i'll tumble 4 ya

hey y'all. think i've decided to switch to the tumblr. so far, it was a billion zillion times less annoying to use than this. we'll see. thanks for following me, one or two readers! reset y'all's bookmarks!

Reading is FUNdamental

A dear old friend tells me "reading all that white lettering with a black background makes my eyes all stingy and blurry." I've got two things to say to this dear, old friend : 1. You're right. Is this better? 2. It's nice to know marriage hasn't changed you a bit. 

On we go. 

I'm doing a gimmicky summer reading thing. I know, but post "4/21" and everything...y'all cut me some slack. But this book is so huge! And yes, I did try (and fail) to read it before. 

I looked all over for a used one, but no luck. Apparently even people who shop at the half price books way way up by the fry's are doing this too. So I went ahead and got a new one (yikes!) along with a g.d. peppermint mocha cause I was at the B&N. (Slow headshaking) Check out who wrote the forward! (This is the 10th anniversary ed.) That's right, it's Dave, the only one of my imaginary boyfriends that I pretended to marry. At the very least those five pages are worth the $17. Right? Right?!

Why yes I have gone to the movies since my last post. Today, in fact. Adaline and I went to the Hannah Montana movie. All I'll say is there was a ferret. Adaline, however, seems to think it was the best experience of her young life. The best part was that it was 10:30 in the morning and we were the only ones in the theater. I love that. 

No, I have no idea why the font just randomly changed. I have really grown to hate this blogger thing and yesterday spent a huge amount of time looking at tumblr layouts. I think I'll switch. Good news for y'all, tumblr lets you post songs. Watch out!

Monday in the garden of dirt and weeds

So yeah I've been giving in and letting the cats play outdoors. Hopefully Notlee can protect Lee from any of the backyard perils he could face: birds, dogs, creepy mutant insects...Speaking of birds, I'm still amazed at the number of bird species I can see right here in my lil' old duplex yard. Fans of the olde tyme excruciating minutiae will remember how enamored I was with the birds when I first moved here. It's still pretty exciting for me to see "exotic" birds like bluejays and cardinals in my very own yard. (Dork!)

It's been a while since I've posted anything, I hope you've found other things to do in the meantime. If I made a pie graph of my recent activities I think the biggest slice would go to watching movies. I'm finally free from the scorn of my sis because now I've seen Casablanca. It was part of the Paramount Summer Film Series. Check out the schedule of super fantastic movies! Y'all should come down here and go to some of them with us. We also went to Scarface at the Alamo Ritz and Terminator at the regular Alamo by my house. I have no idea if anything actually happened in the Terminator movie, but lots of shit blew up and that's why I went. Plus there's nothing wrong with jalapeno poppers and beer. And a side of pizza. 

Saturday evening we went to Walberg. After coming to terms with the fact that this trip had nothing to do with Marky Mark,  (it's not even spelled the same, silly!) I had a wonderful time. It meant a lot to me to get in touch with my German heritage.  Plus there was a Pollyanna style brass band. Beautiful.