That’s right. We’re doing a do-it-yourself baby shower. My daughter and one of my nieces will both have babies in May, and I wanted to do showers for them. Unfortunately, trying to get my extended family together is one of the more impossible tasks of all times. Getting them together twice in March was a total impossibility.
I talked with the girls and they were willing to share a shower. My oldest sister and I have planned the simplest of evenings: a potluck supper and shower! We’ll decorate the tables and set up a table for the gifts. We’ll put together one complete meal and let everyone else bring what they’d like. One of the girls is eagerly planning appetizers, one is bringing a decorated cake and another dessert.
The men of the family have been invited to this party. We’ll gather about 6:30 on Saturday night for our dinner. We plan to serve buffet style, but there will be a seat for everyone at a decorated table. I have to rent about ten chairs, but I have all the china and silverware and glassware I need. I think we’ll need to seat about 28 people. (I’m probably lucky that at least 16 members of my family live too far away to attend!)
We’ve already been shopping, so I have gifts to wrap, and little last minute things to do. I’ll shop for the meal on Thursday, and finish the cleaning on Friday. Saturday we’ll set up tables and cook.
Sooooo…if I’m conspicuously absent for a few days, it might not be AOL’s fault this time. I’ll let you know if it was a success.

Do you make your bed every day?
My mother taught me to make my bed each day. I learned how to make “hospital corners” so that the upper sheet was tight and flat. While I can’t drop a quarter and have it bounce, as my sister the Navy Officer was taught to do, I do make a reasonably good looking bed.
The problem is, the very first thing Dear Husband does when he greets this newly made bed is to rip the top sheet out from the mattress.

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I’ve been trying my darnedest to visit my blogging friends, but the oddest thing is happening. I can’t get into any of the TypePad blogs. I’ve tried two different computers, but both run AOL, so I can’t tell whether it’s AOL or TypePad that’s squirrely.
If something’s going on with TypePad, let me know, won’t you? I miss Bogie and billy and P.J. and all the others over there!

Well….actually “threesome” is more correct here. I was listening to WGN yesterday. They have two women, Kathy and Judy, who do a morning show, and you NEVER know what you’re likely to hear there.

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I’m amazed at what I hear on the radio. I was fixing dinner and listening to my favorite personality at WGN in Chicago this evening. He was talking about a phenomenon that is developing thanks to DVD players in cars.

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Dear Husband and I are contemplating the purchase of a new personal computer. We have unlimited access to the computer we use for business, but I’d like to be able to blog at night while I sit in the living room with DH.
We’ve been lost in a maze of choices that have to be made: how fast a processor, how much RAM and what kind, what kind of screen, speakers, sound card, operating system, memory, software, ethernet, and on and on and on….
It seems to me that we purchase a computer for the office about every three years, and in that period, they manage to change the entire world of how to order. I can remember the first time they started talking about megahertz. What the heck is that??? Now we toss it off with aplomb!
Gigahertz. Good God, what is a GIGA?? (I know. That was rhetorical. I counted on my fingers and toes to figure it out!) How could things have changed so fast?? Dear Husband wants to buy the most adaptable computer he can, thinking that it’s going to have to last us a while. The next younger generation look at him and shake their heads knowingly. It will be outdated before we open the cartons and get it set up.
I can’t believe that we are now debating a DVD player and burner! Who the heck has time to watch movies on their computers? And I have to make a point of ordering a floppy disk player now.
I have to make a call to our cable company to confirm that we are eligible for a cable hook up. We hope to be joining the world of faster communication. We live in an area that has such old infrastructure that gerbils run up and down the lines carrying messages. And with that change, we’ll be leaving AOL as our service provider. (Listening to RedEagle shouting YEA!!!! in the background.)
So, if you have any advice on what is a necessity on a computer these days, leave me a note, won’t you?

I can NOT believe that the last time I posted was March 2! In my mind, just a day or two has gone by since the last time I blogged.
This week a medicine that I’m on was changed, and I spent a good part of the week sleeping. I had some trouble focusing my eyes to read, and kept wanting to take naps at 11:30 in the morning. Finally, Thursday night I decided that I’d had enough of THAT! I need to have a little talk with the doc about returning to the original medication.
Sometimes you just have to take life into your own hands!
I hope you are all doing well. March has been the traditional “lion” this week. We’ve had blustery days with up to 60 mph wind gusts, and occasional rain. I’m ready for the “lamb” part of the month. *G*

Go read the entry for March 3, 2004, titled “Of Mice and Muppets” at Tongue Oil. Be sure to get to the part that’s collapsed.
Mike had a risky Sunday, not the worst of which was running around in his mini-briefs. Let him tell you all about it!