Pippin: A mug of ale in my hand, putting my feet up on a settle after a hard day's work.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Peter Jackson, dir. 2003
TIME: 9:29 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: My shoes
I didn’t have a mug of ale in my hand. What I did have was a Diet Coke on my desk and a large, orange cat sitting on my lap. Sigh. It just isn’t the same, is it?
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”
Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
TIME: 3:46 PM
PLACE: My bedroom
SUBJECT: Stripe shadows
We are supposed to get ANOTHER 3-5 inches of snow late tomorrow afternoon – which should all melt by Wednesday and then we are supposed to get up to 71 degrees on Saturday. Nutsy! ~*~*~ Anyway, I forgot to put the memory card back in my little camera and could not take my weekly photo at the parking lot at work. When I returned home I went upstairs to change into sweats and noticed the shadows coming in my bedroom window. I decided to try to get all artsy with my shot today. You know what they say about wearing horizontal stripes…I hope they don’t make me look fat.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London (American, author, 1876–1916)
TIME: 7:57 PM
PLACE: DQ’s bedroom
SUBJECT: SD’s & my legs
This is what I wore tonight to the charity event. (Brown “Me Too” boots ($6 @ Goodwill), white tights - no, my legs are not THAT pale - ($5 @ Wal-mart) and tan corduroy skirt ($3 on clearance at Wal-Mart). Not pictured is an orange cami and a white hoodie (Old Navy). SD is in the background wearing leggings from Target. Her shoes are from Payless)
The event went well. For a donation of a toy or $20 per person, we get to sample food from around 20 different restaurants. There were gift basket raffles and the County Animal Shelter held a drawing for 2 dogs and 3 cats. DQ purchased a ticket for one of the cats but thankfully unfortunately, she did not win. I’m stuffed and it was for a good cause. All donated gifts and proceeds will go to local needy families. I like that fact that it is a local charity. Due to the economy, our charitable contributions are not as much as they have been in years past. But this is one event that we definitely keep in our budget every year.
