When I say this picture, my initial reaction was "You've got to be kidding, right?" HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

I should buy Hubby an outfit just like that! Where did he get that hat from - Elmer Fudd? What - is Madonna his angry mommy taking him to school? I have heard that they have been fighting. Guy Ritchie thinks that Madonna - now over the 50 year mark - should start dressing more maturely. He thinks that it's weird that she is still partying it up like a teeny bopper.Wonder what he thinks of his outfit. Maybe he was trying to prove a point to her. It's ridiculous. These are the people who help fashion the common person's sense of style. It's crazy...


So - what is style? Have you thought about it? I have. I have always wanted an awesome "sense of style." And never quite acheived it. I think that there is something that just flips in my brain when I start dressing myself. In my head, the artistic image should look fine. However, the finished image is always dowdy and frumpy. (By the way, don't you love the word "dowdy"?) I guess that it's a good thing that someone's outward appearance does not determine their worth...

It is cold today. Why? It's almost May. I want to go swimming. But with weather like this - I won't be swimming all summer...

The dog that lives behind us has the most annoying bark I have ever heard. I want to shoot BB's at it. Oooh, and at Bella. Fun...

I finally got to eat gnocchis last night. They were soooo good. I love gnocchis. Too bad that no restaurant around here serves them - that I have found. In fact, I have only found them at this little restaurant right outside of Myrtle Beach. Yum!

I think that Myrtle Beach should have a new name. It should either be called "Little Eastern Europe" or "Yuppie Town, USA". Oooh, yeah, or "Repository for Old Yankees and Yoppies Who Want to Live In the South So They Can Try to Change It". How about "Little Florida'? What do you think?

Hubby and I have too many books. I don't want to see another book for a long time. Even little Peanut has a collection of books. If they were books that were just too good not to own your own copy, then I would not complain. But, alot of them are things that if we suffered through it the first time, we won't be reading again. Books are great. However, they collect dust and mold and weird smells. Don't ask me how. I think that anytime there is food cooking in the house or it rains - the books become repositories for those smells. It becomes quite disgusting after awhile. I pretty much only read classics. It does me no good to even try to attempt to read a modern book. I get bored. Give me Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James - even William Faulkner, O.Henry, or Flannery O'Connor - I'll be lost for hours. But those books have stood the test of time. Books written by little-known authors with predictable plots bore me to pieces. There are very few contemporary authors that I find talented.

For example - I made the mistake of buying Isle of Palms by - I think - Anne Rivers Siddon. It completely sucked. Instead of being the wonderful, enchanting tale that captured the spirit of the lowcountry that everyone had built it up to be, it really, really sucked... I started reading it with high hopes. After the first page, I knew that it would most likely suck, but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. So, I kept reading. Halfway into the book, I flipped to the back to see if it got any better. Nope. In fact, it got worse. I don't know what ever happened to the book. It should be burned.

So, I know that I am stuck in one genre - but this is the way that I see things... If I am going to spend my time reading a piece of writing...If I am going to fill my imagination and thoughts with someone else's words...Then it had better be uplifting, educated, and inspiring. I don't want to here about a woman's now-gay ex-husband. I don't want to read a memoir about someone's sexual exploits. I don't want to read a book that goes no further in depth of the human soul than to tell what the main character had for breakfast and how they expelled it from their bodies. I also don't want to spend hours reading a book that is sympathetic to immoral ideas. I don't want to read profanity. I don't want to read a book about someone committing adultery - in action or thought. I don't have time for that crap. I don't have any desire to dwell on that garbage. If one of my peers or friends or acquaintances were to start talking to me about stuff like that - I probably would avoid their company. Why subject myself to someone else's foul thoughts?And reading this sort of book is much worse than engaging in raunchy conversation. In a conversation, you, at least, have the opportunity to explain and defend your point of view. With a book, while you are reading it at least, you are accepting the other point of view with no chance for rebuttal.(I know, that word cannot be spelled coreckly.)

Okay, I'm off of my soap box now. Aren't you happy - if you made it to this point without clicking onto another website...

Hubby is taking a 5 hour exam right now. I am praying for him. He will do great - I know. I have married a man who is not only incredibly handsome and charming, but he's danged smart, too. It's a little intimidating sometimes. I am indeed a lucky girl.