Currently Watching Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition) By Animated Classic see related

we have a date for our wedding!

   OCTOBER 14, 2007!

Currently Listening Second First Impression By Daniel Bedingfield see related

so there is this man.

                              and he loves me.

                                                        and i love him right back.

Currently Listening The Book of Secrets By Loreena McKennitt The Highwayman see related

sooooooooooooooooo i'm-a-goin' back to the old flat lands of the True North once again. what a great life i have. i was just recently in the Canada with my parents, sister and new brother. we were in the Ontario and toured the Thousand Islands, saw Boldt Castle (absolutely fascinating and terribly romantic), spent some quality time at Tim Hortons, stayed at a Victorian bed and breakfast, feasted at a rib fest (well....i just watched....that kind of thing really grosses me out), shopped at a Canadian Army and Navy store (got an apron and winter jacket there), and And AND......best of all we watched "Much Ado About Nothing" in an amphitheater on the edge of the St Lawrence. the cast really hammed it up and twas my favorite performance of anything ever thus far in my twenty years.

oh and yesterday my Daddy decided to take us all to "watch" his buddies from the radio stations play softball.....he ended up umping and i ended up catching.....all day.....for both teams......without stopping. so umm not only am i just out of shape in general, but it has been a very long span of time since i have tested my catcher skills.....no warm up, no nothing and today my quads are screaming at me. i want to cut of my legs at the pelvic joint. you remember that seen in "The Burbs" when tom hanks comes out of the burning, creepy house and he is all battered and burnt and he just slips down the front steps without bending his legs? well that is what i have been trying to do all day. finally i just sat down on the stairs and put my legs out straight and pushed with my hands (my big sis and i used to do this holding hands on Christmas morning when we wore matching little nighties and night caps). periodically throughout the day my legs would fill with hot gelatin substances and quake and nearly buckle beneath me. thank goodness i work where there are golf carts.

today made me think of how awful and embarassing it would be to have to hold the metal bar on the wall with one hand and brace the other on the back of the toilet to lower myself down slowly with out bending my legs EVERYDAY! for the first time in my life i thought maybe it would not be fun to be an old, wrinkled person....and i nearly feared that fate. i have always wanted to be a rosy, plump, wrinkled, grinning, good-smelling grandma who lives in house in the woods with garden gnomes all around and i would make cookies every day.......but somehow arthritis and rheumatism never seemed to be a part of that pretty little mental picture. today was the first day i felt old. i hope it is the last that i feel it even when i become it. in a few days i will be quite glad to have my usual legs back again instead of wishing i could attach marionette rigging to my feet to lift and bend my legs for me.

and so the elderly, the crippled, the lazy, the out-of-shape-hey-i-think-i-can-play-ball-like-i-used-to-in-my-prime-without-warming-up-firsters, and those really stout people with tattooed calves who drive in those dangerous rover things around Wal Mart, this post and my sympathy go out to you today.