Fabulous Miss S.

Bullets from tonight just to say I posted

• I made guacamole!!
• I ate a big dinner of food I bought and didn't have to cook
• I did some good Internet reading
• I bought books from Amazon.com
• I did not water my plants
• I did not do laundry
• I watched four episodes of FRIENDS and I think I saw one episode twice
• I might have narrowed my wedding color scheme/flowers to three possibilities but it is still totally preliminary
• I baked brownies and put icing on top
• Scolded myself for not doing laundry, anything constructive, eating brownies, not posting anything of actual substance and possibly losing my last three loyal readers who all happen to read this blog because they are family and want to make sure I didn't post about them.
• I did learn today that Forrest Gump was right ... Stupid is as Stupid DOES.  Hehehehe.

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i have a nice blawg.

thanks for reading my blaaawgg.

i am not drunk. i swear. shockingly sober actually.

Sitting on the dock of the bay and lovin' it.

A day spent outside is truly relaxing.

I insisted on driving to the shore last night just so that I could have one full day here and not have to worry about driving for one whole day.

I woke up this morning without an alarm, but rather, to the gentle sun rising into the window behind my bed.  I chose to turn over and go back to sleep for a few more hours.  I bounded out of bed at about 8:30 because I have tofishandcrabandeatbreakfastandwishauntlaurabreakalegandgetupmarc NOW!

I slept well.

I drank coffee while sitting on the dock.  I taught Marc how to fish. I also taught him how to bait his own hook with a bloodworm.  I set up crab pots on the dock and sat down to enjoy the morning.

For those of you who seem to feel this is your business, and frankly, I like to be reminded and praised and for being careful like this... i was wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt and a hat and big sunglasses. By the way, sunglasses with big sides, protect the sides of your eyes from crow's feet. And I wore sunscreen. And, I am NOT at all burned or even tan right now. Cause ... pale is the new tan!

I caught seven crabs and took pretty pictures of them before returning them to the bay.  Marc caught a tiny fish. I caught a tiny fish.  Marc seemed to really enjoy fishing.  He casts even better than me now, which doesn't say much cause I suck at it, but I taught him dammit, and now he is better than me, in like, one day!

Marc and I kayaked around the peninsula and across the creek to the beach. 

We ate crabs and played with animals. 

I did not drive a car today.  I walked thru the garden this morning and got dew all over my feet and ate cherry tomatoes directly off the vine.  I wiped my hands on my jeans all day.   I did not take a shower until 10:15pm.  I got a lot of bloodworm blood and fish guts all over me and my clothes. 

And it all felt really good.

That is a lot of white linen sun protection!

Sittin' on the dock of the bay... watching the clouds roll away ...

Row, Row, Row the boat! ( I am so cheesy, I hate myself)

That is a big bowl o' crabs!

Marc caught this fish!  And wow! Check out that ring!

Proof that jewish city-boys can learn to fish.

My Friday Five

1. What, for you, is the hardest thing to forgive?

Disrespectful actions, irresponsibility that impacts someone else negatively. And, based on #2, I can't forgive drunk driving.
2. Who is the biggest enemy you've ever made?

In high school, I was editor of the newspaper (and founder, I was a goodie-goodie all the way) and I refused to feature a student in a positive feature column who had crashed his car while driving drunk killing his passenger.  A girl named Rachel S. hated me forever because of that. To this day, I don't know if I did the right thing.  I really hate drunk driving, it kills.
3. So far, what is the biggest regret of your life?

I wish I had been pushed out of my comfort zone before age 25 and taken advantage of more opportunities in college.
4. In your life, when have you been most depressed?

I was badly depressed in high school (go figure, what with all my pro-underage-drinking enemies).  Each winter I would get extremely depressed. 
5. What is the worst habit you've had?

I sucked my thumb until my age was well into double digit numbers.  It cost my parents thousands of dollars to fix my teeth.  I haven't sucked my thumb in over ten, okay eight, fine!, six years ... but perhaps that is because about six years ago, I developed my germ phobia and decided I needed to keep my damn hands out of my mouth.

A question for the masses.

Is it more professional on a summer day in a business casual office when your shoes are giving you blisters and you can no longer walk in them, should you go barefoot, or wear your just for traveling to work flip-flops?

Internet ADD and good drivel to help pass the hours.

I was looking for an ad in the online version of the Express just now.  (I think I'm going to have to walk downstairs and around the block to get an actual paper copy. The horror! Walking ... in the heat. in the humidity. in my heels. urgh!)

However ... the Internet is so nice and linkey you can start reading one thing and totally end up reading about something else.  Then, you are all focused on that something else and three hours later, you wonder what the hell you were eve looking for in the beginning. 

I'm telling you now: The Internet. It is has ADD.

But, seriously folks, the Express runs a column now and then about the 50 most attractive Hill staffers ... and then, a fellow blogger, DCeiver gets a hold of it and puts a great sarcastic, drivel-like spin on it all.

Read all about the 50 most beautiful hill-staffers here.