New Kitchen before and after

These are my new cabinets. No, I am not having the doors installed. I don't like cabinet doors and I love my dishes. I can't find my before shots. :(

Nico

Nico came home yesterday. My cousin has a friend who couldn't keep him. She tried to send him to another home, but they couldn't take his energy..he has lots of it. The girls were hesitant and scared at first, but I think they will be fine. My mother told them he is their dog and Evie said "I'm not his sister?! I am his mom! I am a MOMMY!!" Just a little disturbing. Gigi took a little longer to accept him. She called me three times last night to tell me he jumped on her...he licked her in her mouth...and finally "I like the dog".

He is a Yorkiepoo, I think more Yorkie than Poo, is 18 months old, very smart and lovable. He cried when his owner left.

Look at that gorgeous hair. He is silvery, brown and black. Gorgeous.

wow

her style and beauty leave me speechless. her intelligence leaves me in awe. i reluctantly say she also leaves me sad and regretful of what i could be and find that i am not. ANYWAY, someone buy me that blouse.

i found this photo on http://www.mrs-o.org/. i love them. thanks for keeping me up-to-date on the lighter side.

Poor Chan. He died last Saturday. He was my mother twenty-hundredth pet and we are already looking for pet number twenty-hundredth and one. She wants a pure breed dog, but my girls want a shelter dog. We went out yesterday to see what we could see.

Look at the poop-face-puppy. I want to scream and cry because we weren't able to take them with us. The guy had 3 female pit bull puppies at the market in St. Mary's county. They were ridiculously expensive...about $450 each and ridiculously, RIDICULOUSLY precious.

.......and my brave girl overcame her dog-fears and held one.

This gorgeous girl was in Petsmart yesterday morning. The owner has 5 of them. Yes, five of them. She was the sweetest thing. She is sniffing my mother's hand. We are trying to find puppies and went to Petsmart for an adoption event which never happened. The folks from the shelter never showed up.

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These flowers speak to me every morning I walk past them. The colors are so rich and warm.

Work is not fun. Cubicles are so damn depressing. We move into a fabulous new building on June 5th. I am excited about it, but not loving the cubicle. :( I am claiming two of them for my own.

Dorothy Whipple love

I must read everything she has ever written. Someone at a Distance was really enjoyable. It was funny and light and the characters, though over the top sometimes, where believable. I even liked the lame-ish happy ending, because it was not entirely too happy. The list of her books is from Wikipedia. The picture, from Persephone Books.

Young Anne (1927)
Greenbanks (1932)
High Wages (1932)
They Knew Mr.Knight (1934)
The Priory (1939)
They Were Sisters (1943)
Because Of The Lockwoods (1949)
Every Good Deed (1950)
The Other Day: An Autobiography (1950)
Someone at a Distance (1953)
Wednesday and Other Stories (1961)
Tale of Very Little Tortoise (1962)
The Smallest Tortoise of All (1964)
Little Hedgehog (1965)
Random Commentary: Books And Journals Kept from 1925 Onwards (1966)
Mrs.Puss and That Kitten (1967)
On Approval
After Tea

Republished by Persephone Books
Someone at a Distance (1999)
They Knew Mr. Knight (2000)
The Priory (2003)
They Were Sisters (2005)
The Closed Door and other stories (2007)

It is spring.

I made my daughter walk to CVS today. She HATED it. She said, "I would rather die than be walking right now to CVS." I ignored her, and we walked. We smelled the flowers.

www.burkedecor.com

I want these floor mats. They come in great colors and they are affordable.

I am dying at my desk. I ordered these books on Friday and the arrived today..MONDAY. What started off being a rainy, blah day (dont' get me wrong, I love a good rainy day) has become really special. What to read first? I think it will be "Someone at a Distance" by Dorothy Whipple. "Good Evening, Mrs. Craven" by Mollie Panter-Downes will patiently wait.

I need this bag right now

I would like a big one in blue, please and thank you.

http://www.keepcalmandcarryon.com/products/red-tote-shopping-bag

apres mammogram

Why are we never told exactly what to expect...EVER? I always try to give a detailed and accurate recollection of my experiences when asked. For example, a past student employee and his wife are expecting a baby. He asks and I tell without embellishment and not shying from truths...well not all the truths need to be shared, but I don't lie about it. I share the good and the ugly.

Why have I never been told of the after affects of mammograms? About an hour after the procedure...which was not bad AT ALL, I started having that "OMG. I am going to throw up in my car" feeling. As it progressed I began feeling less happy about having done a great thing. Having made it to my favorite grocery (Hmart) I was relieved the episode did not begin there. Fortunately, I was in my car and the weather was awesome so I could keep my window down. As the sickness moving through me and felt relief in the fact that I wasn't going to throw up in y car while driving. But, that was not the end of it. I barely made it into the house fast enough to put the bags down and run to the bathroom. All day I laid around, unable to do much of anything. My oldest kid entertained herself and came and went as she pleased, but the younger planted herself right there beside me, poor thing.

I eventually got it together and googled "mammogram nausea" and found some descriptions of what I was feeling. Seriously. How about if someone said, "Go straight home after the procedure" or "Expect some gastro-intestinal discomfort"? Either would have been helpful and appreciated.