has still not ended.

First directions:

Thruway to XXX South

Exit XX – take left at light

1^st light – take right onto XXXXXX Road

1^st light – take left onto XXXX XXXX (this is a few miles down the road)

When you get to the center of town XXX Street will be on your left. There is a canon on the corner and the post office is on your right.

House is about ½ way down street. #XX

Second:

I may or may not have gotten it in my head to paint the upstairs bathroom 2 days before your visit. This could have resulted in the rest of my life getting away from me. Also, I may not have use of my arms any longer. I am going to apologize now for the disaster that is my home. This is one of those errors in judgment that will provide you with a story to tell for the rest of days. It also may cause you to run screaming from my home.

Third:

The painting is still not finished.

Fourth:

Will you be in time for dinner? I’m not sure when the kids eat. Also, what do they like for breakfast? At the rate my week has been going I will be shopping at midnight tonight when you are all asleep. I will however, make sure there is plenty of wine so you will perhaps not mind the chaos quite so much.

Can’t wait to see you!!!

Of course, I missed it. Yesterday was my five year blogiversary. FIVE. YEARS. My God that’s a long time.

I know I haven’t been consistent and I know I’ve lost most of my regular readers – yes, my readership is actually down rather than up but no matter how many times I try to quit or move or abandon this place I’m still here.

So in honor of still being here I’ve decided to do a giveaway. A giveaway of a matted photo of mine. Now maybe you don’t want that. Maybe it’s a horrible idea. But if you do, or if you know someone who might like one of my prints, enter by leaving a comment on this post telling me which one you’d like. The final size matted will be your choice of 8×10 or 11×14. Your choices can be found here – just click on index. There are currently 3 pages of photos to choose from.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for sticking around. I’m hoping to post more in the coming months. Summer is slow at work so it should be busy here at the blog. (Please note use of word “should”)

• Making out with Shelfari
• Knitting
• Going on a Girls’ Weekend/Group Therapy
• Baseball
• Baseball
• Track
• End of year concerts
• Baseball
• Did I mention Baseball?

I want to talk about a couple books I finished recently but I’m not sure I’m really in the mood at the moment. Also, I’m at work and have actual work type stuff to do. BUT! If you’re looking for an excellent read you may want to try The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano or Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center. The first was just amazing. I’m not sure why I fell in love with it so completely but I did. The second I felt I could have written. Really. Not in the “I could do that” way but in the “if I could write a novel well and have it loosely shadow my life, this is what it would say” way. I don’t think I’ve ever identified with a character in a book so completely. Now, do not think she told my story. She didn’t. She did however define aspects of my life.