Today is my former roommate’s birthday. I don’t know if she reads my blog – I rather doubt it because she’s a busy PA student at St. Francis in Ft. Wayne, IN. But all the same, I would like to wish her a happy birthday. :-) Sara and I became roommates after kind of a fluke – she needed a 4th person for her Fairlane apartment, and I needed an offcampus roommate – but looking back, it was totally a…
I am holding in my hand right now a ticket for the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera, which is playing right now at The Fox Theatre here in Atlanta. I cannot express how thrilled I am that I’m actually going! For those who aren’t familiar with Atlanta, the Fox is a magnificent theater with an elaborate interior. My favorite is the roof inside the theater; it’s dark blue with tiny lights that look realistically like stars. So the…
I don’t know much about my ancestors on my dad’s side. No one has ever talked about them; I don’t think they know much either. This past Labor Day when I was in Orlando, my aunt brought boxes of photographs and documents that had been my grandfather’s. We then spent most of the weekend going through them, diving into our family history. It was fascinating. I learned more about our family than I had ever known before. Some of the…
I’m very silly, I know it. I freaked out earlier tonight because a spider moved in on my porch. It is huge! I took pictures and posted them, and then set out to find out what kind of spider it is. I’m pretty sure it’s an orb weaver spider which apparently are reluctant to bite and they eat bugs. I hate bugs more than spiders, so I think I’ll allow my neighbor to stay. He’s big, so that means he…
I *hate* spiders. Really, I do. I don’t know why, but when we were little, my brother had a book on spiders and a book on snakes. The snakes were pretty cool, I thought, but I couldn’t *stand* to look through the spider book. It gave me the creepies. That being said, a new spider has taken up residence on my porch. He’s as big as the other two combined. I watched him make his web which was pretty cool,…