My Own Thoughts

I’ve now lost 20 pounds. It is frustrating, a bit, that I gained that much over the school year, but I am thrilled that I didn’t gain all 45 pounds back and that I’m only five more pounds till I’m back to 160. The best thing about it is that I look better and feel [...]

I do have some short term goals right now. 1. Get M’s handwriting up to grade level. 2. Get M’s school books. (Monday at the ABeka sale.) 3. Get E through algebra, one way or the other. (He says he wants to go to public school so he doesn’t have to do algebra. The problem [...]

This morning I weighed in at 166.6. That’s 19.2 pounds that I’ve lost in the last 49 days. If I continue to lose 2 pounds a week, by the end of the month I will be back to my several year low of 160. I will continue on after that, but I tell you, despite [...]

Ever owned or seen one of those black leathery-vinyl chairs with the silver hoops that loops and is very hard to get out of, especially when you are pregnant? Those are the work of Alvar Aalto in 1936. Of course, it was the depression, so you wanted light and airy (read easy to assemble without [...]

I talked to Henry about having a coffee table built. However, the dimensions he suggested (except height) seemed more to me like a sofa table than a coffee table (34 by 18). When I told him the dimensions I was thinking, he was freaked. He told me to go home and measure. I was about [...]

I weighed in this morning at 168.6. That means I’ve lost 17 pounds, plus a bit. It’s not as good as I’d hoped to be by now, obviously, but it is great comparatively. I mean, I weigh 168.6, not 185.8-or more. I’ve been sick and actually I still feel a bit “off my feed.” I [...]

Today we cleaned the house, rearranged furniture, and got a whole carload of stuff ready for Goodwill, or some such place. It took us several hours and we all four worked on it. I actually like the results. I don’t think M is too thrilled, because we took the bunk bed out and just left [...]

Gary Benfield Janet Treby Itzchak Tarkay Csada Markus, some Roy Fairchild-Woodard, his sepia Rebecca Hardin, her cherry blossom piece Hailan, one Fressinier Peter Nixon -and someone I can’t remember their name

I was looking for leather couches. How I got from there to Picasso is an uninteresting and short tale. Then I went to Costco’s Fine Art and was amazed to see “La Folie” by Picasso for sale there. It is a serigraph. My husband’s boss owns one. It is actually the only Picasso I ever [...]

Today the Declaration of Independence is officially 228 years old. So, no, 40′s not old. I am very grateful and proud to live in this country. I am astonished at the good fortune and blessings we have had here over the last 228 years. God, please continue to bless the USA.

I got sick tonight. Throwing up. Hurt my back, my chest, my throat. When I lay down I feel sick again. I don’t like to be by myself when I’m sick, but R doesn’t like to be there when I’m sick, so I’m by myself. If I lay down I get sicker. If I sit [...]

I own two signed/numbered AP serigraphs by Janet Treby. I really like her style in some of her pictures. She appears to be working in three different styles. I like one of them a lot. One of her s/n AP serigraphs is on sale on eBay. I like it. No one’s bid on it. But [...]

I went to my girlfriend’s up in Dallas to pick up the Art Deco bookshelf I bought while antique hunting with her. I wasn’t looking for an art deco bookshelf/curio cabinet, but I really like it. My husband isn’t thrilled because it doesn’t match the Duncan Phyfe in the rest of the room, but… I [...]