Flaming June's Love

Thanks to my dear friend Ruby for thinking of me at the show last night. I wanted to go and see them all in person but didnt have willing or passionate participant. I would rather not go and enjoy other peoples experience than go with someone that I would have to worry about them being bored or hating every minute of it. Ruby was so kind to take some pics from her AMAZING seats obviously.

OK so here is a story for my friend Ruby. She seems to always get the nutty neighbors and I yes I have the predictable, gentle, thoughtful ones. NOT TODAY!!!!!! There is a woman that lives on the corner of our street, she is in a two family house alongside an alley. Those of you from Alleyless neighborhoods or states they are single lane roads that run behind homes for access to garages and streets whenever necessary. Most of all THEy ARE PUBLIC ROADS!!! OK In the past the girls and I have driven down this alley to get to the whatever.. crossstreet. Legal, accessible, predictable. There is the woman who we will call, hmm bottz, sitting in her yard, porch, streetside smoking cigarettes and waving her arms around at people driving by. One day we drove through the alley and she threw a bicycle at us. yup she had to move a bike out of the PUBLIC road and was pissed. She truly believes this alley belongs to her. I am the first to defend my kids, and then again I am usually the first t...

Top pic of Missi cuz I love her Next few of the cabinets in the kitchen about to be installed. The last pic is the sitting area in our bedroom, note the tray ceiling yeah i love it. I am so terribly confused.

OK I shouldnt be saying this out loud but I am really really nervous. I put the For Sale sign out yesterday at 4 pm I now have had two calls already for it and someone coming tomorrow at 10 am. I am asking an extremely low amount for the house because I want it sold quickly without the realtor involvement and just pay what I owe with enough to but some furniture for the house. I might have 5 grand left over, maybe. OK here is the kicker. I am selling the last thing that is mine. I will have no plan B Nothing to fall back on if THINGS dont work out. Women readers really know what I mean. Men readers... oh if any.. (Other than ANdy occasionaly) not so much. I am not committed to the relationship, I am a doubter, I dont trust, I am a pessimist. uhhhh,,, yes,... yes and yes,, and yup/. I love my husband and dont want anything to happen to us. I also love my children and myself enough to know that I will NEVER EVER BE WITHOUT THEM> Without any money, no income to speak of and parta...

I know they look a little ummm sassy LOL But I think they are beautiful and they are so grown up. Out for dinner with their girlfriends tonight for a birthday celebration. I cant get over Missi. Something is happening to hre and it seems as if it is overnight. Love these girls.

First of all look at that light on her. It kinda freaked me out. I think it is the angels spreading wings over her. Maybe my dad shining a smile over her. ANYWAY>>>>> Allie went to a Phillies game last night. They lost 12 nuthin but they had fun I guess. She called later on and said she didnt feel good and wanted to come home for the weekend. I so want to go and get her I just hope that she isnt getting home sick. She has been complaining of stomach problems for a week or so and that she feels "pukey" all the time. I want her well and not nervous all the time. She doesnt look sick in this pic from the game, I do know that she can be in real discomfort and wouldnt let anyone else know. Either way i am so in love with these kids that if she wants to come home I will go on Friday after work and get her. Happily, excitedly, gratefully.

Yes I can do without diamonds, furs, new cars and new clothes. It is sheetrock that gets me hot and bothered. I walked intot he house today and there are walls. So walls and ceiling and corners that I didnt know we had. Closets that appear smaller and bathrooms that are bigger. What is my anticipated orgasmic idea.... Yes the kitchen. My best bud Sue has been teasing me incessantly taht I dont cook why get such an amzing kitchen. Well I may not be the best cook but I have kids that sit in the kitchen. Thats enough for me. I grew up in a kitchen sitting house. I come from a long line of kitchen sitters and dammit I want our new home to be kitchen sitting heaven. Island, Bar with room for 6 yes 6 barstools. A window seat with room for three comfortably. Yup the cosiest kitchen sitting bonding snacking eating area of your life and you are all all all invited. Just dont ask for any kind of glamorous food cuz this girl is a meat and taters and real good at snacks. Open room be...

Can anyone tell me if I am a normal woman? I sometimes feel like I am an absolute basket case and deserve a quiet room with green walls and no mirrors or shoelaces. I can say that I want out sometimes. Out of what you may ask? well at the moment I want out of everything. I will keep my kids but that is a stretch too sometimes. i think any marriage that survives the building of a house deserves a five year hiatus when it is over. I am now a the point where I wouldnt mind the mess just caving in. Not really but I do feel as though I cant make a decent decision nor am I capable or DESERVING of anything. I watch enough tv to know that houses go over budget. Now try putting in a kitchen with decent cabinets and a (beautiful ) countertop under budget. Now add appliances and sinks and the tax and yup I am over budget. 2300 bucks worth. I have no problem getting the washer and dryer off the list and keep mine, to keep the granite top. But you know what? I have a feeling that the ...

Yean she had a good time with her friends obviously. I can honestly say i would rather have Missi and her friends up all night painting their faces and being REALLY LOUD. Than the alternative of me and some of my friends at the same age. Well... Maybe not me because I was really a good girl for my Mom and Dad, but I had a few friends that on PAPER were a parents NIGHTMARE!!!!! The boy got his hair cut on Friday. Yeah all the blonde hair is gone just about. I am hoping that this will give him thicker hair for the holiday pics. Well I have to go cover books for my daughter. (she knows how to do it but just cant seem to get it the WAY MOM DOES IT>)

Last hurrah for PSU-ND rivalry? BY DONNIE COLLINS STAFF WRITER 09/08/2007 email this storyEmail to a friendprinter friendlyPrinter-friendly And so, it is ending, this rivalry that gives so much to two college football-crazy states: Passionate fans. Two of the most tradition-rich teams in the nation. A 12-game series in the 1980s and early 1990s that provided the classic in '87, Craig Fayak's last-second field goal in 1990, Rick Mirer-to-Reggie Brooks to win with 20 seconds to go in '92. It's Penn State-Notre Dame. One more time. When the longtime rivals meet at 6 p.m. tonight in Beaver Stadium, they may be doing so for the last time. Despite the passion fans in both states still have for what was one of the best year-ending matchups in the country more than a decade ago, the teams aren't scheduled to meet again during the regular season in the near future. That's only one of the reasons both teams are going to be looking to make one final impression on their opp...

Ye sit is true. The matchup of the year, maybe not for the actual football persay but the rivalry and history of the whole thing. Yup it is true NOTRE DAME VS> PENN STATE. They met for the first time last season after a twenty year hiatus because of different whatrevers but now the Fighting Irish are at Happy valley. Now here comes the best part, Tickets going for over a grand per seat. Guess where my kid is at.???? Of course you know she is not at her quiet Catholic university nopooooo.. She is in the middle of happy valley with her HS buds that are students at PSU and partying her ass off. She called last night at about 8:30 and I heard this incredible roar. then as I concentrated I could hear the chanting of thousands of college students WEE ARE PENN STATE!!!! And My Allie screaming in the foreground just plain old joyful spirited yaahhhhhhh!!!!! She obviously coldnt hear me laughing my butt off and enjoying the band playing their PEnn State fight songs. She held her phon...

OK here aree some oldies but goodies. Tim and I at a wedding circa 1986. Tim had hair and I look all shy and coy. hhhmmmm who is that girl anyway. The kids, with my Dad. We went to the mountain house every summer. But then one day on the last day of school my Mom adn Dad picked us up from school and sid ok here we go, where where? to the beach for the day. We drove to Atlantic city and jumped in the water, we had never been to the beach before this day. My dad is probably 28 in this pic. The last pic is Suzie and her friends from HS. Yup drinking heineken and smoking cigarettes on Liz's back porch. The girl in Yellow yeah I didnt like her, can you tell. Hey I was 17 yrs old and still scribbled people out of pictures.

Something happened to Missi when she got her hair cut this last time. She just woke up a teenager. Makeup, hair done and really really nice. She has always been nice but she is EXTRA FRIENDLY. She liked school today and had her friend over after school. I made a pot of meatballs and they ate with us and really really nice. Allie is doing well. She has cheerleading tryouts tonight. How cool would that be to be a college cheerleader? I was lucky to get in on any football games. LOL. I hope she makes the squad I think she will feel better about being there. She told me she is having a little bit of trouble making friends, so I think this would really help her. I am attaching more photos of course and really need to tell the story of Sue and I when you are in the mood for a chuckle.

A few people places and things have been swirling around the ol' brain lately. I have felt reminiscent about old days, old people and the way things "could" have been. I mentioned (absentmindedly) to my current husband that if I had been such a fuck up I could still be married to my first husband. He was very kind and didnt freak out but I realize it wasnt a very nice thing to say to him. I think that situation started our weekend off with the proverbial BANG. I drove down Friday to pick up Allie from school. A two hour drive when accompanied by an adult that can read a map. When a two year old is in the back seat screaming along it takes two and a half. I can usually get somewhere without difficulty the first time. This trip that I have taken probably 0 times for different occasions to Philadelphia just befuddles me every time. Construction and numerous junctions of highways that intersect all along a three mile stretch just makes me drive like an 80 year old bl...