Charles Dickens.......... Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Image by Zedzap via Flickr A christmas classic......

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!




Charles Dickens

my buddy...... lama...... oh mama

You never know who you are going to meet at the fair.....haha  smooches.....caitie

Ralph Waldo Emerson to laugh often and much...............

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smooches ...... caitie

unauthorized biography.....................

"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography." — Steven Wright

tee hee i think that some days I am clearly doing this...... tee hee some day are better than others... but a good day writing is better than anything else, even a bad day writing is better than anything else..........
smooches caitie

Writers sometimes spend alot of time looking out of windows, you think they are just daydreaming but sometimes they are just trying to make sense of the world.

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard
Ever so true-- there are those special people, girlfriends, who love you no matter what.... the ones you can call at three a.m., obsess about the smallest detail get into trouble with, get out of trouble with, make you cry, the ones you can call when the goat gets in the house and the ones that make you laugh until you pee your pants, the ones where you can years without talking and pick up at the same spot, the ones you call when the shite hits the fan and those you just want to have a giggle with, those are the friends that count.  The ones who you call when the dog is greeting the UPS man - with your underwear in their mouth, the ones who help celebrate your 29th birthday ; for the 7th time- the ones that hold the secrets that you don't even know about, the ones that make the memories, the ones that know your soul. Hold on to them. -- because they are rare and precious and love you just the way you are.
 smooches caitie

took my own advise, which I rarely ever do.......

Took my own advise- which I rarely ever do- and jumped in the pool.  Managed to put my swimming bottoms on inside out, upside down and backwards - which envolves  amazingly enough putting a leg through an opening that was originally meant for another body part---don't know how I did it and probably couldn't recreate it if I tried  but dang if it want hot enough to 'fry an egg' *
and I WAS NOT gonna take the energy or inclination to untangle them- it was hot an it was sticky (we have taken to calling this weather 'maple syrup weather') and it took allot of hot sticky tugging just to put them on in the first place.**

 I was not going to untangle my bottoms- My husband and daughter made fun of my attire--- until I told them the alternative-- which was me going oh natural on the bottom, in the pool, with them--- not a peep more was said and a rousing game of  ' I'm gonna dunk you, sucker' ensued........ ahhh, a good dip does the soul of a mermaid good.

* - as in : frying egg on sidewalk--another one of those odd old wisdom proverbs-- who the hell thought of frying an egg on a sidewalk is beyond me.
** - in hindsight if actually I had paid attention perhaps they wouldn't have been so hard to put on in the first place..... hmmmm- I'll have to remember that next time.