RANDOM SCENES

SCENE 1
Yes, we attended the SEX in the CITY en masse-the committee-great fun. We were pleasantly spread out in the first row of the upper deck feet comfortably resting on the railing in front. In marches a lady and her 10-11 year old boy. How stupido! This show was never for children and the movie has quite graphic sex scenes every 10 minutes (my bod should look so good at their age). Well the lady will have a wonderful time explaining that to the boy.

Oh heck no. This is GR where you get sued if you teach anything except abstinence, but heaven forbid if you actually explain anything to your own children. I imagine "just don't do it" should be sufficient-look at how well that works....

Anyway good show-lots of cliches, fabulous clothes, giggles and tears while ingesting that famously diet killing movie popcorn. Well I did drink designer water with it. Then the four of us marched out side by side exactly like the ending when the camera kept popping from the four of them to foursomes around New York city and the four of us (oh yeah we probably weren't on camera). Over to a local bistro for the requisite cosmos-pretty in pink.

SCENE 2
What started out as a $100 fire pit to roast, oh I don't know, marshmallows and stray branches, became $500 plus many hours of back-breaking labor to create a place to ahh ahh put it. In retrospect, I think it would have been cheaper to pay to dump our branches at the local landfill, however roasting the marshmallows would have been a tad tricky. Although the Burt-man did the majority of the heavy lifting, I assisted in the sand leveling (why one must drag that 2X4 47 times to make sure it's flat explains why I would never choose landscaping as a career-or perfectionism for that matter), loading, and unloading and laying blocks. I finally wised up and put on gloves as these lily white hands are made for writing not laying stone. Trust me there was a pattern involved and it is there, it's just that you have to make it all fit don't you know-so ease up on the critiques thank you very much.

Then fool that I am and obviously not one who learns from experience, I decided to buy a couple of stepping stones to transition from "High Patio" to "Low Patio". Of course several dollars and hours later, we now have a full pathway. ARRRGHHHH. But since the 4th of July extravaganza moved from Lansing to Spring Lake we will have to postpone the inaugural smashing of the champagne glass (accidents happen) until a later date. At least we have filled in part of the ungrowable to something besides dirt, but we have a way to go to finish the entire project.

BIRTHDAY GIRL

Hey the Gypsy Marcia of the flashing eyes and ebony hair is celebrating her birthday today with eye surgery. Girl you so know how to party with them fancy pain meds! Just don't pull a Rush Limbaugh and blame the liberal press!

Yah Mon. Though the myth of the liberal media is actually some talking heads who scream a lot-both conservatively and liberally with no facts behind their rants and people think it's news - duhhhhh. Give me the hard working news buddy who actually does "RESEARCH" and strives to find the facts. Not entertaining enough I guess for the "people".

Fun weekend. Major storms dancing through town in the early evening for three days. Spectacular light shows and booming applause. Oh yeah lots of trees down and roofs ripped off too. Matt and Kristen were out of power Friday night and finally came over Sunday to get showers, get some air conditioning and go potty..... Had a pretty fun night especially when Matt started reading my 20 year old medical book out loud and adding his own editorial comments. We are all suffering from some major malady which is why we should never start reading the darn thing to begin with.

Anyway I'm trying to talk the "committee" into a cosmo/Sex in the City escapade for the birthday girl. We have to go as our character. I'm Samantha, Marcie is Miranda, Kathy, Charlotte and Lori is Carrie. Should be interesting to see what we all wear especially since Lori would never wear mile high shoes, though I would LOL.