happy cinco de drinko!

gone for so long

wow, i had almost forgotten i still had a blog. the last couple years have been a little rough...a divorce, a few surgeries, a tough job. but they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

test post from blogger phone app

here is a photo of a fabulous double rainbow we saw a couple weeks ago. the camera does not come close to capturing how lovely it was!

just another rainy sunday in the pacific northwest

just decided to stay cosy in my room and figure out how to blog again...it took me pretty much ALL day to get my last post going. granted, i DID change lots of stuff on the page as well.  i am going to figure out how to get photos from my phone again...aparently there's an app for that. there are so many apps!  they are so fun too.  i have a couple zombie games on my phone too.  i can play games with my phone, text, check e-mail, figure tips, play scrabble with my friend (she always wins! lol!), SHOP (very dangerous to the wallet), take pictures, watch you-tubes, get un-lost with GPS, so sometimes i forget i can even use it to actually get phone calls!

i'm not dead yet...

hi, i am still alive and kicking.  i know i have been MIA for a long time, nearly a year now, but 2011 was quite a hellish year.  i was soooo happy for it to end, and then 2012 started out worse!  in time i may explain more fully, but for now i will just say after two moves, two surgeries and starting a new job, i am finally getting back on my feet. 

i just got internet connected again after months without it, and decided to spend the day renovating this old blog.  i so missed having internet! i did have computer at work to check email for a time, and then i got an iphone, so i have some internet access.  but some things just need a computer screen! like pinterest! i am so addicted to pinterest! i LOVE it so!

well, i hope you like the new look of the page...i think i love it now! i will try to post stuff intermittantly, as i am quite wiped out at the end of the day after sewing and stuffing what is basically giant wrap around pillows for volleyball poles at volleyball USA.  it is pretty physically draining some days for this 51 year old body, especially days that i have to make 12  9 foot tall perimeter pole pads, like last friday. okay...more to come soon.

insomnia...again

had another sleepless night last night...well, i shouldn's say sleepless. i got a whole hour of sleep finally.  when i can't sleep, i have learned the worst thing to do is just lie there and try to fall asleep.  i get up and make some chamomile or linden flower tea.  or sometimes hot milk, even though i hate milk, but it actually really works.  but lately, if the pup hears someone in the kitchen late at night he wants to get up and investigate, so i decided to just quietly turn the tv on.  i ended up finding this old movie that i had seen long ago, "race for the yankee zephyr"

i had planned to just record it, and watch another time... i didn't expect that i would stay awake that long, but i did.  it was interesting, and about what i remembered it to be.  it has donald pleasance in it as the rummy old guy, that finds an old plane called the yankee zephyr. the plane went down in the war, with gold bars on board...and a case of booze!  of course, bad guys find out about it, and start to chase him and his little crew, looking for the loot too.  george peppard plays a strange bad guy... mean, but at the same time silly.  he is really rich, and he bosses his evil minions about, while they slog around the mountains of new zealand in suits and ties!

it kind of reminded me of another movie i liked, that had a similar premise..."florida straits".  i liked that movie because it had raul julia in it! remember raul julia?  i just ADORED him!  in that movie, he hires a guys with a boat to help him find long forgotten gold, but it is hidden in cuba!  of course, more bad guys end up chasing them, but it has a few good twists.  i saw it on tv long ago, and i think it was was one of the first raul julia movies i had seen that made me start to love him.

my daughters like romantic comedy, and comedy, but give me a movie where there is drama, and chases, and stuff blowing up! 

maybe i will take a nap now.