Bad bad dogs...

Can dogs be bulimic?

Because I'm trying to understand why they scarf down their food like it's the last supper and then proceed to barf their undigested kibbles all over our dining room carpet.

Anyone for lunch? My hubby is suggesting we have doggie stew.

Lazy Sundays

When I was growing up Sundays were filled with church sermons, itchy legs (I hated wearing nylons) 2pm dinners, and family drives.

Today, Sundays are filled with toast, tea and newspapers in a crowded bed, english football games, 2pm dinners and late afternoon movies.

I love lazy Sundays.

Where is the real news?

A close friend of mine often asks me why I bother to read the news...it's so depressing.

If you asked me 10 to 15 years ago, I would have said...to stay on top of world events, to better understand our world and my place in it.

Nowadays though, I'm looking for something else.

Where are the Carl Bernsteins...the Bob Woodwards of the world? Why is it every time I read the news these days (usually online) everything is so dumbed down?

We are being spoon fed the news...

...and I hate to break it to you, but 99% of what they are spoon feeding you is crap.


I have faith that the we, as U.S. citizens, are smarter than the administration that is running our country.

Happy Father's Day Daddy

It's been 16 years since you passed away, and I miss you every day.

I miss the sound of your voice.

I miss your smell of sweet tobacco and aftershave.

I will always be your girl.

June's Book Recommendation

From the first time I saw Out of Africa, I've always fantasized how wonderful living in Africa would be. Except for my fear of...

• spiders
• ticks
• rodents
• any creepy-crawly bugs really

Last month I read,
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller

I thought the title was a little strange, but the book is a wonderful, insightful memoir. Very funny at times, and I strongly recommend it as a good summer read.

Happy Reading!!!

OCD Showering

Unless you know me intimately, you'd never know I have this problem.

...and let me say for the record, I'm not sure it's really a problem.

Is it ever a problem to be too clean?

Yes, it's true I suffer from a few OCD tendencies. Okay, everyone who knows me can stop laughing now....what? only a few?

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the shower.

I couldn't shower any differently, even if I tried. Washing my hair is an intricate process. I wash my face three times...once in the beginning, once in the middle, and right before I'm done...not all with the same face wash either, mind you.

If I'm not scrubbing at least 5 layers of skin off, I really don't feel clean.

It all seems perfectly normal to me.

Doesn't everyone try to keep their hair from going down the drain?

I feel like I'm 14 again...

Last week I got a e-mail from kidlet #2's teacher, "Please make an appointment to see me".

Good grief. I instantly felt queasy.

Am I the only parent that feels like a 14 yr. old showing her parents her report card when the teacher asks to see them?

That's all it said, no explanation, no reason why...nothing. Can't I have a hint?

School's almost out...how bad could it be?

I see her in an hour.

I'll keep you posted.

UPDATE: All she wanted was to give us a summer review packet...?????

Why we had to "meet" I have no idea.

Once again I stressed over nothing.

My New Support Group

This week our new lyme support group got together.

I feel a mix of relief and sadness...relief that others are suffering just like me...and sadness because these kind people are suffering just like me.

Young and old, they are all suffering with chronic lyme symptoms.


Today I'm thankful for them.