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Feb28

Amazing anchorman

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Bob Woodruff
Someone who fits in that ‘tall, dark, handsome… and smart’ category is anchorman Bob Woodruff. I think we were all concerned about his well being over the last year since his near fatal injury in Iraq. Half his scull was removed (not sure if it was saved or that he has a plate in his head) and his jaw was severely injured. Last night there was a tv special on him and I was glad to see him (I had seen him earlier on Oprah also) along with his wife Lee. He made a pretty amazing recovery, looking much like his old self though his peripheral vision is messed up and he had to relearn a lot of his vocabulary. He wants US citizens to sit up and be aware that there are many soldiers that are injured and have had similar injuries to his. Bob went around to many of these young men. Of course their lives will never be the same. One man’s body was just crippled and he lay in bed with a tube in his throat but you could tell he was talking with his eyes. Others are trying to get help with therapy and it’s hard for them to find it in their area.

So I have a new hero in Bob. I wish him and his family (along with wife Lee they have 4 children) well.

Lee asked the doctor if Bob would still love her and he said they never forget who they love and he was right.

Feb27

That warm fuzzy feeling

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After Heroes was over last night, a new show came on called the Black Donnelly’s. I tried to watch it for about 20 minutes and couldn’t get into it, so I switched over to find the Oprah Winfrey special about the all girl school she opened in South Africa. I was totally mesmerized by those sweet girls and how happy they were to be able to go to the wonderful facility that Oprah built after 5 yrs in the planning. The last photo that was shown, was Oprah in the middle and surrounded by a sea of smiles (every single girl!) teared me up big time. Oprah said that ‘all the girls are like her daughters’. This touched one girl whose mother left her when she was 4. I can see many lives changing now.

Oprah and the girls

This special will be rebroadcast on Saturday, March 3rd so check your local listings.

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I’m doing a little ‘me’ pampering tonight-I couldn’t get a hair appt until 6 tonight and I called a week ago! Cruella DeVille and I could be sisters! I guess my stylist is getting too popular. I plan to shop at a local office supply place for some art card supplies (I’ve made 32 ATC now) and then go to Subway to pickup dinner so I don’t have to cook and run out the door.

My mom is still unwell. She said she was wheezing a lot last night. She has a doctor’s appt at 3. Wish her well as this is about her 3rd week of this illness.

I went and started a new cross stitch project when I have two looming deadlines. Not to worry, the house round robin is nearing completion as I need to finish the garden area in front of the house. The bee and flower for Love Quilts is fine-the poor bee needs it’s wings! I’ll put an updated photo above soon. What I started was a heart shaped design filled with butterflies. My mom gave me the two packages of DMC linen floss for Christmas and they both came with free designs. The fabric I am using is from Sugar Maple-a blend of pinks, greens and a little yellow and blue. It’s a cashel and very nice to work on.

It’s in the 40s today, so down right tropical. Go away snow and ice! Bri almost fell in the driveway this morning as it must have done something during the night.

Feb26

The Oscars…borefest

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I got to go to the Academy Awards!
Me at the Oscars

Recap in a few lines-

Loved Gwyneth Paltrow’s salmon/clay colored gown. I would wear it-the top part is way too small for me (so is the bottom, but I like it!)

Reminds me of Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments but her dress was aqua

Yeah-Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine even though he played a stiff in part of the movie. Rent it, you’ll see!

Recognition again for An Inconvenient Truth the documentary ‘starring’ former VP Al Gore. Melissa Etheridge won for best song for this same documentary.
Leo and Al

Recognition for Martin Scorsese for best director and the movie The Departed (which Sean just rented and I didn’t finish watching) won for Best Picture.

I want to see The Queen because of Helen Mirren (who won Best Actress).

Best costumes-Marie Antoinette!

Woo-hoo for Jennifer Hudson who won best supporting actress for Dream Girls. She was a vote off on American Idol once! I need to see this movie too.

I can’t forget to mention about James Taylor singing the nominated song from Cars–Our Town-very short performance.

Ellen DeGeneres-did the best she could. Seems to me she wasn’t in her element-a smaller crowd is better for her and not of her peers. I changed my previous opinion after I saw her cry about her hosting the Academy Awards on her show today.

Feb25

Look ma, it’s snowing again!

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Thought I’d pop on here to write a post, but the regular log on page for wordpress was MIA. I had to say I wanted to post a comment to a WP post that did appear and that’s how I logged on in a round-about way!

And it is snowing again with probably an episode of ice, like 11 days ago. Luckily, we finally got our Valentine’s din din last night. The restaurant we like is never crowded on Saturday nights and they have good food. I had my usual Kennett mushroom burger. We made a mistake of getting nachos which killed our appetites for our burgers and shrimp dish(<—Sean). The nachos had a tart bbq sauce mixed in with the meat sauce, so good. Sean took a photo of Bri and me, a tradition it seems to becoming each year. He needs to transfer it to the computer.

Brian and I went to the grocery store afterwards, another place that wasn’t crowded. We heard that this store is closing and moving. I can tell their inventory is lower. I kept checking for MSG and even the Gorton’s fishsticks had it. I am going to turn over a new leaf by cooking more from scratch. I do most of the time anyway. Rachael Ray had a yummy looking cod cooked in a pouch with olives, onions, fennel and garlic) on 30 minute meals today. It is Lent after all.

Sean and I rented three movies. One is playing now that I rented for Brian-The US vs. John Lennon. Sean rented ‘The Departed’. I started to watch it with him Friday night and told him I wasn’t interested in seeing the rest of it last night. Too much cursing, beating, killing, etc. Topnotch actors like DiCaprio, Nicholson, Sheen, Damon and Wahlberg and it’s up for Best Picture.

I rented ‘Marie Antoinette’. I enjoyed the scenery and the costumes. The plot was pretty lame. And why didn’t Kirsten Dunst (MA) and Jason Schwartzman (King Louis) at least have some kind of an accent for being Austrian and French? They sounded like kids from southern California. And the choice of music in most of the movie was odd. I guess Sofia Coppola was doing her own ‘thang’.

Pretty costumes

Have a nice Sunday. It’s pot roast night, so I’ll pop that in the oven soon.

Feb8

Art cards are awesome!

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Art card sample
(this one’s for Sean as he is a ‘good egg’)
I was telling you about art cards in my previous post. At 2 pm today I gathered my materials and got to work. It took me a while just to get the cards the right size! I used pretty heavy duty ‘homemade’ paper with gold flecks in it. I also utilized one of my old picture books and cut neat ‘things’ from it. I’ve made 6 already! The first five had the same theme and I will reveal them to you after I share them with my pals. #6 is an old photo of my mom as the central theme. I’m still working on it. I’ll probably give it to her. My creativity faded after a few hours, but I am excited to make more!

On an interesting note, I had posted names of people from my past and actually heard from a woman who I use to babysit in the 70s. She didn’t remember me. Actually her sister must have googled her own name and my post came up. Brian said what did I expect, the last time they saw me they were like 7 and 4. ; )

So sorry to hear about Anna Nicole Smith. I’m curious to see what happened and hope it wasn’t drug related. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando almost 2 yrs ago and just can’t think of anyone going there to do themselves in. I feel bad for the little 5 month of girl she left behind.

Feb6

Heroes-who’s your daddy?

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The real daddyI did watch Heroes last night and they waited until the last few minutes to ‘reveal’ who Claire’s real daddy was and it was Nathan-Adrian Pasdar (my mom has a crush on him). If you look at some of the bio pages for Adrian, it says he lived in Powellton, PA. He may have at one time, but he graduated from Marple Newton HS which isn’t near there at all. I wasn’t sure if they would introduce a new character, but deep down I thought no. Adrian grew up about 5 miles or so from me in Delaware County. I mentioned this before. Wonder if he ever shopped in ‘Two Guys’ department store near where he use to live? Danny Bonaduce, also from around the same area, of course moved to Hollywood as a kid. Talk about changing from lovable Danny Partridge to steroid addict real life grown up Danny.Danny grown up I hope he is doing better as his reality show scared the ‘you know what’ out of me (caught it a few times when Bri was channel surfing).

Back to the homefront-my poor sinuses are bothering me as is my tummy. I think my choice of meals have been too acidity and rich lately. Those fat pink mints work wonders! The heat is running all the time because it’s only 10 degrees outside! I try to take precautions and they help a bit, but that forced dry air heat is taking it’s toll on all of us. Because we had a mild December, I wasn’t affected as early as I usually am. I hope I feel better by 3 when I go to the dentist. Sean was also getting on my nerves as he has a short summary due on wacky Penna laws and had trouble finding something. He was on dumblaws.com and it turned out to be his best bet. Did you know you can’t use dynamite in PA to catch fish? Or you can’t sing in the bathtub? Hmmm….

Jan31

Second Harvest Helper

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Contributors to Barilla Cookbook
Barilla pasta has a free ‘celebrity pasta lover’ cookbook available free here.

Kristin Davis, one of the contributors was on The Conan O’Brien show talking about it. I am printing it out-34 pages-some color intensive. When a cookbook has a Harrison Ford recipe, well I have to have it too!

The good thing about downloading this cookbook is that Barilla will donate $1 to Second Harvest to help the 38 million people (almost half are children) who don’t get enough to eat each day.

It’s a sunny but cold day here. Sean will be home soon and I will hear some complaining about Trig. He’s never had it before and is getting stuck on some problems. I hope he asked the teacher or his cousin Sierra (who is in his class) for help. He has a ‘math brain’, so hopefully he’ll catch on soon.

Jan28

The Royals in Philly-like a 3rd grade class trip

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It is almost like the same kinds of trips all us kids from the Philadelphia burbs would take in elementary school. One time we would visit Independence Hall and see the Liberty Bell (it’s been moved to another location). Then we went to the Academy of Nature Sciences or the Franklin Institute. My least favorite trip-riding ‘The Good Ship Lollipop’ down the Delaware River. It was a cold early spring day (if I remember correctly) and I got a little seasick.

So Charles and Camilla are hopping all over the city (video) seeing the sites, painting with kids, and maybe even trying a ‘Royal Philly cheesesteak’ (I’m trying to find the ingredients). They are staying at the Four Seasons. I believe they went to a concert at the Academy of Music (where I saw The Carpenters when I was 13 or 14) in honor of the Academy’s 150th anniversary. Tom Brokaw was the host. Brian told me the necklace Camilla had on was worth 25 million or some exuburant price. I still think she is one lucky lady-not so much for marrying Charles, but just because. ; ) I’d like to feel like ‘the upper crust’ of society just one time.