The Terrible Catsafterme

Saturday, October 17, 2009, saw my very last road trip of the year. It also happened to be the Hallmark greeting card holiday of Sweetest Day. Originally my friend Heidi was going to make the trek to Chicago with me to attend another Hollywood Celebrities and Memorabilia Show, but she was unable to find a babysitter. So I asked my Mom if she’d be willing to make the drive up there with me and be my personal photographer for the day. She showed mercy on me, and my promise to buy dinner clinched the deal. Read the rest of this entry »

I got back to the Links condo from my excursion to Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, July 29, 2009,  just in time to meet up with everyone and head out for our 5:30 pm dinner reservations at the Miyabi Japanese steakhouse.  While I had been gone, two brothers named Stephen and David, who were friends of Ashleigh’s from home, drove down to meet up with her. Somehow Ashleigh had managed to get everyone’s approval for them to stay there the night before. I still hadn’t even met them and they didn’t go to dinner with us. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, it’s official. Summer is over. Vacation season is over. Sigh and a half. It has been an unseasonably cool early Fall, so over the past month there has been nothing but indoor activity to keep me occupied. It’s quiet around the house mostly since Yaht spends all of her time at Stephen’s. The Bengals are enjoying their first winning season in many moons. The black and white Andy Griffith Show episodes play every night on DVD in my living room. I eat salmon and drink red Cabernet. My car crossed over 200,000 miles on September 18. Double sigh. Read the rest of this entry »

August. August. What’s there to say about August 2009? Apparently quite a bit. It’s sometimes a depressing month as we watch summer wind down before our eyes. This one was particularly bleak for me as it signalled not only the end of summer with its unseasonably cool weather, but the end of my vacations for the year. And that’s just where we pick up…on August 1. This was the day that I returned from our fun-filled trip to Myrtle Beach. Read the rest of this entry »

After driving all morning toward our destination on Sunday, July 12, 2009, the first thing that Bob and I did was obvious when we arrived in Las Vegas around noon: find an all-you-can eat sushi bar. We chose The Sushi Factory, the same spot we had previously enjoyed during our 2007 visit to Las Vegas. It was just as good as I remembered as we scarfed down the various delicacies. I mostly stuck to the expensive specialty rolls – which made up for the reasonable $21.95 lunch fee. Amidst the volcano, caterpillar, 310, the dynamite, and the myriad of deep fried, eel sauce doused raw fish, I was one happy camper. Still I didn’t quite stuff myself the way had during my previous visit. Read the rest of this entry »