Hearing on CNN, (rather reading the crawl running below before anyone said it out loud,) about Carli Bruscia, the 11 year old girl's body had been found in Sarasota, FL, I'm still hurting for that family. I'm hurting for all the children who've been abducted. As a mother of a daughter, 15, it's so unnerving to see that tape of how easy it was for her to go with that man. In just a scant few seconds, her whole world would change. Was she scared? Did she consider running, yelling? My husband says, "Look at that ugly asshole." And I respond, "No, he's just a normal looking guy. That's what's worse. He's your average, next-door neighbor looking guy. It'd be easier if all child abducters looked like monsters, but they don't." sigh

Update on Family:
A few people have asked about my family members lately and I thought I'd go ahead and address it now. Robin now has cellulitis in her legs, but is trying to get around with a cane. She previously had worn a hearing aid in one ear, but after the 3-wk hospital stay around Christmas, the antibiotics she had to take were so strong that her hearing is almost totally gone now. Mother, after a hospital stay with pneumonia, is now using a walker as she's not very steady on her feet, her appetite is picking up somewhat. She barely weighs 100 lbs. We're all short and little bitty in my family. And hubby, as a newly diagnosed diabetic, went from the insulin pills to the needle today. He thinks it's the end of the road but I'm trying to reassure him that he should now feel better on the insulin shots without so many ups and downs in his sugar levels.

Skyler called from school and wasn't feeling well, so I went to pick her up. I heard her coughing last night from 4:30 until she got up for school. Anyway, I was doing laundry and she asked me where a certain pair of jeans were and I told her they were in the dryer. She started worrying about it because she said she had left money in them. I had to assure her that the only thing that happens to washed money is that it gets clean. Light years ago when I was married to Jamie, we were getting ready to leave for Charlotte, NC, 3 hours away, to see Led Zeppelin. And all our traveling cash was in the pockets of my jeans which were in the dryer when I remembered it. I'll never forget how much I worried about that $60.00-- 3 twenties, in the dryer. I was certain it would disintegrate or something.

I've been discombobulated for days now. I'm so set in my ways in my old age, it's not funny. When I get up, I come to the computer with my morning java, read my email, the news, then onto the blogs for posting and reading. All the while, fueling up on caffeine in the quiet of the house and doing the whole waking up thing. Getting my head on straight. Well, getting my head cleared. (former hippies never say "straight" ha!) Then, my day goes forward with chores, errands, etc.

Now, if I'm interrupted in my morning routine, my whole day is off kilter. Skyler has been out of school today and they came home at 9:00 yesterday. Hubby wanted to stand over me and hold forth all morning Monday and I couldn't keep a thought in my head. Skyler wants her eggs cooked just "so". It seems a little selfish, but I need, or enjoy is more like it, those few morning hours alone with myself and the computer.

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Funky Stylist, Brini Maxwell gets it done in retro style.
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We were talking last night about getting back to vegetarian eating around here and reminisced about what derailed us all before. Skyler was a vegetarian until age 3 1/2 when we caught her going into the trash for a discarded chicken leg. I succumbed to a slaw dog and hubby got weak with Hickory House bar-b-que. So we're going to give it a go around here again. Anyone got any good recipes?

Half-Time Peep Show
"Oh, you nasty boy." (pic NSFW) The US really is just one giant small town. We saw the boob, which was beautiful, by the way. But can't we just acknowledge it and move on instead of talking about the horror of the breast? [more pics of janet and the streaker]

I've set up an RSS feed for this site. Blogger makes it easy by going to "Settings", then "site feed" and following the instructions for 'Atom'. I've listed two feed URLS for s u s a n * j a y n e. http://susanjayne.blogspot.com/rss/susanjayne.xml. Many people prefer to read weblogs through an aggregator, and I've been trying out Bloglines. It makes for much quicker blog reading, I must say, although you sometimes lose the pictures and other nuances of the site if you're depending solely on it for your viewing.

My Saturday
We stayed in yesterday and last night, with the exception of taking Sky and her best bud, Jess, to the mall for awhile. Jess spent the night and they're still sleeping, Don't know how long they were up. It's a blast to watch those two interact. It's easy to see what makes Skyler fun to be around. She'a always the life of the party and keeps everyone going. It's like it's her mission.

I watched basketball yesterday on ESPN. Duke played Georgia Tech and Tech was tough early on, but Duke prevailed and won by about 8 pts, I believe. I think they're 16 - 1 now. Then I watched Michigan State University, play Indiana. Shirl went to MSU and has gotten me interested in them. They've had one of the hardest schedules in NCAA so far, but they ended up beating Indiana by about a dozen points. They were celebrating 25 years of ESPN, so they dressed up like it was 1979...afro wigs and wide ties, etc. MSU must have been a great place to be yesterday, and I look for them to be a vital part of the playoffs again this year. Today we have football, or Super Bowl. I don't watch football as much as I do basketball, but will root for the Panthers. To think they were 1 - 15 two years ago, got a new coach and have turned it around to be in the Super Bowl this year is already a great feat. I'll also be tuning into CNN at 8:10 and 8:35 to watch the ad that CBS won't show.

J-Mo posted this Scrabble link today. Someone. Make. It. Stop.