BBe

October 22, 2005

Weekend At A Glance

Sunday afternoon. Ahh, it feels good to finally get comfortable. My friends hubby came over and fixed my leaking commode. (oh my aching water bill) He is a plumber by trade, but hes not real keen on fixin up. Hes an installer. One of those union prima donnas. I felt obliged to make myself presentable. You know . . . . lose the pj’s and (oh the discomfort of it all) put on a bra. But its SUNDAY! Grrrr.
Well, its done and over. Almost painless, and true to his nature, he wouldnt even let me pay for parts. Alright! I take back all the bad things I’ve ever said about him, but…. OK! Zzzzip.

Yesterday was a very special day. My adopted granddaughter turned 5. We drove 2 hours to get to Ellas Deli in Madison. Ive been going on and off to this place for probably 20 years now, but its ever more special when you can actually bring a child. As you can see by the group picture, there were officially three children. Unofficially, I count fourteen, including myself behind the camera. I thought maybe the carousel ride would be turned off for the season. Im glad they were still giving rides. I even hopped on!

We ate lunch there, and after opening gifts, staff brought out this HUGE 15 person sundae, singing happy birthday and blowing kazoos. Is that a sundae or what?! Everybody dug in (with individual serving dishes) and believe it or not, there wasnt much for leftovers. It was a fun day from beginning to end.

Earlier in the day, I was sent a link to a website that offered 100 of the greatest pop songs from 1963 to present. I didnt see too much from the 60s actually. I downloaded almost all of them and quickly made CDs to take along for the ride. On the way back home, we decided to try them out. In our van, ages ranged from 26-53. Most of the tunes were ones that all of us knew. Even the guys sang along. Ok, remember the song from “Saturday Night At The Roxbury?” It starts out…. What is Love? Well, the guys didn’t bob their heads, but WE did. Right on cue. 🙂 I cant remember the last time Ive said this, but the night didnt last long enough. I could have rode to the moon and back, just singing songs, laughing and having fun with good people.

Duke

October 23, 2005

Shows what a popster I must be – I have about 90% of the top 100 on either vinyl, tape, cd, or MP3. Heh.

Willy & Wilma

Great weekend with those kids! The list of songs sure left out a lot of the ones I remember.

Sunshine Wolf

October 24, 2005

I’m thinking I want one of those personal 15 person piles of goo!!!

+Ditto

sounds like a perfect weekend – she is precious!!!! thanks for the link. I’ll have to go check it out.

ThomaS

I know people also who get goofy on Coke but they inhale and I just drink mine out of a can and not the tabletop

Jenni*leigh

Wow, sounds like a great weekend and wow what a birthday treat, Love the look on the firends face in the picture, like holy cow would ya look at that, LUCKY!! Kids are great and getting to share those speical days are what reminds us of that and why. Hugs

October 25, 2005

RYN…Verrrrry Punny

Maui Jim

Aloha nui loa… That sundae looks messy… Delicious… but messy… SLURP…! Ryn; Thank you… Me ke aloha…

RYN: Your welcome, and yea your right I do have problems, I always get myself into these situations, nothing ever quite like this, but others and end up having to dig my way out. I didn’t/ couldn’t have ever seen this coming… kinda side swipped me hard. Not sure what to do yet… or how, so we shall see… I’m still really confused or something over it all. Hugs

wanderlust (2)

October 29, 2005

what an awesome day for the kids & the adults. I think we all need days like that where we are just relaxed & having fun & being silly. A good old fashioned sing along. Happy birthday to the birthday girl.

your history – some of these work – most other folks do not http://web.archive.org/web/20000511095800/www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=A100350

chutes+

October 30, 2005

Great pix!

Elle: 2

October 31, 2005

Great entry ! And a good time was had by all! P.S. Now that is my kind of sundae ! … LOL Smiles, 🙂 Ella

~Katherine

November 2, 2005

ryn: I loved it that you said you always wonder what use you might make of something before throwing it away. That’s because you’re a creative person! I used to think I was creative too and that was my reason for saving everything. I better hurry up and create something before I get buried in all this stuff. Hugs,

November 21, 2005

Sending warm Thanksgiving wishes to you & yours… 🙂

ryn: Ah, you would have to know Mikey. I don’t get it myself, but somehow every chick in Pensacola seemed to…

November 29, 2005

Hi BBe, I hope all is well there. You haven’t written for a while. Being tagged is an easy way to write a quick entry & to share a bit about yourself. Share 5 random &/or weird facts about yourself. You’ve been tagged. If you’ve already been tagged tell me where to find your entry, I’m curious of course. If you’re not playing that’s fine, I know time is precious. Mine answers on in entry 11-29

ryn: You’re not going to believe this or maybe you will…but I almost added Bruce Willis in there too but thought…oh man, they’re already going to think I’m strange because of Costner and Fuhrman…if I throw in another one they’ll think I’ve lost it. I love his voice as well! how are you? how was thanksgiving? what’d you do? those boys straighten up or you need me to come kick some butt? 😉

December 9, 2005

Aloha (12/9/05)… Seems like it’s been a while since you have written in your journal… When my daughter Jen was here… we went through Emily’s stuff… and I showed her the journal you gave me… It brought tears to both of our eyes… You are a very nice person… ya know…! Me ke aloha…

December 20, 2005

Hey sweetie, I’ve been thinking about you and wondering how you are so was glad to get your note. That doesn’t tell me how you are but at least I know you’re alive and sitting at the computer. I wish you would post an entry but I understand having no urge to do so. ryn: what a nice compliment. Thank you! Love you, P.