tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147826282024-03-19T02:11:06.881-07:00SuisanAnd they did say that saw him go,
Black Jack Davy, he is hunting.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-15837049791111607002013-02-08T12:03:00.001-08:002013-02-08T12:03:22.344-08:00Long weekendsTwo in a February. So odd to do it this way.
The kids' Grandma is in town this weekend. She hasn't been in town for a while now. It's great that the kids get to see her, but I'm feeling not so social.
Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-11060148190254508772013-02-06T08:36:00.002-08:002013-02-06T08:36:18.935-08:00And the password is...Couldn't figure out how to log into this blog for the longest time.
Couldn't remember what email address was associated with it.
Finally remembered which email address I used.
Couldn't remember the password to the email account.
Had to reactivate the email account.
Finally got access to the blog.
And, my first post back after months of silence is one where I'm bitching.
Woo Hoo!Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-69655209468725499872010-07-29T08:38:00.000-07:002010-07-29T08:40:27.825-07:00Road tripI may go off on a road trip today. Thinking about getting back in to leathercrafting. Tooling, carving, stitching, etc. But in order to do that, I'd need supplies.Dear Butcher's home -- to day may be the day to load the CD's up in the car and head out to the hinterlands to find a leather shop.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-75632633329478383952010-07-27T10:15:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:17:02.737-07:00TuesdaysI normally have plans for Tuesday mornings, but all three kids are home today.No school, no camp.Which means I have to forgo my regular Tuesday morning plans and I'm more than a little annoyed about it.Ergggh.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-74262817124469221082010-07-26T13:16:00.000-07:002010-07-26T13:25:17.430-07:00UpdatesGot Saul an iPod nano.He took it on the plane when he and grandma flew to NYC. Apparently it was left on the plane. "That's OK," says Grandma. "I'll replace it." She sent us money, we bought him an iPod Touch.Dire warnings. DO NOT take this outside. Don't show it off to your friends. Don't take it outside. Don't leave it on the curb when you go skateboarding with your friends.Fourth of July Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-14263575970675921282010-07-25T10:06:00.000-07:002010-07-25T10:10:25.052-07:00A new way to visit old friendsI learned this morning that Charles Craver has donated his impressive collection of Arabian horse skulls to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Charles bred Davenport Arabian horses for decades, including my aunt's beloved Binni. Actually, he didn't just breed them, he gathered the tribe together and created the Davenport program as it currently exists. He corresponded with "The Greats" in Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-15183610756749668202010-06-20T12:50:00.000-07:002010-06-20T12:55:27.862-07:00JuneDear Butcher's BirthdayMy BirthdayFather's DaySon's BirthdayWedding AnniversaryAll in a two week period. We like to cram them in!Dear Butcher gave me cash for my birthday, which was much appreciated. I bought hair ornaments with the money for my ever lengthening locks.More later when I figure out what I need to blog about(Oh. Update from my last post regarding my silly mother. Haven't spoken to Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-66134476292130601532010-04-09T07:54:00.000-07:002010-04-09T07:59:57.125-07:00Email alerts.It's all very well to decide not to pick up the phone if caller ID says it's my mother or brother. (Babbling co-dependent loonies, the two of them.) It's a good plan, although annoying in that they will call and call and call and call the house, and my bluetooth in the car doesn't have caller ID, so I end up speaking to my brother all the time on speaker phone in the car because I Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-63077090667779324072010-04-07T16:15:00.000-07:002010-04-07T16:18:48.948-07:00Folding laundry, ironing shirts, stacking dishes, cleaning the floor.All of these involve an insane level of boredom.I am aware that this is not much of a news flash -- but I'm struck by how very, very, very bored I've been all freaking day long. And the house really doesn't look all that much better as everything is *folded* in the closet rather than lying on the floor of the closet.Edit -- Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-34357439549244213962010-04-06T06:03:00.000-07:002010-04-06T06:03:36.635-07:00There's a tree somewhere producing pollen and I'm stuck with this headache.Allergy medication works, but it KNOCKS me out. Like a hammer to the head, sometimes right in the middle of a sentence.And the newest fabulosity is that just before the allergy strikes, the entire inside of my mouth starts itching.I never used to have hay fever. My mother even scorned its very existence -- that children Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-46537587332289871892010-04-03T07:30:00.000-07:002010-04-03T07:33:44.259-07:00Food RevolutionLike JM Carr, I've been watching Food Revolution, but I've been a bit disappointed, as I am with all things regarding public education as reported in the media. There's not enough detail to help explain to the viewer the problems the Jamie's up against as he tries to change the nation's school lunch programs.First of all, he's not the first chef to try. Alice Waters tried to set up school Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-61359962476406440952010-04-02T22:33:00.000-07:002010-04-02T22:35:22.260-07:00I'll never think that I went overboard in naming my children unusual names again. My daughter has two friends, one named Zephyr and one named Aristotle.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-13942029171808822752010-04-01T09:49:00.000-07:002010-04-01T09:53:38.416-07:00DreamsHad a dream last night at Evil Auntie Peril left a comment on my blog which read, "Now what?"So I started wondering my dream what she meant. What conversation was she referring to? Was she referring to something on her blog?But in my dream I couldn't get to her blog, and really I couldn't get to my computer either. I just had this image in my head of a computer screen I had seen somewhere with a Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-6450680676884677332010-03-30T11:28:00.000-07:002010-03-30T11:29:04.954-07:00My Idiot BrotherMy Idiot Brother annoys me.There's more to the story, but essentially, we are back on speaking terms. No, he hasn't apologized for calling a f*&^ing thief, and no, I'm not thrilled that we are speaking again. It's just that he has my phone number, and I care about my nephew too much to spit in his father's eye when there's still a chance that I can be of some benefit to my nephew.Today he Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-17723412757537040562010-03-29T12:48:00.000-07:002010-03-29T12:48:26.860-07:00And then the crazy hitsThis seems to be happening to me with greater frequency this month.I'll be talking to someone, or following an argument online or on TV, nodding my head, agreeing with the premise, happy and content, and the the crazy hits. About five steps in, the person I thought was so perspicacious drops a crazy bomb right in the middle of an example.Whoa. Wait a minute. I was with you right up until .... Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-18535820000551203352010-03-29T11:27:00.000-07:002010-03-29T11:45:07.969-07:00Best email salutation ever."Dear Knitting Mentor Guru Fabulous Suisan Person,"Now tell me, who wouldn't get a pick-me-up from that? Made my day, it did.-------------In other news, I should not go shopping with my youngest daughter ever again. She is not me and I don't get her.I never got the whole "window shopping", "retail therapy", "Let's try on tons of clothes just for fun" thing that girls do to bond with each other. Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-70067575225776218102010-03-22T09:30:00.000-07:002010-03-22T09:30:48.073-07:00But what if my morals are horrible?Recently I was considering a job offer for a position I'd really like to have. Lots of organizing of paperwork (which I'm quite good at if it's other people's paperwork, not my own), answering phones, and dealing with the public. But after fiddling with the application over a few days, I realized that there's no way I can make this thing work.Maybe I can apply in the fall, but this summer my Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-59360925865297802682010-03-01T17:31:00.000-08:002010-03-01T17:46:13.561-08:00Head deskHad lengthy email convo with art department head at Neo's high school re: admission to advanced art class.He agreed to look over her portfolio and said she's most likely be a good fit for "Art 2" or possibly for AP Studio Art, which is a two-year class.Being a good mommie, I took her art portfolio to school during her lunch break and sat in the office while she was meeting with art department Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-49405893462594810202010-02-28T11:02:00.000-08:002010-02-28T11:03:38.262-08:00Top GearI'm not even sure what they're watching, but I can hear Jeremy's voice, and my two eldest kids are CACKLING with laughter in the living room. BBC America must be showing Top Gear.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-27129574762195128292010-02-27T09:57:00.000-08:002010-02-27T10:08:06.773-08:00Why I love my daughter's summer campMy youngest daughter went to four weeks of sleep-away summer camp last summer. She LOVED it. This year we're sending her back.I was reading through the handbook to check on a few dates and came across a certain attitude that reminds me why I love this place. Anyone who can write these into a parent handbook should be my best friend.On the use of cell phones at camp:Cell phones of all types are Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-66687948348489510472010-02-17T13:03:00.001-08:002010-02-17T13:04:25.641-08:00What she saidReal Fur makes you a better skater? Why can't he just wear fake fur and be done with it?Or, What She Said.Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-83994276136631640302010-02-14T17:02:00.000-08:002010-02-14T17:06:54.807-08:00RosesIt's Valentine's Day.How do I know this? I have red roses on my dining room table. Sent to me by my mother.Because her first date with my dad was on Valentine's Day and she wants me to call her and congratulate her on staying together for so many decades. To encourage me to call her, she sends me flowers on Valentine's Day.It's quite odd.Today I'm taking apart my youngest daughter's room and Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-51358932011544079102010-02-13T09:31:00.000-08:002010-02-13T09:40:13.979-08:00Aw, come on.I spend a good part of my online time in the "general conversation" area of a message board. Made some good friends there, participated in a few kerfuffles, teased some trolls, supported a few people through some rough times. We end up talking a lot about horses too, which is fun.But recently the horse thread is no good. Which is too bad -- we had fourteen threads of fifty pages each on training,Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-9363235307583017742010-02-12T08:38:00.000-08:002010-02-12T08:38:47.052-08:00Getting all misty-eyed?I went to a school-district-sponsored community budget forum last night. Yes, yet again we are out of money and facing big cuts. I haven't been paying a LOT of attention to school budget stuff, and I always learn the stuff better when it's presented to me in person, so I toddled down to the elementary school to stand in the back and soak it up.There was a City Council member there -- he whisperedSuisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14782628.post-63324864002410417572010-02-09T10:47:00.000-08:002010-02-09T10:49:36.693-08:00Got Joni on the brainHe was sitting in the lounge of the Empire HotelHe was drinking for diversionHe was thinking for himselfA little money riding on the Maple LeafsAlong comes a lady in lacy sleevesShe says let me sit downYou know, drinkin' alone's a shameIt's a shame it's a crying shameLook at those jokersGlued to that damn hockey gameHey honey-you've got lots of cashBring us round a bottleAnd we'll have some Suisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08005006529585506127noreply@blogger.com0