Putting Books in the bookcase - very slowly....

while watching Objects in Space - which maes me want to Watch Serenity, but I just loaned that to someone

congradulations Aimee!

I am sure at the very least we have doubled our storage space for books. Why do I feel that I will not have enough space left to make an empty bookcase or two?

Thanks for all the congrats, my lovelies! It feels good to have done well.

I am bored at work and trying to resist the temptation of buying a candy bar. I signed up on FitDay.com and am trying to really restrict my calories and get my protein and fiber up. And as soon as money settles into place, I am joining the gym again. I want to lost 50 lbs.

So, yeah.

I need some entertainment.

I need Teppy as my Seekrit Santee this year, as I just found the perfect Tepgift at my favorite local store.

A semi-colon made out of chocolate and porn?

ION, funeral and related activities are now over. I had to get up at 7 a.m. for a very long day that included the visitation before the funeral Mass, then the aforementioned Mass, the cemetery ceremony -- it was a complete surprise to me when we arrived at the cemetery and the VFW contingent was there for the full military send-off, including a 21-gun salute and a bugler playing Taps, which is about when I got all weepy -- and then food food and more food afterward.

My grandparents' cemetery plots are very close to a pond that's part of the cemetery's land, and in the middle of the ceremony a flock of Canada geese flew in low over our heads and landed in the pond. I said to my cousin, "Who needs the Blue Angels when you've got geese?"

I suspect that my granddad actually had a hand in the geese flying over when they did. (As it turns out, the whole family thought the same thing.)

The bagpiper was a nice touch, and made the people who weren't already sniffly from the military ceremony get all weepy.

Cindy, you asked what Scripture reading I was doing -- it was Romans 14:7-12. I love the book of Romans, but that particular passage isn't one that I would have chosen for a funeral, but it wasn't up to me.

I am going to take a long long nap.

{{{Teppy}}}

I just ran around quickly closing every window in the apartment because the rain and the wind started up so quickly and so loudly that for a second I thought someone was trying to break into our apartment.

Teppy, I'm so sorry about your grandpa.

Suela, I had to put my kitty Solomon to sleep two years ago.

It's hard to say good-bye to anyone, even if you know it's for the best.

IO(shallow)N, I am sitting in the back deck, in a just-out-of-the-dryerclean sarong, typing on the laptop with a glass of lemonade, letting my hair air-dry.

I watched Elektra, hadbagel with c. cheese and lox and had a shower with one of those "rain" showerheads.

I'm getting PAID to do this!!!

Please explain why filling bookshelves means scattering books everywhere

Sounds like a good ceremony, Tep. Esp. the geese.

Way to go Aimee!

Suzi, I am so impressed with ho well you are able to juggle work and school and softball and not killing people who violate the sacred "Driver's Choice" law of roadtrip music. You are incredible.

What the hell am I going to write this research paper on? I have abolutely NO IDEAS.

Oh, suela. I'm sorry for you and the Beast, but you did right by him, and that's the best you can do. It's been many years since I had to do that (aside to Lucy: and it'll be many many more, hear that?), but it's so, so tough.