Everything And Nothing

Our dog Sassy passed away today. She lived a long and happy life, but she will still be sorely missed due to the happiness she brought to all of us. Remember...hug your dog today (and take him or her for a long walk in honor of Sassy, please).

Same Time, Last Year

• All you need is LOVE
• There's no freezing time...
• Happy birthday, my baby boy!

• The Spelling Bee
• I'm Addison. What Grey's Anatomy character are you?
• The coolest thing I saw in New York City
• My spending style
• Watching the detectives
• City Bakery's hot cocoa
• My seven chakras
• The influence of my birth order
• My Tiger Beat questionnaire
• All I want for Christmas...

Same Time, Last Year

• I am Harry Potter
• Watch me make Chicken Spaghetti
• My best quality: Funny (Kind of sad, huh?) ;)
• Lots to be thankful for
• Home
• Paintings to see in New York City before you die...
• What's behind my emotions?
• The Doo-Hickey Method of Photography
• My Office Party Personality
• Perfect Mashed Potatoes
• The Unexamined Life Test
• I'm a Pug
• Same Time, Last Year (last year)

Same Time, Last Year

• Macy Gray or bust!
• Out of time
• I'm a Chosen One
• 8 Things About Matt
• Saturday Night's Alright
• Wide open spaces (I can't believe how much bigger he's gotten since then! He's almost as tall as me now...which isn't saying much, I know.)
• What makes me happy
• Southern-Fried Divorce
• My art + paper debut (and my modeling debut too)
• Hurricane Survival Kit Redux
• I am Marianne Dashwood
• A new emotion
• The Barnyard Opry...Y'all come in
• Nothing Compared to Shawn
• My favorite movie soundtracks
• My party style: Host
• Are we there yet?
• Popsicles 101
• The Cosmo Quiz
• The Happiness Test
• Same Time, Last Year (last year)

The good, the bad, and the ugly

The good

I woke up Saturday morning with pink eye - and thus spent all Saturday morning waiting to see the doctor. I was cussing the infection control practices of elementary schools (as I had gone to Back to School Night on Thursday and had pink eye by Saturday) but the nurse practitioner told me I should be cussing myself instead for not coming in sooner. (My ribs hurt from coughing and a bad cold I had had for a week, too.)

The bad and the ugly

As penance, it seems, I have had this pink eye since Saturday - no matter how many damn drops I put in my eye. Which is not good if you get paid to look at a computer screen and read or look at a computer screen and write most all day long.

So feel sorry for me - maybe it will help! ;)

(And on the plus side, co-workers think I'm crying all the time now and have been extremely nice to me of late!)

I'm baaaaack!

Today, I took a Vacation from My Vacation Day. And I must say I think it shall become a tradition with all future vacations - one day off afterwards to unpack, wash clothes, and thus not have to spend your whole weekend catching up.

Here you see me on the third day of the trip - at Universal Studios. (Yes, I was as tired as I look.) More importantly, you see my "vacation hat." It doesn't look quite as crisp now after I stuffed it into a suitcase - but it was damn cute until then. I promise.

See all of the pictures from the trip here.

1On the road again

Quentin and I are headed to the Coast today for the weekend. It's a belated Father's Day/Dad's birthday visit. If you miss me, you can probably find me on Twitter or Flickr.

Same Time, Last Year

Dad's birthday bread pudding

• Shawn's Americana Honors nominees
• She works hard for the money
• I Heart My Wife
• From the cradle to the grave
• Meals to weather the storm
• Quiche Lorraine

Foley or Bust!

• Save the BBDs
• By day, they're authors
• Mississippi Wiki
• Big 'N Poor
• Advice to Myself
• Take Time To Stop and Photograph the Flowers

Grand Marriott Point Clear

• Making my money grow
• Remembrance of things past
• A book before dying...
• Enchilada Casserole
• Same Time, Last Year (last year)

Same Time, Last Year

• The difference between moms and dads
• Radio-controlled water cannons (must-have for summer)
• Summer: A User's Guide (in case you forgot)
• My Life as a Nascar driver

• Ozzy Ozbourne's favorite hard-rock albums
• Some Like It Raw t-shirt (for digital photography nuts)
• Nebraska Road Trip
• Same Time, Last Year (last year)

On the Road Again

Well, this morning, Quentin's 2nd grade class is performing Bugz for we parents. Quentin is a Stink Bug. I created the programs for the play (or, as Quentin says, "you just put some names on a piece of paper").

Parenting. It's so rewarding.

Then we're heading to Biloxi shortly after so Quentin can spend some quality time with my father and his four-wheeler, I suspect.

Y'all have a fun weekend. I'm taking off until Monday. I will post updates on Twitter periodically if you miss me too much! ;)