Well, Peachie, did DS get that bike assembled?

Lush, you must be tearing your hair out. Poor DD, no one should be faced with all that at so young an age. It's just not fair. She must be pretty scared. You would think though that they could push the surgery back a week if she feels strongly about taking the AP exams.

My DD has AP Chem exam tomorrow. Tonight she was inducted into the National Honor Society. Hoopdedoo. She said the SATs went fine on Saturday. She barely had time to finish her essay, so didn't get to proofread it. She claims that she proofs as she goes (which always make the editor in me raise an eyebrow at her). I am really hoping that she gets some awesome scores in the Writing section. I'm sure her math score will be an improvement over the PSAT, but who knows how much, it's the Verbal scores that will make her look good.

Well, I got home late last night. The return trip was a real ordeal. I ended up with a 4 hour layover, because they offered to put me on an earlier flight when I got to the airport in Charleston -- lot of good that did me. When you are alone in an airport, you have to lug every last thing around with you wherever you go, and my carryon just seemed to get heavier and heavier as the day went on. I spent a really long time sitting in a chair staring out the window. I have included a picture I took during a period of extreme boredom. I am an avid reader, but something about sitting in an airport, I just can't read for more than 20 minutes without sighing heavily and putting the book away .

Had a great weekend with the family. Parents drove me nuts as usual. The nephew and his bride were gorgeous and deliriously happy. My brother (his father) showed up and behaved himself. Will send around a few pics; I didn't take too many of the wedding and reception because they had a wonderful photographer -- she was a cousin of the bride and she will be posting all the photos online, so I didn't feel the need to try to get pics of everything.

I can't believe your kid will eat split pea soup, Sug. Lucky you.

Who wants to see the shoes I bought for DD for the prom? I can't believe she's actually going to wear these -- the red ones . I am such a sucker for this first prom thing. Her date's mother and I are plotting various photo taking opportunities together. Did I tell you DD ordered him a boutonniere at the florist? How cute is that? God, I'm hopeless. She painted her toenails bright red with silver glitter already. Her date is the guy on whose fingernails she painted piano keyboards last year for their show choir performance. No wonder he likes her...

Kiwi, all scattered.

Hey! Where is everybody? I'm here--talk to me!

TPBM has been waiting for someone else to post first.

Kiwi

Poem: "Grass" by Ruth L. Schwartz from dear good naked morning © Autumn House Press. Reprinted with permission.

Grass

Yesterday, and the day before that,
the cows ate grass.
Tomorrow, and the next, and every day after that,
the cows will eat grass.
They'll eat until they can't stand up,
and even then, collapsed upon the earth in their last hours,
if they can reach it with their mouths, they'll eat grass.
They'll eat until they've eaten it all, until there are only
a few stray blades
halfway buried under boulders—then
they'll nudge aside the boulders
with their large and knowing lips,
and eat that grass, too.
Only the smallest calves, today,
the ones no bigger than dogs, are lying down.
They gaze out onto the landscape like dreamers:
the sky marbled with fatty clouds;
the cherry trees beginning to leaf;
the first few poppies, unfurling their cadmium banners;
the fences making some things possible, and others difficult;
the shadows falling from, and following, each thing;
and the world seems so strange, so common and wondrous
at once, that the calves ask the cows eating grass,
Is this all there is?
And the answer comes back from mouths full of grass:
This is all there is.


I think the server ate my post. And it was SO witty. Heh heh.
Recap:
The above poem is for all cows, and especially SugP who seems to have a bit of existential angst.

I liked Kiwi's DD's shoes and artsy photo from the airport.

I think Cowie's job applicant should be told "bye bye" instead of
by or buy.

that's all I remember.

who has a new thread name? The Merry Merry Month of Cows?

Thankyew Painty! I am much less angsty after reading that. I think. Cows are so soothing, aren't they?

Looks like this IS all there is.

i am here to say---welcome back KIWONK--i want to see the online pics of the wedding---i do recall the couple were VERY handsome!!!!----i am going to have a BARbeque now because it is actually NICE out----there--i posted, NEXXXT----american idol is on tonight---and HOUSE----i like it----------anyone like HOUSE??---nice cow poem painty---makes me like them even more

Glad you were mooooooooooo'ved by the poem.
I am trying to substitute expression and artsiness for food. It only works sometimes. If I would substitute exercise for whining I'd be even better off.

Hugs to each. I'm off to watch the telly with DH. 2nd half of Veronica Mars and no doubt some CSI spin off.... (better than SciFi channel... but I'll never tell!!)

I would like House if I knew what it was.

I am sleepy.

I am at work.

Wasn't Amazing Race GREAT last night??? The nice people won. The people with integrity and kindness. I loved the ending. Yay.

Yawn.

Yeah, sure surprised me. I thought Rob and Amber were going to win all along. That Rob is such a snake -- although you have to admit that the two of them worked together incredibly well. There wasn't any of the bickering and sniping that the model and soldier couple did (weren't they vile?). But Uchenna and Joyce worked together just as well and were way more deserving. I'm thrilled too.

Here's House

Kiwi

while I waiting for HOuse to load ... drumming fingers ... what happened to Maude at the end of Harold and Maude? She took pills to kill herself. He called an ambulance. She's waving at him as she's carted through a door at the hospital. He's outside playing his banjo and dancing. Did she die?????

House loaded. Still don't know what it is.

Bye.

Yes. Maude died. I didn't, though. I'm back and I'm still alive. I was quite happy to wake up from anesthesia.

Lush, the news about DD is so terrible. What a traumatic thing to go through at her age. I'm just hoping and praying for the very best outcome for her. So hard on the mom, too. Nothing worse than watching your child suffer, and the depression can be harder than the physical pain.

Welcome home, Kiwi.

Loved the cow poem, Painty.

Life at home w/ little kids can be quite sucky, Sugar. I was fortunate to have a neighbor w/ kids the same ages as mine to hang out with. We drank a lot of coffee, a little wine, and kept each other sane.

Hi to the rest of you cowsies. I'll be back. I've got to catch up on some work.

Hey Wabby! Glad you got through "the procedure" all right!!

I won't even mention how FAT I am because it's udderly ridiculous. I MUST do something but I feel like cr*p and I'm exhausted no matter how much I sleep. Blah blah blah.

Must go to bed now so I can toss and turn. Have to do something when I#m not whining, eh?

starting a new thread