"Magnolia"

My dear friend posted a picture of one of her favorite childhood "haunts" so I wanted to share with her one of mine. Many a lazy Sunday has been spent in this place. These gardens. It's like a fairytale in and of itself. Perhaps here is where my imagination began to run wild pulling at the tethers of my own reality as a child.



Once seeing Magnolia, it's not a far stretch to realize that there are indeed magical places here on this earth.

So then there was light...

And it's a train. Laughing hysterically here, and sometimes silently and sometimes not so silently. Let's see--ant's attack through the kitchen window no less, an absessed tooth that thankfully doesn't hurt anymore not for going to see a professional but a handy dandy left over bottle of penicillin which will truly probably not hold off the infection for long, my husband's unemployment running out, a looming dentist bill that will probably set me back hundreds and um...gee is there anything else that could possibly go wrong this week? I'm doubtful.

"That which does not kill you makes you stronger."

Hell, if I had any insurance I think medication would be totally called for in this instance. Honestly, putting one foot in front of the other is becoming more and more of a challege.

I'd really like to go curl up in a corner and just forget about the world for a bit.

In fact I did a bit of that today. I read the first book of The "Vampire Academy" by Richelle Mead. (I hope I got that right, I'm frankly just too lazy to go look it up at the present time to make sure)I read it on my daughter's recommendation. Do you hear that, Janie? Her recommendation. Quite shocking. Almost as shocking as finding her reading poems by Byron and copying them in her neat little handwriting into her book of favorite poems.

I'm so proud.

But I digress. I really like the Vampire Academy and wasn't sure if I would. I tried reading some other Vampire YA fiction that left me feeling a little flat but I'm totally into Ms. Rose and her companions. And thankfully, Meg's has the other three books in the series. Yeah me!

So hmmm...what to do at 12:33 a.m. in the morning? I can't go snag the other books from the daughter as she's asleep and probably is sleeping with her arms around the book just so I can't have it as she's not finished with it yet. You know, I can't get ahead of her in the story because well...that just would be wrong. According to her anyway.

Guess I'll have to figure out something else.

Hope all my dear friends have had better weeks than I.

Alexander Rybak - Fairytale (2009 Eurovision Song Contest Wi

Same guy! Tons of talent. See what searching you tube for the world "fairytale" will do for you when you have the flu?

Alexander Rybak - Song from a secret garden

This could be love--fever still hasn't broken. Wait till you hear this guy sing. Amazing.

[English Subbed] Kalafina - fairytale

This is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG I'VE HEARD IN FOREVER!!!!! Holy Smokes!

Another year older?

Tee hee. I'm kind of amazed at that. I spent today looking at some older blogs. Friends have come and gone and some are silent and some are screaming. Some doing both at the same time.

For myself, I find that I put one foot in front of the other and make it day to day, taking the challenges and obstacles as they come. I've had laughter this past year and tears. I must say the laughter was better for the tears. I've always been a firm beliver that with no rain there is no appreciation for the sun.

I actually grew tomatoes this year on my little patio in pots. A first for me as I normally never remember to water them.

I've learned this past year what true stress is and now what it is like to live without it. Oh, there's stress enough I suppose but it's of my own making these days.

I've gotten to watch my lovely daughter grow a year older and what more can you ask for than that? She's still mad about vampires and who can blame her? She's moved on from Twilight to the Vampire Diaries (which is going to be a new series on the CW here come September 10th) and now we're onto the Vampire Acadamy books. LOL. Do I care? No. She hasn't gotten to Faulkner yet but she had read Mark Twain. Not bad for a year. What a comparasion. Hmm...going from Stephanie Myer to Mark Twain. He might laugh at that.

Hope all my friends are doing well. I'm writing again but not going to talk much about it other than the fact that I love the story. It's new and wonderful and still fresh. And OMG...I actually wrote an outline. It's almost an entire spiral notebook. LOL And I still love it. Which is a miracle in and of itself.

Ta for now and hopefully I'll be blogging more often.

Alice in Wonderland Official Trailer

Oh my! Oh me oh my! Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? Bless you Tim Burton! Just Bless you!