We have our tickets booked for a nice long trip in mid-October. We arrive on the evening of the 14th and leave on the evening of the 23rd. I’m so looking forward to the cool fall temperatures, and David’s hoping for the Red Sox to be in the playoffs so he can watch […]

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This is what Jessica and I look like having coffee, except this isn’t Garnder’s in Cleveland. This is Octane in Atlanta. Us two=many coffee dates

On Friday afternoon, I went to my old college town of Cleveland, Tennessee to meet up with a friend. My friend, Jessica, and I had coffee and cheesecake at one of our favorite old hangouts, a quaint pseudo-european deli in downtown called Gardner’s Market. When my husband dropped me off at two, Jessica […]

Lately, I have been doing lots of cutting and pasting. Let me explain what I mean by that: I have lots of magazines, and I sit down and cut photos out and then I paste them on paper (so maybe I didn’t need to explain that….oh well). For so long, I have […]

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Yesterday as soon as I got out of class at 4:30 I hurried David off the computer so that we could go and get Simon. When we picked him up, he seemed sad. But a lot less sad than on Monday when we went to visit him. […]

Someone recently said that if I was an animal I would be a koala. So I guess they see me as lazy…

I can’t wait until 5:30 this afternoon because that’s when I can go and pick up Simon from the vet. He’s been there since Monday morning. He had quite the day on Monday. He got fixed. He got declawed. He got his shots. And he got his ears cleaned. […]

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San Diego was amazing. Here is a photo of us and the new friends we made out there. Their names are David and Tara. Family names, it’s like we knew them before we even met them. Amazing, amazing people.
We got to do lots of wonderfully […]

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We began having suspicions weeks ago. Is Mona Gray really a girl we asked? And as time went by, more and more people questioned our proclamation that she was indeed a she. A friend left a note after checking on the […]