Posted in Chicago, Wanderings, tagged Chicago, Jamie, roller derby, travel on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whew! This has sure been a busy week month! I’ve barely spent three nights at my own house (5/25 - 5/28), and tonight I’m flying out to Chicago, Illinois to spend THREE AND A HALF DAYS with my friend Jamie in the windy city, also know as the Chill or the Go by popular rap musicians from [...]
Posted in Wanderings, tagged heidi, nesting, osprey, PhotoShop actions on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On a platform, on a post just off of a small pier, a mother Osprey gets nervous as I approach her nest of sticks. My continued advance has already driven off the father, who is watching from a vantage point farther out into the water. The mother takes flight, but instead of landing in the [...]
Posted in Wanderings, tagged 4 Ecoles, dressage, equestrian art, horses, Paris, riding school on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s not often that I wish I lived in a European country, and my daydreams are often products of something I’ve seen or read about, or memories of the tastiest plain pizza and flavor-bursting gelato ever, and the remembrance of thousands of steps that I know would end up shaving inches off of my hips [...]
Posted in Pet-sitting, Wanderings, tagged birthday, bruised boob, lawnmower on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My birthday was the day I broke up with his lawnmower.
I get that certain mechanical instruments are inclined to have their quirks… the garage door that needs to have the button pushed twice, the car that will only go into reverse if you put it in forward for a scootch first, or the remote that [...]
Posted in Wanderings, tagged 29 years, birthday, Denise, Jamie on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Good morning World — Today is May 23 and I am officially 29 years old!
(Whoo hoo! These damn 20s are almost over!)
Yesterday I had a fabulous lunch with my co-workers, and today (after letting the dogs out, and feeding all the furkids) I fell blissfully back to sleep for a few hours — well, blissfully [...]
Posted in Profiling, Wanderings, tagged build-a-man, cowboy, Denise, Sarah, type on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You know that phenomenon that hit malls a few years ago? The one that causes children’s eyes to bug out of their heads, their pigtails to stick straight up and then they drop their toy cars right in front of a group of powerwalking nuns? Where they break free from your grasp and run willy-nilly, full of [...]
