Saturday, June 30, 2007
it's like voodoo
On a much lighter note, we went to see Lyle Lovett and kd lang at Hill Auditorium Thursday. kd has a fabulous voice and Lyle's band is indeed Large. At one point there was Lyle, a drummer, a conga guy, a guy at a grand piano, a pedal steel player, a fiddler, a mandolin player, a guitarist, a cellos player, Francine Reed and three guy backup singers, one of which was Sweet Pea Atkinson who sang with the Boneshakers. It was a great show. We ate at Conor O'Neill's before.
Last night, I volunteered at rally by the river. Question Mark and the Mysterians played and they were great and then Ian McLagan and the Bump Band played and they sucked. But it was a lovely night to be outside and I was home in bed by 11.
Today, I washed the floor in the living room. Last weekend, I did the green room. Just a few more square feet and those floors will look like buttah.
I should probably recognize this turn of events with Karen as a sign to get out now. How far away is far enough, I asked my boss. He said, "Mexico."
Thursday, June 28, 2007
not really my problem
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
one week later
Went to the Crosby Garden gala, bought a lovely necklace and bracelet. And some earmuffs. Went to Surly Bob's wedding party at Otsego Park Saturday. The Welders were chastised to play softly because of all the babies and children there. Mowed, did two radio shows, watered, had some burgers and potato salad with some wimmen. Bought some used CD's at Finders: reggae, Austin Lounge Lizards, Dr. John, Jimmy Vaughan, some blues compilation.
Amy's birthday is July 6 and we're going to Schedel Arboretum and then to the Jolly Roger in Port Clinton for perch. I'm working the Fourth to take that Friday off.
Didn't go see Jimmy Thackery at Mickey Finn's. Probably not going to see Jimmy Burns at Hines Farm this weekend.
Going to see kd lang and Lyle Lovett Thursday in Ann Arbor. Looking forward to a weekend without many commitments.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
more signs of the apocalypse
SO ANYWAY, it's just the beginning of what I see as a giant CLUSTER FUNK where I will have to pay some money. Sometime. I did tell my mom that I would move her furniture. OMG why do these people do this to me? I'm such a nice girl.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
OMFG
Mind you, this woman has gone to California with a dog and 3 cats, saying she has a job LA TEE DA and now, four months later, she has thrown in the towel.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Just 15 minutes ago Karen calls me TO APOLOGIZE for everything she's put me through (like about $3,000 not counting the $12,000 car I am paying off). And then she meanders on about not being able to FIND HER CENTER and that since Daddy died (in 1985), the family has just fallen apart and what do you have if you don't have family and that she guesses she will be living in her car for a while and that she LOVES ME because I'm her BIG SISTER (she said that part twice) and you know, you can call me a bitch, but I told her that your center is where you are and that for all you thinking someplace geographic is where you should be, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. I did not offer financial assistance or any clue as to what she should do now.
PLUS she tells me that my mom doesn't want to move to BG but she feels bad about me coming down there every Sunday and plus she has no one around for emergencies. So instead of packing anything up today and loading prior to the planned-for June 30 move, I left her with a bunch of boxes that she may or may not be using to move in with my sister, assuming she can find enough money to drive across the USA with her menagerie in the vehicle I own.
BUT YOU KNOW, I am still the happiest girl in the world, thanks to all of you are reading this. Party on.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The usual too much of everything
So the latest is I'm moving my mom up here June 30. Got a moving company scheduled. The worst case scenario is that she can't get into the apartment up here right away and she has to stay here for a while with her belongings in storage. Really, how could this be any worse than March.
So here's what's coming up:
June
16-17 Jazz fest (not going)
22 Crosby gala
23 Bob and dottie's wedding reception
28 Kd and lyle at Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor
30 move mom/full moon
July
4 not off
6 off
7 lyle and judy pond party
12 dylan at the zoo
21 kim and jim pond party
28 tunafest
August
Band at the RibFest
17-18 Ribberfest in Madison, IN
September
Five weekends: labor day (Joe Bonnamassa in St. Mary's), swamp, NYC, home, PIB
Going to New York again for the big ABC meetings so I'll go on Saturday to hang with the child
Put in Bay party that last weekend and then
it's
Harvest Party, Halloween, the HOLIDAYS OMG
It's pretty much all I can do is laundry and dishes and food procurement. Because there is just continual hanging out with one friend or another. Not that I'm complaining.
Listening to Todd Snider "Viva Satellite" which Jenks bought off half.com because it's hard to get and it's the last Todd CD we didn't have.
We tried to buy a wedding present for Bob and Dottie at kohls.com but it wouldn't deliver on time so tomorrow night I will stop in there and see if they have the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer, which is what we planned to get them.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
June, OMG
Listening to Raul Malo "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons." Drinking white wine and Perrier.
As I drive home every week from my mom's, the other drivers are hideous. Why does some guy think, because HE'S going 67, that he just HAS to pass that semi going 65? Can he not see that I am already in the passing lane going 78????? Plus that part of 75 from Findlay to BG is like the racetrack from Hell. I have to get off at Cygnet and onto 25. Stubbs will recall that I was on the phone with him during that section a few weeks ago and was privy to my bellowing "Get out of my WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY."
Today as I was leaving, Mrs. CL next door came out and I told her I was going to take my mom to some cemetery in Waldo to put flowers on various graves. She told me again about her trip to BG's Oak Grove on Memorial Day where her parents and her husband are buried. Then she says, "You know, we were only married for 10 or 11 years." I must have looked puzzled because she went on to say her first husband was an *ass*
Rain Rain Rain! Yay, I thought it never would. But this evening, it's been a deluge here in BG. Between Clay and Curtice Sts.
I've revised my retirement plan. I'll write a blockbuster novel in a few years! Gee, it seems so simple.
Memorial Day
Here's Phil making an entrance with a fully folded out chair.
Hi, Chip!
The girls. What DO they talk about?
Donna's butt, which she claimed she had been working off. Looks like that's true.
No pictures please!!!!!!!
A coleus planter.
The lovely Christine. For some reason, I felt obligated to capture the entire Parsons clan.
And, of course, the chow. Meat, Amy's potatoes.
Connie's ensalada caprese, as Gus called and Annette said she thought he was mixing two foreign languages, as he was. So continental, that Gus. Martha's cucumbers, Deb Helmboldt's cole slaw, Chip's beans and rice.
The requested beans, and all those chips. TWO potato salads.
Here's what a plateful looked like.
Cards were played.
Donna thought it would be HIlarious if people all brought beans so here's hers.