Do you have Pride or Prejudice?

Not sure why, but I have been on a Pride and Prejudice kick. I have listened to the unabridged version on CD while driving in my car (isn't there a song with that line?), and watched the English mini series with Colin Firth as Darcy and the woman with the pushed up bosom as Lizzy, and finally rewatched the newer movie, with someone else as Darcy and Kiera Knightly as Lizzy (with a much smaller bosom.) So, both movies had screaming, whiney mothers, obnoxious sisters, absent while present fathers, and blonde Janes. Definately like the second Jane the best, but other sisters were equally obnoxious and liked the first Mr Bingley over the second. Now to the most important decision, which small man, aka Mr Collins??? hmmm, they were definately both icky, but for different reasons. So, thoughts? Do you have favorite characters? And does anyone really knoweth why I have spent the past weeks visiting this family again and again? I doest not noweth, doest thou?

Very Patriotic Indeed!

I was just at the local post office and was delighted to see an elderly gentleman (80's) wearing red trousers with a fine dark stripe, a red, white and blue shirt, a red white and blue tie with a soaring eagle, a pin of an American flag, assorted bling including a cross earring of red, white and blue rhinestones in one ear and the piece de resistance (did I spell that correctly?) ta da.... a mohawk, thinning, but definately a mohawk, dyed in red, white and blue stripes. Life is fun. He let me take a photo on my camera phone. :)

I Can't Help It

I am in love with a baby.

To Tattoo or To Not Tattoo

It is one of the age old questions. Let me know what you think.

Nice

I am blogging from Abilene, Texas while staying with mother while my dad has surgery. I am continually amazed and delighted at the complete "niceness" of the residents of this city. People look you in the eyes and say "hello." They stop and hold the door for you even when you aren't right at the door and ready to go in. Nurses smile, make jokes, and check on their patients regurally and answer when the call button is pushed. WOW. Red, yellow, black or white, old and young, rich and poor, they have treated me with politeness, but more than that, they are just nice. It comes naturally. Since I am from a big city with alot of "entitled" people who love to go first, cut you off and walk right by without seeing you, I am enjoying a taste of being valued for just being alive and it makes me want to be more like them.