I'm finally catching up after being away for the weekend. -t, I am so, so sorry. You will be in my thoughts. It's good to hear that you have many people being supportive. My heart goes out to you.

I will put it on Craigslist and Freecycle. Ooh, I can also get put the shelves in the garage up there, too. And a bunch of kids toys.

Oh, shit, I should just have a garage sale. I wonder how long it would take me to organize that. Two weeks? I don't have to go back to class til the 14th. Huh. I bet I could do that.

I need/want to get a bunch of the ex's stuff that "we can just get rid of" out of the garage/basement. And I could put all of the money into getting other stuff done around here for the wedding.

Liese must be excited about tonight's hockey game.

I have trach ties that are too small for Grace which I need to get rid of. My g-tube support group does equipment exchange. I wonder if there is such a thing for the trach support group (called Neckbreathers which is hilarious).

It doesn't look like -t keeps kosher to me. ( I can hear her rabbi now- he explained a lot saying things like 'This is the tradition, but no one should feel they have to do x ) Eggs and almonds were on the no list. And she is avoiding corn syrup.

And at this point in time, I think letters and cards are going to most appreciated - esp after these 7 days are over.

Matt and I spent the day in SF doing a really long wander. It has been a number of years since we could do that. It was good. We did find a place that served Dark and Stormys. I knew instantly they were using Bacardi. Matt asked why and i said it tasted like high school. It wasn't bad, but both Megan walker and I make better ones.

did you hear about the girls softball team who forfeited their game to teach the other team how to play?

That is AWESOME. Girls' softball FTW!

Totally awesome girl's softball! And I recognized some of the school names, cause my hometown, Indianapolis! (before I clicked on the article, I was like "Roncalli and Bishop Chartard? Is this in Indy?")

I used wine bottles among my pot plants as suncatchers

I, too, did a double-take at this and thought "...you have many pot plants??"

and thought "...you have many pot plants??"

I was just going to wonder why she wasn't sharing.

Except my brain was all goody goody and translated it to potted plants. Bad brain!

Hee! No pot plants. Actually, in the new house, no plants in pots, either. But here are the plants I used to have. Oh and this is after I cleaned the deck up. At one point, where the shelves are in these pictures, I had a redwood picnic table shoved against the wall, the bench in these pictures set against the wall on top of the table, and I used it as a potting bench and shelf, with the second bench shoved up underneath the table as a lower shelf. I had stacks and stacks of terra cotta pots and saucers of all sizes stored under the table--it was dark and mossy and cool and wonderful on hot sunny days, with the plants and the swing and canopy. But the damp rotted the floor boards, and then we started having freaky microbursts that caught the canopy and the swing tried to fly--actually landing in the front yard twice before I gave up and removed the canopy. It wound up blown onto its side and scraped to the other end of the deck by wind, even then, so it got consigned to the yard, the pots all went into covered storage in the barn, and the hibiscus pots got wired to the bench so they wouldn't take flight.

I miss the deck, actually. It was a lovely outdoor room from April to November.

hey, guess who woke me up at 3:30, because it was too scary. and yes, I am the only one still awake from that.

Hey, awesome! I am up because I gave up and took cough medicine in the middle of the third period, which meant that I conked out around eight o`clock, and also that the meds wore off about an hour ago, so huge horking coughing fit. I am so over this cold.
 
BUT! Yes, I was very excited about the game. I think our defense played badly both games, but we still won. And we`ve been playing better on the road, so we`ll have to see what happens when we get to Philly. C`mon Lord Stanley!