PennyDaisy

I have been told to think about what I want to do for my birthday this
year.  Last year I spent in in Paris, and that’s kind of hard to
beat.  But I did miss my family terribly, especially the Bug
(Gracie), so I think I’d be happy doing anything as long as it was with them.

Speaking of Paris…
My cousin is making a DVD of my pictures
and videos from last summer in Europe, and he wants me to decide what
music to put in the background.  Classical?  Fine, I like
classical music, and
it suits the Old World.  But I like songs with words, too. 
Especially clever words.  (I’m a sucker for clever words.) 
What about all those old songs I like to sing to Gracie?  Gershwin, Sinatra,
Irving Berlin, Etta James.

Unfortunately, most of what I sing happens to be
love songs, and I had but momentary glimpses of romance in Paris–and none
in England.  (Robbie doesn’t count, Hannah.  And neither does
Laurent Roy of Canada.)   :-Þ
Maybe we’ll just use some of the stuff I listened to when I stayed up
till 3 in the morning packing the night before I left.  (And I had
such good intentions of starting out well-rested!)  We’re back
down to soundtracks again.

What’s a girl to do?

My mother has me intrigued by a race of machines.  Which is faster
at printing 24 copies–laser printer or copier?  Blast!  How
can it be that fascinating?!  She laughed at me when I stopped
typing to stare at the race.   Ha!  The copier has run
out of paper.  Now we’ll never know, and I am saved.  Saved
from caring too much about triviality.

And does anyone NOT think that this has been the wettest July
ever??  Little late for hurricane season…usually.  But
then, when is anything usual in Texas?  So we should be used to
it, right?