Good Intentions

Oh gee! I was going to post but now I'm tooo-ooo tired! It's the intention that counts, right? ;)
Well, I'll try to come back soon and post...

For now, I'll leave you with a picture. How's that? :)

BREAD!!

You should see our freezer! Mom said she wanted homemade quick bread and she got it!! ;)
9 loaves of zucchini bread on Tuesday, 2 loaves of banana bread and 9 loaves of pumpkin bread yesterday, and 8 loaves of carrot bread today!!!!!!! TWENTY-EIGHT loaves in THREE days!!!! I'm about "breaded" out!! Sheesh!!

In addition to that, Rose and I have picked up Irish dancing once again and are learning a slip-jig off an instructional video by Colin Dunne. Also, we spent five hours yesterday in Topeka.

A week from today, we're going on vacation to an undisclosed location. :P We'll be gone a week! I'll let you know how it goes. :)

Mr. Philip Freeman's wake is tonight. He was a third order Dominican so he'll be in the full garb of a Dominican. Fr. Albert is here from France to say the Sung Funeral Mass tomorrow morning. Please remember Mr. Freeman's widow and 17 year old daughter in your prayers. He died quite unexpectedly early Monday morning. :(

I can't think of anything else at the moment......

100 Hits

100 hits in 14 days............
Just making a note of it. ;)

What news?

Hm? Huh? Somebody ask for news?? Mm, I didn't think so... Well, here ya have it anyway! :D

I got a belated birthday package today from friends in New York State - very pretty earrings and bracelet!! I also got another birthday card from Texas... I'm celebrating the octave of my birthday, you see. ;) I've gotten a birthday something everyday for the past five days! :D I like it that way. :) So yeah... then I messed around on the internet, talked with a friend in Wisconsin and let Rose do my hair. I ironed my Sunday clothes... in the afternoon, Rose and I practiced Irish dancing and then I did a fair amount of scrapbooking. I'm still trying to finish a project I started two years ago!! Hey, you've gotta admit - at least I'm trying! :D I got the better part of 3 full pages completed.

Joey served Rosary and First Friday Exposition so Rose and I went to that. Afterwards, we did a little more Irish dancing. Then, Mom and Dad brought us home fish'n'chips from Tully's for dinner (this is becoming a Friday tradition! :))... in the evening, we sat in the front room and read through a potential script for RMP. It sounds good... should be pretty funny. :D I worked some more on my scrapbook, took some pictures with my baby (my camera, for you uninitiated ;))... and that was about it.

Like I said, what news? ;)

Talk to ya later, folks!

A Summer Day in Kansas...

Hot'n'Dusty!

New Blog!!!

I just set up a new blog... this one exclusively for photos. I'm having lots of fun with my new camera and hope to update often. Check it out here: Pixies!
Comment on the posts, save the site to favorites, come back often! Let me know what you think. :) Take care~

Say "Cheese!"

This afternoon, my brother had an eye appointment to remove a cyst/sty combo that has been growing under his right eyelid. (ICK!!) Rose and I went along for the ride although it ended up taking much longer than we thought it would. We sat in the eye doctor's lobby for a good 90 minutes! Afterwards, we went and got a couple of absolutely scrumptious strawberry hand-scooped shakes from Hardee's - YUMMY!!!!!!! The next stop was Hillsdale Park - just a small neighborhood park in Topeka - we had a lot of fun with my new camera, even though it was hot out (hovering about 100)... Final stop was Walmart where I tried using my memory card on their photo machines with awesome results. I was pretty happy with the quality of pictures I was able to get. :D :D

Here're some pics~

This one is just to show how my camera will cooperate in making pictures look professional. :P Note the blurred background behind the spider on the limb of the tree... pretty sweet! :)









Here I am up in a tree. :D









Rosie, laughing!











The two of us together...













Mom, Rose, and Joey... unfortunately, the sun kind of got in the lens on this one or something - it got kind of bleachy. :/

More Photos! :D

Last night was the farewell gathering for Frs. Pazat and Fox. It was in the Auditorium and lasted from 7 until nearly 10. There were hundreds of people there... I think it's safe to say that there were in excess of 1000 people there!!! I'm glad there was such a good turn-out. Rose and I hung out with Brittany for the duration of the evening. We "kidnapped" her little (second) cousin Adelaide and went on a walk with her. She's such a cutie!!! Anyhow, here are some pics. :)


Rose and Brittany swinging Adelaide between them. She LOVED it! :D


Rose, Adelaide, and Brittany on the wall that separates the Immaculata from the Quad...


Sunset over the buildings... it was really warm and humid but it sure looks nice! :D


I had to post this one... this is two nephews with their aunt!! :) She's practically the same age as her niece (their older sister)!


A view of part of the Auditorium... by this point, a good number of people had spilled outside to get some fresh air and to make room for others.

Embarking upon the remnant of teenagehood...

Well, I'm now officially 19, even though I've FELT like I was 19 for awhile now. ;) I'm in between those magical ages of 18 and 21. :P I had a very nice birthday yesterday... beginning with breakfast-in-bed! :D In the morning, I went over to Britt's house to drop off her candy, flowers, and gift. Rose came with me and we stayed until 1 o'clock!!! In the afternoon, I opened my birthday package from my Irish friends and from Brittany. Then Rose and I practiced some dancing. About 3 o'clock, Britt and Chris came over and we showed them line-dancing, Irish dancing and then began teaching them the Cotton-Eyed Joe as well as the fox-trot and swing. Britt worked at 6 so they could only stay 'til 5:30. We got pizza for dinner and I opened my presents from the family. Pretty much the rest of the evening was spent first saying the Rosary and then on the phone. I talked to my grandparents for awhile and then to Christine for a couple of hours.

I got a very nice digital camera for my birthday (I'd practically stolen my mom's until then :P) - an Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom. It's 7.1 MegaPixels and I got a 1 GB memory stick in addition to it!!! :D You can guess what I've been doing a lot of ever since. You got it!!! ...taking pictures! :) :) I'm having fun experimenting with all the controls and stuff. It's really, really awesome!!!!!! Soooo... I'll be posting photos on the blog whenever I get shots that are worth sharing. ;)


Mom and I - on my birthday! :D


Some little baby barn swallows under our back deck...

the Promised Pictures

Volleyball photos... ^^^



Okay, yeah, I find eye pictures cool. :D



And this is a shot of my brother and one of my sisters... being GOOOOOFY!!!! :P "How to Brush Your Teeth 101"