NOTE TO SELF: Do not consume the following combination of foods in a 24-hour period:  a big can of baked beans (to accompany sloppy joes – and eaten for dinner, breakfast then dinner again), a lot of carrots, an apple, some almonds and some peanuts.  You will end up with a tummyache, and drive to…

I am a purely random person (and declare it to be so…unapologetically [ahem..vegas girlfriends])…… here are the latest random thoughts milling about in my head… Is it wrong to love a hair product this much?  Just started using a lavender mint shampoo + conditioner and love the way my hair smells….catching glimpses of it occasionally when…

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Here's a slideshow of my Vegas photos. Click the photo in the slideshow to view larger photos and the captions. http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf

Vegas was fun, fun, fun! Met up with Kirsten, Kathy, Sharona, Katy and Annelies. Walked Fremont Street, enjoying the variety of people who go there and the cover bands that played, had breakfast at 1:00 AM, did some gaming, drank some fruity drinks, hung out at the pool, walked parts of The Strip, enjoyed a fancy…

hello!!!! went to vegas and am now back…..enjoying a day off. met a friend for lunch and then read for awhile at a different starbucks. am reading a great book… “the art of being a woman” {by veronique vienne, a frenchwoman now living in the States} and am not much beyond the preface where she…

As is the custom when you start school or a job, when it's your birthday, you bring in the birthday treat and announce "It's MY birthday…have some sugar. Then stay away from my office when you get hyper."  Oh..you don't say that when you bring a treat in? Friends stopped in to see me last…

Last month I had a cold.  Thus the lovely photo above of my "cold survival kit".  Behind that kit is a piece of artwork my sister in law salvaged from a pile of art being tossed out by a local museum of advertising and marketing.  They were throwing out old exhibits to make room for…

beverage: new usual beverage at starbucks just downsized from a "tall" (small) beverage to a "short" (usually the child-size beverage).  but today – I found a new one they won't let me order – even when I offer to toss money at them  -   the sample size cup.  LOVE it.  can't have it.  Want it…

so how badly did I mess up the title of that song?! just got a phone call from my most favorite Irish friend, Madeleine…who had loads of ideas for shows for Vegas this weekend. Sadly she can’t join us for the girls’ weekend. Her phone call just made my day. Thanks, Mad! I promise not…