What’s with Moths?

I will get to phase three but first, what’s with moths? I was just thinking today after seeing one that it must really suck to be a moth. If someone held a gun to my head and said ‘ you must be an insect or winged creature’, the moth would be my last choice.
It’s like [...]

Getting Back

There is a load more about my trip I want to blog about but since getting back I have gone down with
a cold, the good news is it isn’t The Flu that is closing our local schools. Apparently this year’s strain is especially nasty.
I can’t seem to sleep it off, am waking at dawn’s first [...]

Phase 2: The Boat People Move Out

So the plan to leave for the boat at 8 got moved along to about 10 ish and full of pizza the boat people, and I was one of them, moved out to the marina, meaning in the morning rush there would be less people trying to get out of the house on time.
Nicky [...]

Phase 1: Reconnaisance.

So there we all are, 13 people, altogether, benefiting from the wonderful hospitality of Nicky and Paulo, who took me in like one of their own for the duration. To quote my very own Doris, ‘ they loved me’.
Monday was meant to be The Holocaust Museum followed by a reconnaisance mission around the Mall [...]

My Big Trip # 1 From Nara to Washington.

WOW!, Will WOW! suffice, if I just write WOW! Over and over and over will everyone get the jist of just how great my trip was from start to finish? I can’t remember ever having such an exciting, action packed, satisfying on every level trip , ever.
Warning, some names have been changed to protect the [...]

Post Inauguration Reactions

Many posts to follow I think about my recent trip, as I process things, but first the reactions of my chicklets on my return.
As I had hoped they were full of challenging questions.
Sunshine: Look at my eyebrow, isn’t it good, should I become an eyebrow artist and do you know where my black Puma sweats [...]

Off To See Mr O.

I am leaving in the morning, so this will be my last post pre trip.
Can’t wait but though I crave a day off or two from my chicklets, I know from past experience I will be a bawling wreck by day 3. I just don’t function well without them, I feel lost when there is [...]

Bones Quotes

This was the best.
” Yeah a toothless cannibal just can’t cut it in today’s competetive serial killer climate”

Insults.

So Jim was annoyed with me, for waking him up for school. Slamming and stamping around yet again.
I said ‘ tough! You have to get up for school’.
He said. ‘ I don’t like you, you, you…. you, you have NO SENSE OF DIRECTION!’
OW!
I do so! I can navigate my way around the house no problem.

My Children Mock Me.

The best entertainment this week came in the form of a PSP. Uncle Brick kindly loaded it up with films and lent it to me for my flight. The kids loved it.
Not the PSP itself, it’s not like I am going to let them get their destroying little hands on it, but the thought [...]