ok, ok, ok...

it's been long enough.

it is CLEARLY no longer raining. i think 100 degrees is evidence enough of that.

and I've been gone. but i'm leaving here- for good. soon.

find me at: http://enchantedmusing.wordpress.com/

same blog name - different blog channel.

it's raining...

and it's about time!! we've needed this for a long time, but, as is usual - the timing SUCKS!!

the last time it rained here was christmas day. yes, christmas day! just in time for the 8 year old who has been waiting for santa to bring her a scooter for months. it arrives - but, shoot - it's too darn wet to get outside and ride it!

tomorrow we are scheduled to visit here. i remember going a number of times with school and day camp groups. but it's been 25 -30 years since i've gone out there. since our history club is studying italy and it is, afterall, black history month - i figured this was the perfect time for a visit. and then mother nature picks her time, again. yes, it's going to rain on our visit.

in some ways, it's good for me. i have this totally irrational fear of certain things bigger than me. mainly statues. i've always rationalized that because i am so tall - i'm used to things being my height or shorter. so, therefore, it makes sense that something substantially taller than me - is freakish and to be feared! for some reason, the towers give me this same feeling. i don't know why - they just do.

but they are SO beautiful in their simplicity and the energy and creativity that went into someone just deciding to build them. i'm in awe, and yet they make me quake in my boots.

so why, you ask, is this visit good for me, in the rain? because part of our visit will include a tour and film presentation of the towers inside of the gallery that sits next to them. the rain will force us inside and I won't be forced to stand outside and under them for too terribly long.

i'm excited, and yet - just a little worried about how much I'll freak out at being near them. oh, no one will know that I am freaked, but i'll feel it in my bones. or - it's just the irrational memory of what I felt when I was 13 - and at my current age of , ahem ~ 29, I won't feel the same.

hahahaha - we'll see...

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ps - happy birthday mini-belfry! although your day of fun may not turn out as planned, i wish the day for you to be filled with joy and everything you wish for.
signed p&e (stop laughing kat. that is NOT pee!)

and today we did...

nothing...

it felt like *I* was in the superbowl. i just feel drained - and minime has come down with some minor tummy issues that have taken up the better part of the late afternoon. i haven't looked for my camera (ack!! i need it - we're working on a mural project tomorrow!) and i've done no crafting! i know that sometimes we just need days like this - but when you have things to do - you hate days like this! it's life...

i have swaps to complete, swaps to send out, new etsy product to make, or photograph or both. but i just want to lay on the bed and watch reruns of ANTM.

and that's nearly what i'm going to go do. but first, i need to take a stab at finding that camera.

until tomorrow...

whaaaa? where????

so, i've decided to come out of my cave. we've been SO busy that the last thing i wanted to think about was blogging. but i want to - need to! so here i am. i *want* to blog every day this month. really, i do!! wish me luck with that!

so, today we made our way out to the getty villa in malibu. a beautiful day! but, whaaa? where's my camera!!???? can't find it. oh, it's not stolen or lost - save being lost in my house (and that's a whole other set of worries). but i can't really put my finger on where to look for it. so, for now, its "lost".

I'd planned on showing off great photos of the getty and the view of the ocean - but, like i said. no camera. enjoy the clip-art.

so - for today - that's my post! i do hope that all of you enjoying the superbowl, the commercials or, just simply enjoying the food - are indeed enjoying yourselves!

i'm going to go look for my camera...

until tomorrow...

I have a dream...

Yes
We Did!

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Our new President put out a call for community service and to make this day - the "MLK" Holiday a National Day of Service. I was unprepared for that call this year - I just heard it too late. But I'm taking on the challenge and hope you all will too! He is our new president, but we must all get to work to continue to fulfill the promise of this nation. We have a chance at making this country great in our eyes and the world's eyes, once again.

I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and help. Are you?

all done...

wait a minute! not so fast...

MY jury duty is all done. whew...

yesterday - come 4pm - we walked out of the courtroom, a full jury seated & sworn in - but no alternates. we had to report, again, today.

we walked back in just after 11am - 8 people left in the jury pool, including me. Odds were - I was going to be called. I'd gone thru my litany of things that would make me undesirable for this case and had rehearsed them in my head well.

the judge was ready to call jurors for the alternate seats. he told the clerk to call 5. All 5 were called, but not me. That left 3 of us sitting there, waiting. 3 were dismissed.

uh-oh, here we go...

the judge told the clerk to call 2 more names. She called 2 - neither name being mine.

Whew... I sat in the pool area all alone

1 was dismissed. then the alternates were sworn in.

I was sent packing. i'm free! ah...

now - where's my $30??!????

back to my day to day living.....

jury duty...

i've never been on jury duty.

when i was in my early 20's and had jobs that ALWAYS paid for it - i was never called. i always thought it something exciting to try out. in my early 30's - i took one of my last jobs outside of the home. they didn't pay for jury duty and right like clockwork - i received my first summons. i plead financial hardship (allowed in those years) and never served. i wanted to - but the $5 per day that the court offered, simply was not going to fill the void of my salary & pay the bills.

seems like many years passed by without receiving a summons - then, when my daughter was born, i began to receive them again! perfect timing. sigh... of course, i didn't go. it was simply impossible with a nursing baby. once, when minime was about 3, i received a summons that i responded to, but then the court claimed not to have received. i wasn't allowed an excuse - i had to go. i packed up my child (with books, and lunch) and headed to court. i was excused!

i've received one or two summons since then, i always managed to get out of them. but this year was different. actually, i decided not to try to get out of it - i'd do my civic duty and just get it done!

sigh...

it started today - arriving at 745 am (like I knew there was a 745 in the morning!). parking was 5 blocks away and then, there was the wait for the elevators with LOTS of other jurors. lots of waiting - for HOURS, and then, it happened. i was called...

into court we were moved, we found out about the generalities of the case and they started calling names. i was relieved not to hear my name while the others made their way into the jury box. questioning started and went on...


and on...

and on...

and then - lunch!

then back to the courtroom, for more questioning. and then it was made VERY clear to us that EVERYONE of the jurors sitting in the courtroom will be questioned as possible jurors! all 50 of us. sigh...

so i go back tomorrow (but mercilessly - not as early as today!) and sit some more. thanks to another juror in the waiting room, i'm planning on bringing my crochet work with me tomorrow - hoping the day goes by a bit faster. and hoping i *don't* end up on this case!

Words to Live By: Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it, even 20 years later!

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Oh, and for you 'American Idol' fans who were watching the show tonight... 'here i am baby, signed sealed delivered, i'm yours..'

you're welcome.