the perfect summer dinner

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change is good

Have you ever desperately wanted, no needed things to change? I love change. The anticipation, the wondering how it will all play out, but as much as I love it I don't always handle it very well. I'm a planner, a list maker, and as long as I have a list and know I'm working toward a specific direction I'm good. But change doesn't unfold how we'd prefer, and this I'm having a bit of an issue with.

I'm good at starting over. Trying something out to the point of knowing it'd be successful and suddenly discovering something else that peeks my interest and moving on. Listen I get it, I protect myself from investing too much and getting seriously hurt, let's psychoanalyze later and just try to embrace change.

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an abundance of patience

all carved from pencils by Dalton Ghetti

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musical abilities

I dreamt last night that I had purchased a keyboard months ago so I could take piano lessons and had completely forgotten it under a pile of newspapers. I've always wanted to play the piano. My folks had an organ when I was growing up. It had been my grandparents and my sister {Mrs. H} and I would play around on it. We'd get out the old sheet music and scores from musicals that my grandparents had collected and pretend we could play. The organ is gone but I kept the old sheet music.....I should do something with them, some sort of project instead of keeping them in a box.

The mornings and evenings are beginning to turn colder. I opened the windows this morning and had to put on a sweater. This time of year, towards the end of summer and into fall, I always get the desire to take a class, go back to school......maybe I'll go get that keyboard from my dream and finally take piano lessons.

xo,

Mrs. B

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while we're on the subject of dead bodies

Several years ago I went with a friend to see the Our Body exhibit at the Science Center. It was interesting, beautiful, visually stunning, thought provoking and a little sad. While we walked around the exhibit I couldn't help but notice the funeral home feeling. Conversations took place in hushed tones, if at all and there wasn't a lot of smiling - more somber observance. With their plastic slightly glossy appearance it was easy to forget they used to be living, breathing, thinking human beings but then, just as quickly something akin to grief would sneak up on you.

You know that feeling you have when you leave a funeral? I can't put it into words, sad, guilty, glad you're still here? That's how I felt when we left the exhibit, very much like I had just been to a funeral.

Regardless of the moral questions......were the bodies willing participants? {or as my friend suspected, asain criminals that had no choice in the destination of their corpse} is it "wrong" {for lack of a better word} to eternally suspend a human body this way? The whole exhibit was well worth the moral questioning...........................learn more about it here.

xo,

Mrs.B

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a good stiff one

Sometimes you just have to go with the cheap joke.....

Anywho, dead bodies & decomposition might not be the best dinner conversation but they do make for an interesting read. I enjoyed the chapters with a bit more history and the taboo topics {labs that leave dead bodies in a field to document their decomposition to help solve questionable deaths} or {apparently humans used to be made of much stronger stuff & in the early days of surgery had surgeries performed without any anesthetic}. Definitely a good read, just don't eat right before or after, I'm just saying....

xo,

Mrs. B

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smokey cotton candy

No it's not a new flavor, I am talking cigarette smoke infused cotton candy. I spent yesterday evening at the Reunion with a Cause and it was a wonderful, heartwarming night. And my friend Monica & I decided to take a trip around the track to check out the other tents & just generally be nosey. It's commonly known that calories don't count on the weekend & when attending charity functions. So when we spotted the "Fresh Squeezed Lemonade & Cotton Candy van [should have been a tip off right there, what more can you expect from a carnival van?] we made a bee line for it. The cotton candy not only smelled like smoke but tasted like it as well. And my "fresh squeezed" lemonade was literally sugar water [that you could chew the sugar granules because they hadn't dissolved] with a half of lemon floating in the top.

Other than the less than tasty treats the night was great. At the end of the night they have everyone line up on the track that is lined with white luminary bags that have been decorated in honor or in memory of someone who has fought cancer. The luminaries are lit, they turn off the field lights and everyone walks the track in silence as a bagpiper plays amazing grace. It's pretty powerful.......

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design porn

I love these retro inspired posters for the ultra modern social networking sites.

Irony & sarcasm two of the best methods for social interaction & conversation.

the genious behind them

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farm tools

auburn hills.

black ford probe.

2 guys.

1 pitchfork with the "fork" part sticking through the sunroof.

couldn't get to my camera fast enough.

disappointed.

still pretty damn funny.

[not my photo]

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auto-not-so-matic

Ever get stuck in an automatic door? Nah, me either, but I came pretty close tonight. I made a quick trip to Target and as I was leaving the young woman in front of me stopped short because the automatic doors had stopped, leaving an opening just shy of getting a shopping cart through. She hurried the 2 boys that were with her through and noticed me with my cart stuffed with a huge box, took a second look at the door and waved her hand in front of the sensor above the door. But when that proved to not work she gave me a look like, "well I tried. good luck." Really? That's it? So let's see, I'll just pull this door open a bit more with my left arm and keep it there with my left shoulder, stretch my right arm to loop my fingers through one of the holes in the front of the cart and pull the very heavy cart over the door jam and through the door. Cuz I'm just talented like that.

So it turned out to not be that difficult but still.....a sister just needs a little help every now & then. stumble it !

new fav

i've been playing it over & over again.

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pretty damn funny

this may be one of the funniest things ever! thanks robin for posting it


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