Good Will Hunting...

You know I love the $19.99.
For a vintage rolling cooler? What?! Needs a new paint job.
Icckkkky Color...


Cleaned her right up...

Bottle opener....with something written on it that I can't make out....

Does it say Royal Crown? I haven't had a Royal Crown soda since we had lunch at "Pond Store" when I was a kid.

Wait that is an "F" Something...Ford?..... Frosted? maybe ....hmmm

All shiny and adorable in her Brushed Nickle paint job!!!

Fill 'er up!

Cute spout to fill my watering can.....
Awwwww

A cute enamelware ladle to scoop up some Sonic Ice.....Did you know that Sonic sells bagged ice? I love it.......If only they delivered.....

I LOVE Good Will Hunting.....Don't you?

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Good Will Hunting...

Our Explosive 4th of July...

Aaaahhh the 4th of July...

It makes you think of fresh herbs from the garden...

delicious, cool rice salad with feta and purple basil blossoms...


sweet little glasses of garden flowers.......
torrential downpours......

that don't stop for hours......(Denver, gotta love it)
using the indoor grill pan from the G-dub to make delicious turkey burgers....

LOUD fireworks that scare the cr@p out of your 70 pound sheepdog...literally

2 am scrubbing......5 am scrubbing....tired of scrubbing so a quick drive to the Tar-jay bright and early for a Brand New Steam Vac...........

Our 4th was Explosive! How was yours???

PS to the morons setting of fireworks on the 5th of July at 11:00 pm, I swear to you I will bring over my nervous sheepdog and let her loose in your home for an hour or so, and NO I will not let you borrow my new vacuum.

Amen.

Our Explosive 4th of July...

The Year of Magical Thinking....

It turns out that my "Year of Magical Thinking" has just come to an end. According to one of my many neuro-therapists "denial is not a plan". Says who? I was so HAPPY lazily floating down the river of denial. I decided a year ago that it wasn't really that important to know how time works, then I convinced myself that no one really knew all that past-present-future stuff that makes no sense. Well it turns out that people really do know when 2009 was. Hmmmmmm....how do you do that?

So I had to break down and buy that pill thing. It acknowledges that my memory just isn't going to cut it. Every night as I'm standing there holding a pill bottle I think, did I just take a pill? Am I going to take one? Then I think, I remember taking one, was that today, a minute ago, yesterday, last week? Every...single...night. Sooo today I had to admit to myself and to three therapists that I will start writing EVERYTHING down again, the time, the day, did I go for a run?? I have to write it down so I know that I did it......Yes, I know I'm not the only one on the planet that can't remember to take pills, but when was the last time you were in running gear and have no idea if you are going out the door to run or if you just came back? You say to your brother, "oh I finally got to see you!", and he says "I saw you last night remember?" Nope. Nothing. I asked my neurologist if he was POSITIVE that I didn't have Alzheimers and he said that a car accident doesn't give you Alzheimers, but a brain injury feels like it. I'm 42 not 82.

About the pill thing, I couldn't even figure out how it works. I had to call my husbnd at work and have him walk me through it. (It's better than me calling 10 times a day to make sure that the boys were at school. I'm past that hurdle thank goodness!) He's a great guy. He has taken on my memory like a baseball coach. "It takes a million swings, honey! Write it down, that is swing #1! You got this!!" But I have to say he can get a little impatient when trying to teach me the months of the year on a number line and I say that my months are different because my birthday is in October..... That stunned him a little.....wait.....is that not right?

Dang it. I was sooo happy just pretending that I knew what day it was, and I rarely "got caught" saying crazy things that make people a little nervous for me, I figured that was good enough. Turns out it isn't.

According to what I just wrote down, today is Friday, July 2, 2010. 7/2/10. One down 365ish to go.

The Year of Magical Thinking....

Ooopsie My Bad...

Crate and Barrel $399.00
Pottery Barn $699

Restoration Hardware $739

My mom and I went to the Salvation Army Thrift Store and saw this brand new rattan chair much like the ones above...weelllll....the chair was marked $60.00, but it was going to go half off in two days, so I said to my mom, "It will only be $30.00 in a few days, just go back." Then I saw the same chair in Country Living on the airplane home, so I quickly called and said, "Hurry Go Get It!!!!Hurry!!"

It was gone. Thrift Store 101
Buy Now or It will be Gone!!

Ooopsie Daisy!

Ooopsie My Bad...

One Oh Eight

Now that it has hit One Hundred and EIGHT degrees, it is time to go home!!!

My SIL turned the big 4-0 while we were home...she had a really fun party!

My cousin Chris loves to come "in mourning" because she is five years younger than the rest of us....very funny Chris...you're next you know!

What a great time for a couples photo shoot!
I may have been a teeeny tiiny bit bossy about this and made everyone take
ten do-overs to get the perfect photo...

Awwwww......my mom and dad...

Aunty Charlie and Uncle Darrel


Me and my cousin Lisa... (she was sitting in for my husband who had accompanied my older son on a baseball trip to Nebraska)

awwww.....Chris and Jason

awww...Lisa and Reidar

the girl cousins

Seeee how much fun that was!? (for me especially!!)

One Oh Eight

Best Ever Part II

We took a little train ride through the San Joaquin Valley to see the cousins...
we passed through beautiful farm land, these are peaches...

...grapes

Enjoyed the fresh air....and sun dried laundry....

and took a garden tour hosted by my Great Aunt Ruth...the farmer...
I need to learn how to can...
her beautiful eggplant...look at that color!

string beans...

this beet is going to seed...she is collecting seeds for next year's planting

berries for the kids to pick...

gotta have tomatoes...

Can you see the asparagus....it's in the middle there...

This beautiful flower is ...... Okra!

Such a beautiful flower for such a disgusting vegetable!

my apologies to those who love okra (dad)...

This is my beautiful Great Aunt Ruth......in front of her amazing little farm patch....a lady never tells, but she is eighty-something-years-young! I wish I lived closer so I could hang out in her garden and learn how to do everything she makes look so effortless. She is the last of the farmers in the family, I think we need to start taking lessons!!

Best Ever Part II

Best Ever

I'm on vacation.....

first I made a thousand pounds of delicious popcorn...
opened up the Kindle...
picked some lemons from the tree...

and enjoyed being at my parents house in sunny California!!!!!

Best Ever