Howdy!  How are you all?  What's new?  Nothin' new here, except Friday I'm going to see "Swan Lake" with Melinda (for her birthday)!  I'm pretty excited about that.  It's being performed by an Oregon ballet company.  I love Swan Lake, and I've never seen it performed live.  Wowza!

And Mark and I plan on going to see Oz the Great and Powerful during the day, Friday or Saturday.  It will be almost his birthday (59!), and we haven't been to the movies lately, so it can count for that. Next year will be the big 60, for both of us.  Can you believe that?  And our anniversary is coming up, too.  19 years!  (Next year we'll have to have a big celebration for 20 years. : ) 

I love, love, love getting older!  I've always wanted to be old and be a granny/grandma/nana - whatever you want to call it.  My favorite parts in movies are often the parts with visits to a grandma's home, and Grandma's Feather Bed is a favorite song of mine.  I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

I just reread The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls.  She is one of my absolute favorite authors.  Her prose is clear and dry like the deserts she grew up in, with a West Virginia twang, for where her folks are from and where she and her 3 sibs went to school for years.  She has such an authentic, unique voice, and she is a great storyteller (not the lying variety!).  If you haven't read her books, you have really, really missed out!  I admire her tremendously, and, besides, her parents remind me somewhat of my parents (not the alcohol problems of her father, tho).

I wouldn't have to use parentheses and p.s. all the time, if I wasn't so lazy.  I don't think out my sentences ahead of time, and I don't like to correct them, either.  I just type the first things that come to my brain, lol.  So I apologize for that.

We saw a conversation with Kim Novak on t.v. last night, on TCM with Robt. Osbourne.  She's very interesting, but I've never known much about her.  Then I watched the movie, "Picnic," with her and Wm. Holden.  It was interesting, too.  You can tell it was a play first.  Josh Logan encouraged dramatic, theatrical gestures, she said, but she didn't follow that direction much.  I'm so glad she didn't, because she's a subtle actress with an expressive face.

Anyway, that's what's up here.  (Oh, and I had a Reuben sandwich for supper last night, and I had a yummy salad last evening, for you foodies out there - and I'd love to keep hearing about what you're having, too!)

Take care, my darlings.

We love you!

xoxoxo