the beginning of the year and putting up a brand new resort - it should be really lovely they certainly have a commanding view of the island!
Tough to post in 15 ft. seas!
Hey All... yup... I'm back... back from where you may ask... BERMUDA! That's right... we hopped another ship and took a lovely ride down to Bermuda... right thru the middle of Hurricane Wilma! So now, we are the veterans of 2 cruises... the first thru 20 foot swells for a day and half outside of Aruba, and now 15 - 18 foot swells off the coast of North Carolina... OH... and you know that coastal storm that brought snow to Boston yesterday... yup... we sailed thru that on the way home with it's 12 - 15 foot swells... it was just great... yup... just FREAKIN' GREAT! It was interesting tho... talked with a woman who was on her 25th cruise that this was the first time she EVER hit rough seas... that's right... TWENTY FIVE perfect cruises until she had the misfortune of booking the same cruise as I did... Well.. at least I still have a perfect record, I'm two for two for gut wrenching - throw you out of bed - glad you listened up at the life-boat muster - cruises...
Anyway... I'm back.. all in one piece from what I can tell... so watch for the lovely pics soon to be posted...
LAND HO and THANK GOODNESS!
Later...
Anyway... I'm back.. all in one piece from what I can tell... so watch for the lovely pics soon to be posted...
LAND HO and THANK GOODNESS!
Later...
Saturday, October 22, 2005
I Can See My Spouse From Here!
You want scarey? Try doing this... Did you know that if you go to your airports website and enter your spouses flight number into the Flight Tracker, that you can follow along with the plane? Yup.. and it auto-updates every 5 minutes! I think I'm gonna stop watching it now though, all I can think of is "What happens if the radar goes out?" How scarey would that be? YIKES...
Later
Later
Holy Screamin' Girly Girls, Batman!
Halloween! I love this time of year... Combine ghosts, ghouls, costumes and candy and it can't help but be a blastfest! The nice thing is television has been jumping on the candy corn bandwagon with a vengenance this year, with several channels having 'spooky marathons' for the entire week leading up to the Holiday... woohhooo...
Of course the SciFi channel is down with the spooky movies, however, they used to do it SO much better... in the beginning years of SciFi they concentrated on the classics.. a whole weekend of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman (and I have the VHS tapes to prove it!) now though they've gone gorey... Halloween 1 thru 675... basically every slasher movie ever made... uummm.. no thanks.. I like my horror implied... not splattered in fake blood all over the screen...
Even the Travel Channel has gotten in on the scarey festivities, with "Haunting" type shows all week long.... now.. this is more like it.. I'm a blood sucker for some ghosties and ghoulies and no one does it better than TAPS... Unfortunately though, they have also taken to showing that British Ghost Invasion program "Most Haunted"... frankly I think they mis-named it.. it should be "Most Annoying"... Never have I watched a program with more grown men screaming like a bunch of 10 year old girly girls! Geez... guys.. I know your English... but suck it up and grow some will ya! One little fly-by by a bat... a little scurrying of a nearby rat... and their off and running... screaming in that high-pitched, fingernails on a chalkboard, shoot me in the head and put me out of my misery, type voice that could normally only emanate from a prepubescent female that just had her favorite doll ripped from her sticky candy-coated hands! And good lord...DON'T let any plaster fall from that crumbling ceiling cause that will not only set off the horrible screaming once again but it will be punctuated with about 15 ear-piercing bleeps as the sensors continually hit the agro-buzzer to cover the swear words... geez... you signed up for a ghost hunt, so quit running away every time something 'odd' happens, ya' sissies! SHEESH!
And then last but not least... "Dead Tenants"... another Travel Channel gem... Where a couple of women mediums go ghost hunting to help poor families deal with their spirit-infested homes... This one could be a decent show, if I could get past the fact that the couple of times I watched the show it was more "sleep-over" than seance... That's right... The girls actually go to sleep on the job... I wonder if they bring their own Aero-beds or if they insist that the clients provide them? They kind of wander around the house - arms outstretched - and give their opinion of what's what... then it's off to bed... only to awaken in the morning to report that they kind of felt they weren't alone during the nite... riveting! At least they don't snore... or maybe they make the editors cut that part out of the finished products...
Anway... bring on the Milk Duds... the fun size packs of M&M's... the jack-o-lanterns... and I'll warm up the VCR so we can do a review of what REAL Halloween TV used to be... A weekend full of Lugosi, Chaney, Price and Lorre... thank god for VHS!
Later...
Of course the SciFi channel is down with the spooky movies, however, they used to do it SO much better... in the beginning years of SciFi they concentrated on the classics.. a whole weekend of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman (and I have the VHS tapes to prove it!) now though they've gone gorey... Halloween 1 thru 675... basically every slasher movie ever made... uummm.. no thanks.. I like my horror implied... not splattered in fake blood all over the screen...
Even the Travel Channel has gotten in on the scarey festivities, with "Haunting" type shows all week long.... now.. this is more like it.. I'm a blood sucker for some ghosties and ghoulies and no one does it better than TAPS... Unfortunately though, they have also taken to showing that British Ghost Invasion program "Most Haunted"... frankly I think they mis-named it.. it should be "Most Annoying"... Never have I watched a program with more grown men screaming like a bunch of 10 year old girly girls! Geez... guys.. I know your English... but suck it up and grow some will ya! One little fly-by by a bat... a little scurrying of a nearby rat... and their off and running... screaming in that high-pitched, fingernails on a chalkboard, shoot me in the head and put me out of my misery, type voice that could normally only emanate from a prepubescent female that just had her favorite doll ripped from her sticky candy-coated hands! And good lord...DON'T let any plaster fall from that crumbling ceiling cause that will not only set off the horrible screaming once again but it will be punctuated with about 15 ear-piercing bleeps as the sensors continually hit the agro-buzzer to cover the swear words... geez... you signed up for a ghost hunt, so quit running away every time something 'odd' happens, ya' sissies! SHEESH!
And then last but not least... "Dead Tenants"... another Travel Channel gem... Where a couple of women mediums go ghost hunting to help poor families deal with their spirit-infested homes... This one could be a decent show, if I could get past the fact that the couple of times I watched the show it was more "sleep-over" than seance... That's right... The girls actually go to sleep on the job... I wonder if they bring their own Aero-beds or if they insist that the clients provide them? They kind of wander around the house - arms outstretched - and give their opinion of what's what... then it's off to bed... only to awaken in the morning to report that they kind of felt they weren't alone during the nite... riveting! At least they don't snore... or maybe they make the editors cut that part out of the finished products...
Anway... bring on the Milk Duds... the fun size packs of M&M's... the jack-o-lanterns... and I'll warm up the VCR so we can do a review of what REAL Halloween TV used to be... A weekend full of Lugosi, Chaney, Price and Lorre... thank god for VHS!
Later...
Friday, October 21, 2005
An Educational Implosion!
Implode: To collapse inward!
This is exactly what is happening down at my beloved alma mater... STCC... I loved my time at STCC so much, I have enrolled the man-child there... NOW?? Now, I'm not so sure I made the right choice for him...
Here is the latest in the in-fighting going on on campus: STCC: Campus safe
Frankly... I don't care if the fighting is justified... if it's the crime rate that caused the dip in enrollment... if it was the new President that caused it... if STCC made the right choice of a CT Marketing firm... and I sure as hell don't care that STCC has changed their logo! What I do care about is "How well they are getting the job of educating my son done?" and frankly... if your spending time drafting a 2-page "scathing" letter to the President... not to mention the contract negotiations... the budget cuts... the firing of 5 administrators... the increase in tuition... the work-to-rule crap... getting security to escort fired employees off campus... the city being pissed about the statement that it's the crime rate that caused enrollment to drop...
I'm afraid the answer is probably "NOT VERY WELL!"
Well... pre-registration for next semester begins in a week or so... I tell you... I'm more than a little reluctant to re-up the kid on a campus that can't get it's own politics squared away! It's all just another entry on the side of "cutting and running" on the "Register at STCC" spreadsheet!
Tennessee U... here we come?????
Later...
This is exactly what is happening down at my beloved alma mater... STCC... I loved my time at STCC so much, I have enrolled the man-child there... NOW?? Now, I'm not so sure I made the right choice for him...
Here is the latest in the in-fighting going on on campus: STCC: Campus safe
Frankly... I don't care if the fighting is justified... if it's the crime rate that caused the dip in enrollment... if it was the new President that caused it... if STCC made the right choice of a CT Marketing firm... and I sure as hell don't care that STCC has changed their logo! What I do care about is "How well they are getting the job of educating my son done?" and frankly... if your spending time drafting a 2-page "scathing" letter to the President... not to mention the contract negotiations... the budget cuts... the firing of 5 administrators... the increase in tuition... the work-to-rule crap... getting security to escort fired employees off campus... the city being pissed about the statement that it's the crime rate that caused enrollment to drop...
I'm afraid the answer is probably "NOT VERY WELL!"
Well... pre-registration for next semester begins in a week or so... I tell you... I'm more than a little reluctant to re-up the kid on a campus that can't get it's own politics squared away! It's all just another entry on the side of "cutting and running" on the "Register at STCC" spreadsheet!
Tennessee U... here we come?????
Later...
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wilma.
Another hurricane... Wilma... again with the potential to send people back to living like the Flintstones... ha.. get it.. Wilma.. the Flintstones... yeah.. lame.. ok...
The foliage... anyone else notice how yellow it is this year? Maybe tonites frost will help with the lovely oranges and reds on the few leaves that remain. Not that it matters much, my camera is STILL in Holland. Mr. 9 2 Bays two week emergency trip to Holland has developed into a three week trip... Lucky him!
Propane prices... can you say freakin' $2.679 per gallon from Osterman Gas? Can you also say, seeking NEW gas company? I ended up with these guys by default as it is when they purchased Gilbertville Bottled Gas.. Who knows if there is anyone cheaper? But I intend to find out! Only problem is they kind of have you locked in. If you switch propane companies, you also have to switch your propane tank! So that means the potential of a day or so with no heat and potentially a cost associated with the removal of the old tank and the setup of the new. Again, life is hard! In the meantime the manchild has been told to suck it up and put on a sweater! I'm telling you, selling out and moving someplace warmer is sounding more and more like a plan! I'd miss the fall but hey, I can always just schedule a vacation in NH for Columbus Day weekend like the sane people in the rest of the country, peep at the leaves and then beat it outta here before the furnaces have a chance to kick on and start to burn your retirement fund! Yeah.. well, we'll see....
Later...
The foliage... anyone else notice how yellow it is this year? Maybe tonites frost will help with the lovely oranges and reds on the few leaves that remain. Not that it matters much, my camera is STILL in Holland. Mr. 9 2 Bays two week emergency trip to Holland has developed into a three week trip... Lucky him!
Propane prices... can you say freakin' $2.679 per gallon from Osterman Gas? Can you also say, seeking NEW gas company? I ended up with these guys by default as it is when they purchased Gilbertville Bottled Gas.. Who knows if there is anyone cheaper? But I intend to find out! Only problem is they kind of have you locked in. If you switch propane companies, you also have to switch your propane tank! So that means the potential of a day or so with no heat and potentially a cost associated with the removal of the old tank and the setup of the new. Again, life is hard! In the meantime the manchild has been told to suck it up and put on a sweater! I'm telling you, selling out and moving someplace warmer is sounding more and more like a plan! I'd miss the fall but hey, I can always just schedule a vacation in NH for Columbus Day weekend like the sane people in the rest of the country, peep at the leaves and then beat it outta here before the furnaces have a chance to kick on and start to burn your retirement fund! Yeah.. well, we'll see....
Later...
Saturday, October 15, 2005
A Fungus Among Us...
And still more rain... we are all going to start sprouting mosses and mushrooms before you know it... I tell you, it's getting REALLY hard to get out of bed in the morning, and as for going out once you do get up.. forget about it... From what I hear from family there are a couple of church bazaars going on this weekend out in Spencer and I guess some of the sibs are going, me? I think I'm up for a long stretch on the couch, a bowl of hot tomato soup, and the newest DVD "The Day the Earth Stood Still"... how fitting huh? yup... gonna do a little "standing still" myself here... I've seen this movie a thousand times... you know the one.. with Gort and the spaceship landing in Washington DC... it's a classic... as many times as I've watched it there is still one thing that baffles me... The "Spaceman" makes arrangements to show the world the power of his people by making "the world stand still" (hence the title - clever huh?) by shutting down all the power at noon, at which time, he willingly steps into an elevator, only to become stuck like the rest of the world... HA! I guess you can have the intelligence to build a world stopping technology but you still can't tell time!
Oh.. and speaking of movies.. maybe I'll make this a theme and follow it up with a repeat viewing of the movie "Signs"... (spoiler coming, so if you haven't seen it STOP reading right NOW!)... yup... stupid aliens movie day... so you can build a spaceship capable of traveling great distances so you can take over other planets... unfortunately, water acts like acid to you, so what do you do? "Hey, guys, lets head to that planet that is two-thirds water... yeah.. the blue ball over there... Rain Coats?? We don't need no stinking rain coats!" ayup...
Klatu Verata Nikto...
Oh.. and speaking of movies.. maybe I'll make this a theme and follow it up with a repeat viewing of the movie "Signs"... (spoiler coming, so if you haven't seen it STOP reading right NOW!)... yup... stupid aliens movie day... so you can build a spaceship capable of traveling great distances so you can take over other planets... unfortunately, water acts like acid to you, so what do you do? "Hey, guys, lets head to that planet that is two-thirds water... yeah.. the blue ball over there... Rain Coats?? We don't need no stinking rain coats!" ayup...
Klatu Verata Nikto...
Friday, October 14, 2005
And you thought Squirrels were a problem...
I got these pics from a friend.. don't really know where they came from but if you know who took 'em I'll gladly give them credit here...
So you thought squirrels were a problem at your bird feeder!
So you thought squirrels were a problem at your bird feeder!
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Rain, Murder and an Earthquake...
More rain... sheesh... the only bright spot in all this wet is that it isn't cold enough to freeze this crap yet! As it is, the Connecticut was a raging muddy mess yesterday on my way over the Coolidge and from what I understand we could get another 4 inches today and tonite... I'll have to take the camera out this weekend when it returns from Holland and document some of this... High water and colored leaves... pretty! Although with all the wind and rain I can only hope there are some leaves left!
Murder... evil has come to Ware! Some sick bastard broke into the home of an 83 year old woman across from Mary Lane Hospital and beat her to death... from what I've read there was also a fire started, perhaps to cover the crime... How evil do you have to be to do something like this? Unfortunately the answer to that question is VERY scary and leads to answers like "evil enough to do it again"...
An earthquake... seems there was a small tremblor out in Lowell last nite... 1.5 on the scale I believe... I still remember the tremblor we had around here back in 1985... we were living on Pleasant Street in Ware at the time and I remember the whole house shaking... pretty scary and out of control type feeling... the crack that developed in the bathroom wall was pretty disturbing as well! I can only imagine the fear felt in Pakistan this week... What do you do when the ground attacks? These are the type of things that bring control freaks to their knees... there are just some things that won't be controlled... scary!
Later...
Murder... evil has come to Ware! Some sick bastard broke into the home of an 83 year old woman across from Mary Lane Hospital and beat her to death... from what I've read there was also a fire started, perhaps to cover the crime... How evil do you have to be to do something like this? Unfortunately the answer to that question is VERY scary and leads to answers like "evil enough to do it again"...
An earthquake... seems there was a small tremblor out in Lowell last nite... 1.5 on the scale I believe... I still remember the tremblor we had around here back in 1985... we were living on Pleasant Street in Ware at the time and I remember the whole house shaking... pretty scary and out of control type feeling... the crack that developed in the bathroom wall was pretty disturbing as well! I can only imagine the fear felt in Pakistan this week... What do you do when the ground attacks? These are the type of things that bring control freaks to their knees... there are just some things that won't be controlled... scary!
Later...
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Camera no, Shop yes
So... my trusty Minolta is in Holland... bummer... I have my old 1.2 Megapixel Olympus but no way to get the low res pics off the card.. So I'm stuck with photoshopping some old pics that I've got kicking around on my hard drive... I suppose I can deal, but it is driving me crazy hoping that my camera will be back before we hit peak foliage... we can only hope! Anyway... here's todays project...
First the untouched original!
Now, the shopped version!
Later...
Later...
Friday, October 07, 2005
Seasonal Rushing...
Fall is late this year due to the lovely warm weather we've been having lately... nope... with the cost of heating fuel, not a complaint in site! So, in a rush of the season, here's a pic of last years peak colors in the Quabbin...
Gravy in the wine or Why I hate women's pants.
It was a great nite in Western Mass last nite and I got to participate. The Annual Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame dinner was held on top of Mount Tom at the Log Cabin and my dear old friend "The Queen" spotted me a free ticket... Love it... a $125 a plate dinner for the cost of a trip up the mountain... can't be beat... I even ponied up for some new pants... Women's pants at that...
Now.. I'm strictly a jeans and cargo's kinda girl and on top of that I always buy men's jeans and cargos.. that's right MENS... Why you may ask... because of their sizing system... LOVE IT... you walk in, find your waist size, find your inseam size, take them to the register, take them home, put them on, and they FIT! PERFECTLY! Women's pants come in three variations... petite, with a 29 inch inseam... regular, with a 31-32 inch inseam, and tall, with a 34 inch inseam... Me? I'm a 30 inseam... yeah... so petites are 1 inch highwaters on me.. and regulars need to be hemmed an inch or two... What a pain... so I found a great pair of brown mini-plaid women's pants for the party and proceeded to spend the evening stepping on the hems all evening even wearing a decently high heel... Thanks so much... so now if I'm gonna wear them again, I've either gotta hem them or find a seamstress to do it for me.. I'm thinking seamstress... you know... isn't this all backwards? Do men really care if their pants fit perfectly? Women will go through 50 pairs of pants till they find the perfect ones... and yet the men get the inches sizing system... life, and apparently the clothing industry, is cruel.
Anyway.. dinner last nite... it was a lovely affair - seafood manicotti in lobster sauce, lemon sorbet, petite filet mignon in a demiglaze served over wilted spinach and gorganzola grits, and a chocolate rasberry confections for dessert. Lovely right? It was... for everyone at my table... by the end of the meal everyone was watching ME eat... Why? Because I'm me and if something is gonna happen, it'll happen to me..
The manicotti, it was lovely, but they dumped an entire handful of red peppers on mine... did I mention, I hate peppers? Everyone else got 3 or 4 pieces of this hideous garnish, I got an entire scoop... great... let's just pollute the entire dish... thanks so much!
Then came the coffee and the lemon sorbet... which was very good... once I pulled the floating green thing outta my cup! *sigh...
The filet... wonderfully tender and juicy... really juicy... frankly it was still bleeding... I had ordered 'well-done'... so I sent it back... got a fresh cut and when that appeared and I cut into it, people two tables away heard the moanful 'mmooo' as I sliced into the the even redder piece of meat... so.. defeated, I ate the edges and left the cold red blob on it's little bed of spinach to die an unnaturally slow death.
Dessert... eehh.. nothing out of place that I could see, but I'm just not a fan of polluting a lovely dark chocolate with raspberry sugar syrup and kiwi...
And to finish off the meal I grabbed my last few sips of wine... noticed something not quite right, and spotted the giant glob of brown gravy floating in my Chardonnay... damn...
Still being thirsty, I reached for my previously untouched water glass... as I reached across the table - the one fly for miles - flew into the room, exhausted and parched from it's long flight in from Mississippi, did a triple back-flip and dove straight into my glass as we all watched in amazement.
I took my thirsty, long panted and still hungry self out the door and went home. At least I could get home... the one other woman waiting for her valet parked car may still be there... as the valet pulled the burgandy Intrepid to the curb for her, I heard her say... "But I have a bamboo colored Lexus".. HA.. maybe it isn't just me!
Later....
Now.. I'm strictly a jeans and cargo's kinda girl and on top of that I always buy men's jeans and cargos.. that's right MENS... Why you may ask... because of their sizing system... LOVE IT... you walk in, find your waist size, find your inseam size, take them to the register, take them home, put them on, and they FIT! PERFECTLY! Women's pants come in three variations... petite, with a 29 inch inseam... regular, with a 31-32 inch inseam, and tall, with a 34 inch inseam... Me? I'm a 30 inseam... yeah... so petites are 1 inch highwaters on me.. and regulars need to be hemmed an inch or two... What a pain... so I found a great pair of brown mini-plaid women's pants for the party and proceeded to spend the evening stepping on the hems all evening even wearing a decently high heel... Thanks so much... so now if I'm gonna wear them again, I've either gotta hem them or find a seamstress to do it for me.. I'm thinking seamstress... you know... isn't this all backwards? Do men really care if their pants fit perfectly? Women will go through 50 pairs of pants till they find the perfect ones... and yet the men get the inches sizing system... life, and apparently the clothing industry, is cruel.
Anyway.. dinner last nite... it was a lovely affair - seafood manicotti in lobster sauce, lemon sorbet, petite filet mignon in a demiglaze served over wilted spinach and gorganzola grits, and a chocolate rasberry confections for dessert. Lovely right? It was... for everyone at my table... by the end of the meal everyone was watching ME eat... Why? Because I'm me and if something is gonna happen, it'll happen to me..
The manicotti, it was lovely, but they dumped an entire handful of red peppers on mine... did I mention, I hate peppers? Everyone else got 3 or 4 pieces of this hideous garnish, I got an entire scoop... great... let's just pollute the entire dish... thanks so much!
Then came the coffee and the lemon sorbet... which was very good... once I pulled the floating green thing outta my cup! *sigh...
The filet... wonderfully tender and juicy... really juicy... frankly it was still bleeding... I had ordered 'well-done'... so I sent it back... got a fresh cut and when that appeared and I cut into it, people two tables away heard the moanful 'mmooo' as I sliced into the the even redder piece of meat... so.. defeated, I ate the edges and left the cold red blob on it's little bed of spinach to die an unnaturally slow death.
Dessert... eehh.. nothing out of place that I could see, but I'm just not a fan of polluting a lovely dark chocolate with raspberry sugar syrup and kiwi...
And to finish off the meal I grabbed my last few sips of wine... noticed something not quite right, and spotted the giant glob of brown gravy floating in my Chardonnay... damn...
Still being thirsty, I reached for my previously untouched water glass... as I reached across the table - the one fly for miles - flew into the room, exhausted and parched from it's long flight in from Mississippi, did a triple back-flip and dove straight into my glass as we all watched in amazement.
I took my thirsty, long panted and still hungry self out the door and went home. At least I could get home... the one other woman waiting for her valet parked car may still be there... as the valet pulled the burgandy Intrepid to the curb for her, I heard her say... "But I have a bamboo colored Lexus".. HA.. maybe it isn't just me!
Later....
Monday, October 03, 2005
OY...
Yeah... so it's been a busy week. The Red Sox... WOOHOO! A huge flash presentation that needed to be built for a client.. NOW! FIVE newsletters in one week for another client... Mr. 9 2 Bay's three-day-notice of a 2 week business trip to Holland! AND the first meeting of the Man-Childs girlfriend! Life's been a whirlwind and everyone is off to somewhere except for me. Dammit...
The Sox are off to Chicago for the playoff games, it would have been nice if they had taken the AL East, but hey, the wildcard has been the series winner for the past 3 years, so wildcard is nothing to sneeze at....
that Flash presentation is off to Vegas Baby for an educational conference, so my work will make it Vegas before I will, lovely, Vegas has been on the list of places to see for the past year and half.. Oh well.. we'll get there, eventually!
The 5 newsletters are off to New York, Vegas (again), and all across the US, all for music events that I won't get to see... bummer!
Mr. 9 2 Bay is off to Amsterdam and from what I hear they've planned them a weekend trip to Brussels... he's there with 3 of his guys and they have all agreed to make the mission (besides getting the job done that they were sent to do) getting as many stamps as possible in their passports... Hopefully I'll at least get pics via email over the next couple of weeks cause even tho I didn't get to go, my camera did, so hopefully they'll put it to good use and send back some lovely pics we can all look at and I can get pissed that I didn't get to see this stuff in person.
And the Man-Child's new lady friend... an original Oklahomian and now a Hartford resident, she's a lovely girl and seems to be a great match for my son... this is the first girl he's ever brought home, so she MUST be special... we didn't get to spend all that much time getting to know each other, but hopefully we'll get to see each other often. I'm still a little shell-shocked on this one, cause of course I still see the kid as, well, the "kid"... "What is my 12 year old doing with a GIRL?" kind of thing and then on second look.. geez.. he's NINETEEN... and on third look... I'm SO freakin' OLD!...
So that's the week I've had... all kinds of fun things abound.. for everyone but me... me, I'm just working away here, holding down the fort, and trying to comfort a stupid little angry dog that is fit to be tied with strange women in the house and no "Daddy" in sight..
OY!
The Sox are off to Chicago for the playoff games, it would have been nice if they had taken the AL East, but hey, the wildcard has been the series winner for the past 3 years, so wildcard is nothing to sneeze at....
that Flash presentation is off to Vegas Baby for an educational conference, so my work will make it Vegas before I will, lovely, Vegas has been on the list of places to see for the past year and half.. Oh well.. we'll get there, eventually!
The 5 newsletters are off to New York, Vegas (again), and all across the US, all for music events that I won't get to see... bummer!
Mr. 9 2 Bay is off to Amsterdam and from what I hear they've planned them a weekend trip to Brussels... he's there with 3 of his guys and they have all agreed to make the mission (besides getting the job done that they were sent to do) getting as many stamps as possible in their passports... Hopefully I'll at least get pics via email over the next couple of weeks cause even tho I didn't get to go, my camera did, so hopefully they'll put it to good use and send back some lovely pics we can all look at and I can get pissed that I didn't get to see this stuff in person.
And the Man-Child's new lady friend... an original Oklahomian and now a Hartford resident, she's a lovely girl and seems to be a great match for my son... this is the first girl he's ever brought home, so she MUST be special... we didn't get to spend all that much time getting to know each other, but hopefully we'll get to see each other often. I'm still a little shell-shocked on this one, cause of course I still see the kid as, well, the "kid"... "What is my 12 year old doing with a GIRL?" kind of thing and then on second look.. geez.. he's NINETEEN... and on third look... I'm SO freakin' OLD!...
So that's the week I've had... all kinds of fun things abound.. for everyone but me... me, I'm just working away here, holding down the fort, and trying to comfort a stupid little angry dog that is fit to be tied with strange women in the house and no "Daddy" in sight..
OY!
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