Stressful Saturday

So......here is a photo from the Sexy Finger Champs years.....

A Cookie Day Memory

Here is one of my lovely nieces, Iris, wearing my clown hat on Cookie Day this year....it was early in December, a much warmer day than normal (note her shorts and my hot, red face from the oven!)....it is now bitterly cold here in Austin and I am cozy here in the house, baking pork chops and potatoes and looking over all the pictures from this most happy holiday time. I am still sad that I have no boyfriend kinda guy in my life and can only cuddle my dog-baby, Viva, on these cold nights, but I am so lucky to have my darling friends and they share their adorable babies with me and I get to do theater and have the good fortune to sing and entertain people when I can...so, pretty good times.
The best part of Christmas was watching my seven year old niece, Jane, opening her stocking, and she would shout over to her sisters, "Look! Look! I got candy!" then, "Look! Look! I got a starfish ornament!" and then, most excited of all, "Look! Look! I got an orange!!!!!"
I agree with Jane, it is the little things, like the orange, that bring me great happiness. I hope my mother will soon email me the photos of Jane's Christmas morning smiles for me to post here....

Daddy's Anniversary

Seven years ago today, my father died in a hospital room in Dallas, Texas. We were all around him when he passed. His breathing simply got slower and slower and then there was just not another breath.
Look at my cute daddy! And my cute mama, who called him "my Elvis". These swim photos are from 1962, they are nearly married a year and a half, and my sister is almost one. Daddy always took us swimming; Mama didn't go often by the time I was ten or so as she didn't like her legs or some excuse. Thankfully, she got another swimsuit this year, her first in over twenty years. Whew!
I also like the photo of Daddy being silly by the snowman. He was so smart and funny. I still know the first twenty elements of the periodic table because of a rhyme he made:
Here He Lies Beneath the Deep Blue C, Not One Friend Near, Napoleon Mg, ALways SiPs Clear Arkyhol, Kitty Cat.
I know it doesn't make sense, but do you see the first twenty elements? C'mon....
(if I could figure out how to insert a periodic table here, I would, but I'm lazy)
I am getting over lots o' sickness. The antibiotics seem to be working. I am going to take another nap. Plus, Daddy loved a nap, too.

Photo Today

It has been two weeks since Grandmother's funeral and I still think of her each day. Here is a great photo, very new to me, recently developed from an old slide. I am about three, I think. We are at a big family reunion picnic, so I'm told. Grandmother is really paying attention to my every word! For my entire life, so interested in my writings and singing.... I love you, Grandmother!

This photo is to inspire you to attend the "Get Mortified!" show at the Coldtowne Theater on Airport Blvd, next door to I Luv Video! Friday November 16th, 2007 at 8pm, ya'll! Some funny folks (and me!), well, we will be there revealing our tween and teen journal musings for your entertainment.....go check the "Get Mortified!" website (like, uh, getmortified.com I think...) to figure out what it is all about. See you on Friday!