My bro came out to visit for a week & left on Saturday, July 24th.  On my way back from dropping him @ the airport, I parked the car and headed to the Long Beach quilt show.  What really struck me this year was the lack of exhibit quilts – wasn’t nearly the same number [...]

So I’ve sort of been attempting a photo-a-day project for my 28th year of life, as documented through Facebook.  The reality ends up being 2-3/week, which is still more than I would have done.
But I thought I would share yesterday’s (blurry iphone) photo w/you…specifically, I was thinking Beth might want to see…

Look familiar?

Yep, Californication production [...]

Steve & I have been carpooling most days since we moved further away from both of our work places.  Last night, we stopped into the Torrance Walmart on our way home to see if they happened to have a mirror for the main bath.  We also wanted more fish for the tank, because they seem [...]

OK, this is weird…there’s a cemetary relatively close to our new house, which in itself is unusual (I’ve only ever seen 2 cemetaries in SoCal, outside of the National Cemetary located here).  The gravestones are all the kind that are flat against the ground versus tall gravestones (and no monuments either), so it sort of looks [...]

I’ve definitely been disengaged from all things crafty for the past week and a half…and to some extent, disengaged from life in general.  Before I explain, I want to caveat that I’m not depressed or anything, just worried…
Last Friday, my company’s assets were sold by our lender to another company, a competitor.  We couldn’t pay [...]

There are 2 things I know today.
One is that my mama totally loves me, because she paid prolly double in postage versus what it cost to buy me my most favoritest salad dressing on the planet that you can only find in Nebraska/Kansas/Iowa:

Thanks mom!  Yay for plastic bottles!
And two – I know that I’m totally [...]

(and also those drivers in the greater LA metropolitan area, including, but not limited to, those drivers in Ventura, San Bernadino, and Orange counties).
I just wanted to share some thoughts with you that have accumulated in my brain since February 2005.  I took the written driving test one rainy Saturday, and was rather nervous standing [...]