Favorite Halloween costumes of my past ... [in no particular order]

- Pink Panther [freshman year of HS through sophomore year of college - had the costume made]

- Tweedle Dum [this was in college - Kris was Tweedle Dee]

- Gypsy [around age 5 or 6 - I used a hamster ball as my crystal ball]

- Cheerleader [around age 7 my grandmother made my costume]

- Flapper [age 13 - great boa - my mom made the dress and headband - got my first tongue kiss that Halloween]

Amazing this guy could get a patent ...

I can't take the spam mail anymore ... today I got 82 ... 82 just today ... that is beyond crazy ... I have rules set up in my outlook ... doesn't help ... I add new senders to the rules ... makes no difference ... I got 9 emails that I wanted and 82 that I didn't ... and there just seems to be no way to stop it ...

I almost missed posting that last post ... but I happened to copy the whole thing before publishing because I thought I would never write all this again ... and guess what ... I hit the "blogger pro" button instead of "post & publish" ... thank god I had copied it ... :)

all my dreams were screwy last night ... and in each one of them it was things that pissed me off ...


for some reason I was going to Lawrence, Kansas to live for a while and I packed a suitcase that was just a little bigger than a lunchbox ... and I didn't have the common sense to realize that wouldn't be big enough ... and I rode a motorcycle out there and I pulled into some weird gas station on accident and to get into the place it was like a vertical drop you had to go down ... so the attendant wouldn't let you leave unless you filled up your car ... which pissed me off so I left the motorcycle there and got on a bus ... I was trying to get to my friend Heather's house ... it wasn't till I got there that I realized I didn't pack anything I needed ...


then I was back here at the house ... and some guys were working on stuff ... it was like when I first moved in and there were always people here fixing and finishing stuff ... for some reason they screwed up my phone and I had been waiting for a call from Kansas ... and my mom was all pissed off and wanted to yell at the guys ... I said wait and picked up my cell phone and called my own number and it turned out my brother had had my phone forwarded to his cell ... he started to explain why and I got all pissed and hung up and I was yelling that if I ever did that to his phone all hell would break loose ... but my mom and dad were fine with the fact that he did that and just said he would put it back when he was finished ...


then my phone actually rang ... and when I picked it up the fucking phone wouldn't work ... this part was for real ... but since I picked up the machine stopped recording ... but the person couldn't hear me ...


it was like major PMS in my sleep ... what the hell that should be the time I don't have to deal with the evil monster.

Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower

But only so an hour

So leaf subsides to leaf

So Eden sank to grief

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay ...

-- Robert Frost


I have been saying this poem in my head for the last couple of days ... it is one of my all-time favorites ... I memorized it when I was a kid ... and recited it often ... I was overjoyed when I read the S.E. Hinton book "The Outsiders" and Ponyboy recites the poem to Johnny ... I have been thinking about the poem because all the leaves are changing colors here ... and as we drive from the house to the condo each day it is all wooded and golden and beautiful ...

I figured out what is more annoying than having your neighbor come downstairs and ask you to stop smoking on your own balcony ... it is her staying upstairs and spending about an hour opening and closing her sliding glass door ... as if to say ... "if you didn't live below me and smoke I could keep this door open and enjoy the overcast, cloudy, rainy cold day with my door open" ...


the sliding glass doors are huge ... and make a lot of noise ... which isn't a big deal if you open it ... hang out with it open ... close it ... but open/close wait about 2 minutes ... open/close wait 2 minutes ... open/close ... for about an hour it went on ... it was crazy ...

These are the dishes we are looking at getting ... the diner we go to uses them and both David and I love them ... aren't they cute?

so the search word part of my stats are working ... when I first opened it the stats were reading for only today ... the search words that lead someone to my site:

- camera in my pussy


nice huh??

it is finally getting cool enough here that I need to put something on at night to go out and smoke a cig ... so I pulled out my pashmina [sp?] ... and I just love it ... I love ALL my winter clothes ... hats and scarves are my favorite accessory ...


I saw the cutest hat in Real Simple with instructions on how to knit it ... I have always wanted to learn to knit and I am thinking I may try it with this hat ... the instructions always look funky but I am hoping that once I have needles in hand and some yarn they will make more sense ... besides if it is fun and I can actually do it ... that is something I will be able to do on my train ride to work ...

Thinking great thoughts for the Angels tonight ... so for inspiration here is a photo of Kris and I at an Angels game my last night as a California resident ... :)

I am so excited about the work David and I did today that I had to post a couple of pictures here for people that don't go to Our House Rules

if you like these pictures and want to see all of them from today then just go to Our House Rules and check them out ...


we sponge painted the entry and living room today ... took us about 9 hours but it was worth it ... it came out magnificent ...

Kramer weighs 18 pounds ... that is pretty damn big for a cat ... so last time we went to the store to get cat food we got him IAMS diet food ... well this last week I have noticed that Kramer seems to eat the food twice as fast as he used to ... he is never going to loose weight that way ...

David and I hung all our new lighting fixtures today ... and they look so awesome ... Check them out ... then when we got home our new cell phones were in the mailbox ... so he and I have been playing with the phones all night ... we actually get service in the basement now ... and they are just so cool ... voice dialing ... I even downloaded a new ring tone tonight ... Charlie's Angels ... fucking cool I tell you ...

Another great entry from Smack The Weasel

yesterday David and I started out a bit lazy ... it is time for us to do the faux finish in the living room ... but it was so overcast yesterday and we don't have that much light in the place that we didn't go over there ... we did however go to IKEA late yesterday and wound up getting a new light for the dining room and 3 for the 3 fixtures in the hall ... it is still pretty overcast today so I am thinking that instead of doing the faux finish today we can go hang our new lights and maybe paint the hall and do some touch up work in the dining room ... it is supposed to be sunny tomorrow so that might be a good time for the faux finish ... :)

On the news they aren't kidding when they say the DC area is breathing a collective sigh of relief ... that was just how I felt yesterday ... and here is a great link about The Snipper that I got from Smack The Weasel

OK so when I am in blogger typing away and I click on "view web page" it goes to the address: http://pro2.blogger.com/hacx0redbyme which is not my blog ... but when I try and report anything on the blogger site it seems all their "help" pages are having problems ...


so has anyone seen anything like this and know how to fix it?

it would appear someone hacked into something

the sniper stuff is so overwhelming ... it is on all the time ... my mom is beyond freaked out ... tomorrow morning David and I need to go to Home Depot and she just doesn't want us to go ... I hate to see her worry so much but we have to go on with life ... I know people are ready to stay inside all the time but it isn't feasible ...


so we did a bunch of work on our house today ... and I posted some new pictures ... Our House Rules ... it is looking so beautiful ... I can't wait till we are finished ... :)

another one ... another shot fired ... another person dead ... another incident in my direct area ...

The Mini Cooper Just the cutest car ever ... one day when David and I have enough money for 2 cars ... this is going to be it ... or course it will be David's ... but maybe I will get to drive it ... :)

Sales down 50%

our upstairs neighbor in the condo stomps around a lot and slams her patio door ... I am sure it is to tell us how displeased she is with the smoking but we have made several concessions ... first of all David and I don't smoke out there together anymore ... that way there isn't so much smoke at one time ... it is a bummer cause we have some of our best talks while sitting and having a cig ... but ya know whatever ... we talk all the fucking time ... secondly we put a fan out on the patio ... it TOTALLY blows the smoke away and down from the patio ... I haven't seen any of it rise up in the air since putting the fan out there ... on high mind you ...


I have become quite uncomfortable being there ... and I just have to stop that feeling ... it is my house .. we own it ... and David and I are planning on living there for some time ... we have put a HELL of a lot of work into the place ... and although everyone around me ... including my family ... keep saying "screw her" ... it is hard for me to feel that way ... I am a compassionate person ... I hate to know I am willfully making someone unhappy ... but at the same time I have to say I am putting forth an effort to make everyone happy ... I just need to learn to move on and stop letting things effect me so much ...


in NY I asked our upstairs neighbor to stop taking our mail in their house [it was all put into one box] and that didn't happen ... I also mentioned I would rather them not listen in on our conversations or at least if they did to not bring them up with me ... that didn't stop happening ... I dropped the hint in passing that they had so much garbage piled up in the back yard that raccoons and squirrels were feasting the night away and that if it wasn't taken to the curb rats would be next ... but they just piled more on top of the old ... but then I would hate to think I were like them because I hated having them as neighbors ...


I gotta stop stressing myself out ... David and I are working too hard on this place to hate it because of one person ... shit I saw what she bought her place for 3 years ago ... if she hates us that much she can sell it and double her money ... :)

So I have had stats on my blog for ever ... but I hardly look at them ... I noticed the other day though when I did check them out that the "keyword" section on "referrers by" wasn't set up ... so David tweaked everything and this is the first time I am looking at them ... in order of popularity this is how people found this site ...


- sex

- NYC

- moving things to do

- jpg

- www.theworldaccordingtoliz.com [old old old domain name for my journal ... too long to type]

- black

- woman

- 020

- comuting [spelled this way]


weird and wild stuff ... kinda groovy to see this stuff ... I am surprised how many people are getting to the site from old domain names ... the name of the site has changed several times in the last 4 years ... oh well ... just thought I would share ...


although come to think of it ... sex as the #1 on the list ... so strange ...

I hate to say this ... but it has become true ... every time I get out of my car to go inside somewhere ... and every time I leave somewhere and get into my car ... I am thankful I made it ...


today I went to pick up lunch for David and I while we were working on the condo ... and I went to a place on Rockville Pike ... and I felt my heart race a bit as I exited my car and headed for the restaurant's front door ... I felt the same heart murmur as I emerged from the restaurant and walked toward my car ... which was all the way across the parking lot ... right on the street ... it is unnerving ... it is unfair ... people should not have to live this way ... anywhere in the world ...


I am very good about telling people I love them when I leave them or hang up with them ... I always have been ... and I try hard not to stay mad at people I love ... because you never know when it will be the last time you get to say it ... and no one wants their last words to be "piss off" that you said while you were mad ... but now it is like everyone in this area has more of a chance of their last words happening ...


and what the fuck is up with someone lying about what they saw at a crime scene ... he should go to jail ... or be fined or something ... why would someone do that ... he wasn't on TV ... they weren't interviewing him on Barbara Wawa ... why would you do that ... unless he is friends with the sniper he has just a chance of being shot as anyone else ... shit the sniper is a crazy fucker even being his friend you could have a chance of being shot ... why would anyone mislead the police in their investigation ...


monday was the last shooting ... and tomorrow is Friday ... it makes me even more nervous ... there have been two weekends since this started ... neither of which anyone was shot ... it makes me worried that weekends will now become target times ... when even more people are out and with their families ... or that tomorrow will be a rampage like the first day ... get a bunch in before the weekend ...


the whole thing just makes me sick ... I really hadn't wanted to talk about it much in my blog ... but I just can't help it ... it is right here ... everywhere I go I see places where it has happened ... every radio station [music or talk] says stuff about it during every break ... the TV has stuff all day long ... even my local internet pages come up with sniper this and sniper that ...


it resembles living in New York when the WTC tragedy occurred ... yes I lived there ... and yes I worked blocks from ground zero ... but I was home that day ... for all I knew I wasn't in danger ... and nothing more was going to happen ... sure I thought maybe something could ... but my house was like a bomb shelter and I left only to get cigs and coffee ... I doubt the Starbucks in Farmingdale was being targeted by anyone ...


but this isn't over ... not that anyone knows ... but for right now he isn't dead or caught so it isn't over ... and I can't hole up in my house I have to live my life ... I will say this though ... I need to go to Michaels ... there are several items I need ... and although I don't believe the sniper shootings are related to Michaels [come on look how many stores there are ... you could say a McDonalds was near each crime scene too] ... I still don't want to go ... it is on Rockville Pike ... busy area ... easy to get away ... it fits the MO ...


so I will just keep my fear locked inside for a while ... tell my parents and David I love them every chance I get ... kiss my kitty before leaving the house ... and hold David's hand while we are driving around town ... and hope something good happens ...

now I know what gets comments on my site ... ways to annoy telemarketers and those that send junk mail ... so yndy and Gregg will be happy to know that today I used 2 pre-paid envelopes to send back credit card apps that I never asked for ... I had a huge smile on my face as I dropped them in the mail box ... I put everything they sent in the envelope including the envelope the junk mail came in ...

This is an email from my dad and I think it is a GREAT idea ...


This is great!!!I suppose the world of business would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant. Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time. The three little words are "Hold On, Please." Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's beep-beep-beep tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. This might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail to your friends. Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting. GOOD IDEAS: When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment let the companies throw them away. When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Now this is GREAT!! I didn't think of this!!! Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send the pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and the best of it is that they're paying for it! Twice! Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase postage again! Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty....

I spent the entire day working on Heather's website ... and it came out pretty good ... and pretty close to finished ...


David comes home tomorrow and I am so happy ... I really missed him ... I know it was good for the two of us to be apart a bit ... but I am happy he will be home ... and when we spoke today he sounded happy to be coming home ... Kramer will be quite happy as well ... he seems so sad since David left ... like it is nice of me to be around but I don't quite cut it ...


this sniper business has gotten crazy here ... I don't know how they are ever going to catch this person ... tonight my mom and I really wanted Boston Market for dinner and she just didn't want me to go to Rockville Pike [the area of the first day of shooting] ... and knowing her it was because she obsessively worries about stuff and god forbid anything happens she wouldn't be able to live with herself ...


last night around 9 PM I was thinking ... "well no one was shot today ... maybe he is taking a break ... or feels lucky to have gotten away with it and isn't going to do it anymore" ... and then across the top of the screen of the show I was watching it says ... "woman shot and killed in the Home Depot parking lot of Seven Corners" ... and that nervous feeling came back to my stomach ...


it is just sick ... my mom said the other day "if they catch this guy how could anyone oppose the death penalty" and I agree with her ... this guy has used the public like beer cans along the fence for target practice ...


I am ranting now ... and it is time for bed ... so it is off to dream land for Lizzie

i miss davie ...

This is a piece of my friend Heather's artwork ... it is metal with images with resin ... and I just love it ... I was just setting it up to put on a website for her and I just wanted to share ... :)

"My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine."

- Tallulah Bankhead

yea baby ... another win for my beloved Anaheim Angels ... and tonights game was so great once it got to the 7th inning ... ahhhhh I can't wait for tomorrow's game ...


sad thing though ... and it is sad on so many levels ... David and I have been together almost 2 years ... in that time we have only been apart for 3 nights which was just a couple of weeks after we started dating ... tomorrow he is leaving for NY to visit a friend for 3 nights ... see why I say it is sad on so many levels ... I am sad cause I will miss him ... but it is so sad that in 2 years that is the most time we have spent apart ... and we hardly knew each other back then ... and shit we are both still unemployed ... which means we spend way too much time together ... I am amazed we are still dating ...


although I will get the bed to myself which is a big treat ... I love when I take naps all alone ...


but I will miss him ... a lot

Oh yea!!!! A big huge WOOHOO to the Angles ... won 2 games so far and after 2 more it is off to the World Series ... makes me sad I am not living in Cali anymore

I grew up in Southern California and have been going to Angles games since I was 5 years old ... in fact my last night living in Cali was spent at an Angles game

so yesterday while we were cutting the counter ... I wasn't holding on to it too well and as David got the saw through one end it dropped ... my grip was terrible and it tore off part of the laminate ... so today we had to go buy a new piece ... it is too bad it was the biggest piece and most expensive ... but today we cut the new one and it came out perfect ... Kitchen Photos so check them out if you are in the mood ... the kitchen is almost finished ...


unfortunately I have felt uncomfortable in my home for the last 2 days ... I am pissed that the first person we meet in our new building is someone complaining ... I called the condo association and there is no rule stating people can't smoke on their balcony ... and I noticed today as we were leaving that the woman upstairs has all her windows and door open ... just doesn't seem right to me ...


I did put a fan out on the patio on high ... so that when we are smoking the smoke tends now to go away and down from our patio ... but I still feel uncomfortable ... even though everyone but one person said she was totally in the wrong ... even my brother and sister-in-law who bitterly hate smoking said she was wrong ... that she should close her door if it is bothering her ... that it could be worse we could be smoking in the house and she would smell it all the time ...


since the kitchen has come out so nice ... and David is beyond pissed about the woman upstairs ... we are thinking of having an agent come by and see if we can sell the place for more than we paid for it ... and just buy a new place ... I would hate to remodel the kitchen again ... but we would be a pros at it now ... and it could be possible that we could get a 3 bedroom instead of a 2 ... which means we wouldn't need to move for quite some time ... as it stands right now when we have a baby [not that I am pregnant but at some time I hope to be] ... as I was saying when we have a baby we will either have to get rid of our office or move ... and that could be 2 years from now ... besides I have lived lots of places ... when someone complains right when you move in [or worse before you have moved in] then they are always complainers ... and if that turns out to be the case ... I wouldn't really want to be there ...


at least David and I won't be going to the place till next Thursday ... we are taking a break tomorrow and he leaves Sunday for New York ... so maybe things will be better when we go back to work on the house ... and maybe I won't feel so bad being there ... :)

I am kind of bummed ... I was really hoping someone would have an insightful comment on my last post ... I am just sick over the situation ... I mean we haven't moved in and already I am going to feel uncomfortable about the things I do ...


my mom ... who is an avid non-smoker and tries to get David and I to quit all the time ... thinks the woman's request is unreasonable ... I am sitting outside when I smoke ... kris wants me to tell the woman to "fuck off" which I would never do ... but she too thinks it is a crazy request ...


ohhhhh if only I knew what to do ... what to say ... and to stick to my guns ... or my butts as the case may be ...

We had a really productive day ... we finally got the counter with the sink installed ... it was quite hard and David did an amazing job ...


but we ran into a problem ... and here is where I need help and suggestions ... BIG TIME ...


as we were getting ready to leave our doorbell rang ... it was the woman that lives above us ... she asked if we would go down to the parking lot to smoke [down 4 flights] instead of smoking on our balcony because she has asthma and it is bothering her ... now we never smoke in the house ... only outside ... so both David and I were dumfounded with the request ... and really didn't say anything ... we didn't say yes or no ... she came in for a bit and checked out the work we had done on our kitchen ... David and I were both pretty quite ... I think cause we were stunned ... and then she left ...


now isn't that unreasonable???? we own the condo ... we go outside to smoke ... if our smoke bothers her shouldn't she close her patio door? ... it just bums me out so much ... kinda makes me not look forward to going over there ... or moving in ... I mean we haven't even moved in yet and someone is complaining ...


so please ... leave comments ... let me know what you think ... because I am just torn up about this ...

FYI ... there is no more Zsa Zsa Zsu ... so to the 3 people who signed up ... sorry ...


I was so excited when I read the idea and I couldn't wait to get a group together and trade CD's ... but either not enough people felt as excited about it as me ... or no one ever comes to my blog so the word didn't get out ...


it was just too depressing to see the logo on my site and know that no one was signing up ... so no music exchange club for this chick ... I'll just keep working on websites for people and remodeling my home ... :)

Gutting our kitchen and rebuilding it again is a bitch ... I know I have always dreamed of fixing up a house just the way I want but I don't think I calculated the work involved ... my legs ache ... my arms are sore ... my back hurts ... and shit I am feeling kinda old ... but it sure is looking beautiful ... I must admit I am getting a little bored with working on the kitchen and would love a new project to work on ... but David and I agreed we would finish one room before starting on the next ... and hey carrying all the cabinet boxes up 4 flights of stairs ... and building them all ... and the get up/sit down all day ... and painting ... I have lost 7 pounds in the last 2 weeks ... without even trying ... I guess that is my body telling me I need exercise ... I'll have to keep that in mind ...


So I had this old domain name that I got as a joke ages ago when Davie and I were living in NY ... we had the smallest space imaginable ... and eventually both of us weren't working so we were packed into the house together ALL the time ... I got a website to post our "house rules" ... as a joke ... cause whenever I asked David to do something he would say "that isn't a rule" or "I am loosing track of all the rules in this house ... you should jot them down for me" ... well we never got around to writing the rules ... just buying the domain ... so now I am using that domain to post our before/in progress/after pictures of the condo ... so if you feel like checking it out just go to Our House Rules


well dictator Dave wants to be out of the house early tomorrow in hopes of finishing the kitchen ... so I should try again to get some sleep ...

I found a link on Minimal Thought that has provided hours of entertainment for me, my boyfriend, my family and all my friends ... so I must pass it along here ... the site may appear a bit big when you open it but trust me ... well worth the read ... Redneck Neighbor ... please enjoy!!!!

well we are 2 hours behind the schedule we set for ourselves ... we wanted to go to the condo at 10 and start working because we have like 9 new cabinets to build and install ... but it is almost noon and we haven't left yet ... I am fine with that cause I am hurting today ... I feel like I worked out with a trainer yesterday ... so I am just waiting for my mom to call me back and then we are off to work some more ... woohoo ... I think tonight I will start posting pictures on a new website ... :)

so we have been on the hunt for new counter tops ... unfortunately it has been much harder than anticipated ... the Home Depot closest to the house didn't have all the pieces we need ... and since we are buying stock countertop we didn't want to just get part of it ...


today we decided to try Lowes ... we hadn't been there before so who knew ... one of the corner pieces we need has to be a right corner at least 8' 7" long ... but it appeared that Lowes didn't carry corner pieces over 6' ... I have learned with all this remodeling that if you have a question about anything kitchen related you have to go to the little kitchen area in the store ... so I went to Lowes kitchen area ... and patiently hung out waiting for the kitchen dude to finish his work with his current customer ... I stood back a few feet like I was at the ATM so I didn't crowd and took a moment to just relax ... after a few minutes he asked if I was waiting for kitchens, appliances, or something else [he mumbled so I wasn't sure] ... I said "I actually just have a quick question about the pre-fabricated kitchen counters" [i wanted to ask if they ever had 10' corner cabinets] ... he said "you'll have to make an appointment" ... I said "are you kidding me, in order to ask a question I need to have an appointment?" and he said "yes" ... that just pissed me off ... I was already jerked around by the cable company this morning ... I was getting ready to spend several 100 dollars in there today but to ask one fucking question I have to have an appointment ... I looked at him and said, "I live too damn far away to make an appointment and come all the way out here to ask you a simple question ... you have just lost all my business" ...


David was wandering around and I called out "David" ... we walked around the corner to see each other and I told him what happened ... he saw an employee standing in front of the pre-fabricated kitchen counters and said "excuse me do you ever have 10' corner counters?" and he said ... "oh you will need to make an appointment in the kitchen area for questions about kitchen items" ...


is that the craziest system ever????? what the fuck are they thinking ...


so we got back on I270 and headed out the the Home Depot that is twice as far from home as our regular one ... they did not seem to have a big collection of counters and I was just getting tired of looking ... I was about to say ... "lets get the hell out of here" when I wandered around the corner where the counters were and found EXACTLY what we were looking for ... the far away Home Depot had all 3 counters we needed ... they even had the backsplashes ... and end caps ... and everything ...


so woohoo we bought it all ... loaded up the car ... and then proceeded to carry these fucking huge heavy counters up 4 flights of stairs ...


they look beautiful ... I am happy I don't have to shop for them anymore ... and boy golly am I getting a good workout ... :)

OK so there are some things to catch up on since I have not been online in sooooooooooooooo long ... but I think the most important is the psycho sniper that has been hitting the streets out here ... what is bothering me so much is that he has been in my neighborhood ... the first Michaels store he shot into ... I was there that morning before the first shot ... the man he killed mowing the lawn ... you can see the building from our patio at the condo that we have been spending 10 hours a day working on ...


I just don't understand ... how does someone decide to do this? ... I am so confused ... every time David and I go to do something now I say "so he could be all the way at the other end of the parking lot and shoot and hit me right now" ... and he says "he easily could but lets hope he doesn't" ... there is no way to even know you are in danger ... it makes me sick thinking about it ... and it makes me so sad that there are 6 families out there right now mourning people they love ...

We have had no cable for a week ... that means no TV and no internet ... I have been quite upset to say the least ... but I have found new things to do


Things to do when you don't have cable:

1) play the kids version of Trivial Pursuit [so you feel smart]

2) put tape on all your cats paws and watch him dance around trying to get it off

3) rent DVD's like "Panic Room" [loved the flick who wouldn't with Jodi Foster in it]

4) work on the condo like a maniac for 10 hours a day every day for the last week

5) laundry, laundry and more laundry

6) 12 trips to Home Depot

7) off to bed early each night

8) read even more magazines

9) crank call Comcast just to release some aggression