resolve

here I sit tonight

with a new resolve

to write more regularly

to open up more

to tell my friends and family how much I love them

more often

to compliment

to smile

to be a bright shining berry in the fall foliage

I spent Saturday evening with my dear friends

at a ranch near Kanopolis Lake.

We are so lucky to have such beautiful state parks

all around us.

We had a sunset picnic

and drank wine

and talked and talked and talked.

I resolve

to believe I am the person

everyone sees in me.

what's for dinner?

What do you do when you are out of town working, staying in a town of 3000, and there is no restaurant to go eat in?  Well, you break out the bottles of wine you brought with you from Jacksonville (good thinking!) and go to the grocery store for:

smoked cheddar cheese

havarti cheese

Toasteds crackers

french bread

grapes

jalapeno cheetos (the crunchy kind)

cold shrimp with cocktail sauce

baby carrots

wickles

imitation crab salad
cajun crab spread
yummo!

it is autumn here - you capture

Here in Knasas, in the counrty, in the fall, I love to look at the irrigation units in the bare fields. 

There is something so architectural and abandoned about them.

join us!

you capture - still life

Finally!  I am able to post a You Capture again!  Things just haven't been working out for posting lately, but a long weekend in Winter Park, CO with 10 of my aunts, cousins and cousins-in-law was just what I needed to get me back into the swing of things.

Without any more waiting, I present:  Still Life:

Two cousins, and a soon-to-be cousin-in-law (hopefully) and I made up Team Martha Stewart.  As you can see, we made a feast for Sunday brunch.  Everyone was so impressed with our menu cards (made with supplies from the local Alco in Fraser, CO) as well as all of our cooking (menu discussed briefly via email before our trip), we won the contest.  All 10 of us at the Miller Women reunion trip read The Help, and we had our discussion over brunch.  What a lovely, lovely time...and memory.

Join us!

soccer and modern family

Hip hip hooray.  After a sucky first half, USA came back in the last seconds of the game to tie the World Cup Qualifier game tonight.  They beat Costa Rica after a strange ending where both the head and assistant coaches for CR were ejected and escorted to the locker room by DC policemen.  The final goal was scored by Jonathan Bornstein...a header that was AWESOME! 

plus JB is pretty cute!

Also, do you watch Modern Family?  We have been watching it and it is really good.  Definitely recommend it!

tonight...

tonight I paid the soccer coach

tonight we went to watch the babysitter play in a tennis tournament

tonight for dinner I made hot dogs and mac & cheese

tonight we all sat at the table working on our computers

nothing much exciting to report about tonight...

photowalk 09/28/09

the best and the worst

The undefeated Salina Pirates!

Some days I am just the best.  Otherdays, not so much.  Yesterday for about 1.5 hours I was the best.  You see, in-between Carson's soccer games, I needed to run to the store to get another memory card.  I had a brillian idea to go to Wal-Mart (yes, the dreaded Wal-Mart...but only because they have the machine...keep reading) and get the cards, but to also develop the photos I took during the first game, and take them back with me to the second game.  Our Wal-Mart has several of those "instant develop" machines, which don't do so well for really high quality developing, but for parents of kids who were playing soccer a mere 2 hours ago, it is pretty cool.  So, I had photos for parents of all of the kids on the team (save for one, who somehow I missed).  It was a good afternoon.

Truer words were never said (sung)

You say you gotta go and find yourself
You say that you're becomming someone else
Don't recognize the face in the mirror
Looking back at you

...

I can't get close if you're not there
I can't get inside if there's no soul to bare
I can't fix you, I can't save you
It's something you have to do

Come Back to Me
David Cook
(cringing as I type that)

I am alive

The flu?  It was horrible.  It seems the older I get the worse these things make me feel.  After 3 days in bed, I am finally up and around.  I ate a little rice today.  I stripped our bed.  Typhoid Amanda is no more.  Be gone, you nasty flu!