Still here...

and working hard (really, seriously, WORKING!!) while keeping an ever watchful Snippet's eye open.

to be able to blog again on a regular basis i am hopen

Enjoying my day off...

from the law firm.

I slept in until 7:20.

Got up and made a full pot of percolated coffee and I will drink the whole thing throughout the morning.

I have baked the first batch of my "Dotted w/Frosting Pumpkin Cookies" for Saturday morning's farmer's market...

which has the house smelling like a cinnamonney, pumpkin, caramel delight!!

Buddy, the WONDER dog, has taken up residence in my garden...creating a smashed flower delight!


I still cannot believe it is the first day of autumn here in Chicago and it is reaching the upper, UPPER 80's...it is already dreadfully warm in the kitchen.

Which has me thinking...

maybe I should switch from coffee to something cold.


a beer frosty and bold
:^)

Newspapers are on the decline...

especially my local paper, The Aurora Beacon-News.

Each morning I put .75 cents into the vending machine at the train station for the daily edition.

Then while reading it I ask myself "Why?"

Not only is it filled with advertisement (including an entire "Automotive" insert each day), but it has become more and more obvious that they can no longer afford a proofreader...


The above article is in today's edition, consisting of two little paragraphs and SEVEN obvious typos.

Believe me, I have been known to post up a blog with a typo or two...

but this is not for a career what i do

PART I: Things I learned...

and some I re-learned on our Diners, Drive-In, Dives and Divas trip with my daughter to Milwaukee, WI and Minneapolis, MN last month...

First, I learned that The Comet Cafe in Milwaukee...

is every bit (or should that be BITE) as good as Guy Fieri said it was.

From the awesome cheeseburger and hand cut fries I devoured...

to the incredible locally brewed, crazy about squirrels beer and server...

and The Comet Cafe experience ended with a right up there with my mother, Myra Lee's desserts, we asked for apple, but our first day on the job waiter screwed up and brought cherry, which was TO DIE FOR pie...

we loved it all!

Being in Milwaukee I also learned they have a lot of stuffed dead things hanging around...

this one was in a Milwaukee grocery store...

along with this fun time waster...

and these only to be found in your grandma's house comfy chairs, also in the same grocery store...

There will be much more about Milwaukee and the rest of our trip to come, possibly tomorrow.

if time from work i can borrow
:^)

“What are you singing?”

my dad asked.

It was 1974 and I had just bought with my-hard-earned-Ponderosa-Restaurant money, Elton John’s album, Caribou, which contained his very popular hit “The Bitch is Back!”.

That evening while cleaning the kitchen of our family home, I was singing...

not at the top of my lungs, mind you…

just a nice little “The bitch, the bitch, the bitch is back….”

As soon as he asked the question, I knew I was in trouble.

“Ahh...it is an Elton John song from his new album I just bought.” I sheepishly responded.

“Go get it.”

Three little words were all he said and I knew it wasn’t going to be good.

I had already witnessed the smashing via sledge hammer on the back concrete stoop, of my older sister Vicki’s, Cheech & Chong 8 track tape, that Pops declared to have been made by “a couple of pot smoking hippies!” (which is absolutely true, but they were hysterically funny!).

I reluctantly handed over the album and as my dad was removing the shiny black record from its cover, he told me to get a...

nail.

He then proceeded to scratch the CRAP out of Side One, Song Number One...

thus making “The Bitch is Back” unplayable.

He gave it to me, telling me not to bring that kind of music into our house again.

to my room in tears it did send

“Hair we go!”

“Does it look that bad?” I asked my sisters last night, while stroking my thinning hair that was pulled back with a barrette, during my belated birthday dinner.

Wendy had asked if I had tried Aveda’s Volumizing Tonic…


or their Phomollient…


I have both and will admit that I do not always use them.

But…

I am eating healthy,

drinking tons of water,

taking synthetic thyroid medication and

a heavy duty women’s vitamin...

daily.

Other than all of that, I don’t know what else to do for my getting thinner and drier each day hair.

Any suggestions please please share

I saw him get on the tollway…

how could I have missed that?

If you didn't see him flying up behind you in your rear view mirror...

you definitely would hear him as he passed by...

the pounding bass was deafening.

“I am taking a picture of this!” I told Keith, as I rummaged in my purse looking for the Snippet’s camera.

He was next to us in no time...

and as I was about to take the picture, he saw me...

and flashed a big “gangsta-rollin-on-dubs” smile!

I gave him the thumbs up and then Keith and I proceeded to laugh our heads off!

Because decaled to the back of that cool car was Blue...

the cartoon dog from Blue’s Clues.

How B.A. was that?

Maybe he is a member of a Blue's Clues Gang...

arf arf bang bang