The Royals are playing in The World Series....

I whipped together a baby blanket for Solomon with stuff I had here at home...KJ had a visit from his girlfriend....watching season premier of My 5 Wives...actually cooked supper....listened to Katie memorizing her speech....life if good!

I am proud of our little FFA speaker...she has her speech written and is memorizing it for competition!

if only I could spend today Bigfootin' instead of going to work.....

translation...if only I could spend today lounging around home being ridiculously lazy....

what I learned reading Travel & Leisure magazine (& some googling....)

Karo woman scarify their chests to beautify themselves .For the women of the Karo tribe in southern Ethiopia, beauty is literally skin deep. During childhood, girls allow their elders to cut scars onto their stomach. Scars are cut with a knife and ash is rubbed to produce a raised welt. Once a Karo girl has received the last of her scars, she's allowed to marry and have children. The complete scarification of a man's chest indicates that he has killed an enemy or a dangerous animal. The scars are cut with a knife or razor blade and ash is rubbed in to produce a raised effect. Suri girls are readied for eventual marriage: bottom teeth are removed, lower lip pierced and stretched to insert clay plates. Because lip plugs make talking difficult, women only wear their lip plugs in the company of men, but they remove them to eat and sleep or when they are only in the company of women. about 6 to 12 months before marriage, a young woman has her lip pierced by her mother or one of her kinswomen, usually at around the age of 15 to 18. The initial piercing is done as an incision of the lower lip of 1 to 2 cm length, and a simple wooden peg is inserted. After the wound has healed, which usually takes between two and three weeks, the peg is replaced with a slightly bigger one. At a diameter of about 4 cm, the first lip plate made of clay is inserted. Every woman crafts her own plate and takes pride in including some ornamentation. .

...and yet, I keep sitting on the cactus.

"Trips down memory lane aren't happy jaunts for me."

Grave Secrets by Charlaine Haris

"That's something I love about really good hotels: the abundance of pillows."

my will to live....