To the original Batman theme: chatta-chatta-chatta-chatta-chatta-chatta-chatta-chatta-NOOGA!!!

Talk about getting off-topic. Suzanne and I talked yesterday about when we could get everyone to meet up in Chattanooga for another girls day out (and lets not forget Daniel, with his Y chromosome!) I told her I would blog it, but lo and behold, once I sat down at my computer I completely forgot what it was I was supposed to be doing. Since I am unemployed at the moment, no particular day is better than another, but if we decide to meet up on a Sunday, 9/28 and 10/05 are out for Suzanne. Let me know what you think!!!

C.O.M.E.T. Fun @ Lake Piru

Frank Clayton shared these with me. He had some home video converted to DVD format. Would be fun to see the movies but just seeing me and Suzanne at 11 and 10 is wild. Lake Piru was pretty much a giant pasture full of cow patties, but we didn't care. We had a lot of good times there. Frank said it's much different now - see for yourself.

Here are two shots Frank took on his trip back there last weekend. The first is a view of the lake, and the second is the drainage pipe where I gouged my skull open. Ah, memories...

Go Mandy - It's Your Birfday!

I can hardly believe Amanda is 25. Okay, well - tomorrow she'll be 25. I always think about her birth beginning on Halloween because that's when I went into labor. It was a whole 'nother world back then.

I called Amanda on the way home tonight and she was shopping (that's my girl) for something to go with the dress she's planning to wear to the Marine Corps ball. It struck me as funny because I had been out shopping in the early evening on Halloween when I felt what I thought might be contractions. We sure as heck weren't going to any ball, though. She was looking for purple shoes, among other things, and that was proving difficult.

Amanda was Suzanne's first child as much as she was mine. She would run to Auntie Suzanne's first thing every morning once she was old enough to figure out how to slip out of the house without waking me up. She knew she could count on being spoiled rotten by her auntie.

She was - and still is - a fiesty, independent, opinionated, intelligent, beautiful and funny girl.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MANDA : )