I found this on Jenna’s Blog…if I did this or something like it before, excuse me! It’s a fun way to spend some puter time:

Bold all those that you ever were guilty of doing. When you are done, add one thing that is true about yourself to the end, then post the list to your journal.

I’ve run away from home.
I listen to political music.
I collect comic books.
I shut others out when I’m sad.
I open up to others easily. If I like you I will.
I am keeping a secret from the world. Doesn’t everyone?
I watch the news.
I own over 5 rap CDs.
I own an ipod. Sean has one.
I own something from Hot Topic-the only Hot Topic I can think of is ‘The View’
I love Disney movies. Stop killing the mothers off
I am a sucker for hair/eyes.
I don’t kill bugs.
I curse regularly. Let’s say I try not to let one slip out when mad or stressed
I have “x”s in my screen name.
I’ve slipped out a “lol” in a real conversation.
I love Spam.
I bake well. I love to bake especially cookies
I would wear pajamas to school.
I own something from Abercrombie.
I have a job. Well, sorta..not only am I a domestic goddess, I’m also an online auctioneer.
I love Martha Stewart. Or can I say she’s my mentor? LOL
I am in love with someone. Gee I hope so after over 21 years!
I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
I am self conscious.
I like to laugh. I ‘understood’ Monty Python as a teenager!
I smoke a pack a day.
I loved Go Ask Alice. We had to watch in in middle school.
I have cough drops when I’m not sick. Ricola!
I can’t swallow pills. Not the horse size ones!
I have many scars. C-section and gallbladder to blame on my torso and a few minor ones on my face and hands from a car accident and other boo boos
I’ve been out of this country.Oh Mexico!
I believe in ghosts. Why not?
I can’t sleep if there is a spider in the room. See my earlier post!
I am really ticklish. But you can’t tickle yourself!
I love chocolate. I would bathe in it if I could!
I bite my nails. Sometimes
I am comfortable with being me. So who else can I be?
I play computer games/video games when I’m bored.
Gotten lost in the city. DC was not a fun place to get lost in.
Saw a shooting star.
I have had two serious surgical procedures. See above comment.
Gone out in public in my pajamas.
I have kissed a stranger. Mainly at weddings?
Hugged a stranger. See above.
Been in a fist fight with the same sex. It helps having 3 brothers to teach me to defend myself.
Been arrested.
Laughed and had milk/soda come out of your nose. It was soda and I had a seriously choking attack. Pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
Made out in an elevator.
Sworn at my parents.
Kicked a guy where it hurts. As I said I have three brothers…
Been skydiving.
Been bungee jumping.
Broken a bone. Does a toe count?
Played spin the bottle.
Gotten stitches. I climbed a ragged fence when I was about 3-right between my thumb and pointer finger.
Drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour. I hate milk.
Bitten someone.
Been to Niagara Falls.
Gotten the chicken pox.
Crashed into a car. I was the passenger in a VW Bug and it was an Econoline van-blacked out even.
Been to Asia.
Ridden in a taxi.
Shoplifted.
Been fired.
Stole something from my job. I ate a few good chocolates from a Gourmet Shop I worked at.
Gone on a blind date.
Had a crush on a teacher/coach.
Celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Been to Europe.
Slept with a co-worker.
Been married. Am married
Gotten divorced.
Saw someone dying. My maternal grandmom.
Driven over 400 miles in one day. We drove to Florida the year I graduated from high school.
Been to Canada.
Been on a plane.
Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Thrown up in a bar.
Eaten Sushi. tried sushi-yeck
Been snowboarding.
Been skiing.
Been ice skating.
Met someone in person from the internet.
Been to a car show.
Gone to college.
Done hard drugs.
Taken painkillers.
Met a celebrity. John Travolta-we didn’t actually talk with him back in ’75-he signed a photo of himself for me! And then there was Frank Bielec from Trading Spaces.
I like playing practical jokes. I do occassionally
Once swore Disco would never die. I have to swear I did disco dance!
Seen a ghost. It was on an internet site where they had cameras set up in an abandoned old hospital. A face came right up to the camera after I had seen nothing but darkness for like an hour!
Attended a professional sporting event. Phillies and Flyers
Attended a live rock concert. Many!!
Have ESP-I have foretold many events-it’s like a feeling of doom sometimes.

My mom went to the doctor today because he was concerned that she was still suffering with pain after over 2 months of having shingles. She has postherpetic neuralgia.
Researchers say about 10%-15% of those who experience shingles go on to develop persistent pain, a condition known as postherpetic neuralgia. The condition affects the nerves and the skin and causes pain that can burn, ache, or resemble an electric shock. (Sounds like fun!)
I am bummed that she couldn’t have been in the percentage that gets over it. She’s lost 10 pounds and is down to 113, but she looks thinner. Now she has a pain patch, the pain pills and some other kind of medication. Hopefully the Ensure she drinks will help build her up. I’m still pushing vitamin and herbal therapy. Too bad she didn’t go a month ago. Wish her well as her big birthday is in 10 days.
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Brian just called and wanted to know if I wanted a three week old kitten that needs to be bottlefed. A lady at work has three. Now who would be feeding this kitten all the time? And what about my 5 yr old cat Cosmo? I would break his little heart! Cosmo has to go to the vet’s for a few shots today as it is. I think because he saw the kitten in person he was ‘taken in’ by its cuteness. Ah, what a guy.

So it’s coming into my favorite time of the year, the time for festivals and flea markets. Yesterday we hit a flea market/tailgate sale at my old college. You all know that among the mostly junky stuff are buried treasures. Not that we get to them at the crack of dawn, but if you go later in the day, the sellers would rather lose a few dollars then wrap the item up and load it back into their vehicle. I got a few treasures-one of which was a Royal Copley cat planter (the photo is one like mine and it looks like my cat). Before I go into details, make sure you wear dark sunglasses and haggle a bit. After many years of going to these kinds of sales, you know the good stuff. I would do so well on the BBC America show ‘Bargain Hunt’! So the guy wanted $15 for this. I pretended I thought it was a pitcher (so lame) and he corrected me and said ‘no it’s a planter’. So I said how about $10, and he said how about $12 and I said ok. He didn’t have change for a $20 and Brian came up with $4 for me to add to my $7. All the time this guy is telling me it’s a Shawnee pottery item. He didn’t know he was actually being helpful.
So after I got home, I hopped on eBay and first did a ‘Shawnee cat planter’ search-nothing. But, there were items that were designed and painted like mine and they were Royal Copleys! I did a search again using ‘Royal Copley cat planter’ and someone was selling the same item for $9.99. I was a bit bummed, but did a google search and Ruby Lane antiques came up. They were selling the same cat planter-two of them for $45 and $55. Yeah! Even at half price, I did well paying $12.
I also got a cute Children’s book (lithographs)from 1893, a cobalt
blue Bicentennial bell, a Hallmark ornament of a bunny cross stitching and an old chef salt shaker.
We went up to my hometown and hit Super Sunday. More vendors! I found a table where they were selling Precious Moments and Charming Tails items are great prices. Unfortunately getting there late, they were pushing the last of what they had, but what I bought I was happy with.

The banner next to the fairly new clock tower in downtown Kennett Square, PA

Where’s Sean? Actually I didn’t see him when I took this photo of the masses. See the flood of people behind the rock climbing wall? Sean is in the light yellow plaid shirt and sunglasses.

All I brought home-a free guide (all ads) and 3 locally made bars of soap. The one thing I wanted to see, a cooking demo was all ready over.

I cross stitched a square for the WTC (World Trade Center) quilt project back in 2002. I was looking at this site as the woman who made the three for the above project is starting up another project for Hurricane Katrina victims. She had also done one for the Columbine tragedy. My square ended up on the Pennsylvania quilt as I hoped it would. Kathi (the seamstress and organizer) tried to put people in order of where they lived. I did the apple pie square. The plane went down in Somerset County about 4 squares away from mine on the quilt. It is outlined in red. Very scary and such a sad anniversary.

Incidently, Shanksville is 3 hours and 46 minutes away from where we live. See the purple line and go right to left. Geez, my friend Melanie from suburban Pitts lives a lot closer!

We practically live in Kennett Square, PA. They changed our mailing addy to another town, yet we live a hop, skip and a jump away from KS. We have lived here for 19 years. The Mushroom Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. We plan to try to get up there before the crowds hit. They say they had 100,000 in attendance last year. This may be due in part to the fact that the festival was on Food Network in 2003. I believe I mentioned this last September. And I recognized half the people they filmed for the show (including one of Sean’s kindergarten teachers)!
Sean is writing an English paper on the festival. He emailed two local mushroom farms and one of the managers from Phillips took time from his busy pre-festival schedule to answer Sean’s 5 questions (part of the assignment). Very nice.
So I may be doing a follow-up to this post. I can’t even imagine 5K people in KS let alone 100,000, but that was over the course of the two day event. The imagine is from a t-shirt going for $25-ouch!

I don’t want Kasmira from Cincinnati Cape Cod coming over here and thinking I just plant all annuals. I have tons of perennials. The following list is off the top of my head and may not be the correct name for the plant, but I’ll give it a shot:
I have several ground covers-one a pretty yellow and one a green with a silvery trim
Mums
Columbine
Coreopsis
Sweet Peas
Wild begonias
Yucca
grasses-variegated and another
Japanese iris and bearded iris
day lily and Asiatic lilies
Hostas
Trumpet vine
Autumn Joy Sedum
some bulbs-a few tulips, daffodils and grape hyacinth
Baby’s breath
Hollyhock
a few varieties of ferns
roses
Peony
a pretty heart-shaped leaf with little pinkish bells-‘something’ wort
Bleeding Heart
and many flowering bushes
I find that more perennials will not make it and then I have to replace them and they can be pricey. I think it’s great anytime you can share with neighbors or friends. But I will continue to plant my beloved annuals in all their festive colors. The perennials make a nice backdrop for them!

I like some bugs, but spiders bother me. It has to do with an article I read years ago about the brown recluse spider and Brian’s dad. A lady had been cleaning her stylist chair in the basement of her house (she cut hair down there) and a brown recluse was hiding under it and bit her on the arm. Her arm got painful and swollen and she got a fever. I believe she ended up getting a hunk of her arm cut out. My father-in-law also had some weird craters on his legs and they wouldn’t heal. The doctors at the wound center were perplexed and guessed the sores were caused by spider bites. So you see where my fear came from.
Yesterday I was in our bedroom getting dressed and a large spider was walking along the edge of Brian’s armoire. I decided to brush it off and squoosh it with my sneaker. After I brushed it off, it disappeared! Shoot!
It took me forever to settle down last night. I had to look in every corner of the ceiling and shake the pillows. I’m hoping the spider took a hike out of there.
Yesterday I found a small, lifeless black swallowtail near the mailbox. His little antenneas were straight, but his feet were curled under. Probably got in the way of a car, though his wings were undamaged. I rested him gently on a flower in the front garden.

This is a similar butterfly.

I was getting my ‘Bravo fix’ tonight and after the season finale of Kathy Griffin’s D-list show, an Improv show came on. I love Improv. It really shows the creativity of the performer. There were mostly Saturday Night Live people on tonight. Amy Pollard is a regular. Tina Fey was one of the guests. Tina Fey grew up about 10 miles from me. What they do on this show is pick the guests to do a monologue from a word shouted out in the audience. So Tina kept saying ‘I grew up outside of Philadelphia’ and mentioned a local tv show called ‘Al Alberts Showcase’. My brother happened to be on this show at one time with the school choir and we were in the audience at WPVI. She mentioned the Bicentennial when everyone was painting everything red, white and blue and wearing flags on pants. She mentioned the Phila Art museum and Rocky. That was pretty neat to be able to relate to that. I believe Tina is about to give birth to her first baby, so I wish her well.
Update-thanks to Celebrity Baby Blog:
Live from New York, it’s Tina Fey’s baby!
Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor Tina Fey and her husband Jeff Richmond welcomed a daughter this past Saturday (9-10), who they have named Alice. An NBC rep reveals that the new baby weighed in at a (little!) 5 lbs, 5oz, and that “everyone is safe, home, happy, and thrilled to death.” This is the first child for the couple, who have been together for 11 years!

…gotten out of New Orleans as they were warned on the impending danger. This isn’t me talking it’s someone very close to me. It was in reply to how this person felt about seeing all the people living in the sports arenas. I can hardly ever see eye to eye on subjects like that with this person and it’s so frustrating. In fact, so many people I know aren’t even talking that much about the horrific events of this past week. One of them is more concerned about getting his stock quotes. Where’s the empathy people?
I hope you caught Oprah yesterday Did you see her look at what the ‘survivors’ (not ‘refugees’ we are ALL Americans) had to put up with at living in a dark and stinky sports arena? Dr. Oz was examining a few dead people just laying in front of the arena and near a bridge-this is America-leaving the dead laying around for days (they were on high ground) is like a war zone story. The first victim had been shot.
Nate, the designer rescued two dogs so the people would get on the bus out of NOLA. The man was so grateful and hugged Nate. The man and dog were reunited the next day. I have never seen Oprah shed so many tears.
On a personal level, I have not heard from my friend Terri from Jasper, Alabama and Michele from Saucier, MS for a week. Michele wrote, I believe, last Monday a week ago and said she was taking her family to Florida. I hope my pals and their families are well and doing ok.
I am planning to donate some money from my eBay sales to the Red Cross or other orgs. Every little bit helps.
PS-I wanted to add a little something. I have a great friend out west who sent me an email about ‘not blaming the government’ (in so many words) and that the people should have had emergency kits set up like she does in case there is an earthquake where she lives. I think that’s a good idea, but when you are facing winds of 140 mph, I don’t know how you can hold on to a kit or whatever when you are trying to save your own life. Plus, the EKs do eventually run out.
Oprah was touching yet again. Good to see some celebs lending a hand. Wonder if Bill Gates has donated anything?