Family is Everything!

Oxygen, please!

It's snowing.

There are only 33 days until Christmas.

I still have stuff on my list.

I leave for Alaska in 16 days.

I need to make a few more lists!

Did I mention that I need oxygen?!

And diet coke!

Lots, and lots, and lots of diet coke!

Your age is showing ...

Remember back in the day when you first learned what epidermis meant and you would say to your friends, "Your epidermis is showing!" and they would look all embarrassed until they, too, learned the definition?  

This was funny stuff, right?

Funny, unless a certain part of your epidermis was showing that ought not to be showing!  

Then -- not so funny.

Fast forward a few ... well, o.k., a lot ... of years ...

It's fun to needle friends as the years move along and we mature with grace and dignity.

It's fun to tease a family member who has had a memory lapse and say, "Your age is showing!"

It's funny stuff.

Unless it happens to you -- and you realize that it is YOU whose age is showing.

Then -- not so funny.

Today while running errands that were efficiently organized into a circuitous route from and back to my home, I clearly said to myself, "Just the bank and then Lee's Market left.  Then home."  

Next thing I knew I was halfway home!  Seriously?!  

Your age is showing!

My age!

And it is NOT so funny!

Run Matt, Run!

At mile 24 in the New York Marathon!

Which is the "real" marathon runner?

Oops, now that's how it should go:)

Hard Rock Cafe NY

Elmo and Me in NY

All my bags are packed ...

I'm ready to go.

I'm leaving on a jet plane.

Sadly, I know when I'll be back again.

But until then ... sayonara all!

Off to the Big Apple!

Can't wait to see Matt & Dana (and their darling friends) and cheer for Matt as he runs the NY Marathon!

Run Matt, Run!!!!

Booya!

Tis the Season

I received ten catalogs in the mail today.

Ten!

They all went right into the recycle bin.

What a waste of a tree.

Did my Duty

And so did this adorable 18 year old!