Marshmallow Scars

One of my favorite subjects - the irises in my mother’s front yard. She got her bulbs from my godmother, and I hope to some day have a permanent place so I can take some of the bulbs from this brood for my very own.

The tendrils in the middle of the image make me think of a lizard’s tongue. Or an alien unfurling its tentacles very slowly, almost hypnotizing you before its sudden attack.

Hi.

Some day I’ll have the energy to do more than feel miserable, and you might get more than a picture or one or two lines for an entry.

My sister and I got my mom flowers for Easter.

I’m a sucker for irises. They’re so gorgeous, no matter what color they are.

I had a pretty good day today. My niece has been desperate to come over since she hasn’t spent the night since quite a few days before Spring Break (which was the week before Easter). She and her baby sister were over on a Saturday for the whole day, but other than that, we haven’t seen much of each other.

I should explain because half of my readership (i.e. one person) doesn’t know the background. I lived with my sister and her husband when she was pregnant for R. I lived there the first couple of years of R’s life, and I was Half-Mom to the kid. We spent many, many hours together. Now she stays the night usually two or three nights a week because I take her to school on the days her dad has to work (my sister works M-F, he has an odd 3 days, 2 days, 2 days, 3 days on and off schedule). If she doesn’t end up spending the night, I still go pick her up in the morning and take her to school.

Anyway, she was going crazy all day because she knew she was coming over tonight, early. Normally she comes over maybe an hour before bed, which doesn’t give us much time to play and hang out. So today she came over a few hours early and I washed dishes while she played on my computer. LOL I’ve created a little nerd Mini Me. Then we snuggled while watching Hannah Montana before bed.

Earlier today I was very lazy and was feeling worthless because I didn’t get anything done this weekend that I thought I should have gotten done. Then I did a few of the things, the ones that were essential, and that was all right, but nothing makes me feel worthwhile like that kid. She’s just the best thing ever, and today was a fabulous day. !!

I hope you had a good Sunday, too!

I was thinking of switching back to blogger, but I’m lazy and don’t want to go through all of the business of moving things here and there and trying to recover old posts (not that there are a lot of them). I also was swayed when I found this WP theme that lets me put the flickr photos widget over yonder on the left. Now I just need to upload photos to flickr more often. ;-)

It was gorgeous out today - 70 and sunny. I went for a walk for a couple of hours. Took lots of pictures. None of them turned out, but it was still a very good day and I enjoyed myself anyway.

I’ve been thinking a lot of thinky thoughts. I don’t think any of them are ready for public consumption - hell, I don’t know if they ever will be. Just general life stuff and trying to get things in order. It seems like I’m always trying to get things in order, and failing miserably.

This wasn’t supposed to be such a downer of a post. Sorry about that! I’ll try harder next time.

(This place did start out as a photo blog, after all.)

This is some Faygo Red Pop. If you click over, there are a few more similar photos, plus a couple of some nice bright green Midori

I fail at washing dishes. I always mean to wash them as I go, so there are only a couple in the sink at any given time. But I’m lazy. So they pile up.

I have to get up with a stinking alarm tomorrow (I hate doing that on a Saturday) so I can go babysit my sweetie pie niece while her big sister goes with her dance class to go perform at a local nursing home. I guess I’ll have to get up earlier than I’d planned so I can wash dishes and clean up the kitchen before I go.

All this because I came home and sat down “just for a minute”, then was too lazy to get back up. Maybe if I went to bed at a decent hour during the week, I wouldn’t be so tired all the time, right?

I knew that once a week was too much to ask. I hardly even log into facebook, and that’s an easy time waster!

I haven’t been up to much of anything other than work. I’m excited for U2’s upcoming tour. I’m hoping to take my oldest niece to the Chicago show in September (an early birthday present for her). She’s turning 14 just a couple weeks after that, and I think she’d have a blast!

I’m keeping it short, so maybe it won’t seem like a chore to post stuff. Maybe that will inspire me to post more often? Who knows!?!

I promise I will post at least once a week. I know that’s not a lot, but it’s a start.

This will be short because I frakked up my hand at work (in a totally non-work related occurrence), and typing is slow and tedious.

First, CONGRATULATIONS TO JEFF AND DEB! Your bebeh is adorable.

Second, I went to DC for the Inauguration and didn’t actually make it to the Swearing In ceremony - the local DC news said all of the security checkpoints were overrun before I even left my friend’s apartment. Oh well! I did make it to the concert at the Lincoln Memorial the previous Sunday, and it really says a lot about me that I found that to be the more important event, doesn’t it?

a few photos taken at the concert - they’re not beautiful or interesting, but I wrote stuff on the flickr pages about the event which I will not reproduce here on account of The Lazy and the painful hand.

a few pics from the National Zoo

Here’s one from the zoo:

See you in 7 days or less!