P.S.

I’m okay now…

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Focus, focus

… I have none.  To start with, where’s the chocolate…?

I usually count on my desk drawer to contain SOME sort of chocolate… but no.  Not today.  Not even a half-eaten bag of M&M’s.   How’s a girl supposed to focus without chocolate?  (That year-and-a-half old pack of PEZ is not gonna cut it, either… who am [...]

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Summer’s Guilty Pleasures

….temporary tattoos )

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Ten Reasons We LOVE Disneyland

1.  It makes me feel like a kid

2. You’re never to old to pose with your favorite characters (my girls, and their friend MaryB)

3.  …and neither am I

4.  You really do forget you’re in the middle of LA (well, Anaheim actually, but it all tends to run together down there)

5.  My “Lost Boys” sock enjoyed [...]

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Woo Hoo!!!

The sock and I say…..

…see you in a couple of days!!

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I love that kid…

6:30 this morning, my son is getting ready to leave for work.  He walks back in the front door and says to me, “I think that’s a good sign… I think it’s going to be a great day… it smells like doughnuts outside!”
Hee – I hope it is Bud, have a good one.
(Of course, me… [...]

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Art and Beauty (and people with imaginations)

I love museums. I love seeing something that is hundreds of years old, and famous, right before me…. a piece of living history, the real thing. It’s always slightly surreal.
My sister and I, and our girls, took My mom to the Getty Museum this Tuesday for her birthday. What a gift for ALL of [...]

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Oh – just post already

All week long I’ve been telling myself I should blog about something – but it has been a week of no ideas, nothing to say, nothing even half-witty. But, at least I have a FO as of yesterday, so I can post that!

Pattern: Arch Shaped Socks, by Jen Showalter
Yarn: Online Supersocke, Color [...]

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Oh – How We Love our 4th of July…

…and yearly family reunion in Independence!!  (warning, photo and Layla-heavy post)
The dads and kids decorated up one of our best parade entries yet! (Sweepstakes award… doncha know)

and, yes, we know we’re dorks, and are proud of it!

We spent some time cooling off in our favorite creek

Layla was fairly worshiped by my cousin’s kids….. all weekend!

and [...]

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An FO – and Layla’s new do!

Oh my Goodness – she looks like a different dog!   She should definitely stay cool through the summer – and I think we got our $30 worth!!
She still has her sweet face, although I think her legs grew 3 inches.  She looks like she’s on stilts!

I also finished my June socks for the Pair-a-month Challenge [...]

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