the amazing switch-up

This photo was taken about 4 month ago. In two days, the people in this photo will swap places (though I doubt Stef will be holding quite a bouquet)

I guess there isn't much that my brother and I haven't done closely if it's a big deal. Here's to beginnings of new chapters in our life paths and a family that is expanding once again. And here's to one awesome mother who's two kids are "marrying off" less than 5 months apart. The last several years have been a whirlwind! But if I've learned anything (and I always do), it's the faith that life goes on, people -- it's a journey and all journeys have challenges you can choose to grow from or be defeated by -- you have to actively choose to make it a good one -- and if you do, it will be.

A Cat's Guide To Caring For A Human

View this and other Catdance Film Festival finalists and make your vote :)

background change! fun :)

dedicated to one of my best friends, Graham. and because tomorrow we plan to read The Wreck of the Zephyr -- it came up in a conversation we were having the other day about how much he loves sail boats. he thinks it would be a good book to get his great-grandson. I agree :)

ANNDDDDD please visit the next post "A Cat's Guide To Caring For Humans" -- a FINALIST in the Fresh Step(R) 'Catdance Film Festival.' If you like it, please vote for it (and do share away). I really do think it's the best one but also confess total partiality--Will Suto is Graham's grandson. But I'd have no idea of the film if Graham's daughter hadn't seen me in line at the Winn Dixie last night and told me. I was hauling out a bunch of groceries...and a 25lb box of Fresh Step. hah.

whooopsie...

hmm...just noticed the link to the original article must have been deleted in a random edit and I've since lost the link...so, post removed

but since I've been poking (truly good-hearted) fun at astronomy lately, here are a few (of many others) that will be cool to try to follow. Searching for info on any of these or  just astro events of 2013 reveals a lot more of course....which led to searching for how much it might cost to invest in a telescope, of course :)

uuh ohhhhh

hey, I'm not sayin you're going to find a morbidly depressive Kirsten Dunst moon-bathing nude on a river bank

I'm just sayin....you might

(mwahahahaha)

diary of a headache

it's been a long time since I made a frantic coffee run at 5pm on a Sunday afternoon. probably college days.

this morning before we finally accepted that the day was starting with or without us, Rob said "I'm sorry I forgot to mention we're out of coffee"....."oh, that's fine," I said, "I'll just go to starbucks in a little bit"...knowing full well I had no real plans of doing any such thing

later in the day after tylenol and tea and food and water and cowering on the couch with an ice pack wondering why in the world my head had been throbbing most of Saturday and into/through the night, then all day today -- it finally dawned on me that for nearly 48 hours I had completely forgotten about my caffeine addiction

talk about a mad dash

coffee fix accomplished
successful purchase of a lovely bag of my favorite, wonderfully oily, whole bean Italian roast
effective submission of budding migraine

still not sure how I just forgot. though my life has been a wee bit bewilderingly hectic lately. when I worked at the OTP I used to pack caffeine pills on multi-day hikes because I was afraid of the monster that could emerge if I wasn't properly drugged soon after waking. imagine finding yourself stuck 40 miles out in the woods with a group of 15-17 year old emotionally unstable girls when a migraine hits? terrifying!!

and marajuana is illegal