the person who told me this is long-lost cousin and I'm glad to have her back that I'll forgive that she just listened because after she listened, she went and found ME!

I am a rump roast.

Here is my day. Drove DS and 2 others to school. Ate breakfast at McD's (hotcakes and sausage and OJ), drove back to the school, slept and read in the car. Signed DS out and took him to the orthodontist for an emergency visit (something came off). Went back and had lunch at school by invitation as they were having ground-breaking for a new building. Saw in the daily that a story I've been working on broke. Called and got into FAXed to me and told the office people to put it on my desk. Someone else (you know) got it off my desk and wrote it up. I rushed back to do it and couldn't find it. I told him that I had info not included in there. He said, "So do I." Not .. what info do you have to contribute. Then got email form ex-sil about ex-dh being in hospital. It's depression. So on and so forth. Rat race. Blah.

dear friends---would an insanely delicious marinade recipe for barbequed spareribs help anyone get over their anxiety??? I am so in love with this marinade that i think i will make loads of it and freeze it------------------------splendiferous!!!!!!!--------i get a weather report in my email every morning---it's fun cause i picked my hometown,my steppies hometown and PARIS as the places i need to know about!!!!-----i like knowing what it's like in Paris everyday!!!! i was thinking of adding all of your towns just for fun!!! maybe i will.

what I want:

1. marinade recipe

2. celery recipe

3. beet recipe

4. a smaller rump roast

Also, I'd like to have Bagz tell me how the weather is in Dogpatch each day.

Flight was like all the other 57 times. Rubber chicken and loud babies. Can't believe we are back here. I am 1) browner 2) poorer and 3) fatter. No one can sleep. Kids were up all night sobbing for their Canada grandma and ds11 asked if selling his Pokemon cards would give us enough money to move. What a guy. Dh had to go to work today so he should be plenty knackered when he gets home.

Jet lag is not good for my mood. I KNEW I should have bought that "cute but crabby" t-shirt I saw at the Clam Shell Gift Shop when we visited the aquarium last week.

Cough up that recipe, Bagzie!!! We love ribs. I also saw some very cowlike pictures of myself taken on vacation and have been shocked back into reality. Bought tons of exercise videos (Pilates and yoga) that I will probably just stare at for the next few weeks, but who knows, maybe I'll get motivated.

Sugar, welcome home!!! You sound tuckered out.

Yes, Bagzie. Do tell the marinade recipe. Although I've decided to be a vegetarian while DH is out of town. Maybe I will lose a couple pounds. Yesterday I had 1/2 canteloupe and cherry tomatoes and corn on the cob for dinner. Then I finished it off with a tub of Ben and Jerry's low carb ice cream I found in the freezer. No idea who bought it. Today I will be better.

And how is the weather in Paris today, Bagzie??? Still hot on the west coast, but bareably so today. The hot weather makes the water hyacinth in my pond multiply like crazy and I can't make myself just throw them away. I can't see the water anymore. It's too hot to work in the yard. Too boring to work in the house. What do I do with no DH this week??? I'm lost. I talk to my dogs a lot.

i really like cantaloupe with cherry ice cream. Great idea Wabbo.

get a new kitty. when u talk, they ignore with style.

OKAY!!! well they say this recipe came from the "BARBIE BARN"---never heard of it------------you need :1/2 CUP KETCHUP
1 CUP APPLESAUCE [SWEETENED OR NOT]
2 CUPS OF BROWN SUGAR [YES I SAID TWO]
2 TABLESPOONS LEMON JUICE
2 CLOVES MINCED GARLIC
1/2 TSP PAPRIKA
1/2 TSP CINNAMON
PEPPER
SALT--------------------------------------- IT MUST BE A SUGAR FEST BUT IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO YUM------------I USED PORK RIBS WHICH I SIMMERED FOR 45 MINUTES AND LEFT THEM IN THE MARINADE FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS----[IN FRIDGE]-----I GUESS YOU CAN LEAVE THEM MARINATING AS LONG AS YOU LIKE---IF YOU ARE LIKE LUSHBAT YOU CAN FREEZE THEM IN IT SINCE THEY ARE BASICALLY COOKED ANYWAY------BARBEQUE AS YOU LIKE------------ WHAT ELSE CAN I USE THIS FOR???PORK CHOPS ??STEAK??CHICKEN??

Yum. This will give me something to do - I'll cook up a bunch of ribs w/ your marinade to grill on Saturday when the DH and DS get home. I should be ready for a meat binge by then.

Lord, what a day. Well, I'm just glad you have a long-lost cousin! See, silver lining and all that?

Here's my day: Got up at 8:45 am, ate cereal, skim milk and OJ, took a shower, downloaded the cutest little black cat photo ever seen, got in the car and drove to the big city airport to pick up old bf from NYC. Drove him around big city (them NYC boys jest love seein' that there big Paul Bunyan stachoo), let him take me out to lunch, drove him up here and dropped him off to catch a seaplane ride into the wilderness where he is meeting his son at a remote lake. Then I drove home, rescued DD from her strandedness, got her a dentist appt for tomorrow at 9AM, told her she could drive herself there, then drove her to a friend's house. Later, after a slapped-together dinner, I have a meeting of the performing arts boosters officers. Did I tell you I have been elected the secretary. Lucky me.

Now, you all are so jealous of my exciting life, but try to get over it. Old bf says hello.

I think that's an excellent idea. I have a personal yahoo page set up that gets the news headlines from different sources -- I have the Charlotte NC news in there so I can keep up with big news where my family lives.

And I definitely want the marinade recipe. I love marinades. On sailing trips when we used to go with 2 or 3 boats, I was marinade queen. Amazing what you can make from a boat cupboard.
I find that watching the tapes with a bag of popcorn is a very relaxing way to spend an hour. And you'll hardly break a sweat.

Be back later.

Kiwi

Old bf is a Paul Bunyon statchoo? I just accepted a new job. Yep.

DO TELL. Is this the start of your new life? Will you still have to deal with ediots? Will you be independently wealthy soon? Can I have your old job? Just kidding.

My baby ds8 started grade 3 today. He was up at 6:30 with much wailing and gnashing of teeth telling me he couldn't possibly go to school but once he got there and he saw his little buddies, my services were no longer required so I went to the grocery store and bought an ironing board cover that actually fits my board. The other one was too big and annoyed me for a couple of years until I decided to do something about it. May even iron something later. This is what jet lag does to you: yesterday kids asked for popcorn and it took me about 5 minutes of staring at those little yellow kernels to remember how to make it. I'm not kidding. Sing with me - I left my brain in San Francisco- la la la.

Oh yeah, dh comes home from work yesterday and says "Amazing the things that happen when you go away for 5 weeks". Apparently his secretary, who had been divorced twice and must be pushing 60 married her long-time boyfriend who also works in the same department. Isn't that sweet? And then the bad part: the 16 yr old son of one of dh's colleagues dropped dead last week and no one knows why. He went swimming, came home and said he didn't feel well and that was it. Ugh. How awful.

Have I mentioned that as soon as we got in the door on Tuesday the house returned to its usual state of squalor? I don't know how we do it. There's stuff everywhere and there are still 4 more suitcases to unpack- Driftwood, shells, salmon jerky, 95% of the contents of the dollar store, two folding chairs, tons o' books, Pokemon cards, SpongeBob t-shirts etc etc etc. It's horrendous. Someone save me.

I want a complete list of the Dollar Store puchases. They sell bleach for $1 a bottle. it's 99 cents at Walmart. You didn't carry bleach home did you? Anyway, you have lots to do. Yay, huh? Sad about that boy. My boy is that age. About the secretary's age .... hmmmm.

Today, DS and I are going to look at dolphins after school. At school, it's hamburger day or something and parents are invited to help serve.

are you just looking at the dolphins or are you going to buy one???my friend with the colon cancer is having her operation tomorrow---they are taking the tumour an testing the nodes around it---if they are cancerous she needs chemo---if not----no chemo----can you help me send out clear node vibes!!!! that would be so wonderful as the cat scan and the ultrasound show that there is no involvement in any organs.........i need to do something useful today instead of just letting the day get taken away by kids and all their needs----------did anyone notice that children are NEEDFUL THINGS????----school doesn't start here until the 7th or 8th of SEPTEMBER-----i still have TWO weeks left to fill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Peaches has a new job and she didn't even stick around to tell us about it. Enquiring minds want to know. Spill the beans.

Sugar, so sorry to hear your house is not co-operating with you. Sign up for the flybat for a few weeks, then when you get sick of her yada yada, learn to ignore imperfection in house cleaning. I've been home alone for the last 3 days and the house is still a mess.Terrible, terrible about that young boy. What a nightmare for his parents.

DH called to say he would be coming home a day early. Just when I finally started figuring out what to do with him gone. I started a sewing project, which is strewn out all over the kitchen, I bought a bench for the front porch which I had planned on painting this evening and now I have to go to the grocery store and cook dinner instead. I'm just never satisfied.

Bagzie, my friend came by with the coolest painted tray. Reminded me of your craftiness. It was made out of an old cabinet door, complete with old paint chipped hardware and handles made of old cabinet pulls. It had little ceramic cabinet knobs for feet. She stenciled a design for a background, then decopaged some sheet music, photos, etc. It is soooo cool. And guess what?? this is my friend who just went through colon cancer and chemo and surgery and the whole thing. She's well and back to being her same amazingly creative self. And so will your friend. I'm sending good vibes.

Kiwi wins the prize for most interesting life because she has an old boyfriend. My DH is my old boyfriend.