Well. I'm saying this with the utmost respect and kindness, but: y'all have nothing on me! I just came inside from planting my last 80 bulbs. It was fun, actually (although my feet are now very cold). The ground here is frozen about an inch down. So I levered up frozen slabs with a shovel, added amendments to the cool but unfrozen soil underneath, plunked in the bulbs. I replaced the frozen crust, then jumped up and down on it a few times to settle everything. Easy--and I'm sure all of my non-gardening, home-on-vacation neighbors found it highly entertaining. Tomorrow, I have to finish my "fall" cleanup. I left the hose out--thankfully, I had the sense to disconnect and empty it--and the garden is strewn with a variety of pots, some planted and some not, all of which have to go...somewhere. Then there are a few things left to plant: a peony division, a few day lily divisions, and so on. It's not my fault! :) I suffer from the delusion that I live in northern England, and I learned a lot about gardening from a former neighbor in Cambridge (MA, not England). This lovely, intrepid/crazy lady routinely planted bulbs in late December and had a collection of vines growing up supports she's super-glued to the apartment building next to hers. She planted her bulbs in the "verge" (area between sidewalk and street), which was prime dog-walking territory in that neighborhood. No matter, she had a grade-school-age relative draw graphic pictures to illustrate a number of "This is Not a Dog Toilet!" signs. Anyway, her garden thrived, and mine does, too. I like to push a few limits in it. So you can all relax, and feel very organized and on-schedule. Amanda - And hey--I've got pansies blooming!

Just about anything does it for me - movies, television shows, music. You would think I was the one having the baby on the TLC series, "Baby Story" because I'm crying along with the new parents. I, too, cry with Christmas songs. Two, especially, do it to me: Kenny Rogers, "A Child Is Born" and Nat King Cole's, "A Christmas Song". I also bawl during the Nativity scene at the "Radio City Christmas Show". When I see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, I choke up. I really am hopeless.

Before my DH retired I would turn on the XM radio and listen to the 40's and 50's channels. Now that he is retired I do listen to them some time but not as often. When I am at the computer I listen to Hawaiian music through my headset. When in the car I always have my XM radio on. We hardly ever watch TV.

I am just piddling along~~~the earlier I shop the more I buy~~~for Myself~~~Went to Kohl's today bought 60bucks worth of stuff and realized on the way home it was Halloween (YUP good sale price) runners for my gal pals to give them next year. And clothes for me. I do not even remember why I went there. And this was after meeting my pal at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf for coffee and gossip and spending 50bucks there on two coffee mugs for me one a travel mug the other a Christmas mug and two pink travel breast cancer mugs for DD's to give them next Oct. What's up with that OH they were all 20% off:) Lunchlady who can not pass up a deal. I think I am outta control!!!