This Delacroix can be found at The Walter's Art Museum.  It was purchased by Willam T. Walters on May 9, 1883.  Not a particularly well known Delacroix but my sister's favorite.  I spent part of this past weekend with her and art is her passion.  She has a job that she loves at a Museum she respects, is surrounded by friends, and rubs elbows with some of the East Coast's elite.  I know my mother would be so proud of her, for she has become exactly what she planned to be.  Hat's off to you woman, you rock!

Yep it's that time of life where I have to have one of these once a year.  Oh joy!  This is my first and today is my prep day.....no food, only clear liquids, yadda yadda yadda!   I made my MoviPrep; mixed it with Gatorade and will begin to consume that at 7:00 tonight.  I don't do well drinking thick stuff so I hope this goes down okay.  Actually I'll probably be happy to have it because I'll think I'm eating something.   Then I take the second dosage at 3:00 am.  Yep 3:00 AM!!!  Don't think I'll be doin much sleeping tonight.

My friend, Carol, suggested I stay in my pj's and pretend I'm on a cruise drinking margaritas.  At 7:00 this evening I'll start doing that.  For the day, I will consume clear liquids and fast and wish the day would go faster so I can start the process.  Anticipa ya tion is making me wait!!! 

One really good thing about this is it's going to help me lose weight though it will all be water weight which I will put back on immediately....but I'm not going to think about that.  Weight loss is weight loss, especially when one is dieting.  Another good thing is I won't be awake for the procedure so there's really nothing about which to be nervous, right?  I can't imagine having to be awake for something like this....yuckers!

And come Friday, when it's all over and done with, I can drive to Baltimore to see my sister and I won't have to think about it until next year.....yeehaw!

I talked to my best friend today and feel absolutely riddled with guilt.  Why?  Because in the four years we've been friends, I have only blogged about her once yet I blog about everything else under the sun.  Maybe it's because I am selfish and want to keep the friendship close and personal, or maybe it's because I didn't blog for two of those years we've been buddies, but whatever the reason I want to make it up to her.  So let me introduce you to Tezza!

It was four years ago and I had recently left a bed and breakfast, where I worked, due to financial reasons, a relationship that suffered because of the B&B and financial reasons, and I found I had not really gotten over the fact that my husband of 25 years had left me.  I was living with my daughter and her husband and son in a little, tiny townhouse in Virginia.  The place was always a wreck.  It could be cleaned but still be a wreck because the baseboards were missing, the downstairs bathroom didn't work, the yard was a dump area, and the only help I received where trying to fix it was concerned was with Bub; but she put in 48 hours a week and was completely exhausted.  So I lived in this little blue bedroom while I took online classes and watched over Mikey, my precious grand and the light of my life.

About four months after I moved there, I started playing around with Facebook.  It occupied much of my free time as I explored it's many characteristics, one of which was games.  "The rainbow game" was the first thing I every played and consisted of a rainbow of which people stole and posted on their own wall.  Once you steal from one person, you keep checking back to see if they have it again.  If they do you steal it again.  I would feel guilty taking it so I always thanked them for the rainbow and wished them a happy day.  One of the people from whom I frequently stole the rainbow was Terri from Melbourne Australia.  And that's how the friendship began. 

It's been four years and so much has happened between us.  We met each others families through Messenger, where we learned to video chat.  We shared everything from our labor pains to our menstrual cycles and whatever was in between.  There were no secrets between us and we continue to have that same kind of relationship today.

Another woman joined our inner circle, Cathy from Washington State and I was blessed to have them both at my house in September of 2011.  Cathy was there for a week, Terri was there for three, and what a wonderful time we had touring D.C., and traveling up and down the east cost....and we continue to have fun like that making plans for when we see one another again.

So I want to say, Happy Anniversary Tezza.  Hope to see you in your neck of the woods in October/November.  Keep your fingers crossed!