kate rothwell

Seriously? Matt Christopher sports books are the only thing I can think of. Text books about physics or math. I kind of like biology text books. Oh and maybe I won't read any Animorph books because I grew to hate. Them. A lot. Boy 1 bought the first 30,000 of them. They were everywhere. Everywhere. I picked them up. I read them. Until. Everything I said. And wrote. Was like this. Everything. Just the style. Drove me. Nuts. Otherwise, I read anything. In fact I can't stop myself from reading signs on posts or from taking leaflets from people handing them out on the street.. Walking down the street took a long time when I lived in Boston.

and so did Dan Malloy and Bridget someone. Those were the robo-calls. The boys picked them up because I refuse to answer the phone now. We got three live humans, too. Them we could say "already voted. bye," and hang up. (We did too. Absentee. We might be here on the eighth after all, but a month ago we thought we wouldn't be.) I WANT THE CONNECTICUT PRIMARY OVER. This is a goddamn PRIMARY--five times they called us today. I've never felt so hunted. Did I mention I don't answer the phone any more? Yes, today is Kate Gets All Steamed Up Day ... I'm still rankled about my 45 minute wait for my luncheon companions. Boy, did I get steamed when those biddies didn't show up! I left a stiffish sort of note with the hostess for them that said call me, please. I went out to my car, drove ten feet and realized. . . oh shit. The restaurant I thought was the Olive Garden was, in fact, a restaurant that looks exactly like the Olive Garden but is something else and is ...

I was going to go to RWA attendees' blogs and fill their comment area with pointless notes (idea copyright Abby Godwin) but I didn't get around much. I did manage to get to Kris Starr's today, and Arianna Hart's a couple of days back. Hmm. Maybe I'll do a better job at Megan Frampton's. Or maybe I'll give up on outlasting the heat and turn on the AC.

Arianna called me from ATL to tell me the news (thanks, Ari!). Perfection came in second. The call was almost as exciting as the news--my first contact with an official ATL'r. Unfortunately I couldn't hear her very well, so we had to hang up before I could hear anything interesting.

that's how many people came by my blog daily this week says sitemeter. I know why: Thank you, Jan Butler. Of course I had this huge au dience and what do I do? Post pictures that even I can't make out of dirt and weeds. It's almost as if I wanted to drive everyone out of here. Hey, wait a sec guys! Lemme drag out blurry pix from a big old snowstorm we had months ago. . . . . Huh. Where'd everyone go?? update . I've been waiting for a chance to post this picture and I think today's random entry fits. I wish I could remember where I stole found it. Really, isn't that the first thought you have when you see way-buff bods? Okay, maybe the second thought. Pure prejudice, of course.

Dogs! DOGS! My dog, the neighbor's dog, the neighbor's friend's dog--and he's today's star! A PUPPY! Pretty much the cutest most mellow puppy ever, he's from a Louisiana shelter. Dude . He came to visit for a few days. . .but is home again. Okay the rest of my TT photos of Random green things growing in my back yard. I have no idea wha t these guys are. I know what they're not. See last vine picture: Evil Rotten Vine of Itching and Pain. I have the toxic chemical spray for that stuff and I'm not afraid to use it, except when the dogs are around, I guess.

Okay tell me what numbers 1, 2, 3,4 are and win something. Not sure what, but identify the plant and be a Winner! 1 It's a rotten picture, but it's some kin d of scraggly bush that has tiny pink flowers. None on it just now. 2.They're purple and pretty. Only a couple of inches high. What are they? 3. I grew these purply-blue and yellow guys from seed. I have no idea what they are because we lost the packet. I know they're annuals. 4. Yellow flowers! Volunteers! 5. Another blurry flower! Purple! 6. Crystal Palace I grew from seed. 7. Bet you didn't know Hosta could be killed. I was surprised. Hmmm Pictures 8-13 aren't posting. but just squint at these photos and you'll get a fair approximation of what they look like. Add dogs and you'll get the picture--and you'll know why the hosta died.